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Here's a challenge, how about finding people who can talk about the good things that our "overlords" do for us. ( government) 😊
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Sad and naive conversation. When you begin with the premise that conspiracy theories are not to be believed, you are at the other extreme.
Mick, I enjoy your ufo debunking, but the Morgellons needs more research. There is something going on there.
Another excellent talk. Steve Omohundro is on a roll!
What about applying some basic rules Is it the TRUTH? Is it FAIR to all Concerned? Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS? Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
The host wants to put people in jail for thought crimes so bad. He brought it up 2 times. Also does he know 3 towers fell in New York on 9/11? I doubt it.
I don't think critical thinking means you disagree necessarily it means you are examining something critically
"sunlight bends"??? what world are you living in? sunlight absolutely travels only in straight lines unless acted upon by something else
i would love to be proved wrong, it would be great. i'm quite happy to be proved wrong and change my opinion- i'll admit that the flat earth thing had some interesting arguments, but I researched further and changed my mind. it's a globe
so how does the placebo effect work exactly?
this is good advice actually. why do you think that 911 was not an inside job? where did you get your information proving a negative? why do you think that big pharma are a bunch of benevolent corporations trying to save mankind? why do you still believe multiple people died at Jan6? Why do you believe "climate change" is man made? Why do you believe billionaire, George Soros is a benevolent man who's investing in the creating a better world for everyone?
science /ˈsʌɪəns/ noun noun: science 1. the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation, experimentation, and the testing of theories against the evidence obtained. it's the method that makes it science
no, you're saying, "believe what you're told", not think for yourself
ah, it's only conservatives who are conspiracy theorists, of course
"conspiracy theorist" would be someone who makes up conspiracies wouldn't they? unless there's a list of conspiracies you have to believe to be in the club. holy crap, you think that accepting what you're told without thinking for yourself makes you low IQ. so the architects and engineers know less than you about the strength and stresses put on structures? what's your qualification? you watched the news didn't you!? well fair enough, that makes sense. if you have multiple producers for a podcast with 900 vies in 2 weeks... then i can shenanigans on this whole thing - you are CIA
In the reality we inhabit, the world of science can be such a seamlessly self-propelling machine solely because the only factor shaping this world is human consciousness. Our free will is inviolable. The world does not negate what you desire to receive. If you believe in a scientific world, such a world you shall receive. You won't have any mystical experiences; everything will be logical and 'square' to you. Every day, you'll receive evidence to confirm your beliefs. However, you can awaken. The world won't ignore even the slightest moment of awakening. It will then give you clues and test whether you're ready. If you pass the test, the path to spiritual enlightenment will open up before you. You'll become the person you've always wanted to be, even though you thought it is impossible in this imperfect world.
If someone has read my comment about body pulsing, here are the next steps you should take: 1. Convince yourself that the process I described is real (body pulsing) - it's not difficult, anyone can do it 2. Once you're convinced that the process isn't imaginary and is repeatable, try to find a scientific explanation for this phenomenon 3. Disappointed that you haven't found a single scientific study on the subject, ask yourself why such studies don't exist? 4. Try to investigate this topic on your own. Discuss it with a colleague - a scientist, a university professor, or even with your family 5. After you've been ignored and ridiculed by all these people, welcome yourself to the group of conspiracy theory supporters
When minds characterized by exceptional analytical prowess, skepticism, and a realistic approach to life encounter something that shakes their ideological foundations, the reaction typically transcends mere disappointment or disillusionment. It's like a lightning strike on a tranquil plain, capable of shaking the very essence of one's being. Paradoxically, it is precisely this shock, this disorientation, that sometimes becomes the beginning of a journey towards spiritual enlightenment. When worldviews are shaken, a new space for reflection, exploration, and deeper understanding of reality opens up.
Thanks for an excellent discussion, and sorry to see there will be a few fleas crawling around here, as they are incapable of speaking directly to the people who have the facts. Like all pestilence, they moult Innuendo and spurious minutiae.
If I recall correctly, it was the south tower whose collapse initiation began with the top section tilting 23 degrees off to the side, yet the building below still systematically, sequentially and SYMMETRICALLY deconstructed itself underneath the offset top section. Explain critically, McCue.
Yes, I know. English is not my native language. The main idea of my comment is "You are something more than your body". You don't have to take my word for it, you can try it out yourself. Here are the steps you need to take: 1. Try to suspend your beliefs acquired throughout your life 2. Acknowledge in your mind that you are not your body (even if you don't believe it, try to believe it for a moment) 3. Repeat several times: "Today, while meditating, I will go beyond my body" 4. Lie down in a comfortable position 5. Relax all your muscles. Allow gravity to take effect. In your mind, imagine that you are shutting down all command systems in your body, turning off all lights, and going home. Turn off the commander as well. It's as if you're looking from a bird's eye view at a large city where there's a power outage. Sequentially, each part of the city disappears into darkness from the map. The same should happen with your body. 6. After about 30 minutes, you will start feeling like a mummified corpse. Your body will begin to numb. Just continue lying down. 7. Try to calm your mind. If you've never meditated before, don't expect immediate success. Here, every small success counts. Just having your mind monkey a bit less active than usual is enough 8. After about an hour, you will stop feeling your body 9. While still lying down, at some point, you will feel a very regular vibration of energy in your body. Anyone can reach this stage. This will be the first sign that your soul is leaving your body. It won't be some imagined vibration but a very specific, very regular pulsation. You are not your body. Your soul is energy and vibrates/trembles at different frequencies 10. Don't fool yourself into thinking you'll reach this point without any practice, but at point 10, the vibration intensifies. You will start hearing the sound of an earthquake in your ears 11. Crossing the threshold. Your body will become aware that the soul is leaving the body. Your heart will start pounding as if during a heart attack. You'll get a strong dose of adrenaline. If you don't get scared and cancel the whole process at this point, the exit from the body occurs. If you have fear within you, unresolved childhood traumas, you won't reach the threshold. Dealing with fear and becoming aware of it is the most important task of the whole process. You're unaware of the multitude of limitations imposed by fear
Thank you for taking the time to explain your meditation and relaxation techniques. There are biological function terms to explain what you are conflating with the mysterious. Remember that we have wonderful imaginations, and I am glad you found a helpful technique. Even though you wrote your technique here, you have still got 50 sentences in a bundle and I will not bother reading it. If you repair it, I will delete this comment. thanks
@@VaughanMcCue My advice to you is this: 1. Convince yourself that the process I described is real (body pulsing) - it's not difficult, anyone can do it 2. Once you're convinced that the process isn't imaginary and is repeatable, try to find a scientific explanation for this phenomenon 3. Disappointed that you haven't found a single scientific study on the subject, ask yourself why such studies don't exist? 4. Try to investigate this topic on your own. Discuss it with a colleague - a scientist, a university professor, or even with your family 5. After you've been ignored and ridiculed by all these people, welcome yourself to the group of conspiracy theory supporters
@@_PawelPietrzak Read about the difficulty we have when people talk past each other. Our discussion is like that. Best wishes & goodbye.
This feels like one person speaking, and the other is the echo. The priest probably doesn't realise his superstition contradicts the concept of critical thinking. I have yet to hear an argument that shows religious beliefs are nothing more than excuses people use to forfeit critical thinking May 6 2pm GMT
Starting roughly at the 1:05:00 mark, one of you describes the appearance of the tower collapses, stating (and hand-gesturing), among other things, that there was this 'big expulsion of material' (floor-by-floor, as per your hand gesturing). What is the 'material' that was expelled, as indicated by the videos?
The 'flat earth' theory is very easily debunked: If the earth were flat, then all the cats would have knocked everything off the sides by now. Whoever thought up the idea of making flat earth a 'thing' online is/was a genius, as it has been a great money-maker for people on both sides of the 'argument'.
As critical thinkers, do both of you believe it is appropriate for major crimes to be investigated by 'commissions' of senators, like the '9/11 Commission' and the 'January 6th Commission'? What basis do you have for believing such a thing is appropriate?
What do you think?
@@VaughanMcCue Why dodge the question?
@@imacmill You directed your question to the presenters, and I directed mine to you because I wanted to learn something about what sincere people think. Your failure to answer appropriately shows that you are acting as a disingenuous non-entity and are not looking for information. Motivated reasoning with a hidden agenda falls flat here because these dudes will see through your superficiality as they outclass you by miles. I should have thought this channel would attract an audience with standards beyond common detritus, as that is what floats about on many channels. I have lost interest in whatever point you hoped to make, and I hope you'll be ignored.
@@VaughanMcCue Seriously, why dodge the question, and ambiguously at that? Do you want to know what I think, or do you want to know what I think you think? Let's have a 'critical thinker' conversation. I have other questions below...please bring your critical-thinking skills to bear on them.
Yet another controlled demolition-denier scampers away in fear when I arrive on the scene. I'll give you this, though: at least you haven't deleted my comments or ghosted me like so many YT channels do.
If I recall correctly, it was the south tower whose collapse initiation began with the top section tilting 23 degrees off to the side, yet the building below still systematically, sequentially and SYMMETRICALLY deconstructed itself underneath the offset top section. Explain. Also, a question: were the floors of the towers designed to have more strength to resist downward forces or upward forces upon them?
The certainty of beliefs presented by both gentlemen is unfortunately unwarranted. Despite the fact that science and scientific methods generally allow us to unravel many mysteries of this world, there are processes that do not lend themselves to the scientific method. In other words, science can investigate a certain part of reality, but there is a significantly larger portion that will never be subject to investigation. Moreover, this portion that eludes the scientific method is crucial and provides us with the greatest insight into what this reality is. Of course, at this point, both gentlemen might ask, "How do you know this? Have you learned about it using some research method? Or is it just my subjective assessment stemming from wishful thinking?" And at this point, our paths will likely diverge because this second part of reality can only be known through introspection and expanding one's own consciousness. Unfortunately, both gentlemen will not be able to approach these processes with a ruler, so they must ignore them by definition. If only one of the gentlemen sincerely tried to open up to these things, tried to look within themselves through methods that have been known to humanity for hundreds of years, their thinking about the universe would completely change. Unfortunately, respect for the scientific method is often what prevents them from crossing this barrier. Believing in science, they remain convinced that they are the only ones firmly grounded on Earth, yet they are unfortunately deprived of the possibility of fully understanding this world due to their own limitations. My journey began with science. I completed doctoral studies in Economics and Computer Science. I used to think similarly to the gentlemen. One night, I had a spontaneous awakening of Kundalini energy. I woke up in the middle of the night, a huge surge of energy passed through my body exactly as the whole process is described by various mystics. To this day, every evening, I feel this energy in my legs. It's truly an amazing feeling. This energy circulates in my body, you feel it doing something, you feel it is intelligent. Upon the release of this energy, as it passed through my body, it stopped at the so-called "chakras." Once, when I heard people talking about chakras, I wondered where people believing in such tales came from. Now, no one can tell me it's not true. After this event, I am a different person; Kundalini opened me up. I started meditating. I started trying to have out-of-body experiences (OBEs). The things I experienced and saw after overcoming fear and opening up to this whole process are incredible. Unfortunately, these experiences are beyond the reach of both gentlemen because the possibility of these experiences is entirely dependent on the sincerity and intention of the person who wants to open up. You must rid yourself of fear, you must trust, you must change yourself, you must rid yourself of all those things you've always wanted to rid yourself of in your behavior. Then the doors will open for you, and you can see more.
If you knew how to write a paragraph, I would have read it, but I decided to dismiss all of it. It could have been a work of art if you had only done it in ALLCAPS andremovedeveryspacebetweenthewords. Why? Because it appears as though the author held their breath for the entire exercise or was hyperventilating and bashed a couple of words out with each gasp of air. Either way, it comes across as a desperate rant.
@@VaughanMcCue Yes, I know. English is not my native language. The main idea of my comment is "You are something more than your body". You don't have to take my word for it, you can try it out yourself. Here are the steps you need to take: 1. Try to suspend your beliefs acquired throughout your life 2. Acknowledge in your mind that you are not your body (even if you don't believe it, try to believe it for a moment) 3. Repeat several times: "Today, while meditating, I will go beyond my body" 4. Lie down in a comfortable position 5. Relax all your muscles. Allow gravity to take effect. In your mind, imagine that you are shutting down all command systems in your body, turning off all lights, and going home. Turn off the commander as well. It's as if you're looking from a bird's eye view at a large city where there's a power outage. Sequentially, each part of the city disappears into darkness from the map. The same should happen with your body. 6. After about 30 minutes, you will start feeling like a mummified corpse. Your body will begin to numb. Just continue lying down. 7. Try to calm your mind. If you've never meditated before, don't expect immediate success. Here, every small success counts. Just having your mind monkey a bit less active than usual is enough 8. After about an hour, you will stop feeling your body 9. While still lying down, at some point, you will feel a very regular vibration of energy in your body. Anyone can reach this stage. This will be the first sign that your soul is leaving your body. It won't be some imagined vibration but a very specific, very regular pulsation. You are not your body. Your soul is energy and vibrates/trembles at different frequencies 10. Don't fool yourself into thinking you'll reach this point without any practice, but at point 10, the vibration intensifies. You will start hearing the sound of an earthquake in your ears 11. Crossing the threshold. Your body will become aware that the soul is leaving the body. Your heart will start pounding as if during a heart attack. You'll get a strong dose of adrenaline. If you don't get scared and cancel the whole process at this point, the exit from the body occurs. If you have fear within you, unresolved childhood traumas, you won't reach the threshold. Dealing with fear and becoming aware of it is the most important task of the whole process. You're unaware of the multitude of limitations imposed by fear
@@_PawelPietrzak much better- thanks
Great interview! And I had no clue about that Bright movement, being a fan of both Dennett and Dawkins, I can say that was a horrible idea indeed 😂
As a critical thinker I don't look to the government for the answers. Why should it be the government and/or the politicians to determine what is true or false? I prefer other sources. There is bias everywhere, so I have to consider all points of view, then think for myself and reach my common sense conclusions. My biggest problem with ufologists is the lack of evidence, or the difference between the remarkable stories and the unremarkable evidence, but there are other stories or claims from other parties about other issues that I also have to question for the same reason. Or evidence that does exist, but contradicts the narrative. I just have to think for myself, the starting point for critical or logical thinking.
We all say that, but we are easy to fool. Suppose we fail to understand the fundamentals of electricity. In that case, it makes no sense that holding the chrome faucet in the bathroom and having an electric hairdryer in the other is a problem. We can't see any risk because we have not switched it on. I received an electric shock when I touched a wooden electrical support pole. Yes, the current came down the guy wire. What would you expect from a responsible youth? Correct, I encouraged all my friends to come and see my magic.
@@VaughanMcCue _Suppose we fail to understand the fundamentals of electricity_ Has the 'we' in that statement had any formal training on the fundamentals? You need to be clear when attempting to be smarter than everyone else.
@@VaughanMcCue What?.. I thought the aliens are bald. Why would they be using electric hairdryers in the first place? Were you referring to the mythical Nordic aliens with their long blonde hair? Are they the ones using hairdryers?
@@harleyearl3289 Yes, but hair or its colour isn't critical. I use the hairdryer to dry the polish on my domed bald head, and it warms up my brain because it runs cold when responding to disingenuous trolls who get themselves in a tizz over pretty well anything when they are off the meds. Besides flying stuff, towers, vax, JFK, US elections, contrails, #lizard people, and even *round earth give their miserable lives hope, meaning, and porpoise. I know it sounds fishy. On the topic of UF things. A bird sanctuary and Flightradar24 are excellent resources to ID the U F things. There is one commenter on here who types one handed because the other hand is-shall we say-'busy'. This explains why there is a chair wedged against the cellar door to stop Granny from entering without using the password. As you would know, because you were not a danger to yourself or others, you were permitted to attend school and are aware that science teachers successfully teach formal training on the hazards of electricity in grade school. # I wonder about one of my neighbours. I have been told she is an old dragon, and her trash can often overflows with scales. * It is hard to believe that some people still imagine the earth as a rotating oblate spheroid. Thanks for your interest and contribution.
Yes, you are correct! Ha, ha. Cheers Marty.
great discussion
"Critical" has the same bad rap as "skeptical" these days. Perhaps "Logical" or "rational" thinking classes...? Hard to rebrand but it definitely needed.
hopefully the raise of AI will assist with modeling so that this awful, useless practice can finally be ended.
I really hope we don't have to wait 50 years, even 10 seems too long. Very excited about this. Can the future be now? :)
I've noticed some issues with your KZread channel, and I'd like to help you with some assistance. What are your plans for this channel?
The really great comedians, George Carlin being one and Ricky Gervais another, also provide incisive social commentary along with the jokes. I can tell that the former had been scarred by a Roman Catholic upbringing, much like I was. The mean-spritedness of telling innocent, single digit children that they are committing all of these confessable "sins" is almost vomit inducing. The latter gentleman's love of animals and his notion they they are our equals is also a comforting and validating sentiment.
Lost me when you called the westboro a right wing group. Legit just a smear tactic by the left to label all degenerates as “right wing”
Good one, I like Kelly.
If we can survive without eating someone else, then there is no need to murder anyone for food 💫
The assumption that only evangelical christians supported Trump is dangerous IMO. The so called left have gone off the deep end in so many ways and people are sick of it. The trans cult has infested the democrats and the WOKE mob have driven people to idiots like Trump. At least he never started any wars.... Obama started at least one and oversaw the drone murders of hundreds. They are all part of the same cabal IMO.