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The Worm at the Core by Sheldon Solomon
The Master and His Emissary by McGhilChirst
Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson
The Blank Slate by Steven Pinker
World War 1 by John Keegan
The Ascent of Humanity by Eisenstein
The Knowledge Machine by Michael Strevens
The Happiness Hypothesis by John Haidt
The Origins of Ideologies by Todd Immanuel
Lineages of Modernity by Todd Immanuel
Sexual Personae by Camille Paglia
Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung
Cynical Theories by James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose
A Secular Age by Charles Taylor
The Web of Meaning by Jeremy Lent
Seculosity by David Zahl
Hidden Truth by Houston Smith
Norse Myth by Neil Gaiman
Oriental Mythology by Joseph Camble
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
Recapture the Rapture by Jamie Wheal
Nations by Azar Gat
The Moral Animal by Robert Wright
Dominion by Tom Holland
The World’s Religions by Houston Smith
Dynasty by Tom Holland
Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
Trauma and the Soul by Thomas Kalsched
Disunited Nations by Peter Zeihan
The Coddling of the American Mind by Jonathan Haidt
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Wow you've achieved the first stage of the alchemical process putrificatio congratulations and continue with your public personal slow and steady gnostic awakening it definitely isn't part of some elaborate psychological engineering project I have cooked up to improve your historiography, opinions, and videos generally through strategic discourse in your comment sections.
3:06 is it possible to experience your own death though? Probably no, so something else continues wether bodily and or non locally and non materially. Hell if quantum immortality is real then you could be born to your exact body as well as replicants before you experience your own subjective death once implying an infinite chain of reincarnation.
3:21 i actually know the opposite to be true, i know anyone and everyone i know or could know can die but because of the technical impossibility of observing my own death due to the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics means that i may never be able to subjectively die. I can subjectively die to others just like they can to me but the objective truth is we dont know if we can subjectively die or what happens after death though i would argue those are connected inquiries.
6:12 i have burned myself alive as a sacrifice to god, attempted to die multiple times with poisoning and drig od. I genuinely dont believe death subjectively occurs when someone dies they just branch to a reality where they survive until in old age everything gets really weird and they dont die but transcend physicality, locality, and temporality just like someone who dies subjectively for you and everyone else. Tbh I know that I can't die no matter how hard I try, it's a gift from God to savor.
6:40 im glad for you
9:19 wow you sound more and more gnostic and hermetic every day im proud.
11:22 finally wiah spits wisdom by directing to wise sources. Though remember waking up doesnt mean succeeding in fact it means the opposite doing good and helping others.
Yes it is true that we as humans always thought we could cheat death but clearly technologically has advanced to the point of where we can live longer.
Hey, Ted Kaczinski argues (summing him up, nothing new that Nietzche or Victor Franky would say) that a person that is genuinely satisfied with their life is one that is autonomous, free along with his community, doing meaningful activities related to their own survival, facing death constantly, providing safety for their own people.
Ruddy with a banger
Did someone in your life die recently? What caused you to focus on this topic?
You don't understand Epicurus.
this was an excellent video & while i disagree with some things, you took on a difficult subject and added value & food 4 thought, so thank you!😇
I appreciate what you do
"See everything as living, even if not sentient"
Technical, academic term for this is "animism." That everything does have a living spirit, even if it's not intelligent. It's basically what humans have always believed: as you know, western society is WEIRD for thinking of the things in the universe as machines, rather than as living spirits.
"Animism" here is also the root of religion. Things like afterlife, shamanism, ancestor veneration, etc, all flow out of animism and make more sense when you view everything as having a living spirit.
Bro, you just discovered philosophy of technique smh.
2 baby mamas here 😅 ones Ight other one ain’t worth a Fuck lol
Rudyard this is your best video I’ve ever watched! Brilliant! Resonant! TRUTH! Memento mori!!!! God bless you, man! I’m praying for you as you emerge from all your late rough patch!
The way you frame things is inherently materialistic. There is nothing truly metaphysical. Metaphysics is just a coinvent contrivance to help us deal with the physical world. With that said I do appreciate your perspective and thank you for putting your opinions out there as it always causes me to think.
I take issue for when you mentioned genghis Khan and his fathering of peoples and nations. He comes from a time where might definitely made right, and women back then in his civilization but in many others were less than men and had to do as told or otherwise. Nowadays the great khan, as great as he may be, would not be seen in good light if he were to do what he did to women. The guy had harem of many many concubines.
Having just spent 2 days in a hospital's intensive care unit, can confirm it provides a moment of clarity. I literally saw a person die while I was there and it brought home the fragility of existence.
Whats the name of the painting used at 1:34
I agree with the premise and it’s something a lot of us have discussed since the boomer era. You mention things like allergies being from clean environment when it’s the opposite, or body trying to kill itself with diseases, which is completely wrong. Almost all of our modern health issues come from sedentary life and environmental toxins.
We don’t need to retvrn to tradition in any extreme sense. Industrial society needs to become a servant to people rather than the opposite.
WIAH fails to realize that heroism inevitably turns into authoritarianism as the masses, incapable of understanding or following heroic ideals, instead just heap all of their choices and thoughts onto the Hero, overloading that hero until he breaks and ruins the entire society with the authoritarianism that the average person wishes to have.
What is there to be heroic about these days? I agree that is the best way out, but being an average person with an average job trying to be an average parent if you even have children is not heroic in modern society. There are no major wars – yet – outside of an online RPG. Obesity is becoming more of an epidemic than starvation. Swords are only seen in movies and cosplay events. There's not enough heroes because there aren't enough villains in modern society. What joins Yin when Yang skips out?
The only "villains" people fight seem to be the government or each other. Some guy feels heroic for screaming at the cop who gave him the speeding ticket. He then feels heroic for calling the same cop on his neighbors for violating HOA ordinances when they place a bench outside to sit on it. Political and/or cultural activism has become modern heroism in society. On top of that, everyone seems to need validation for each quasi-heroic act.
Validate me for my snappy comeback on social media. Validate me for berating some deplorable/tyrant. Validate me for working on my health goal(s) today. Nobody cares about each other while nobody cares to correct it either.
"This is Reddit personified" DAMN! Spitting straight TRUTH!
It's kind of insulting that you implied national socialism to be super materialistic when It was probably the only ideology from that era that didst put a big emphasis on the economic structure. Commies call it capitalist and capitalists call it communist and really they both miss that it was a system designed to break the chains of the economy. That the economy exists to serve us, not the other way around. It is also riddled with the neoplatoist desire for a struggle to give life meaning, and a search for honor and a higher purpose. People far richer than I have taken a stand and lost everything mentioning a certain people so I'm not really going to go there. I'll just say that it is highly unlikely that we just emerged in this position as a civilization by accident. You say that societies are driven by base emotions, I'd ask you how those societies developed those emotions and if people could be emotionally conditioned, educated and informed to feel these things about these dogmas, about their destiny as a nation and as a people. How can your manifest destiny just go away? Why did we as a nation and people change direction so suddenly after the first Roosevelt and ww1.
I am willing to believe I am wrong.
This is probably the best and most profound YouTube video you’ve ever made. Thank you!
Lots of my Christian buddies talk about death all the time. Death to Christians is just a continuum to life
Have you read DENIAL OF DEATH?
Ill agree that animals aren't perhaps burdened by death so to say. And have no real capabilities to foresee the future like we can but, animals to a surprising extent can at Least recognize death as it is. There have been tons of cases where pets have mourned owners, parent animals mourning lost offspring, ect. For instance, the term elephant funeral or elephant graveyard, didn't come from nowhere. Some animals have even been known to mourn lost loved ones, for lack of a better term, to the point of sickness or malnourishedment. So i have to disagree with the idea that humans are the Only animals that understand or know about death as a concept. Maybe the only ones that can really grasp it or pontificate on it but, others recognize a dead from an alive..
"The meaning of life is to find the courage to throw yourself into the abyss, and then you realize it's a feather bed."
-Terence McKenna.
Founder of the "Stoned Ape theory" mentioned in this video.
If you want a powerful teacher of Optimism and hope and happiness, listen to the works and life of Terence McKenna.
Godspeed, Rudyard. This video may be a deeper calling for your incredible talents and seems to be the natural evolution and progression of the themes and purposes of your previous videos.
Liked and shared.
What I've learned is not even death matters I mean you'll die either way fight or don't fight you will die
Excellent video! Spot on! Instant fan!
Is there any chance you could discuss your shaman quest at age 20 and thought you experierenced death in more detail? I am very interested in hearing your experience
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society! – Krishnamurti
I disagree fundamentally that the men in world war one were "fearless and courageous" rather they were young, scared and easily influenced men bored at home and desperate for all the excitement the propaganda threw at them. The fear of missing out played a factor as evidenced in the famous "Daddy what did you do in the Great War" poster which posited any men not signing up were in fact little more than cowardly skivers. The great war was a bloodbath in the hellscape you described. Of course there were heroism of men crawling across mud and barbed wire to rescue there mates with limbs blown off. But this meaningless slaughter of humanity should not be looked back on in rose tinted nostalgia. I am sure a lot of the men who fought and died in this horror would rather not be remembered in a way that glorifies the petty and ultimately meaningless squabbles of the European powers
Death is an absence of meaning. You cannot create meaning knowing everything will end up meaningless. Also dogs are very much aware of their mortality. Watch one die, they know it’s coming and find a safe secure place to do it so they are not attacked before they pass
Not bad… ☠
TOXIC is an adjective that describes a VERY SPECIFIC type of masculinity. People who feel that your "manhood" is determined by your ability to be abusive and or violent.
Men who BULLY are toxic. Men who SAVE you from bullies are, in fact, HEROES and appreciated accordingly.
I'm disappointed but not surprised that whatifalthist is parroting the ignorant conservatives.