A super necessary and extremely timely discussion here. Really refreshing to hear your academic perspective from a Jewish Canadian such as yourself. Keep up the great work! My first video and can’t wait to dive into the others you have posted.

Great read-through. Regarding modernity’s dependence on foundationalist epistemologies (i.e. rationalism and empiricism), one wonders whether at bottom contemporary secular thinkers are not, like religious thinkers, also relying on some form of revelation: where do thoughts really come from, and can we rightly, definitively say *we* ultimately come up with the thoughts, ideas, concepts, and conclusions that undergird our human life?

Expecting it to be good as always.

Concerning the point about the origin of language. I think that you can believe that there is an intelligence in the whole and acknowledge a bottom up origin of language. In my view language has a musical origin, but it had taken advantage of arbitrary conventions to create abstract concepts that refer to something other than themselves. This is the emergence of reason. Beneath this, however, the world is not pure chaos since there are intrinsic ideas, and there is music.

@theonetruetim

9 ай бұрын

Chaos is. Music is a rebellion against what is. First (origin) language and such are easily traced. Not by the supposed "Hebrew" garbage narrative, tho. That is Dunning-Kruger and insecurity messin withco head.

My two cents: Politics means "adminsitration of the city", methaphisics means "beyound the physics" (that is material/observable matter). Since to manage a city you need ideas/principles, which are metaphysic by nature, then you already have the conclusion: politics IS methaphysic.

@bencarr8809

9 ай бұрын

any idea of man is a manefestation of an uncontrollable unconscious intelligence. Therefore all political ideas or any idea ever is of metaphysical origin.

@theonetruetim

9 ай бұрын

not what those things mean. But by all means continue being a sheep who considers perception superior to testable reality....

@spanellaful

7 ай бұрын

@@theonetruetim you did not put the subject in your sentence

This was a brilliant presentation. It is NOT true that the ultimate metaphysics of reality cannot be known. You mentioned Genesis... I would advise Seekers to start there, indeed.

How was this essay received by the professor? I'd imagine they would have contempt for your thoughts as it's outside the usual liberal academia.

@millerman

9 ай бұрын

Received with contempt

contract vs compulsion

Hum, why no Hesiod?

Intro question: Yes, & Yes!! (u know the answers be) & then u help those who don't see or hear (metaphysically/politically-speaking) get there. I assume... I haven't watched the video thru - but per last vid i watched from u, I'm sold. I can't imagine you will go on to excuse the perpetuation of corrupted history, Reason, and Function per zionism, after i het play, again... (i wonder if u read "Genesis" in the ORIGINAL Greek? A corruption of Truth lay in the Masseteric theft. Hebrew in Alexander's day was 9k words strong... Back translate Septuagint from it's original Greek into Hebrew... Can NOT be done.) But we all damn well know Kant pretty much nailed this. If the variable u use to calculate your politics/metaphysics are assumed in error, then u gotta adjust, after better info is presented. "Jewish" means nothing moral. It is childishness, lies, identity-politicking, and worse. Nothing real. Nothing going back further than 280 BC, and Christians and Muslims are downstream of that self entitled lie of an impetus. Taint no damn good. Know them by their... Metaphysics are not opinion. And that is the problem we face. Glad u are toiling away at this. Liberalism = if that means private property & pluralism - I'm for it. We gotta deal with what works and demonstrate it. NOT coerce people to leave well enough alone for the sake of a corrupted status quo. (Hellenic jealousy is what ironically comes to be called Judaism. Monotheism was NOT a "Hebrew" thing. NO "Hebrews" existed before Alexander. This is not a secret. Somehow.... the general populous still assumes otherwise... wonder why....) Pythagorean, Platonic Demiurge and Egyptian theodicy. ology, etc are what & where this comes from. Don't trace it to the thieves and whiny babies who control the narrative to an eschatological end & our terminal Human detriment. (piss on u and call it rain. We Jews love to be pissed on. What a gift the Law of Lies are!!) Covenant of Israel...gtfoh. Humans are humans. When they pretend morality is based on a lie - of course Liberty and Truth lovers HATE them. C u in the next one.

Whoa.. that's one long face you have there ngl. Great video as always nevertheless

@millerman

9 ай бұрын

Thanks -- will have to change the thumbnail just thought I'd try the old face out

its settlers vs the reemerging primal nomadic horde.. ignoring the voices causes us to run on in guilt.. however stopping to listen the message comes through clearly....... * to settlers

@EL_394

9 ай бұрын

hungry ghosts.. the Comanche where especially brutal to surveyors.. land is sacred

@EL_394

9 ай бұрын

Wovokas prophecy for a new world

absolutely there is a connection between metaphysics and political ideology. I am a naturalist/atheist and an ancap. i think that anarchist philosophy stems directly from a naturalist presupposition. if the government is a bunch of men just like me, they have no divine right to rule, they are not morally superior, since their morality is just as arbitrary as mine, so i can't be a monarchist. I would never die in jihad because i'm not expecting 72 virgins on the other side, i can never be a theocrat. I can't be a communist because humans are evolved beings subject to biological determinism and therefore not equal. unequal outcomes are not the result of oppression but of innate inferiority. changing the economic incentive will not change human instinct and people will not become altruistic if you make greed illegal. genetic programming can't be erased with social engineering. i can't be a democrat because i think people are philosophical zombies who just imitate and regurgitate instinctively what they are told. there is no insight from them, only a subconscious drive to emulating the sheep in front of them. every ideolog will insist that their opinion is just and moral but none of them can demonstrate it, because justice is just a feeling in their head. justice is their desire for revenge and control of other people, it doesn't exist outside their mind. it simply is a feeling of self righteousness that we feel when we control other people, so justice is not objective. Anarchist philosophy is the only political ideology one can have if you assume naturalist presuppositions and want to be consistent.

No sound

@millerman

9 ай бұрын

I think it takes KZread a minute to process the video and add the sound. The video has sound and yesterday I experienced this same problem. It resolved itself after a few minutes. Not sure why it's happening more lately, though.

@olishiw8685

8 ай бұрын

​@@millermancan you engage in conversation with someone like @Jay Dyer in you tube I think it would be good

Current politics is extremely ideological (and doesn't care to resolve any everyday life problems. Rather current politics are about enforcing ideology in every aspect of everyday life). Any ideology is metaphysical by nature (in the sense that an ideology is a full description of life and the world - not based in reason but on belief / faith.) Therefore : religion, politics, philosophy, "science" and even advertisment and marketing - all are part of the same show in an arena where the individual soul / person and their true real life needs are being slaughtered by the beasts mention above - so that the collective is both delighted by sensationalism and also manipulated for the benefit of authority and state , meaning the organized violence of the rulling classes and those who have the ambition to become rulers.

@ianbored8859

9 ай бұрын

I always wonder : how come there is no real religion of Earth - after all the human being is a product of the Earth circumstances. Earth is the real origin of the human form of existence. But no one of the great ideological propagandists wants to hear any of that - because a religion of Earth would be too dangerous for any kind of current status quo.

@ianbored8859

9 ай бұрын

To me (and I know it will sound ridiculous) astrology is the best description of the world, if you look deep enough into it. It is a very ancient art, for sure more ancient than any philosophy or any law system , it's probably more ancient than any known form of organized society. Astrology is neither a religion not a philosophy, not a law system or a political ideology - and yet its basic principles and functionality in existential matters and in everyday problem solving is widely accepted world wide ,to the simple peoples for thousands of years.

@ianbored8859

9 ай бұрын

But then again modern intellectuals have no clue about all this and therefore I am preaching to the void I wonder if Plato had any opinions on astrology

No sound Mr. Millerman.

you are too close to the camera lol

@millerman

9 ай бұрын

I haven't experimented with distance I just used the best lens I could for the setup I have sorry if it's too in your face

@ajohny8954

9 ай бұрын

No problem I listened to it as a podcast. Quite interesting!

my presuppositions are :X,Y therefore ergo : Pinochet did nothing wrong !

we need to rescue the cannibalistic nature of Christianity in killing and eating adversaries up the food chain towards the source

@EL_394

9 ай бұрын

😂

@spanellaful

9 ай бұрын

Hahah that's funny

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A War of Jesuits, not Metaphysics.