I have an honest story to relate. I used to be a really swell guy, nothing to hide nothing to fear dreams to fulfill. Over the years I have become a piece of lying shit. Not the kind of lies society would condemn, but the kind that society allows. That has been my downfall and I got very much so trapped in my mind, till the point where I did not feel any way out anymore. Little by little I became honest again. Since that time I feel relieved and doors are opening for me again.
I don't like his belief in God and what may seem to be some new-age elements to his stuff - I'll have to investigate that further - but for his honesty alone, this guy is my new hero.
Radical honesty is great, yes, but Brad Blanton is clearly not honest enough, if he believes in God. Reality, as a whole, may not be subject to our current human intelligibility, but there's a God? How do you know? How could that be? Be honest. You should then see that to believe that anything supernatural actually exists is irrational and dishonest.
I see your point of view, but his reality can be ignorant to the facts and he can say thusly. As I believe in Gods and I know I'm ignorant to all the proof science has that they don't exist. Irrational, sure, dishonest believing in something? No. Honestly, I think you're a windbag who thinks everyone cares about your opinion. Very few bpeople probably gives a damn. Putting it on all three videos, probably wont make them give more of a damn.
Well, you obviously care. Knowing that you are ignoring the facts and still believing in something without evidence is dishonest. It is a blatant contradiction. If he does not know about reason and reality, then maybe he's just mistaken, but I doubt it. Fear and cowardice are overriding his ability to be truly honest.
I care because I find Atheists like you amusing. You're like zealous Christians, just with Science instead of God. I like messing with zealous Christians too, as long as I think I'll have a good argument, and giggle. Your perception of reason and reality could vary greatly from others. It could make sense to himself. Faith can be ignorant, but dishonest? I believe you're simply over-thinking it to deeply. His Radical honesty may simply be a social one, and not really philosophical.
Do you mean over-zealous? So what if I have enthusiasm about my philosophical beliefs; that does not make them wrong. My perception of reality is most certainly different than others', but reality itself is the same. It simply is. Things that aren't do not exist. And believing in God is simply primitive and ignorant. The most simple valid principles of reality, thought and knowledge acquisition negate the possibility of God.
When someone over looks them and ignores reason to make room for the supernatural, which by definition cannot exist, they are dishonest. My point is precisely that Brad Blanton is definitely not philosophically honest. I care much less that he tends not to lie to people about other stuff.
Telling someone they are over thinking something is useless. Over thinking is like being too appropriate. Anyway, how does someone over think too deeply? You are not very careful with your words and apparently it is the same way with your philosophy.
I'm a dumb teenager. I can afford to make mistakes here and there. Trial-and-error. Anyway, my point is that brad Blanton isn't trying to make people be philosophically honest to himself. He simply wants people to stop lieing in order to make their mental state healthier.
I'll give you that. But he is intellectually dishonest and in that regard fosters and perpetuates the very culturally destructive esteem of faith. In other ways, he seems like a really cool guy with a lot of good ideas.
fuck you you fucking idiot. Being intellectually honest is nothing. Spitting out your second to second thoughts and emotions will bring you to a much clearer state of mind, then you will see just how full of shit you are.
Spitting out your second to second thoughts and emotions makes you an unthoughtful simpleton likely to go nowhere in life. Sure, you can fantasize about how 'clear' your mind is, or how great God is, but until you properly orient yourself to objective reality and integrate your perceptions without logical contradiction, you cannot have knowledge. Knowing, not feeling, something and taking the appropriate logical moral action is what makes integrity, but you are obviously not interested in that.
@oopalonga Acquiring knowledge is actually pretty simple, we all do it on a daily basis in everyday life. If you think that there is another, different way to gain knowledge, other than reason, then yes, you might just be an idiot.
Our perception of reality as a human is basically a dream, we're walking around with the false sense of being seperate from others when EVERYTHING is essentially one large mass of energy. We believe we are who we are, when every cell in our body gets replaced every seven years. We believe that things are "solid" when the cells that make up matter are composed of 99.9% empty space. Life is way more mysterious than we can imagine, to believe you know ANYTHING for certain is lying to yourself.
We can only agree on what we know, reason. The rest is conjecture, and a lot of it is good, but not knowledge. Truths learned in one place in the universe will only match other the truths from elsewhere, if they are concerned with the objective world. There is no common spiritual anything that masses of people, with brains built to survive in reality, through the use reason as our guide to knowledge, could possibly ever agree on.
We will always agree that balloons filled with helium will go up (in our atmosphere) and those filled with sand wont (unless you throw them). But we will never be able to agree, if the fundamentals of our philosophies all differ arbitrarily, on morality, politics and whatever else.
We all actually have very similar philosophies, based on reason, some pretend they arent, but it is at this fundamental level that people need to start agreeing, if they are interested in peace and prosperity instead of warm fuzzy feelings. Knowledge, by definition, is of the physical world. If you are describing something not in the physical world, you are not using knowledge to do it. If you wish to have a non-contradictory knowledge base, then objective reality must be evident.
@MCTMD1 what I was actually getting at MCTMD1 with my "why not just cut and paste" comment, is that you are citing a certain philosopher without giving proper credit.
@oopalonga Give her what you call 'proper credit' then. I may use many of the same words as another mostly intellectually honest person, but what of it? Are you referring to the balloon metaphor that I probably got from AR? I value truth and correctness over originality. Do you have a valid point to make?
@MCTMD1 My point is that if you are going to parrot someone else's epistemology, don't you think it's a requirement of "honesty" to give that person proper credit?
@oopalonga I have parroted nothing. Again, I value truth and honesty over originality. If what I write is familiar, it is because there are other people who have proper metaphysics and epistemology and the world is objective. The only thing taken directly is the balloon metaphor. Big deal; it's a good metaphor. If any wants to know how it is I came to describe things the way I do, I do not hide my influences. I hide nothing.
@oopalonga This is not a class and there is no requirement for a bibliography. Anyway, it is the subject matter that counts. That's 3 little wimpy nit-picking comments from you. Again, do you have anything constructive to contribute?
me i have been onest with my parents, they hit the roof, again and again, and now it is easier not to talk to them, wich is better than the horrible relationship we had before that, but didn't end up in a lot more love either
awesome testimonials! the truth saves
lgrisotto 9 months ago
I have an honest story to relate. I used to be a really swell guy, nothing to hide nothing to fear dreams to fulfill. Over the years I have become a piece of lying shit. Not the kind of lies society would condemn, but the kind that society allows. That has been my downfall and I got very much so trapped in my mind, till the point where I did not feel any way out anymore. Little by little I became honest again. Since that time I feel relieved and doors are opening for me again.
lobomeister 2 years ago
I don't like his belief in God and what may seem to be some new-age elements to his stuff - I'll have to investigate that further - but for his honesty alone, this guy is my new hero.
BlacknWhitesAlright 2 years ago
If quoting ancient sufi scriptures is new-age than I'm willy wonka.
dimakritchevski 2 years ago
Radical honesty is great, yes, but Brad Blanton is clearly not honest enough, if he believes in God. Reality, as a whole, may not be subject to our current human intelligibility, but there's a God? How do you know? How could that be? Be honest. You should then see that to believe that anything supernatural actually exists is irrational and dishonest.
MCTMD1 2 years ago
Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly. :P
Roncsipar 2 years ago
I see your point of view, but his reality can be ignorant to the facts and he can say thusly. As I believe in Gods and I know I'm ignorant to all the proof science has that they don't exist. Irrational, sure, dishonest believing in something? No. Honestly, I think you're a windbag who thinks everyone cares about your opinion. Very few bpeople probably gives a damn. Putting it on all three videos, probably wont make them give more of a damn.
Metal4life100 2 years ago
Well, you obviously care. Knowing that you are ignoring the facts and still believing in something without evidence is dishonest. It is a blatant contradiction. If he does not know about reason and reality, then maybe he's just mistaken, but I doubt it. Fear and cowardice are overriding his ability to be truly honest.
MCTMD1 2 years ago
I care because I find Atheists like you amusing. You're like zealous Christians, just with Science instead of God. I like messing with zealous Christians too, as long as I think I'll have a good argument, and giggle. Your perception of reason and reality could vary greatly from others. It could make sense to himself. Faith can be ignorant, but dishonest? I believe you're simply over-thinking it to deeply. His Radical honesty may simply be a social one, and not really philosophical.
Metal4life100 2 years ago
Do you mean over-zealous? So what if I have enthusiasm about my philosophical beliefs; that does not make them wrong. My perception of reality is most certainly different than others', but reality itself is the same. It simply is. Things that aren't do not exist. And believing in God is simply primitive and ignorant. The most simple valid principles of reality, thought and knowledge acquisition negate the possibility of God.
MCTMD1 2 years ago
When someone over looks them and ignores reason to make room for the supernatural, which by definition cannot exist, they are dishonest. My point is precisely that Brad Blanton is definitely not philosophically honest. I care much less that he tends not to lie to people about other stuff.
MCTMD1 2 years ago
Telling someone they are over thinking something is useless. Over thinking is like being too appropriate. Anyway, how does someone over think too deeply? You are not very careful with your words and apparently it is the same way with your philosophy.
MCTMD1 2 years ago
I'm a dumb teenager. I can afford to make mistakes here and there. Trial-and-error. Anyway, my point is that brad Blanton isn't trying to make people be philosophically honest to himself. He simply wants people to stop lieing in order to make their mental state healthier.
Metal4life100 2 years ago
I'll give you that. But he is intellectually dishonest and in that regard fosters and perpetuates the very culturally destructive esteem of faith. In other ways, he seems like a really cool guy with a lot of good ideas.
MCTMD1 2 years ago
fuck you you fucking idiot. Being intellectually honest is nothing. Spitting out your second to second thoughts and emotions will bring you to a much clearer state of mind, then you will see just how full of shit you are.
sokseb 2 years ago
Spitting out your second to second thoughts and emotions makes you an unthoughtful simpleton likely to go nowhere in life. Sure, you can fantasize about how 'clear' your mind is, or how great God is, but until you properly orient yourself to objective reality and integrate your perceptions without logical contradiction, you cannot have knowledge. Knowing, not feeling, something and taking the appropriate logical moral action is what makes integrity, but you are obviously not interested in that.
MCTMD1 2 years ago
damn. . .sounds like a complex process to reach knowledge. I must be an idiot :(
oopalonga 1 year ago
@oopalonga Acquiring knowledge is actually pretty simple, we all do it on a daily basis in everyday life. If you think that there is another, different way to gain knowledge, other than reason, then yes, you might just be an idiot.
MCTMD1 1 year ago
Our perception of reality as a human is basically a dream, we're walking around with the false sense of being seperate from others when EVERYTHING is essentially one large mass of energy. We believe we are who we are, when every cell in our body gets replaced every seven years. We believe that things are "solid" when the cells that make up matter are composed of 99.9% empty space. Life is way more mysterious than we can imagine, to believe you know ANYTHING for certain is lying to yourself.
dimakritchevski 2 years ago
We can only agree on what we know, reason. The rest is conjecture, and a lot of it is good, but not knowledge. Truths learned in one place in the universe will only match other the truths from elsewhere, if they are concerned with the objective world. There is no common spiritual anything that masses of people, with brains built to survive in reality, through the use reason as our guide to knowledge, could possibly ever agree on.
MCTMD1 2 years ago
We will always agree that balloons filled with helium will go up (in our atmosphere) and those filled with sand wont (unless you throw them). But we will never be able to agree, if the fundamentals of our philosophies all differ arbitrarily, on morality, politics and whatever else.
MCTMD1 2 years ago
We all actually have very similar philosophies, based on reason, some pretend they arent, but it is at this fundamental level that people need to start agreeing, if they are interested in peace and prosperity instead of warm fuzzy feelings. Knowledge, by definition, is of the physical world. If you are describing something not in the physical world, you are not using knowledge to do it. If you wish to have a non-contradictory knowledge base, then objective reality must be evident.
MCTMD1 2 years ago
@MCTMD1 hmm. . .why not just cut and paste MCTMD1?
oopalonga 1 year ago
@oopalonga Useless.
MCTMD1 1 year ago
@MCTMD1 what I was actually getting at MCTMD1 with my "why not just cut and paste" comment, is that you are citing a certain philosopher without giving proper credit.
oopalonga 1 year ago
@oopalonga Give her what you call 'proper credit' then. I may use many of the same words as another mostly intellectually honest person, but what of it? Are you referring to the balloon metaphor that I probably got from AR? I value truth and correctness over originality. Do you have a valid point to make?
MCTMD1 1 year ago
@MCTMD1 My point is that if you are going to parrot someone else's epistemology, don't you think it's a requirement of "honesty" to give that person proper credit?
oopalonga 1 year ago
@oopalonga I have parroted nothing. Again, I value truth and honesty over originality. If what I write is familiar, it is because there are other people who have proper metaphysics and epistemology and the world is objective. The only thing taken directly is the balloon metaphor. Big deal; it's a good metaphor. If any wants to know how it is I came to describe things the way I do, I do not hide my influences. I hide nothing.
MCTMD1 1 year ago
@oopalonga This is not a class and there is no requirement for a bibliography. Anyway, it is the subject matter that counts. That's 3 little wimpy nit-picking comments from you. Again, do you have anything constructive to contribute?
MCTMD1 1 year ago
@dimakritchevski Right. Go around and assert things and then claim we know nothing for certain. How cute.
oopalonga 1 year ago
me i have been onest with my parents, they hit the roof, again and again, and now it is easier not to talk to them, wich is better than the horrible relationship we had before that, but didn't end up in a lot more love either
rachellightbird 2 years ago
Thanks for these videos -- it's good to see Radical Honesty getting some mainstream exposure.
PurposePowerCoaching 3 years ago 2
I would hardly call 3000 views on youtube mainstream...
SteveVader101 2 years ago
I don't believe the blonde when she said
she didn't enjoy telling the truth.
Of coarse she did. IMO she might have been uncomfortable with confrontation.
danger0usknowledge 3 years ago
Pioneers. Loved the candor of woman who divulges her amorous benefits of RH!
katmandu137 4 years ago