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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