PATREON EXCLUSIVE (Full Video): The 4 blocks preventing women from seeing reality
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I agree that religion can´t be used as a point of view to solve problems in the relationship. But your argument that faith has no reason is false, you know that there are always miraculous things happening here and there, people recovering from certain disiases or injuries that seemed impossible before, I´m sure you heard of it. But God doesn´t always do what we want and there are good reasons for it. Have you whatched the movie Almighty with Jim Carey? If God said YES to everything it would be caos.
GUNSHIP
2024-03-21 17:04:12 +0000 UTCI am a Christian. However, I always find a secular argument. In today’s world, as religious belief seems to be shrinking everywhere, it is imperative. Reason and faith can coexist. And successful religious people- example Ben Shapiro - always give a secular reasoned argument for their opinions.
Eric Linden
2024-03-10 08:30:05 +0000 UTCInteresting discussion. Of course people here will say science and religion can co-exist and do in practice. That is no justification for religion and provides no guide for when science and religion come into conflict. Also why pick any one religion over another? You can’t have it both ways: if prayers work that is testable by science. If you insist religion and science are mutually exclusive you have to have such an abstract definition of religion that it has no practical influence on everyday life other than providing some emotional comfort.
Andy
2024-01-05 20:17:52 +0000 UTCthere are rituals, tradition and communities in philosophies as well. I see only two differences. In philosophies, nobody is a God and in religion, nobody may ask: why?
Mircea N.
2024-01-02 21:21:45 +0000 UTCExcellent point on needing church to resonate deeply to benefit from the experience. Otherwise, a person is only attending and not really participating. My youngest daughter is expressing interest in "Team Jesus" vs "Team Devil". I will probably do like your father and have us attend some services. Most likely a Ukrainian church. Could be RC. Could be Orthodox. I believe a congregation is stronger as a community when it can unite around things in addition to religious principles.
Mark Bryski
2024-01-02 15:55:39 +0000 UTCThere are no churches I can join. I don’t agree with them theologically, & usually my values diverge to an extent (at least with regards to Abrahamic religions). Is that a problem for you too? I don’t think it makes sense to go to a church unless you find true value in it & it resonates deeply for you. You could take your kids to different churches to expose them to different faiths & see what they like. That’s essentially what my dad did & I’m grateful for it, especially bc my mom was a hardcore atheist but I’ve always been deeply spiritual & drawn to religiosity (though not in an addictive way - I don’t think that’s necessarily an element - it’s unthinking devotion that bothers me). Tbh I just don’t think there ARE good many good churches/religions in the West anymore. If you’re not opposed to Christianity, you might consider checking out Orthodox.
RhodiumMaiden
2024-01-02 11:53:57 +0000 UTCYet many scientific laws have been overturned. Something can be ‘proven’ true yet later discovered to be false. And yet you still have faith in the current consensus. Your religion is scientism/materialism. It’s impossible to live without faith in anything. That’s what I think Rae was getting at. I agree with her that science & faith naturally coexist - as did most scientists until very recently. Living requires assumptions & leaps of faith.
RhodiumMaiden
2024-01-02 11:43:14 +0000 UTCA lot of , if not most, people like ritual, tradition & community which are difficult to find outside of organised religion. I’m pagan but the few groups of practicing pagans in my country are not remotely serious. I envy Catholicism their structure & numbers. I want a traditional religion that promotes my beliefs & values via structured ritual & community. Religion is a powerful binding force & one that is desperately needed in the West imo. Most people also like clear, strong rules & boundaries. What you call dogma, others value. It’s not like most secularists are making great choices; surely you can see this? It’d be great if everyone could self-regulate but that’s simply not possible for most.
RhodiumMaiden
2024-01-02 11:36:48 +0000 UTCAnother interesting presentation. I had to give it a lot of thought to make sense of what it meant to me because I have been questioning my decision not to involve my children with church. To start, I understand faith to be a strong belief in an organized ideology, based on spiritual apprehension (e.g. fear of going to hell, loss of salvation, the devil, etc etc) rather than proof. To put it most succinctly, faith is ideology. The “Holy Bible” is a major component of faith. It is presented as the written word of god. At the same time, theologians have been hypothesizing we may not be understanding “the written word of god” correctly. In short, what is being presented as interpretation of scriptures may simply be “stories”. Feeding the multitude may be an example of this problem. I do notice that conventional wisdom is you go to church to meet high quality people. Yet, it doesn’t seem to be widely practiced. As a man, I would never go to church to meet women. Based on Alexander’s analogy “Men are islands and women are boats”, I would only go to church because I want church to be a part of my island. I do notice that conventional wisdom places church as a safe place for children. Yet, my personal choices for my children are playgrounds, parks, beaches, school events, and the library. In these domains, my children’s interests and development is the main focus. Furthermore, when I look at evidence based parenting approaches, I do not see any place for spiritual apprehension when encouraging child development. I do notice some people rely on church for gaining social capital. Social capital does have value. However, I have seen people who rely on going to church to gain and maintain social capital end up struggling with religiosity. Religiosity is an agent of addiction. Having church as a part of my island has not been a part of my thinking. Even when I have thought hard about it. Thoughts anyone?
Mark Bryski
2024-01-01 19:05:30 +0000 UTCYup, reading too much into clips on social media is not a good idea. The algorithm promotes what would get a lot of shares, views, and reactions and not what's going on. It could very well be the case that the clips displaying ideologies and things are the minority but seem like the average trend because of how viral they are.
Ashwin Srinivas
2024-01-01 15:41:08 +0000 UTC"the truth is that faith and science are supposed to coexist.": I disagree with that statement because the first principles used by science and religion are different in that for science, these first principles must be tangibly proven to be true by observation with our senses. For religion, the first principles do not have that restriction and hence they diverge right from the get-go.
Ashwin Srinivas
2024-01-01 15:38:35 +0000 UTCOn the topic of faith vs science, as a guy in STEM, I would have faith in something that can be proven by science to exist as this is based on real and true first principles. But one must understand that science cannot prove everything and the scientific method has limitations. Therefore, just because something hasn't been scientifically proven, that does not mean it's not true. But if something has been proven to be true or false by science then I believe that it is indeed true or false respectively.
Ashwin Srinivas
2024-01-01 15:35:05 +0000 UTCThis is a interesting topic but the truth is that faith and science are supposed to coexist. As a Christian, I am instructed to seek knowledge and wisdom which God and science provides. I see it as Christ instruct me on how to connect with Him while living in this world while science instructs me on how the world (people included) works therefore, both are needed to have a balanced life. That is why i enjoy your videos and other thought provoking ones because it provides more knowledge and insight and I am comfortable receiving any information as long as it does not encourage religious immorality. Even science starts with a bit of faith. You first develop a hypothesis (which is sometimes influenced by previous evidences but can also be an entirely new concept) and then you test that. I see Christianity the same way sometimes. I have lived as an atheist, an agnostic and then as a fake Christian who just did her own thing and ignored God's instructions. Every time I went against God, I later recognised how doing those things negatively affected my quality of life and sense of self. Don't get me wrong, Its important to recognise that religion can also negatively impact people but I think that is entirely to do with the fact that some religious texts are open to interpretation and some people use it for wrongful deeds (only in relation to Christianity btw). But to counteract that, we're supposed to know and read the Bible regularly and in that way we'd be able to discern who's sent from God or not. Finally, if we had multiple physical evidences of God and his existence, then complete faith is no longer achievable is it? Which is why God shows you his creation (us humans, animals, planets, the galaxies etc) and ask that you believe and have faith in him even if you don't have all the answers and evidence you yet seek. I think it add to the mystery of life too.
Rae
2024-01-01 13:06:35 +0000 UTCMy youngest daughter called it "mean juice" when she was five.
Mark Bryski
2024-01-01 01:37:33 +0000 UTCI kinda think you missed what I was saying. It was a compilation of things I’ve heard from women, and she was trying to justify drinking beer in morning was no different than drinking coffee.
Bill Washinski
2023-12-31 21:38:51 +0000 UTCNursing common rooms… nurses are drama and gossip queens!
Peter
2023-12-31 05:12:47 +0000 UTCIts complicated channel recently wisited a country convention. There was a difference… anime convention was also pretty good. Delusion was low
Peter
2023-12-31 05:11:25 +0000 UTCYes we all can be. I try hard to not be…. For better or for worse. 😂😅🤣 😏
Peter
2023-12-31 05:09:06 +0000 UTCwhat I don't understand is how people can choose strict dogmas over philosophies like buddhism or taoism, it's like choosing the abusive parent over the balanced one. Or how they justify religion through spirituality, instead of just choosing spirituality. You want to be respectful and honor nature? Great! Do and say that. But why must it have a name, a human-like form and a book of laws that do not even morally apply anymore?
Mircea N.
2023-12-30 10:41:17 +0000 UTCMost likely, if this is true, it wasn't the first time she did this and he wanted it on camera. Otherwise...
Mircea N.
2023-12-30 10:36:39 +0000 UTCAG is very narrow-minded in this regard. I’m a scientist & very logical but also religious. I don’t use my faith in discussions unless they’re philosophical/theological. I don’t need to. My late husband was a hardcore atheist when we met & before me he’d never met a rational spiritual person let alone one near his IQ. I guess AG has had similar experiences, but I don’t see how he can ignore virtually all the greatest thinkers who had both faith & reason in abundance. They are by no means mutually exclusive.
RhodiumMaiden
2023-12-30 08:18:49 +0000 UTCDashcam
Alexander Grace
2023-12-29 23:58:40 +0000 UTCSome other delusions I’ve heard: The $80,000 in student loan debt will be forgiven for ME. They told me that I needed degree to get promoted (never got job with said degree). $2 Million isn’t a lot of money. I know my value, age is just a number (then talks about free Botox and Breast Enhancement uplift). I know my value, “proud” that neither she nor her friends knew how to cook for Thanksgiving. Drinking beer in the morning is no different than drinking coffee. They are both a “drug”. First Listing in years, assumed sale within 30 days - (100+ days not sold) - concluded will out earn me ($100k) - working 10 hours a month. “Executive Producer” of new film of her dance routine show (the executive part kinda not understood that role is responsible for financing & promotion, not making). Didn’t need my money & is 50/50, yet never paid for anything.. Bought a 2013 BMW - salvaged title - for $7000 and thought it was great deal.
Bill Washinski
2023-12-29 21:09:35 +0000 UTCIt was probably made in response to some trend where women would act ridiculous to see how their boyfriends react or just plain old ragebait
Tenkos
2023-12-29 20:23:13 +0000 UTCI certainly think reason and faith can go hand in hand. Everytime you mention religion I get the feeling like you believe it's either science or faith and that couldn't be further from the truth. I am always surprised when you mentioned your encounters with religious people in your videos. You have a real tendency to meet very traditionally religious people. I remember how you mentioned schoolkids quoting the bible at you when you were in the US. I come from a pretty religious country myself and nothing like that happened to me. I hate the phrase 'vocal minority' but I certainly think it is the case with people emailing you after your videos on religion. Vast majority of religious people believe in science, don't think that the bible is 100% fact, and that the Earth is like 2000 years old. Don't forget the man who first theorised the big bang theory was a Catholic priest. About 10% of the doctors in the British NHS are Muslim, and you don't have to worry they will ask you to pray your illness away. I consider myself religious despite maybe going to the Church twice a year. You must have been hundreds of religious people in your life without even realising it. I think the Bible has many valuable lessons in it without believing that any of the stories happened literally. The reason those stories survived thousands of years is because they talk about the very fundamental of the human condition that anyone can relate to at some point in their lives. If somebody quotes the scripture at you, maybe they are just trying to tell you a point some man already figured out 2000 years ago.
Tenkos
2023-12-29 20:15:46 +0000 UTCwell, there's always Abigail Shapiro.
Mircea N.
2023-12-29 19:50:43 +0000 UTCI like the content, but let's admit, TikTok videos are fake af. No chance there was just a camera there, turned on, at the exact moment. Also, it was not about the sandwich, it was about her picking a fight.
Mircea N.
2023-12-29 17:51:32 +0000 UTCThe ability of the average women to hold onto their subjective reality exceeds that of the average and alas, often there is nothing, you can say to convince someone that is basing their arguments on an ideology You are never going to rationalise a belief, without emotionally meeting that person on a level, where they let their guard down in order for alternatives to reach that subconscious confirmation bias And even then, in most people, the resistance is strong. It is a belief that you’ve held for many more than the new belief has been known to you seconds hours days months years, maybe decades Changing a well established habit be it a thought pattern or going to the gym or over eating or playing too many video games is hard
Peter
2023-12-29 07:32:36 +0000 UTCPhilosophically and subjectively the reality created by our brain through the imperfect, cognitive, measuring instruments. We call our senses, is purely subjective. Alas, through the scientific method and other tricks, we bring that inner shadow of reality into alignment with reality Yet we are programmed to refine that inner image through cognitive most statistical methods If you repeat a wrong measurement often enough, the measurement becomes more accurate, but it does not become more precise
Peter
2023-12-29 07:29:39 +0000 UTCPS - I'm a Pastafarian if anything religious. LOL
Jon Wilkinson
2023-12-29 05:46:52 +0000 UTCSeeing street interviews where Western dolly birds are exposing their obvious lack of logical endowment, sobriety and delusional expectations is wearing a bit thin lately. Perhaps a good balance might be sought by heading for places such as church yards after congregation and maybe libraries or perhaps hospital staff rooms etc where more grounded women might possibly congregate to see if the attitudes are the same? Maybe you will find little difference from the usual haunts but maybe its worth a shot in the hope of restoring some faith in Western females for us 'decent' blokes?
Jon Wilkinson
2023-12-29 05:35:34 +0000 UTCGrace, I've been a fan for awhile now. I do take issue with you on a thing or two. But I am astounded at how wise you are while yet so young. (I'm over 70, and wish I'd had half your wisdom even 20 years ago, let alone 50.)
David Ronin
2023-12-29 05:19:37 +0000 UTCThis example with the sandwich is PRICELESS.
David Ronin
2023-12-29 05:11:53 +0000 UTC
