officers have been told to embrace the label woke what's going on

well it's a good question because what they're clearly not being told to do is go out there and fight crime um they're being given anti-racism training and they're being told that if they um think that this anti-racism training is going to see them being labeled as woke then they should just embrace that and go with it I mean, clearly nobody wants the police to be racist.

And certainly I don't want the police to be going around targeting people because of their skin colour or anything like that.

But I think what most of us want the police to be doing is actually catching criminals and catching criminals irrespective of their skin colour.

And nobody has a problem with the police really having training in anti-racism.

But the question is what kind of training they're getting.

And central to this training is they're being told basically that any racial discrepancies are Any kind of where one ethnic group is seen to be kind of out of proportion to another ethnic group is a problem.

And it kind of seems to me that it's similar with regards to policing and policies around that that a lot of the time the policies that are being pushed forward aren't being pushed forward by people that are in the communities that they're actually affecting and if you ask them they might not want what is being promoted

People just aren't thinking about you that much.

Yeah.

I mean, when I was young, when I was a teenager, I used to suffer from anxiety.

When I would enter a room, I would immediately feel like everybody was looking at me and I would feel like my every micro movement of my body was being sort of analyzed, you know, like as if it was like literally like I was on a reality TV show or something.

And it really was like almost paralyzing experience.

And it took me a long time to really realize that, hang on a second, I'm just not that important.

Like most people just do not give a fuck about me, you know? And it was such a liberating feeling because it's true for a start, but also, you know, it just helps you to realise, to basically take away, you know, if you're focusing on what other people think about you, you won't really live your life how you want to live it.

It's, it's basically impossible.

So when they attack you, they're really just attacking their own imagination and there is no need to take it personally.

Yeah.

I mean, when I first joined social media, I started tweeting in 2016 and I used to get quite upset when I used to get like nasty comments and stuff, you know, like people would say stuff and, you know, it would get, I would believe it in a way I'd be like, you know, they say stuff about me and I, you know, they'd call me like, well, sometimes I'd just be called a dumb shit or whatever.

You know, sometimes people would say that I was a pseudo intellectual or whatever.

And, and back then, you know, I used to sort of think, oh, okay, I must've said something that was wrong, you know, for them to, to think that.

And then I realized after a while, hang on a second, i don't know anybody who i um engage with online i don't actually know any of them i don't have even have an idea of who they are really but i've convinced myself that i know who they are so therefore i mean the same must be happening to other people doing that to me that they couldn't possibly know who i really are you know they've only seen one or two of my posts, and then they built up a personality profile of me based on those two posts, you know? And I mean, we barely know people that we know in real life.

You can live with someone for five years and still not really understand who they are.

So when someone does point the finger and say, you're a globalist shill, or you're a woke libtard, or you're a right-wing racist or whatever, when someone does say that, Where is the firm place for you to stand? Where have you got that you can actually stand if you have sold your soul in order to gain notoriety online and your integrity is something that you can't buy back no matter how much you try and pay for it? if you've done that where is the you can't grin when people criticize you because they're criticizing the contrived uh monster that you made that you created yourself into

she came on the

podcast yeah yeah great yeah yeah in fact i think i saw that one yeah and um yeah she yeah she made the case that basically when people um When they enter debates, they tend to approach with a soldier mindset, which is that they just want to win.

They just want to conquer the enemy.

They have no real other goal.

But they should really approach with a scout mindset, which is to seek as much information as possible, objective information, do what a scout does rather than what a soldier does.

But the problem is that most people, they approach with a soldier mindset.

And when you approach with a soldier mindset and you're not very bright, will happen is you'll often just keep going because your ego is just driving you you know further and further and you you won't see that you've actually lost the debate because your ego is just there and you just you're trying to do everything you can you're moving the goal posts you know as much as you can to try to win at all costs i think with smart people this is not to say that smart people don't approach with a solid mindset they also can be extremely um egotistical and they can be arrogant and stuff like that but they often are more likely to realise when they've screwed up when they've contradicted themselves or when they've you know they've said something that's just factually incorrect and it's harder for them to come back from that because they realise they've screwed up you know so they're like oh okay and they can't just pretend they can't just you know some of them will but

If you care about changing behavior, you'll dial back the aggression of your argument.

What's going on?

[laughs] Well, it's a good question, because what they're clearly not being told to do is go out there and fight crime.

Um, they're being given anti-racism training, and they're being told that if they, um, think that this anti-racism training is going to see them being labeled as woke, then they should just embrace that and go with it.

I mean, clearly nobody wants the police to be racist, and certainly I don't want the police to be going around targeting people because of their skin color or anything like that.

But I think what most of us want the police to be doing is actually catching criminals, and catching criminals irrespective of their skin color.

And nobody has a problem with the police really having training in anti-racism.

But the question is what, what kind of training they're getting.

And if you ask them, they might not want what is being promoted.

Mm.

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so it could be earlier." You know, so, so there's, there's sort of theological dispute as well.

Interestingly, there was one gospel, um, the Gospel of Jesus' Wife, which was discovered relatively recently, and was, was particularly famous because it was this tiny...

It was a fragment, and it talked about Jesus' wife, and it mentions Mary Magdalene.

So the presumption is that it's, it's describing Mary Magdalene as Jesus' wife, which has been a sort of theory, Da Vinci Code-esque thing going on for a while, and we have this ancient, ancient papyrus.

And at first, scholars are sort of like, they think this might be this, th- think this might be real.

What is interesting in the Gnostic Gospels? How does it contribute or what are the big reveals?

Mm-hmm.

We have this sort of second order abstraction that we can do.

So we know that death is coming, for example, and death makes a mockery of everything that we do.

It seems to just obliterate any sense of purpose or meaning, because anything that we're building will ultimately, as far as we're concerned, be gone.

And that may well be unique to human beings.

And so I'm not the first to suggest that the principal motivating factor behind meaning infused activities that humans do is an engagement in death denial or some kind of immortality project.

People literally, for fear of, as a result of the knowledge that this will come to an end, engage in what we might call immortality projects.

Okay

The original Mandela effect.

Yeah.

I, I, I suppose so.

Like, uh, like go...

You know, go and read the text.

It's just the serpent, and we're introduced to the serpent.

We're told...

What does that mean?

Yes, uh, the Irish Blood Transfusion Service has, uh, implemented the National Blood Shortage Plan, uh, serious step which necessitates a pre-embray alert being issued to hospitals, and it's telling the hospitals to be very, very careful on the use of blood and to, um, conserve use.

We are working hard to, um, we're working hard to avoid the need for elective surgeries to be canceled, and, uh, the two things are being done here.

One is the hospitals are being very, very careful with their use of blood, even more careful than usual, and secondly, we are trying to g-generate extra blood donations, uh, because, because of this and, uh, so as you know, sixty-seven percent of all our blood goes to support cancer patients as well.

So we want to make sure services continue as normal, but we really, really need donors in, in Ennis tonight and tomorrow night.

These are on scheduled clinics.

They were only put together very recently to help us out of this situation, and our situation is that the supply of some of our blood is at very, very low levels.

And look, for anybody that's thinking about going and donating their blood tonight, is there anybody-- Is there anything rather that will put you out of qualifying?

Uh, some things rule people out for very short periods of time.

So when they attack you, they're really just attacking their own imagination, and there is no need to take it personally.

Yeah.

I mean, when I first joined social media, uh, started tweeting in 2016, I used to get quite upset when I used to get, like, nasty comments and stuff, you know [chuckles].

Like, people would say stuff and, you know, it would get...

I would, I would believe it in a way.

I would be like, you know, like, they'd s- they'd say stuff about me and I'd, you know, they'd call me like, um...

Well, I, I-- sometimes I'd just be called a dumb shit or whatever, you know.

So when someone does point the finger and say, "You're a globalist shill," or, "You're a, a, a woke libtard," or, "You're a right-wing racist," or whatever, when someone does say that, where is the firm place for you to stand? Where, where have you got that you can actually stand if you have sold your soul in order to gain notoriety online, uh, a-and your integrity is something that you can't buy back no matter how much you try and pay for it? If you've done that, where is the f- you can't grin when people criticize you because they're criticizing the contrived, uh, monster that you made, that you created yourself into.

She came on the podcast once.

And she basically made the...

Yeah.

Yeah.

Great.

Yeah.

Yeah.

If you care about changing behavior, you'll dial back the aggression of your argument.

original Mandela effect.

Yeah, I suppose so.

Go and read the text.

It's just the serpent.

And we're introduced to the serpent.

We're told it's Genesis 3.

It opens, now the serpent was more crafty than any of the beasts that the Lord has created.

from them.

tilting at windmills an online stranger doesn't know you all they have are a few vague impressions of you too meager to form anything but a phantasm so when they attack you they're really just attacking their own imagination and there is no need to take it personally

yeah i mean when i first joined social media started tweeting in 2016 I used to get quite upset when I used to get like nasty comments and stuff you know like people would say stuff and you know it would get I would believe it in a way I'd be like you know they'd say stuff about me and I'd you know they'd call me like well I'd Sometimes I'd just be called a dumb shit or whatever.

You know, sometimes people would say that I was a pseudo intellectual or whatever.

And back then, you know, I used to sort of think, oh, okay, I must have said something that was wrong, you know, for them to think that.

And then I realized after a while, hang on a second, i don't know anybody who i um engage with online i don't actually know any of them i don't have even have an idea of who they are really but i've convinced myself that i know who they are so therefore i mean the same must be happening to other people doing that to me that they couldn't possibly know who i really are you know they've only seen one or two of my posts and then they built up a personality profile of me based on those two posts, you know? And I mean, we barely know people that we know in real life.

You can live with someone for five years and still not really understand who they are.

And yet we seem to think that, you know, we can read one post by someone or, you know, watch one video by that person.

So when someone does point the finger and say, you're a globalist shill, or you're a woke libtard, or you're a right-wing racist or whatever, when someone does say that, where is the firm place for you to stand? Where have you got that you can actually stand if you have sold your soul in order to gain notoriety online and your integrity is something that you can't buy back no matter how much you try and pay for it? you've done that where is the you can't grin when people criticize you because they're criticizing the contrived uh monster that you made that you created yourself into

she came on the

podcast yeah yeah great yeah yeah in fact i think i saw that one yeah and um yeah she yeah she made the case that basically when people um When they enter debates, they tend to approach with a soldier mindset, which is that they just want to win.

They just want to conquer the enemy.

They have no real other goal.

But they should really approach with a scout mindset, which is to seek as much information as possible, objective information, do what a scout does rather than what a soldier does.

But the problem is that most people, they approach with a soldier mindset.

And when you approach with a soldier mindset and you're not very bright, what will happen is you'll often just keep going because your ego is just driving you, you know, further and further.

If you care about changing behavior, you'll dial back the aggression of your argument.

Now, if God knows today what I am going to do tomorrow, which is part of the tradition, and if it is impossible for whatever God believes to be wrong, how could I not do tomorrow, which God knows today, which seems to undermine free will? I know there are many different explanations, but how do you look at that problem? God existing and knowing the future and the requirement

of real free will? Well, I've never been too deeply troubled by this.

Firstly, because I'm not so troubled with just accepting that free will might not exist.

I think there are really good reasons to think that it can't exist anyway, like as a philosophical principle.

So this is just one among many paradoxes which show why free will just can't be a thing that exists.

For believers, however, they want to say that there is this thing called libertarian free will, which means the ability to sort of choose your actions freely.

And it seems weird that if God knew what I was going to do, then it feels like I can't have done anything different because that would make God incorrect.

And

Yes.

Like, what, what is it, what is this Jesus stuff actually about? Um, the canon is a separate thing, and it might have been determined earlier or elsewhere, but the earliest version that we have is, is Athanasius saying, "Only read these four texts." And so after this, what probably happens is some kind of suppression or, um, or, like, virtuous destroying.

Like, people might do it with their own accord because they're not supposed to be reading these other texts, but these other texts sort of fall out of fashion.

They're not, they're not spread around.

They sort of exist in, in different esoteric groups, and there are some, like, smaller groups that have cropped up with their own scriptures and stuff, some which are more popular and travel around, but for whatever reason, they end up sort of getting, like, lost.

Either they're destroyed or people just forget about them or whatever.

We just don't have them.

Jesus.

Fascinating, you know.

But we didn't have the texts until in 1945, some guy is digging in the desert and accidentally crashes into this big jar.

At least this is one of the stories that are disputed.

just opens this jar.

At first, he doesn't want to open it because he's scared there's a demon in it, but turns out it's got a bunch of ancient manuscripts, which he takes home and keeps by the fire.

Where is it? Near Nag Hammadi in Egypt.

So Egypt has the perfect climate for the preservation of papyrus.

What is interesting in the Gnostic Gospels? How does it contribute, or what are the big reveals?

Hmm.

But that changed with the internet.

Uh, what happened with the internet was suddenly anybody could tell the news, and in fact, some people could tell the news faster than the big press organizations because there would be local people reporting on things going on in their, in their vicinity.

Um, and this obviously took a lot of the wind out of the sails of the media.

Uh, they no longer had this monopoly, and so they had to find a new way to sort of... a new business model, basically.

And that really ended up becoming less about telling the news and more about, uh, confirming what people wanted to believe.

And we see it with The New York Times.

[laughs]

The original Mandela effect.

Yeah, I, I, I suppose so.

Like, uh, like go...

You know, go and read the text.

It's just the serpent, and we're introduced to the serpent.

We're told...

It, it's Genesis 3, it opens, "Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the beasts that the Lord has created." And, and so Adam and Eve are told, um, "You can eat of any fruit of the, of the garden, but do not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for in the day that you eat thereof, you shall surely die." Surely die 'cause the Hebrew, it sort of says die twice.

What does that mean?

What's going on?

Well, it's a good question because what they're clearly not being told to do is go out there and fight crime.

They're being given anti-racism training and they're being told that if they think that this anti-racism training is going to see them being labelled as woke, then they should just embrace that and go with it.

I mean, clearly nobody wants the police to be racist.

And certainly I don't want the police to be going around targeting people because of their skin color or anything like that.

But I think what most of us want the police to be doing is actually catching criminals and catching criminals irrespective of their skin color.

And nobody has a problem with the police really having training in anti-racism.

And if you ask them, they might not want what is being promoted.

So when they attack you, they're really just attacking their own imagination, and there is no need to take it personally.

Yeah.

I mean, when I first joined social media, uh, started tweeting in 2016, I used to get quite upset when I used to get, like, nasty comments and stuff, you know? [chuckles] Like, people would say stuff and, you know, it would get...

I would, I would believe it in a way.

I would be like, you know, like, they'd s- they'd say stuff about me and I'd, you know, they'd call me like, um...

Well, I, I-- sometimes I'd just be called a dumb shit or whatever, you know.

Sometimes people would say that, uh, I was a pseudo-intellectual or whatever.

So when someone does point the finger and say, "You're a globalist shill," or, "You're a, a, a woke libtard," or, "You're a right-wing racist," or whatever, when someone does say that, where is the firm place for you to stand? Where, where have you got that you can actually stand if you have sold your soul in order to gain notoriety online, uh, a-and your integrity is something that you can't buy back no matter how much you try and pay for it? If you've done that, where is the f- you can't grin when people criticize you because they're criticizing the contrived, uh, monster that you made, that you created yourself into.

Yeah.

You know? So, so there's, there's sort of theological dispute as well.

Interestingly, there was one gospel, um, the Gospel of Jesus' Wife, which was discovered relatively recently and was, was particularly famous because it was this tiny...

It was a fragment, and it talked about Jesus' wife, and it mentions Mary Magdalene.

So the presumption is that it's, it's describing Mary Magdalene as Jesus' wife, which has been a sort of theory, Da Vinci Code-esque thing going on for a while.

And we have this ancient, ancient papyrus, and at first scholars are sort of like, they think this might be, this, they think this might be real.

They carbon date the papyrus, and it, it's, it matches perfectly.

What is interesting in the Gnostic Gospels? How does it contribute or what are the big reveals?

There's a, there's a great Gnostic gospel called The Testimony of Truth, which is discovered in the Nag Hammadi Library, so that's buried in, like, 400 AD.

So it's, it's probably, like, second or third century AD.

Um, and The Testimony of Truth retells the story of Genesis.

But interestingly, if you read Genesis, and I mean, like, the actual account of Genesis, um...

So, so who are the characters in the sort of Garden of Eden story? Adam.

Adam.

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What does that mean? Like, Jesus is the serpent because a great deal of the Gnostic tradition believes that the creator of the material world is an either evil or incompetent or lesser- kind of God figure, the demiurge.

What happens is that I posit a problem and th- and answers appear in, answers appear to me.

That's good.

I'm ha- I'm happy with that.

It reminds me of Plato in the Theaetetus where, uh, h- he says, uh, knowledge is like the birds in a giant aviary.

And you've got all these birds.

The trick is can you get them to come when you call? And, and, uh, so you've got all these, this, you've got all this kn- knowledge that you've acquired, and the hard part is getting it to come when it's needed.

And how often do we smite our forehead and say, "Oh, I knew that all along.

Okay.

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That to gaze upon, what would you say, redeemed the Israelites in the desert.

It's so, there's so much in that that it's, it's, it's, it's really a kind of miracle.

That serpent on the stake, that's Asclepius.

It's the same symbol.

Yeah.

And it's a complicated, it's a very complicated issue because even to the degree that the serpent is an agent of Lucifer, which I think is an extraordinarily profound what reading and overlay on that initial story, I think it's remarkable.

Lucifer is the bringer of light.