On a comical note as a parent and grand parent, your kid will say "I didn't ask to be born", the proper response to that proclamation is "We didn't know it was going to be you"!!!
To personalize Forrest Gump: Life is like a box of chocolates -- a common, cheap "gift" which can't be returned once it's been opened, not even if the recipient is allergic to the ingredients.
My (Eastern European Jewish) grandparents boiled this down to an aphorism to which I was regularly treated when I would complain: “Who said life is fair?”
This is one of my favorite episodes to date. Deep as hell, yet light and pleasant to listen to. Thanks for sharing your ramdom thought experiments! ⚔️⚔️⚔️
Yes it's interesting for people who have limited knowledge of geopolitics. Woke is a branch of communism, and communism targets things we most value eg family and country. They remove the middle classes so the people have no resources or means to fight repression and tyranny. Communism wasn't created by people who care about equality, they are only interested in unassailable power. Communism isn't an ideology though it exploits idealists and idealism. James keeps referring to Gnosticism and Hermeticism like it matters. It really don't. It's just philosophical navel gazing, that has no real practical purpose other than subverting human nature.
@@JohnSmith-vy4lh there are people that really think communism will help mankind but of course we know it never works. Prime example is Cuba, North Korea and China. Communism with corruption is hell, capitalism with corruption is not the end of the world, just move around on some level and you'll be ok. Communism is here in the US because things just get worse as they say things like "ok we DO have inflation but it's gooooood for the economy." "Ok we have a crisis at the border but eventually it will even out, open borders is what we need for everybody to be equal!" They are obviously not living in reality because they believe utopia can be achieved lol.
Loved this one so much, James. I’m a Christian who by practice and by spiritual inheritance is typically of the “life is a miracle” sort, but I have fallen into the temptation to see it as a tragedy from time to time- especially lately. Thanks for the reminder and the perspective.🙏
Reading GK Chesterton blew my mind over and over, and your comment reminds me of what he said about apples. To paraphrase he said science taught a false notion that the apple tree is in any way related to the apple seed. He said that the tree bears fruit by the miraculous will of God, the seed transforms into a sapling at his command, and the sapling bears fruit again by his mysterious power. As I meditated on this I realized he is right. These tremendous transformations of living matter cannot be explained or caused, only helped or interrupted.
ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC PODCAST, JAMES LINDSAY! I'M SO HAPPY YOU SHARED THIS WALK THROUGH THE HALLS OF YOUR MIND WITH US. MAY GOD CONTINUALLY BLESS YOU, YOUR FAMKLY, AND THE WORK YOU DO!
Best discourse yet, James! I want to relate two quick stories. 1) when i was a young child i asked my Mom what it means to take up your cross and follow Christ. "You're my cross" she replied, "and i carry you every day." Then she LAUGHED. 2) I was learning a formal meditation practice from an old Chinese woman in Chattanooga. When i complained about the sheer agony of sitting in full lotus position she said, "If you don't like the pain, maybe you shouldn't have hurt others in your last life." And then she laughed. People of spirit laugh at suffering. Never forget that. Suffering is hilarious. ❤
Awesome! There are at least two other common existential dispositions I observe: -educational - life as a learning experience -trial - life as a judgement of our character I wouldn't recommend dwelling in either of these too much, but they have their merits.
I knew there was a reason I subscribed to this podcast. Great talk. Thank you for peering into what we are all confused by in our world today. All of the above is where I land ontologically.
@@OwenHooper-mv4fm Is it? No, it isn't what it is. It's actually something else - but wait, that something else also is what it is! It's like the old joke that William Shakespeare's plays were not written by William Shakespeare, but by another guy also called William Shakespeare.
@jamesbeach7405 i've been reading The Stepford Wives for whomever finds it an interesting study. not quite through with it - and it has been a year already! - but here is the link to the playlist of parts 1, 2 and teaser of 3 : ru-vid.com/group/PLcgpAIyr7cjwKVWsHIA8oA_JJIoVGceze
Yes, he seems to be breaking it down between tragic and comic when facing the absurd. Either the absurdity is an injustice or something less serious or heavy on the conscience.
One of your best podcasts James. I think top 3 along with the second enlightenment and the next chapter in the American story which I note are all your random sidebar episodes.
Choose the fourth disposition, wonderment at God's creation, gratitude and service to God. We were created and put on earth to please God. So I try my best to do the right thing. The Master and Creator of the universe gave me life. I am honored and overwhelmed by His gift to me. It is a big, yet fascinating responsibility.
The discussion of the comic disposition reminds me of the scene near the end of Stranger in a Strange Land, where the protagonist finally comes to understand laughter.
These dispositions could be seen as correlating well with levels of emotional maturity: from the narcissistically infantile to a ripe old age full of wisdom and humility.
Brain food, I love it! 🙌🏼 *in truly narcissistic individuals, “Lol” is not said out of humor (even dark humor) it’s said out of contempt and bitterness. You’ll notice it’s usually used to try to shut someone else down, make them doubt or question themselves. It’s manipulative and dumb while trying to feel superior.
One phrase which seems peculiar in Christianity, seems to me to be a blend of the comic and miraculous views, which considers that there are some imperfections that had to be in order to allow the miracle of being to be the best that it can be - "O happy fault, O necessary sin of Adam, which gained for us so great a Redeemer!", from the Exultet in the Easter Vigil mass.
Thanks for all of your work. It is very much needed. I would like to emphasise the distinction between "statistically improbable " (scientific wonder at our existence in the universe) and "miraculous" (impossible without the intervention of God). It may seem to be a small distinction, but is as distinct as a trillion is from infinity.
Nice one! I was an atheist. My Left Hemisphere still is. Lately, I have been forced to form the view that God is the cat in Schrodinders Box... Long story...
I had to grow up quickly as a young 20-something... it wasn't easy and I failed at some things, like keeping my nose clean. But it toughened me up by 30's. Being a victim in your mind can make you lose years. Luckily, there was a lot of pressure to get back on track, for me personally. I just refused to keep falling behind, despite growing up poor and with a widowed older parent to care for. One must have a reason to go on and forget his/her own tragedies. They will pass. And they also become war stories. What in the world do people think real-life heroes come from? Harvard? That's a sales pitch for elections.
52:50 Since you've evolved from the gnostic and/or tragic viewpoint to more of the miraculous and/or comic viewpoint. . . please do a whole video on the path that brought you there? 🙏🏽
James, I respect you immensely and admire your dedication, but you said something in this podcast that is so egregious my brain is still trying to process it. You liked a Dave Matthews Band song? And I thought you were cool..
Let me lay it out in my thinking. So there are 3 types of responses. Fight flight freeze. You've kind of skipped over the freeze. The people that just disappear in mountains of cheetodust, drugs and computergames. They reject the encounter with being as such retreating into a fantasy that sustains them till they have to face the limitations of their bodies. Then we have 3 relations to being; good, neutral and bad. Again kind of skipped over the neutral. If you are just caught up in staying alive, persisting and being driven by what you need to do to attain that. You have a neutral disposition towards being. And then on the third level we have a binary. Humility vs Pride. This is the most important one. Where you place yourself in relationship to being. And either put yourself as a Judge or as a Subject of being. If you are a subject you will accept what is given to you and within those limitations optimize towards whatever vision you have. While if you Judge you don't have the capacity to submit. You are on the place of God and you are emanating Goodness. And since there is no other trustworthy source of goodness the job of saving the world rests on your shoulders. This also gives you the right to interfere in others lives because they have no access to the true wisdom of judgement that you've magically received (from where?). Now the problem with shifting is that while I do agree. You cannot make this happen through talking. I've had this happen multiple times. You can get agreement from people. But because they cannot integrate the insight into their worldview they just end up regressing back to where they were. The problem is that they don't have the affordances to relate to this new information. They only way to get those is to participate in Faith. You do things believing that there is another form of participation and it will slowly be reveled to you. But this has to happen against whatever conviction is guiding you right now. You have to die to your old worldview to be reborn in the new one. There is no other way. Getting people to this point is what I've been spending my time exploring. And I have found no way but to walk two miles with someone who asks you to walk one with them.
Abolition of Man, C.S. Lewis, lays out why we are where we are. Prevailing cultural disposition now is the wholesale rejection of a relationship with external objective reality.
For someone who is not an old-school academic expert in Anthropological systems for ontological classification, James is spitballing a compelling outline for a theoretic construct of this kind. I'd say though, I get the sense Gnosticism is the pathological version of the "I'm in prison" type, I think the positive/neutral version might be just a strict Materialist, this would probably be my type.
I could use some help. I will be speaking at our lady's meeting in October. I would like to start teaching them some of your subject matter, specifically about the social credit system. These are not intellectuals, I'm not all that either, but I lean toward more intellectual subjects. If you have a few minutes soon, could you do a bullets or short podcast with good starting points and direction for speaking to a bunch of Appalachian church ladies? They are generally attentive and appreciative, but they might not relate to some of the more high brow language.
Gratitude, Gratitude, Gratitude! It's the only way you can explain people like Christopher Reeve; who after his accident said, "I like the person I am now compared to the person I was".
Gratitude must be practiced in sound thought and action, because it's simpler and more primitive to be an egotistical ingrate. Speaking from experience, it's simpler to complain about everything that's wrong, and then dive into that puddle of pig poop. Gratitude is more fun. As a person who sought maximum feelings of fun throughb drugs and alcohol and whatever debauchery I could muster, that ceased being fun or satisfying. Gratitude is much more fun and satisfying, and virtually free, but the costs are what must be surrendered, such as SELF-righteousness masquerading as righteousness coupled with humility. Sorry if that is insufficient but it's the best I got at the moment.
@@rys2754 Now Plato was a Gnostic also... about sums up how nutty this seeing Gnosticism everywhere is for James. A math teacher apparently can't become an expert on religion in a year by reading some books.
@James Lindsay. Is there a way to get some suggestions from James Lindsay? I have an upcoming Weelbex meeting with a K-12 superintendent in Arizona. She'll have legal counsel with her. They're meeting with me because they know I object to the use of Fastbridge surveys. Arizona 15-117 forbids surveys to school children without parent's written consent when the questions deal with mental health and/or antisocial behaviors. For some reason, the district sent an email with all the questions to the parents. This was not required by law in Arizona. Nonetheless, they were very diligent about sending the survey questions to parents to review. The law instead requires that the district"... shall obtain written informed consent from the pupil's parent for the pupil to participate in the survey." This would be a delightsome logistical nightmare if they were held to this standard. Perhaps we can discuss this before I meet with her on Friday afternoon. Would you like to be at the WebEx meeting?
When you mentioned Archons, it reminded me of a game called Archon 1983 which is a chess game but to knock out a piece, characters battle in real time. I wonder if there's any resemblance
I think these are ideas that the ancient Greeks explored. I read once that Greek civilization started failing after their theatre ran out of ideas, ie they exhausted the human condition space. This was the gist of Oswald Spengler.
I could see how a surface level understanding of Buddhism could be seen as gnostic. The 4 noble truths are all about how life is suffering, plus the samsara and liberation thing...but then I remember Metta and I don't think it fits. The suffering thing isn't all of life, just an unavoidable part of it at times...emotions come and go, and sometimes they're unpleasant. However, Metta practice is basically wishing for happiness, starting with yourself and extending it to others. Let thing is, happiness can't come from outside sources, it is something you have to cultivate inside (transing your body won't do it, because it's in your mind), and you can't force others to be happy or solve their problems. The more I talk with others about these ideas, the more I learn that liberation is really just accepting that I'm responsible for myself and *only* myself. Really helps if you're a people pleaser. Also, going to extremes in either directions has real physical consequences (think 7 deadly sins)...so the 8 fold path is really just a way to avoid those. Like, mindful eating helps avoid gluttony. Anyways, that was just a thought I keep having when I listen to these podcasts, because I've been studying in a book club at the Buddhist temple...but before I demystified my understanding of these ideas, it really did sound like it could fit this gnostic religion. Is not even secret knowledge, just practical observations we can all make if we pay attention and recognize patterns. Anyways, I know God sent me to join the sangha for a reason. Working on being liberated from others' emotional states, and learning to separate myself from my own, has made me a better partner and mother. And Metta has definitely helped reverse a lot of the anger I felt when I was a college indoctrinated leftist...and pushed me back into a clearer way of thinking, more conservative. No longer care about solving problems and saving the world...just wish happiness on every living being, but understand its not my responsibility to fix their problems (so, communism doesn't sound like a good idea anymore). It's 1:30am and I've been trying to listen to this to get to sleep, but that thought kept me awake, so I had to type it out.
James is brilliant and original and so it's to be expected that he gets mopped up by control pros like Shapiro and Peterson. So refreshing to see a mind unaffected by mystical ways of thought however he needs to dig into the sephira, kabbalah and Talmud as a next step and see how some of his new friends like that
I think that James journey is slowly but surely bringing him closer to Christ and his Church, the Catholic Church. Hopefully, James will read more metaphysics and Classical Theism, especially St. Thomas Aquinas and up through Garrigou-Lagrange, as well as modern/contemporary Thomist philosophers, such as Fr. Brian Davies, Dr. Edward Feser, and Dr. David S. Oderberg.
I don't know what kind of phone you have, but on mine I just start playing the video and then I click the off button very briefly. The screen turns off and the video keeps playing. (I have a Samsung Z-flip 3, but I did this on previous phones too, try it)
27:00 The "Architect" from the The Matrix is pretty much a gnostic figure. It's interesting that the Wachowski brothers are both Jewish and transgender. They have openly stated how Jewish themes and beliefs affected The Matrix.
Somebody claimed regarding the Wachowski brothers that their predilection for sado-masochism led directly to their transgenderism. Their personas were dissolved and remade in the image of their dominatrix.
Re: 44:00: In the early 2000s there was a TV series Joan of Arcadia. God would appear to a teenage girl in the person of anyone from a child on the playground to a piano tuner, and give her a task. Parents and teens would reportedly watch together!
When I hear the tragedy of being I think of Jordan Peterson saying something like that. " the ultimate sign of enacting symbolic meaning is to find your cross and bear it. And through that you might find responsibility and competency and find a great woman and become a very exemplary individual.
The core of this argument conflates gnosis with Marxism however the core of the gnostic belief is in fact Buddhism. The components - Samsara being the endless cycle of life-death-rebirth, the four nobel truths describing observations of reality - dhukka/endless suffering and Siddhartha's award of Moksha/transcendence which may only be awarded by god of this realm, Mara... a demon. These Bhuddist concepts are identical to those you describe for gnoistic concept. Perhaps you should consider exploring more relevant existential questions such as the parallels between the Cretans described in the book of Titus and Marxism.
It is both amazing and hilarious to hear James sound more and more like David Icke, Alex Jones or Bill Cooper - that's not a disparaging comment, just a view from an absurdist-comical perspective.
p.s. I eagerly await James sounding like (or having awareness of) Webster Tarpley - in connection to Black Nobility, the origins of captured science and mathematics or the minds who brought Malthusianism to the elites before Malthus.
On concept creep and fixed pie. Maybe maybe maybe the super elites are victims that are suffering their own special kinda concept creep from their super abundance and super consumption from their lifestyles? Idk if that even made sense. Anyway, thx for your service. You are beautiful. Strength and love
I am not seeing clearly this fine distinction that you are laying out in the middle of this video. It seems like sometimes what you are describing fits inversely (i.e. replace gnosticism hermeticism) onto what you say in the next moment.
At the end of the day, we form enough intelligence through learning, to formulate thoughts that mull over our existence. No matter what, being human is a challenge. Can't escape it. Whether you have all the money in the world and don't have to work at a job, or are a mailman. We all have things that are thought good or bad, stuff we should do, if we do them or not, and a challenge of just going forward once again to all of that
Hey, dork. Why did you block me on twitter? I am one of your biggest supporters. I promote your work all over the place. I have huge reach on multiple platforms. It's pretty weak toblock someone instead of just, you know, ARGUING your position. I always respected you and your insights, even tho I disagree with probably 60% of your ideological positions. But how can we solve seemingly intractable problems by shutting out the critique? Pretty weak, very disappointed. But clearly I hit you with something you couldn't really refute at the time. I will still promote your good ideas and critique the bad ones! Good luck out there, bud.
It's blocking like censorship? Maybe that's part of the new discourses, it's a non-interactive broadcast in which viewers opinions which are not aligned are not tolerated. Seems kinda Marxist :)
@@jirehla-ab1671 There are many ways but IMO the most direct approach is found in the Heisenberg principle, not the one of uncertainty but the one of breaking bad. "Say their name".
@New Discourses The dark side of the Miracle perspective goes two ways -- one, the Pollyanna, my world is happy enough so yours must not be so tragic, outlook, which is dismissive of or blind to other people's genuine pain and struggle. It can remain too childlike. And when it butts up against a tragedy too large to dismiss, it falls hard. That's why teens are so ripe to be radicalized. They are just awakening to real tragedy in the world and real or perceived tragedy in their own lives. The comic outlook is the appropriate leavener for this, along with real work that helps one's neighbor on a human scale, rather than idealistic pretensions to helping "humanity" on some global scale. (Maybe, "life is work" is the middle perspective that you did not address.) The other dark turning of the Miracle perspective is just the lack of humor inherent in taking everything so seriously as that. It can make us peevish toward other people if we see their faults as detracting from the miracle that they are.
read some secular buddhism, sit down and meditate, find the stillness within yourself - that's your entry point to gratitude at all times. James grossly misrepresents the importance of being from the spiritual perspective, atheists are suppressing their own spirituality, basically, which is normal - to truly be, one has to let go of the intellect; james has been explaining shit for years now, he's kinda lost in his own maze
The more obscure and weirdly these videos get titled, the more I'm like "Oh, geez, now what cringe crevice of the woke ideology is James going to expose to us now?" *munches on popcorn*
Arr-Kon is correct for Archon. As someone on decade 2 of studying Pre-Christian Rome & Judea, this is a wonderful overlay of the Valentinian form of Gnosticism. One thing that sits in my mind, a s is frequently alluded to; The Gospel of Thomas At the end of the Gospel, Thomas, asks Jesus: "And what if Mary? She is not a man, she can not come." Jesus replies: " Fear not, for I shall make her a man, as I have made you a woman." This has been perverted into a literal meaning. To 'Transcend' your 'Sex' instead of the true, in context meaning. To 'Marry' your 'Opposite' internal Gender. See; Salvatore Mundi (Left half is Female, Right is Male) Most forms of Proto-Orthodox Christianity deal with this sort of 'Semi' dualism, with the caveat being; the Third Option is never a Synthesis of the Two, but is a new 'Emergent Being' Thus, freeing you from the Prison of hypermasculinity|hyperfemininity, and 'Becoming as a God' Also, Catholicism is an Ouroborous and the most Unholy of Institutions.
Gnosticism is not a monolithic dogma as you routinely present it. I'll need a citation on where any version believes life is a prison. Life can be reasonably seen as a prison in that you can't get out of it and you will die. If you take answering even the most basic questions in theology, like the Question of Evil, seriously, you can see that the Christian view includes not only being in a sort of prison, but it seems to be for the purpose of rehabilitation at best. I see the "layers" you are talking about in a more simple way: religion step 1: blind faith aka dogmatic, religion step 2: reason aka mental machinations are the entire solution, religion step 3: informed faith combining critical thinking with the necessary awe that comes from deeply contemplating existential questions. These are not exclusive categories, but it reflects how consciousness gets better at working with the all important issue of "meaning".
I have yet to hear the good Doctor cite the Nag Hammadi or apocrypha of Mary however he does an excellent job of describing the mechanics of woke dogma and Marxism. Meaning may not be as important as memory for without a memory you would not desire meaning. If death brings you between two rivers, Lethe and Mnemosyne, try to remember to drink to remember (it's a very poor play on words).
@@qlippoth13 My guess on what happened is that James had a few problems trying to propagate his, mostly good, ideas: 1) if he compared Marxism to religion (which is fair) then this might well turn off Christians (who were funding him substantially), and 2) he hopes that by claiming this comes form a specific religion that this might trigger various U.S. issue around separation of church and state. These are not stupid ideas, but unfortunately, he is needing to resort to deceptive toy models to square this circle for the purpose of taking shortcut. My own view is that there is a fundamental war between religion and authoritarianism, and the missing piece for James might come from doing what Shellenberger is doing and reading and recommending Political Ponerology. In short, you can't expect those drawn to power to do things like running ethical public schools. Concentrated power is a deadly problem that cannot be ignored.
@@konberner170 Ah, perhaps then his focus should be on Timothy 6:10 Maybe he could metaphorically put on the yellow robe and renounce his addiction to money. I realize how this sounds but it makes on think about the Gordian knot which is the truth as opposed to how it really is, researching the truth within the bounds of currency and the source of that currency. BTW, I believe most of the gnostic texts we have today were all recovered from what we know today as a dump or sanitation land fill. It contracts the value of truth.
@@qlippoth13 I think Jesus never said there is anything wrong with money. What is wrong is putting anything before God, if you want to be happy. I think he noticed that many do put money before God, thinking it can keep them safe somehow. Fact is, it can't. Meaning can never be replaced by money, and money can't buy meaning: that is the secular version of it.
@@konberner170 Render unto Caesar was something Yahshua did say according to the good news. Perhaps the most telling quote about money and it's vileness is "Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws". Money can indeed buy meaning and academia being the gatekeeper of knowledge that it is proves this everyday. RIP Aaron Swartz.
Personally I would say Hermeticism, at least in it's earlier form of alchemy and such, before it was corrupted and it's name sort of stolen by occultists and masons during the 18th-20th century, is actually not gnostic or woke, it's actually about trying to work with God in order to cleanse and perfect the body mind and soul for integration in to the whole, it's basically self psychoanalysis using both physical and metaphysical terminology and symbolism. The Hermeticist doesn't seek escape, he wants to understand and integrate God in his entire being.
if I were with you in person right now: I would give you a High Five and say "let that amazing mind continue to work". The topic of BEING may be at the root of our continual quest to find DEITY in our Mortality. Is GOD a BEING? or is JESUS, the man chosen by God as His dwelling place the true BEING and as such all we simply need to is "have the mind of Christ:?
This lecture is about Cognitive overlays BUT strong cognition doesn’t come online until 2 y/o -- We need to get back to basic biology but basic biology has been hidden from us. .
And my embryology prof who died the first week of the class had a placard above his office “Peace, It’s truly wonderful.” He was a soldier in WW2. We haven’t learned any kind of lesion biologically.
The students took up the course lead. Every student studied and presented one chapter from Pattens Embryology. It was a success and when I did my Med training at UMich - I didn’t study a day and got a 100% because it was the same course. So was my histology, physiology & a few other classes.
My thought-exercise for the train phenomenon is, if train citation back-and-forth was cheap, fast and reliable, who would even care? The amount of sacrifice is the only measure of worth?
“They [who teach twisted doctrine] are of the world and belong to it; therefore they speak from the [viewpoint of the] world [with its immoral freedom and baseless theories-demanding compliance with their opinions and ridiculing the values of the upright], and the [gullible one of the] world listens closely and pays attention to them.” 1 John 4:5
I've been wondering about whether the gnostic or occultic references in video games are meaningful or not. Final Fantasy 14 has you as an Archon in an order called Scions of the Seventh Dawn. FF does have a recurring theme of finding out that the god(s) are actually bad and then slaying them as the final boss, so humans can be free from their oppression.
@@fortunefairthere are tonnes (tonze) of meaningful ideas in that game. The last dungeon of the latest expansion had you follow the experience of the big bad boss, she experienced the four horsemen of the apocalypse, famine, pestilence, war and death. She came to the conclusion that the only way to stop suffering was to eliminate all life in the universe.
Of course it's meaningful. The games are pulling stories from occult source material. Just like Halo, Metroid, Stargate, Assassin's Creed, and so on. Movies too, obviously.
@@fortunefair yeah, I don't think they do it with ill-intent though, Japanese love to dabble in spiritual and esoteric concepts in general. For example Ultima in FF16 is very human, yet alien.
Missing the banality of being. As in, in time everything that happens becomes meaningless or indicates it's causal connection to everything else. It's a platform for determinism without a higher reality of meaning.
According to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon) Lucifer aka Satan insisted that he should be the savior instead of Jesus. Satan insisted that he could guarantee everyone would go to heaven. All it would require would be to talke away everyones right to make their own choices and letting Satan have the power and authority of God. Satan and those who agreed with him were kicked out and were condemned to never have physical bodies. Everything you teach about gnosticism and woke reminds me of that.
The church also believes if you do something bad you burn in hell forever however should you do everything correctly you will live in heaven forever. Either way you have eternal life, exactly as the gnostic tradition states. BTW, Satan literally means accuser. Could it be that someone has mesmerized the entire world to believe that good is evil and visa vie?
@@qlippoth13 LDS doctrine does not teach that you burn in hell for doing something wrong nor does it teach that being perfect is possible but I have heard that taught by other religions. I like what you said about Satan being the accuser; trrans-phobe, racist, fascist. A lot of accusations regardless of the evidence to the contrary. I think you hit the nail on the head.
@@justjamie7577 I was using a broad generalization in the modern Christian concept. It is interesting how this concept is accepted and not questioned IMO.
have you read Albert Camus' The Fall and / or Hermann Hesse's Steppenwolf? (...i, too, would like a miniature someone to amuse me when i am lonely and alone...preferrably with a bestie who wails on saxophone with a Latin-love-affair seduction...)
These "A"-leets have no faith in the creativity and ingenuity of their fellow man, no matter how humble their circumstances may be. They appear to have no faith in our species itself, it's ability to overcome challenges, both individual and collective. All it takes is the faith to unleash those creative forces.
Well said. Even in just my lifetime, things have been invented that I wouldn't have expected. But as the "Absolute Zero" UK report (on which James did a video) shows, they believe we're on the edge of absolute and imminent disaster, and they assume we won't be able to discover a creative solution.
"A nation or people who will not use their intelligence, are no better than animals who do not have intelligence. Such people are beasts of burden and steaks on the table by choice & consent." -Bill Cooper
