Matt Christman goes off live on http://www.twitch.tv/chapotraphouse
Topics: Evolving opinions on Fascism, spiritual reconciliation
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The point of Mutual Aid is to build social connections with people that our current society doesn't allow. To blow it off as just charity, is missing the point. It's not about an organization or non-profit with a hierarchy of upper-middle class college grads dispensing their wisdom & order to the poor & uneducated. It's about realizing that your neighbors & coworkers aren't your enemy. In reality, we only have each other. The people we see & talk to every day. I think you get that, Matt. Gotta say, I've missed these sort of free-flowing vids that use to be what made Cushvlogs SO fantastic. Maybe your new love & life in sunny Cali, has given you a bit of… hope? Anyhoo, this is yummy for my tummy! Peace.
Yes, it is experiential!! We can talk about it and conceptualize all we want, but at the end of the day, to know it, to realize it, to trust it, it must be experienced.
Matt is right too that we’ve lost the vocabulary (thru misguided religious teachings, alienation, etc). And while the vocabulary can and needs to be reclaimed in some way so that we can build foundation, those who have a first hand experience of unity, of plurality, of knowing themselves as one aspect of the whole, are the way-showers. They are able to trust enough to rise above the fear that keeps us in separation and by doing so, light the path thru the presence of their being. Examples: Ramana Maharashi, Jesus Christ, Buddha, Neem Karoli Baba, Anandamayi Ma, etc.
It's not "hippy bullshit." Well, maybe it is a little, but that doesn't mean it wasn't what was needed to be heard. I dug it, and lil' Peanut is a cutie. But his eye duct looks swollen, maybe cherry eye? Better get it looked at if you haven't already.
18:35 "I LIKE TO BIND, I LIKE TO BEEE BOUND!!"
Just imagining a random Matt Walsh viewer clicking on this and having their brain jump-started like a dead car battery but then not knowing where to go or how to live or what to do with this newly percolating thing between their earholes but then just sitting back and enjoying the shimmeringly vivid, electric purr of it all.
'We are not punished for our sins, we are punished by our sins'
Hedges uses fascism in Christian fascism. It's a long term political project with a huge political base. Atwood saw it in '85. It isn't Trump. Christman predicts a McConaughey junta. The Christian project has quietly been infiltrating the military, police, courts, etc. The political friction may turn out to be the Christians versus the Libertarians, who see the market as the hand of God as opposed to the Christians who have a direct line. There are no liberal or class projects, so time is on their side. In the meantime, we can dream each other's dreams.
There's a dog in this video.
Imagine spending an hour and a half decrying the loss of class consciousness and saying no straight, white cis male could have anything to complain about. Once again, Mr Christman tells on himself in an effort to absolve himself of his own guilt.
Shoutout to the Dalai lamas who were murdered in their teenage years so their regents could maintain their hold on power
Notes on a religion for the 21st century starts at 1:19:26 and rolls hard for a good 20m+.
"The more that it's algorithm, the less you need a formal politics of enacting it"
head meet nail
What kind of weirdo answers phone calls nowadays?
Greetings Apostles of Christman. Do any of you know if there's a way to contact Matt? Or even to know when he's going to live stream? I have a couple requests but I don't know how to get them across.
"Matthew McConaughey military junta" made me guffaw, but that aside, this cushvlog may be my favorite. life sure is a wild journey, and the only reliable vegvisir of the real is love
Inspiring – also loved the Aiko intro, so thanks on behalf of your deadhead fans!
I “grok” what you’re saying Matt Christman. Please continue.
Matt and Zizek need a podcast.
The Calvinist/Baptist notion is actually fucked. Of course Matt latched onto the "oh I don't have to try anymore" aspect, but the vast majority take it as "oh I can do what I want now." It's no accident that the American Southern Slave Power and the South African Boers were Calvinist rather than Wesleyan Protestants.
A lot of this reminds me of the concepts in the SHWEP podcas
goddamn, Matt is so close to what the truth of how christianity came about by anchoring it within the existential crisis of Temple-centric Judaism after the Roman conquest of Palestine. But, he loses the thread to the truth by conceding to the existence of a Historical Jesus. Richard Carrier's book on the Historical Jesus lays out the actual historical evidence looking into the Jewish cosmology & theology of the time, Once you are aware of this material, it becomes pretty clear there was likely no historical Jesus of any kind, but also that there didn't need to be. The stories about Jesus in the gospels and his life are lifted practically word for word from gospels of Jewish angel cults that existed around 100BC-100AD. These gospels though always expressed that these stories were just metaphors to the uninitiated, and to the initiated that they indeed occurred, but on a higher plane of existence. In fact, the evidence seems to support that even the earliest self-professed Christians never spoke about Jesus as if he was a historical figure, and set stories involving him as occurring within some metaphorically & cosmologically higher plane of existence. Also, it seems as if there were MANY Pseudo-Christian Jewish & Christian sects that all existed at the same time from the very start, all teaching different variations of the same jewish messiah angelology gospels and basically ending up in competition with each other for followers. In this struggle, eventually a sect just drops all the metaphysical cosmology stuff and sets their Jesus, retroactively, into History. This makes their brand of Christianity way more attractive & palatable to a broader audience, as they no longer need to be indoctrinated into arcane jewish metaphysics to make sense of everything.
Carrier's book is massive, the only properly academically rigorous & peer-reviewed work on the question of the Historicity of Jesus, and an absolute must read for anyone even remotely curious about the topic. The origin of Christianity is way more interesting and makes way more sense with all the context Carrier provides.
You’re on it Brother Christman, you’re on it!!!!💯❤️
Terence McKenna is a Prophet!!!!
Too blackpilled of an analysis no matter how new agey and lovey dovey you dress it up. Shit, even Bernie says turn your anger into action (not degenerate drug use).
Is this what they call revolutionary pessimism? No point worrying about fascism because everything is too sick and disjoint and meaningless for that even to arise. Marvellous. Also I can't do metaphysics, man. Maybe my brain is too damaged. I think revenge is fine. I think assassination is fine. Then suicide.
Matt doesn't understand Buddhism or Confucianism at all, Buddhism is the closest historical twin to Christianity, and is a Faith whose resonance is due to its anti-caste nature, and Confucianism is not a spirituality but a framework for being a righteous family-man (as close to an ancient self-help philosophy as it gets), not concerned with spirituality outside of the fact that there is an in-understandable greater power that we cant understand and we should be humble to (God, 天, Life/Earth, whatever you want to call it), and it isn't political other than the concept that society should be governed by a moral nobleity that if not acting compassionately must be destroyed by the people.
New Guy Peanut Siting @ 1:18:42
1:18:45 dog timestamp
1:18:45 timestamp for Peanut the dog
1:07:14 20+ years of church and he's the 1st one to explain the parable correctly to me…