THE RADICALISED RABBI is a blog on Judaism and its very useful ideas and the blogger a Secular Koranist and a revolutionary. You don't have to be Jewish to find Jewish ideas very useful in tidying up your thinking and turbo-charging your powers of reasoning to the extent that you can even predict most events and disasters. The West is heading for disaster with its insane policy of Transnational Progressivism, turning our global village into Sodom and Gomorrah attracting the same punishment.
4:00 Pluralism/multiculturalism/uncontrolled mass immigration
5:00 Europeans are led by Eutotrash.
6:00 Low birth rate
7:00 The social problems caused by feminism
8:00 Politics
9:00 Encouraging your enemies
10:00 Gasbagging windbags
11:00 Gabbling
13:00 Renee Good
14:00 Trial of Jonathan Ross
15:00 Renee Good was disobeying the lawful orders of a law enforcement and obstructing the highway.
16:00 The benefit of the doubt
17:00 Who should enjoy a degree latitude: the law enforcement officer or the political activist who has crossed the line?
19:00 Christian husbands afraid of their wives
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Second comment:
How many times has TLC circled this same question? At some point it starts to look like the endless processing is the point. The irony is that revisiting and gestating the same questions isn’t some neutral exercise. It is the mechanism of pluralism doing exactly what it is designed to do. And for that mechanism to work, no fact or truth can ever be allowed to resolve. Infinite oscillation, unsuspectingly waiting for authority to arrive. Athens did it first.
The cohesion pluralism (as an ethos) produces is always thin and unstable. It can’t hold without eventually sliding into control. That’s the irony. Pluralism promises peace and safety, but by refusing judgment it guarantees that someone or something will eventually have to manage the chaos. The tyranny you, Luke, claim to be trying to prevent through pluralism is actually what invites it in. To prevent that, there needs to be an effort to channel all that exestential angst upward in faith rather than outword in group processing.
Check out my longer post, I try to tease my thoughts on this some more. Leave feedback, I'd appreciate it.
First comment:
I think what you're really asking is whether pluralism and communion with God is simultaneously possible in this age. Short answer from me: no. Absolutizing pluralism, as you're arguing for, Luke, creates an authority vacuum that nullifies the New Covenant. It's less Christian and more Athenian in appraoch.
For genuinely incompatible truth claims to coexist without any resolution, one condition has to be met, and that's that no transcendent authority can arbitrate between them. Judgment has to be suspended. Once God's no longer allowed to decide, all that left is dialogue, consensus, inclusion, and relational harmony. In other words, horizontal processing. Pluralism isn’t neutral. It sneakily installs a new highest good which ends up being peace and safety over truth and obedience.
I recommend looking into ancient Athens' intellectual culture. Athens thought themselves to model humility in their openness and inclusion to all ideas but Acts 17 doesn’t paint Athens as open-minded virtue, it portrays it as spiritually/existentially exhausted. They spent their time in nothing except telling or hearing something novel. They had many altars, but no set spiritual authority, and most importantly no source of repentance. The forum became the church and conversation the liturgy. The apostle Paul’s speech is what broke the pluralism by reintroducing authority i.e., one Creator, one judge, and one resurrected man. And the moment authority re-enters the picture, pluralism fractures, but as we saw with Paul, not before the maternal immune system flares up and mocked him and later (Ephesus and Diana) pushed him out of the city. The only way pluralism can survive is if Hebraic, not Greek, repentance, resurrection, and judgment are treated abstractly or not taken seriously at all.
Even if people say convictions are possible to be preserved, pluralism still creates a slow drip decay in conviction and enthusiasm for truth. Social pressure attacks strong assertive claims that don't flatter the idol of belonging to avoid offense, because belonging is totallized as the highest good. Moral sensibilities in that sense get rounded more and more to preserve relationship. In other words, truth's witness becomes private to keep the public square happy and calm. Belonging then becomes the sacred cow. At that point, the community's no longer cohered around God's revealed truth; it’s organized around cohesion to community itself.
So is pluralism actually possible? Yes, but its only ever temporary and shallow and there are always dire consequences. True pluralism requires vertical authority to be absent, leaving only horizontal processing between perspectives. Like Athens in Acts 17, this creates a gestational womb-like space that feels intimate and peaceful, but over time it infantalizes us and erodes godly conviction. Beliefs have to be held at surface level, while belonging becomes the organizing principle. Once belonging becomes sacred, no real transcendent authority can govern the space without being seen as a threat. At that point, peace replaces obedience, and pluralism quietly becomes an idol and the ensuring choas created a vaccum that eventually has to be mediated by an external authority. Rome in Greece's case but then plurality was localized. Now, the internet is globalizing it. What kind of authority is capable of governing global chaos? An Anti-Christ spirit? Mark of the Beast? Perhaps....(had to catastrophize troll. Half-joking though).
The best approach is to maintain distinct ideological camps that protect conscience and reduce confusion, while encouraging honest dialogue between them. The goal isn’t to prioritize belonging over clarity, or clarity over belonging, but to root both in God above. This requires a primary focus on repentance, direct New Covenant direct revelation, and, through that, reconciliation with true authority (John 14:26), which each person has to pursue individually. Endless horizontal processing cannot produce divine reconciliation; in fact it distracts from it. Channel all that exestential anxiety not into community but faith becasue community can't save. Belonging and clarity naturally flow from revelation grounded in faith.
29:00 What this wittering is really about
30:00 Street demos
31:00 Muslims Somalis in Minneapolis
32:00 Orthodox Christianity
33:00 The Church of England is a cushion bearing the imprint of the buttocks of the last person who sat on it.
34:00 Fighting over Christianity is like two bald men fighting over a comb.
Christendom ended in 1918..
35:00 Americans started a series of republican revolutions that ended absolute monarchy.
36:00 The Doctrine of Papal Infallibility 1870
37:00 Kulturkampf
38:00 Do you know who I am?
39:00 Blame the Founding Fathers.
40:00 Liberalism, Nationalism, Socialism
41:00 Americans should show more respect to George Washington.
The War of 1812 is considered a direct offshoot or peripheral theater of the broader Napoleonic Wars, as it stemmed from the global conflict between Britain and Napoleonic France, involving issues like British naval impressment of American sailors and trade restrictions, even though it was fought in North America with its own unique causes. Most European historians view it as a minor part of the larger struggle for dominance, while in the US, it's often seen as the "Second War of Independence".
Key Connections:
Shared Timeline: Both conflicts occurred simultaneously (Napoleonic Wars: 1803-1815; War of 1812: 1812-1815).
British Focus: Britain was heavily engaged against Napoleon in Europe, diverting resources but also causing friction with the U.S. over maritime rights.
American Neutrality & Involvement: The U.S. tried to stay neutral but was pulled in due to British actions like impressing sailors and interfering with U.S. trade, which were tactics used in the European war.
North American Theater: The war became a separate conflict in North America, but its roots were firmly planted in the European power struggle, with the U.S. seeing an opportunity to expand while Britain was distracted.
In essence, the War of 1812 was the North American front of the global struggle between Britain and France, even if its specific issues were localized.
26:00 Andrew Jackson, the National Bank and the Federal Reserve
1:51:00 Russian serfs and the French Army in War and Peace
Tolstoy mentions Russian peasants behaving in ways that suggest a willingness to accept or "welcome" the French invaders in War and Peace, though this is presented as a pragmatic reaction to the breakdown of their own social order, rather than a desire for French rule.
Key mentions include:
The Bogucharovo Peasants (Book 10, Chapter 9): When Princess Marya Bolkonskaya tries to leave her estate, her peasants refuse to help her and prevent her departure. It is mentioned that these peasants are in contact with the French, have received pamphlets from them, and believe that the French will not harm them, unlike the looting Cossacks.
Rejection of Serfdom: The peasants in this area refuse Marya's offers of grain, believing that she is trying to trick them back into serfdom and that the French represent a potential end to their bondage.
The Contrast to City Dwellers: Tolstoy contrasts this behavior with that of the people in cities like Moscow, who, unlike in other European cities, did not welcome the French with bread and salt but instead fled.
General Attitudes: Early in the war, there was widespread, albeit often unfounded, fear among the Russian aristocracy that the serfs would rise up and join the French against their masters, which is reflected in the tensions at the Bolkonsky estate.
However, this "welcoming" is not depicted as patriotic support, but as a complex, chaotic response by the peasantry to their own harsh living conditions and the upheaval of war.
1:53:00 Meritocracy > monarchy/caste system
1:54:00 King Solomon died an idolater.
1:57:00 Book of Samuel
1:58:00 English kings were better behaved towards their subjects after the regicide of Charles I.
2:00:00 Gulf Kingdoms and William Tyndale
2:02:00 Patriot Act
Half of Jewry are secular.
2:03:00 Israel is an American colony.
2:04:00 Dubai
2:06:00 Self-sacrifice and leadership
The spirit of the law
2:10:00 Charles III does not enjoy First Amendment rights.
2:12:00 Gravitation
2:15:00 Peaceful resolution
2:16:00 Afghanistan
The 2001 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, officially titled Operation Enduring Freedom, was driven by immediate security imperatives and broader long-term geopolitical strategies.
Primary Geopolitical Reasons
Dismantling Terrorist Networks: The immediate trigger was the September 11 attacks. The U.S. sought to destroy al-Qaeda and eliminate its safe haven in Afghanistan, which was provided by the Taliban government.
Regime Change for Strategic Denial: By toppling the Taliban, the U.S. aimed to replace a hostile "pariah state" with a pro-Western democratic government that would deny future sanctuary to extremists and stabilize Central Asia.
Regional Influence and Containment: Afghanistan served as a vital strategic base to monitor and check the influence of regional rivals, including Russia, China, and Iran.
Energy Security and Transit Routes: Influence in Afghanistan was seen as instrumental for accessing energy-rich Central Asian markets. The U.S. supported projects like the TAPI pipeline (Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India) to transport resources to world markets while bypassing Russian and Iranian territory.
Eurasian Connectivity: Its location at the crossroads of Central, South, and West Asia provided a "vantage point" for military and commercial operations across the Eurasian landmass.
Key Strategic Objectives
Capture of Leadership: Finding and neutralizing Osama bin Laden.
State-Building: Establishing a democratic Afghan state to serve as a long-term regional ally.
Nuclear Control: Maintaining a presence in a region populated by nuclear-armed or nuclear-aspiring states (Russia, China, Pakistan, India, and Iran).
Collective Defense: Activating NATO's Article 5 for the first time, reinforcing the alliance's relevance in the post-Cold War era.
3:45 Westerners are having an identity crisis because they do not have a functioning moral system. They do not have a functioning moral system because Christianity has no principles and has inferior scripture not even from Jesus, let alone God.
4:00 Muslims think Christians are guilty of the unforgivable sin of associating partners with God but are too cowardly to say so, isn't that right, Khalid?
14:00 How is the Trinity rational?
17:00 Sounds like Adam and Eve were equally culpable and that Adam is easily led. Imagine a man being so easily led by his own rib!
17:15 So Adam was more rational than his rib? Then why did he do exactly what his rib told him?
17:45 Doesn't it take two to tango?
18:00 While the Koran treats unmarried parents as sex offenders with quran.com/24/2, what does the New Testament say about unmarried parents?
19:00 What does the New Testament say about no-fault divorce?
20:00 A man gets to tell a woman what to do if he protects and provides for her.
20:30 The law does not support married fathers and Western men are too scared to campaign for a change in law.
22:00 How is the Trinity "practical reason"? Are you afraid to ask EMJ this question?
23:00 Under Secular Koranism, only prostitutes and married women deemed to have completed their families would have access to the pill. Obviously, the Iranian Republic should not be allowing unmarried women to have access to the pill.
31:00 So you actually allowed EMJ whose Catholicism tells him to worship an executed blasphemer to tell you that Islam is illogical with no pushback at all.
32:00 Again you allow EMJ to bamboozle you with no pushback. If you don't understand, tell him to explain, but no, you just want him to finish speaking so you can read your list of prepared questions.
35:00 You don't even understand his question, so it means EMJ gets to tell you Islam is illogical while you were too scared to ask him how it is rational for Christians to worship an executed blasphemer as the co-equal of Allah.
37:00 You have no idea what EMJ is on about, but you just want him to finish so you can start talking again.
39:00 What he accuses Jews of being, applies equally to Americans.
40:00 Rule of law by whom?
41:00 How was Adam's reason superior to Eve's when Adam just did as Eve suggested?!!!
45:00 Is EMJ really saying that but for Jews, gentiles would be too stupid to make porn?
52:00 Isn't the Trinity irrational? Still too afraid to ask EMJ the question.
54:00 Do Christians know that Christianity is idolatry? If not, why don't Jews and Muslims tell them?
55:00 Because EMJ was sacked as professor, he became a political activist campaigning against liberalism which he conflates with Jews.
59:00 Allah is the best of planners. You could have said that.
1:00:00 Whenever a Christian talks about free will, you should always ask him how it is allowing free will to burn heretics at the stake, but maybe you are too afraid of your Christian overlords to obey quran.com/18/4 which neatly explains why Muslims continue to be cursed by God.
1:04:00 If there is toxic masculinity, is there toxic femininity? If so, what is it?
1:08:00 Muslims fresh off the boat would be more supportive of the First Amendment than heritage Americans, but you don't even know what the First Amendment is, do you? And couldn't care less. That is why you will keep failing to persuade the Islamophobes who cannot imagine themselves ever being happy Muslim. In the meantime, you are too afraid of being seen to be promoting sharia by your Christian overlords and they will continue to ignore you for not understanding their detestation of brown people and their religion.
1:10:00 Muslims could fit in by saying that the First Amendment is supported by quran.com/2/256 but you don't even know what that is, do you? And couldn't care less.
1:14:00 Don't all the most powerful churches in the world - Catholic, Anglican and Orthodox - worship the Trinity? Don't these Christians have the principle of worshiping the Trinity which is considered by Muslims to be the unforgivable sin of associating partners with God?
1:16:00 Don't all the five world religions support marriage?
1:18:00 You could have asked EMJ if he thinks the Catholic Church also submits to the liberal order, like all the other churches, but you did not. Another lost opportunity.
1:19:00 Let it to be noted that Dejavu-yoo was asked many times by me in the live chat if he was Christian and he refused to say, presumably because Christianity has also failed him.
1:20:00 Is sharia this moral law binding on everyone? You could have asked EMJ that, but you did not, presumably because you are too afraid to say "sharia". Because Muslims are too frightened of being seen to be promoting sharia, I have to do it on their behalves with no acknowledgment or thanks, not that I am complaining.
1:24:00 Rabbi Mizrachi says Muslims are sent by God to punish Jews.
10:00 Brutus a racist white Hindu democrat spitefully tells his subscribers that I am being funded by Muslim Brotherhood.
11:00 Unlike the petulant and delinquent POS Brutus, I am open to being challenged and explaining myself as well as above making false accusations against those who do not agree with me.
12:00 Brutus lacks even the self-awareness to see that he himself metes out the behaviour he is complaining about being a victim of.
13:00 The small-minded British nationalist who cannot discuss ideas or engage in civil discourse unable to resist the urge to make false accusations
Liberalism is the ideology of people who value liberty.
15:00 Sharia is more liberal than the Noahide laws because it supports the First Amendment with quran.com/2/256
17:00 Jews remain in existence because of Judaism.
18:00 Brutus who studied philosophy is too intellectually dishonest as well as Islamophobic to discuss the nature and purpose of religion.
19:00 Low quality intellect and masculinity of British ethno-nationalists
20:00 Brutus is so intellectually intimidated by me that he won't even allow me to post under his videos even after I appeared as a guest on his show last Sunday, stayed till the end and said goodbye nicely to everyone.
21:00 Tharium at least understands that US foreign policy is currently incompatible with the British national interest.
22:00 Brutus does not seem to know that European leaders are gutless Eurotrash who take orders from the American military industrial security complex and seems to think that Britain still has an independent foreign policy.
Nationalism should be defined as government in the national interest.
23:00 Ethno-nationalists - even those who studied philosophy at university like Brutus - behave like uneducated nincompoops unable to discuss ideas without having a meltdown
24:00 Europeans are second class white people.
25:00 White men are despised by white women for their risk-averse femininity as well as for moaning and whinging like helpless women.
26:00 Western philosophy is mostly stupid shit not even worth learning.
27:00 Choosing the best religion for your group
Why Christianity is kaput
28:00 Why Christendom ended in 1918
29:00 If Christian imperialism has failed, why would Christian nationalism succeed?
30:00 Secular Koranism with American Characteristics
31:00 Sharia supports the First Amendment with quran.com/2/256
Sam Tideman the Unitarian Christian complaining about Trinitarian Christians treating him like a "demon-possessed" heretic.
33:00 AI and SK would implement American Islamic Imperial Reformation to restore the patriarchy in the West.
34:00 The chasm between reality and the lies Westerners are expected to believe undermines their mental health
35:00 Spirituality cannot exist without having convictions based on Truth, Logic and Morality.
37:00 Brutus and the moronic hate-filled supporters of ethno-nationalism are incapable of either winning the argument or understanding their own history ie race cannot be their religion as history has proven
Puritan churches as a distinct movement are extinct, but their legacy lives on through descendant denominations. The Puritans were not a formal church but a reform movement within the Church of England, seeking to "purify" it of Catholic practices. After the English Restoration in 1660 and the Act of Uniformity 1662, most Puritan clergy were expelled from the Church of England and became nonconformists.
Today, direct descendants of Puritan congregations include:
Congregationalist Churches, which inherited the Puritan principle of local church autonomy (self-governance).
Presbyterian Churches, especially in the United States and Scotland, which uphold the Westminster Confession of Faith adopted by the Puritan-led Westminster Assembly.
United Church of Christ (UCC), formed by the merger of many Congregationalist churches in the 20th century.
Unitarian Universalist (UU) churches, which trace their roots to early New England Puritan congregations that later rejected the doctrine of the Trinity.
Additionally, Puritan theological values—such as a focus on personal faith, biblical authority, and moral rigor—strongly influenced the rise of modern evangelicalism, including movements led by figures like John Piper and Tim Keller.
While the historical Puritan movement ended by the mid-18th century, their spiritual and ecclesiastical DNA persists in multiple Christian traditions today.
36:00 Jews and Muslims codifying Judaism and Islam has been very useful to humanity.
37:00 The Trinity of Secular Koranism: Truth, Logic and Morality
38:00 The Secular Koranist is supposed to be honest, reasonable and decent ie not an antisemitic and Islamophobic racist sex offender.
39:00 Muslim beliefs
40:00 Smug Sam Tideman
42:00 Unitarian Christianity
43:00 Eucharist and Communion
44:00 Cannibals
45:00 George Washington
46:00 Thomas Jefferson
47:00 The Jefferson Bible and the Red Letter Bible
48:00 The Wild West
49:00 Atheists understand the need for law.
50:00 Marriage
51:00 Sodomy and pederasty in Rome
52:00 Using religion to frighten men of fighting age and women of child-bearing age to become and remain responsible married parents
53:00 Islamophobes keep not understanding the unanswerable case for sharia or the sharia lite of Secular Koranism.
54:00 Verbal diarrhea from narcissists and attention seekers
55:00 Holy orgies
56:00 Stoicism < Jihad
58:00 AA and Auron MacIntyre
1:01:00 Dugin's Fourth Political Theory
1:02:00 The logic of believing in the Abrahamic God and the afterlife
When Neal said "deconstruction", he meant "rejection".
11:40 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#2
Quoting the New Testament to non-Christians is not going to impress non-Christians.
11:41 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#2
Discussing politics is the best way of expressing your beliefs and defending them.
11:42 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#2
Neal was saying he declined to discuss politics because he felt it was unprofitable. Is that the right attitude?
11:43 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#2
Wow, these counsellors are really toxic.
11:45 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#2
The government could easily decide for us what we should believe, because that is what it does anyway!
11:46 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#2
Mark Parker does at least declare his colours which is useful.
11:46 AM
@scott9309
#1
The government can impose but we can choose to resist
11:46 AM
@YawnGod
@OfficialSecularKoranism Don't forget that the government gives everyone the first amendment to believe what they want 🤔
11:47 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#2
Isn't the American republic government for the people by the people?
11:47 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#2
Are you saying people deserve the government they get, Chris?
11:48 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#2
The difference between religion and politics is a distinction without a difference.
11:49 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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I have been disabled from commenting on Neal's video.
11:50 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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I think people confuse what is right in principle with what it is likely to be achieved in practice.
11:50 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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Trump is an alpha male leader which directly threatens the matriarchy.
11:53 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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Neal is capable of being an alpha male leader but he prefers to be a Sunday school teacher.
11:53 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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You don't want to look at the problem because you don't want the solution.
11:54 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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The proper role for men is risk-taking, leaving the role of risk-aversion for women. Women hate men for muscling in on female territory.
11:55 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#2
Neal is not prepared to let me post comments on his video, let alone have a dialogue with me on a livestream. It appears you are the better man, Chris!
11:57 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#2
Neal was basically saying he did not trust me or himself to have a dialogue with me though he presented it as not trusting me enough. Am I known for being a liar who talks nonsense?
11:57 AM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#2
I am so outraged that your marriage counsellor was encouraging you to divorce your wife!
12:09 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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Is Olson saying marriage is absurd?
12:10 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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Isn't nihilism not being a responsible married parent?
12:10 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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Hasn't Christianity failed Westerners again and again and again by any measurement?
12:11 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
#2
So Olson is saying he just *chooses* to believe?
12:11 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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Is Olson at all concerned that Jews and Muslims think Christianity is idolatry?
12:12 PM
@chrishoward8473
Yes, believing does involve choices
12:14 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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How would ANYONE know that Christianity is "the path to salvation" unless they have died Christian and gone to heaven and noticed no non-Christians there??!!
12:15 PM
@chrishoward8473
Abraham is there.
12:16 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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All that Scott can say is that it *feels* like the path to salvation to me because I'm not Jewish or Muslim.
12:19 PM
@OfficialSecularKoranism
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Christians are not supposed to understand the Trinity. In fact, they were not supposed to question it.
12:54 PM
@chrishoward8473
Job also took on a priestly role for his family. (which was not condemned) Which may be a sign that he was trying to stay on God's good side?
1:08 PM
@Jzepp
Laying down your life day by day by serving is a kind of martyrdom.
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59:00 CLAIRE KHAW joins to propose blaming the government and God for our suffering.
1:00:00 Isaiah 45:7 says God created good and evil.
1:01:00 Convictions are necessary to act correctly and firmly.
1:03:00 Sticking to our principles
1:08:00 Marriage counsellor asked husband if he is considering divorce.
1:09:00 Samaritans
1:10:00 Mental health assessment
1:11:00 Confirmation, affirmation and organised action
1:12:00 Status and sacrifice
Operant conditioning
1:13:00 Social media platforms
Group therapy
1:14:00 An omniscient God
1:15:00 Religion is a group survival strategy.
1:16:00 Written revelation
1:17:00 Pharaoh
1:18:00 Akhnaten
1:19:00 Abraham and Isaac
1:21:00 Adam and Eve
1:22:00 Emunah and Bitachon
1:23:00 Spinoza
1:24:00 YOLO
1:25:00 Penitence
1:26:00 Job
1:32:00 All desire is suffering.
1:33:00 God and Satan talking about Job
1:34:00 Ecclesiastes
1:36:00 Death
1:37:00 This examination hall of life
1:40:00 Consider the lilies.
1:41:00 Has God a personalised curriculum for all of us?
The Torah and Koran are supposed to be the directly revealed Word of God.
Jews are supposed to believe that the Torah was handed to Moses on Mount Sinai witnessed by 2 or 3 million Jews watching below.
Christians and Muslims wishing to remain Christian or Muslim cannot deny the Torah as divine revelation because Christian scripture incorporates the Torah and Muslims say the Koran is better than the Torah because the former is the final revelation from God. This means that they accept that the Torah was a prior revelation to the Koran.
Don't you get it that God was supposed to have caused the Big Bang if you believe in the Abrahamic God?
52:00 Australia, Canada and New Zealand are British territories.
GROK:
Britain maintains its own nuclear deterrent through the Trident program, which consists of Vanguard-class submarines equipped with Trident II D5 missiles. These missiles carry British-designed and manufactured nuclear warheads, but the missiles themselves are leased from a common pool shared with the United States and maintained at facilities in the US.
The system is designed to ensure continuous at-sea deterrence, with at least one submarine always on patrol.
Operationally, the UK has full independence to launch its nuclear weapons. Only the British Prime Minister can authorize a launch, and there is no technical or legal requirement for US approval or involvement in the decision-making process.
The command chain is entirely under UK control, and the submarines operate autonomously once deployed. This means Britain could, in theory, initiate a nuclear strike unilaterally if the Prime Minister deems it necessary, without needing permission from the US or any other entity.However, this independence has limitations due to deep technical and logistical interdependence with the US:Technical reliance: The Trident missiles are American-made, and the UK depends on US support for missile maintenance, spare parts, software, and targeting systems (including GPS for navigation).
While the UK could launch existing missiles without immediate US input, sustained operations or replacements would be challenging without ongoing American cooperation. Some experts argue the US could indirectly disable the system by withholding support or denying access to critical technologies like GPS.
Political and strategic factors: The UK's nuclear forces are assigned to NATO, and any use would likely occur in coordination with allies, including the US.
It's considered highly unlikely that Britain would launch independently in practice, as doing so could strain alliances or lack strategic rationale without US backing.
Historical agreements, such as the 1958 Mutual Defence Agreement, facilitate close collaboration but do not grant the US veto power over launches.
In summary, while Britain can technically launch its nuclear missiles and start a nuclear conflict without US approval, the program's heavy reliance on American technology and the geopolitical context make true long-term independence debatable. Alternatives like developing a fully domestic system would be prohibitively expensive and time-consuming.
59:00 StreamYard
1:01:00 Israel as a testing ground for the latest weaponry
8:00 Why is there more than one kind of liberalism ie "Classical Liberalism" and the other kind you find so objectionable? Isn't "Classical Liberalism" just Conservatism? What are the principles of Conservatism? They are all uncodified which is why they are not fit for purpose.
8:05 Liberals value liberty. Eventually, it will lead to sexual liberation from marriage and good parenting. It was liberalism that let in feminism, which operates by bribing men with cheap extramarital sex causing widespread illegitimacy and widespread degeneracy.
8:15:00 Are you really so sure Europe was such a harmonious and peaceful place when it was overwhelmingly white and Christian?
8:30 Samuel Pepys was already complaining about foreigners way back in the Restoration.
8:45 Liberalism would inevitably lead to sexual liberation and the idea that we should be free to think of ourselves as members of the opposite sex if that is how we feel.
11:00 It's not so much about foreigners hating white men. White women hate white men.
12:30 You were always being invaded and settled eg the Roman and Norman Conquest. Ancient indigenous Britons are now mostly in Cornwall and Wales. The majority are Teutons ie Saxons who were Germanic tribes civilised by the Roman Empire. Being of the same racial stock did not stop the Saxons from killing each other in two World Wars, did it? The fact that George V and the Kaiser of Germany were first cousins did not stop their countries going to war. Nicholas II was refused asylum by his cousin George which ended in the extermination of the entire Royal Family. Let's face it: blood is not thicker than water as far as European royal families are concerned. Christianity whose purpose was to defend the divine right of kings failed in this function again and again and again.
Fortunately, there exists something much better to replace kaput Christo-Liberalism.
16:00 To be fair, Britain did declare war on Germany twice in WW1 and WW2.
21:00 People are indeed tribal and want to join the most powerful group that will further their own individual interests.
26:00 Reject the right/left classification.
26:30 It's gang-joining.
27:00 Catholics tend to be Anglophobes.
28:00 The Reformation was an accident waiting to happen.
29:00 The founding of America was based on the idea of a proposition nation and a constitutional republic rejecting absolute monarchy. That was why the church had to be separated from the state.
30:00 I'm not anti-American. In fact, I talk almost exclusively to Americans these days.
32:00 There is also a hierarchy of religions and political ideologies.
33:00 The rest of the West can negotiate a better deal for themselves.
34:00 I'm thinking clearly. Neither Russia nor China are interested in taking over the West.
35:00 Christians talk about Original Sin, Jews talk about the Evil Inclination. Freud talked about the id, ego and superego.
40:00 The French Revolution promoted liberalism too, didn't it?
41:00 The social contract is a legal fiction.
42:00 Absolute monarchy is now extinct in the West. You want to bring it back?
43:00 The Koran supports capital and corporal punishment in principle where the interests of justice require it.
47:00 What is "Modern Conservatism"? Do you mean Cameronian Conservatism? It was David Cameron who pushed gay marriage up the sphincter of Britain, was it not?
47:30 Classical Liberalism cannot be fixed.
49:00 Who decides what is or isn't liberalism?
54:00 What did you study at university?
59:00 The Koran does not command the reader to love his or her neighbour. It does however set parameters of charity and hospitality.
Christian Nationalism is updated White Nationalism.
16:00 What is the TLC?
17:00 Political conversation
18:00 What are we supposed to be discussing?
"Emerging community ... evolution of consciousness ... identity ... group formation ... ancient technological mediums ... church discipline ... Sincerity culture is collectivist culture.
Honour and shame culture ... "
20:00 True believer and free rider?
"Authenticity culture"
Blah blah
I am removed.
34:00 "At some point, we have to join something."
37:00 Secular Koranism
39:00 Claire Khaw
43:00 SCOTT speaks.
55:00 PETER RENE NICHOLS discusses the family and the individual.
58:00 "Marriage only works if you can't leave."
59:00 Legacy, community, absolute truth
1:01:00 Disciplined pruning
1:13:00 SCOTT speaks.
1:14:00 PNR speaks against "toxic openness" and neologisms.
1:16:00 Paul talks about judiciously curating.
1:17:00 "A curated reality" means a censored reality?
59:00 Hectoring Helene who hates me because she has already heard of Secular Koranism has hysterics after making the host mute himself. https://t.co/PPcULOnfff
Woodstock is widely regarded as a pivotal cultural and social event that marked a profound shift in American society, often likened to a transformative awakening. Held in August 1969 on a dairy farm in Bethel, New York, the festival brought together nearly half a million people, most under thirty, during a time of intense national turmoil marked by the Vietnam War, civil rights struggles, and widespread anti-establishment sentiment.
It emerged as a powerful symbol of the 1960s counterculture, embodying ideals of peace, love, personal freedom, and political pacifism.
The event was not merely a music festival but a manifestation of a generation’s collective yearning for change, fostering a sense of unity and shared purpose among attendees.
As concert promoter Michael Lang described, the experience was life-changing, transforming strangers into a "huge extended family" bound by common values and resilience in the face of adversity.
The iconic performance of Jimi Hendrix’s rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner" on the final morning of the festival became a defining moment, channeling both the nation’s chaos and its hope, and symbolizing a new consciousness about the possibility of a better world.
The subsequent release of the Academy Award-winning documentary Woodstock in 1970 amplified its legacy, turning it into a cultural icon that influenced future generations and helped legitimize youth culture as a driving force in social and commercial life.
While some critics dismissed it as disorganized or morally irresponsible, the event’s enduring impact is evident in its lasting influence on movements for environmentalism, social justice, and grassroots activism.
As one observer noted, the spirit of Woodstock continues to resonate in modern political milestones, such as the election of the first African-American president, which some have referred to as a "Woodstock moment".
Thus, Woodstock stands as a defining moment of cultural awakening, representing a pivotal handoff between generations and a profound assertion of the power of collective hope and change.
The Province of Georgia, founded by James Oglethorpe in 1732, was intended as a philanthropic "buffer colony" and haven for England's debtors and "worthy poor," allowing them to work off debts and find a fresh start, unlike typical penal colonies, with an initial ban on slavery and large land grants to create yeoman farmers. However, this vision failed; the colony struggled, slavery was legalized by 1751, and Georgia quickly developed into a plantation economy, but the initial concept was a unique attempt at a rehabilitative society rather than just a prison settlement.
Key Aspects of the Georgia Experiment:
Founder's Vision: James Oglethorpe, inspired by prison reform efforts, wanted to create a colony for debtors and the poor, offering rehabilitation through work and land ownership.
"Buffer" Colony: Strategically, Georgia was also meant to protect the Carolinas from Spanish Florida.
Initial Restrictions: The charter banned slavery and large land holdings, favoring small farms and a society of sturdy farmers.
Failure of the Vision: The restrictive rules, including the slavery ban, led to economic hardship and discontent, with the colony soon becoming reliant on slave labor.
Shift to Royal Colony: The Trustees eventually surrendered their charter, and Georgia became a royal colony in 1752, fully embracing the plantation system and slavery, which was legalized in 1751.
In essence, Georgia was planned with penal reform in mind but quickly transformed, failing to become the idealistic debtor's colony Oglethorpe envisioned, though it remains a distinct chapter in colonial history.
4:00 The Halfway Covenant lowered standards of religiosity to keep bums on pews.
5:00 The Reformation
Sola Gratia
AI OVERVIEW:
Sola gratia (Latin for "grace alone") is a core Protestant principle from the Reformation, meaning salvation is a free gift from God, unearned by human works, merit, or effort, received solely through God's unmerited favor (grace) and Christ's sacrifice, emphasizing that God initiates and completes salvation. It's one of the "Five Solas", (Sola Fide, Solus Christus, Sola Scriptura, Soli Deo Gloria) and highlights salvation as entirely God's work, not a human achievement, though different traditions interpret the human role in responding to that grace.
Key aspects of Sola Gratia
Unmerited favor: God saves people not because they are good or deserve it, but out of His own love and mercy.
God's work alone: Salvation is accomplished entirely by God, from beginning to end, with no contribution from sinful humanity.
Contrast to earning: It rejects the idea that people can earn salvation through good deeds or religious rituals.
Connection to other Solas: It's intrinsically linked to Sola Fide (faith alone) and Solus Christus (Christ alone), as faith in Christ is the means by which God's grace is received.
Biblical basis: Key verses include Ephesians 2:8-9, "For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast".
Different perspectives
Reformed/Lutheran: Strong emphasis on God's sovereignty in salvation (monergism).
Arminian (e.g., Methodist): Believe God gives "prevenient grace" to enable everyone to respond in faith, but salvation is still by grace alone, not human merit.
Prevenient Grace
Prevenient grace is a Christian theological concept for God's grace that comes before conversion, universally given to all people to counteract the effects of sin, enabling them to respond freely to God's call to salvation, but not forcing them. It's often called "enabling grace" or "preventing grace," allowing individuals to overcome total depravity enough to make a choice for faith, a key doctrine in Wesleyan-Arminian traditions that contrasts with Calvinist "irresistible grace".
Key aspects of prevenient grace:
Universal: God extends this grace to everyone, not just the elect.
Enabling: It restores a degree of free will, making a response to God possible, though not guaranteed.
Precedes conversion: It's the initial work of the Holy Spirit that prepares the heart to hear and receive the gospel.
Resistible: Unlike saving grace, it can be rejected by human free will.
Biblical basis: Often linked to John 1:9 ("true light that gives light to everyone") and John 12:32 ("draw all people to myself").
In different traditions:
Wesleyan-Arminianism: A cornerstone, allowing for genuine free will in salvation.
Catholicism: A similar idea exists, with Augustine developing the concept, and it's part of Catholic theology.
Eastern Orthodoxy: Also holds a similar concept.
Reformed/Calvinism: While affirming God's initiative (common grace), the doctrine of irresistible grace offers a different explanation for how God overcomes depravity.
22:00 Catholics were not part of the Great Awakening.
Catholics did not join the Protestant-dominated Great Awakening; it was primarily a revival within Protestant denominations (Anglican, Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian), emphasizing personal, emotional faith, which stood apart from and often clashed with the hierarchical Catholic Church and its existing European renewal movements, though the Awakening's focus on personal piety influenced broader religious thought.
Key Points:
Protestant Movement: The Great Awakening was a movement among Protestants in the British colonies, focusing on evangelicalism, individual conversion, and a direct relationship with God, challenging established churches.
Catholic Context: The Catholic Church had its own renewal, the Catholic Reformation (Counter-Reformation), centuries earlier, with its own distinct doctrines and structure.
Religious Divide: The Awakening intensified religious divides; it was a Protestant phenomenon that generally excluded Catholics, who faced significant anti-Catholic sentiment in the colonies.
Focus on Personal Faith: While Catholics valued personal devotion, the Awakening's democratic, emotional approach to faith contrasted with Catholic traditions, though some individual Catholics might have found aspects appealing, they weren't part of the movement itself.
In essence, the Great Awakening was a major Protestant revival that reshaped American Protestantism, while Catholicism remained a distinct, often marginalized, religious group in the colonies at that time.
In Act 4, Scene 1, after abandoning Athens and retreating to the woods, a misanthropic Timon delivers a furious soliloquy cursing the city. He desires the utter breakdown of all social structures and morality.
The key lines related to "degree" are:
"Instruction, manners, mysteries, and trades,
Degrees, observances, customs, and laws,
Decline to your confounding contraries,
And let confusion live!"
Timon is calling for the destruction of all social hierarchies ("degrees") and laws that govern human interaction, wishing for total chaos and the collapse of civilization as he knows it.
Later, in Act 5, Scene 1, when addressing the Senators who come to find him, he uses "degree" again when telling them about his tree where men can hang themselves:
"Tell Athens, in the sequence of degree,
From high to low throughout, that whoso please
To stop affliction, let him take his haste,
Come hither, ere my tree hath felt the axe,
And hang himself."
Here, "degree" refers to the social ranks of the people of Athens, from the highest to the lowest. Timon is so embittered that his only gift to the city is a place for everyone, regardless of their social standing, to end their lives.
39:00 Mortgage
40:00 The hijackers got hijacked, the bandits got robbed by the bankers.
