 wow you guys I am astounded by the activity on my channel since yesterday June 23rd you know before the day that day began I had around you know 136 subscribers or so and you know by the end of the day I remember like right now I currently have over 500 something like 400 of you maybe a little bit you know around 400 of you have joined the the channel subscribe to the channel and that allegory video had maybe 80 views and now it's over 20,000 views on floor it's that's a whole lot to happen in one day I'm glad you like the allegory I'll try not to take your subscription for granted I hope that you learn to think philosophically and I hope that these videos help you do so you know I'm pretty well aware that I can't make you believe anything and that's fine you know I don't want the responsibility of making you believe anything what I can do is I can just speak as if I know something was certain to you that's true yeah you know that's just the normal way speaking I get it I can propose ideas evidence for you to examine I can give you arguments I can tell you a lot of what the philosophers has said through history that's what I can do but beyond that you have the freedom and again maybe the last freedom you ever have you have the freedom to use your mind to put that evidence together to evaluate those arguments and to the best of your ability discover the truth the truth of our lives you have that freedom and you have that responsibility if you're gonna take up this project of actually voicing your conclusions you are now incurring a responsibility to be candid I want you to keep me honest it's only through the free exchange of ideas that we can ever uncover our own errors in other words if I'm gonna figure out where I'm making a mistake I'm gonna need an outside observer we are notoriously blind to our own errors you know what I'm really hoping is that you help keep people honest don't be rude but keep people honest and include yourself keep people honest through the use of reason experts are great experts are an excellent source of evidence but merely because an expert says something does not necessitate that is true keep people honest I'm also not suggesting that you be skeptical for the sake of being skeptical that's not the use of reason either keep people honest through the use of reason this involves collecting evidence putting the evidence together to see what truth relations hold between them to imply a conclusion that's argument argument it's not just shouting at each other collect evidence use argument and in you know the case of disagreement which let's face it it's going to happen use reason to figure out whether the argument is flawed or whether there's some problem with the evidence to do other than this to disagree or to put you know to give a conclusion without the use of reason is simply trying to bully people into your the conclusion that you want because all it is it says believe this because I say so that's not reason it's not honest so yeah hopefully you can keep me honest you can keep you honest and together we can continue down this road because let's face it we're on this road together for a really long time