John Vervaeke - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis

[DrYouth]

Anyone else watching this YouTube series...

I think Hastur put me onto it.

I'm on episode 18 and very impressed.

Basically Vervaeke is psych professor at UofT, a colleage of Jordon Peterson.

He is walking through the history of altered states of consciousness and pathways to meaning...

From shamanism through Judaism, Plato, Aristotle, Buddhism, The Stoics, and onto the Christians and the Gnostics.

Dude knows his Cognitive Science, and the history of philosophy/religion.

It can be pretty thick sometimes... so definitely not for everyone...

But for psych geeks... this is the shit.

[Smitty-48]

Anyone else watching this YouTube series...

I think Hastur put me onto it.

I'm on episode 18 and very impressed.

Basically Vervaeke is psych professor at UofT, a colleage of Jordon Peterson.

He is walking through the history of altered states of consciousness and pathways to meaning...

From shamanism through Judaism, Plato, Aristotle, Buddhism, The Stoics, and onto the Christians and the Gnostics.

Dude knows his Cognitive Science, and the history of philosophy/religion.

It can be pretty thick sometimes... so definitely not for everyone...

But for psych geeks... this is the shit.

Douglas Murray pretty much covers everything in his books the Strange Death of Europe and the Madness of Crowds.

I'm not that interested in psych, other than for the purposes of war.

[DrYouth]

Douglas Murray pretty much covers everything in his books the Strange Death of Europe and the Madness of Crowds.

I'm not that interested in psych, other than for the purposes of war.

No Murray doesn’t cover any of this... although I’ve heard good things about his stuff.
This is psych for the purposes of transcendence... not war.
Maybe not up Smitty’s ally... that’s true.

[Smitty-48]

Douglas Murray pretty much covers everything in his books the Strange Death of Europe and the Madness of Crowds.

I'm not that interested in psych, other than for the purposes of war.

No Murray doesn’t cover any of this... although I’ve heard good things about his stuff.
This is psych for the purposes of transcendence... not war.
Maybe not up Smitty’s ally... that’s true.

I'll let you handle the psych department, I defer to your expertise.

[Smitty-48]

Doesn't really matter in the end tho, Canada has fallen to the Marxists, nobody can save Canada from itself.

Silliest country in the history of the world, bar none.

Being totally protected by America has infantilized Canadians, it's like Lord of the Flies up in here.

You go on the Canadian forum, they are totally delusional, they can't even deal with reality.

[DrYouth]

Doesn't really matter in the end tho, Canada has fallen to the Marxists, nobody can save Canada from itself.

Silliest country in the history of the world, bar none.

Being totally protected by America has infantilized Canadians, it's like Lord of the Flies up in here.

You go on the Canadian forum, they are totally delusional, they can't even deal with reality.

Maybe that's why I haven't really spent any time there.

[Smitty-48]

Doesn't really matter in the end tho, Canada has fallen to the Marxists, nobody can save Canada from itself.

Silliest country in the history of the world, bar none.

Being totally protected by America has infantilized Canadians, it's like Lord of the Flies up in here.

You go on the Canadian forum, they are totally delusional, they can't even deal with reality.

Maybe that's why I haven't really spent any time there.

They're not interesting, they can't think outside the box, it's all just Whatabootism.

They are insecure, they lash out at America, but they're not even good at it.

Me and Capps are just trolling the shit out of them.

They don't even know anything about Canada, they are a people without a history, they have no bearings.

It's the Liberal Party of Canada Post National State, incarnate.

[DrYouth]

Me and Capps are just trolling the shit out of them.

Well... I might have to check THAT out sometime.

[Smitty-48]

Me and Capps are just trolling the shit out of them.

Well... I might have to check THAT out sometime.

Join us, it's fun, and we got your back.

Plus I taught you right, you know your shit now, you would be an even more formidable Canada troller than me.

[Smitty-48]

There are some good guys on that forum.

Bush_Cheney2004, he trolls the shit out of them, he's their chief nemesis.

He's a retired United States Navy SSBN ballistic missile control officer, Cold Warrior. Great American.