4 years later and im affected by this and the rest of your vids my insomnia led me to; ) for half my life i couldnt express any of myself, mentally out of shame blame and guilt, but also literally in fear of my life & family and the silence only ruined me almost to suicide. looong story! its a delight to watch you in all your raw candor & unabashed demeanor, i really respect your open perspective and positive approach.. i kind of want to bathe in your grey matter (sorry had to be said; )
If you take 2 groups and give one a dollar an hour and another 10 dollars an hour to put marbles into a jar , then ask them why they do it, the dollar an hour group will say they do it for fun. The 10 dollar group will say they do it for the money. Money does change things. absolute power corrupts absolutly.
I don't have ANYTHING to believe in. I don't believe in religeon mostly, kinda the religeon cause it's fucked us type thing. So for the first time. i think I found something I believe in.
if i was at a party and some random guy came stumbling down the hall looking stoned and claiming he'd been drugged, I would just think hes some alchoholic.
I think it is a reflection of your life on youtube. There are alot of people that make fun of you for being open. And I feel the same way you do about not being accepted. I have not had a friend for YEARS and it has contributed to my physical health problems. Maybe that is why you felt drugged, maybe it's a way for your body to tell you that you are not doing well physically.
The "party" was YouTube...your "drugged" state is your inability to communicate..."stumbling around" represents your reckless video commentaries...the "deragitory people" are people who are concerned with your reckless/irresponsible video posts.
Your "inability to connect" with people represents your fustration in not being able to convince those people who can see right through you.
dude, autistic. that's how i felt last saturday at the youtube afterparty. disconnected. i felt the same animosity you described in your dream. but i still don't regret experiencing it, because it showed me what i keep telling myself i'm afraid of. i allowed myself to become paralyzed with it.
The reality your communication creates is not percievable by yourself, as you're communication is in a state of autopoesis and the outside world is not really part of your self-maintaining system of communication.
Ian you must keep in mind that it is not people who communicate. It is only communication that communicate. Your intentions with your communication are irrelevant, as it is the perception of your communication that triggers thought and communication back at you (and not your intentions).
I don't understand why people leave you awful comments about your videos, they're watching them of their own volition, why waste their time if they're just going to post abuse? I, on the other hand, really enjoy watching your videos, they're really interesting so thanks for that (that's why I subscribed to this account to0 :)
Ian, I think your dream/empathy scenario is a subjective projection on your part as others have suggested. For example, if we try to visualize what it would be like to be a cat, it would be ridiculous because all the cat knows is about being a cat, not being a human wondering what it would be like to be a cat.
I do have to hoard tidits of knowlegde so that I can come up with the best course of actions once the lil cutie pie comes into the world, this assures that the patient will have the best patient out come and greatest chance for survival. I lost my trian of thought just now, but if you'd like to talk sommore I'd welcome it>.I't a testiment to your ability to survive and get things done. anyway, take care and stay well Ian.
I think drugs can be useful, but if you're doing something just about everyday, instead of broadening your perspective it shifts it to an irrelevant place. One's perspective needs to include the so-called real world, or one won't function well here. It's impossible to be simultaneously so self-indulgent and altruistic. Maybe. I dunno.
That was my experience. Once a week was good. Every day screwed me up. You might be different. I think it is more beneficial as a special event. It's like going to church! (Kind of, but not really!) You can't do much if you spend all your time in there.
Don't take this as a criticism cuz it's not. Someone helped me one day to integrate my personality and I became radically more effective AND more at peace in the communication or "clothing" thoughts with words. It was the following: Given that you have a limited amount of energy, take all the energy you use trying to be understood (stood under) and use it to try to understand (stand under). Both of yourself and the world around you. See what happens.
Your ideas will become more direct,less controled by "forces" concerned with the imaginings of the receiver and more with free expression of language. Pure infants express. Need for understanding is learned.(based on childhood security issues). Watch as people react.There will still be haters but they will change their approach and reveal their limitattions in a new interesting way. Don't tell anyone you are doing this experiment.
yeah, exactly. But its hard to just tell it like it is when the only expectation you can have is someone not understanding. but liberation comes when you just look past the expectation and express it out.
Yes, well put. I had a guy come up to me once and say: You piss me off. I haven't got the slightest idea of what the hell you're talking about, but three hours later I can't stop thinking about what the fuck you said. I enjoyed that response response. True love-hate. I could have cared less whether he "got it". Hell who HAS it anyway?lol
i simply cannot believe the never ending flow of bullshit that emanates from your being. this is like you saying that you were constipated and you thought it was somehow a higher power trying to make you empathize with a women going through child birth lol. You are like a child abusing technology with your videos.
That was no dream. Continue to stumble along in your daze of self indulgent blubbering.
Are you familiar with the word insipid? Look it up, review some of your own video postings with a truly critical eye, and I think you will agree that it sums up your youtube "career".
Ian I like you and your vids, but I have to say I think I disagreed with just about everything you said on this video. Stop trying to be radical m8 some things are just the way they are, and over anlyizing them and trying to come up with a cool quote that explains it all is really a waste of time. Sorry to be negative.
You completely contradict yourself, because you say what you think, And then retract it so as not to offend half your watchers and say the exact opposite. "I've got my Bachelors, I'm not a fool. Education is kind of useless. You don't have to go to College to make a difference"
youre a good guy, not perfect, not a savior, your attempting to be your ideals, its hard for everyone i know, continue to be sincere even though it hurts when others vehemently oppose you, be genuine, authentic, strive for the truth- your already doing it, dont give up on the quest
Delusions of Grandeur is a sign of Manic Depression and you're it man. Perhaps this trip was a humbling experience for you which is a good thing, I think your dream verifies that. You are not as famous as you think you are and much of your fame is not a healthy one.
Youre now saying you are not going to put up a paypal button. Are you not a little late in deciding this? Now the other Ian Crossland has taken down his button so he can no longer receive donations for his cause! This strikes me as a bit selfish.
College teaches you how to think more analytically and how to find answers to questions. Also, Ian, why is there a video with you with a black eye on the Crossmack account? What's the story there?
Oh, and how many times, in how many videos, have you said, "We are all the same", but in this one you throw out, "it's just individuals." Have you changed your mind, now? I am confused.
You have a dream that seems pretty transparent (since, as others have pointed out, dreams tend to be about ourselves), and you decide that it was your own mind showing you what it's like to be autistic? WTF?
Gee, just when i was going to put up a paypal button for watching video's and commenting...it's alot of "work" as Ian has said. Now i must humble myself and resign my idea. Ian, we are all the same.Thanks buddy for making me see the light. It's just money.
I believe that you may be underestimating the value of a college degree. Regardless of how much it enhances your knowledge and ability to solve problems a bachelor's degree will open the gate to a wide range of careers that allow your mind to escape the mind numbing repetition inherent in so many other jobs.
I am affected. I think about a young man who is finding his place in this world. So many are just content to be what is defined for them. But you are "unsatisfied". Go man! Rattle that cage! :))
When you dream of being in a house, the house is symboc of your own mind. So figure that one out. A bunch of other people are in your mind, telling you to get lost mainly because you can not connect. It seems like reality to me. Using words as teh main form of communication certainly does rape the autistic
There's a video of the show Ian mentioned doing with thehill88 posted on her channel--all 43 minutes of it! It's something to behold. Miss Hill, as usual, is poised and occasionally humorous. But make no mistake, Ian is the star of that piece for the remarkable spectacle he makes of himself. Not to worry; there's no screaming. (Although, I think <i>she</i> may have later.) If you can't watch it all, be sure to see the dancing/stretching big finish. It's other-worldly!
In any case, I do think Ian's big adventure in San Francisco had a positive effect on him. In what was not even a large pond, he was a fish too small to manifest much of anything. So he's returned to his channel humbled--and not one mention of "manifest" during either part of this video! Nor during the entire 43 minutes with thehill88! That's progress.
By all means, put the button up. Then make a video honestly telling us how much cash is coming in. Be truthful about the amount...don't be afraid to honestly face the reality, dude, of how much or how little your services are valued. Remember, karma will get you if you lie.
I get what your saying and that was a powerful dream, I agree with what you said about it. It looks like your going through a pretty heavy depression and have social anxiety and just confused about life. This isn't derogotory. I hope you find the answers you need. I hope you can get out of yourself and connect like you want to.
I'd say that a job/career= providing a service. Desired or not; I would put the button up because some folks may want to donate to you for what they may consider to be a service provided to a community...even if the community is yourself.But although I've got many viewpoints on the subject, I'd recommend the option to be readily available.
Re: education, I think your comments assumed that education was about getting "knowledge", ie simply acquiring a bunch of facts. Education at its best, however, is about gaining the tools you talked about to be able to ask questions and explore the world for yourself. If education does that, it is never wasted.
You don't go to school to accumulate knowledgge. That's called a library. Education is to teac the human mind how to study and learn, and hopefully discover. The rest is all state certification and "industrial functionability."
Hey Ian, I have a question: are you a joke? is this an act?
there's no way all these things you say a real. especially your puerile "philosophical" ramblings, the Obama money scam, your comments about the heat causing the Middle East to be so volatile.
I can't believe Caitlin likes you and said you were 'deep'. Is she in on the joke? If she is then she's horrible; and if she isn't then she is, I'm sad to say, naive and stupid. Either way, I'm disappointed in her.
Yeah, but your mind isn't open, Ian. You only listen to yourself. Your mind is closed since you can't take in impressions and thoughts from external sources.
You're pushing it dak. Most people don't have original thought, much less express it. 99.9% regurgitate other peoples words without knowing the origin-al thought that created them.
Furthermore Ian's desire to nurture his own insight even at the expense of ridicule for being at odds with "common sense"(which has destroyed nations)is his attraction. True intelligence is really innocense, not acrobatic recitation of "schools" of thought. This point has it's history and there were many intellegent (and well read) daks that tried to stop it.
Intellegence gives birth to reason and enlightenment. Innocence gives birth to intelligence. ideas are moments of clarity clothed in thought, nothing more, but what has become clear? What has kept it in hiding? What method was used to hide it?How do you define true knowledge if truth is transitory?
For you then, the relativity of truth is not a theoretical insight but a moral postulate. Which "innocence" movement in history has preserved nations....as your prior comment suggested?
it is neither. Not speaking of movements or political foundations. Intelligence(which has nothing to do with knowledge accumulated by the ego.) comes in a moment that is accompanied by a human being in the state of his origin, his innocence from thought. Thought specifically free from imposed morality,opinion,common sense, theoretical conclusion.
To say that you're "not speaking of movements or political foundations" is to be completely ahistorical. You said "truth is transitory" which is to state a truth. Is your statement true or untrue?
I will say that we speak from different camps. You are clinging to the safety of tradition and I am simply saying that intelligence (itself) is a product of the innocence from tradition. The "unfettered" mind so to speak. Now what that intelligence does,(reason) is another thing and that can be both ahistorical or along traditional lines (in action not origin). You don't have to go black or white. It's too confining. You speak of using intellegence and I am speaking of it's origins.
intelligence is at best limited. it can only take us so far. tradition has in it much that affirms life. much we cannot know by our reason alone. but true wisdom comes only when we can balance the two.
Fair enough, but it can also be said that a few unbalanced individuals weathered the storm of ostracism,scorn,and even mental institutions to dramatically change the world. For the rest of us, you are spot on.
You speak in vague, murky phrases which cling to the shelter of the tradition laid out by J.G. Bennett, Gurjeiff, or even Ouspenski. There's nothing "new" or revolutionary in what you've said above. Ideas have consequences. It's worth evaluating the merits of their ideas and looking at outcomes. None of this is possible when you pretend you're Yoda and claim to occupy the ground of "both" or "the unfettered".
Now you seem to be talking along the lines of matt damon. Either way, we seem to be talking to each other from viewpoints of separate planets. But it was fun. Thanks.
The quickest way to empty a room is to close your eyes and put your hands over your ears. This blunts sensory phenomena, without which the world does not exist.
The second quickest way to empty a room is to put on a Michael Bolton CD and break out a 4-pack of Seagram's Orange Pineapple Bahama Mama wine coolers. But that's more of a Heidegger thing.
Is truth ALWAYS transitory? Is slavery immoral? Is slavery justified? If so, why? If not, why not? Is the truth determined by local custom? Is it subjective and therefore customized to the individual?
"To my morals yes". Sort of like saying "I like spinach", you're stating a preference, rather than offering a proposition that you recognize something is wrong, whether or not someone else might enjoy it....ie:slavery. If "there is no justice", then by that very logic, nothing is unjust.
Yeah ok, what you said, you're very clever. I'm just bored and baiting you now so, you can give me you're tired obviousness and answer recital. Peace out.
Funny, this is the sort of response my German friend ( a student of Rorty, Hegel and the like ) would give any time he faced the failings of his skepticism.
Disengagement in the face of making important distinctions is a hallmark of the non-judgemental, interpretive, post-modern set. Good luck with your bailing.
You reveal nothing of your own view. You just compartmentalize mine in your little "pseudo educated" mind. Then you attach labels of which you've demonstrated no understanding to further distance yourself from the criticism you daily put upon yourself. You needn't finetune your beautiful self but still you persist. You are enough.
You are relentless with your little toolchest. It simply means that I pay my employees $15/hr because anything less is slavewages. Outside of that I recognize that slavery is. I just concern myself with my own actions(something I have control of), not trying to rearrange others prejudice(something out of my control). It keeps me out of hamster wheels which I have no desire to climb in. They go nowhere.
This is the operative definition when speaking of the immorality of slavery.... The state of one bound in servitude as the property of a slaveholder or household.
Just because I like to consume spinach doesnn't mean that I am like spinach, or that I liken myself to spinach. I like Ian and I like you, that doesn't mean that I am like you, but it is only in likening myself to you that i can truly understand you, to know that I am like you at some level. I don't think that level has anything to do with the self that i create in my own mind. It has more to do with the innocence of children at play.
As usual, instead of a response, I get another name dropped, as if to say being well-read qualifies as thinking. So far all you've done is call me a fool and ask questions and reply to answers with scorn, a name drop, and another question. I'm beginning to see Ian's purpose. Exposing the nature of conflict, for one. You have a death grip on something. I just don't know what it is.
Let me try again. A moral proposition is one that differs from one of personal taste or preference. To say "I like spinach" is different from saying "slavery is unjust". A moral proposition offers a judgement, a judgement, in turn, can issue only from a proposition which affirms or denies something is true. continued....
.. It's hardly comprehensible to make a judgement ( one public law is better than another ) unless there are grounds on which to think that the judgement is true. It would make less sense to suggest that any person should favor a certain law, unless the grounds on which that law would be "good" were thought to be true for others as well as oneself.
Thanks for clarifing your point. I recognize through intelligent (self-evidence) that all men are created equal. That being the proposition, my conclusion {judgement if you will) is that slavery is contrary to this truth. Moralistically, in the affairs of human beings it is wrong to violate any laws based on this truth. People that believe others are not eligible for unalienable rights are not wrong. They are ignorant. Laws are for ignorance.
Right. The practice of slavery is a violation of ones natural rights. But, yes, people that believe others do not possess the same unalienable rights are wrong and they may or may not be ignorant. Stephen Douglas was surely aware he was arguing for slavery during his debates with Lincoln. Being ignorant doesn't exempt one from being wrong.
ok fine. At the depth I am referring to, the distinction between being wrong and doing wrong are at the crux of the discussion (since we are referring to Ian's comments, after all) It's the "don't hate the person hate his behavior" thing. A person can be very clever and intelligent and still ignorant. The further back you go of course, the more you find. If they knew the truth they wouldn't be wrong.
Being ignorant has nothin to do with being stupid (unless you're Webster}. It has to do with ignoring an inner truth about yourself due to outside and then progressively ultimatly inside influences. Evolution should correct that.
If one is admittedly ignorant, then they are educable, yes? I don't follow what you're saying in that second sentence, it's not very clear. Moral truths are true, regardless of location, whether that truth is present in your mind, or absent from your mind.
The "lesser angels" of Lincolns nature believed in slavery too. He basically admitted that, using those very words. He simply acted out of his intellegence rather than his ignorance. Politically that's called a "risk" unfortunatly.
As Lincoln argued, the American republic did not begin with the Constitution; it began with that "proposition," as he called it, the first principle that "all men are created equal."
I'm all for open minds. But even radical thinkers would find your ideas ridiculous because you have zero knowledge of philosophy/ethics/linguistics/psychology/etc. Your ideas are incoherent and infantile.
Careful. Einstein only made it to the eighth grade. he rode a childs tricycle in his sixties. The man who invented television had little education but believed in sending thought and visual waves through the air and those with common sense commited him to a mental institution for several years. Think about that before you fire up the tube.
You should go out and have some fun this weekend, that doesn't involve smoking a lot of pot. Or spend a day doing something you like... besides smoking pot.
Ian, when you say two (or more) things are the same, you need to specify *in what respect* they're the same. My computer and I are the same in that we're in the same room, we're both made of molecules, we both weigh less than 5000 kilos, etc. (In fact, any two things are the same in *some* respect or other.) In what respect are you claiming all people are the same?
Let me just add that my comment isn't meant as a challenge. It's an invitation to you to try to further clarify and develop your thought about us all being the same -- if you'd like to. (By the way, I liked the video.)
Would'nt that be great...getting paid to vlog. I would love to get paid for listening. Of course of would also like super powers too...being able to bend time would work for me...mmm yea
Yeah, that was all crap. There's nothing wrong with Ian puting up web pages and PayPal buttons. What's the problem? I don't know how much money it would bring in, but there's no ethical problem.
"Once you understand how to communicate with people you don't have to learn anything because anything you need to learn you can figure out at any time just by asking."
Ask who? An educated person!?
How then will you ever recognize mere sophistry when you hear it?
The only thing that makes us all the same is that DEATH will come for us all one day. So go grab your favorite flavor of ice cream and enjoy. Unless you are lactose intolerant; then go get a popcycle and a copy of the upinshads.
Double comment lol- about the education thing- I have to say I agree with you, but I think a HS degree is a plus. I am an administrator of a website and I only have my HS degree. I am still debating the college thing.
And I'm not saying that we can't connect, we're just not gonna fully understand everything that is said at that moment. In other cases, yea. In some cases, no.
Maybe your dream was a fear of you not being understood by everyone. But that's just it, we maybe all connected, but not EVERYONE is gonna understand us. We maybe all be the same, but the different roads of life we've taken is what makes our view points different. And so we view life differently than others. We all have our own pair of rose tented glasses.
I'm pretty sure you felt unsatisfied at the end because you decided, out loud, that you were talking to nobody. you decided you were alone in that moment. If you had just pictured one of the many people you know who are watching you, and talk like you know they are listening, guaruntee you wont feel as unsatisfied/alone at the end.
Dude, it wasnt someone who was autistic. It was a part of yourself thats always there, that feels like it cant connect with people. All the people that rip on you here feed that part and make it feel like no one could possibly understand or acknowledge it.
Exactly! It's a form of insecurity that is coming forth in his dreams. I've had dreams like that too, and they always happened during times of feeling out of place and misunderstood. Of course going around half baked all the time isn't helping, I'm sure.. lol
4 years later and im affected by this and the rest of your vids my insomnia led me to; ) for half my life i couldnt express any of myself, mentally out of shame blame and guilt, but also literally in fear of my life & family and the silence only ruined me almost to suicide. looong story! its a delight to watch you in all your raw candor & unabashed demeanor, i really respect your open perspective and positive approach.. i kind of want to bathe in your grey matter (sorry had to be said; )
peace!
BleednEden 7 months ago
If you take 2 groups and give one a dollar an hour and another 10 dollars an hour to put marbles into a jar , then ask them why they do it, the dollar an hour group will say they do it for fun. The 10 dollar group will say they do it for the money. Money does change things. absolute power corrupts absolutly.
cedry123 4 years ago
I don't have ANYTHING to believe in. I don't believe in religeon mostly, kinda the religeon cause it's fucked us type thing. So for the first time. i think I found something I believe in.
~Robbe
Henexdren 4 years ago
if i was at a party and some random guy came stumbling down the hall looking stoned and claiming he'd been drugged, I would just think hes some alchoholic.
dasevergnini 4 years ago
I think it is a reflection of your life on youtube. There are alot of people that make fun of you for being open. And I feel the same way you do about not being accepted. I have not had a friend for YEARS and it has contributed to my physical health problems. Maybe that is why you felt drugged, maybe it's a way for your body to tell you that you are not doing well physically.
Icedustfairyz 5 years ago
you're a deep person
kire32 5 years ago
Good video!
D4Shawn 5 years ago
The "party" was YouTube...your "drugged" state is your inability to communicate..."stumbling around" represents your reckless video commentaries...the "deragitory people" are people who are concerned with your reckless/irresponsible video posts.
Your "inability to connect" with people represents your fustration in not being able to convince those people who can see right through you.
A.) You're not a dream interpretor
B.) You don't have a clue what autism is
sublibertatequietum 5 years ago
nino chithaeglia lasto beth daer; rimmo nin bruinen danin ulaia!
Alexanadu 5 years ago
is he still with that nice girl of his?
dude10 5 years ago
no, she dumped his ass after giving him a black eye after he cheated on her with several women.
thedakkster 5 years ago
dude, autistic. that's how i felt last saturday at the youtube afterparty. disconnected. i felt the same animosity you described in your dream. but i still don't regret experiencing it, because it showed me what i keep telling myself i'm afraid of. i allowed myself to become paralyzed with it.
BizzyBeMe 5 years ago
the thing about trying to dig so deep, is that you will learn to much, and wish you could be blissfuly ignorant of such knoledge.
NinjaNate 5 years ago
Incoherent as usual.
You should run for Prez. ;)
emillerdude 5 years ago
Ok, I guess i shouldn't have agreed with tvguitars posts, sorry Ian, that'll teach me to "open mouth, insert foot".
PlasmaDude47 5 years ago
your dream sounds like it's a representaion that your trying to connect with people who can't understand or won't understand what your trying to say.
Menacexp 5 years ago
The "drug" possibly represents the YouTube experience for Ian. He is intoxicated with it's richness, which he believes it offers him.
I agree, he deeply feels that he is unable to emotionally connect with his audience. The is a strong bond that he values greatly.
bpholbrook 5 years ago
The reality your communication creates is not percievable by yourself, as you're communication is in a state of autopoesis and the outside world is not really part of your self-maintaining system of communication.
Gallowness 5 years ago
Ian you must keep in mind that it is not people who communicate. It is only communication that communicate. Your intentions with your communication are irrelevant, as it is the perception of your communication that triggers thought and communication back at you (and not your intentions).
Gallowness 5 years ago
Have you ever written poetry? If so I would like to hear it.
troublewithliving 5 years ago
I don't understand why people leave you awful comments about your videos, they're watching them of their own volition, why waste their time if they're just going to post abuse? I, on the other hand, really enjoy watching your videos, they're really interesting so thanks for that (that's why I subscribed to this account to0 :)
Ro0dle 5 years ago
you're a fucking toooooooool man
Zoootex 5 years ago
geez, you are so earnest and out there. you have some courage and a touch of narcissim
prugrand 5 years ago
Ian, I think your dream/empathy scenario is a subjective projection on your part as others have suggested. For example, if we try to visualize what it would be like to be a cat, it would be ridiculous because all the cat knows is about being a cat, not being a human wondering what it would be like to be a cat.
snouter 5 years ago
go for a run you fucking waster
prelan 5 years ago
whay you described in your dream was nothing like autism. jsut becasue you think it was does not make it so.
craniumbear 5 years ago
I do have to hoard tidits of knowlegde so that I can come up with the best course of actions once the lil cutie pie comes into the world, this assures that the patient will have the best patient out come and greatest chance for survival. I lost my trian of thought just now, but if you'd like to talk sommore I'd welcome it>.I't a testiment to your ability to survive and get things done. anyway, take care and stay well Ian.
ihavenoscruplez 5 years ago
"I am not drunk, Ih am empathizing with somebody that ish autistic... Also I wash empthisszz with bulimic chick... I threw up on your cat! CAT!"
captainvideoblogger 5 years ago
I think drugs can be useful, but if you're doing something just about everyday, instead of broadening your perspective it shifts it to an irrelevant place. One's perspective needs to include the so-called real world, or one won't function well here. It's impossible to be simultaneously so self-indulgent and altruistic. Maybe. I dunno.
creepeelurker 5 years ago
Interesting. I dig your thoughts man.
IanCrossland 5 years ago
That was my experience. Once a week was good. Every day screwed me up. You might be different. I think it is more beneficial as a special event. It's like going to church! (Kind of, but not really!) You can't do much if you spend all your time in there.
creepeelurker 5 years ago
You inspire me a lot.
girlwholived 5 years ago
WHY are you SECOND GUESSING yourself??? FEAR??
UnCertainty??? Ian, you really WANT IT badly?
WHY do you want it so?? Do you really NEED it???
tekanemo 5 years ago
Don't take this as a criticism cuz it's not. Someone helped me one day to integrate my personality and I became radically more effective AND more at peace in the communication or "clothing" thoughts with words. It was the following: Given that you have a limited amount of energy, take all the energy you use trying to be understood (stood under) and use it to try to understand (stand under). Both of yourself and the world around you. See what happens.
dhRzztt 5 years ago
Your ideas will become more direct,less controled by "forces" concerned with the imaginings of the receiver and more with free expression of language. Pure infants express. Need for understanding is learned.(based on childhood security issues). Watch as people react.There will still be haters but they will change their approach and reveal their limitattions in a new interesting way. Don't tell anyone you are doing this experiment.
dhRzztt 5 years ago
yeah, exactly. But its hard to just tell it like it is when the only expectation you can have is someone not understanding. but liberation comes when you just look past the expectation and express it out.
dannyd318 5 years ago
Yes, well put. I had a guy come up to me once and say: You piss me off. I haven't got the slightest idea of what the hell you're talking about, but three hours later I can't stop thinking about what the fuck you said. I enjoyed that response response. True love-hate. I could have cared less whether he "got it". Hell who HAS it anyway?lol
dhRzztt 5 years ago
More information on the integration of personality and the free expression of language may be found at iancrossland dot com.
reflexivelycontrary 5 years ago
stop drugs and youll have money.
imhorriblyinlove 5 years ago
i simply cannot believe the never ending flow of bullshit that emanates from your being. this is like you saying that you were constipated and you thought it was somehow a higher power trying to make you empathize with a women going through child birth lol. You are like a child abusing technology with your videos.
iloveYOUnotyouYOU 5 years ago
That was no dream. Continue to stumble along in your daze of self indulgent blubbering.
Are you familiar with the word insipid? Look it up, review some of your own video postings with a truly critical eye, and I think you will agree that it sums up your youtube "career".
Hootinak 5 years ago
that wasn't a dream I saw you at that house party... you were on acid
TChosenwun23 5 years ago
STOP DROPPING ACID you are one fucked up idiot.
snotmagic 5 years ago
Ian I like you and your vids, but I have to say I think I disagreed with just about everything you said on this video. Stop trying to be radical m8 some things are just the way they are, and over anlyizing them and trying to come up with a cool quote that explains it all is really a waste of time. Sorry to be negative.
shrouded60606 5 years ago
You should so be a social worker!
keh5557 5 years ago
Omg...don't say that.
justveiwing23 5 years ago
You completely contradict yourself, because you say what you think, And then retract it so as not to offend half your watchers and say the exact opposite. "I've got my Bachelors, I'm not a fool. Education is kind of useless. You don't have to go to College to make a difference"
TubularBelle 5 years ago
youre a good guy, not perfect, not a savior, your attempting to be your ideals, its hard for everyone i know, continue to be sincere even though it hurts when others vehemently oppose you, be genuine, authentic, strive for the truth- your already doing it, dont give up on the quest
cosmanthony21 5 years ago
Ian I agree with all three comments made by tvguitars. As for all newgative comments, fuck'em.
PlasmaDude47 5 years ago
When you agree with my comments, all anger will leave and clarity will be there. The vision will be of Ted Nugent holding roseries in his teeth.
tvguitars 5 years ago
Delusions of Grandeur is a sign of Manic Depression and you're it man. Perhaps this trip was a humbling experience for you which is a good thing, I think your dream verifies that. You are not as famous as you think you are and much of your fame is not a healthy one.
TubularBelle 5 years ago
Ian,
Youre now saying you are not going to put up a paypal button. Are you not a little late in deciding this? Now the other Ian Crossland has taken down his button so he can no longer receive donations for his cause! This strikes me as a bit selfish.
ripple1983 5 years ago
College teaches you how to think more analytically and how to find answers to questions. Also, Ian, why is there a video with you with a black eye on the Crossmack account? What's the story there?
arammat 5 years ago
Someone else posted that. It seems as if my account was hacked.
IanCrossland 5 years ago
yeah that was shitty... I was confused but put it together rather quickly what was going on.
walsh1kt 5 years ago
In that video it shows somebody typing in your crossmack password.
creepeelurker 5 years ago
Your resume says you were a stand-up/improv comic at the NY Comedy Club in NYC. I thought so! hahaha
Socksee 5 years ago
I liked the confession that he smokes weed with one day off from it every two weeks. I actually thought it would be every day.
thedakkster 5 years ago
I think your dream is symbolic of your Youtube experience.
rheignbo 5 years ago
Oh, and how many times, in how many videos, have you said, "We are all the same", but in this one you throw out, "it's just individuals." Have you changed your mind, now? I am confused.
dalisdolly 5 years ago
You have a dream that seems pretty transparent (since, as others have pointed out, dreams tend to be about ourselves), and you decide that it was your own mind showing you what it's like to be autistic? WTF?
dalisdolly 5 years ago
was crossmack hacked? that last video was confusing.
acmei 5 years ago
you're an intense mofo Ian.
xalt3d 5 years ago
love ya man
bbenefiel 5 years ago
After watching this video I have come to realize that weed is a powerful drug man.
burntonion 5 years ago
dude, i feel like your paypal decision is really upstanding.
puzz912 5 years ago
Gee, just when i was going to put up a paypal button for watching video's and commenting...it's alot of "work" as Ian has said. Now i must humble myself and resign my idea. Ian, we are all the same.Thanks buddy for making me see the light. It's just money.
justveiwing23 5 years ago
dreams are allegories of our lives , youre right on it
eleusis66 5 years ago
I believe that you may be underestimating the value of a college degree. Regardless of how much it enhances your knowledge and ability to solve problems a bachelor's degree will open the gate to a wide range of careers that allow your mind to escape the mind numbing repetition inherent in so many other jobs.
Peter7777t 5 years ago
I am affected. I think about a young man who is finding his place in this world. So many are just content to be what is defined for them. But you are "unsatisfied". Go man! Rattle that cage! :))
greyegle 5 years ago
Because of you I always say I am having a great day, even though the day is jsut the same... but it's not... HA
wgeorgew 5 years ago
When you dream of being in a house, the house is symboc of your own mind. So figure that one out. A bunch of other people are in your mind, telling you to get lost mainly because you can not connect. It seems like reality to me. Using words as teh main form of communication certainly does rape the autistic
wgeorgew 5 years ago
There's a video of the show Ian mentioned doing with thehill88 posted on her channel--all 43 minutes of it! It's something to behold. Miss Hill, as usual, is poised and occasionally humorous. But make no mistake, Ian is the star of that piece for the remarkable spectacle he makes of himself. Not to worry; there's no screaming. (Although, I think <i>she</i> may have later.) If you can't watch it all, be sure to see the dancing/stretching big finish. It's other-worldly!
jayarbee 5 years ago
In any case, I do think Ian's big adventure in San Francisco had a positive effect on him. In what was not even a large pond, he was a fish too small to manifest much of anything. So he's returned to his channel humbled--and not one mention of "manifest" during either part of this video! Nor during the entire 43 minutes with thehill88! That's progress.
jayarbee 5 years ago
Did you see him dancing (spacing out might be a better description...) to the music at the end?
thedakkster 5 years ago
It was stretching
IanCrossland 5 years ago
Streching leads to the bridge of manifestation. On the other side of that bridge is clarity. Stretch on Ian2. We are all the same.
tvguitars 5 years ago
Since jayarbee specifically asked us to watch the dancing/stretching at the end, my guess is he *did* see it.
reflexivelycontrary 5 years ago
By all means, put the button up. Then make a video honestly telling us how much cash is coming in. Be truthful about the amount...don't be afraid to honestly face the reality, dude, of how much or how little your services are valued. Remember, karma will get you if you lie.
reflexivelycontrary 5 years ago
Don't you think a paypal-button is more honest than making commersial for a product you don't believe in?
viddeliten 5 years ago
Good point.
tvguitars 5 years ago
I get what your saying and that was a powerful dream, I agree with what you said about it. It looks like your going through a pretty heavy depression and have social anxiety and just confused about life. This isn't derogotory. I hope you find the answers you need. I hope you can get out of yourself and connect like you want to.
flinder 5 years ago
I'd say that a job/career= providing a service. Desired or not; I would put the button up because some folks may want to donate to you for what they may consider to be a service provided to a community...even if the community is yourself.But although I've got many viewpoints on the subject, I'd recommend the option to be readily available.
mrmree 5 years ago
Education is kind of a racket isn't it?
w0rldpeace 5 years ago
Re: education, I think your comments assumed that education was about getting "knowledge", ie simply acquiring a bunch of facts. Education at its best, however, is about gaining the tools you talked about to be able to ask questions and explore the world for yourself. If education does that, it is never wasted.
DavidlyMe 5 years ago
You don't go to school to accumulate knowledgge. That's called a library. Education is to teac the human mind how to study and learn, and hopefully discover. The rest is all state certification and "industrial functionability."
dhRzztt 5 years ago
Hey Ian, I have a question: are you a joke? is this an act?
there's no way all these things you say a real. especially your puerile "philosophical" ramblings, the Obama money scam, your comments about the heat causing the Middle East to be so volatile.
I can't believe Caitlin likes you and said you were 'deep'. Is she in on the joke? If she is then she's horrible; and if she isn't then she is, I'm sad to say, naive and stupid. Either way, I'm disappointed in her.
ChumKrimson 5 years ago
This is not an act, there is no problem with opening up your mind to new concepts.
IanCrossland 5 years ago
no I mean I put together the fact that your account was hacked based on the video.
walsh1kt 5 years ago
Yeah, but your mind isn't open, Ian. You only listen to yourself. Your mind is closed since you can't take in impressions and thoughts from external sources.
thedakkster 5 years ago
very well said, I need to hear some of that myself..
cosmanthony21 5 years ago
You're pushing it dak. Most people don't have original thought, much less express it. 99.9% regurgitate other peoples words without knowing the origin-al thought that created them.
dhRzztt 5 years ago
Furthermore Ian's desire to nurture his own insight even at the expense of ridicule for being at odds with "common sense"(which has destroyed nations)is his attraction. True intelligence is really innocense, not acrobatic recitation of "schools" of thought. This point has it's history and there were many intellegent (and well read) daks that tried to stop it.
dhRzztt 5 years ago
Reason and the Enlightenment are a sham and the future of nations is to be found in "innocence"? Ideas are everywhere, true knowledge is rare.
larkydozer 5 years ago
Intellegence gives birth to reason and enlightenment. Innocence gives birth to intelligence. ideas are moments of clarity clothed in thought, nothing more, but what has become clear? What has kept it in hiding? What method was used to hide it?How do you define true knowledge if truth is transitory?
dhRzztt 5 years ago
For you then, the relativity of truth is not a theoretical insight but a moral postulate. Which "innocence" movement in history has preserved nations....as your prior comment suggested?
larkydozer 5 years ago
it is neither. Not speaking of movements or political foundations. Intelligence(which has nothing to do with knowledge accumulated by the ego.) comes in a moment that is accompanied by a human being in the state of his origin, his innocence from thought. Thought specifically free from imposed morality,opinion,common sense, theoretical conclusion.
dhRzztt 5 years ago
To say that you're "not speaking of movements or political foundations" is to be completely ahistorical. You said "truth is transitory" which is to state a truth. Is your statement true or untrue?
larkydozer 5 years ago
both
dhRzztt 5 years ago
It's valid to go down that road but for me it is a departure. An afterthought. In that sense my answer is both.
dhRzztt 5 years ago
You're incoherent. Question for you. What role does reason play in your life?
larkydozer 5 years ago
Why ask? my answer will certainly be incoherent.
dhRzztt 5 years ago
I will say that we speak from different camps. You are clinging to the safety of tradition and I am simply saying that intelligence (itself) is a product of the innocence from tradition. The "unfettered" mind so to speak. Now what that intelligence does,(reason) is another thing and that can be both ahistorical or along traditional lines (in action not origin). You don't have to go black or white. It's too confining. You speak of using intellegence and I am speaking of it's origins.
dhRzztt 5 years ago
intelligence is at best limited. it can only take us so far. tradition has in it much that affirms life. much we cannot know by our reason alone. but true wisdom comes only when we can balance the two.
haruwan21 5 years ago
Fair enough, but it can also be said that a few unbalanced individuals weathered the storm of ostracism,scorn,and even mental institutions to dramatically change the world. For the rest of us, you are spot on.
dhRzztt 5 years ago
You speak in vague, murky phrases which cling to the shelter of the tradition laid out by J.G. Bennett, Gurjeiff, or even Ouspenski. There's nothing "new" or revolutionary in what you've said above. Ideas have consequences. It's worth evaluating the merits of their ideas and looking at outcomes. None of this is possible when you pretend you're Yoda and claim to occupy the ground of "both" or "the unfettered".
larkydozer 5 years ago
Now you seem to be talking along the lines of matt damon. Either way, we seem to be talking to each other from viewpoints of separate planets. But it was fun. Thanks.
dhRzztt 5 years ago
The quickest way to empty a room is to close your eyes and put your hands over your ears. This blunts sensory phenomena, without which the world does not exist.
The second quickest way to empty a room is to put on a Michael Bolton CD and break out a 4-pack of Seagram's Orange Pineapple Bahama Mama wine coolers. But that's more of a Heidegger thing.
larkydozer 5 years ago
LOL
thedakkster 5 years ago
At least you'd be consistently incoherent.
larkydozer 5 years ago
Is truth ALWAYS transitory? Is slavery immoral? Is slavery justified? If so, why? If not, why not? Is the truth determined by local custom? Is it subjective and therefore customized to the individual?
larkydozer 5 years ago
No. To my morals yes. There is no justice. No. No.
dhRzztt 5 years ago
"To my morals yes". Sort of like saying "I like spinach", you're stating a preference, rather than offering a proposition that you recognize something is wrong, whether or not someone else might enjoy it....ie:slavery. If "there is no justice", then by that very logic, nothing is unjust.
larkydozer 5 years ago
Yeah ok, what you said, you're very clever. I'm just bored and baiting you now so, you can give me you're tired obviousness and answer recital. Peace out.
dhRzztt 5 years ago
psychology 101 "delusion of grandeur"
dhRzztt 5 years ago
Funny, this is the sort of response my German friend ( a student of Rorty, Hegel and the like ) would give any time he faced the failings of his skepticism.
larkydozer 5 years ago
i definitly can sympathize...
dhRzztt 5 years ago
Disengagement in the face of making important distinctions is a hallmark of the non-judgemental, interpretive, post-modern set. Good luck with your bailing.
larkydozer 5 years ago
You reveal nothing of your own view. You just compartmentalize mine in your little "pseudo educated" mind. Then you attach labels of which you've demonstrated no understanding to further distance yourself from the criticism you daily put upon yourself. You needn't finetune your beautiful self but still you persist. You are enough.
dhRzztt 5 years ago
To offer proofs of the illogic of your self important statements is itself a display of my methodology and the logic of morals.
larkydozer 5 years ago
You are relentless with your little toolchest. It simply means that I pay my employees $15/hr because anything less is slavewages. Outside of that I recognize that slavery is. I just concern myself with my own actions(something I have control of), not trying to rearrange others prejudice(something out of my control). It keeps me out of hamster wheels which I have no desire to climb in. They go nowhere.
dhRzztt 5 years ago
This is the operative definition when speaking of the immorality of slavery.... The state of one bound in servitude as the property of a slaveholder or household.
The practice of owning slaves.
larkydozer 5 years ago
Just because I like to consume spinach doesnn't mean that I am like spinach, or that I liken myself to spinach. I like Ian and I like you, that doesn't mean that I am like you, but it is only in likening myself to you that i can truly understand you, to know that I am like you at some level. I don't think that level has anything to do with the self that i create in my own mind. It has more to do with the innocence of children at play.
dhRzztt 5 years ago
Further off topic and into the ether you go. Is that you, Timothy Leary?
larkydozer 5 years ago
As usual, instead of a response, I get another name dropped, as if to say being well-read qualifies as thinking. So far all you've done is call me a fool and ask questions and reply to answers with scorn, a name drop, and another question. I'm beginning to see Ian's purpose. Exposing the nature of conflict, for one. You have a death grip on something. I just don't know what it is.
dhRzztt 5 years ago
Let me try again. A moral proposition is one that differs from one of personal taste or preference. To say "I like spinach" is different from saying "slavery is unjust". A moral proposition offers a judgement, a judgement, in turn, can issue only from a proposition which affirms or denies something is true. continued....
larkydozer 5 years ago
.. It's hardly comprehensible to make a judgement ( one public law is better than another ) unless there are grounds on which to think that the judgement is true. It would make less sense to suggest that any person should favor a certain law, unless the grounds on which that law would be "good" were thought to be true for others as well as oneself.
larkydozer 5 years ago
Thanks for clarifing your point. I recognize through intelligent (self-evidence) that all men are created equal. That being the proposition, my conclusion {judgement if you will) is that slavery is contrary to this truth. Moralistically, in the affairs of human beings it is wrong to violate any laws based on this truth. People that believe others are not eligible for unalienable rights are not wrong. They are ignorant. Laws are for ignorance.
dhRzztt 5 years ago
Right. The practice of slavery is a violation of ones natural rights. But, yes, people that believe others do not possess the same unalienable rights are wrong and they may or may not be ignorant. Stephen Douglas was surely aware he was arguing for slavery during his debates with Lincoln. Being ignorant doesn't exempt one from being wrong.
DennisTofuPupKucinic 5 years ago
ok fine. At the depth I am referring to, the distinction between being wrong and doing wrong are at the crux of the discussion (since we are referring to Ian's comments, after all) It's the "don't hate the person hate his behavior" thing. A person can be very clever and intelligent and still ignorant. The further back you go of course, the more you find. If they knew the truth they wouldn't be wrong.
dhRzztt 5 years ago
Being ignorant has nothin to do with being stupid (unless you're Webster}. It has to do with ignoring an inner truth about yourself due to outside and then progressively ultimatly inside influences. Evolution should correct that.
dhRzztt 5 years ago
If one is admittedly ignorant, then they are educable, yes? I don't follow what you're saying in that second sentence, it's not very clear. Moral truths are true, regardless of location, whether that truth is present in your mind, or absent from your mind.
DennisTofuPupKucinic 5 years ago
Not sure I follow what you're saying there.
DennisTofuPupKucinic 5 years ago
The "lesser angels" of Lincolns nature believed in slavery too. He basically admitted that, using those very words. He simply acted out of his intellegence rather than his ignorance. Politically that's called a "risk" unfortunatly.
dhRzztt 5 years ago
As Lincoln argued, the American republic did not begin with the Constitution; it began with that "proposition," as he called it, the first principle that "all men are created equal."
DennisTofuPupKucinic 5 years ago
Well said.
larkydozer 5 years ago
That is the difference between you and renetto.
pacificpablo 5 years ago
The act is the opening up to the new concepts where everything is changing but we are all the same.
tvguitars 5 years ago
I'm all for open minds. But even radical thinkers would find your ideas ridiculous because you have zero knowledge of philosophy/ethics/linguistics/psychology/etc. Your ideas are incoherent and infantile.
ChumKrimson 5 years ago
Careful. Einstein only made it to the eighth grade. he rode a childs tricycle in his sixties. The man who invented television had little education but believed in sending thought and visual waves through the air and those with common sense commited him to a mental institution for several years. Think about that before you fire up the tube.
dhRzztt 5 years ago
Aw, You sound really tired and sad.
You should go out and have some fun this weekend, that doesn't involve smoking a lot of pot. Or spend a day doing something you like... besides smoking pot.
Yeahh, feel better, buddy. :)
malleryn 5 years ago
I've heard that dreams only express internal, personal conflicts. So maybe you're actually finding it hard to communicate with yourself.
emphaticapathy 5 years ago
Ian, when you say two (or more) things are the same, you need to specify *in what respect* they're the same. My computer and I are the same in that we're in the same room, we're both made of molecules, we both weigh less than 5000 kilos, etc. (In fact, any two things are the same in *some* respect or other.) In what respect are you claiming all people are the same?
mvaphilo 5 years ago
Let me just add that my comment isn't meant as a challenge. It's an invitation to you to try to further clarify and develop your thought about us all being the same -- if you'd like to. (By the way, I liked the video.)
mvaphilo 5 years ago
I have to agree with Rodneyirani on that one.
aquahate 5 years ago
I would support his not wanting to work.
I don't want to work. Maybe he might have a way out.
Besides, it gives a lot more power to his supporters.
aquahate 5 years ago
Would'nt that be great...getting paid to vlog. I would love to get paid for listening. Of course of would also like super powers too...being able to bend time would work for me...mmm yea
2of6Solutions 5 years ago
lol
Jackie615 5 years ago
In general: that pay pal thing,
what if,
you had a few different accounts.
One for the support of Obama,
One for the homeless shelter thing,
and another for yourself to give you
more time to focus on this stuff,
plus rent & food.
aquahate 5 years ago
Yeah, that was all crap. There's nothing wrong with Ian puting up web pages and PayPal buttons. What's the problem? I don't know how much money it would bring in, but there's no ethical problem.
creepeelurker 5 years ago
Your dream/nightmare sounds pretty scary. Leave it to SF to bring that out.
heyitscorie 5 years ago
...hmm...
xBubblesx1 5 years ago
ah yes.i was at that party trying to tell you i speak your language
teen06jpg 5 years ago
I want to get blazed with you some day, lol, im jacked up right now lol
rodneyirani 5 years ago
"Once you understand how to communicate with people you don't have to learn anything because anything you need to learn you can figure out at any time just by asking."
Ask who? An educated person!?
How then will you ever recognize mere sophistry when you hear it?
emwharton 5 years ago
The only thing that makes us all the same is that DEATH will come for us all one day. So go grab your favorite flavor of ice cream and enjoy. Unless you are lactose intolerant; then go get a popcycle and a copy of the upinshads.
tvguitars 5 years ago
Double comment lol- about the education thing- I have to say I agree with you, but I think a HS degree is a plus. I am an administrator of a website and I only have my HS degree. I am still debating the college thing.
Valthecatlover 5 years ago
gosh!
cloudmonkeys 5 years ago
I enjoyed it, Ian.
creepeelurker 5 years ago
after a couple of degrees and eagerness to learn more, I realize that the more I think I know, the less I know.
GlobeBar 5 years ago
LOL, I got censored. My comment didn't manifest. Damn you and your censoring Ian2! Damn yoooooooou! LOL!
tvguitars 5 years ago
KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!
thedakkster 5 years ago
And I'm not saying that we can't connect, we're just not gonna fully understand everything that is said at that moment. In other cases, yea. In some cases, no.
Shana80 5 years ago
Maybe your dream was a fear of you not being understood by everyone. But that's just it, we maybe all connected, but not EVERYONE is gonna understand us. We maybe all be the same, but the different roads of life we've taken is what makes our view points different. And so we view life differently than others. We all have our own pair of rose tented glasses.
Shana80 5 years ago
I'm pretty sure you felt unsatisfied at the end because you decided, out loud, that you were talking to nobody. you decided you were alone in that moment. If you had just pictured one of the many people you know who are watching you, and talk like you know they are listening, guaruntee you wont feel as unsatisfied/alone at the end.
dannyd318 5 years ago
Dude, it wasnt someone who was autistic. It was a part of yourself thats always there, that feels like it cant connect with people. All the people that rip on you here feed that part and make it feel like no one could possibly understand or acknowledge it.
dannyd318 5 years ago
Exactly! It's a form of insecurity that is coming forth in his dreams. I've had dreams like that too, and they always happened during times of feeling out of place and misunderstood. Of course going around half baked all the time isn't helping, I'm sure.. lol
Jackie615 5 years ago
college doesn't matter? okay tell that to the rest of the world
dgentile83 5 years ago
Hell yeah dude f money!!!
afraidofvideo 5 years ago
J.R.M.C.
theBigTakeover 5 years ago
When I go to see my shrink, we watch and discuss your videos. So I'm going to fire my shrink and send you the cash. Is that OK?
LouRyder 5 years ago
deep, but you should take a break from the drugs and liquor.
pacificpablo