Think For Yourself. Question Authority.

[AliceNchainz011]

Nice selection of pictures....all governments, all over the world exist with the potential and need to control...some worse than others.

[JUNKYARDOGvideos]

WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU TO TELL ME WHAT TO DO  LEARY !....[THAT WAS ME THINKING FOR MYSELF AND QUESTIONING THE SPEAKER'S AUTHORITY.}

FREE YOUR MIND AND YOUR BODY OF HALFWIT FRIENDS WILL FOLLOW.

[PendejoPerdedor]

I stumbled upon this video some time ago, knowing nothing of Timothy Leary or his ideas. Since that time I have read some of his books, listened to his words and have read other authors' works about his life. The more and more I learn about this man and his ideas, the more I realize that I have always known him and I have always known the ideas he has put forth. Timothy Leary has had such an impact on my life and I'm honored to have received his teachings.

[SpunkySkunk347]

Crowley as the source of his outlook? No. Tim Leary is clearly demonstrating his own spin on psychological theory, the source ultimately being probably Jung or Nietzsche

[Hutty1616]

and then the drums kick in.....

[theTOOLshed1]

The first photo in the video has been doctored.

There are no stars...

[opiumrebel]

A Prophet, peroid.

[disheartedheart]

"The Tea Party Truther" Facebook. More than you want to know about our government! Click the Info tab. Read the info. Click the Wall. Go through all the links. It may take you a month, but it will enlighten you.

[TearsOfWar1]

3 people can't think for themselves.

[travz21]

Came out to watch you play. Why are you running away?

[protpus23]

hey tim copied george, or is it the other way around, all in all message comes from the same source: Crowley

[ohnsted]

this is beggining to third eye from tool salival.....

[aristrocatic]

Never let the elite control your minds.

[bastardism]

Thanks

[MrLeotrotzki]

The greatest keen thinker ever to grace this earth.

[BoatsnHelicopters]

I really appreciate the effort that went into this video. Obviously, the Veganicwitch is trying to beat us all over the head with this idea, but in a good way.

[LifeIsLife1984]

great video =)

[elisaloba]

T.Leary was so wonderfull!!!!!

[Fuzzy192006]

think for others. obey

[DontRunBand]

pulled right out of third eye live haha great song, great quote!

[agiar2000]

CAUTION: This sign has sharp edges. Do not touch the edges of this sign.

[Jammieg001]

that's good advice

[Jammieg001]

or is it?

if you don't think for yourself you free up your thinking for other things, and if you accept most authoritative knowledge without wasting time questioning it frees you up to think more about other things that deserve to be questioned...

[imacellphone]

1:02 : alex grey/tool ftw

[DGerke1]

probably... THE best song..ever written..EVER!

[keenan462]

this is so true

[apocalist420]

tool... third eye... awsome...

[drekas2005]

Yes yes yes  yes. Alway's question authority.

[ridethespiral23]

I have question authortiy tattooed on my arm to remind me everyday how corrupt those are in power

[stickybelvedere]

thats not something your gonna forget. you just got that tattoo cuz you thought it looked badass

[ridethespiral23]

well obviously thats a fucking reason

[Grayhatt]

@ridethespiral23 lol too bad that ironically you have to HAVE your arm REMIND you to "question authority" to 'think for yourself.' So much for thinking for yourself :P

[MadCircle01]

terence mckeena has to be chekt out also.

[girlphriend]

There a new social scene we all need to be awayre of and work towards, Check out Zetgiest Addendum, the Venus Project; and the Zeitgiest Moevement! There is a NEW way!

[SeventhSun]

Screw the Venus Project if Adonis is left out of the picture.

[girlphriend]

I'm not sure I follow. Please explain.

[peeweedarkarrow]

too true =]

and people call me an idiot when i ask... why?

nice vid

very inspirational

[BJZnRPZ]

Very nicely done.

[gnarkillgnarkill01]

this right here makes more sense to me than every religous idea ever though of...Think for youself, do what makes sense to you. If that means thinking God created the earth then go ahead, if it makes sense to to you...dont allow the "Authorities" to mold your mind into what they have believed the world to be...think for yourself.

[6mini6ulrich6]

Now play third Eye!

[Kirlian222]

Agree!!!!! Nice Video, man.

[othersideseeker]

Quite possibly the best vid on youtube ! Not to mention educational.

You guys should check out some Graham Hancock interviews too !

[SlugDropsonheads]

i have.. that man is a freakin awesome orator

[dillweed44]

I sampled that 'Think for Yourself, question Authority' bit - put it to my reggae tune - I'll put it as the video response.

[scarry07]

hy thanks this is great ...i wanna translate this video in my language ( romanian ) can you write me the text in english ? .....

[TheVeganicWitch]

"Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going in this ocean of chaos, it has been the authorities — the political, the religious, the educational authorities — who attempted to comfort us by giving us order, rules, regulations, informing — forming in our minds — their view of reality...

[TheVeganicWitch]

...To think for yourself you must question authority and learn how to put yourself in a state of vulnerable open-mindedness, chaotic, confused vulnerability to inform yourself." Timothy Leary.

[scarry07]

Thanks, you are the first who help me to translate in my language important informations .. i really apreciate ...Thanks and have a great day

[TheVeganicWitch]

No problem :-)

[muzokskittles]

every song on salival, is scary

merkaba, third eye live, and pushit live, i do not recommend to anyone who is partaking in psychedelics. and btw, by either meditating or taking psychedelics, you understand more of what tool really is.

[Laxanii]

Heh...Salival. I love the telephone song! If I had control of punishments, I'd lock a person in a white room with that track playing for days or months so they learn their lesson.

[plopenstien]

listening to salival is no punishment

[Laxanii]

You are correct, sir. But most people couldn't stand it over a period of a time, and they would bash their heads against the walls until they bleed. I can stand it, because I enjoy its surrealistic point-of-view. Most people, however, are weak in the mind, which will cause them to go insane. Those who take drugs and listen to Tool, are also not getting the message. I don't partake in drugs, yet I still love Tool.

[plopenstien]

indeed

i also love the song. drugs are bad. tool is good.

together its pretty weird though. i dont do drugs but i know many people do

[Laxanii]

I'm glad you don't. I know too many people who do.  They aren't REALLY listening to what Tool is saying.

[fighter1771]

You're right, but they do feel it :)

[purplesarah87]

Oh my god I love that you are tool fan, I am ever so slightly obsessed with them lol :D

Are you on toolarmy by any chance?

x

[remzskater93]

wasnt this on salival?

[TheVeganicWitch]

Yes, you get many points for knowing that :-)

Tool rock!

[purplesarah87]

hell yeah it was :D

[nickh2020]

The No Quarter cover on that album is fucking awesome

[winer80]

Think ok

do a research on this

illuminati

The freemasons

bones and skulls

bohemian grove

The bilderberg group

The Trilateral commission

The Council on the foreign relastions

find the true and find out why everything today is going on.

[universalJok3r]

=JESSAMINE ROCKS MY FUZZY PURPLE SOCKS=

Boy, is this setting off some independent thought alarms in the man's office right now! :)

I just love how everyone slots neatly into the machine, unconsciously Making it all work for our white collared rulers.

What's even better though are the parts that just don't fit,

the ones that no matter how hard they are jammed into place, just will not work.

[universalJok3r]

Our schools no longer teach, they pacify.

They force you to be one of the many, because then you can be more easily led.

You are born, you grow up under their ideals, you become a consumer whore, then you die...

Fulfilling isn't it?

[universalJok3r]

Unfortunately for me, society never had a reservation.

Eventually if people make you feel different for the majority of your life, you just stop trying to please them... I'm sure you feel the same...

When you're forced to the fringe of society, you have no choice but to reject what they strive so hard to maintain...

[Loadie]

Nice slideshow!

[TheVeganicWitch]

Cheers! :-)

[jfreeman539]

your welcome!!!

[jfreeman539]

veganic whitch you rock!!!!! i became a raw vegan a month ago and i feel great and i look great now i am trying pratice the teachings of buddhism. oh and i subscribed to you. take care of your self!

[TheVeganicWitch]

Woot! you rock too. I'm around 10 months vegan now and I'm starting to try to include much more raw food and less processed. Thanks for subscribing! :-)

[CatCommunication]

Yes Yes Yes! I love it! I LOVE IT!!!!

I love how you tied it in with the magazine covers! "Their view of reality" TOTALLY BRILLIANT!

[TheVeganicWitch]

Yeah, that's my fave bit. Gender role programming is some of the most insidious shit that happens to us during our lifetime, especially that carried out by advertising companies. I hate these womens and mens magazines, they teach women to become objects and men to objectify them. It's just sick!

[trick0171]

After watching this video and it telling me to, I will now think for myself.

[TheVeganicWitch]

Ha ha ha ha :-)

[writerdamien]

Another great video and topic as usual. I agree with everything you and the others are saying I would only add that I continue to worry about objectivity and how the information people read is filtered through their personal perspective. The Internet is a great medium as long as judgment and objectivity can still be exercised. Thanks again.

[TheVeganicWitch]

I sometimes wonder if humans are even capable of true objectivity. My stance is that there may well be one objective truth, but as everyone's lives are experienced subjectively it may not even matter most of the time. Is that a strange thought? LOL

Good to hear from you again! :-)

[writerdamien]

I always miss interacting with you; you have so much food for thought. I agree that people experience their lives subjectively but I believe most of the forward movement in the world has come from attempting to move beyond that. I wonder, if people had given themselves over to complete subjectivity, would slavery, child labour in many countries, women's rights issues and other human and civil liberties have been addressed. Yes, I think it's difficult but entirely necessary to try.

[TheVeganicWitch]

It's been a while since my philosophy lessons so forgive me, but does one have to be objective to experience empathy? I've forgotten some of the technicalities. I feel that often I make decisions by thinking of, or imagining (using any information I may have), how I would feel in a given situation and then I make decisions based on that. Because my major goal in life is to reduce suffering and suffering is experienced subjectively I feel this is the only effective way to guage these things.

[writerdamien]

I don't know, that's a good question. I think, though, that empathizing subjectively becomes transcended when you are willing to put yourself at risk or in discomfort for the good of someone else. I think we go from subjective to objective when the benefit of someone or something else outweighs our own benefit. I think, the final determining factor for someone acting subjectively is them not something or someone else. I believe objectivity looks outside of or beyond one's self.

[TheVeganicWitch]

Ahhhhhhhhh, awesome :-)

[Re4dSetH]

Ya beat me to it..lol I was gonna make a vid using that..Just remember, we have already won. The world leaders would never give us this much free speech if they were truly in control, every thought we have overpowers them, since we manifest a reality without fear...their plan was to take this form of communication from us long ago and keep us in the dark fighting eachother..They are surviving now based on the fear in themselves of losing their power, it won't last long. Love the vids:)

[TheVeganicWitch]

He he he, I win! :-) Yes, I really do think we are making some amazing progress, more and more people are taking that step into the unknown and thinking for themselves. Some of the ideas we come up with don't hit the spot but we will get there. It is a process of development, like a child growing into a young adult and learning how to live independently. In many ways the last 100 years is the first time common people have had the opportunity to access information and have their own opinions.

[TheVeganicWitch]

Right now, with the internet, we have access to more information then any average person has ever had in history. Some of it may be complete garbage but as long as we are also developing skills in critical reasoning no idea is dangerous. The step a lot of people are making now to abandon the TV in favour of user created content such as YT is extremely promising. The only thing that really worries me now is the threat that governments want to censor the internet, but the communities that created

[TheVeganicWitch]

the internet as it now exists will not let this happen. Most of them are anarchists of a kind. They will find a way through and we will follow them. Even children these days are becoming more skilled then professional programmers in many cases. For instance the government released a net nanny type program and advised all parents to install it for free. A young teenager hacked through it in about 30 minutes :-)

[TheVeganicWitch]

I have heard that word a few times, 'impractical'. Noone seems to want to describe exactly what they mean by that or explain why they think veganism is impractical. It's very annoying.

[TheVeganicWitch]

I dunno, it sounds right.

[TheVeganicWitch]

The problem is that before something can be effectively upheld by the law public opinion has to support it. I think this has to start at grass roots and work up, unfortunately. If we can make the change I can't see why many other people can't as well. I couldn't have imagined myself as a vegan even 12 months ago and look at me now, I'm two months off a year as a vegan and never been happier :-)

[TheVeganicWitch]

The state I was born in, South Australia, was one of the first places to give women the vote, in 1901 I believe (I think New Zealand beat them to it). There was no real war going on at that time, except the British Kingdoms war against all the indigenous peoples of the world.

[TheVeganicWitch]

Just keep on truckin'. That is ALL we can do. Change is slow because people are afraid of it, even if it will benefit them. It takes several generations. People are still arguing about equal rights for women for gods sake!

[itekisan]

Bakunin (the Russian anarchist) has an interesting paragraph in his book "God and the State" regarding the questioning of authority: That this questioning basically should ask if a person IS or only HAS authority. To follow those who have authority is foolish, but to not follow those who are authorities is likewise foolish! This last part is too often forgotten. Instead of searching advice and asking for help, people then often don't use these important sources of learning and growth.

[TheVeganicWitch]

I agree, definately. The problem is that noone has respect for learning or intelligence. The only source they trust is the television.

[sapperbloggs]

That was brilliant... Fav'd and *****

I've always had a problem with any form of authority that didn't allow people to question it. It's my biggest problem with religion, people say I'm bad for questioning a particular faith. If that faith was as correct as they claim it to be, it would allow people to question it, it would stand up to scrutiny.

As none of the major religions allow for scrutiny, they all fail in my eyes

[TheVeganicWitch]

Cheers Sapper! Yeah, I am not one for organised religion...definately. There is too much scope for the abuse of power by the leaders and herd like behaviour from the followers.

[CatCommunication]

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Buddhism does!

Buddha said "Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. Do not believe anything because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything because it is written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is..."

[Zomzara]

Yeah. That's the whole roots of Buddhism. That's what Herman Hesse's Siddhartha is all about.

[CatCommunication]

Amen!

[CatCommunication]

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"...conducive to the good and the benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."

(sorry! had a proselytizing attack there for a sec! :)

[TheVeganicWitch]

Go Buddha!

[Eopyk]

I agree.. great video :) BE A FREE THINKER! Question governments, business ,media, religion , culture  and everything use your brain be free!

[tobyr3]

A great lesson spoken by a wise sage. Thanks. Its great to hear Tim again.