Wild theories about the universe

[PacificRimJob]

The simulation theory doesnt really seem reasonable to me in an occams sense. I wouldnt rule it out but it doesnt seem very reasonable.

And yet you believe in a god? Both have about the same amount of complexity in order to exist... Unless you're also conceding that there being a god doesn't seem any more reasonable using occam's razor...

If anything, its almost easier for me to deduce that we are in some sort of complex simulation than there is that there's an unseeable, unknowable being that requires unfathomable complexity in order to exist.. Therefore more reasonable or even probable that we are in a simulation in occam's sense...

 

[dolanslebensraum]

Quality video Dolan, going to have to do some more research on the topic of information preservarion. again relates back to to the shit I was saying one directional linear time being fake and the universe already being "decided"

Im a determinist too. I believe everything is going to happen the way its going to happen. Even if you just look at it philosophically, you could ask “If the past could have happened in a differently then it did, then why didnt it?” Like what could possibly have the right to choose one fate over another? Its funny how the would “could’ve” gets used so often, yet the word is almost completely meaningless bc it describes a reality that does not exist. There is nothing you “could’ve” done differently. Either you did something, or you didnt do something. There is no in between. A funny thing i learned from my time in austria and germany is that almost everybody from germany and switzerland eastwards believes in fate, and that what happens in life was destined to happen that way. This is very different from the typical americans viewpoint which centers on the idea of free will.

i think believing in free will is probably good for your genetic fitness, because it prods you to go out there and live life to its fullest.

personally tho i cannot live under a false pretense. I need to know what i am and what i am made of and how i work and what the fuck “this thing” is, as joe rogan puts it, and where it came from.

i envy the humans who are born 100 million yrs from now for the extent of what they will know beyond what humans know today. We know alot today but theres also a ton of shit we are completely clueless about. Overall tho, we really dont know a fucking thing when it comes to the biggest questions.

 

[PacificRimJob]

See response to abar. above

Sorry dude, but Im not going to give any credit nor any additional viewership to a holocaust denying nazi dog-whistler who sounds like kermit the frog. Not happening.

 

[ASSholebomber22]

Sorry dude, but Im not going to give any credit nor any additional viewership to a holocaust denying nazi dog-whistler who sounds like kermit the frog. Not happening.

He denies the holocaust? Huh?

 

[PacificRimJob]

He denies the holocaust? Huh?

Well, perhaps he doesn't Deny the holocaust, but he's deeeefinitely a nazi cause sympathizer and I yes I have receipts.

Just look at how unapologetically pro-hitler he speaks here on H3 (which already spouts anti-allies whataboutism and nazi apologist bullshit while trying to entertain people with reaction videos)... he talks about how Hitler was just an OCD neat-freak who was simply trying to clean things up (because I guess jews and blacks and gypsys and disabled people are dirty? wtf Jordan), and how he had been some medal winning hero in ww1 (extremely debate-able) who then just saw all the horrible things happening to post-great war germany during the depression, and merely wanted to install order with his good ol boy nazi pals and make Germany great again... he goes on talking about how much crowds response to Hitler's rants influenced his speeches (omitting the fucked up shit he was spewing, not to mention all the dissent that existed amongst said crowds that was brutally shut down by his brownshirts) He claims that hitler was just influenced by the peoples reactions rather than the people being influenced by Hitler giving them scapegoats for all of their problems and convincing them to support his hate squad... Its a massive and complete misunderstanding on how tyrants obtain power and how manipulative narcissists like Hitler can be attractive once they rile a few people up... I could recommend some psych classes he should take, it might help him understand that (then again, he probably said something about how those classes shouldn't be taught somewhere in some quack lecture or interview he gave).

[video]https://youtu.be/8UE-dQsx5pY[/video]And then here he goes on some tyrade where he claims Hitler didnt actually care about winning the war and instead decided to fucking flip the table on Germany because 'they betrayed him with weakness' or some shit and decided to just cause as much chaos as possible by turning up the death in the nazi death camps rather than just enslaving everyone in order to win the war... not for a second realizing that the nazis actually hit the turbo button on the death camps in late 1941 before Pearl Harbour even happened during a time when Germany certainly wasn't losing the war as they advanced deep into Soviet territory... He says that this was actually Hitler's true motive once things started going south... which is absolutely not supported historically, nor within Hitler's ideology or personal beliefs at all.

He goes on saying that simple minded economists who blame Nazi Germany's loss on a lack of resources are wrong.. Fucking lol. Its hard to win a blitzkreig war when your oil is shut off and you cant even get rubber to build tires for your mechanized divisions, Jordan. for fuck sake dont tell me about what the inuits were able to live with - they never fought a 2 front war against 2 industrial superpowers and a global empire, you jackass.

And in the middle of all of this, he says, and I quote 'The glorious, everlasting 4th.. errm.. 3rd reich'. Nobody talks about the FOURTH reich dude. Nobody makes that mistake, much less a guy with a phd. Thats a major dog whistle to nazi sympathizers who are the only ones who ever actually talk about a Fourth Reich...

Im going to go ahead and use his own philosophy here.. where he quotes 'i think it was Jung' (you know damn right it was jung, you just quoted him for the zillioth time) and says that if you cant figure out what someone is doing or why, Look at the outcome. Well.. from that, Id say the outcome is this whole lecture isnt convincing anyone about some notion that Hitler didnt want to win the war and instead wanted to cause destruction... Its all about what he claims Nazis or right wing authoritarians SHOULD do in order to prolong their power and control... What he's secretly doing here is appealing to potential neonazis who at the very least respect Hitler's ideas and strategy but believe he was the wrong man to finish the job, due to his poor tactics and decisions. All of that is hidden within some lecture that's supposedly to focus on how evil Hitler is, and is titled as such... when really its just that 'Hitler was bad at his job, and he could have done it better and more successfully had he done this instead' The dude is literally describing a blueprint for the alt-right in broad daylight its fucked up man.

Fuck Jordan Petersen. I feel pity for anyone he's influenced.

(aside, no idea where or how this dan rubin thing got in here whatever that is)

**This post was edited on Aug 29th 2021 at 3:36:00am

 

[ASSholebomber22]

Well, perhaps he doesn't Deny the holocaust, but he's deeeefinitely a nazi cause sympathizer and I yes I have receipts.

oh, ok

 

[dolanslebensraum]

Thats assuming there's one to begin with... but in any case, actions speak louder than words, and if there is some omnipotent being out there who feels that they deserve praise, then they did a fucking shoddy job and don't deserve a second of praise.

I wouldn't thank a parent who birthed me into a mentally and physically abusive household full of pain and suffering, nor would I thank a god who allowed such a thing to happen.

dude im sorry you seem to have had some rough times. In buddhism the trick is to realize everybody has to go through some suffering in life. Some more than others, but we can connect to eachother when it comes to loss/suffering because everybody suffers at one point or another in life. Not just you.

And yet you believe in a god? Both have about the same amount of complexity in order to exist... Unless you're also conceding that there being a god doesn't seem any more reasonable using occam's razor...

If anything, its almost easier for me to deduce that we are in some sort of complex simulation than there is that there's an unseeable, unknowable being that requires unfathomable complexity in order to exist.. Therefore more reasonable or even probable that we are in a simulation in occam's sense...

you keep strawmanning like a fiend and you keep acting as if you are some sort of authority in determining what rules a God would have to follow or be constrained by or defined according to.

Your argument that “if God existed He wouldnt let bad things happen ever” is simply childish dingo.

 

[BradFiAusNzCoCa]

Fourth reich is current German government but that aside, I’m on your side. (Edit: apparently that is wrong. I don’t have time to dig it up before my edit time goes away but there is a similar name for current rule) I think JP is a quack. I went through the typical “I discovered peterson” when I was like 20 and liked some things he said but it just kept going further and further down the rabbit hole with him and I didn’t want to keep up. I listened to the “behind the bastards” podcast on him (I’m not a HUGE fan of that podcast - I always follow up on the info I hear and I’m not a big fan of the host) and the thing that stuck out to me is how Peterson was getting in trouble for cherry picking facts for his lectures and interweaving them to fit his narrative while omitting other relevant parts.

Also, Germany most def suffered from a lack of resources. Where do people think the word “ersatz” came from? Literally ersatz coffee came about because Germans couldn’t get coffee. German engineering was definitely superior to Allied in many ways but they messed up starting a war on two fronts. A Tiger Mark I is an amazing feat of engineering. Like it’s almost scary how great German engineering was in WW2 compared to ally. It fucking smoked Sherman’s and T-34s. But in Russia where it’s frozen and with no fuel? Not so much.

Well, perhaps he doesn't Deny the holocaust, but he's deeeefinitely a nazi cause sympathizer and I yes I have receipts.

Just look at how unapologetically pro-hitler he speaks here on H3 (which already spouts anti-allies whataboutism and nazi apologist bullshit while trying to entertain people with reaction videos)... he talks about how Hitler was just an OCD neat-freak who was simply trying to clean things up (because I guess jews and blacks and gypsys and disabled people are dirty? wtf Jordan), and how he had been some medal winning hero in ww1 (extremely debate-able) who then just saw all the horrible things happening to post-great war germany during the depression, and merely wanted to install order with his good ol boy nazi pals and make Germany great again... he goes on talking about how much crowds response to Hitler's rants influenced his speeches (omitting the fucked up shit he was spewing, not to mention all the dissent that existed amongst said crowds that was brutally shut down by his brownshirts) He claims that hitler was just influenced by the peoples reactions rather than the people being influenced by Hitler giving them scapegoats for all of their problems and convincing them to support his hate squad... Its a massive and complete misunderstanding on how tyrants obtain power and how manipulative narcissists like Hitler can be attractive once they rile a few people up... I could recommend some psych classes he should take, it might help him understand that (then again, he probably said something about how those classes shouldn't be taught somewhere in some quack lecture or interview he gave).

[video]https://youtu.be/8UE-dQsx5pY[/video]

And then here he goes on some tyrade where he claims Hitler didnt actually care about winning the war and instead decided to fucking flip the table on Germany because 'they betrayed him with weakness' or some shit and decided to just cause as much chaos as possible by turning up the death in the nazi death camps rather than just enslaving everyone in order to win the war... not for a second realizing that the nazis actually hit the turbo button on the death camps in late 1941 before Pearl Harbour even happened during a time when Germany certainly wasn't losing the war as they advanced deep into Soviet territory... He says that this was actually Hitler's true motive once things started going south... which is absolutely not supported historically, nor within Hitler's ideology or personal beliefs at all.

He goes on saying that simple minded economists who blame Nazi Germany's loss on a lack of resources are wrong.. Fucking lol. Its hard to win a blitzkreig war when your oil is shut off and you cant even get rubber to build tires for your mechanized divisions, Jordan. for fuck sake dont tell me about what the inuits were able to live with - they never fought a 2 front war against 2 industrial superpowers and a global empire, you jackass.

And in the middle of all of this, he says, and I quote 'The glorious, everlasting 4th.. errm.. 3rd reich'. Nobody talks about the FOURTH reich dude. Nobody makes that mistake, much less a guy with a phd. Thats a major dog whistle to nazi sympathizers who are the only ones who ever actually talk about a Fourth Reich...

Im going to go ahead and use his own philosophy here.. where he quotes 'i think it was Jung' (you know damn right it was jung, you just quoted him for the zillioth time) and says that if you cant figure out what someone is doing or why, Look at the outcome. Well.. from that, Id say the outcome is this whole lecture isnt convincing anyone about some notion that Hitler didnt want to win the war and instead wanted to cause destruction... Its all about what he claims Nazis or right wing authoritarians SHOULD do in order to prolong their power and control... What he's secretly doing here is appealing to potential neonazis who at the very least respect Hitler's ideas and strategy but believe he was the wrong man to finish the job, due to his poor tactics and decisions. All of that is hidden within some lecture that's supposedly to focus on how evil Hitler is, and is titled as such... when really its just that 'Hitler was bad at his job, and he could have done it better and more successfully had he done this instead' The dude is literally describing a blueprint for the alt-right in broad daylight its fucked up man.

Fuck Jordan Petersen. I feel pity for anyone he's influenced.

**This post was edited on Aug 27th 2021 at 11:24:27pm

 

[dolanslebensraum]

Fourth reich is current German government but that aside, I’m on your side. (Edit: apparently that is wrong. I don’t have time to dig it up before my edit time goes away but there is a similar name for current rule) I think JP is a quack. I went through the typical “I discovered peterson” when I was like 20 and liked some things he said but it just kept going further and further down the rabbit hole with him and I didn’t want to keep up. I listened to the “behind the bastards” podcast on him (I’m not a HUGE fan of that podcast - I always follow up on the info I hear and I’m not a big fan of the host) and the thing that stuck out to me is how Peterson was getting in trouble for cherry picking facts for his lectures and interweaving them to fit his narrative while omitting other relevant parts.

Also, Germany most def suffered from a lack of resources. Where do people think the word “ersatz” came from? Literally ersatz coffee came about because Germans couldn’t get coffee. German engineering was definitely superior to Allied in many ways but they messed up starting a war on two fronts. A Tiger Mark I is an amazing feat of engineering. Like it’s almost scary how great German engineering was in WW2 compared to ally. It fucking smoked Sherman’s and T-34s. But in Russia where it’s frozen and with no fuel? Not so much.

**This post was edited on Aug 27th 2021 at 11:24:27pm

Yeah marching eastwards towards -50 degree siberia was the stupidest thing hitler could have done.

I think if you mixed up all the variable combinations of ww2, most of them would have germany pulling off the upset.

if hitler had waited until von braun had developed the v2 rocket and the aircraft engineers had developed jet powered fighters before germany blitzed poland we would all be speaking german right now.

the stg44 wouldve been a motherfucker for the allies to deal with too if it wasnt so late to the party.

If america wants ppl to believe the united states is as great of a country as germany is today then we need to delimit certain US highways like the german autobahns and we need to decriminalize every drug that isnt insanely inadvisable to take.

if your ford isnt safe to drive 120mph on a straight empty highway, BUY A GERMAN CAR.

if you cant drive a german car safely at 120mph on an empty highway, THEN DONT FUCKING DRIVE.

Im sick of this country being an enormous sack of fucking vaginas.

learn some personal responsibility and stop blaming your fucking drug dealer when ITS YOUR FAULT.

 

[BradFiAusNzCoCa]

Yeah I think they just got a bit too ambitious too fast. They had many advantages. Hitler also made the mistake of declaring war on America when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor because we had $$$ and plenty of industry to make vehicles, weapons, etc. that wasn't under constant air raid alarm.

Another huge advantage we had as Americans was the first standard issue semi auto rifle ( M1 garand) but I have, also, read that axis troops would wait to listen for the “ting” of the clip hitting the floor (aka you’re out and need to reload) before attacking in certain situations. If you watch old American troop training videos, they dedicate a ridiculous amount of time trying to convince American troops that the MG42 (“Hitler’s buzzsaw”) wasn’t as lethal as ours. This was a lie, of course, but I get the reason they did it for morality sake.

I’m still reading “The Forgotten soldier” by Guy Sajer and they’re in Poland now retreating. He said it was like -60 windchill and all their vehicles froze because someone forgot to run them overnight. They wouldn’t start so they have to retreat on foot. Crazy stuff.

About your thing on drugs - have you tried to get Claritin-d lately? Dear god that was a mission. Why even sell it over the counter if it’s that regulated and you have to buy it form the pharmacy?

Yeah marching eastwards towards -50 degree siberia was the stupidest thing hitler could have done.

I think if you mixed up all the variable combinations of ww2, most of them would have germany pulling off the upset.

if hitler had waited until von braun had developed the v2 rocket and the aircraft engineers had developed jet powered fighters before germany blitzed poland we would all be speaking german right now.

the stg44 wouldve been a motherfucker for the allies to deal with too if it wasnt so late to the party.

If america wants ppl to believe the united states is as great of a country as germany is today then we need to delimit certain US highways like the german autobahns and we need to decriminalize every drug that isnt insanely inadvisable to take.

if your ford isnt safe to drive 120mph on a straight empty highway, BUY A GERMAN CAR.

if you cant drive a german car safely at 120mph on an empty highway, THEN DONT FUCKING DRIVE.

Im sick of this country being an enormous sack of fucking vaginas.

learn some personal responsibility and stop blaming your fucking drug dealer when ITS YOUR FAULT.

 

[dolanslebensraum]

Yeah I think they just got a bit too ambitious too fast. They had many advantages. Hitler also made the mistake of declaring war on America when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor because we had $$$ and plenty of industry to make vehicles, weapons, etc. that wasn't under constant air raid alarm.

Another huge advantage we had as Americans was the first standard issue semi auto rifle ( M1 garand) but I have, also, read that axis troops would wait to listen for the “ting” of the clip hitting the floor (aka you’re out and need to reload) before attacking in certain situations. If you watch old American troop training videos, they dedicate a ridiculous amount of time trying to convince American troops that the MG42 (“Hitler’s buzzsaw”) wasn’t as lethal as ours. This was a lie, of course, but I get the reason they did it for morality sake.

I’m still reading “The Forgotten soldier” by Guy Sajer and they’re in Poland now retreating. He said it was like -60 windchill and all their vehicles froze because someone forgot to run them overnight. They wouldn’t start so they have to retreat on foot. Crazy stuff.

About your thing on drugs - have you tried to get Claritin-d lately? Dear god that was a mission. Why even sell it over the counter if it’s that regulated and you have to buy it form the pharmacy?

“Theyre in poland now retreating”

you mean the book is written by a german soldier about his retreat from the march to russia?

and the hoops they make u jump thru to get claritin at the pharmacy is because of it having pseudoephedrine in it, which ppl use to make methamphetamine.

 

[BradFiAusNzCoCa]

I am aware of the reason it is regulated but if it’s that regulated - why sell it in such fashion.

No, it’s a French/German conscript. The retreat is only part of it. What’s your point?

you’re aware Germans retreated, right? You’re aware they were decimated right?

“Theyre in poland now retreating”

you mean the book is written by a german soldier about his retreat from the march to russia?

and the hoops they make u jump thru to get claritin at the pharmacy is because of it having pseudoephedrine in it, which ppl use to make methamphetamine.

 

[dolanslebensraum]

I am aware of the reason it is regulated but if it’s that regulated - why sell it in such fashion.

No, it’s a French/German conscript. The retreat is only part of it. What’s your point?

you’re aware Germans retreated, right? You’re aware they were decimated right?

Yes i know. what you posted earlier i just didnt read right. It makes sense.

**This post was edited on Aug 29th 2021 at 2:28:56am

 

[PacificRimJob]

you keep strawmanning like a fiend and you keep acting as if you are some sort of authority in determining what rules a God would have to follow or be constrained by or defined according to.

Your argument that “if God existed He wouldnt let bad things happen ever” is simply childish dingo.

You sure you know what strawman argument is? Because in no way did I refute your claims by straying off the subject here... At least Im not going ad hominem and calling you a child lol.

Do you seriously think that if a god or group of gods had the actual ability and power to create the whole entire universe as far as we know it, and actually cared about us, that yet they would let things like childhood cancer exist?

If they are an omnipotent perfect being as most all gods and certainly the abrahamic gods are conceived to be, either they are incompetent enough to allow something like that to exist, or they are simply indifferent to their creation and don't care about us enough... as if we are a neglected ant farm in the corner of the room.

To which... if you're saying that some higher being doesn't need to be anything but indifferent and we are simply an experiment, then sure... so be it, I guess? but that certainly isn't a position that deserves any amount of praise enough to be seen as a god, in my eyes, much less an object that we must care about enough to direct any amount of faith towards...

But if you're saying that there damn well likely is a higher power, that cares about us enough that we should offer it praise in return, and yet it doesn't care enough about us to not allow things like 5 year olds to have excruciating terminal illnesses? I'm sorry but that right there is where we fundamentally disagree on what deserves worship or not.