I'm a simple man. I see Eric, I watch.

narrative storytelling ...sounds like simulation theory to me

I like Eric but on Joe Rogan, his TDS was a bit too much.

So, if Eric wasn't such a coward (imagine Zlatans personality) he would not have the need for pubkic therapy by proxy e.g, podcasts to get closure. Interesting to listen too, thanks😊

If it's Eric or Bret, I'm in....

Hahaha

Solid hilarity right there

An old joke, much circulated, not Harvard.

​@@aquachonk just take the joke!

lol

You're an animal. Congrats

Congrats buddy I’m three days in

5 years sober off of heroin I now ride a motorcycle and am happy.

Congrats man!! You got the power!!

Congrats. I'm almost at 8 months which beats my old record by 7 months.

Seems to me the truly elite minds rarely if ever go into politics.

And Boeing airplanes are falling out of the sky.

Speaking of ethics, there's nothing ethical about the so-called justice system. There's no justice for the poor. The only people who can benefit from the laws are people who can afford lawyers. That means that there's nothing ethical about your profession... Unless you want to get in my tool belt and do something that really matters, helping me to build a more preferred future?

You want to talk about accountability and ethics? What is it you do with your specializations that hopefully doesn't make you a hypocrite?

@@DrBrainTicklerlolol

This is a respectable conversation you hardly ever hear .

I follow Chris and can tell you, this man in any interview I’ve seen is like this with everyone. He’s amazing and well versed in many subjects. If he isn’t he does his research or asks questions in a way to find the answers that maybe he couldn’t before. I find many of the conversations he has is interesting even if I don’t know much about the topics 🙌🏼 ❤️

Yeah this was the best I've seen Eric. He's usually quite frustrating to listen to. Lots of word salad and empty pontifications. This was much more enjoyable.

How so ? Jk 😊

@@frankcooke1692he is known to be very smart and very involved in deep shit. He is a great philosopher that struggles to dumb down his speech

I would beg to differ. I really enjoy the way Lex gets him to open up get along.

I was thinking the same thing. He seems to really enjoy showing him how smart he is. They have great chemistry.

I don't think Eric it fleshed it out here, the way he has in other interviews. My understanding is, they shut him down, not because he did a poor job on his argument, but because they didn't like the subject. They do not believe it speaks well of physics to indulge in what they consider to be the fantastic…? (this is my, very poor interpretation of what occurred.)

@@likwidsun2303 String theory is a religion and the gatekeepers it's zealots, my take.

​@@likwidsun2303 Eric did receive his PhD from Harvard. They didn't shut him down by not giving him the degree. I think it's important to listen to what he said about the two faces of Harvard to understand why they handled it like that.

Physics is a pseudoscience.

@@knowahnosenothing4862 Most of what we discuss right now in physics is religion. Quantum this, teleportation that, worm holes, spacetime, all of it is a belief held by people who can't bigger picture.

lol

Yeah, even though this is slightly watered down wisdom. There is a lack of existential intelligence and a hint of a myopic tendency.

right…

please, stop with the fawning 🤦🏼

@@TheLuminousOne since i posted that comment,i i have decided im not really a fan

Maybe, they have found the key and send everyone who could replicate the work, off into String Theory so that only they have the power? Jeffery was just keeping Tabs on who what working on what so that " they" would know who was getting close and needed a nudge " funding" away from discovery ?

Yup. It’s very simple.

I agree. Karl Marx was quite prescient in the predictions he made. But his proscriptions were monstrously wrong. Marxism & subsequent extensions to his philosophy is vile in every way. Being implemented as a form of governance has always led to catastrophic amounts of death, misery, bleak arrested development, dysfunction, & ultimate societal collapse This being stated & out of the way, his prescient predictions included that bourgeois capitalism is such an efficient powerful system of innovation that it would ultimate reduce industrial manufacturing processes would ultimately be reduced to information which has no cost. They will be able to manufacture goods so cheaply & abundantly that the price of their products would fall so low that they wouldn't be able to afford to pay their employees which render the masses with no money to pay for their practically free products. The economic model of bourgeois capitalism would collapse ending it as a viable system. Thus it would lead to its own demise However, the owner class would not go quietly into the night. This is because they never were truly interested in manufacturing products more efficiently to be more competitive to make a profit. It was the profits with the power that they brought to this class that was most important. It was even more important than the vast luxury & material comfort there wealth brought. They would never willingly give up this power, doing whatever were required to retain it. To move beyond the old economics of scarcity into a new era of abundance, the workers would have to engage in a violent revolution to overthrow the owner class & seize control of the means of production After deposing the owner class, & whatever means of governance & police enforcement that supported them, they would then set up a dictatorship of the proletariat which entailed establishing an absolute dictatorship by seizing all power & nihilistically murdering anyone who could possibly challenge them Next they would begin carrying out the communist revolution by removing all remnants of the old bourgeois order. This is when communism would become violent in a pathologically sick manner, becoming much more bloody & genocidal than what had already occurred during the workers revolution & the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat I don't see how it would be possible for a better more "just" & "equal" system to emerge with people being selfless to the point of voluntarily sharing all material wealth equally from such a morally depraved violent system that does not value individual freedom, individual life, or objective truth at all Up until recently I didn't think that Marx's prediction that the owner class would never willingly give up power was correct because I didn't like the idea of engaging in a violent overthrow of the government & bourgeois capitalism that I thought would be unnecessary. I still don't like the idea of engaging in violence & am willing to avoid doing so until the point of being violently attacked or being enslaved by having all rights & property stripped away with no possible way out in order to avoid such enslavement. You can be assured that such enslavement would quickly be followed by the slaughter of a large percentage of the enslaved population If we were to survive the end bourgeois capitalism & any attempt of the owner class holding on to power then the ensuing era would become interesting. Let's say that cheap limitless fusion energy & virtually full industrial automation led to the end of scarcity & bourgeois capitalism. We would then have an economics of abundance that would no longer require never ending increases in growth & consumption of resources in order to keep the economy healthy & providing employment & growth opportunity for most people. This would usher in the opportunity of ushering in a steady state economy that would require consuming an ever increasing amount of resources. TBC, growth in production would be achieved by becoming ever more efficient using the same amount of resources. With limitless cheap energy we could recycle much of our resources. We would still need to consume new resources but not an ever increasing amount of them. With the advances we could make in material science coupled with limitless energy we could minimize the amount of environmental damage incurred obtaining whatever new natural resources that would be necessary each year. TBC, in a steady state economy the amount new natural resources need each year would remain constant. We would also be able to afford mining near earth asteroids to obtain rare elements There would be a few serious social issues that would need to be overcome. How would this post bourgeois capitalist system be structured. I believe that we would need to make it as free & decentralized as possible. If we turned to centralized power, to implement such a new economy we would be assured that such power would end up crushing the individual, most of mankind, all freedom, human thriving & happiness. Perhaps it would crush humanity all together. We need to return to a liberal that provides true freedom as intended & has done so quite during various past eras. But it would do so much better than before avoiding the known mistakes & limitations of the past. How this could be achieved one could only speculate on at this time The other problem would be what to do with all of the unemployable people who would no longer be needed in the workforce to create abundance. An open ended BMI system will never be sustainable in the long run. Possibly BMI for life could be provided in exchange for reproductive sterility. Only people who earned a living by working would be allowed to reproduce. This would provide a one time massive reduction in Earth's human population over the course of a single generation. Be repulsed by it if you wish but it wouldn't involve such massive unwanted death & much less misery than what the monstrous course that our current global elite seem to have embarked on by culling the population through disease, poisoning by way of vaccines, possibly mass starvation by invoking artificial famine, economic collapse by restricting total energy use, & quite possibly the outright slaughter of populations. This would also involve depriving everyone of all freedom. This future of early death & misery that these monsters in the global elite & governing class have planned for us must be avoided by all means. It is vile, disgusting, inhuman,, & unnecessary for humankind to survive well into the indefinite future. It would probably be less likely to achieve its goals than if were to quickly go full steam ahead freeing people to work in groups among others as they wish & to engage in free discourse sharing information freely to maximize innovation & with system incentive guiding us on as straight forward of a course as possible towards developing cheap limitless energy & virtual industrial manufacturing automation to arrive at abundance, environmental sustainability, & a permanent greatly reduced risk of groups going to war with each other by no longer needing to fight over reduced resources

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"The worlds biggest mass murders come out of Harvard University"

Academia needs to be regulated. Sounds weird but the lack of regulation gave birth to critical race theory and DEI.

​@@FazeParticlesI'm sure the regulators hate the easy votes.

I suspect they don’t seek approval from strangers online

Sex with animals, I swear it that a foreign lady I internet-dated admitted to me that his father had done it, I was so shocked, the Adams Family.

The world never did make sense.

Well, that's only if they are allowed to be heard. In our current social atmosphere, especially here on antisocial media, the rebel geniuses have no voice and aren't allowed to work so they are slowly being murdered by destroying their health through sabotaging their ability to socialize and make money. The experiment you're mentioning does not scale.

And this no longer naturally takes place…

​@@shanejones578 careful with using absolutes

@@TheHandThatWipes3406 oh believe me, I’ve been trying 24 years now you think I’m one of these spineless cowards?

Really!!? That explains a LOT BUT Also gives me hope

I've seen a lot of people give Elon Musk crap for doing this same thing when going back-n-forth in conversation. Simple people just blurt out crap and don't understand why other people pause and think before speaking.

lmfaooo

It actually just shows that they have gone through media training, and are very careful about what & how they present to the unknown audience.

Like being civil...

@@Joey-bj5lq And forgetting that we are autonomous thinking individuals, not piles of sh!ts. They don’t understand anthropology at all.

Like taking moral and Ethical values for granted. Sure shot recipe for decaying civilization.

civilization is human domestication not a good thing, ever

@@Joey-bj5lq If we go by history... it was never really civil. LOL

I was mesmerized too by the obscure language in the first hour, and then Eric started playing the blues and I felt like i found my soul brother.

This is how I felt precisely

When I recently heard him - I was like this is one of the smartest person I've ever heard - glad he is not afraid to speak up - against some very dumb violent people

Almost hypnotic!!

​@@shannamcdonough9588he makes me feel smart and then very dumb again, especially when he says stuff like the 42:17 that goes over my head.

That's probably true but you should also acknowledge that the smartest people of every era have always been oppressed, sabotage, economically terrorized and ostracized to the fringes of society, usually dying alone in their early to mid-40s... The smartest people alive currently, you don't even know who they are.

Yes, I agree. He's brilliant and original, and yet so full of humility.

Jiddu Krishnamurti ☝️🙏

Well then, I am the healthiest unhealthy person within this Romanesque dumpster fire emulation.

“When you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors - When you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don't protect you against them, but protect them against you - When you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice - You may know that your society is doomed." Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

Most affirmative action went to white women.

People are NOT getting this as a whole, and there is a 99.99% chance my comment is ghosted or erased, but>> This Warfare with woke, DEI, gender pronouns, open boarders and all this other stuff is there to BRING DOWN our institutions and our trust as subversion & demoralization programs run rampant in the west, mainly America. We may see the U.S implode and split, which is the GOAL of international Oligarchs/Corps.

I don't agree with DEI. BUT, People are celebrating the glorious dismantlement of "DEI" at Harvard, but there doesn't seem to be any "DEI" actually being dismantled. Seems like the only tangible impact is the further chilling of political speech critical of Israel This is what actually happening. The people fighting for free speech became the first ones to silence it. Both the right and the left are frauds. One thing is clear: Don't criticize Israel in America.

All according to plan

Yup.

Yeah, some people can waffle on for a long time.

My first time listening to this podcast. Eric is brilliant.

Sounds like a charlatan to me. I know his cv. But seriously. On other episodes he thinks physicists should work to exit this planet wtf. And all the cheerleaders... I mean all these comments. What a joke. He expresses a couple good thoughts.. e.g. bashing modern acedemia and weak majors, string theory, etc. However I must say, he says what he wants and doesn't seem to worry about upsetting people.

lol! Eric is arrogant beyond belief. I have seen him for a few years. He always thinks he’s the smartest person in the room. At some point in every podcast he interrupts the person whose podcast he is on to tell him let me tell you what you’re trying to say or let me tell you why you’re right for the wrong reasons etc. etc. He thinks he’s the smartest person in the room, brilliant, while at the same time thinking he is equally aggrieved & victimized. I’ll take his brother Brett any day of the week and twice on Sundays over Eric!

We fight the good fight. I want someone that says all the sensible stuff without all the wacky stuff.

@@user-ze8zo5uv2s Bravo! That is some first-class sarcasm, my friend. It’s a dying art, but I love when people know how to use it effectively!

He’s so clever and I love his wise eyes…what colour are they? I bet green

God bless you all.

Jesus said no one comes before God except me , why do catholics pray to deities such as mother Mary, Peter, etc. That, to me, is non Christian do you not have fear for your soul . Lord be with you .

He’s humble in many ways yet so incredibly arrogant as well.

​@@josephlebard2061 they do not pray to them they pray for their intercession. There is a difference. Think of it like asking a friend who works at city hall to talk to the Mayor for you.

I and many others have noticed these tendencies of his but am very surprised at how few see it and how many just buy into his "genius" at face value. I like the general ideas this guy brings up but he comes off as such a conceited "I know things neither you nor anyone else knows" narcissist that I can hardly stand listening to him. Mr. Weinstein: Stop pausing for dramatic effect so much as if we're just hanging on every word you say. You're not the smartest, richest, wisest, sexiest, most educated, most interesting or most accomplished person who's been on this podcast. Also, many of his sentences are just empty and lacking in genuine content. He simply hints at possible things, gives cryptic responses, or just babbles incoherently. Yes, he makes some interesting points but a lot of it is incoherent rambling and, I'll chance a guess, confabulation. Again Mr. Weinsein: You're just one of many who may have some interesting perspectives and ideas to present but that's it. Just say what you mean, give your honest opinion without all the theatricality, and have a real, genuine conversation.

Nah, it's so pretentious from both... made me uncomfortable way too many times watching this podcast. Still it was great show.

@@andrejm77 You’re way too used to noises. Silence & clear words let alone clear thoughts will help you.

@@antirealist when exactly did he claim those things you mentioned? are you basing all that on the fact that he makes long pauses?

​@@antirealistOn what did you base your conclusion that he acts this out and it is not genuine? Do you know him personally?

I concur

He's incredible, I could listen to him for hours and hours (and in fact just did haha)

He is great! He does need a dose of his brother. Brett is better at explaining things to dummies like me

He's great but he would be even better if he hadn't spent SO much time in academia. He's become unable to speak in a way that isn't condescending.

He's full of shit. But definitely interesting to listen. I can't believe he's still banging on about his theory about the CPI being fixed. He had a friend and economist on his own podcast who explained to him why he was wrong about it. And he's acting like that conversation never happened

It's wonderful

It’s really amazing. I dump on social media a lot but it also gives us such great convos like this

Exact same tune that came to mind. Great conversation indeed.

Too bad is tearfully lonely couldn’t reach out and keep each other company…. There’s a lot of us….

Garcia (and Hunter) would have loved this conversation

There isn't going to be any wake-up call. DEI nonsense is just a reflection of two underlying population-level philosophical beliefs: Collectivism vs Individualism.

Yeah, and by listening to this guy, you are actually listening to the hypocrites running this show and these theatrical companies

@@imaginalex5850 where in the fuck did you pull that stance from?

Character is everything.

So I assume you're also against legacy admissions in colleges and nepotism within the workplace, correct?

Had me in the first half, not gonna lie.

I would say it got better in a linear progression.

thought it would be put me to sleep, half way through and i’m getting coffee

Edward Witten would disagree, and he's a genius.

@@doglifehub But he would be too polite and soft spoken to even mention it.

Hurts real good though yeah. Almost like one of JBPs many comments when he's failing to hold back the tears. Realize real life.

Because everything you have been taught about the world, was a deception. The secular reality is very compelling and alarming. But it’s a diversion from truth.

None of us are sane anymore. Why is our society and government like this? Why won't we all together stand up and shout "ENOUGH OF THIS!"

You live in a fantasy, snap out of it!

@@doesntno Our leaders have deliberately created a hell world, an inverted reality to enslave us in delusion so they can destroy Western freedoms and rule over us. It's about power and control.

today's spirituality is manifested in DEI which is basically christianity without the God. . .

Very moving . He is not an atheist, I could see God's Grace wash over him. Interesting.

This is the same guy who whines at elon about why his video with tucker carlson isn’t trending 😂😂😂 ya’ll sheep

Finding the TRUE God of creation requires removing yourself from all distractions and that includes music which plays on the emotions and feelings of man. God communes with those who seek his wisdom and knowledge ABOUT who he really is thru the mind and thru the wisdom hidden within the words that seriously falable men tried to put in writing. Those that seek these writings long enough eventually find the hidden truth within all the distractions and hyperbole. Over the last 3k years that has been very few. As God calls them the "little flock". This truth has NEVER been mainstream nor known by the masses, intellects, scientists, religions, politicians, the Pope, the Kings, the universities, the monks, the Budah, etc. Only the very few that seek the TRUTH about God while knowing one must separate fact from mans fiction ever get close to understanding the cosmos and the true meaning to life and death.

I was starting to think it was just me: the silences, often times throughout this conversation, literally felt deafening. I had to check the video was still playing multiple times when they paused for so long: I wanted to know what they said next and… they were just thinking and it was really gripping. Ramble ramble - I liked your comment; happy days fellow travellers 🙏🙌☀️

Allows me time to process what was just said- much more easeful to listen to and allows more depth in the conversation and the listener

Two very intelligent humans interacting.

by design

the most crazy part is that they trusted it in the first place

@@user-ic1lo9wh5f exactly. Everything changes..and nothing is forever...Harvard? So thats one very small representaion of a huge country..and frankly Harvard doesnt understand anymore what really makes up this country. Im not of a place "of priveledge" but that doesnt mean I don't have the ability to think, reason and progress. Harvard....whatever...

You're still trusting someone like Weinstein then you're in for another rude awakening

It was all a lie. The central banks run our world

My gf pointed that out while listening over my shoulder. I think to some extent, it is Chris mirroring Eric

As a great interviewer should!​@@linkawaken

They turned me non-hetero.

Hahahaha 🤣

Agree!

Start listening to more long form podcasts. There’s really no way to explore the complexity and nuances of any serious topic in less than one hour

Chris Williamson is great and Randle is 100% correct. treat it like listening to someone fascinating at a party there is so much to think about and discuss in a calm long form interview dont let short form destroy your mind and brain chemistry

Yeah, Eric claiming nobody wants to listen to this must necessarily be relying on specific meanings of either the word 'listen' or 'wants'.

Everytime i hear a ad its like a knife stubbing my brain!

I love listening to Eric

@@BorrelaasEric is one of the more fascinating people I’ve ever listened to .. rare breed of person

Same in English but after people stopped using elaborate euphemisms for coitus and “having sex” became a common expression, making “sex” from a noun to a verb, typical Anglo-Saxon prudery meant “gender” became the euphemism for the noun “sex”, heretofore a word that never required euphemism. Women’s studies came out of literary departments, and adopted the linguistic term “gender” for the idea of socially constructed sex roles, which do comprise additional identities beyond binary sex itself, just as linguistic gender has neuter, and in some languages, more categories. This confusion allowed certain ideas to tunnel into public consciousness.

I find the word "GeschlechtsVerkehr" entirely too funny when transliterated: Gender Traffic 🤣

@@hypergraphic ..that is hilarious. Additionally I haven't "heard" that word in like 30 years :-)

@@zimzob Hah hah, I posted a video a while ago called "the academic appropriation of gender" inspired by this exact thought. I'm going to assume that I just met one of the 13 people who have watched it, rather than admit that maybe others have had the same thought. 😄

This is absolutely correct-gender is a grammatical term; however, look up a sociologist called John Money. He’s the one who developed the theory of “gender” in the 1950’s as a “social construct,” as behavior, as opposed to sex, which is obviously biology. If you look him up in Wikipedia you’ll find out a lot of very remarkable information, including what happened with twin boys, and how he interfered in their lives to encourage one to be raised as a girl and the other a boy. it did not end well- very sad actually.

I am very glad you watched this. 1993 you and all your peers shared this opinion. I wonder what you all may have done in that intervening 31 years to have kept this woke stupidity from happening.

Boston is in fact a dysfunctional city!

@@CdawgAMVsFilmEditing : Can you please expand on this statement a little bit more? "Education will become a waste of time at a traditional place of education". I can understand that AGI may kill traditional lectures, it might make studying certain subject to be obsolete, but how can it make education in general a waste of time?

​@@kimphilley621 the people that graduate from a University/Collage have no obligation to maintain that place after they are gone. Even if they wanted to, they have effectively no influence over it.

MIT alum, definitely disappointed in what's happened but nowhere near to the degree of Harvard.

I couldn't have said it better myself. Truly lovely comment. Thank you.

Me too, me too. I wish I had understood this earlier and dedicated my life to it. It's too late now, not enough years left and so many other time-consuming things to learn like, at the moment, Hebrew. So far, I see no candidates among my children and grandchildren to carry the torch on. My husband was a physicist but he was only very smart which isn't smart enough.

Easily the best comment on here! Like everyone here - COULD NOT AGREE MORE! well said! Thank you

I was thinking the same (similar as I cannot express myself so eloquently, English is my 3rd language). I live in a small town and it is very difficult for me to have an intellectual conversation with somebody. Most people I know shut me down very quickly and say "you think too much". And that is it. Thanks to KZfaq I can at least passively participate in interesting debates 😊

1:22:39: Creating spaces to freely discuss anything, in a sense these are symbolic spaces, indeed very necessary for a healthy society.

Thanks

Isn't it great when one sentence triggers everything to fall into place like dominoes? Very cool experience!

never give up!

Geometric unity. Instead, look into John Baez, Cohl Furey, the octonions, and the Klein quartic.

15:12 15:25 15:30 16:08

Yup- they lie to the masses. Welcome aboard

For sure! I can tell by your comment, and other comments there are many intelligent people viewing this.

@@justsayin3600 Appreciate. Grateful to be amongst other intelligent individuals such as yourself. 🙏🏼

A hallmark of Marxism.

Agree with him. Im sick of it

Far from it.

I mean... well... there's also Intelligence, know-how, awareness, alacrity, habit formation, blind spots, exhaustion, fatigue, fear (which is why we seek comfort), illness, **dishonesty**. There's a lot to it and it ain't easy.

@@hypno5690 cool

power

And what do you think the right thing is?

Chris knows a lot more than Eric and is probably the wiser of the two

They both are very knowledgeable but in different areas. It doesn't have to be a competition just suppose to be a conversation.

@@gregorypeterson9 Eric is obtuse and non-committal. Chris can be that way too. Neither brave enough to take a true stand like some brave others do, but at least willing to stick their necks out a little bit. Good on them.

I sometimes lose where Eric is going because of the way he talks about multiple perspectives at the same time. Chris is more explicit. I appreciate both.

All I see is him giving opanions.

I was going to make the same comment. I Really enjoyed this one.

Amen! The NO (which I attend regularly), is oriented around entertainment and the laity involvement. TLM is oriented around God, and when we have the proper orientation Mass becomes about us in the most profound way.

​@@TheGringoSaladoone wish I have is to have experienced The Church prior to Vatican II.

@@smeuchel you can. SSPX FSSP Institute of Christ the King, Benedictine Monastery.

I agree. Chris doesn't know about Vatican II and the shifting from the Latin mass to the local vernacular, including English.

@@jelink22 and how the mass changed from God oriented to laity oriented, which has had disastrous consequences.

This guy is so arrogant, he talks in riddles and circles also....

Maybe you're just not bright enough to understand@@meganmarie2173 🤷🏻‍♂

Because the majority of people have their every waking moment squandered or monopolized by work and various government requirements. People are consumed by the urgency of now.

I followed almost everything he said... Except when it came to sex and gender. Gender can be separated from sex, but then it also loses its grounding in principle. If gender is expression, then it is equally sensitive to cultural norms - eg Scottish skirts. But it isn't a skirt, it's a kilt. If it is just culturally presenting on the gendered style spectrum, then it is little more than personality and style, which is individual, not measurable in a meaningful way. And when it comes to sex, it's more about how the exception proves the rule. Sex is binary because we can discretely identify the exceptions. A car doesn't stop being a car just because 2 wheels fell off. But I also completely disagree with the mind/body incongruence argument. You can't be born in the wrong body because nobody chooses that, and the two develop inexorably from each other. If you are uncomfortable with being a man, the best you can do is present as a woman... That's something else... It's a fantasy. We all tell ourselves false stories to get through the day... But going so far as to not just picking a unique style to your own, but choosing the stereotype of the other is... Well... Something is not right.

You’re probably busy but care to share any interesting stories?

Please tell me how to have a conversation with a religious person about their beliefs they always just blabber nonsense.

@@captainbube1217 well it depends on who you talk to….. we’ll educated articulate AND religious people aren’t interested in talking with someone who’s openly hostile…. Think of it this way, Neil DeGrasse Tyson has said he won’t debate flat earthers…. Why because there is no convincing then…. It’s the same way with you, how can I tell? Because you said you’ve never had that conversation…. The zealots who think that it’s their job to convert everyone will spend the time talking to you but the other type of people don’t have time or patience to waste on you…. But have a an interesting conversation with someone and it brushes against belief it’s dependent ON YOU and how you talk about it…. Is it, oh yah big spaghetti monster judging blah blah blah…. And they’ll shut down and move on…. OR do you say something like I’ve never understood how some people can be religious and scientific? Am I missing a part of the human condition that has FAITH? Oh youre religious? How do you navigate those two seemingly (at least to me) contradictory views….. wow I don’t think I can’t view it that way but it’s fantastic that you can….. you saw it with Eric, he’s an atheist who prays…. He recognizes the importance of religion to the human condition…. He recognizes the beauty of the cathedrals and art sponsored by the church…. Sure know where they failed as organization but MAYBE don’t throw those points in religious peoples faces if you want to have an interesting conversation…. Cause they can throw the complete failure of the socialists ideology in yours…..

@@green1880 it’s hard but here’s something that Eric said that reminded me of a conversation around me when I was 11 in ‘91…. Just like Eric it was on a train except we were going from Lithuania to St Petersburg. And my grandfather spoke about how at fermi lab they’ll were using the particle collider to find out the deeper secrets of the universe…. And you have to understand that religion was considered to be the opiate of the masses in the USSR but there were people who still wanted to believe and Slavs AND Russians aren’t afraid to debate…. So they would say “but the Bible says god created the earth in a day” and my grandfather would say what is a day to something that is everlasting, that was always there before and will be after the last star burns out….. always with a kind voice and an understanding to skeptics but with the firm belief that wonderful balance that is our universe shows that something found beauty in making something that no matter how deep we dig there are reasons for why things work. Now this is happening in a crowded train car with people crowding the door to listen and participate and someone playing a guitar quietly in the next car some religious songs with people quietly singing (think like a round a campfire to songs you have the words on sheet in front of you but you really don’t know that well)…. I really miss my grandfather His name was Willie but I called him Pappa…… I (luckily) inherited some of his smarts but I lacked the discipline for higher education but I’m a veracious reader and I LUV PODCASTS!!! And I miss that I can’t debate string theory with him and get his opinions on dark matter and energy AND NOW DARK CHEMISTRY!!!!! His options on how dimensions work and wether or not things like Iowasca or DMT or mushrooms can bring you closer to god or something else? Or does your own mind choose which to allow in, the good or the bad? He might have antiquated ideas about such things but I know for a fact he’s be interested in the data coming out of those experiments! Well this might be not what you were hoping to hear but was nice to share a memory about my grandfather with someone and hopefully you found it mildly interesting….

@@jamesflowers7142 i am not openly hostile in any way, but religious people see it as hostile if you ask them simple questions about their beliefs. Questions like: „why would god by needed to explain any part of the universe or human condition?“ „How would you explain god to me?“ They will quote 5000 year old books as if its the undeniable truth, but no religious person can just answer the simplest questions about their faith or why i should consider them sane when they believe stuff that is not grounded in any phenomenon besides the human condition. If a rock falls down a cliff, how does god come into play there? What is the difference between a rock falling of a cliff and human evolving from a single celled organism based on the exact same physical phenomenon. I dont know what you are on about with the socialist stuff when all of my family members alive at the time of national socialism where in line with the party standards through memetic warfare of the SS AND in line with the religious memes they were TAUGHT by their elders. To my knowledge there is no human being that conceived the existence of god or the nonexistence of it through pure logically explainable deduction, it always comes down to whether they where biased by the opinions of some demagogue. I dont deny that religious institutions over the history of humanity build good things and fabulous cathedrals, my entires homecountrys heritage and any great building in my homecountry is informed by religious motive, None of that makes it any more logical or explains to me why these people believe in things they have no reason to believe. Ive talked with many intelligent religious people about their faith but they all cannot give me a single reason or even an explanation why they believe in anything besides their opinions of the world. But it still is their opinion and nothing else, but to claim that their opinion is divine truth is just straight insane. I am fully willing to be convinced of the existence of god or the logic of religion beyond as a bandaid of the human condition, but as you showed in your comment noone can even start to explain the usecase of religion beyond basic group dynamic and the human condition. Its all just gobbledygook that goes nowhere in the end.

😂😂😂😂 sure you are😂😂😂

How was your experience at Harvard?

college is college, beer bongs, girls, girls, books, and more girls.@@Rocket9944

The cops are left in the dark regarding those sorts of black SUV apprehensions.

It always has been. In the past, in the US, when there was segregation. One of the only 'Black' things 'White' people were exposed to was 'Black' music. Even in the 40s and 50s 'Black' music was very popular amongst a lot of white people. It literally was one of the bridges that built friendship and mutual respect between different people. Many people bonded over the same music, even if they were from different races or ethnicities.

Absolutely

It helps to hear it a few times to get into Eric's way of thinking. Every time I get some more out of each sentence.

It's called pilpul and it's not a good thing.

@@fenrifegads5571 not at all. Did you try to listen several times to him in a podcast?

@@Schachtens Why on earth would I want to listen to a J? Your rabbi would be ashamed of such weak pilpul, moshe. You can't just say "not at all" and have that be it. Do better.

have you had a chance to finish listening yet? I absolutely loved the last half.

@@nashole23 Not yet. I saved it. It's Sunday in Lent for me. Will give it a go for sure. I don't watch tv news at all. Mostly KZfaq or Rumble.

He should have just come out and say "They want to destroy humanity".

I think that just before that he answered the question of why Epstein was interested in physics.

@@mmerrydeath6673 well for sure, Epstein at least recognized there was something to gain from it. Really makes you think

@@condor-yz6bo I can't help but speculate that it means the people he worked for already know the answers to the questions they suppress.

@@mmerrydeath6673 I wouldn't say that because they would use it instead of hiding it. I think the physicist he was talking about holding back physics isn't nearly half as smart as Eric thinks he is.

You’re joking I hope

@@831Billysays the clown who has no argument whatsoever.

@@davemartino5997 I think you’re wrong there mate

I concur- he does know what he’s talking about. He’s in the ADD sweet spot

@@831BillySay your point then or don’t say anything