Comments by "Taxtro" (@MrCmon113) on "Sam Harris" channel.

  1. No.
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  2. I like Jordan until it comes to religion.
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  3. John sounds like he's sitting in an armchair wearing a tuxedo, sipping whiskey and smoking a cigar.
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  4. That's the scourge of religion. It makes the best of us into babbling fools.
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  5.  @slipknnnot  Precisely. No one wants to overthrow the constitution over fat people.
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  6.  @godlaughs  If you didn't think that what Philipp believes matters, you wouldn't have written that comment.
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  7. I would add blinding rage, but that's a good list.
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  8. As a non-American, Americans shouldn't just defend the 2nd amendment, but clarify what "the right to keep and bear arms" is to keep it from being encroached upon. Never give up your weapons and the worst time to give up your weapons is when others demand it.
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  9. You mean before you moved to the populist right? There was never a reason to believe that Sam would fall for someone like Trump.
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  10.  Evan Koch  Outlawing something doesn't mean you have to persecute everyone, who did it in the past. The British Empire even compensated former slave owners, rather than punishing them for what they had just declared illegal.
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  11. Well the USA is the oldest and most successful democracy so far. Many of the countries that are they allies now were forced by them to give up slavery or to adopt democracy.
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  12. Before I can observe a thought, it's already gone. All that's left is a feeling of resentment, mainly about my loud computer, but this, too, is elusive. I couldn't even feel happy or sad bringing up the memories. But I could already see the beginnings of awareness, of taking a step back.
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  13. Perhaps some alcohol or LSD. That should counter act your disorder.
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  14. So far these only make me frustrated about what I have not done. But I see the beginnings of awareness. My thoughts and feelings are hard to observe, they just vanish and reappear.
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  15. True, I find it quite impossible to observe my thoughts. Also some thoughts just vanish, but then reappear immediately.
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  16.  @vinniewedge  1. Your excuse doesn't work, because slaves aren't told to obey to escape disadvantages. They are told to sincerely subjugate themselves and honor their masters as they would Jesus Christ . I put that in bold anticipating your defense and you still chose to ignore it. 2. Do the commandments in the bible only apply at the time they are given? No. And you don't argue for that when it's a passage you like. When something is uncomfortable then it only applies at the time. 3. Was slavery good 2000 years ago? There is nothing in the bible condemning slavery, even cautiously. 4. The prophets and later Jesus and Paul condemned common practices constantly. Indeed the bible makes a point out of standing up for your beliefs even if they are extremely unpopular. To say that the authors of the bible had to support slavery, because it was popular, is downright insane.
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  17.  @cakipankerot6830  Is that all you have to say to your defense? You think that LETTING people VOLUNTARILY join a DEFENSE pact is an aggression? You are a total clown, a failed bully. "You let people seek defense against my aggression, that means you're the bad guy!" Your case is ridiculous in the highest degree.
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  18. You don't experience consciousness. Consciousness is the experience.
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  19. I like how they both never address their unstated assumption that people have a right to water without the natural consequence of water poisoning.
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  20. Different countries reacted differently well. Trump is the only Western leader that first denied that the virus was dangerous at all and then blamed the Chinese for his own inaction.
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  21.  @kenhiett5266  He shut down flights from Europe after the virus was already all over New York. That's like buying an alarm system while the burglar empties your house.
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  22. Who is the "establishment"?
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  23. If that's so, it's more than worth it. That's pretty much the point of the rule of law, the point of a constitution, the point of the separation of powers, the point of liberal democracy as a whole: you don't just overthrow everything bcs people died and you're mad. You don't build a totalitarian state just bcs you think it's safer. You don't give up fundamental freedoms to save lives. Liberal democracy among other things means that there are more important things than mere survival.
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  24. Same. My only problem now is thoughts that disagree with me. I hope future technology can get rid of those.
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  25. I'm as anti-theist as it gets, but that's just a dumb slogan.
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  26. It's not and they won't. The delusion that the world is somehow magically just is one of the most pernicious.
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  27. You voted for Trump, because you are fascist, then?
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  28. That's like never being in the water and concluding that you probably know how to swim from second hand accounts.
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  29.  @SeaTeaSnow  I'm rolling on the floor. I'm literally dying. This idiot actually thinks that cutting off baby penis skins is not the most just thing to do. How else does he appease his deity? What a moron!
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  30. They underszand the other better than most people understand themselves.
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  31.  @synthesizerneil  I, too, am a neurologist, who regularly reads and compares phd theses.
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  32. By the age of 60 you can own a battleship.
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  33. "Driving" isn't in the car either. The windows user interface is not in the computer.
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  34. If Trump hadn't been elected the hysterical left would have a much weaker position.
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  35.  @kenhiett5266  You are completely missing the point. The measures that helped reduce the impact of the virus elsewhere were mandatory masks and prohibiting large events. And again: Trump said HIMSELF that the virus was not a problem and then he accused China of delaying his response HIMSELF. The media didn't make him say that. He's lying his ass off at every opportunity.
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  36.  @kenhiett5266  Cool. We are not talking about any of those people though, but Trump in relationship to other Western leaders. Sweden decided against most restrictions, but that's just the point... they decided . They didn't pretend that the virus wasn't a problem and then blamed someone else for their own inaction.
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  37.  @slipknnnot  The USA defended Iraqi civilians. US soldiers risked their lives for individual Iraqi civilians that were abducted and threatened by other Iraqis.
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  38. Precisely. To say that people should be disarmed so they can't kill themselves is about as cruel as it gets.
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  39. Good, but I don't know what you mean with letting go of the reigns. With many things I can see an action coming from a mile away, the idea, planning, it being initiated. The "reigns" are very much in consciousness.
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  40. Is this supposed to be a joke? Nonsense like this is exactly what gives psychedelics a bad name.
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  41. Actually that is perfect, because it bothers regular gun owners, especially those practicing and shooting as a sport and it does absolutely nothing to bother spree killers, who can further be instrumentalized to take people's guns away.
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  42. Your thinking is severly stunted by superfluous vocabulary. At any moment your consciousness can be filled with suffering or pleasure. You want to increase the amount of moments filled with pleasure and make them more intense. There is no reason why happiness should "go". If you can feel orgasmic bliss for one microsecond, you can feel it always.
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  43. No matter how clear it is, ot does undermine your credibility if you praise some watch in the same tone of voice in which you just stated your political observations.
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  44.  @trenchtown69  Also disarmed before they got shot.
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  45. Peterson thinks he has inhereted the perfect lie.
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  46. Yeah, one thing is helpful, the other a blight on human existence and a great threat going forwards. Most religions just codify the most primitive misunderstandings of the mind. They actively prevent spiritual growth.
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  47. So when has the world started "burning" in your opinion?
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  48. I used to be a great admirer of Sam's intellectual output. The he changed the intro song of his podcast.
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  49. He is deep in Jung's butt.
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  50.  @donkeyrhomper  Not the case in Sweden or Italy. It's the case in countries, which early enacted countermeasures.
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