Just so you all know, I will be taking the best comments and relply to them in a later video! I know I'm not perfect, I know I'm wrong on many things but this is how we grow! I share because I want to learn. Thank you all so much for the constructive thoughts! Can't wait to rebuttle them!
It is very unfortunate and I agree with most of your points. Every big corporation in America is out there for your money through as many venues as possible, and that can involve gas lighting online. Religions are always sparked by those who are willing to believe in something greater than themselves to give life meaning, which isn't a bad thing, because humans operate that way. The question should then become: are people willing to test the boundaries of the beliefs they grew up in? I don't know about you, by my religious teachers encourage questions, and they would then source their answer from "approved" religious texts. Of course, if a text is approved by the institution sponsoring the seminaries, the source isn't immediately invalidated as a possible answer to the hypothetical question I asked my teacher. But I digress. If people aren't willing to see the world from a different angle, it is entirely their fault, especially if they are surrounded by people who encourage them to ask questions. The thing is, staying in the dark about drugs, religion, science, etc is really easy to do. I do it all the time, because it is human nature to find a solution (any solution, it doesn't have to be correct) and be content with it. When we look at world history up until this point in time, while keeping human nature in mind (which is to not give complexity to life and create a solid foundation of beliefs that will never change no matter how much logic another person may throw at it), it would then be safe to conclude that yes, we are living in the dark ages, we have been living it a thousand years ago, and we will still live in it in 2100. Human stupidity is why government will continue to exist. It is an inevitability that when you have stupid humans, you need one smart man or a crowd of smart men to make a government that has checks and balances so human whims will never overpower the will of the constitution of the United States, which was built to protect the individual over the majority, which is one of the many reasons why a pure Democracy could never thrive, because you must first establish absolute unalienable rights for the individual before making laws here and there because the majority wants it. It is obvious that I am pro-USA from saying this, but I believe that the system here is truly the best one. The right to keep and bear arms is what allows a collection of oppressed individuals in the United States to say NO to a government impeding on the rights of its citizens. Of course, it's illegal to kill people, but if the US were to ever go off the deep end and take away (insert deity here)-given rights, the founders believed it important for the oppressed to be armed, otherwise there would be no hope for them. Also, I was wondering. If you were to put yourself in a political group, would you be a libertarian? It sounds like you are, because you believe in individual liberties over anything else, as long as you aren't negatively impacting somebody else (which is a very vague qualifier, but we'll just ignore that).
As someone who hardly had any intention to go visit outside of the states, this certainly gives me the incentive to do so. Barely had a grasp on why libertarian/anarchist views were they way they are. I myself wasn't interested in politics, or the artificial divided line of political teams/compasses to begin with. In fact I went out of my way mostly to avoid that kind of thing. Knowing that both the news and government fear mongering, is just as bad as Jehovah's Witnesses or any other kind of religion. Church, state and news publications are nearly one and the same. With varying levels of power, in what they can say and enforce. It is designed to over-complicate the level of power between all three of these entities. Enemy of my enemy, being that the people are a valuable and extremely vulnerable target. They work in unison to become incredibly powerful forces. Suppressing critical thinking through said fear mongering. That is where people are most vulnerable. Scare them into a state where they cannot see past the inconsistencies. They'll acknowledge it sure. But like any powerful entity with malicious intent, they'll make sure the vulnerable turns a blind eye without even thinking about it. May as well be living in a real life horror movie that never ceases to end for the betterment. We have become masochists because of their indoctrination and power.
xeere If you mean quoting Barry, it was for a joke and I’m so sorry that you have no sense of humor you poor soul. If you mean that someone else in the comments made a similar joke. Forgive me for not having time to read through hundreds of comments to make sure my ‘content’ is ‘original’.
@@tor2131 it's not you making a joke though is it? it's barry making a joke in the first minute of the video and you putting it in the comments of the video it is from so that everyone can hear it twice. the twist: a joke gets less funny the more you hear it.
"If you don't like your ideas challenged, you may want to dip out now." This is why bulletbarry as a channel, to me, is a rock that stands out in an ocean of youtubers.
I really dislike the argument "We should give people the money we spend on x and y" because most of the times people tend to miscalculate. 648 billion dollars spent on military (In a year if I interpreted the pie chart correctly). All 417 million people could get 1000 dollars (not a million) if the military were to liquidate about 2/3 of their assets, if they can be resold at 100% of their price, and be left with 231 billion dollars. I imagine a lot of people would loose their jobs because of this budget cut. Though I cannot say I am familiar with the US population's standard of living, I would imagine that the people whom this 1000 dollars per year would help tremendously, are in the minority. All I want to say is that everyone should make up their mind AFTER they did the math correctly.
It's not actually an argument. I dont think anyone actually wants that money divided equally and spread rn. That would crash the economy. It's meant to illustrate the sheer vastness of that number in a way we can comprehend. There is no way to truly just understand a billion. You cant imagine a billion of something in your mind, but this gives the quantity of money we spend on killing a little perspective
Yes there is. It's called comparison. The US has the largest military budget in the world. Second is China. The US spends over 2.5 times more on its military budget that China does and has the largest percentage of GDP dedicated to its military by no insignificant margin compared to other 1st world countries. Plus, what kind of morons think that money should be given to the people? And it's not that what's bought has to be sold... Again, what idiot thinks that? It's that the budget going forward should stop dedicating so much towards the military and instead shift it towards the civilian sector. The money should be spent on education (which the US really needs to step up on) or, I don't know, helping people afford education and healthcare? Most 1st world countries heavily subsidize medical and education costs so the people can get a proper education and not be bankrupt because of it. Hell, they don't even need to do that, they can just cut military expenditure in half (and still top on military spending) and keep on to that money. Significant national savings can be used to stabilize your nations economy during times of economic trial. Like covid-19. Norway has the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world if I am not mistaken, bigger than the US' even. Because of this, they are far more capable of dealing with crisis like covid. They can shut down the economy and have enough saved up to not have to worry about economic collapse, at least not in a national scale. Spending so much on the military is ridiculous in an age where large scale war has been replaced by large scale bombs.
@@pagatryx5451 Large scale war has been replaced by large scale bombs. Then why are the most successful economies (like the top ten of them) allocating so much for the military if it's that simple?
Hey Barry, I had a few rebuttals to things you said in this video: -You briefly mention that religion is on the decline, but you brush this off. However, this essentially negates your entire point that the world is entering a new dark age as a result of religion: how can we now be in a new age of religious devotion and fervor if a smaller percentage of people than ever before in world history are religious? -What you said about education was contradictory. You first cited Rockefeller's quote about wanting a nation of workers and not thinkers, but you then proceeded to argue that the educational system is flawed because it teaches abstract concepts and not how to file taxes, etc. So what do you want, a nation of people with practical skills or a nation of abstract thinkers? -You say that in "our society" (I assume you mean the United States), money is more important than "who you are". I don't think you could seriously give me one example of a major civilization in which a person's character was more important than their social status (what having money is really about in the US). Even if we didn't have money, or everyone was about equal economically, people would still be judged by arbitrary differences which determine social status (attractiveness, height, etc.). Better that we judge people by how much money they have, which isn't totally arbitrary, than by something like attractiveness, which is. -You talk about drug laws, citing marijuana as an example. I agree with you on this issue. However, I don't really see how this demonstrates we're in a dark age. If anything, drug laws are more liberal now than at any point in at least the past 100 years (in the United States). -You say that humans are not objective in viewing the universe, and science can never be perfectly accurate or unbiased, because scientists themselves are not. Again, I agree with you but I fail to see how this demonstrates that we're in a new dark age. Are you seriously suggesting that "scientists" of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries who supposedly "proved" the inferiority of non-white races were being more objective than scientists are today? -You suggest that humans "aren't interested" in tackling problems like the origin of the universe. This is totally absurd. It's not that people "don't care" or don't want to know, it's that WE DON'T KNOW and CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHAT IT iS. That doesn't mean people don't care. -Throughout the video you talk about how people aren't allowed to decide whether or not they would like to be citizens of the countries they are born into. And you think this wasn't the case when? Once again, it's not even really about the point itself, it's just that this isn't new and isn't becoming more common as of late.
Ik this is a bit late but, this is to add to your second last point. I've heard a theory on why are universe is still expanding. The process of the explosion og big bang is so effective, there was enough power for another and another one after that. Which means that our universe is still expanding because of serval explosions. Interestingly enough this is also a theory on how the universe is going to die. Since there a matter cant remeber the name (something like black or antimatter) it acts like gravity, but opposite. So instead of pulling things to it, it pushes. So the theory goes the more space is being created the more of this matter will to. Eventually there will be enough that it will tear our universe apart. My source on this is "Det gåde fulde universe". Its a danish name, but its in english. I just though it was an interesting theory. Sorry for bad spelling or gramma, english is not my first language.
Agreed, Barry uses a lot of contradiction and emotion to prove things involving cold hard facts quite unsuccessfully. Many logical fallacies I could point out, and he acts as if society is static and never changes, which is the least intelligent and simple-minded way of viewing humanity.
So first off I am a Christian and often I wonder what if the world's largest religion was actually founded by mary to cover up her adultery. And to you barry, if this isn't too much to ask I want you to look up this video called "Finding the Mountain of Moses: The Real Mount Sinai in Saudi Arabia" it's really cool and I would like hear your opinion about the video and the contents of it, Also I'm glad your doing this type of "I'd like to hear your opinions in the comments thing" again.
@@BulletBarryhonestly if you actually did this i have gained even more respect for you than i already had. And my respect for you is already very high.
there isn't more mass in the universe, and the mass isn't increasing. You're thinking of dark energy which is thought to be causing the universe to expand, and is increasing in amount. Dark energy is still unexplained tho
Davis Jordan I am a high school student who never pays attention In class and I thought him saying matter increasing was a bit strange it was so obvious I think he’s starting to be more and more fanatical to his own “philosophy/religion”
oh hell yeah! the point was more to demonstrait how ridiiculous it is for our people to live like they do whilst our government complains about money. Makes me feel like our priorities are out of whack
I'm not sure if it's me or you, but I feel as if the old videos' magic spark is gone. I genuinely liked the style you had in the past, but I'm not sure if it's me that has had his expectations grown by other commentary oriented channels on youtube, or a lowered level of preparation and presentation, coupled with a new-barry styled main topic. This video felt like you rambling without a script about your new world view, and it's hard to relate and process when discussing such a broad subject. Some of the science oriented information you provided is not commonly known by people from outside the specialists' and people passionate about these things. You also mentioned how we are collectively getting smarter, but to my experience, it is not a case of upping the global average, but broadening the spectrum, which in other words means that the group that has a negative impact on our current status is more lazy and/or stupid with their decisions than they ever were allowed by any historical circumstances. With the best wishes, a single viewer.
I feel you on this. While I do still agree with many of Barry's sentiments, I can't help but feel that this video felt really flustered. He jumped from topic to topic in a very un-barry-like way. Not to insinuate the "I miss the old ___" garbage but I do feel like this tone shift detracted from his preestablished wisdom and collectiveness, regression in a word.
You present Vietnam as having a better social structure than the U.S., but that's subjective. Sure, the US is a capitalist country with capitalistic-type flaws. But Vietnam is communist country with flaws too, such as being a one-party state with freedom of press and expression limited, which are freedoms even you should recognise as crucial parts in what it means to be a human being. Although the U.S. is far from a perfect, its democratic and societal system is miles ahead of Vietnam's.
In my point of view, none of those are perfect, a two party system is technically better than a one party system but not by much. You're still not going to be fully represented because there's no way you agree even with 70-80% of what your party believes but who am I to judge, I'm in a multi party system and and most of the parties have banded together to overrule the highest voted party leading to a abstency of over 60% in the most recent elections
I agree with almost everything you say. However, at roughly 12:30 you start talking about how we ignore certain scientific questions. The truth is we're not ignoring them, we just can't figure them out. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less.
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First: Even most religious people know that the bible isnt exactly a factual record. Your calculations of the american military budget is wrong. A Billion isn´t a million times a million. So no Million per person, its more like 1500$ per person. The Rest im commenting as im watching:First you complain about requiring training to become a barber and then complain about education with lower standards? College debt sucks yes. Tech doesn't advance anymore what? That is just so wrong. Technology has never been advancing faster. Also if a new invention is actually good it definitely will be "rolled out" as you put it. Yes we care greatly about cash, arguably too much. Prison systems are stupid in most places, but there are working alternatives in Scandinavia and partially Germany. Weed laws are stupid yes, but its already legal or in the process of being legalized in many Nations. What are you on about on the quantum stuff? Its not like there is a huge amount of effort being devoted to figuring that out. Noone is "ignoring" it. What do you mean; If it doesn't fit our old model? "Our model" is changing constantly as we discover new things. I guess i agree with your last point: yeah america is retarded. But thing is there are better nations in the world, but you completely fail to see that. *edit: typos
Yes exactly about the tecnological part. Even Companies have to make advancements in order to outcompete their competetors. If they don't they lose income, due to other companies making a better product for the same, or even a lower price. Ofcourse there are companies that make illegal deals with eachother in order to keep all their prices high, while not making much innovation to their products to make a larger profit. It is the goverments role to find and punish these people. If the goverment is payed off or is blind to these issues, it is the news job to find out about it, and report it to the public, so come next election cycle, they can make a more informed decision on who rules the country. From there, you can buils a case, and make them go to court. It is then the courts fault to find them guilty or not guilty as you know. The problem today is that we live a world with a fuck ton of partisan news sources that only report about bad shit from the other political isle. We also live in a time with fake news from both political isle, that make it hard to know what is, and isn't right. This makes it harder for corrupt politicians to be caught in their nasty acts and called out for it. And in return, makes ir harder to buils a case against x politician. All of these factors makes it easier for corrupt politicians to stay in power. In many european countries. We learn how to critically think about what we read, and how to spot motives behind why someone might write things a certain way. This makes us less likely to fall victim to fake news and partisan news cooperations in general (although some idiots will always use them ofc.). Thus coupled with atleast in Denmark strict rules about unpartisanship makes many European countries less likely to fall victim for corruption, which limits how much shadyness and illegal backdoor deals companies can get away with. I agree though. We do live in the most rapidly evolving society ever. No doubt about that.
The peoblem for me is id love for someone to make a comparison of all the nations best pros and cons and count the big things that might keep people away from them like restrictive laws
tech does advance at a faster rate, it took us from the discovery of fire thousands of years to discover metallurgy, and just 30 years from common computers to believable VR.
12:26 actually we use math to express any arbitrary numbers of dimensions. And yes math is used in quantum mechanics to express the probability functions which describe the behavior of quantum objects. I think black holes are quite well explained, areas of spacetime where the concentration of energy is so great that it bends spacetime in such a way that nothing can escape. Now, I will grant you that the bending of space time might be hard for the layperson to understand but it's not unexplained. "Something from nothing" is not the best guess of any scientist I've heard, but the truth is we don't yet know of the cause of the big bang. Complexity like life? Charles Darwin has that covered. Complexity like the universe, here is an analogy take a glass and fill it with water, add a drop of food coloring just to the surface so it doesn't quickly mix, stir slowly. You will notice complex patterns come out of nothing more than simple moments applying to individual molecules. Or another analogy: Conway's Game of Life. Complexity from simplicity. I've not heard about the amount of matter increasing also not sure if you mean on our planet or in the universe. If the amount of matter was increasing in the universe it is possible to convert energy of another form into matter. But maybe you are talking about the accelerated expansion of spacetime, but spacetime is not matter. Dark energy is the nickname given to the apparent energy motivating the expansion, and it is being researched. Topics like that just take time to develop theories and test predictions. There are just not enough people willing and able to put in the effort to understand physics and progress is what it is given the circumstances.
We are not living in The Dark Ages. This is a known fact. The Dark Ages were a period of time generally accepted to start with the fall of Rome, and ending in around the 1300s. It is possible we're living a dark age. These 2 things are extremely different.
Looking into your head through these videos is like looking into an older version of me someone who knows how to think and think about other peoples theories this channel is amazing
Some religious people take the literally, and some take them as metaphors, though the loud preachy ones tend to be literalists, which tends to wind more people up
A lot of religious people see them as fact, though. It's strange that a large group of people see it as fact as opposed to what it's meant to be, like you said, metaphors.
How do you know? You didn't write it. Or is it that certain stories are taken seriously, but when criticism of a religion arises, the critiquing argument is disregarded by saying "all of that you said is just a metaphor"?
Hello, BulletBarry! I hope that you see this comment very much as I enjoyed your video greatly. Point 1, timestamp : 0:58 . Your point here is that we should try and figure ourselves out, not just what a book says. the problem here is that religion is not necessary to figure yourself out completely, it can act more as a guideline and give you inspiration. many religious people have very varied ideas and in lots (but not all) sects of Christianity, it is very open to interpretation. secondly, the holy books are not just about yourself, they are also about understanding the universe before science. point 2, timestamp: 1:10. The majority of Christians nowadays believe the stories to be false. they believe them to be metaphors which are not necessarily consistent with reality. I believe that this is a cop-out, but one which is hard to then debunk. I will agree that when taught, especially to kids, it can discourage critical thinking skills, and the same goes with point one about kids. point 3: timestamp: 2:00. This is not true as we can see all throughout history. humanity has always been, well dicks. although we do all share some innate compassion, that usually only extends to direct members of our community. the fact of the matter is that humans have evolved to be selfish as it is the best way of staying alive. point 4: timestamp: 3:53. this is misleading. you said that most Christians believe or will say that the earth was created 4000 years ago. This is true for evangelical Christians, but the majority of Christians are not evangelical. most modern Christians fully believe in evolution and science and believe the earth is 4.543 billion years old. point 5: timestamp: 4:30. The modern scientific consensus is that there was a man named Jesus or a group with the pseudonym Jesus that lived around 2000 years ago. whether he was a miracle worker or not is still up for debate. I may have missed the point here, please correct me if I'm wrong. point 6: timestamp: 5:40. it is convenient that the laws of America converge with the Christian way of thought, but it is not the only possibility that the government use religion as a way to control people, maybe a long time ago, but now the government is usually religious and actively believes in their religion. The president of the united states is still a human being. think of how many of your friends are genuinely nice people. hell, think of how many people you know that are genuinely evil people. based on that, it does seem that the majority of presidents do do what they think is right for the country. I don't believe that they all do it well, but I can't believe that the government is out to get us all, as is the common rhetoric in America. point 6: timestamp: 6:20. I would encourage you to look at a video I found on youtube a while back by a youtube named kraut which nicely explains why America needs a military this large. link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hhMAt3BluAU.html 426 million ( number of citizens ) * 1 million (money per citizen) = 4.26 * 10^ 14. that is 100 trillion, which is too big to comprehend. the amount of money we could give each citizen if we divided the military budget would be 600 billion (budget) / 430 million (citizens) which gives about $1400 per person. point 7: timestamp: 8:00. there is a reason for these permits. you cant let people do whatever they want as it would be unsafe. in your analogy in Vietnam, putting down a barber stool in the US or Europe would be fooling people into thinking that they are getting a legal barber. it is the same fundamental reason why we need gun licenses in Europe or driving licences. As for your second point about your passions changing, even without all of these reasons, it would still be hard to change your passions after studying for 4 years. point 8: timestamp: 9:00. you complain about "a nation of workers" but then go on to complain that we're taught to much on how to do maths and science and don't know how to do taxes. this sounds to me like a worker. point 9: timestamp: 9:45. there is no such thing as technological advancement anymore? no that's just wrong! pick up any tech magazine (i would recommend how it works) and you will see all the innovation going on right now. we have Elon musks starship, we have quantum computers, you cannot say this is just "perfecting old tech" and even if you do, that's what's been going on for years! the wheel is a perfected roller, the cart is a perfected wheel, the car is a perfected cart etc. point 10: timestamp: 10:30. disclaimer: I'm not talking about psychedelics and other soft drugs so much as harder drugs such as cocaine and heroin. although drugs are a victimless crime, that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be stopped. you shouldn't be persecuted for drugs, but you should be forced to get help. secondly, there is some evidence for the ill effects of cannabis, so it is not completely safe. thirdly, if alcohol and cigarettes were discovered today, they would be illegal. the reason that they are legal today is because they have been ingrained in our culture so much over human history it is impossible to remove them. point 11: timestamp: 12:10. we ignore personal and subjective experiences because we need to be objective. many subjective experiences are unreliable as the human brain can be tricked so so easily. just look at an optical illusion! you wouldn't be happy if we allowed religious experiences visions into the realms of scientific discussion so why other personal experiences? point 12: timestamp: 12:50. there are lots of pseudosciences here. there are lots of things which we don't know, but we are trying to work ou. it is not that the math won't scale, but we were using a different form of math, one which needs to be always revised and changed. and what? there is more matter now than at the start of the universe? this is just wrong. if you have a source ill happily back down, but for now I will say that this is wrong. point 13 timestamp: 14:15. we don't breed people to be ignorant and stupid, although it is uncomfortable, I believe as a race we are ignorant and stupid and that we are not special, we arose from nothing and sentience is not more special than a computer program. I am unfortunately aware that this probably won't reach Barry, but if anyone at all who sees this wants to debate with me, be my guest :).
Those are all great points Barry, the thing that confuses/annoys me the most is the fact that no one wants to go to war, I don't want to kill a random Chinese citizen, neither does Karen down the street. So why all this American-Chinese tension? It's only the polititicians that want these wars/support increase in defence budgets (which causes a chain reaction with other nations because they can't defend themselves against the USA's enormous military) don't get me wrong, there are a lot of good politicians but lobbying by Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and other defence contractors causes them to vote for those bills. And the people keep voting for those polititicians because they think they'll get more jobs in those states. It's a difficult subject, but just imagine, one democratic 'government' that rules the whole world.. billions and billions of dollars/euros that don't need to be spend on wars, more space travel, more welfare for citizens. Just all of humanity for humanity. A perfect world.* *if ruled correctly ofcourse
Just look at what humanity could achieve when the ussr and the USA had the space race, we landed a man on the moon, sent landers to venus, all from nothing. It just begs the question: what could we achieve now?
I think that the thought of one "government" ruling over the entire world is quite an utopic concept to an extent and isn't realistic. There will always be people with different opinions and views, cultures, etc. The thought of "not a country's citizen, the world's citizen" goes against this. Although nationalism isn't a big thing anymore, the fondational elements are still there. Everyone is a nationalist to an extent. You probably always root for your own country in the world cup, are somewhat biased even without noticing it, etc. The Roman Empire fell partly due to great diversity caused by rather rapid expansion. People in the Empire didn't consider eachother to be the same, which broke the empire from inside. The larger a nation is in terms of different cultures, the more unstable it is.
@@Sahtoovi I agree, to have one government right now is so difficult to do its probably unrealistic. But if it were run right and the people would accept the change, that would be optimal. But then again, quite unrealistic. So we could force all countries to turn democratic, enforce human rights, give the UN more power, but I'm not too educated in that subject to give facts.
Lukas Schmitz there will always be people who are against certain actions or ideas, and those who in a situation such as our hypothetical one, choose to enforce them radically, are the ones to bring the whole thing down. Theoretically it's possible to make generally all different peoples accept such a change, but every single individual not really.
The reason wars exist is that they are very profitable. Winning a war Will get a country alot of supplies and land. And there are so many of us human that we are not that valuable To a country anymore. We are simply here To get an education, go To work, go To war if necessary and die.
part 1/2 because comment too long ok soooo, where do i begin? 0:30 "religion has a tendency to take everything that makes us human -- starting with our natural curiosity" Not taking into account that religion is many things that make us human. People are naturally religious (hence why almost every culture and tribe known to man is or was religious) and people like to belong to a group also religion isn't against curiosity or even science. Christianity is very much encouraging people to seek out truth, probably partly why the enlightenment happened (in a christian country and nowhere else) and that has partly lead to Christianity's downfall, ironically 0:54 "this idea that we have all the answers already written in a book" Christianity mostly tries to explain why things are, while science explains how things are 0:58 "as if you are saying i don't really want to try figure things out, i don't really care enough. I'm just gonna believe this 2700 year old book" religious or not, ignorance is not tied to a certain group of people, you will find it in atheists as well as religious people 1:08 "[trusting the bible] hinders intellectual progression" i would say that being ignorant atheist isn't any better. also many many great scientist and thinkers have been and are religious. Einstein is probably the most famous example, but there are countless more. Also Christianity doesn't really hinder scientific thinking, if it did, there wouldn't religious scientist 1:15 >boring rant about stories from the bible and why it doesn't make scientific sense biblical stories are meant to be interpreted as metaphors. Also thinking about the stories are metaphors isn't anything new, the first metaphorical interpretations of the bible are from around 4th century 1:45 "we have accurate models of physics and how it works" not really, a lot of stuff we still don't have any answers for -keep this quote in mind for later 2:00 "people by nature are kind, genuine, we trust each other" this is only true in a society where it is a cultural norm to tell the truth, go back to a country like USSR where lying was rampant, nobody told the truth and nobody believed anyone 2:15 another rant about why biblical stories aren't scientifically accurate critiques of Christianity as shallow as some edgy 7th grader declaring that bearded sky daddy isn't real 3:50 "the flood happened around 4000 years ago" the years mentioned in the bible aren't meant to be years as we think of them, considering the fact that Noah was several hundred years old in that story 4:55 "the more time we spend in this book, the less time we spend studying the actual laws of nature" once again Christianity isn't against science, also that is a false statement even if all religions were to perish tomorrow, people will just substitute them with other beliefs, a lot of the flat earthers and anti-vax people aren't religious, are they scientific though? nope. 5:20 "religions objective is to change how you think from a young inquisitive, curious mind, to the kind of being that is bread to never oppose authority" trusting or opposing authority has nothing to do with religion. Also what kind of authority? illegitimate authority, legitimate authority that is earned, power authority, authority in a subject? 5:29 "will be ok with giving their money away to a large organizations, like church or government" people can use their money for stupid shit if they want to, like giving it to the church (if you this that is stupid) or they can use it for gambling or skins in fortnite also giving money to the government??? Last time i checked even atheist people pay taxes, and with the taxes the government will do stupid things like road repair, taking care of elderly, unemployment benefits, education and stupid shit like that 5:37 "makes sense governments love religion so much - - how convenient it is that top religions of the country seemingly aligned with the laws and structure that our government sets in place" i cannot ever stress how misguided this is. as if the ingsoc-like party in the government updates the bible as they please and every time they change it, people are made to believe it has always been that way. our laws, governing systems and the way the justice system works have all been molded by the christian tradition and values. the concept of inherent human value, the concept of everyone being equal before god (before law), the fact that slavery was abolished by a christian county, the fact that we even have human rights, the fact that rulers are subject to laws all come from or are heavily influenced by the christian tradition and culture the bible doesn't come from our laws, our laws come from the bible 5:53 "this earth protects us, it keeps us safe" this earth and nature surely do their best to kill us too, notably the ongoing virus pandemic 5:59 "they devour our resources only to take for themselves and the wealthiest among them, the majority of our people here are poor. They struggle month to month" the fact that the absolute poverty globally has dropped in half in in the years 2000-2012, 3 years earlier than the MOST optimistic UN predictions shows that we are in a good path to eliminate absolute poverty. not even talking about the fact that the absolute human wealth is growing at a ridiculous rate due to various factors along with the average standard of living means that everyone is benefiting from the growth, not just "the elites" 254155-841844-raikfcquaxqncofqfm.stackpathdns.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Size-of-global-economy-Gross-World-Product-long-term-historic.png 6:20 american "war" budget 650 billion / 330 million = ~$1700 per person, so not even that much even if we gave everyone a million dollars, it would just devalue everything to the point where a loaf of bread could cost several thousand inflation economics 101 also because the economic system hasn't changed, a minority of people would end up with almost all of the money with everyone else living with average living conditions also calling it a "war" budget is kind of deceptive, the us does all kinds of stuff with the budget like technology RnD, we wouldn't even have GPS if there wasn't a "war" budget 7:33 "government dictatorship" yes, definitions exist for a reason and misusing them for own gain is kind of malicious, also takes away their usefulness 7:45 "when you were born into this word, did you sign the terms and conditions, did you read over the laws and agree on those" no, that's because you cannot before you are born. also law can be changed, many have and many will 7:59 "here in america they say you can become anything you like" you have the legal right to aspire to become anything 8:01 "need permits, schooling, need to sign papers" there is usually a reason for that 8:10 "travel to a third world country and be more free over there" third world country doesn't actually mean anything, Sweden and Finland are officially third world countries 8:13 " if i wanna be a barber here i need documents, permit, schooling, training" there is usually a reason for that you don't need schooling or training to open your own barber shop 8:25 "the government owns you" no it doesn't. why? because you can act against your governments will without being punished. 8:29 "instead of getting to know ourselves, we instead fill our lives with products, fake personalities and poorly written tv shows" you can, but you don't have to 9:16 "we spend so much money on math, science, social studies, PE then you get out of school and realize it will not apply to your life" people do use general things learned in school every day, it's just so obvious that you don't even realize it. also general education helps people find what they are interested in, if we didn't teach science in school, we probably wouldn't have as many scientist 9:24 "stuck in a spot where i don't know how to file taxes, get a place, i don't know how insurance works" you don't need a school to teach you that, if you do, then take a course on it. you can learn without school 9:46 "there's no such thing as technological advancement anymore" WHAT DO YOU MEAN? smartphones came only just a decade years ago into the market, disrupted the whole industry. Tesla's electrical car came few years ago, disrupted the whole industry. there are a myriad of examples of disruptive technology/products that shake the whole industry and the companies that don't innovate are constantly failing because a competitor has come along with something better. 9:50 "silicon based paint that you can put on your wall and that becomes your tv" i know you know that's not how displays work also if there was such a technology, no one is stopping you from implementing it into a product and starting to sell it 10:15 "we don't teach these people why what they did was wrong" there isn't a single serial rapist in prison that thinks what they did was correct even if you were correct and these people didn't know what was right or wrong, who do you think is the right person to tell them what is right or wrong? obviously everyone knows they know right from wrong. right? Also they are in prison because they broke a law and in this context it's implying that the law is correct and what they did was wrong, i personally do not think the the law is morally correct, do you? 10:42 "if we were truly an objective people out to understand" people aren't really objective, hence why it's only really possible with the scientific method and even then it's really hard
You're a legend! I think it's amazing that you make those videos, especially because you talk about the (at least in my opinion) most important problems of our age. Keep it up!
This is why I like your Channel I’ve always said if we as people make enough noise we can get change within the government but people who have audiences celebrities and 20million pluse subscriber RU-vid channel dont seem to make these types of videos and if they did they might actually change something. I live in the uk and I strive to make a change in the rise of knife crime and have people live together peacefully I think that in our governments there aren’t enough young candidates the last two priministers were over the age of 60 or even 70 I think we need young minds running for government.
Apart from this video being extremely eye-opening, I think that pretty much everything you said is what I agree with. I am so happy that you post this kind of stuff, as this kind of stuff is greatly overlooked
Agreed with everything. Quite honestly I thought this was going to be more harsh and intense after the disclaimer you gave. Also Crysis is an awesome game.
the sexism part is debatable even in the church it self. In roman 16:7 it says "andonicus and junia... among the apostles" (junia is a female name). later translators turned junia to junias (male name) or turned her into a relative instead of an apostle. i basically plagiarized this from trey the explainer heres the video about all changes to the bible: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XKp4yWGTfXo.html Pope Gregory the great changed mary magdalene into a prostitute by merging her with the unnamed sinner in luke 7 during the middle ages. i think that's what caused the sexism during the middle ages. i stole that from: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DAvjQwPFA_g.html
Hey Barry. Loved the vid. My favorite part was the education system and the government, THANK YOU!!! Finally getting out of that hell hole of an "education system" this year and now I can actually chose what I want to do.
in the same breath, you complain that schools teach maths instead of something useful for working and paying taxes; yet also complain that we are only taught to be workers. It seems you just air all your complaints about everything without considering how they link together. Its very surface level and not really thoughtful. Allow me to educate you about society and then maybe you'll understand why things are the way they are. You do not own your own body. Ownership is a construct of society. By entering a society you are granted certain rights over it but you do not own it because anyone can do anything to you. I am talking about violence. Violence is the base of society. Anyone can use violence over you to attain a desired outcome but you do not like this fact. So do many others so you enter into a society, a system where the collective uses violence to enforce onto the minority anything that the collective can agree on. In this way also you are free to do what you want and others are free to put you in jail. "We [sceintists] disregard personal experiences about the universe" "what's more likely the existence of a god or that they were on drugs and what's actually true is the scientific law of nature" I am paraphrasing but none the less this shows an immense personal bias. Why does science ignore my personal experiences [drug trips]? What religious people? They are idiots who all have a belief in something against the laws of nature. The fact that you can retain both of these points in one video is rediculous, the peak of stupidity. Have you even watched this back? "capitalism stops all new technologies so that rich people can sell T.V.s" No. You can not have a paint that just gets rolled onto your wall and displays images. The silicone in computers has to be etched through photolithography. This would cost more than you own in a year to do to an area of wall the size of a flatscreen and would not have a backlight. It also could not be applied to a paint. For a new technology, look into photonic computers which could be hundreds of times faster than electrical ones in the coming future The iPhone came out in 2007 and changed the way we communicate. No, your problem is that new tech I just an improvement on old tech. It's been that way for the whole of history Barry. Horseless carriages, ring any bells? Flatscreen T.V.s just a better cathode-ray T.V. You are confusing tech which has the same functions with completely new functions. Most things had an analogous version before they were invented. Before T.V. we had radio. Before Houses, huts. "religion takes everything that makes us human" No. That's other people. People like to take away what makes us human. That is a part of what makes them human. Religion can be a tool to that extent. The knife kills but can also feed. There are most likely more than 100000000 who have benefited from religion and many more who have had neutral experiences. Your mention of a "testament" gives away that this is a personal problem. JWs are a kooky scam organization. Scams often happen when you give people freedom. That's why you need qualifications for a job. That's why we have rules and society. To protect people from themselves. A further question: is it more likely that we are all secretly the same god having a dream or that drugs do consistent and unusual things to a person's mind? Your dismissal of religion and god seems more reactionary hatred than real logic (Bugman). I admit that I do not know if there is a god and can not know; you don't seem to understand this and just argue "the bible makes no sense if god is not real" which is true but the origin of species makes no sense if genes aren't real. "the potential of the human mind is vast" No. Humans have an awful mind that is a collection of biases that can roughly deal with what you might find in a forest. It takes years of training and introspection (which most won't do) to even understand how you would like your mind to be, let alone make it that way. "people stupid give money to government church" Do you know what most churches do with tithes? Donate to charity, feed the starving, support community. The govt. should do the same when it's working well. It's not though why not? Because politicians manipulate people? No. Because people are dumb enough to be manipulated, the vast human mind can not seem to recognize what's good for its own greed let alone a society. "top religions of the country align with the structure of the govt." duh. What are the laws in any country based on? Religion. It is true for almost all countries. The reason religions have laws that work is because before the govt. they enforced the rule of the masses. (see paragraph 2) "us little guys mean no harm to the earth" You took a *plane* to go on holiday to Vietnam. Who do you think rich people are? A different species? They are people as well. We have the same jeans. Humans are just bad. (noticing a theme?) The war budget thing is fucked up and should be fixed but most people won't vote for that so ur screwed I guess. But 1000 each not a million you crazy lobster use google. 300 mil people times $1mil = 300 trillion. 3 X world gdp. "anarchy is always shown as crazy and murderous in the media like people wouldn't be kind to each other" As I think you may realize we live in anarchy (you can do what you want). We naturally develop a "government dictatorship" because otherwise it would be crazy and people would get robbed and have no police. "did you agree to be born" Kill your self if you don't like it. That's the fact of the matter. Living is a deal with stipulations you may not like. If you don't think it is worth it living then die. The thing is you haven't killed yourself. You benefit from society and life so you keep up with it. (I do not endorse suicide as I believe living is a plus in most situations despite how bad it may seem) "you need to be qualified to do your job" No shit. Do you want an untrained doctor? Someone who can go around and offer to perform surgery without a license? Barbers work with blades around people's heads. You think they should be trained? Also being a barber is having the qualifications by definition. "I wish we could discover the power we have" either the end of the world or utopia, I couldn't tell you the odds "We are cattle to those in charge" We are cattle to each other. How often do you think someone has looked at you only for what you can give them. It's not just the rich; a homeless man likely does not care about your personality if you chuck a hundred in his hat. "Everything is designed to lock me down and make me poor" The government would benefit from everyone being rich (more taxes). Corporations benefit from everyone being rich (more consumer spending). Schools actually do help you, so does the govt. They are just but at it because you [plural] keep voting badly. Moral of the story: humans will always disappoint you.
I honestly can't read what you wrote. Were _YOU_ on drugs when you typed this? Your grammar and spelling is all over the place. As are your thoughts... I honestly can't pick through all this as it's all over the place but I'll pick at some points all the same. Firstly, we do not live in an anarchy. Ownership is not a construct??? Churches do not donate a lot of what they make to charity. We are not cattle to each other and we are neither at the end of the world or within a utopia. The world is not so simple as to be explained with one 'proof'. The world is anything but simple yet far simpler than many realize. To live in an anarchy would be to live without a ruling body. Yes, you are free to do what you want. But you would be restricted from your freedom in no short amount of time. To live in an anarchy it is not you that has to be free, it is society. And in society, we are anything but free. If you grew your own food. Built your own house. Made your own clothes and tools and lived completely separate from society, you would eventually be asked to pay taxes because that land is owned by a country. A ruling body. Even if the state gives you nothing, you must pay tax. So now what? How do you generate an income when you are entirely self sufficient? You can't, at least not reliably. You must get a job. You won't keep a job without abiding to rule, so you are no longer free. You then have to travel to that job. How? We do not live within an anarchy and nobody with any political education would agree with you on that front. How is ownership a social construct? Like really? Just...just look up the definition of ownership. Nothing in the word 'ownership' about 'x' says anything about nobody being able to do anything to 'x'. Ownership is just a word to describe what belongs to who. You can take it, you can break it, but the argument "err, social construct, err" is incredibly weak as anything can be described as a social construct. We live in a world governed by society. Social construct or not, it exists as long as society exists. Words are social constructs, it does not devalue their use. I really don't understand what you are trying to get at with this point. Some churches donate, many do not. There are plenty of cases of corruption within the church and far more cases of abuses. Yeah, stupid fucking people give money to Churches. I'd rather 100% of my money go to helping people rather than 10% going to helping people, the other 90% going to supporting old men who touch kids. And to argue that me using such an argument is unfair is bullshit when your argument is much the same for when they donate to charity. Not all churches are squeaky clean and not all are corrupt and evil. But yes, idiots donate money to them all the same. Do you really think any God would give a shit about a 'social construct' such as currency and how much you gave to a corrupt institute such as the church? Saying we are cattle to each other is again, just retarded. One homeless man might see you as something to exploit. One priest might see you as something to touch. But others might not see you this way and I hope, though am not certain, that you understand this. If we were simply cattle to each other, people would not save others lives. People would not step in to help others. I know you might not, but I have saved a life and never got nor expected anything for it. Such a pessimistic attitude is one which I'd expect from someone who has a history of not getting on well with society and thus is very critical of it. Well, when it comes to society, you get back what you give it. If you treat others like cattle, they will treat you the same. (It's also the type of attitude you'd get from someone with the dunning-kruger effect in terms of social ability and social theory) We are nowhere near the end of the world or anywhere near perfection. Such concepts are ridiculous enough as it is. If we were living in a utopia, such ideas such as poverty would not exist and yet they definitely do. No country is free from that. We would also need something unfathomably substantial to end the world or at least I presume you mean society. Social divide will never end the world: Revolutions may occur, mass slaughter may occur and a general lack of law, but in the end, societies would not collapse. World war might occur, mass slaughter would be inevitable. But in the end, some would remain and that would be enough for society to live on. Maybe global warming is the end. That is more realistic than any other alternatives. But we would still have hundreds of years before societies would collapse. And now I am done. Far too late for me to write a more detailed response but honestly, your initial arguments seem to vague and confused that it would be difficult to decipher what you are trying to say...
@@pagatryx5451 "Nothing in the word 'ownership' about 'x' says anything about nobody being able to do anything to 'x'." "Nothing in the word 'ownership' about 'x' says anything about nobody being able to do anything to 'x'." "Ownership is the state or fact of exclusive rights and control over property, which may be an object, land or real estate, or intellectual property." 'Rights and control' mean you can do something to it. I looked it up for you. What evidence is there that anyone owns anything? When you get right down to it only the fact that they say so and everyone agrees. When you look back to my definition of society it fits in that. You seem to agree "anything can be described as a social construct". My point was that you can not complain that society owns you when owning is an idea of society. The world began without a ruling body but given a hundred years humans develop one. We lived in anarchy but it can not last. I suppose anarchy was the wrong word for me to use. A better one would be freedom. You can simply not pay taxes, maybe they will put you in jail, but that doesn't mean you can't do it. Society may punish people unfairly I never said it didn't but if you own nothing you will not be taxed on it. You say that you could gain nothing from the government. This is not true. They stop invasions, forest fires and a deal more that helps your forest man. When you are born your parents take care of you and stop you from dying. You are now in debt to society. You now take part in the intergenerational contract that sustains the human race. As your ancestors ensured you would live you must for your descendants and even those who are not your kin have aided your line in the past so your debt is to humanity, your duty to aid and further it. It is not responsible to retreat into the woods and be selfish with your life. You would be contributing nothing yet demanding your debts are erased. When you meet a new person you often see them as just a thing. This is an observable fact. When you look at a crowd you won't see a hundred individuals but one mass with people you know interspersed. The entire idea of not yet being friends with someone is predicated on this. My original point was that this view is not exclusive to the rich and powerful. If you think that, I think of people like cattle, then you must agree with me as I am neither rich nor powerful. Personally, I refuse to believe that there is a man alive who has not acted selfishly and ignored someone else's feelings. It is abhorrent but by no means inhuman. "not all churches are perfect; they only fund pedophiles. if you disagree you are wrong because you think they donate to charity. God doesn't care about society so why would he like money being used to help people and feed his worshippers" I will not respond to this. "when it comes to society, you get back what you give it" "Even if the state gives you nothing, you must pay tax" These were copy and pasted from your response. "We are nowhere near the end of the world or anywhere near perfection." We are also nowhere near discovering our true power, though perhaps I did fall victim to some degree of romanticism writing about that. We will not know as man will never be rid of hos biases. But I think utopia also is a collapse of society, we would not need such blunt tools as that if all were perfect.
The problem with his argument about the military is that U.S army has a lot of bases in other countries so if you were to try to liquidate that you wouldn't get nearly as much back compared to what has been spent. On the other hand there isn't a real big threat against the U.S and even if someone like China or Russia would try to attack there's still NATO and as it is right now there's 30 countries in NATO so I'm pretty sure they could defend against China or Russia.
I love physics too and there's a few points I want to bring up that may interest you. I'm also curious as to what you mean with how there's more matter now then there was a few billion years ago. One thing that comes to mind that would kind of explain that would be if were in a black hole and its continuing to absorb more mass, which is pretty interesting but I've never heard of this more mass thing before. Anyway, there's an idea called a Boltzmann brain, I really love these kind of subjects, I've even made a video about this (shameless plug lol). I can give a simple run down though. in theory, once were in the heat death of the universe, as entropy is increasing there can be fluctuations in energy and matter and an actual brain can form. you could be a Boltzmann brain and this moment your experiencing is when the brain formed. it would have the same memories as 'you', the same sensory input, everything. then the Boltzmann brain, because its just existing in space, begins to fall apart and the consciousness that was once formed falls apart. You can really take this idea and run too, an exact copy of your brain might form but also many many many similar ones could also form, some with altered memories. since reality is pretty much in our brains anyway, a version of you could form where the perceived reality is different from 'real' reality or the reality the brain exists in. maybe the universe the brain formed in doesn't have what we call quantum physics and quantum physics is totally made up by your consciousness. super interesting, kind of scary and unlikely... right? well given the vast amount of time the universe would be in the heat death, pretty much forever, any probability is possible (duh) and very very very rare things will happen. its just a matter of time, and there would be plenty of time. since were talking about an insane amount of time, the chances of it happening are fairly likely, in theory. Everything outside of our calcium boxes is pretty much made up by our consciousness anyway, so there's no way to tell if what were perceiving is really there. they're just electrical singles in our brain. This idea could also be built on further by taking it up to different dimensions. imagine if an omnipotent being was suddenly formed from fluctuations in the 11th dimension. suddenly a god is born. and, like you said in one of your previous videos, maybe we were made so it could experience something it can't experience, life in the 3rd dimension. While researching this idea I also learned that there's a possibility through quantum fluctuations or quantum tunneling for another universe to form in the heat death of this universe. so that's interesting. really the Boltzmann idea isn't limited to just a mere brain. the theory used a brain as a way to show just how ridiculous this idea is, because the human brain is the most complex thing in the universe (that we know of) that's mainly what makes this idea so absurd and intriguing.
As has been said, with infinite time and possibilities, anything with a non-zero chance will happen infinite an ammount of times. It is even possible that the world we live in is a shared experience between the consciousness of multiple boltzman brains, its the true beauty of this and all other possible universes, that nothing is truly impossible
@@hydropump8731 with enough time, and with the existence of infinite possibilities, at a point all the particles in the universe will be able to form a functional human brain
Subbed years ago. You taught me how to build my computer. Left your channel for a little while and did some shooms and civil disobedience, and now I'm ready for you to teach me how to topple this shit.
@@jacktaylor6690 honestly, we should just do it like in that ali G movie, where they get all the politicians together and give them really high dose edibles :D
Barry brings up so many broad points in this video with very little elaboration and nothing to back it up, there are no sources on anything he's saying. Arguing with this many points which were brought up with seemingly very little research is pointless
Sykes Freerunning I don’t think the point of the video was to be an essay. I think he was just trying to get some of his views out there and see what people thought. It’s not a scientific journal if you would like to share your thoughts I think this is a pretty good place to do it, even if they are broad and not backed up.
As a child to a pastor I can say religion has been forced on me for ages, but I stand against it with a grudge because its unfair that I can't believe in what I want.
@@colemin2 sure he/she can but he cant.. he or she is a kid.. if your dad is a pastor you best believe he will force you to church instead of understanding you..
In my islam and the aberhamic religions it is believed that these are metaphors. For example it says in the Quran that prople were made out of a bunch of small things and they used dirt as a metaphor but now we know it was cells Next the great flood was not on all earth at least in Quran it was in certain places
Most Christians believe (as I understand it) that "the world flood" is metaphorical. The problem is, the Bible's been translated a couple times through very different tongues before it received its english translation, so you have to learn when the text is hyperbolic, metaphorical, mistranslated and so on.
idk man there was a huge rapid change in see levels 14000 years ago (check the younger dryas on google), so that could fit with the story of Nuh (Noah)
@@SpareSomeChange8080 Nah he just got it wrong. Islam says adam was made out of a clay like substance, not all humans. It even goes in depth on the birth process which is accurate even by modern standards.
Me when I'm supposed to be studying: *Thinks about all the problems of humanity, war, crime, unfair world, illusion of happiness, current reduction in political freedom, Brave New World + 1984 + Amusing Ourselves to Death, paradoxes of 'honor', Redpills, blackpills, individual insignificance, etc.* Me when BulletBarry sends a vid telling me to write all of it down in the comments: ERR[Brain=Overloaded=Empty]
Im down for a debate let’s go. So as a Catholic who goes to a Catholic school, we are taught that a lot of the Biblical stories are metaphorical and not literal. You are supposed to get a meaning out of the stories just like any other fiction. For the Noah’s arch story for example, it’s that the world is filled with sin and that those who obey God’s command will be saved, not necessarily that he actually built a giant ass boat with every animal ever. Other events are supposedly literal like the resurrection (happy Easter btw). I agree with you that a lot of people and other Christian groups take things way too far and literal but I can only speak for what my community and I believe in. Also, I don’t think it’s that religions bend to conform to whatever the government needs as I think you suggest but rather that government is based on that area’s religion’s morals and standards as of course modern religions predates most countries. Third, I don’t know where you got the million dollars per person mark because by my calculations the US military budget is actually 748 Billion dollars (not 686B) divides by the US population of 328.2 Million gives us about $2280 per person even with the updated and inflated military budget. Though I do agree that the military receives too much funding and that some of that should be distributed to other programs. Not entirely convinced on a UBI though as I believe you mean by handing out money to Americans. That money could go to NASA or the EPA or Medicare etc. On permits and schooling. Maybe for a barber it’s ok to set up shop in the middle of the street, but for a dentist or doctor, they need to have adequate training to do life saving and dangerous work. Permits are a way for people to trust who they pay to do a service for them. Nothing is stopping you from getting a haircut from your friends or family, however a permit gives the barber proof of their qualifications so you can trust them over some random on the street. Maybe it isn’t THAT essential for a barber, but for many other professions it is. The SAT was actually made more difficult a few years back when it shifted from a 2400 point scale to a 1600 point scale. College admissions are getting more and more competitive not easier as you say. Coming from a current junior who is facing all this rn. No true technical advancement? Huh? What? That’s simply wrong, technology is advancing all the time. Phones are smarter and faster than ever before and the internet has only come about in the last 30 years. What are you trying to say? Technology has always been in incremental improvements. The original pinhole sized tvs were just a better radio, those shitty tvs then came with bigger screens and then color and then flat screens you can hang on your wall and maybe one day your tv paint idea. Your argument that “why would i sell you this improvment when i can sell you the same old stuff” doesnt hold up to history or logic. Someone always comes along with a new or better product that moves society along and that’s usually the companies themselves to get ahead of the competition. Prison system needs reform, I agree. Drug use is not a victimless crime. Weed laws are stupid yes, and that’s being changed worldwide and state by state, but harder drugs like heroin and cocaine are genuinely harmful and detrimental to entire communities. Drug violence, overdoses, people going crazy on bath salts and stabbing someone whatever, they all have victims. I don’t understand what you mean by saying people are ignoring quantum mechanics, the beginning of the universe and such. There are whole fields dedicated to creating a theory of everything, to merge classical physics to quantum field theory. Same goes for the Big Bang. The standard model is changing more than ever before with the discovery of quantum entanglement and such, hell we didn’t even know black holes were real half a century ago and gravitational waves were just proven this decade. I agree with the rest of the video but in conclusion, smaller government is something we should strive for however government is still essential.
Dude, this video was pretty amazing, well done! I will love to hear your thoughts on how we can go about this change our species need, I have a few theories of my own, but I need further education to fully map it out, sorry for not sharing.
I am of the opinion that we are not only not the first sentient species on this planet (even discounting intelligent species such as dolphins elephants chimpanzees ect) but we are also not the first advanced civilization. I think it is probable we(as inhabitants of earth) have reached this level or further of technological development and have destroyed ourselves and started over before (I'm not reffering to things like Atlantis, things old enough that they're either unexplained or the evidence no longer exists in a form we would recognize or find)
Finlandery definetly and if they went extinct like this guy is saying there would 100% be a timeframe where we would find an immense amount of stuff they left behind. The only way this is possible is if they we’re so advanced they cleaned everything off and just went off-planet. But thats an insane stretch.
@@altinberisha7046 well multicellular life as we know it has existed for around 1.5 billion years. Humans have existed for roughly 200,000 years, only a few hundred of which in recorded history we've had the standards of science and history we have now. The reason we have documentation of anything from mayan, Egyptian, ect civilizations is that they made structures and tablets made of durable materials such as granite or limestone and had favorable conditions for these things to be preserved and even then the vast majority of ancient structures are lost. Most of our buildings are made of concrete because it is strong and cheap but it requires heavy maintenance and degrades easily (it may take around 30-50 years for it to degrade completely) and the steel beams used in construction would oxidize and decompose in 100 years. Radioactive materials such as Strontium and cesium have half lives of 30 years, and uranium, thorium, and their decay products are found everywhere. Which given sufficient time and natural spread would make concentrations difficult to differentiate between natural and man made. And most of our human knowledge is stored on silicon based devices, how long do you think your phone for example could last exposed to the elements. Would it still exist 200,000 years from now? The earth is just too old and documented history is too short to definitely rule out such a possibility. And any thing man has made could be erased twice over in the time another human like species could evolve, or be nearly completely erased in the time humans themselves could reach near extinction and repopulate and retake the earth
You know what i love about barry? He is saying the things that people are too dumb or too scared to admit. Even I thought of some of these things but i never knew how to express them. RESPECT man:D
12:54 that's a radical claim man! Your description has links to socials and what not, but no sources. I would love to see from what you have drawn that conclusion.
Yeah, the whole part about science is entirely wrong in my opinion. There are many questions we don't know the answers to. It's not that we ignore them, we just can't figure them out.
@@deus313 I wouldn't say entirely, there are some parts that are correct, like the fact that we dont know much about the big bang, but it's kind of hard to suss out an exact retelling of an event that took place before life was a thing that's founded in science
@@junebug4823 this mostly adds up, but based on the science lately, it is seeming more and more likely that matter IS energy, therefore it changing form between energy and "physical" matter is still not CREATING new matter per se Edit: thanks for taking the time to give a good reply though, always happy to engage in discussion!
I've really enjoyed watching your videos, they're fun and insightful, and I really relate to many of the stories you tell. Your commentary on psyches is awesome, and I appreciate you doing what you want to do and tell truth, regardless of views or subs. This question makes me think about the ancient civilizations of the past, and 3 people I'm sure you would enjoy are Graham Hancock, Randall Carlson, and the RU-vid channel Bright Insight. Their work poses many similar topics you talk about. Please give them a try when you get the chance :)
part 2/2 10:47 "why do we allow such ignorance to perpetuate our laws, marijuana is illegal in many countries and many states" laws can be changes, and marijuana is rapidly being legalized in many places 11:12 "i'm only allowed to do the things that my government is ok with" yes, the laws are in place for a reason, it's there to give a general set of things people can and cannot do, they apply to everyone and generally reflect the ought and ought nots of the general population. laws do change as the general opinion of acceptable behavior changes in the population 12:00 "humans pretend as though they are the observers of the universe and that their observations are objective" we have to treat the things we perceive as real, because if that wasn't established as a baseline, we couldn't function 12:14 "we completely ignore personal or subjective experiences as though they don't belong in our model of the universe" science by definition is trying to ignore the subjective experiences and filter them out of our model of the universe 12:20 "imagine someone coming up to you saying i'm a scientist and i study the laws of nature, but i disregard the aspects of nature that i would rather not believe" you won't find such a credible scientist that studies the laws of nature 12:28 "we utilize math to understand one dimension and pretend this math will scale" what does this even mean? Math is a science that proves itself if you accept the laws it functions with (base 10, numbers can interact with each other and such) 12:40 - 13:00 "even black holes are an anomaly that our greatest minds cannot explain" a throwback to 1:45 . so do we really have a accurate model of physics after all? 13:10 "ignore things that don't fit our old model" we aren't ignoring them, we just cannot explain them yet. also our current models fit very well into our current understanding and are updated as we discover and prove new theories 14:35 "it's not that i'm anti government. It was useful for a long time, but it's time to move forward." forward to where? change to what? anarchism? Government is pretty bad and inefficient at pretty much everything, except it is good at controlling and directing force. it there is no government that has a monopoly on force, someone else will (notable mafia in Italy, gangs in japan and post USSR Russia, south america) and that someone else is usually a entity that doesn't really have any motive to guarantee your rights.
God i love BulletBarry, been subbed since 2K subs, still love his new content at 200K subs, always getting me to think about my living conditions and what i value
Hey Barry, I'm the guy from Twitch a little while back who mentioned a game called "Kameo". I didn't want to bug you about it but I really think it would be something you would enjoy, and was wondering if you had looked into it yet.
Can we get more of those old school pc vids? This channel has really changed,and I am very nostalgic to that time,and I believe that many others share this opinion.Also wtf is this upload schedule
The way I look at it is that somethings have gotten better and others have regressed. When it comes to technology we have better equipment and a higher standard of living. But in the US individual freedom is at an all time low. Science has progressed but people have only hardened their faith. Extreme poverty is down from 90% to 15% not including recent events. The internet is the ultimate show of things that are better and things that have gotten ugly.
Found it kinda of funny when you made the connection that religion all fall under Christianity, I think its unfair to religion to a certain point and feel like more research onto other religions could be done, however other points made about how the government and its laws were bloody beautiful and I completely agree with you, loved the video keep 'em coming!
regarding the weed point, and just the drug topic in general, drugs are banned more so to prevent the user from harming others. not really to protect the user
I dont believe that to be true. How would a drug User harm others? Its not dangerous chemicals that are banned (you can buy many of the deadliest toxins online), it's fun drugs and mind expanding drugs.
@@pasta248 true but if enough people do something at least one of them will be stupid enough to drive high (obviously there are more scenarios than that, just an example ) even if the vast majority of people are responsible, it only takes one outlier for someone to get hurt
@@CMike_ right, but this doesnt just apply to drugs. People drive too quickly, or while too tired and that causes people to get hurt as well. Nobody is advocating for intoxicated driving to be legalised, so why would it have an effect if drugs were legalised.
@@CMike_ again, nobody is advocating for intoxicated driving to be legalised. People who drive on drugs would still be arrested, so why is it a reason not to legalise drugs. That part of the law doesnt change, because it makes sense, ofc you cant put others at risk. But allowing people to take currently illegal substances wouldnt mean putting people at risk.
Well, you have to understand that in religion in a lot of stories are metaphores. Just read a few of the things Jesus said, they were clearly metaphores but ignorant people misunderstood them.
@@TGFlashera Well, you really can. We know a few things that are true and are facts. The jews did escape from egypt, it's not just part of their religion. There are actual records, from ancient egypt. Same thing with Jesus, there are enough sources to say that it was in fact a real person. But part of it is clearly allegorical.
Like in the story with Jonah being almost eaten by a fish isn't as interesting as literally being eaten by one so taking each story with a grain of salt is sort of needed.
The reason we care so much about money is because thats the only way the government allows us to get by in life. Food, water, and many other basic needs and wants all require money. Barry, you make a great point.
@@sinon7000 the same thing happened in Rome's origin story with Romulus and Remus. Forgot the name of the mother but she claimed the God Mars had impregnated her because she was not allowed to have sex for reasons that I forgot? idk the reasons are iffy in my memory but she blamed Mars for her children's conception.
I'm not sure if it's a thing in America (Australian here) but I meet very few Christians who take biblical events literally. I personally believe as a Christian that the stories have morals and are made to guide us just as normal morals are. Events like Noah's flood could have been based on a similar flood that effected the KNOWN world at the time of writing (zyclean flood I think). This style of writing was easy for local 2iq peasants to understand because they could relate it to something they already understand. A man living in a fish? Early humans know that's not possible. This then helps them understand the concept that God is capable of the supernatural. I don't even believe in the traditional creation story. I believe it was made simple so that early Christians could come to find god simply without hassle and focusing on the meanings of teachings instead of a complicated literal teaching.
One of the most important messages that the bible taught me is that the world is sinful. War and poverty and such are effects of our primitive minds. Greed and sadism are definitely not biblical.
The "worldwide" flood actually comes from Hebrew that also could mean the land (i.e. the flood was as far as they could see) which actually adds up with a flood a couple thousand years ago Also saying "alcohol has no health benefits" is just wrong. In moderation it reduces heart disease, gallstones, diabetes, etc
@@firstnamelastname6118 also it sounds like hes free talking / no script so i wouldnt be suprised if he made some mistakes but still, you arent allowed to just take medical liquids for fun publicly how much you want and not be stopped when u dont need it
6:49 man you need to work on your math. If we assume there are 320 million citizens in the usa, it would cost 320 trillion $ to give everyone 1million bucks.
I actually started watching you when I found console peasant quotes, but I quickly started watching all of his stories and other stuff. I’m actually beginning to build a PC for myself finally and I feel like watching BulletBarry helped a lot. (Thanks) But I’ve revisited the channel recently and now it’s all about your world views, like the whole episode on psychedelic drugs. And it’s not that this stuff isn’t interesting, it’s just that the channel I started watching is completely different, and I don’t know if I like it yet.
To be fair to the religion's stories of miracles, the whole point of a miracle is that it otherwise couldn't happen. So saying it couldn't happen is....kinda the point lol Super agree oh how awful the government is. Why are people surprised that giving a small amount of people a ton of power leads to corruption? Smh
I agree to some extent with almost everything you said. Although I would like to point out that sure, we are living in a dark age but it’s been this way through a huge portion of our history. Our ancestors have lived under these oppressive systems too. So, in the end, we have always been living in the dark age. Another completely unrelated thing I wanted to add is that the world won’t change. As highly as you may think of us humans, we have too many restraints. Our stubbornness is only going to lead to further ignorance. Do you have any idea how hard it is to convince somebody (most people, not all) who has followed a religion from day 1 of their lives that their god may very well be fake. They will blindly ignore your words and never think about it again. The problem is the sheer amount of people living in this world. Even with a few viral videos, there are too many idiots to convince to have more open minds out there to physically be able to reach this goal. Considering your government won’t censor you. I know I may be pessimistic and may have a very lowly opinion on us humans, but i can’t ever see this world get any better even if it is technically possible.
Hey Barry! I understand why you question the logic of many stories in the Bible. You mostly talked about the Old Testament and most of it is meant to be allegorical. It's supposed to teach a lesson, and yes, I understand that there are some people who take these stories too seriously, but these people are the ones who never look deeper into their faith. They don't actually care about the religion, they just want a safety net. Sorry if this dosen't make a lick of sense. I just wanted to say I love your videos and best of luck to you.
I'm pretty sure when you still believe in Jesus being reborn wholeheartedly without a speck of evidence you could believe these bullshit stories as well.
Solstice003 ye i know but I said i wouldnt be suprised if someone did. Because they already do believe that jesus came back to life after dying and walked on water why would you add anything to that it doesnt seem that far fetched
Altin Berisha considering the bunch of anomalies and unsolved mysteries in our world, it isn't as far fetched as you may think I believe. The whole complaints in religion is stupid, the best for anyone to do is believe what they want, there's less controversy that way
Well, the problem with the whole government just treating their populace as cattle is that it has really no definitive solution. Fixing that would always be a matter of chosing the lesser evil. Wherever there is a human social community, these power structures always come into play. It's just how we "work". And, evidently, those on top have as a first priority keeping themselves in that position, by assuring the support of their underlings, or keys to power, to prevent the competition to steal the throne; as no one rules by himself. In turn, those keys also have to assure their own positions aswell. And with that, the interests, opinions, health and education of those at the bottom falls on a secondary role, especially smaller than the first. I would really recomend CPGrey's video on this, "Rules for Rulers". It really opened my eyes when I looked at all this that way. As for the scientific unknowns mentioned, I'd say that we're not ignoring them. It's just that the best we can do at the moment is ponder possible solutions, without having a way to confirm their veracity.
Baptist Pastor here. I was really intrigued when you opened this video with the promise of challenging ideas. But honestly, your section on religion in this video comes across as disingenuous. You challenge me, so here's me challenging you. First, you grossly oversimplify the tennants of the Christian faith. This disappoints me because you claim in your videos to be someone who's always open to learn and challenge yourself and yet as someone who has studied Christian Theology of all stripes for many years it sounds like you did absolutely no study. If you had, you would know that there are many different positions on stories like the story of Jonah. A lot of theologians take this as a metaphorical story and not a literal one. Yet you choose to paint the entire Christian faith with one interpretation of that book and use that as an example of why religion is keeping us in the dark ages. Second, you dismiss what religion is trying to offer without any reason for dismissing it. You claim that supernatural events in the Bible should be interpreted through a naturalistic perspective, yet the entire point of religion is to argue that naturalism doesn't give us meaning and purpose, and that we need to look elsewhere to find it. People like me are not content in living in a world that is simply this physical realm, we believe there's something else that human nature seeks for to find meaning. without religion, you have to live life pretending that meaning exists when it really doesn't. Even Richard Dawkins acknowledges this. This is the basic philosophy that most religions operate under. The book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible is a very good example of this philosophy. It argues that all is vanity because everything comes to an end in death, therefore not believing in God makes your life vein and meaningless. There's only true meaning and hope in life if you look to something beyond its end. Now you don't have to agree with that, but the fact that you don't acknowledge that shows you don't really understand the purpose of religion. Third, you confused religion with religious people. A religion is a belief system meaning to give people hope in something beyond what they can see. Now it's true that religions are often used to exercise power over people, but so is secularism in a lot of instances. The problem isn't the religion, the problem is people who use whatever they can to get power. As an additional note, the way the book of the law commands that reading of slaves and women is an enormous step up from what the cultures of the time practiced. Now that might not sound good enough for you, but keep in mind that God was working with flawed human beings. Gradually polygamy and slavery were eliminated has God revealed more and more to them. When God works with imperfect people, it's never going to perfect. At the end of the day, I'm glad that you want to challenge people on their ideas. However, it doesn't seem like you're really willing to challenge yours when it comes to religion. I hope this convinces you to take more time to study the basic philosophy of Christianity and try to understand why it exists and what its trying to say before dismissing it as unenlightened and a power grab.
You make a good argument, but I find it problematic when you say that life without religion ultimately has no meaning. If I understand you correctly, you mean to say that only religion can give you meaning, no other human idea. But isn't religion itself a human idea? And why can nothing else that exists after one's death, like ideas or art give meaning to life? Can making someone laugh, even if just for a second, give you meaning? Or even physical things like family or structures? An animal bears children and dies, does it have meaning? Which begs the question of if we even need meaning. Someone who isn't religious can also feel happy or fullfilled, they lead just as good or bad of a life as any religious person.
@@andrewduffin5455 God gave humans free will, it is out chose to follow god and be moral, good humans, or it is our choice to be evil, and to disobey god's path. Life for humans could never be perfect because humans are never perfect.
@@slt2175 I get what you're saying, but my answer would be no, religion is not a human idea. Most religion assumes two things: one, that God exists and two, that God reveals himself. This is why we trust in a 2000 year old book: because we believe that is how God revealed himself. religion isn't about guessing what God has said, it's about trusting what we believe God has given us by way of revelation. This becomes the foundation for all knowledge and led Capernicus to call science "thinking God's thoughts after him". If God is the source of truth and God is knowable, than truth is knowable and that gives us purpose that truth is something that can be found. Without my religious beliefs, I see no reason to pursue truth because there is no ultimate meaning behind that truth. Meaning is probably something I should clarify. You can certainly find happiness without religion, but only in a temporal sense. This is the point of the book of Ecclesiastes. It looks at the world, at pleasure and knowledge and foolishness and evil and good and everything else and sees it as one continuous cycle where nothing is new and nothing ultimately matters because it all ends. Whether you live a good life for a bad life, whether you find pleasure or pain, It ultimately doesn't matter because its all is over in a blink of an eye. What the book of Ecclesiastes does in the end is look to a judgment day when God rewards the righteous and punishes the wicked. This gives meaning to morality because now morality is not something that is bound by temporary time and ultimately proves meaningless, now morality has eternal consequences and living a life of hardship while doing good is worth it because of eternal rewards. Religion argues that the universe has a purpose, a reason that it exists, and therefore we do too. Only a religious perspective can say everything matters in an ultimate sense. and I think human nature proves it's obvious that this is the way we were meant to live. Richard Dawkins makes the point that there is no ultimate meaning in the universe, then encourages people to make their own meaning. essentially, he's telling people to pretend like life matters when it really doesn't. Maybe we don't have to pretend.
The biggest shame is by the time you meet individuals with the ignorances you describe they're too much institutionalised and have had their ignorance vindicated by all their peers that they look at you as the stupid one
Barry, Jesus did exist. I don't claim he was god (that's another story), but he existed as a man. The romans have record of that, people about year 100 a.c wrote about him, people that were alive while he died. I am agnostic, I am not saying Jesus was God. But he did existed, and had great lessons.
@@altinberisha7046 Well, I respect that and I also do the same. But he teaches about loving your enemy, be peaceful, forgiveness, etc. A lot of people need someone to follow, and he is far from a bad leader. In fact, I think he is the greates in all history. Just a personal opinion tought. However, a lot of people learn to be good person by following his lessons, that is a very good thing.
@@felipereyes1440 that works exept he also told slaves to be docile. If we are going to pick and choose what we listen to then just cut out the middle man.
Ah, the naive views of youth. We need government im afraid, and money is the driver of innovation. The problem with governments in the west is they are democratically elected, and democracy is utterly flawed, but at least its mostly fair...and money will usually drive innovation, that is to say.. Money is a proxy for value, and people will innovate if there is perceived value in doing so. Problem is all the low hanging fruits were picked in the mid to late 20th century. We are living on the dregs now...so the only thing you can do....is level up bro!!!
Barry I think you need a script. I agree with some and some I disagree with, but it's kind of hard to digest your views when you're speaking so fast. Try recording as you're public speaking, speak 2x slower than you actually think you should. It feels weird but it sounds normal.
You're contradicting eachother a lot. First you say "religion is bad" then you say "we should have more freedom" but shouldn't everyone be free to believe whatever they want? Also all the political stuff is very whack. The fact is that it's very hard to come up with a system where everyone is free and everyone has a good life and everyone had equal "opportunities". We've gotten close , considering how throught history times where a lower class citisen has made impact on society is low, and now a lot of tech giants are self made billionaires.You really can't have a country where everyone is rich , so what we have is close to the best it can be.
If I say white nationalism is bad and also we need more freedom and have to stop with stuff like the patriot act is that a contradiction? No it isn't I can still allow others the freedom to believe in something bad but I still think it's bad. It would be hypocritical to say that religion is bad, I want more freedom, let's make it illegal to have a religion That would be an example of that. Not what u said though
Yo waddup Barry, you probably don't remember me, but I have been around for a very long time, we even used to talk on twitter. Anyways, I just wanted to say, I stopped watching your videos for a while, due to some personal reasons and because i just started feeling disconnected from the content you put out. But this video really reminded me of why I loved this channel and why it was my favorite channel on RU-vid for the longest time. I genuinely thought that after nearly a year of me not watching this channel, and just coming back, you would be at a million, and shocked me to see that you are not. You genuinely deserve to be among the biggest, but at the same time, I remember what you used to say all the way back then. That you'd rather not have a huge fanbase if that would have meant disconnecting from your own audience. That you'd rather be friends, than call us fans. And I am truly happy that nothing changed. You honestly shaped my life in a lot of ways, encouraged me to think more (even though I didn't really need to be told that, but it still helped me feel much more validated in this world of people who would rather abide by the norm without questioning it). There's really no point to this comment, especially considering this video is 2 weeks old so the chances of you even coming across this comment are infinitesimally minute, but I still wanted to say all this. It's been far too long, old friend, and I am back on the barrywagon.
I think the reason it takes so much time, so many permits to start a profession is because our perception changed. In the dark ages, teachers weren't as specialized as they are now, most people were uneducated which now wouldn't fly. Nowadays you need a permit to be a hairdresser because education makes up for the ambiguity of their experience.
Hey Barry, I had a few thoughts in response to this: 1) I think that while Religion has a lot of issues, it can provide some good moral guidelines and comfort some individuals. The problem comes from people treating Religion as though it has answers, rather than it just being a bunch of ideas as to how you should live. Nobody should believe what is in the Bible, and everyone should question the morals it teaches. It seems to me that some people dont want to think for themselves and I havent a clue how to change that. 2) I think that there are some advantages to needing a permit to do specific jobs. I recently moved to a country that is very big on this, up to the point where a teacher who has trained for years to become a teacher, is not qualified to teach in a different state in the same country (I think we can both agree this is ridiculous). However, the flipside of this is that if you go to a hairdresser here (I think this is the example you used) they will actually know how to cut hair. It may not seem like a big deal when it comes to getting your hair cut, but when for instance you need a plumber, most people would probably be thankful to know that they hired someone who knows what they are doing. 3) It sounds like you are saying that capitalism is halting the advancement of technology, which im sure is true in some cases... But surely I could argue the exact opposite. Capitalism causes people to innovate to get rich... There are plenty of crazy people who want nothing more than to have huge amounts of money, and as a result they advance technology, or Business, or whatever. 4) I cant fault the points you make about drugs and as weird as it may Sound, I pretty much think about it every day and it drivers me insane that nobody talks about it (apart from you I guess 😊). I have tried my absolute best to come up with a justification for current drug policies and I havent come across a single argument that hold up, so if you ever find one let me know lol. - Just a small thing: you said that alcohol and nicotine have no medical Value but id argue that that's wrong. Both offer short term Relief from anxiety for instance, so I dont think it's fair to say of any psycoactive drug that it doesnt at the very least have potential medical Value. Basically the definition of schedule 1 is a paradox. Really like this type of Video... Never stop sharing ideas, as that's probably the best way to get us out of these 'dark ages'
Yeah, this video was quite opinionated - not that that's bad though. There's no real way to govern a country of 330 million the way Barry saying he'd like.
