sb23rd

I enjoy your videos and the information you present with one criticism that your presentation is a tad on the dry side. I have to ask why you devote your time to those progressives called the young turks whose ideology is left leaning? I watched a couple of their videos way back and felt i was being emotionally manipulated. Only later i discovered modern progressivism uprooted and supplanted early liberalism with the absolute arbitrary rule of the state. They reject social Darwinism as a leftist ideology would and their rhetoric is sprinkled with sophistry, again a hallmark of the left.

Black holes, to the best of my understanding and corrections welcomed, exist only as abstractions in people's minds. Empirically, as the reading I have done suggests against its existence. Good video btw, cheers.

Apart from Josephus, is there any other contemporary sources that would cement Jesus as a historical figure? Although I haven't read this book, I've listened to the author in several interviews and his case appears strong. I admit I lack the necessary research and speak primarily from curiosity. Do you have a source for this? From my research back in the day and using my dictionary app to confirm, 'satan' merely means 'adversary' or 'one who opposes or obstructs'. In Greek it translated to 'diabolos', meaning 'slanderer'. The word essentially is indicative of a role and not a character. Accuracy, precision, correctness or what have you particularly definitions and etymology, are very important on a philosophy forum.

From a Google scholar search*, "Size distortion among patients with eating disorders appears unlikely to reflect a more generalized sensory / perceptual deficit". Published under the Department of Pyschology in 1998. There has probably been further findings that may or may not support a genetic origin. Generally speaking feminist proclamations don't bear well with reality. *http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/(SICI)1098-108X(199709)22:2<107::AID-EAT1>3.0.CO;2-J/abstract

Been reading Arthur C. Clarke I gather? Which proposition would you say has the least assumptions: 1. Jesus was an alien utilising advanced technology and all of its implications, or 2. creative license by various authors fusing old myths, legends and traditions eventually turned into a unified whole that supplanted paganism and gave Rome double powers of the word and the sword?

If according to Hume human knowledge or epistemological theories are a product of custom and imagination, does he not proceed to reach his conclusion by a process he claims is unknowable? Am I missing something here? Seems self detonating. Hume also states that we connect our ideas (a priori from another realm) to our impressions received via the senses. This suggests concepts do not form from sense perception (induction) of the external world. Like Descartes, this bothers me somewhat because the mind is assumed to be some sort of conduit part of the body but not really.

Another double post.

Double post.

Sometime into the future impartial parties will determine that earth's resources are nearing depletion. When that will be is unknown. Watch out for leftist traps scare mongering people into believing catastrophic environmental problems only to be a guise for more government control. I strongly believe that if or when that time dawns it will be, as throughout history, the able and heroic souls who will lead to avert extinction. If the current political system is not resolved and the world is still an irrational statist nightmare when folks realise 'ah shit what me want there none is', would be a step towards the precipice. Take history and the examples at how societies can bounce back from peril, the Romans and Camillus who was called the second founder of Rome, or the French during social and political turmoil that made heads roll daily only to face the fudal powers of Europe determined to extinguish the revolution and its gains. Governments since then have grown immensely and have at their disposal sophisticated tools of propaganda and indoctrination. We are at war in battle for man's mind, seeking victory for reason and good. As long as there people like Stefan and those who keep asking questions against opposition, those that challenge assumptions and follow their curiosity and chose to act there is still hope.

Idealism to my understanding is the view that ideas are as the same as concrete entities and thus mind over matter. The writings of Kant and Hegel come to mind. Marx was a communist who wanted to impose an artifical/abstract system onto reality. Communism also has some parallels to theology. Collectivism is subjugation of the individual to an idea and how this supposedly trumps a physical entity is beyond me.

Do not credit Stefan as the originator of said prediction but as someone following the precepts of reality and making a rational argument which has been espoused before by people of similar intellectual caliber. Apologies for the criticism it is not meant in disdain but your question is framed in a manner that suggests at Stefan's credibility. As pointed out the bursting of the bubble has been deferred to some future point. The fed being the captured or capturer institution of the state particularly since the gold standard took early retirement pretty much does what it wants. After all the fed is its own police. The lapdog media parrots along to delight of the leftist and Chicago school economist, your typical central planners.

Out of the left field indeed. To my understanding Googles deepmind is still a supervised ai meaning that a true ai as depicted on Hollywood films is yet to beat a human being.

I have a few questions. How do you know your vote reflects your convictions? If I don't vote and want to be left alone will the 'elected' comply with my wishes?

The fed is a regulated institution. The regulator (the state) has exclusive monopoly to regulate. Auditing the fed is inconsequential because it is part of the state and the regulation is done by the state. The contradictions are fairly evident.

Would appear to tie in with cybernetics and technocracy as envisioned by Zbigniew Brzezinski some decades ago. I highly recommend the tradegyandhope podcast and this specifically https://www.tragedyandhope.com/technocracy-cybernetics-richard-grove-on-declare-your-independence-with-ernest-hancock/. The control for the human animal by the parasitic class is as old as history.