Comments by "June VanDerMark" (@junevandermark952) on "Hillsdale College" channel.

@franciscocantuariaskolimba939 Lies sound like truth, to those who think they know truth.
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@l.w.paradis2108 Kids should not be allowed to have operations to change their sexual organs. But when they become adults, whatever they want to do to their own bodies is their business. History proved over and over that the more people tried to stop them, no matter what subject, whether taking drugs, driving under the influence, marrying far too young ... et cetera ... the more they will want to show others that they can do whatever pleases their own interests. That is human nature.
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@Holly Bartlett Just as it is with Jordan Peterson ... unless Abigail Shrier happened to BE transsexual, her statements could not BE factual, as she is only guided by the words of her teachers that might also have been assured they knew and know what is and what is not, accredited "therapy" for others. If both Jordan and Abigail want to learn about transsexuality, they will have to become students, and be willing to listen to the words of those who ARE transsexual.
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If you are not transgender, you can't possibly know what a person who is transgender feels. To bully others who are not the same as you, is a very nasty habit, often carried out by people in religion.
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Anyone who criticizes, should have to work in government for maybe just a year, to see what it's like from a perspective where one has to walk the walk, rather than just talking the talk.
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Being that people that have opinions, are often certain that their opinions are truth, I suggest that the following word fits for all opinions. ... Truthiness "act or quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than those known to be true," catch word popularized in this sense by U.S. comedian Stephen Colbert, declared by American Dialect Society to be "2005 Word of the Year."
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@tj-co9go According to you, does love sound like truth, to only those who love?
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@suesamagalski3945 I suggest that all we have in our possessions are perceptions of truth. What is truth to one person, is perceived as a lie to another person. Maybe the word "truthiness," is more suitable for human "usage." What do you think about that issue? Truthiness "act or quality of preferring concepts or facts one wishes to be true, rather than those known to be true," catch word popularized in this sense by U.S. comedian Stephen Colbert, declared by American Dialect Society to be "2005 Word of the Year."
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@suesamagalski3945 Do you think that you tell the truth and only others that disagree with your opinions tell lies? That is what the word "truth" amounts to ... doesn't it?
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@suesamagalski3945 The bible is truth? Catholics and Protestants killed each other in wars over the meanings of the words in the bible. From the only Weekly Word-origin Webzine, “Take Our Word for It,” comes the following … "There is a widely held belief that the etymology of a word reveals its "real" meaning. This is just not so. The etymology of a word simply reveals its origins, not its "true" meaning. Words simply do not have secret inner meanings. Meanings are fluid and context-dependent; they are not contained in words but in the minds of those who speak the words.” From the book … The Use and Misuse of Language … edited by S. I. Hayakawa. General semanticists know it is hard to make the average person realize that he brings meaning to the word, that the word does not contain any meaning.
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@suesamagalski3945 Do you not study the history of how murders were committed by devotees that were certain they knew the mentality of "GOD?" Death penalties in England were based on biblical interpretation. It was said that it was "GOD's" law. The Seven Mysteries of Life … Exploration in Science and Philosophy … Guy Murchie. Although in England there remained 223 offenses punishable by death in the year 1819, and I’ve read that a nine-year-old boy was hanged for taking twopence worth of paint from a printer’s shop through a broken window in 1833, reforms followed swiftly.
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@suesamagalski3945 Hand a human a bible … and history proves … trouble is certain to follow. From the book … The Death Penalty: An American History … author … Stuart Banner. “If Moses is our lawgiver at this time,” smirked John Edwards, “Let us obey him, not in part only, but wholly, and put every sabbath breaker, blasphemer, and adulterer, to death.”
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@suesamagalski3945 Do you agree with "this" biblical word interpreter? Protestant preacher wants the government to put homosexuals to death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbSM_kxpObc
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@suesamagalski3945 More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain. "Bible Teaching and Religious Practice," Europe and Elsewhere Mark Twain
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@suesamagalski3945 Unless an individual thinks that he or she is special to a god, the bible is of no use TO that individual. Having been raised in a Christian culture, I never could buy the story that a god exists that would choose to create souls that the god knew from the beginning were going to end up suffering for eternity in an afterlife. ... "Given a choice between creating humans who will suffer for eternity and not creating the human race … I would simply not create them." Author … Mike Siler
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@cca3422 If I had a child that wanted to have a sex change operation, I would encourage that child to just be patient until the child becomes an adult, and then decide. I would not tell that child that what the child was feeling was wrong, and that I was right. After all, there isn't any way I could know what that child was having for an experience, other than what the child tells me.
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@cca3422 If it just happened to be true, that as Stephen Hawking believed, the universe always existed, then consciousness also always existed, without any creator ever having existed to care about anything whatsoever. People in religion won't believe that, because of being certain that only if a conscious creator exists, can consciousness exist.
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@cca3422 Do you believe that THIS preacher is sharing the words that were implanted in some man's brain back in ancient times ... that came straight from a loving god? REALLY? Protestant preacher wants the government to put homosexuals to death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbSM_kxpObc
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@cca3422 Do you believe that a god exists that created transsexuals just as "they" are?
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@l.w.paradis2108 What harms children is when they are not believed. It took centuries for people to start believing that homosexuality actually exists, and that was because of the biblical jargon that a god said homosexuality was a sin. Religion is what often harms people.
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@l.w.paradis2108 Who am I to decide if you are male or female? We have a whole spectrum of this expression. Author … Neil deGrasse Tyson. From the book … EPIGENETICS … HOW ENVIRONMENT SHAPES OUR GENES … author … RICHARD C. FRANCIS. Here’s a puzzle, consider the case of two brothers, when each had reached the age of twenty. One of them—call him Al—was a typical male. His brother, Bo, however, was not at all typical of young males at that age. Bo looked more like a pre-adolescent male: poorly developed muscles, absolutely no facial hair, and a voice to match. Their mother was understandably worried about Bo, and soon after his twentieth birthday finally convinced him to see a doctor. Once Bo removed his clothes, the doctor immediately noticed that something was missing—his genitals. A closer inspection revealed that he did in fact have genitals but nothing like those you would expect of a twenty-year-old male. They seemed vestigial. The doctor’s diagnosis was Kallman syndrome, a disorder of sexual development. What’s puzzling is this: Al and Bo are identical twins, nature’s clones. So what happened to Bo? And why didn’t it happen to Al? Nature's clones are far from identical, which is why the term "identical twins" has been replaced by monozygotic twins.
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@l.w.paradis2108 I don't tell adults what to do with their own bodies, because I wouldn't want anyone telling me what to do with my own body. As for children, I would not trust a supposed psychologist such as Jordan Peterson around a child that might be transgender, because from my perception, he would be a danger to that child's psyche. Jordan's words verbatim ... “Gender identity and gender expression are not valid ideas. They are not true. There is no evidence for it. I don’t know what the options are, if you don’t identify as a man or a woman. There is an idea that there’s a gender section. I think that is an ill-informed opinion. Gender identity and sexual orientation are the same thing. I don’t believe these people, these terms, stand for good things. I think these people use these terms as a pretense that they stand for good things; as a pretense for them to carry on their nefarious activities.”
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@l.w.paradis2108 Because as does everyone, they only perceive subjects through tunnel vision, I suggest that people should be very careful about taking the words of psychiatrists and psychologists as being “gospel truth.” It was because of biblical interpretation that homosexuals became targets of “Christianized” therapists. Homosexuals were put to death in Europe, Canada and the United States as being EVIL offenders of "GOD" ... and all because Christian therapists believed and stated in the affirmative that their therapy was based on literal truth. Telling others that they are evil and not at all normal … is a horrible way to “treat” people … never mind the issue of charging the big bucks for such off the wall, idiotic information. There shouldn’t be any doubt that it is long past time to be showing respect to those who are homosexual, transsexual, and to all other members of the LGBTQ communities, by in turn ceasing to offer therapy in the guise of morality. If they are no longer bullied into the idea that they are immoral or sick, or worse yet, evil … I suggest that they will then HAVE the will to perceive their selves as BEING mentally and physically healthy.
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@l.w.paradis2108 Because as does everyone, they only perceive subjects through tunnel vision, I suggest that people should be very careful about taking the words of psychiatrists and psychologists as being “gospel truth.” It was because of biblical interpretation that homosexuals became targets of “Christianized” therapists. Homosexuals were put to death in Europe, Canada and the United States as being EVIL offenders of "GOD" ... and all because Christian therapists believed and stated in the affirmative that their therapy was based on literal truth. Telling others that they are evil and not at all normal … is a horrible way to “treat” people … never mind the issue of charging the big bucks for such off the wall, idiotic information. There shouldn’t be any doubt that it is long past time to be showing respect to those who are homosexual, transsexual, and to all other members of the LGBTQ communities, by ceasing to offer therapy in the guise of morality. If they are no longer bullied into the idea that they are immoral or sick, or worse yet, evil … I suggest that they will then HAVE the will to perceive their selves as BEING mentally and physically healthy.
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@l.w.paradis2108 It's unfortunate that it's up to parents what they do to alter or to not alter the physical makeup of their children's bodies ... or what they teach their children is moral, compared to immoral ... because ... not knowing what else to do ... parents make notoriously ridiculous decisions. If I had a child that wanted to have a sex change operation, I would encourage that child to just be patient until the child becomes an adult, and then decide, as by then, the decision would not be mine to make anyway. I would not tell that child that what the child was feeling was wrong, and that I was right. After all, there isn't any way I could know what that child was having for an experience, other than what the child tells me.
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@l.w.paradis2108 This is a question I like to ask of those who are religious. Is it a god’s moral code that you are following when you harshly judge those who are transgender … or is it your own “immoral” code? That is the question that only you can answer on behalf of your self. From the book … Regretting Motherhood ... a study ... author ... Orna Donath This assumed fundamental correlation between womanhood and the ability to give birth is one of the justifications used to exclude transgender women from being considered "real women" and to cast suspicion on them for allegedly endangering the moral order of society.
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@l.w.paradis2108 I hope you understand that according to theologians, you can't BE saved by GOD ALL MIGHTY, if you show even the teensiest bit of doubt in the existence of GOD ... and you will have to suffer the loss for eternity.
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@l.w.paradis2108 I never was an Agnostic. One day I went from having a belief in a god, to believing as did Stephen Hawking, that the universe always existed, which did away with the idea of creation. That was in 2009. Later, I wrote the following. Theology will be a bore Come good Christians … own a Jew We will play that game with you We’ll tell you what you long to hear That a god will hold you dear Bring your money and your brain That we will train for our domain We will teach you how to fight To defend with all your might As theologians we are proud That you follow us and preach so LOUD There’ll come a day when you will see We lied to you … you will agree You’ll see that Jesus was a myth As were all saviors meant to lift To dominate emotions high And take them soaring to the sky When that day comes and come it will You’ll free your selves from our swill You will choose to fight no more Theology will be a bore June VanDerMark July 25, 2013
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@Holly Bartlett You are very welcome. And thanks for the acknowledgement.
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@Holly Bartlett I suggest you listen to the following podcast. Neil deGrasse Tyson (in my opinion) is one of the most open-minded humans alive today. "Split People By Categories, Not Gender!" Neil deGrasse Tyson on Transgender Athletes
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@Holly Bartlett The (problem) stemmed from the biblical interpretation that a god exists to have created ONLY male and female. And that is what makes the ignorant man Jordan Peterson so popular with the evangelicals that relate to his following words ... verbatim ... “Gender identity and gender expression are not valid ideas. They are not true. There is no evidence for it. I don’t know what the options are, if you don’t identify as a man or a woman. There is an idea that there’s a gender section. I think that is an ill-informed opinion. Gender identity and sexual orientation are the same thing. I don’t believe these people, these terms, stand for good things. I think these people use these terms as a pretense that they stand for good things; as a pretense for them to carry on their nefarious activities.”
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@Holly Bartlett Freedom of expression? I wonder how many people notice that when I receive a "like" under what I post ... it immediately disappears, as though it never existed? One time I watched as the post that I had just posted, also disappeared, wiping away ALL the posts that came before mine, to be replaced with the fact that no comments would henceforth be allowed. Podcasters are also self-serving humans.
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@Christopher.M.Hughes029 We have two choices. We can believe that the universe was Created by an all-powerful "thinking" god ... which is religion. Or we can believe as did the scientist Stephen Hawking before he died, that in one form or another, the universe always existed ... no creator ... no plan ... and that suffering of all forms of life always was, and is, natural. I choose the scientific version, which is known as "The No-Boundary Proposal." And from the book … 2000 Years of Disbelief … author … James A. Haugt … “None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man; it has always been.”—Empedocles (495—435 B.C.E.), Greek philosopher and statesman (Noyes) … “The universe has been made neither by gods nor by men, but it has been, and is, and will be eternally.”—Heraclitus (Noyes) ... “The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the flaws that mar it”—Lucretius, ibid.
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@Christopher.M.Hughes029 From the book Albert Einstein … THE WORLD AS I SEE IT An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise: such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls. It was the experience of mystery—even if mixed with fear—that engendered religion.
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@Christopher.M.Hughes029 You can't respect what you fear. You can try, but when you are taught that a god exists that is judge-mental ... you will always wonder if you past his judge-mental tests ... OR ... if you will be one of those "souls" that the god rejects to eternal suffering. No matter which religion, the stories were created to instill FEAR in believers. Example ... from the book “Twisted Scriptures,” by Mary Alice Chrnalogar, published in 1997. Tricks to Keep You Controlled A Guilt-Edged Sword The key for gaining maximum control over someone’s conscience is to influence the person to study and accept certain beliefs. Then, if the person fails to follow those beliefs, a powerful feeling of guilt will be the result. Leaders get you to believe that they don’t interpret the Bible but just “teach what is in the Bible”—making the Bible synonymous with their interpretations.
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@kalisiradua2045 I suggest that if children tell their parents that they ARE transgender, the parents should not tell them they are wrong, but rather should encourage them to wait until they are adult before have any hormone therapy, or any operations, because as adults they are then responsible for their own choices. That way, the children know that the parents are not belittling them in any way, but want to make sure that they (as parents) are doing it right. As a parent, I suggest you don't want to make the following mistake with your child. From the book … The Transsexual Scientist … author … Dana Brevan I was literally deep in the closet by age 5. From my parents answers I concluded that there was something wrong with me because I wanted to be a girl. I started to keep it a secret from my parents, my classmates, my cousins, my teachers and everyone else. I was trying to comply with my duties as a male and this was reinforced by the fear of being sent to a mental hospital. About this time I first saw Milton Berle in drag on television. I was embarrassed to watch him in front of my parents. People were laughing at his attempts to caricature being a woman and I did not want to be laughed at in that way.
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Because as does everyone, they only perceive subjects through tunnel vision, I suggest that people should be very careful about taking the words of psychiatrists and psychologists as being “gospel truth.” It was because of biblical interpretation that homosexuals became targets of “Christianized” therapists. Homosexuals were put to death in Europe, Canada and the United States as being EVIL offenders of "GOD" ... and all because Christian therapists believed and stated in the affirmative that their therapy was based on literal truth. Telling others that they are evil and not at all normal … is a horrible way to “treat” people … never mind the issue of charging the big bucks for such off the wall, idiotic information. There shouldn’t be any doubt that it is long past time to be showing respect to those who are homosexual, transsexual, and to all other members of the LGBTQ communities, by ceasing to offer therapy in the guise of morality. If they are no longer bullied into the idea that they are immoral or sick, or worse yet, evil … I suggest that they will then HAVE the will to perceive their selves as BEING mentally and physically healthy.
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Concerning the subject of transgender, it's unfortunate that it's up to parents what they do to alter the physical makeup of their children's bodies. or what they teach their children is moral, compared to immoral, because, not knowing what else to do, (just as do psychologists and psychiatrists, who are parents), parents are inclined to make notoriously ridiculous decisions on behalf of their children. If the child is determined to have a sex-change operation, wouldn’t it be best to tell the child to be patient, until becoming an adult, and then make the decision? Because by then, the adult will have to live with the adult’s “own” decision? After all, children are subject to peer pressure, and other than what the child says, there isn't any way of really knowing what that child is having for an experience, because, being young and impressionable, the child may not even know.
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Psychologists do not agree with each other's counsel ... so to put faith in the word "psychologist" itself ... has and can end up as a disaster. Example ... because he is dangerous to their mental health, Christianized psychologists such as Jordan Peterson, should not be giving counsel to those who are transgender. In January Jordan claimed on “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast that being transgender is a result of a “social contagion” and similar to “satanic ritual abuse,” and suggested that acceptance of the trans community is a sign that “civilization’s collapsing.” “I was Jordan Peterson’s strongest supporter. Now I think he’s dangerous. He wanted to establish a church, he said, in which he would preach every Sunday.” Author … Bernard Schiff … professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Toronto.
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Had Jesus lived, he would have supported his father's will to reject most souls to eternal suffering. Do you still think that he would have been a nice guy? And do you still want to dream about being in paradise with "him?" Any man that preaches that he was sent to earth by a god to save all humanity from sin, ought not to be idolized ... ... not worshiped ... not believed. ... but rather empathized with, as being needy of attention, and very childlike concerning his behavior.
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This United States policeman was fired from his job for refusing to take the vaccine. He was complaining all over news media about being fired, but later died from Covid, leaving behind a wife and four children. I suggest that it was a tragedy, that for refusing to take the vaccine … he probably caused his own death. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf-G6TUv3ck
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If, as children, we were indoctrinated by the following information, rather than being taught that suffering for wicked souls exists in a supposed afterlife, we would not have any fear of death. From the book Medicine Madams and Mounties … Stories of a Yukon Doctor * 1933-1947 … Death is the final sleep … The Indians I met were used to death and dying. They saw it daily as they slaughtered and trapped animals for their livelihood. For them everything had its time, ending in death, and they could not understand our fear of dying. “Why do white people fear death?” they often asked me. “Nobody fears the onset of the unconsciousness called sleep yet you are afraid of the final sleep, death.”
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Do any of you ever consider that by refusing to take the vaccine, you are causing deaths ... which is, taking the ultimate freedom away from others that in turn die from the virus?
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AI The two words "artificial" and "intelligence" are at odds with each other, because if something just happened to be intelligent, it couldn't “be” artificial. If humans with devious intentions program harmful information into computers, and then refuse to shut the electricity off that runs the computers, of course harm often is the result. To say that computers cause harm, is comparable to saying that books labeled as being holy information from gods cause harm. It is humans that “use” the computers and the words in the books for selfish reasons that causes the harm. Nuclear weapons do not have artificial intelligence. However, if electricity is engaged because of aggressive human nature, those weapons will accomplish the job that the humans demand of them. Whether it's a stick or a stone, or a spear, or an arrow, or a gun, or a computer, or words in books, those inanimate objects are not responsible for anything. Artificial intelligence does not exist in inanimate objects, and humans using those objects to harm and kill other humans, leave everything in common with that word “intelligence” … to be desired.
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@Yhali_19 Unless you are transgender, you don't what they feel about their own experiences, so, you should not pretend that you DO know.
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