"A lot of religions were called The Way." Suddenly that Ugandan Knuckles meme from 2018 makes a lot of sense 😂

@thefool1086

Ай бұрын

"I know da way"

@Mr._Anderpson

25 күн бұрын

Mmm salad, muh bruddah.

@perniciousseizurehellio3438

24 күн бұрын

fun fact sharia translates to the way

I see Rudyard I click Rudyard

@Celestial1000

Ай бұрын

Pause

"Say it together class: Spit out that desert poison!" - Varg probably

I'm declaring war on the axial age

@intelligencecube6752

20 күн бұрын

I’m just imagining some guy screaming at Socrates while he’s in a toga on his death bed 😂

@jorden9821

15 күн бұрын

Whatever, Nietzsche...

@yonathanrakau1783

12 күн бұрын

​@@jorden9821God is dead

I've grown to absolutely love this channel and history in general!

@dabtheprotegee8219

Ай бұрын

Me too

@NikasInParis_777

29 күн бұрын

Every man loves history.

as a Buddhist who follows the early texts, i've done quite a study of northern ancient India at the time of the Buddha, it truly was a very interesting time in history.

@random_shit_online6104

29 күн бұрын

Can we discuss? Im a learner of history as well and am an Indian Hindu.

@WhatifAltHist

24 күн бұрын

Yes? Please say more

@ravenheartwraith

24 күн бұрын

@@WhatifAltHist There are a lot of interesting things, like the first female monastic organizations (first jain then buddhist), the whole time period of the brahmins and the samanas who were essentially a whole sub-culture of people who checked out of society to try to find a way to awakening in the wilderness. Jains and Buddhists came from that culture. There is a good book by a preeminent Buddhist scholar A.K Warder called "Indian Buddhism", you can find it free as a pdf, the first half or so of the book starts from very ancient times to the time of the Buddha and the time after.

Jeremiah and the Jewish prophets are also considered a part of the axial age. The Judeo Christian tradition is a development of the axial age age as well.

Look at that I made it early again, I can't wait for the "explaining English civ" after tonight's horrendous election results.

"Nukes Jets & Chips: How Global Enlightenments Happen".

9:43 Hmm, I didn't expect the Persian empire to look like that.

@TheMightyWalk

Ай бұрын

It doesn’t this is inaccurate

@Captaincapafew14

Ай бұрын

​@TheMightyWalk how about you expand on that instead of saying its wrong trust me bro

10 Interconnected Principles of the coming Axial Age 1. Be Authentic and honest about yourself (include your blessing as well as your warts and all) 2. Earth Life Is A School To Learn And Exercise Spiritual Principles in a very challenging environment (Earth School) and not for judgement 3. Love Everyone - Be Caring, Kind, Respectful and Forgiving towards Everyone Unconditionally including yourself and ALL Others 4. Find And Follow Your Divine Intuition or Inner Voice which blossoms from Joy and Love 5. Use Technological Advances Responsibly so that it is uplifting and fosters constructive development 6. Release Prejudice - Release all anger, fear, scorn and pain against any and all "other" entities you encounter in Earth School 7. The Power To Manifest is controlled by our thoughts and can create an environment and life full of gratitude, abundance and health (while we adhere to the 10 Principles) 8. Avoid Negative Influences and instead seek out Constructive influences 9. Everything (including divine or sub-optimal or selfish or "evil" choices) works together to provide free agency opportunities to grow in Earth School 10. We Are All One - How each of us chooses to act towards ourselves and the rest of us impacts (reflects back to) us - in heaven and earth there is only us or we and no "others" or them

@slappy8941

Ай бұрын

lol okay bro 😂😂😂

@MLK3forEver

Ай бұрын

@@slappy8941 check out the Near Death Experience of Vinney Tolman - that is is origin of these 10 principles

@legtendgav556

Ай бұрын

​@@slappy8941 Have some faith, they may be studying the teachings of Teob6799 the Wise for hundreds of years

@kkvv3699

23 күн бұрын

sounds woke af

@IamShambala

22 күн бұрын

@@kkvv3699 ​ @kkvv3699 FYI - Source is an NDE by Vinney Tolman. Who is to say it is not accurate?

Been waiting to hear about this subject for a long time.

Just the Ticket, young man. New sub to the new channel, big fan of Whatifalthist, too. Definitely don't always agree but always find them thought provoking. Many Thanks. 😀😀😀😀😀

"What I remember about the rise of the Empire is... is how quiet it was. During the waning hours of the Clone Wars, the 501st Legion was discreetly transferred back to Coruscant. It was a silent trip. We all knew what was about to happen, what we were about to do. Did we have any doubts? Any private, traitorous thoughts? Perhaps, but no one said a word. Not on the flight to Coruscant, not when Order 66 came down, and not when we marched into the Jedi Temple. Not a word." - Operation: Knightfall "Knightfall" - Star Wars Battlefront II (2005)

@bubble-wu6fi

Ай бұрын

Never stop! Don't let your dream be dreams!

@Maytrx

Ай бұрын

@@bubble-wu6fi I'd like Rudyard to live stream a play through of the game. It might take over 3 hours to play every mission but of course it need not be all in one go. You hear that Rudyard!? Would you kindly live stream your play through of Star Wars Battlefront II (2005)?

String Theory IS a religion - one wholly predicated upon mathematics, but repeatedly disproven whenever tested.

@mowgli5837

18 күн бұрын

The fact that you can mathematically prove 1=2, is also the reason why string theory exists 😂.

We would need more archaeology in Iran and Afghanistan to nail down when Zoroaster lived, but they're Iran and Afghanistan.

You’ve gotta read “The Origin of Consciousness in Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind” by Julian Jaynes.

EPILOGUE: This video was uploaded on July 4th, 2024, but it seems to have been recorded prior to June 27th (or at least in the daytime that Thursday) based on the initial conversation on the debate between Professor Lynch and Mr. Torenberg. President Biden's extremely poor performance in the aforementioned became the defining excuse for why the Democrats shoved him aside for another sick joke, his vice president, "Heels Up" Harris, last Sunday, July 21st.

lets goooo rud awesome video once again

Oh, I’ve been waiting for this one

Is there a way to have you on a podcast or chat

It's interesting that you mentioned it, I eventually became religious (I practice a polytheist religion) after being born into a non-religious household, flipped-flopped between agnostic/atheism, and studied in hardcore STEM for over 10 years. Like I'm doing a PhD in a STEM field right now. And I think science can co-exist with religion, as long as you don't believe in mythic literalism and make some other compromises which is something I think Abrahamic religions struggle with. Also people misunderstand what science is, it's not a belief system, it's just a list of simple steps to systematically study things. That's it. So you can use it to study the physical side of the universe, while religion is for the spiritual side of the universe.

@Thomas-rv1wi

Ай бұрын

I think the reason people compare science to a religion are midwits. They don't have the brain power to understand it so they treat it like a belief system instead.

@Mr._Anderpson

25 күн бұрын

I often recall Carl Sagan's warning in 'The Demon-Haunted World' about the impending danger of a time when people's lives are dominated by science & technology yet those people know next to nothing about either.

@Scott-if3ce

25 күн бұрын

@@Mr._Anderpson Yeah, I think we're living in a time where people are unironically dominated by science and technology. And from what I've observed, these people don't understand neither. It's like magic for them and as if it will somehow solve all their problems

I wish Rudyard had clarified what he meant when he referred to the Bible as a historical document. Many listeners, particularly if they come from religious areas of the US, will interpret that as "the Bible is a history book", which is the mistake which gives way to fundamentalism.

@jesse123185

16 күн бұрын

The Bible is a history book of sorts you just have to understand that in context of how history was done in the past. The way we do history now came about in the 20th century from the western world. Regardless this isn't what makes people fundamentalist

@Mr._Anderpson

16 күн бұрын

@@jesse123185 It certainly is. People read the stories, start counting back generations, & arrive at the conclusion the Earth is 6000 years old , virgins actually pop out babies, & other metaphors like the ascension which shouldn't be taken literally. I'm a fan of most aspects of Christianity, but I can't nod along to narratives like the Egyptian captivity & exodus being taken as history.

Very curious about ancient African history

Very interesting video Eduardo 👍

What’s wrong with the thumbnail

@user-ut3zf7gr2s

Ай бұрын

I don't know

@ethank.3201

Ай бұрын

I don’t know

@Midnight-siege04

Ай бұрын

I don't know

@arandomguest0089

Ай бұрын

I don't know

@luigiwithabeard98

Ай бұрын

I don't know

This video was very all over the place. Like to many incomplete thought going from one topic to another without much of a bridge just all over the place.

your amazing bro

I love your work Rudyard,. I always learn something. Can I request a video on the pre-coinage IOU system? That fascinates me, I can't think how that would work on a large scale

Have you been keeping up with John Vervaeke’s work on this topic?

Oh Lord, Rudy, what happened to your thumbnail bro? Edit: That's a bit better!

You should do a video about eastern mysticism to do the topic justice now 😅 also I think it would be a fun and exiting video

The iPhone charging sound kills me please stop it ❤❤

Its a great lie to say India 500 bc didn't have contact with other empires. The name Cambyses is a namesake of the Kambojas who the Buddhist converted during the reign of Cyrus. Cyrus is a namesake of the Indian Kurus who were aligned with the Kambojas. The archeologist Flinders Petrie unearthed an Indian Buddha at the Memphis Ptah temple dated to the time of Cambyses. The Indian Kurus married into the Gautamas as the name Codomannus ( Sans Gautaman, a variant of Gautama) is found in the family of Cyrus' (Kurus(

Confucius say: man with hole in pocket feel cocky all day ⚡️

very insightful

is there a Inca Empire vid?

While standardized coins were first invented by the Lydians, the oldest form of metal currency (i.e. coins) may be traced to mesopotomia some millenia before the axial age. Beyond this, Lydia was not a greek speaking area. At the time, Lydia was populated by Lydians who spoke the Lydian language which initself is as close to Greek as it is to Hindi (being in the anatolian sub-branch of the indo european languages). While it is true that greek colonies on the western coast of anatolia did, as with many other peoples, pay tribue to Lydia, it was certainly not the case that the Lydians were themselves Greek. Further your claim of a lack of coinage during this era in the region of the middle east is odd considering that the bulk of the coinage of this era was produced by the Achamenid (Persian) empire.

13:30 "If there is any religion that could cope with modern scientific needs it would be Buddhism" - Albert Einstein. Note that Buddha taught essentially the same social ethic as Jesus, without the metaphysics of Christianity.

@slappy8941

Ай бұрын

I'm fairly certain that Buddhism had an indirect influence on the moral attitudes that eventually became Christianity, considering that it was a mature philosophy long before.

7:30 is that why i have to bring/buy a coconut to mandir?

The problem with your idea of needing one god is that people were still polytheistic for another 700 years after this era.

Rudy!!!🥰

58:06 Mircea Eliade? I don't expect him to know how to pronounce Romanian names but this was painfully hard to decipher

These are good to listen to. Honestly, tho, the face cam seems a bit unnecessary. But that might just be me idk

The Silk Road. That is all.

sweet more please

I am not sure about your coin theory. The medians/persian had coinage since the 5th bc, Egypt since the 4th. We have lots of records from the Persian empire, it’s all Persian though, and ignored by classic studies.

Dang, man, I just read Bertrand Russell's history of western philosophy. Very good book!

@WhatifAltHist

Ай бұрын

I love that book

@aahz42

Ай бұрын

@@WhatifAltHist suggest - Will Durant's Story of Philosophy as well - also, 1491, 1493, and "What is History" by Carr

@aahz42

Ай бұрын

my favorite thing about Bertrand Russell was he just kept pounding in the Greek third of the book about the different focus on the number of things, whether it was 1 (Atomic), 2 (dualism), 3 or 4... it was just great how they bounced back and forth - and somehow it kept up somehow into the 1800s. I had a hard time with his view of all philosophers having to have slaves (he was an aristocrat) and him being so conservative (as in against democracy) but I kinda get it. The Christian book - the only thing I took from that was that his take on the Jewish contribution was minimal, whereas he takes Origen and Augustine as far more important. I think the third book reached its apex in its chapter on Locke and Hume, but I loved his take on Voltaire. I think Durant does a better job on those later philosophers. I also think Russell focused too much (pages and pages!!!) on logical symbolism - but at least he gives honest opinions that he is trying to say what he thinks other philosophers actually think and that he sometimes doesn't really get it all entirely.

I think you need to include second temple Judaism into this group of religions and philosophies

43:13. How does the old saying go? "There is nothing new under the sun."

How can you claim that these people from 500 BC were the foundation for the Abrahamic religions? Abraham himself lived in 2000 BC and Moses was like 1300 BC. I guess you can claim it influenced Christianity and Islam. But pretty much the entire Old Testament was before the axial age

@mountainmanmike1014

19 күн бұрын

Moses and Abraham are not real people they are mythological figures. ask a rabbi they will tell you.

Trad Chad with a big Dad.

Rudyards religious cope is hard to sit through sometimes

@Mr._Anderpson

25 күн бұрын

Just another symptom of a society in decline. Religion is one of the first branches we reach for when the free-fall begins.

You should commission an artist to draw anime girls for your thumbnails. People love those damn animes

35:00 Funny, I used to think Plato was a brilliant philosopher and came to the opposite conclusion with time. The more I learn about Plato's philosophy, the less I respect it and those who abide by it

Rupert Sheldrake. Morphic resonance

(Nitpick) Dates with all maps, plz.

Why tuff you keep saying the asian socities didn't had good documentations. Just coz they are not in western libraries ? 😂

europe and the middle east in 400 bc? what

“Greater Israel”

@slappy8941

Ай бұрын

"America has always been part of Israel."

Tbh I think this video would better fit Whatifalthist channel than this one

"middle east didnt have a market economy" LOL!!!

"middle east didnt have coinage" Wrrong! The Persian Achaemenid Empire had coins ~ 500 BC

I don't understand why Judaism doesn't count as axial age

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Wasn't there already morality in ancient Greek mythology before the Axial Age? You sacrificed goats and cows to the gods, sure, but you also had to resist hubris, being a bad host or guest, and lead a good, heroic life to reach Elysium. Those that broke the laws of morality were punished like Tantalus, those that acted in accordance to the moral codes were rewarded. Sounds like a religious moral system to me.

12 minutes in, there are a lot of unsupportable generalities being thrown about and it's clear the speaker isn't very familiar with what he's talking about- no "market economy" in "the middle east"- does he just mean coin based economies? Because "market economy" typically refers to something else. The commentary on religion as well, the idea of societies "progressing faster than their religions" is silly. The idea that somehow "machinery" would be a problem for Christianity because the Bible happens to use a lot of agricultural metaphors? It's not like Christianity is a thriving world religion today or anything. The speaker doesn't seem to be very familiar with religious thought at all, except as charicature.

@thedoor3511

15 күн бұрын

Ah jeez, just hit "communism is a religion". I'm out lmao

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@dan8910100

Ай бұрын

🍪

247 views in 30 minutes? Bro fell off

@ritaupadhya3139

Ай бұрын

Shut up

I love your videos but please work on the thumbnail

@MrGrim-yr8sg

Ай бұрын

LMFAO

@CulusMagnus

Ай бұрын

Lol, why are you concerned about his thumbnail? Anything other than clickbait is unworthy of your cursor?

@ilya.m2005

Ай бұрын

Nah it’s great

@michaelstoop1844

Ай бұрын

Thumbnail is perfectly adequate

@TheMightyWalk

Ай бұрын

This video isn’t even accurate history

South India was tribal nah mate maybe you need to learn lot about India 😅

religious relativism is the worst take Rudyard has. Hopefully he comes to realize that being "spiritual" is pagan BS

There’s only one true solution to this, and that’s to return to Christianity ✝️☦️ CHRISTOS ANESTI 🕊️

@skeletalforce9673

19 күн бұрын

alithos anesti!

@yonathanrakau1783

12 күн бұрын

Some churches are literally woke heaven. It's disgusting

The first rule of Orphism is, you do not talk about Orphism. Second rule of Orphism, you DO NOT talk about Orphism

I love this channel but bro make better thumbnails you can get so much more attention

Fix the thumbnail

That intro conversation aged poorly XD, its what I honestly expected as well but we definitely live in the most absurd times

@notsocrates9529

Ай бұрын

What a myopic way of thinking. I hate that phrase, "aged good/bad".

We need a new post axial religion.

Sharia law for europe!

@notsocrates9529

Ай бұрын

Username checks out.

@Markovka137

Ай бұрын

Are you high?

@Thomas-rv1wi

Ай бұрын

Spit out that desert poison.

@jerrywatt6813

Ай бұрын

The Religion of peace 😊