Comments by "Guy Who Likes Ecclesiastes" (@EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts) on "Based Camp with Simone & Malcolm Collins" channel.

  1. Judging a civilization based on things that survive till relatively recently seem to run the risk of conflating factors that produce civilisation and factors that allow traces of civilization to persist.
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  2. A very important topic, South Korea has been the canary for the whole fertility collapse issue.
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  3. A topic that very much needs to be adressed, people are sold transexualism as a solution to depression, despair and anxiety, things modern society creates and which drugs and surgery cannot solve.
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  4. Everyone loves redefining Fascism so their opponents are fascist.
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  5. Deeply disturbing, yet unsurprising
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  6. Compare and Contrast: Oman. A state ruled by secular ruler who enforces religious law, where Islam and Ibadism specifically have remained extremely strong. Geopolitically, Oman is pretty non partisan, it sets itself up as a neutral place to have diplomatic meetings.
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  7. American politics keeps getting weirder.
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  8. Nepal is overwlmingly Hindu, not Buddhist. I made the same mistake, it's a Buddhist holy site, but 80% of the population are Hindu, 10% Buddhist, roughly. The Ghurkas come from there, and they are absolutely Hindu.
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  9. Your production speed is faster than Mohammed Farah at 10 minutes to dusk on the first day of Ramadan running from a metric Daniel's pit worth of lions playing flutes.
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  10. Like the cross, people just like bold, geometric patterns.
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  11. ​ @adamdonovan4071 An attempted assassin's emotional support horse. That would sell for a lot.
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  12. My condolences. Hope is not lost, people can find Jehovah, detransition does happen. Keep hope.
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  13. How interesting. It will be entertaining to see who wins this one.
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  14. It's absurd for people to argue "Changing the law to ban this thing wouldn't completely eradicate it, so it's okay for me personally to do it."
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  15. Well, doxing people is certainly not to be encouraged "You have heard it said you should love you neighbor and hate our enemy, I tell you you must love your enemy" Also, if you're doxing people but not personally, physically attacking them, it comes off as trying to get others to do your dirty work for you.
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  16. Terrible for humanity, many innocent children, especially the most vulnerable, will be aborted because of this lack of compassion, but... the people they're killing are their own children. They're just reducing their numbers further.
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  17. I get that clickbait is part of your religion. It's as it goes.
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  18. It is easier to learn while young.
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  19. It's certainly possible to act in a moral way without religious guidance, the Bible itself says "By their own conscience they are accused, or even excused." Regarding unbelieving gentiles, but one needs to factor in the whole, not just individuals. Over a large population, over a large time frame, which system promotes the most moral behaviour? Which system is best at combating dishonesty, violence and other immoral behaviour? That can be tested empirically. Moreover, I would also point out that multiple people can behave in a way that is outwardly moral, but for different reasons, their moral reasoning is different, just leading to the same conclusion. If a new situation arises, one system might promote immoral bahavior while the other doesn't, even if they agree on another matter.
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  20. Not irrelevant, they are a genuine local power roughly on a par with Iran or Saudi Arabia. But certainly not a major or super power.
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  21. Not yet, we don't know for sure that that will work, and we need to consider the possibility that if it comes it will come too late to prevent the problem. Pragmatically, no modern society would be okay with that route, and morally, depending on the details, it could be entirely unacceptable. There are worse things than demographic collapse and institutionalising an atrocity could be one of those worse things, depending on how it functions in practice.
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  22. I feel like the practice of baptism, the old person being nailed to the stake and new one emerging from the water, is a much healthier version of this. Being Born Again is the best way to be born again.
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  23. Although comuunism certainly seems to overlap with lack of respect for age of consent, Foucault and Derrida would argue that they were postmodernist, not communist. The two are certainly very similar, but they write polemics against one another. Have you done an episode on posmodernism?
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  24. To elaborate, I would point out Chinese foot binding wasn't ONLY to limit female mobility, it was also driven by a specific kind of fetishism directed toward such bound feet. However, you can't fetishise something that doesn't exist so that couldn't have caused the phenomenon.
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  25. Your upload schedule is very impressive. Looking forward to this.
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  26. I can tell I'm going insane, not only did I immediately understand the title of this one, I immediatly thought "Oh, yes, I already came to that conclusion."
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  27. Bcg vaccines seems like a better indicator than travel, travel can be affected by culture, available unds, increased take up of video calls, lingering fear of disease and so on, though absolutely best to have multiple factors to check.
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  28. Any country that permits abortion is automatically disqualified from counting as legitimately Christian, Muslim or Jewish. The Law is clear, the life of an unborn child is just as valuable as any other.
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  29. There's a massive difference between a religion being strict while just existing in a society, like Amish, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mennonites, to a religion having political power and using that to enforce itself, like these Shia, but also a Catholic theocracy or Communist states. How many people are still communist in Russia, China etc? Both might be called strict, but the effects are chalk and cheese.
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  30. I assure you, Jehovah's Witnesses are not going to back any politician. Non violence and non political involvement is something they're known for. "My kingdom is no part of this world."
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  31. There is a very good reason why Moses and Jesus both forbade sexual immorality. YHWH declared that adultery merits death, don't treat that lightly.
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  32. As for zelenksy not holding electians, I have no horse in that race, however, I would point out that the us wasn't being teritorrialy occuplied during ww2, logistically it's surely more difficult to hold elections with an army on your land territory,
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  33. Voting for the ruling power in a place like Russia doesn't mean much.
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  34. After the Bible (first) and Dune (second), your channel might be the most profound thing I've ever heard.
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  35. The thing about S assult being more common in prog institutionsmarries well with a study done by the Catholic church that showed that more abuse happens in seminaries with homosexual cultures. The study is discussed on YouTube.
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  36.  @gentronseven  If people with different theories about what water is are asked to make boats, and one boat does not sink while the other does, it's certain that the boat that doesn't sink is better, but it's reasonable to conclude that the theory behind that boat is correct too. A bad theory produces a bad boat, and vice versa, so if the boat works, the theory is probably correct.
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  37. Stats and tradition agree, wait till marriage.
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  38. Tragically, people absolutely use abortion as a form of birth control. Then some will just abandon their children in the street, like those kids who were abandoned in london. It's not like there aren't orphanages, people just care so little about the lives of others they'll rather chuck a baby onto the street than walk to an orphanage.
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  39. You're the channel I never knew I needed.
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  40. Yee, but they like using Christians as a pmc.
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  41. The council of Nicea was still a council. Some things everyone went in agreeing on, but the theology debate was a debate, with politics thrown in. That still seems way too democratic. Popes are elected, sometimes different papal candidates compete and campaign against each other. If they're a democracy, you look like an elective monarchy. For me, the unchanging Bible makes a more authoritarian leader. God has spoken, though Jesus, no one today has the authority to overrule that. If we're going for monarchy, and we should, it shouldn't be a human at the top.
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  42. As ever, informative and filled with human wisdom.
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  43. The only based communist take. Though, better to say: "In Christ there is neither male nor female." ​ @Herzshot 
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  44. Broad idea, please do an episode on Jehovah's Witnesses. We publish realy detailed population statistics, we're extremely evangelistic, we exist everywhere, around the world, continually grow through evangelism, not birth rate, I really struggle to find stats about us not published BY us, since we're pretty small, around 9 million, or 22 million by worldly standards. If you don't know a lot about us, we would probably be a useful data point, at any rate, I would love to learn more about our demographics in a way you are well equiped to do. Thank you.
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  45. Its costs like 2 dollars to save a life through cheap vaccines, and this is what they spend money on.
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  46. If people like these two are an example, they don't place much value on individual human life, so abortion is not a major concern. I imagine they have no fundamental objection to murder, it's just that murder could be used to extinguish culture, while abortion theoretically can't. Of course, in practice forced abortion is already widespread.
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  47. They tend to sink.
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  48. Breeding guarantees citizenship! Mother holds up 8th child "I'm doing my part!"
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  49. Not consistently.
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  50. Because it's certain the cartels will get you in but legally you might not.
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  51.  @plasmaticmedia518  are they not obligate pacifists?
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  52. A cause, there are others.
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  53. It is easier to learn while young.
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  54. ​ @HeortirtheWoodwarden You have blood on your hands, but at least you're morally consistent, which is an improvement.
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  55. As someone writing a book, extremely helpful, concise and insightful.
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  56.  @jobloluther  What do you mean? They said that the proposal would work at increasing population growth, and they had no issue with the amount of money, just that it would encourage less productive people to have kids disproportionately. The amount of money wasn't their issue. As I say, that sounds like a lot, I don't know if that would actually be practical.
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  57. Oh, now this is an interesting comment to like ratio
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  58. That's a joke, I think.
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  59.  @dixonhill1108  It's not the only important characteristic, far from it, I don't think ANY country is practicing Christianity or Judaism appropriately, but Exodus 21:22 is clear cut, and accepted by Jews and Christians. Muslims don't always nice with the Bible, but Muhhammed confirmed that principle by condemning abortion in his own day, and traditional hadith state that abortion is Haram. If a place can't meet the basic standard of not committing mass murder against babies, what right have they to claim tp Love God? Now if your metrics are purely demographic, that's another thing, but then the Caesar of that state need not care about faith.
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  60. Doesn't Athens pose a counter example to this? Upon discovering a rich vein of silver some wanted to pay every citizen a dividend while others wanted to fund the navy. In the end, they funded the navy.
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  61. Yes, it seems like extrapolation taken too far.
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  62. I've always planned to homeschool any kids I have, it will be great to have a rescource like your institute.
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  63. Ai as yet is not good enough to replace humans in code, so on, but we don't know where AI finishes. We don't know what ai will be when it reaches it's peak. Maybe it will make human code irrelevant, maybe it will be on an even footing,maybe it will never compete, we just don't know yet.
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  64. It's a collective action problem, if one country goes luddite, another will build AI instead, the problem is how to get all of them to act
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  65. You are the second covert religion I have found.
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  66. Bronze age collapse, copper boogaloo.
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  67. Christianity was able to show people the evil of trans Atlantic slavery, likewise it showed people the evil of abortion. You're right though that traditionally Catholics didn't have this view, they were poisoned by Greek Philosophy. Thankfully that particular problem was resolved in time.
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  68. Broad idea, please do an episode on Jehovah's Witnesses. We publish realy detailed population statistics, we're extremely evangelistic, we exist everywhere, around the world, continually grow through evangelism, not birth rate, I really struggle to find stats about us not published BY us, since we're pretty small, around 9 million, or 22 million by worldly standards. If you don't know a lot about us, we would probably be a useful data point, at any rate, I would love to learn more about our demographics in a way you are well equiped to do. Thank you.
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  69. I see this comment and your other one about a blog channel.
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  70. I listen at 2x speed. I am higher than you on the status hierarchy.
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  71. They most certainly are killing people, abortion is mass murder.
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  72. When you say newly converted Atheist, do you mean converted to Atheism or away from it?
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  73. Everything you say is insane and yet makes just enough sense to be terrifying.
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  74.  @tann_man  The end of serfdom was not morivated by Christianity, but the end of slavery, based on the horrors of the trans Atlantic slave trade, were motivated by Protestantism. Religious toleration was an accident, and plenty of Atheists have tried to enforce Atheism through violence, and still do to this day, say, in Xinxiang, universal literacy existed in ancient Israel which was a hyper religious theocracy, and modern literacy was again, largely a product of Protestantism. The abolition of serfdom was really an economic inevitability, as technology changed, economic systems needed to do so also.
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  75. What do you mean by supreme court judges being bribed? I get lobbying, but how do you lobby a judge?
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  76. They're safe until an army arrives at their doors. And they're growing rapidly. Compare, say, Jehovah's Witnesses, who have fewer kids but totally resilient to persecution.
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  77. One other thing to consider, the second hand book market plus charity shops, they dont make authors any money, but they are a form of lasting reach. In my experience, 90% crime novels.
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  78. Hey, the YouTube algorithm may be a false god, but it does at least have eyes.
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  79. If all society is just a bundle of cults, best pick the best cult. That's definitely Christianity, but the LDS understanding seems way too nationalistic for me. Nationalism seems like something in competition with Christianity.
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  80.  @clearstonewindows  Ah, that does clarify things, thank you. The idea of the constitution being divinely inspired I did not know about. It still seems more nationalistic than I'm comfortable with, but your take is more balanced than I was expecting.
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  81. Kosak? Do you mean Kulak?
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  82. Look at how ineffective theological liberals are are evangelizing secularists, being similar to someone doesn't nessercerily, I would say just doesn't, make evangelism easier.
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  83. You are the second covert religion I have found.
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  84. I would be very interested in your takes on the billion dollar question, "What caused the Roman Empire to fall" and how you would fix it.
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  85. Abortion is always horrifying.
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  86. Isn't prison by definition slavery? It being forced to sit in cell all day, being forced to work, either way, no freedom.
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  87. That's putting a lot trust in an AI interpretation.
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  88. Video games are one form of media, theoretically a book, a movie, an oral recitation, a video game or anything else COULD convey a worthwhile moral or educational message, even while being entertaining, but you're right that much in the way of video games are either vapid or immoral. The issue is the content, but then again, as the Jesuit said, the media is the message. There are moral and immoral books, but video games will encourage a different kind of content than books.
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  89.  @Herzshot  Faith in YHWH can give purpose to life, a reason to work hard at something, especially preaching about that faith to others. Seeing how a person responds to God's word, how even violent and immoral people can be motivated to make changes in their lives when they come to believe in and to know Jah, that's a wonderful, awe inspiring thing. The case of Solomone Tonga is a good example of that. Just last week someone I preached to a long time ago joined my congregation, it's an amazing privilege to be even a small part of that. That is something worth working hard at.
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  90. That is rather the theme of the channel, digging into the sinew of the issue, in all it's unappealing totality..
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  91. Disturbing
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  92. They also suggest that giving everyone who has 3 kids 500k. 500k They apparently think there is a LOT of money that can be given to people to have kids. I have no idea if that's correct.
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  93. AI generated music, part of the pro AI stance this channel has.
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  94. Switzerland does that.
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  95. Wait, does tube delete all comments with URLs? Let me test.
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  96. They are political, so they support the republican faction, so they're going to hype up republicans. It's what it is, but as for me, the power of the horse is not the way, Jesus is. Either way, they have a lot of insightful analysis even if I imagine very few of those who watch them are totally on board with their politics. It's the kind of place this channel is.
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  97. What do you mean a "Eudaimonist?"
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  98.  @millernumber1  Could you elaborate? It sounds different from divine command theory.
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  99. Can we trust any survey from Hamas?
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  100. Did those feet, in ancient time, walk... No. No they didn't. They've done the genetics, it just isn't the case. I'd love to be a Jew, but sadly, no, very much a gentile. However, Christ has abolished such differences.
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  101. Looking forward to this.
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  102. Are those numbers taken only from the Bible or are they from any extra biblical or apocryphal sources?
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  103. As for sex with gods, the Bible identifies an understanding of what this is, Genesis records that before the flood demons have sex with human women. What does that look like to a pagan who already believes in multiple gods, or how will that be rembered by later pagans? As the gods descending and producing demigods, the nephilim, or Hercules. Worshippers of Jehovah don't regard these as God, but creations that rebelled against God, but to greek polytheism, what is the difference?
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  104. The only reason to believe a group violently opposed to another group WON'T move to physically attacking the enemy group is if they are strictly, hyper, non violent, pacifist or something similar. Even then, the Mennonites volunteered units to the SS.
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  105. Ah, what an interesting topic
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  106. Homosexuals can't change who they are? Plenty of people very much have left homosexuality, transvestism and other such things.
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  107. They see themselves as tools of their ideology, and sex as just another tool. It's a fundamentally unbiblical perspective.
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  108. Everyone seems to approach abortion from really unnatural places. Why is so strange to just say "Killing people is wrong, everyone's life has value, that doesn't exclude people because they don't look like you, haven't yet been born or so on."
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  109. If the Bible is reliable, we are commanded to love our enemies and pray for those who persecute us. To turn the other cheeck, and repay evil with good. Those are very, as you say, deontological, commands.
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  110. Out of interest, are you, in fact, both a zoomer and a pastor?
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  111. I think that's true for a lot of tight knit, Hard, religions. Stalin is a great advertisement for Orthodoxy. I've heard the testimony of various apostates from various faiths, most of them are pretty positive toward the faith they left, though they totally won't intent that.
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  112.  @skylinefever  Those are the ones in talking about, they give a great testimony for their previous faith by how that He needed up after leaving it.
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  113. Can ANYTHING Frued says be trusted?
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  114. Violence is an idiotic strategy, and contrary to the command of Jesus Christ. "I say to you, you must love your enemy and pray for the one who persecuted you." If you want proof for that working, compare Jehovah's Witnesses and Old Belivers in Russia. Both persecuted during the Soviet period, Old believers happy to engage in the millitary when allowed, Witnesses strictly non violent. What happens? Jehovah's Witnesses are flourishing in Russia while being persecuted and even tortured by Putin and the Orthodox church. If you want to reduce the number of Muslims, evangelise Christianity in Pakistan. You may die, but you will also help some Muslims come to know God truly and contribute to the vindication of His name. I don't say that as an insult, martyrdom is glorious. Warfare or terrorism on the other hand just makes the faith look bad, how many westerners do you think were eager to convert to Islam after 9/11?
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  115. They do, but they have the wrong religion.
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  116. The argument these two make is that it will cause such massive economic collapse and social instability in the U.S. and Europe that you will get civil war and other strife, and potentially the collapse of nations, so war between nations and spawning of terrorists. It won't be extinction, but it will be a China explosion type event, tens of millions of casualties, loss of tech advancement. However, it will reduce carbon emissions and other pollutants, unless a nuclear reactor or bomb goes off.
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  117. Between the two.
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  118. Theg will. When Jesus returns, and some of the signs are already visable. Check out "Revelation - it's grand climax at hand!"
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  119. None of those things have gone away, just being hidden by modern medicine. If that medicine ever gives out, everything will go disastrously.
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  120. Because Jesus says so: "For all of you who were baptised into Christ have put on Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor freeman, there is niether male nor female, for you are all one in union with Christ Jesus."
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  121. They're trying to appeal both to Conservatives and Progessives.
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  122. This is an absolutely fascinating field. The earliest prostitutes we have records for were priestess-prostitutes, the temples of Babylon were also brothels. It's rare now, but Shia Muslim clergy in Iran, Iraq and such kind of act in the same way. The clerics are male, but have the authority to officiate temporary marriage, and maintain a stable of women to hire out. All technically allowed by Sharia, but only their specific Shia Sharia.
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  123. You explain the Chinese property problem so clearly!
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  124. Congrats on 10k subs.
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  125. ​ @jsbrads1 ignoring the joke, the 1st generation were economically effective, but after that fell off because children raised in them didn't want to carry on, execpt some of the religious ones which kind of act like non celibate monasteries.
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  126. An individual prediction about a threat can be wrong while the threat still be real. Climate change is a massive threat, environmentalists are prone to exaggeration and wildly over specific predictions, both are true.
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  127. Evolution requires inordinate faith to accept, unless you believe the God created evolution. If we eventually find out that evolution is wrong and some other method was used, would we call that evolution? When is evolution not evolution?
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  128. You have a great thumb!
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  129.  @ladendeer4428  The membership in the US is declining slightly, but it is slightly increasing in the UK. I think it sort of averages out at a certain percentage, dependent on culture. I am sure we will see substantial growth in Russia, persecution normally leads to growth, and it will be fascinating to see what is going on in China and North Korea when they open up. As for you, which religion did you end up in?
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  130. An awful lot of prostitutes aren't willing. The majority, likely.
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  131.  @BlessedTea555  Seconded.
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  132. Oh boy... we're all going to have some real wacky dreams tonight. As for me, I used to have a lot of nightmares, then I got really, really Christian, and now I have things that should be nightmares but I'm totally unconcerned. Like, recently I dreamt I was in the bottom of a tower where I had been taken on a historical tour, there were recurring blackouts, and during each blackout a demonic red face appeared and each time drew closer to us, but I was totally unconcerned because I knew I was a Christian zealot and didn't need to fear demons, but I was on the tour with a black grey person, who was an unbeliever, and they wouldn't leave quickly and were just standing in the door, so I was worried about the grey person. That sort of thing is pretty common, though some are very complex and have a pretty reasonable narrative.
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  133. Judaism? Aren't they Transhuman-Calvinist-HyperMormons?
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  134. Very interesting. Lets see if this spreads to other countries
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  135. With the exception of Jehovah's Witnesses, who are wildly, wildly evangelistic, but don't have many children, so they're growing, but not through birth rates, they convert people instead. They are apolitical, and very morally biblical.
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  136. Extremely significant.
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  137. The problem isn't Jews, the problem is secularism. Jews were among the first victims of the enlightenment, except in Russia where Tsarist conservatism and anti semitism protected them, then the communists got to Russian Jews as well.
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  138. That poster is 100% "Yes, I raped that women, but it's her fault for being so hot!" A society that normalised rape is bad enough, any sane mind should be able to tell that normalizing pedophillia is worse.
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  139. Would you like to know more?
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  140. ​ @tann_man As a builder, we do sometimes use lime, but it's not normal, kinda like having a grass roof. Cement is the vast majority.
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  141. His hair is obviously an attempt to be the Ukrainian flag.
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  142. I think the best you can get out of communism is Tito. He wasn't genocidal, didn't persecute religion very much and prevented racial violence for a while. He was basically just a normal charismatic military dictator.
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  143. Oh i remember that documentary intro... Brings back memories
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  144.  @PanopticonMind  in this case, that's missing the point. It's not nessercerily that evolution is flawed, so we should believe in God, it's more that evolutionnis so wildly improbable that you would need a probalistic notable for it to happen. At that point, whether it's evolution or another method, it looks like it shouldn't happen but did. Until we can empirically prove abiogenesis, we can'tknow whether it's possible, but we do know that if it is it probabalistically shouldn't be. No matter how many layers deep you go as regards causes, you end up at the same place, things are either contingent or non contingent, you can't have only contingent things, so there must be a non contingent thing on which others are contingent, and since the world is ordered not random, that contingency appears designed. That's the meat of the question.
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  145. When you say newly converted Atheist, do you mean converted to Atheism or away from it?
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  146. The Bible is the inerrant word of God, but neither Catholic Protestant or Orthodox apply God's word. All of them seek to seize political power and use the tools of Satan, Jesus commanded "Love your enemy and pray for the one who persecutes you" and said "my kingdom is no part of this world, if my kingdom were of this world my attendants should have fought that I not be handed over, but as it is my kingdom is not from this source. Seeking political power, which requires violence, corrupted Christendom, we need to return to a Biblical worldview, an actual Biblical worldview.
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  147.  @tuckerbugeater  Who?
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  148. A competent society, even if run by a cartoonishly evil government, would be able to find profitable uses for it's people and would want them doing that rather than killing them. Someone in a wheelchair, without eyes, is still capable of being economically productive. In reality of course, people are made in the image of God, and murder, willing or not, is immoral, but even a truly tyranical regime could find uses for basically everyone.
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  149. Yup married, find it easier to talk when not in the same room.
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  150. Swedish right wingers? There are such things?
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  151. Historically the south was less populous until that flipped and the south became more populous and the centre of political gravity which it remains today. I don't know if this is relevant however, as it happened a while ago.
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  152. Pďfism is objectively evil, this isn't kimonos vs saris, it's a matter of objective morality.❤
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  153. Abortion is already a crime on the scale of the holocaust. An end to abortion may not solve demographic issues, but here and now abortion is still mass murder.
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  154.  @davidplowman6149  Yes, you put it better than I could. Philistines were sea people but not the only sea people.
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  155. The game was rigged from the start, the house ending is just better, yes man is just worse, ncr is just worse than house, better than legion.
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  156. Indeed. People throughout history have said "Now we shall set up the kingdom of God!" And that Amillenialism never bears good fruit. Fundamentally, we were tainted by sin, and people, even very intelligent ones like these two, cannot overcome sin by human power. Praise be to God that it is Jesus who will rule, and that God, in his mercy will cleanse us of our sin. It will be fascinating to see whether this techno religion goes well, but neither technology nor politics can save us. "It does not belong to man who is walking even to direct his steps."
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  157.  @JohnBaskette  Sorry, when you say, "you two" do you mean Malcom and Simone or myself and Gareth?
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  158. Chat gpt is only a public facing language model, ai is already finding new cures for cancer types, modeling genomes and such. Don't be misled by chatgpt.
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  159. The thing is, reproductive methods only work if those in power don't take millitary action against the majority.
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  160. Which is simply the principle we can learn about Jehovah from his creation if you accept that evolution is part of creation, which I'm uncertain of. Of course, you can try o learn about God by studying his work without believing in Him, which leads to idolatry, worship of creation.
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  161. Human flesh is maluable, it can be reshaped, remoulded.
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  162. I'm sure they have.
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  163. At the basic level, every human being has reason to oppose abortion, because every human being should recognise that murder if the innocent is wrong. Abortion isn't really a political issue, you could be fascist, Marxist, ancap, a jihadi, Jehovah's Witness or Baha'i and still recognise, "Killing babies is bad".
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  164.  @PanopticonMind  Yes, we need to be indoctrinated by their studies and references before we are all on board with homesteading.
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  165.  @PanopticonMind  Yes, we need to be indoctrinated by their studies and references before we are all on board with homesteading.
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  166. Good info
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  167. What was the old logo?
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  168. Great game in many ways. Not perfect, but a good game can be like a good book.
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  169. Always these videos are so insightful yet have so few views.
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  170.  @clearstonewindows  So you are a member of the LDS but not an American nationalist? If so, that's an intersection I have not heard of, I was under the impression it was taught that the US is a chosen nation, like Israel of old. Is that not something LDS teach?
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  171.  @hermanrobak1285  Your jester is dirty! Yes, his ribald jokes are why I keep him around. No, he is covered in potato peels! I'm sure it's fine.
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  172. Cultural differences can be real but duscrimination based on skin colour is pointless. I am white, but I'm functionally identical to a black guy at my congregation who is a 3rd generation immigrant. The differences between me and a 1st generation immigrant of my faith are negligible compared to the difference between me and a next door neighbour, also white, who is secular. Religion matters a lot (So long as it's not compromising to the world), culture a little and race, in itself, not at all. All are one in Christ.
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  173. Everything I learn about you makes you sound more like Bene Geserit, you're even kinda Jewish!
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  174. This theorizing about evolution is interesting, but until we see this happening it seems impossible to be dogmatic about it.
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  175. How religious are you? Which religion? Were you always religious, did you have this dream before you became religion?
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  176.  @Gareth_Mayers  That's fascinating. I am also one of Jehovah's Witnesses, I had nightmares, not dreams about nakedness but irrational fear, until I became a Witness. Do you know that you are a Witness while dreaming? I mostly do, and I was discussing this with a sister at LDC. She said that being aware of being a Witness while dreaming helped convince her of the truth, which I found absolutely fascinating.
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  177. Betel nut is also typically slaked with lime and is massively cancer causing.
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  178. This sounds genuinely revolutionary. This is certainly the start of something more, but this alone will be huge. I look forward to using this and see how it will evolve.
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  179. But Jesus is.
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  180. Wait, is this comment comprehensible? What have you said?
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  181. The Kibbutzim were an example of the Westermark effect coming into play with people who are not genetically related. Non of the little Socialist Kibbutz Jews wanted to marry each other, but the community was closed off to outsiders unless they joined. This is part of why the Kibbutz fell apart, a lack of new blood, and why mostly only the religious Kibbutz stuck around, because Jews kind of treat them like monasteries.
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  182. Freud was very much an ear tickler, one thing I disagree with Peterson on is his support of Frued, at least in some ways.
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  183. The only reason to believe a group violently opposed to another group WON'T move to physically attacking the enemy group is if they are strictly, hyper, non violent, pacifist or something similar. Even then, the Mennonites volunteered units to the SS.
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  184. Perennialists do exactly this, and perennialism and accellerationism are two sides of the same coin. It is a mistake, of course, as you say, relying on human wisdom, and while these two are profoundly wise, it is better to trust wholly in the Bible, for Jehovah is absolute and his wisdom is superior to ours to a degree we cannot comprehend, rather than write your own. But, if you believe that God will use reason to give new revelation after the Bible, which I don't and it doesn't seem the Bible teaches this, but if you do believe that it makes sense.
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  185. The glasses are praxis.
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  186. Fascinating.
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  187. ​ @3ipl Robots are more attainable than ai, if manual labour is done away with, technical skills and knowledge work remain, but ai does away with those too. Then what? It doesn't NEED to be a disaster, but it will be.
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