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@MattWalshBlog The Northman was a masterpiece? Lol.

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@michaelshermer @ericweinstein Lol. "write an article in my magazine"

You just granted nearly every point he made. Maybe you should apologize first?

He doesn't need your magazine.

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@OwenBenjamin New Atheist tier stuff. Been following you for many years. No longer worth my time.

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@teachrobotslove I have ADHD. I was diagnosed in high school and took meds for years. It is absolutely cheating (and long term, self-defeating; at least in my case).

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What people should know about early 20th century immigration:

* the people who came then were as much like us already as it is possible for any other people around the world to be. There are no other people who are more like us than those people were like us. They were like us genetically and culturally to an extent that nobody else on earth is.

* nevertheless, their presence here caused a ton of conflict. It caused political conflict, corruption, riots, neighborhood disruption, fraud, grift, crime, gangs, anarchist bombings, and just a whole bunch of the kind of generalized distrust and political dysfunction that we see again today.

* and people hated it. They hated it. Whatever you think of that immigration today, however much like a success it appears to you 100 years later, the people who actually lived with it thought it was pretty bad. The backlash was enormous. They elected nativists to Congress who passed laws to try to stop it.

* in order to deal with these issues, we employed both formal (including the laws mentioned above) and informal measures. For one thing, there was no welfare state, and many of the people who came and who couldn’t cut it just simply went home. You didn’t go on Medicaid. You didn’t go on food stamps. There was no unemployment check. You just went home. The percentage of people who went home was very high. I’ve seen numbers suggesting that it was like a third of all people who came.

* hell, even if you just missed your family to an intolerable degree, you went home. There was no FaceTime, no Internet, no long-distance phone calls. You just went home.

* and we insisted on assimilation. That means looking other adult human beings in the face who come from other cultures and saying to them directly, “first of all, speak English or leave. Second, you are not behaving correctly inside this store. You need to stop behaving this way, because the way you’re behaving is foreign and offputting and we don’t tolerate it here.” If you can’t imagine saying that to another human being today, if you think that sounds unbearably racist and cruel, then you do not actually believe in assimilation. That’s what assimilation looks like. It means telling people that they’re acting foreign and doing things that are outside of our cultural norms and, crucially, that this is bad, that we have a preference for the way we do things, that actually, no, we’re not just going to live and let live, that instead you need to get your shit together and behave like an American, not a weird foreigner. It means telling them to speak English or get out. We did that for 100 years. Millions and millions of Karens telling foreigners to stop acting like foreigners. That’s how you get Germans to stop speaking German. Do you have the stomach for that?

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@dragodimitrov @DrJordanBCooper

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@JoshRainerGold I tried the Ray Peat thing for a few months. Found temperature very inconsistent. Sometimes really hot, sometimes cold despite excessive carb intake and thyroid supplementation.

I'm back to low carb keto, much more consistent temp and energy all around. And my focus is back

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@owenbroadcast I've been waiting for you to talk about this.

Many of the problems you have highlighted over the years (you raise these questions in Babyology) are solved by Molinism.

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@winnie4prez No. The first kid is hard, it's the hardest change ever. But there is no sense that something has gone wrong. There is no sense that I might abandon this life. Exactly the opposite. I felt I was precisely where I was supposed to be. Bad advice. No thoughts of divorce or quitting.

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@2Philosophical_ I like Robert Maydole's formulation, 'Modal Perfection Argument for the Existence of a Supreme Being'

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@GreeneMan6 I still don't get it. Maybe have Horse come on and talk it out.

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@RealChrisLangan @Saganismm You are too kind to Dirac

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@Devon_Eriksen_ Takong a pill is not the same as pushing a button. My infant or toddler cannot take a pill. They can push a button.

[Owen Benjamin 🐻 @OwenBenjamin]

“If consciousness ends at death, does anything truly matter?”
- a guy on twitter

Even if that is true, everyone else’s consciousness doesn’t end at your death so yes your actions do matter after you are dead.
The only people who are truly in an “extremist death cult” know with pure unwavering faith that the heavens and the earth, all the moments, lessons, tragedies, loves, triumphs, and acceptances are random, pointless, and nihilistic.
I’m a man of faith who believes with all his hearth that God is benevolent, merciful, and eternal. I believe that our soul existed before our birth and after our death.
But I don’t know for sure like it’s a “fact” I can’t prove that. When someone I love dies I feel intense loss and pain and confusion. I have faith and even my logical deductions point to my faith, but I don’t have the blind and extremist mindless commitment to it like a materialist does.
Materialists, what if you are wrong and your actions do matter? What if at death that is presented to you. The consequences are extreme
What if I’m wrong and upon my death there are no pearly gates only eternal oblivion. Then what? Well, my “ignorance” just made me do better things for others and myself.

Here’s the crazy thing. Even if it’s oblivion at death I’m still grateful to God and I wouldn’t change my behavior. I like who I am with hope and gratitude and if this is all there is I don’t want to waste a moment in despair, greed or nihilism.

I see so many “Christian pastors” lying (objectively) and manipulating for money. Their god is money. If you have any faith at all in the eternal you would never do that.
You’ll sin and make mistakes and catch yourself on a bad path, but the knowing and intentional Judas goating those who trust you that you’ve said you would protect, that’s impossible to do with faith.
Dollars are a lesser god who hates his servants. Choose wisely

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@OwenBenjamin @WakeTheWool @EYakoby @RealCandaceO He's right. I have followed you since before the farm. But Candace is a bullshit artist. Go watch one of her first major stage appearances, on Dave Rubin with Blaire White. Go watch her first appearance on Joe Rogan. Long, long ago, what she is was made clear.

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@0x49fa98 @DisgracedProp The border was eventually closed under the Biden admin, after letting in millions. Then they could say how many they prevented afterwards

They get what they want, then switch course and pretend plausible deniability.

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@owenbroadcast @QuetzalPhoenix It seems logically possible that there be a problem such that, in understanding it completely, one finds that there must be a solution, and further that the solution is in principle unknowable. The unknowability of the solution could result from fully understanding the problem.

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@Deepcosmoss AI tweet. muted.

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@OwenBenjamin Most moons are locked, because they aren't perfectly spherical - the side with the most mass gets drawn by the planet's gravity, given enough time, and synchs up the moon with the planet.

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@Aris_Utensil No, everyone that matters will blame Trump.

It's simple enough for normies to understand. This is all on Trump. Only boomers will believe it's Vance's fault. Trump is done.

Everyone else will understand that Vance averted the apocalypse.