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Wednesday 5 August 2020

Thoughts on democracy after the Beirut port explosion


3:00  Simplification
4:00  The objectives of political activism
5:00  Comments and engagement
6:00  Politics of Lebanon
10:00  Statecraft
21:00  Splinter groups leading to deadlock leading to violence and acts of terrorism. 
31:00  Caliphate
33:00  Balkanisation
34:00  China
36:00  Americans failing God's stress test of Covid-19.
37:00  Jay's stated beliefs
38:00  Luke Ford admits to Narcissistic Personality Disorder
40:00  Men who change their mind on important political issues to attract attention.

42:00  People who don't care about the arguments and only want to hold on to their views even if they are based on false beliefs, invalid arguments and follow no principle

44:00  The constitution of Communist Party China will in time become the scripture of Chinese nationalism until it becomes as long-winded and contradictory as Hindu scripture and everything collapses. If everything you want and need to do is already in the Koran, you might as well use it because of its universality, supremacy and divinity. 

45:00  The Lebanese are ignoring the Koran that warns Muslims against dividing their religion and politics into sects and rejoicing in their own doctrines.  

47:00  Judeo-Christian-Islamic heritage

48:00  Predictable buck-passing

49:00  Even if Jay said he supported Secular Koranism, no one would believe him, least of all me. 

51:00  An atheist, nihilist and a narcissist who cannot make up his mind on anything

52:00  The highest status person I know in my circles is Church of Entropy.

59:00  CHURCH OF ENTROPY joins.  

1:06:00  Trigonometry: he study of the angles of triangles

1:06:00  Grade 10 - 15 years old

1:08:00  The Beirut explosion

1:09:00  Normalcy bias

1:10:00  You think all swans are white until you see a black swan.  

1:11:00  Long term and short term thinking

1:12:00  The National Interest > Party Interest

1:14:00  Corpus

1:15:00  Hitler debates

1:16:00  Alexander the Great 

1:17:00  Genghis Khan 

1:18:00  Why empires fall

1:19:00  Territory, boundaries and nations

1:20:00  Jen and I are both products of the British Empire.

1:21:00  India. Fallen civilisations that operate liberal democracy are part of the American Empire.

1:22:00  Israeli divisions

1:23:00  Ashkenazim

1:24:00  IC race codes

1:27:00  Jews and their identity crisis

1:28:00  Europeans, war and empire

1:29:00  Mercenaries, neoconservatism and American imperialism

1:30:00  Every war is a gamble. Poker

1:31:00  Jen's "entourage"

1:32:00  The guy who looked like a Ken doll

1:36:00  Spreading the risk

1:37:00  The price of gold

1:38:00  Theft and usury

1:39:00  Hemp bucks

1:43:00  Hempcrete

1:44:00  Different architectural styles for different neighbourhoods or colour coding for civic pride

1:45:00  I said Mykonos but I was thinking of Santorini.  

1:47:00  The fundamentals of the right religion and political system

1:48:00  Church of Entropy says logic is relativised but gives no concrete examples. 

1:49:00  Jen cannot explain what she means.

1:51:00  "Nukes ain't real."

1:52:00  Axioms and definitions

1:54:00  I am accused of being illogical for wanting to motivate people into submitting to Truth, Logic and Morality. It is true that I am only interested in talking to honourable and influential people whom I hope will adopt my ideas, but Jen talks about "gently encouraging people's narcissism in a positive direction". This means motivating them by using their crude but strong emotions eg fear, hate, lust, anger, gluttony, greed, sloth, envy etc to do what she wants. 


1:55:00  Our political establishment does not enjoy the free exchange of ideas with which to solve and avoid problems.  

1:58:00  Narcissistic Personality Disorder

1:59:00  Co-dependency

2:00:00  Amateur psychology and being a "regular dude"

2:04:00  I am not in league with Jen's family members.

2:06:00  "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!" 



2:07:00  I feel I have known Jen several lifetimes. 

2:11:00  Trees and monkeys

2:12:00  Luke Ford converting to Judaism

2:13:00  Defining our own identity.

2:14:00  JAY joins before Jen and I could discuss defining ourselves. You can create your own identity by converting out of your parents' religion as Luke Ford has done, or by defining yourself with your ideas eg Secular Koranism.  

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