Comments by "Ikenga Spirit" (@ikengaspirit3063) on "Based Camp with Simone & Malcolm Collins" channel.

  1. The thing is modern Christianity does not respect Martyrs. The Missionary aid workers that died in Haiti and the Missionary that died trying to evangelize the North Sentinalese are seen as fools and the events as tragedies. Foolish tragedies that didn't have to occur, more so on the secular side but Christians also see them as this but they are seen as fools that created tragedies for everyone else not martyrs to be emulated. Ironically, Malcom's living martyr to the future generation plan is already closer to the mass converters that modern Christianity seem to respect than the Martyrs that early Christians respect (tho, early century christians also respected those as well with Origen as an example). So Malcom may actually be anticipating the a good direction of change for modern Christianity.
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  2. I think we can come to sufficiently objective standards by doing a cross cultural and cross historical analysis on what people from different Agricultural cultures migrated towards or prized highly or repudiated their own culture of lacking.
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  3. While alot of people of people are bringing up Axum. The issue there is Axum is North East African and most AAs are from Atlantic Africa. However it is still important to bring up North East Africa as Nubian crosses are found as far as Nigeria. There's Arab accoints of Christians there and the people there certainly knew of Christians due to islamic world connections and the islamic slave trades. So people in Atlantic Africa were certainly aware of it. But by far the most important factor here is Kongo, which was converted at the end of the middle ages and was as Christianized as any European Medieval state. Due tp the enslavement of its citizens a fifth of black ancestry in the Americas was Christian before they got to the Americas. Also, the idea that Africans conveted due to Forced conversions is just ridiculous. The second era of colonization was carried out by secular states and most conversions occured pre and post colonially. So, while Europe was Christian for longer than Atlantic Africa it would be a disservice to assume that Atlantic Africans had no idea what Christianity was and that none of them were Christian.
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  4. It think it is more likely that people establish themselves as feudal lords over the Amish than they go extinct.
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  5.  @elKarlo  It is possible that cities were demographic sinks but that this was not equally distributed. Another thing is that Christianity may not have been as city focused as we once thought.
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  6. Alot of Christian fundie/evangelical activists had to modify their form of Christianity to deal with Atheist Criticism. Well, there were 3 way, accept Atheist Criticisms and become Progressive Christian; go extra Fundie or go deep into historic and currency Christian studies. Many of those that did the later ended up throwing out many fundie beliefs like no alcohol or symbolic mass for more historical stuff and the leading edge of that change was to go full Orthodox.
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  7. No longer the case.
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  8.  @leslielandberg5620  Khoi are pastoralists and San and Hunter-Gatherers.
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  9. Sounds like heresy to me.
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  10. ​ @drakethesnek6429 pay in kind, then.
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  11. I feel like there's a bit of mixed messaging here. First you said ur kids shouldn't care about what other kids think and should strive for the approval of people that earn their respect then u lionize the behavior here 52:55 Which is built on her asking you what other kids think of you. And I doubt ur dismissal of communualist cultures as doomed to low fertility due to lack of a superiority complex cuz korea and japan survived for centuries on that communualism and Africa has high birthrates on that communualism.
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  12. Are you talking about Malcom and Simone? They have like, I think 3 or 4 kids already. Like this whole comment that looks at a man and woman that don't look like modernity's warped conceptualization of what a man and a woman is and from there come to an equally warped modern conclusion is nothing more than a good symptom of the problem.
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  13. I do not think they're unitarian. More they care much about the exact minuture about the nature of God; so, much like Heraclius in his later life. Or did they did they ever do an episode arguing against the deity of christ?.
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  14. I won't really call attraction to feminine men, actually being bi.
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  15. ​ @Shockguey  Horn Africans don't marry outside of their ethnic groups.
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  16. Ur 3 routes for explaining Noah's flood, I explain it as historical and cultural context. Akkadians conquered mesopotamia and syria and claimed to rule the world, clearly "the world" in that time was very lose, the duration of the flood as well is subject to this context, the people of the era seemed to have thought 40 of a thing is very much of a thing, so if something lasts around 40 units or is considered to have lasted a long time its just approximated to 40. I postulate a flood that coverted much of Mesopotamia and Arabia and the animals saved were native, maybe specifically endemic animals. The animals didn't sin to deserve it, God punishing the earth over the sins of man is seen in the story of the fall. I really think the solution to this is learning the early church fathers, again. Because my historical context explanation doesn't necessarily conflict with ur explanation that is built on the limited understanding of the people, like Origen already said scripture has 3 layers of meaning and we could have just opened up one layer each and the last layer, is the moral of the story. But I still think ur explanation should be guarded from opening up the way to progressive theology.
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  17. ​ @tann_man I would say he's a also a Romanophile. Like a Judeo-Roman.
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  18. ​ @anonperson3972 yes, it's still a civil war.
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  19.  @anonperson3972  they're part of one polity either way.
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  20.  @shelbzillathrilla  Lol, Lmao. But to be serious, the elderly die disproportionately in historic fall of population events, that will also be the case here but hey, at least A.I. robots can make it so that those of them that can still move would have an easier time keeping around the house. This is just one of the many reasons to be healthy so that you can remain like that up till your 90s at least.
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  21.  @szymonbaranowski8184  oh I should have elaborated. Between Iran and Tibet in the mountains and deserts were in antiquity, several polygynous cultures. The norm was brothers marry one woman, followed by unrelated poor men marrying one woman and so on less common practices. Fertile land was rare in these areas so splitting land will quickly result in too small land and only one child inheriting essentially means starvation on the rest(most likely, return to conquer) so the brothers hold the land, woman and children in common. This is why Mazdakism emerged in Iran.
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  22. 18:23 This interpretation is a bit wrong. It isn't a general rule but a specific rule and specific to this specific conquest because the specific people being conquered had infiltrated Israelite society and turned them from God, in part thru sex. But what u mentined after about captured "wives" essentially being a slave state is correct.😊
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  23. ​@TommyStrategic I have to raise an asterisk to ur claim ancient works were just pragmatic. They were built for a function but just as pragmatic excercizes is unlikely given pyramids and inticrate carvings.
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  24.  @MA-gu2up  I mean, while it was certainly less common than polygamy and ultimately, given monogamy is in Ancient Eurasia only among Germanics, Latins and some Hunter-gatherers vs from the mountains of Iran to the mountains of Tibet, I would argue it was as or just a bit less common than Monogamy. I more accurately, it should be seen as ultimately unsuccessful. I think what ur describing may be more similar to like maritime eastern asian/Asia-Pacific cultures where a man visits a woman/wife that remains in her house of birth. With the exception of like, war and conscription I didn't see much evidence of the men in these mountainous societies being more mobile or itenerant than in more polygamous lowland societies. As for the powerful women angle, when it is already in the culture that Polygyny is the thing, it may make more sense. But you are right, I saw much less support for elite female polyamory and much more support for degen stuff and incestual marriages.
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  25.  @TheSpitefulMutant  semen retension magicks not nofap.
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  26. There's some corrections that should be made. 1. Killing people due to these incidents is rare so u using the qualifier "Often" is just wrong. Like you gave no quantitative example in the 9ja example but given in the Borneo example a panic overcoming an entire island only ended in 3 mistake deaths, it should indicate just how rare the death are/can be. during such panics. 2. No, it still happens in Nigeria for sure. There was literally such a panic last year. 3. There is something weird about u assuming it could have originated in Europe and exported to Africa during the colonial period to then turn around and say that it is vanishing due to Western influence. Like if Western Modern influence brought it, why is Western Modern influence removing it?.
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  27.  @DariusExplains  I know it reduces with age but from personal experience, while reduced someone 35 - 45 can probably still have 3 kids at least (starting 35) if they really want it and have no other major complications but for their age.
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  28. I don't know why people keep believing this bullshit about living in the forest being easy low IQ stuff.
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  29.  @TomFranklinX  How many lines of logic did you skip to go from my "they didn't build in stone" to ur "they didn't innovate"?. Like, if not building in stone = not innovating the USA and the late modern and post modern West in general must be equal to Savage Barbarian tribes.
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  30.  @SBCBears  which is good in temperate regions where u have a good war day, cold night cycle. In fact, it is so good that some relatively recently stone built European apartments complexes have no need for insulation or heaters. But take that high insulative and heat absorbing property to just the subtropical USA where concrete(that needs heating in Europe) needs ACs to be livable and we're talking afternoon summer temperatures that could kill people. So, why would I want to build a death trap as my house?.
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  31.  @classicallpvault  The constant American complain for Air conditioning in Europe, expressed famously in the recent Olympics argues otherwise.
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  32.  @SBCBears  You know Adobe walls are essentially a type of Mudbrick right?. If ur putting them in the same status as Stone that destroys the whole argument of this thread. As for Cement vs Stone, Stone holds to heat better to such an extent that apartment buildings in Germany built of Stone don't need further insulation. This is only better thermal properties when you expect a warm day and a cool night.
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  33. @ClaimClam  I mean, parts of Europe like Germany too are abt as Young as Japan but by conflating all of Western civilization together it makes it seem like Germany is old.
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  34.  @ShivanshThakur-sh8ub  like some elites in India also built houses in stone? Or r u talking abt a different region?.
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  35. @jacob5395  I mean, you can still use small scale artisan and non-traditional methods to maintain swords, that's how we do it today. But that's a diversion from my main point, if due to this Japanese swords aren't considered superior to European ones then simply lasting longer is not a good enough proxy for superior civilization or even, superior craft.
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  36.  @ShivanshThakur-sh8ub  Okay, do you have names of the ones built in stone, I need to check something later. Anyways, my point stands. Majority of elite buildings in most civs the did stone monuments, including Egypt, Maya and India are in earth (including brick and rammed earth). Most Chinese buildings historically are also rammed earth, including elite buildings.
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  37. @ShivanshThakur-sh8ub  I didn't know wood was used much but rammed earth is still earth construction so it is included in what I meant. Yeah, I will check out the forts later.
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  38. yadayadayada. Y'all going extinct in a thousand years.
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  39. On the last point, it could also just be that since they're within their culture they have little reason to be "ethno-nationalist/culturo-nationalist" and just, exist within the culture. So you don't see them highly express the culture, while those that are educated abroad fully experience de-racinization and "rebel" against it in all forms. Yeah, this is something alot of people miss. Leftism and Wokeism has for a long time and continue to try and co-opt what it means to consciously be "African" or "resist the West". It's not just in the nationalism as you say, it is in consistent propaganda efforts to convince people that traditional African culture was totally inline with leftism and it has worked to some extent, tho it has also created concerted resistance. My hope is that if the wokeness weakens it's group, that the more "nationalist-woke" Africans just get outlasted.
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  40. You guys should have talked about Kazakhstan. They apparently do have higher fertility the richer someone is.
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  41. Nah, Europe and Near East had their own eras of such fears. I think it is more psychological, maybe even instinctual fear around protecting ur ability to leave children that's just being expressed in a very crude way.
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  42. Westerners malding that even 3rd Worlders can see through their bullshit now.
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  43. Lol. Weez Invented Negros.
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  44. 50:35 My best part of the video cuz I can now with data call all the people that find it arousing, ugly.
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  45. If this is is argument, he's fn' wrong cuz just about every traditional religion and philosophy also does sleep deprivation, fasting, encourages memorization, uses cooperal punishment etc. that the West for maybe a bit over a century stopped doing that isn't just a global anomaly but an anomaly in the time period that the West according to him was growing it's IQ.
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  46. Sharia is also quite flexible. Probably as flexible as pre-reformation Christianity which argues against this being the issue.
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  47. I think the part about body fat is that as it got easier for people to become fatter, those that genetically got fat easiest just got too fat to be attractive or die early so got selected out like that.
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  48. For the most part, foreign aid is stealing from lower class first Worlders to give to upper class 3rd Worlders. The majority of Africa isn't gonna be affected much by aid that usually doesn't reach them.
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  49.  @antony6799  I think instead of cycles it works more like u have only two choices, sort of like a weighted coinflip(weighted towards failure generally but you can counter weight it towards success). I think it only looks like a cycle because of you have only two options. I think this distinction is important because it would explain why some people groups can be essentially in indefinate periods of "decay" like basically any ancient hunter-gatherer or hill people group and why some other group's period of rise is longer than normal like that of the West. It isn't a cycle the very success of successful civilizations and the very failure of marginal peoples doesn't have to lead to the opposite. But peoples have one of two options, be more marginal or be more ascendant and every so often they're given that choice. Sooner or later, some of the marginal will choose ascendancy and some of the ascendant will choose marginality even while being unaware of it.
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  50. Simone the succubus.
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