Absolutely

Indeed .

Are you his publisher you scoundrel

Rent first sex

exactly

Phrases that delight and inspire. The Books are no different. Imagine 8,000 pages of such vibrant language, that's History of Civilization In a rhythm that breaks up the dross of Medern Life. All in Spectacular Vernacular. Accessible to ANY reader/listener, even babes.

modern entertainment has turned documentaries of witch trials into a bedtime story...yesterdays real horrors becomes today's creature comforts...beam me the fuck up Scotty.

Il

Durant was a giant. He enriched my life beyond measure through his book on Philosophy.

Then you obviously haven't been paying attention. Media = PROVEN LIARS

This is my reason I gave up tv years ago. 😉

@@baddoopey You don't get it!!! Media = Printing, Visual, Audio of 'ALL' information. You were trained to think of only the TV when the word "media" is used. Have you ever done any RESEARCH on the very word itself? You can start your search via the Merivingian Dynasty. It's FACINATING ------- and then you start AWAKEN!!! Listen: The 'information' you have stored --- how much of it haven't you experienced? 'Science' declares that about 96% of it is 2nd hand. 🤔 Critical thinking is required. . . a concept completely neglected even when I was in school back in the 60's & 70's. Just 6 corporations control 96% of the data your brain collects. Savvy yet? Are you sure you ever have? Beginning 6 years ago, I myself was oblivious to everything I just told you, but not anymore!!! There's actual REASON(s) why life is the way it is, and just because it's all historic doesn't mean that same "life" is now immune to them. Precedent LAW = CONTRACT That's the top of the authority food chain in any courtroom worldwide---- they're NEVER broken. "Paysuer Trust" = Contract LAW Research is your friend. . . if you don't use, Google. 😊 Really 'think' about it.

@@whatsyurprob158 take it easy

Ferran colom( alias ersmus of rotterdam) 😎

Me too. Lol

Me too!

Me three!

Same

I have been told that the Anabaptist were violently oppressed by Luther for their heresy. The oppressed become the oppressors.

Interesting! How fun

Catholics and Protestants 😕

An equally good question to be asked is: why are there are so few upvotes? Durant's history of Civilization is recognized as a classic and as you point out this excerpt is beautifully read. At this time there are 194,650 views and only 1.5K viewers saw fit to upvote. That is less than 1%

@@mhorram that's about average for YT

Leighton Pugh.

Grover Gardner

Gardner was the absolute best, imo

Ggggggggggggggggu.ou U. D

The Bin or the book? Remember dangling participles, comrade...

@@davideldred.campingwilder6481 Was it a trash bin or a sales bin? 'Cause either will work? If it was a trash bin then that is sad, and really gross because dude says he hasn't put it down since. And if it's a sales bin then I say EPIC FIND.

It never actually ends

@Oflunra Zeuqram That's correct if the working class achieves dominance then it becomes the ruling class and will soon start oppressing others.

There's nothing older than a new idea.

@@tommyodonovan3883 who said that, its priceless.

@@shannonm.townsend1232 I first heard it from the GOATThomas Sowell.

Both Catholics and Protestants are guilty of the many persecutions, bloodsheds that happened during the Dark Ages ( 5-15th cent C.E.) The Spanish Inquisition played a vital role to annihilate all those who have religious beliefs contrary to the teachings of their church.

I had interesting conversation with friend who's been living in Germany for 10 years now. His biggest fascination with Germans is that they never(at least publicly) see themselves as best nation-contrary to every other nation in the world. He sees reasoning of that in fact that they lost 2 big wars, and been punished heavily for that. I'd add they managed alternative ways to accomplish something they wanted without war. Point is, they work hard, but they are biggest EU economy for good reason. Sooner or later, work for feudals or work for state, will payoff. It allready did.

@@aleksandarcvetkovic5436 Jeezus .. four years ago and I was probably high too.. My point was that workers, lower class, proletariat today, whatever you call them, are taxed to the gills. State takes about third of your wages right off the top even before you get your paycheck and then you are taxed for every monetary transaction you make, unless you make transactions illegally and then you end up in jail if caught... The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. Gore Vidal

Interesting thought

I have a perspective that brings the beauty of faith to the athiest. I would love to tell you about it sometime. God is Good (καλός). Nothing more, nothing less.

@@DurantandFriends Lay it on me.

I'll try in a comment, but it may be tough@@asoulist4829. Knowing that the Idea (ἰδέα) of the Good (καλός) came from Ancient Greece and that it sharpened the conception of monotheism (the way we understand it by all Abrahamic religions) my suggestion to you would be to 'understand' (emphasis added) the beauty of the sacred texts. Minimize your skepticism without sacrificing reason. Try and steelman every position with the goal of extracting the wisdom. Make sure you do this exercise (as if you were writing the text yourself) from the perspective of different people at different times throughout the last 2k years. Become equally familiar with Homer and Plato (leave Aristotle out for now), and you will see a new beauty of lineage that dates back to Babylonia. Don't take the Garden of Eden as literal, unless you can understand that a metaphor, if used correctly (which it rarely is), would be through the eyes of her/his creator (humans just like us). Once you have this pedigree of context, the next thing that you need to do is cultivate the four virtues; prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance. If those heuristics are not easy to imagine, try imagining what the perfect man would do in any situation. Then, that little voice (your own personal narration) of reasoned thought is what the religious founders call the holy spirit. Kinda beautiful that they would elevate something that atheists like you and I would describe as simple existence. The takeaway that I want to leave you with is not so that you change your opinion but so that you widen your knowledge of where this stuff came from and the underlying wisdom. Wisdom (by definition) is independent from evil, badness, or sin. Loving wisdom makes you a king. A Philosopher King.

Peasants War. Against The Peasants Revolt. 😎😇💒

Law and Order! Cruelty Well Used. Jesse The Prince Of Peace! Apostolic Anabaptist Communism. Real Pacifict! Religious Tolerance! Radical heretics! 😇🤗🤔

Spoken like someone with knowledge an inch deep on the subject

Calvin has a whole video to him on the site.

@@MrResearcher122 What a beauiful speaking voice.

sands listen to him reading Phillip K. Dick's novels- a great combination!

No need Calvin quoted Augustine more than 4100 times.

Here's the link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jbB7fdGU0pa5hJs.html Here are Durant's concluding remarks on John Calvin: "... but we shall always find it hard to love the man who darkened the human soul with the most absurd and blasphemous conception of God in all the long and honored history of nonsense."

@pete haskell The worst thing being that so few expect any better, and fewer still know any better. Imagine asking who Ariel was and they were both widely known and respected. They co-wrote the 11 volumes for God's sake, the general public saw them acclaimed and interviewed on television and they were read as a result. Not all, but one's of interest was not unusual and comfortably discussed at dinner tables, parties and places of business.

Fair play, I read first 3 all good stuff.

@@okra7648 I'm half way done with one of them

it depends which ones, come back after you have done the 'story of India' 9+ hours and 'the lessons of history' 3+ hours, my last two videos. I found the first one incomplete (nowhere close as accurate as Nehru's 60 hours of Indian history) and highly biased and the latter interspersed with brief moments of almost transcendent thinking but in general very inconsistent and never expressing a philosophical line of his own for more than a sentence or short paragraph often later to contradict himself. He is more of a thinking historian than a philosopher pro zionism and communism. I will not even bother to listen to his "the jews", which is surely a fable. For accurate history, people should read Solzhenitsyn '200 years together'.

Voice actor Grover Gardner reads them, Rocky C is just uploads them.

i am both disgusted and insulted by that church or rather cult of that era

@@studiobencivengamarcusbenc5272 I agree with the cult aspect. But not with your plagiarism

@@DurantandFriends not Leighton Pugh?

Listen to his readings of Phillip K. Sick, they're very entertaining!

Grover Gardner

@@DurantandFriends Much appreciated my guy :)

Im sure everyone's feet have odor ! You sure are a genius aren't you?

Grover Gardner.

Youngster Vonavitch

Grover Gardner

I can do better than that and offend them all at the same time.

No world history is all-encompassing. Its good for a birds view for then being able to study any era you choose, but there is no definitive one

Certain religions, but not true Christianity.

@@johnbrowne3950 then true Christianity is symbolic and rarely practiced

@@davyroger3773 True Christianity is rarely practiced, but it is true. Unfortunately not everyone who claims to be Christian is Christian. They just have religion, not saving faith.

@@johnbrowne3950 Most Christians dont even know what Discipleship is, nor do they know what it means to be a Disciple.

Rocky C if you have any videos about any composers. plzz upload them

It makes sense given Nietzsche's apparent anti-Jewish rhetoric.

@@stolapkt1 He was a Jew himself, so him speaking from a psychiatric standpoint about people he knows should be paid attention to. Though one may disagree with his conclusions, of course - as long as one doesn't call him a crypto-nazi because it's the easy thing to do.

Nietzsche is highly overrated, Read Betrand Russels sections on Nietzsche and you'll find them equally as scathing.

I should have commentary on Frederick Nietzsche so much disdain for the so-called slave mentality of judeo Christian morality and yet Joan of Arc had more will in a pinky then he in his entire body

I see shades of something like a ripple in the space around me - it comes and goes but yes - I think you are there.

Hey moron, audiobooks are for everyone. Including the vision impaired.

Idiot!

Yeah not for editing players or changing them

"Communism" was used to describe many ideologies before Marx. It was often applied to any ideology of a Commune.

@@jackshaftoe7241 the word wasn't in existence before the 1700's. There's no sense using it in this context except to make suggestions that are historically anachronistic.

I'd heard the word used in the 1700's. I hadn't realised it was so recent (not that the idea is necessarily as recent as the cliché goes: "There is nothing new under the sun.")

Epicurus was a "communist": he lived in a commune.

Commonality was the usual in human history. Private property was hardly considered, as usually rich nobles could have all property seized by the sovereign (Niall Ferguson). And this was pre Hegelian, which elevated "communism" to a state responsibilty, or so Marx thought.

Western Civilization can go to hell with the Catholic Church, so long as he have the pure gospel recovered by the Reformation.

a billion Catholics cant be wrong . Are you one of the 40000 versions of the protestasnt reformation . Are you right and the other 39999 wrong ? Do you trash the other 39999 ? Do you lump all the Catholics with the abomination presently at the Vatican ? Im sure that makes you feel very superior.

Your connection to Marx is spot on. But extend further and this help explain Fascist Germany and Spain.

Interpreting history through the prism of Marx is a recipe for a contaminated worldview.

He couldn't stand the competition

@@-dash many prisms is better

Amen.

Gods will come for me you wait and see I am dude preese no oh! Chat on dah

@norhetoric1 You clearly don't understand God's word which governs all matters, history, historians, language, souls, ...for His glory. When a person or organization is contrary to God and His word they need to repent and believe God for His plan. Again, I refer you back to the main purpose of all life, Is. 43:7

@norhetoric1 this was the mind set of the Roman gov't., the Catholic church of the Reformers, Nazi Germany, Communism, and rebellious western culture. you don't agree with them get rid of them. This is how you deal with God's truth, with those you don't agree with?

@norhetoric1 and you are god so you can declare truth.

@norhetoric1 and who decides what reason determines truth?

@norhetoric1 Exactly my point, you or Socrates or some man are gods deciding truth, right and wrong. Main problem with that is your wrong, some times, all the time, but never knowing when you are, even when you think you're right so never knowing; labile truth changes with man (you, Socrates, ...), no standard that's absolute. You see this is the "proof", yes "proof" of God that you can't have, He is always right, true, just, holy, pure, you and all other god's are not. (Rom. 3:23) You, just as Socrates, will pass away and all your beliefs about what is a "myth" and what is true but God's word was before creation and will continue after this creation is destroyed. Try this truth out that your Socrates nor any other religion, or belief system can't come close, "love your enemies" ,"for a friend some would die" and some would dye on the battle field for their buddies, a fire fighter would die to save the child in a burning building, a classmate might die for fellow class mates in a school shooting, who would you die ? "your enemy", sound foolish, no it's the height of love for you, you are an enemy of God. Take a look at another historical example of dying for ones enemy besides Jesus Christ, Derk Willems: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Willems God of Creation is the only One who can radically change billions of people from a life of degradation like drunks, wife beaters, bums, prostitutes, profane, criminals, drug addicts, murders, ...into productive, pleasant, respectful, courteous, helpful, servants, that serve man and God for His glory. There is no, not one, not any belief system, philosophy, science, religion, god, social or political justice ideology that comes remotely close to the transformation that Christianity has had on billions for the improvement of all of culture. Don't give me that meger argument of exceptions of those who called themselves Christians that did horrible things, I can call my self a woman, that doesn't make me one, so too are most of those who claim Christianity and have done horrible things it's not because a Christian did a horrible thing, they were horrible people calling themselves a Christian, but it was a dilusion, just like you have that you can claim some kind of truth. So give me your greatest "truth" that all mankind can live by. Give me an example of greater love, give me power to do it as well, give me peace, hope, joy, power, that overcomes death, give me life that's victory no matter circumstance for now and gives life eternal. You give me this and I'll consider your "truth" if not go back to your worthless "Socratising", this is the myth, that you or any man has anything to offer man or God. You are dead in your sins and the "proof" of it is you're going to die, and w/o the Only Savior, you'll be held accountable for your pride, arrogance, deception, living a myth, rejecting God and His Savior; that's that three letter word that sinners hate, "sin".

Pardon?

I will highly recomended to find M. Bertrand Rusaull The History of Philosophy.

Is the latin mass not banned by mainstream Catholicism??? Another schism in Christianity methinks....

You mean the rosary with pagan prayer beads and vain repetition? The church that prays to dead people and kneels to idols? The church that puts more emphasis on Mary than Jesus? That church?

@@tonykerins2352 no

@@johnbrowne3950 as far as I understand it, it's a centering prayer used to contemplate the life of Jesus from the viewpoint of His mother. If I just follow the sequence of prayers, that's where I end up. And that also seems to be what is intended. The so called mysteries provide the theme of the rosary being prayed - a looking glass to illuminate specific parts of Jesus' life, if you will. The rosary is about Jesus. If you disagree, you might want to look into how that prayer is actually held together. P.S.: it was also a chance for laymen, that hadn't any access to the book of psalms at home, to have something like the prayers the monks used to and still do. So maybe that gives a bit of a historical perspective.

yes you are made to be a sheeple wether pagan or christian