WEBVTT 00:00:00.300 --> 00:00:03.960 Everyone's got their own theory on the matrix 00:00:03.960 --> 00:00:09.060 and in the past I have immersed myself in lots 00:00:09.060 --> 00:00:12.419 of different theories for example the theory 00:00:12.419 --> 00:00:18.480 that It's a financial thing like We're stuck 00:00:18.480 --> 00:00:21.100 in the rat race the matrix and we had to make 00:00:21.100 --> 00:00:24.039 money become a millionaire to escape the matrix 00:00:24.039 --> 00:00:28.100 Another theory is oh, it was the education system. 00:00:28.120 --> 00:00:33.990 We have to rework the education system to destroy 00:00:33.990 --> 00:00:40.070 the matrix and Another theory is like health 00:00:40.070 --> 00:00:44.850 related stuff like if We're in a world that's 00:00:44.850 --> 00:00:47.570 built for a sedentary lifestyle. That's the matrix. 00:00:47.570 --> 00:00:51.750 We have to break out of it and do a live a healthy 00:00:51.750 --> 00:01:01.820 lifestyle and I'm sure they all have hint of 00:01:01.820 --> 00:01:07.579 truth to them but one recent thing that I've 00:01:07.579 --> 00:01:10.799 really started to think a lot about lately is 00:01:10.799 --> 00:01:17.140 the possibility that maybe it's a lot more holistic 00:01:17.140 --> 00:01:24.280 a lot more structural a lot more deeply integrated 00:01:24.280 --> 00:01:30.239 than we think and I'm not sure At this point, 00:01:30.260 --> 00:01:32.439 I'm just talking about the concept of a matrix. 00:01:32.540 --> 00:01:36.040 I'm not talking about any theories from the film. 00:01:36.060 --> 00:01:39.599 I'm taking inspiration of the ideas presented 00:01:39.599 --> 00:01:47.180 in that film, like the idea of a matrix and a 00:01:47.180 --> 00:01:51.760 disconnected abstract reality that most people 00:01:51.760 --> 00:01:54.079 perceive in. That's what I'm talking about. I'm 00:01:54.079 --> 00:01:56.819 not talking about necessarily the movie itself. 00:01:57.769 --> 00:02:01.549 I've seen it a couple times in the past, but 00:02:01.549 --> 00:02:08.330 I'm not talking about any key theory within the 00:02:08.330 --> 00:02:14.710 movie. What I'm talking about are theories and 00:02:14.710 --> 00:02:18.310 making connections with key ideas presented in 00:02:18.310 --> 00:02:23.250 that movie to our everyday life and the way that 00:02:23.250 --> 00:02:27.689 our world is set up. And what I've been thinking 00:02:27.689 --> 00:02:31.969 about a lot lately about in terms of that is 00:02:31.969 --> 00:02:37.590 The matrix is a lot more fundamental if okay, 00:02:37.590 --> 00:02:44.090 so preface if the matrix is a Concept that is 00:02:44.090 --> 00:02:49.370 real like analogous in real life then it's a 00:02:49.370 --> 00:02:51.930 lot more deep a lot more fundamental than we 00:02:51.930 --> 00:02:58.680 think and I will even go so far to say that whenever 00:02:58.680 --> 00:03:04.020 we discuss the matrix or think about it, we are 00:03:04.020 --> 00:03:08.000 actively within it. And the meaning of those 00:03:08.000 --> 00:03:12.180 lines will become a little bit more clear in 00:03:12.180 --> 00:03:20.819 the following minutes. So I think that the matrix, 00:03:21.719 --> 00:03:25.990 well, first of all, let's define the structure 00:03:25.990 --> 00:03:29.710 of the matrix. So in that movie the matrix is 00:03:29.710 --> 00:03:33.789 a separated reality. It's like an abstract realm 00:03:33.789 --> 00:03:38.250 where people perceive and live in that way of 00:03:38.250 --> 00:03:43.789 life. So let's just say true reality is the real 00:03:43.789 --> 00:03:47.289 world that has been destroyed that most people 00:03:47.289 --> 00:03:50.250 are unaware of in that movie. And if you've never 00:03:50.250 --> 00:03:55.990 seen the movie, it's basically The entire world 00:03:55.990 --> 00:04:00.610 has been destroyed by humans and then they made 00:04:00.610 --> 00:04:09.090 AI and then AI put humans in like Sorry, AI needed 00:04:09.090 --> 00:04:12.849 humans to harvest energy off of the humans and 00:04:12.849 --> 00:04:16.970 so the AI made a artificial world for the humans 00:04:16.970 --> 00:04:23.089 to perceive life in through their psyche, I guess 00:04:23.639 --> 00:04:28.139 and their physical bodies were still in the physical 00:04:28.139 --> 00:04:34.839 world, but they were just unaware of it. So in 00:04:34.839 --> 00:04:38.660 that movie, the structure is that their physical 00:04:38.660 --> 00:04:44.199 bodies are in the physical world, but they are 00:04:44.199 --> 00:04:46.360 experiencing and perceiving and they are only 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:51.519 aware of the matrix. And the matrix is a abstract 00:04:51.519 --> 00:05:00.319 realm. It's a bunch of code on a computer. If 00:05:00.319 --> 00:05:06.680 the real world represents infinity, as in like 00:05:06.680 --> 00:05:10.779 their code does not represent it, it's not representable 00:05:10.779 --> 00:05:16.019 by code. The real world in the matrix is infinity 00:05:16.019 --> 00:05:19.420 because it contains, for example, like atoms 00:05:19.420 --> 00:05:24.980 have infinite Like like every object has an infinite 00:05:24.980 --> 00:05:30.100 amount of data within it for example there are 00:05:30.100 --> 00:05:32.600 atoms there are thousands and millions and billions 00:05:32.600 --> 00:05:35.139 of atoms and then you can go deeper and go into 00:05:35.139 --> 00:05:39.420 like neutrons and then you can go deeper and 00:05:39.420 --> 00:05:42.120 to like corks and deeper and deeper and deeper 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:46.300 and the deeper you go the more and more data 00:05:46.300 --> 00:05:49.819 is available and We just perceive it all immediately 00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:51.920 Like we don't perceive, we don't necessarily 00:05:51.920 --> 00:05:56.100 perceive each individual electron, but we perceive 00:05:56.100 --> 00:05:58.899 the collections of the billions and trillions 00:05:58.899 --> 00:06:07.519 of electrons. And so in my view, physical reality, 00:06:08.759 --> 00:06:13.519 at least in The Matrix, represents, or I mean, 00:06:13.879 --> 00:06:17.500 physical reality in real life and in the movie 00:06:17.500 --> 00:06:23.220 The Matrix, is infinity. And it's not really 00:06:23.220 --> 00:06:27.399 a concept that we really think a lot about. And 00:06:27.399 --> 00:06:29.620 we'll get to why I think that is in a little 00:06:29.620 --> 00:06:37.600 bit. But basically, in physical life, it's infinity 00:06:37.600 --> 00:06:42.180 because there are an infinite amount of things 00:06:42.180 --> 00:06:44.959 being perceived and it contains infinite amount 00:06:44.959 --> 00:06:47.939 of information. So for example, we have five 00:06:47.939 --> 00:06:54.240 senses. We see with one of our senses and we 00:06:54.240 --> 00:06:57.540 perceive infinite amounts of information, whether 00:06:57.540 --> 00:07:01.000 it's like lighting information, subtle lighting 00:07:01.000 --> 00:07:04.310 information, we perceive. billions and trillions 00:07:04.310 --> 00:07:07.129 and infinite amounts of electrons infinite amounts 00:07:07.129 --> 00:07:11.410 of like uncountable amounts of atoms electrons 00:07:11.410 --> 00:07:15.810 Neutrons like that you can't even count and we're 00:07:15.810 --> 00:07:21.990 perceiving it immediately and Then in the realm 00:07:21.990 --> 00:07:25.129 of hearing we're hearing an infinite amount of 00:07:25.129 --> 00:07:30.310 information In the sense of like sound waves 00:07:30.310 --> 00:07:34.949 and all of that stuff And the same thing with 00:07:34.949 --> 00:07:37.449 smell, same thing with sense, and same thing 00:07:37.449 --> 00:07:41.850 with touch, and then the same thing with taste. 00:07:45.430 --> 00:07:50.509 And that's five infinities, basically. So my 00:07:50.509 --> 00:07:53.709 friend told me you can't really do that, but 00:07:53.709 --> 00:07:56.829 I don't know why. Just for convenience sake, 00:07:57.550 --> 00:08:03.699 we're going to make a distinction between Mean 00:08:03.699 --> 00:08:05.259 it doesn't really matter basically the point 00:08:05.259 --> 00:08:11.399 is that we are perceiving infinite infinity every 00:08:11.399 --> 00:08:19.300 day in physical reality and That's the structure 00:08:19.300 --> 00:08:23.860 of in the movie the matrix Physical reality that 00:08:23.860 --> 00:08:28.600 contains infinite information like that That's 00:08:28.600 --> 00:08:32.450 infinity is the real world the world that was 00:08:32.450 --> 00:08:41.570 destroyed in the matrix. Now in. The actual matrix 00:08:41.570 --> 00:08:46.690 in inside the program that represents the finite 00:08:46.690 --> 00:08:52.110 realm, because it is all being. Represented, 00:08:52.230 --> 00:08:55.850 it's an abstraction from reality, so it's being 00:08:55.850 --> 00:09:00.080 represented with code. which is an abstraction 00:09:00.080 --> 00:09:07.840 so like numbers now my friend also told me that 00:09:07.840 --> 00:09:12.559 that is a thing that's in physical reality too 00:09:12.559 --> 00:09:16.580 like on and off like ones and zeros but the point 00:09:16.580 --> 00:09:20.059 is that like counting symbol language all that 00:09:20.059 --> 00:09:24.519 stuff is an abstract realm it's a realm separate 00:09:24.789 --> 00:09:27.570 from physical reality in the sense that it's 00:09:27.570 --> 00:09:32.669 finite. So for example, an actual water bottle, 00:09:32.909 --> 00:09:35.710 like let's just take any object for a water bottle. 00:09:35.730 --> 00:09:39.549 For example, a water bottle itself contains an 00:09:39.549 --> 00:09:42.970 infinite amount of information. I have one right 00:09:42.970 --> 00:09:46.629 in front of me and I can see lots of subtle lighting 00:09:46.629 --> 00:09:50.409 changes on it. I can see the actual object itself, 00:09:50.429 --> 00:09:53.210 which contains billions and trillions and trillions 00:09:53.210 --> 00:09:57.470 of infinite amounts of molecules, atoms, neutrons, 00:09:57.710 --> 00:09:59.870 electrons, quarks, you can go deeper and deeper. 00:10:00.330 --> 00:10:03.370 It basically contains infinity, just one singular 00:10:03.370 --> 00:10:10.049 object. But when you abstract it and label it 00:10:10.049 --> 00:10:15.049 with the word water bottle, the word water bottle 00:10:15.049 --> 00:10:18.870 only contains one piece of information, and it's 00:10:18.870 --> 00:10:22.809 that word. And it's pointing to the actual water 00:10:22.809 --> 00:10:24.769 bottle itself, which the actual water bottle 00:10:24.769 --> 00:10:27.710 itself contains infinite amounts of information. 00:10:29.429 --> 00:10:35.889 So in the matrix, it is an abstracted world. 00:10:36.509 --> 00:10:39.470 So it is in that realm. So going back to the 00:10:39.470 --> 00:10:42.149 water bottle analogy, the water bottle itself 00:10:42.149 --> 00:10:48.049 is infinity. It's in the infinity realm. And 00:10:48.049 --> 00:10:52.700 then The word water bottle like the label is 00:10:52.700 --> 00:10:56.240 in the abstract realm because it it's separate 00:10:56.240 --> 00:10:58.940 it's distinct from reality and it's labeling 00:10:58.940 --> 00:11:03.259 reality and it's It contains a finite amount 00:11:03.259 --> 00:11:06.500 of information. It only contains one piece of 00:11:06.500 --> 00:11:09.909 information water bottle Versus a water bottle 00:11:09.909 --> 00:11:12.889 in reality contains infinite amounts of information 00:11:12.889 --> 00:11:15.509 It contains all the billions and trillions of 00:11:15.509 --> 00:11:18.289 molecules all the lighting things and you can 00:11:18.289 --> 00:11:21.389 feel it You can taste it you can hear it and 00:11:21.389 --> 00:11:26.350 all all that stuff now Going back to the movie 00:11:26.350 --> 00:11:29.950 The Matrix physical reality is infinity. That's 00:11:29.950 --> 00:11:31.690 where all their physical bodies are that's where 00:11:31.690 --> 00:11:36.840 the the humans who have escaped the matrix or 00:11:36.840 --> 00:11:43.299 were born in real life are and then in The actual 00:11:43.299 --> 00:11:47.000 matrix itself, it's finite reality. It's a abstraction 00:11:47.000 --> 00:11:54.860 So those are the structural Elements of that 00:11:54.860 --> 00:12:00.539 movie the matrix as depicted in the movie The 00:12:00.539 --> 00:12:06.759 Matrix, is a finite abstract realm. Now, let's 00:12:06.759 --> 00:12:14.960 create an analogy and compare that set of elements 00:12:14.960 --> 00:12:21.200 to real life, our world. So in real life, like 00:12:21.200 --> 00:12:24.450 in The Water Battle, contains infinite. amounts 00:12:24.450 --> 00:12:27.169 of data, infinite amount of information in all 00:12:27.169 --> 00:12:34.629 different sites, all different senses. And it's 00:12:34.629 --> 00:12:38.190 hard to explain because, so imagine like a timeline, 00:12:40.210 --> 00:12:46.350 just like imagine a time, like a line that's 00:12:46.350 --> 00:12:49.509 like 10 meters long. Actually, never mind, forget 00:12:49.509 --> 00:12:52.080 about that. It's easier for me to explain on 00:12:52.080 --> 00:12:54.539 video because I can show it with hands. But basically 00:12:54.539 --> 00:12:58.019 the point is that in reality itself, I think 00:12:58.019 --> 00:13:02.820 contains infinite amounts of data, but then human 00:13:02.820 --> 00:13:06.779 reality contains infinite, but not the same infinite 00:13:06.779 --> 00:13:09.899 as reality itself. So what I mean by that is 00:13:09.899 --> 00:13:12.639 reality itself contains every possible thing 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:17.500 that can be perceived. But human reality contains 00:13:17.500 --> 00:13:20.480 everything that can be perceived with human senses, 00:13:20.480 --> 00:13:25.179 which is still infinite But it's not a the same 00:13:25.179 --> 00:13:27.960 infinite as greater reality. So what I mean by 00:13:27.960 --> 00:13:32.899 that is It's a known fact that dogs have a better 00:13:32.899 --> 00:13:37.080 sense of smell and hearing and possibly sight 00:13:37.080 --> 00:13:46.429 than humans So if humans have this amount of 00:13:46.429 --> 00:13:51.769 and I'm like holding a distance of my hands in 00:13:51.769 --> 00:13:55.590 a set of distance apart so let's say humans have 00:13:55.590 --> 00:14:05.210 like 10 meters worth of sense in sight smell 00:14:05.210 --> 00:14:13.750 touch taste here but dogs have like 15 or 20 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:19.980 Does that make sense? So dogs have more information. 00:14:20.480 --> 00:14:23.039 They're able to perceive more information than 00:14:23.039 --> 00:14:27.620 humans. So therefore, humans' perception is still 00:14:27.620 --> 00:14:31.440 infinite, but it's not the same infinite as dogs, 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:33.379 for example, because dogs can perceive a lot 00:14:33.379 --> 00:14:39.460 more. More data, more accurately, more width, 00:14:39.820 --> 00:14:43.440 more surface area, like all that. Take a different 00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:47.039 example like bats. Bats, they have echolocation. 00:14:47.500 --> 00:14:50.980 That's a completely different sense. That's like 00:14:50.980 --> 00:14:54.679 a sixth sense that humans don't have. So that 00:14:54.679 --> 00:14:58.480 unlocks a completely different realm of perception. 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:03.919 So you can stack all of these senses. So for 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:09.820 example, human sense of smell, and then taste, 00:15:10.299 --> 00:15:14.649 hearing, sight. touch, all of that can stack, 00:15:14.909 --> 00:15:18.149 and then you can stack on top of that echo location. 00:15:18.570 --> 00:15:21.190 And then you can stack on top of that a different 00:15:21.190 --> 00:15:25.110 animals sense of something. And so basically, 00:15:25.149 --> 00:15:29.409 the way I define it, like total reality is all 00:15:29.409 --> 00:15:32.649 possible perceptions stacked on top of on top 00:15:32.649 --> 00:15:36.990 of each other to the maximum, which I'm, I think 00:15:36.990 --> 00:15:40.210 is even larger than if then I think infinite 00:15:40.210 --> 00:15:42.389 reality itself is even larger than if you even 00:15:42.389 --> 00:15:45.590 did that. But that's kind of how I visualize 00:15:45.590 --> 00:15:47.870 infinite reality. So let's just say infinite 00:15:47.870 --> 00:15:52.470 reality is like 100 meters of infinity. And then 00:15:52.470 --> 00:15:55.250 human perception is like 10 meters of infinity, 00:15:55.509 --> 00:15:59.470 or maybe even less. But just just for convenience 00:15:59.470 --> 00:16:01.789 sake, let's just say it's 10 meters of infinity. 00:16:03.649 --> 00:16:11.429 And now That's infinite perception. That's if 00:16:11.429 --> 00:16:16.269 you're perceiving life with your senses and your 00:16:16.269 --> 00:16:20.990 senses are operating on their full skill or whatever. 00:16:22.470 --> 00:16:26.990 But going back to the matrix analogy, there is 00:16:26.990 --> 00:16:29.570 another element in play. There's abstraction. 00:16:29.850 --> 00:16:33.610 There's an abstract realm. So in this abstract 00:16:33.610 --> 00:16:42.269 realm, you've got language, math, symbol. So 00:16:42.269 --> 00:16:45.029 physical reality has infant information, but 00:16:45.029 --> 00:16:48.389 then the abstract realm is just a collection 00:16:48.389 --> 00:16:53.570 of labels or symbols that describe things in 00:16:53.570 --> 00:16:59.169 physical reality. For example, any label, like 00:16:59.169 --> 00:17:04.789 pen, water bottle, lamp, computer. notebook, 00:17:04.869 --> 00:17:08.390 these are all things in front of me. But they 00:17:08.390 --> 00:17:11.829 all have labels and the labels themselves are 00:17:11.829 --> 00:17:14.470 in the abstract realm. But the actual things 00:17:14.470 --> 00:17:16.589 that the labels are describing, the things that 00:17:16.589 --> 00:17:18.410 are actually in front of me are in the physical 00:17:18.410 --> 00:17:27.930 realm. And the matrix in that movie, the physical 00:17:27.930 --> 00:17:33.400 reality is the destroyed world. And then the 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:36.460 abstract realm is the world that they're all 00:17:36.460 --> 00:17:39.759 perceiving inside the code, inside the computer. 00:17:41.259 --> 00:17:47.900 Now, in real life, I don't think that we are 00:17:47.900 --> 00:17:52.980 hooked up to machines and we're perceiving inside 00:17:52.980 --> 00:17:59.400 of a computer. I'm not proposing that, but I 00:17:59.400 --> 00:18:07.630 am suggesting that maybe the matrix is abstract 00:18:07.630 --> 00:18:14.269 thought, the abstract realm. For example, in 00:18:14.269 --> 00:18:18.990 our world or in our civilization today, in the 00:18:18.990 --> 00:18:22.730 modern day, abstract realm or like the abstract 00:18:22.730 --> 00:18:26.430 realm has encompassed our entire life, our entire 00:18:26.430 --> 00:18:31.009 life. Like we are operating in analytical mode, 00:18:31.170 --> 00:18:35.049 we are operating in language, basically 24 seven, 00:18:35.210 --> 00:18:41.549 like it's if, if infinite reality, the mode of 00:18:41.549 --> 00:18:44.289 operation and human experience is like presence, 00:18:44.930 --> 00:18:50.609 calm, awareness. And then abstract realm, the 00:18:50.609 --> 00:18:53.589 mode of operation that it manifests in, in human 00:18:53.589 --> 00:18:59.369 experience is analytical thought, stress, anxiety, 00:19:00.639 --> 00:19:08.819 and Navy fight or flight, language, internal 00:19:08.819 --> 00:19:12.359 dialogue, the opposite of presence, internal 00:19:12.359 --> 00:19:17.539 dialogue, all that stuff. If we define it like 00:19:17.539 --> 00:19:22.480 that, then in our day -to -day life, the dominant 00:19:22.480 --> 00:19:29.420 mode of behavior or of behaving and existing 00:19:29.420 --> 00:19:35.059 is in the abstract mode. It's with internal dialogue. 00:19:35.579 --> 00:19:38.160 Everyone has an internal dialogue. The internal 00:19:38.160 --> 00:19:41.579 dialogue is non -stop. Most people can't turn 00:19:41.579 --> 00:19:45.220 it off for longer than a second. And even if 00:19:45.220 --> 00:19:50.200 they really tried to do it. So what I'm proposing 00:19:50.200 --> 00:19:55.299 is that the matrix is actually a language thing. 00:19:55.579 --> 00:20:00.730 It's a abstraction thing. And we are living in 00:20:00.730 --> 00:20:06.809 the matrix analogously because our mode of operation 00:20:06.809 --> 00:20:18.390 in life is in the abstract mode, which is analytical 00:20:18.390 --> 00:20:23.950 thought, having an internal dialogue all day, 00:20:24.650 --> 00:20:29.940 anxiety, not being present. Fight or flight all 00:20:29.940 --> 00:20:32.839 that stuff. That is our default mode of operating. 00:20:32.960 --> 00:20:38.519 That's how we operate in most Most of the time 00:20:38.519 --> 00:20:45.619 so that's that's my model on the matrix is If 00:20:45.619 --> 00:20:48.599 the matrix is representing something in real 00:20:48.599 --> 00:20:52.059 life It would be very fundamental like the fact 00:20:52.059 --> 00:20:56.599 that we are living in a matrix of language and 00:20:56.599 --> 00:21:01.470 it is dominated our mode of behaving so much 00:21:01.470 --> 00:21:04.490 that we actually don't realize it and we don't 00:21:04.490 --> 00:21:07.890 realize that we are living in a finite we're 00:21:07.890 --> 00:21:13.450 living in a infinite world but we're only perceiving 00:21:13.450 --> 00:21:18.470 a finite realm and that is affecting the way 00:21:18.470 --> 00:21:23.670 that we think the way that we behave and the 00:21:23.670 --> 00:21:28.410 way that we see the world for example I like 00:21:28.410 --> 00:21:32.029 the example of looking, like let's say you're 00:21:32.029 --> 00:21:36.869 at a park in a big grass field and you see all 00:21:36.869 --> 00:21:40.349 the grass. There are billions, there's like thousands 00:21:40.349 --> 00:21:42.990 of blades of grass and then within each of those 00:21:42.990 --> 00:21:46.630 blades of grass there are infinite amounts of 00:21:46.630 --> 00:21:50.529 molecules, atoms, electrons, neutrons, quarks, 00:21:50.829 --> 00:21:54.930 all of that stuff. And there are plenty of different 00:21:54.930 --> 00:21:57.670 species of grass. There are weeds, there are 00:21:57.670 --> 00:21:59.970 different, there are like hundreds of different 00:21:59.970 --> 00:22:05.589 species of plant in that grass field. But we 00:22:05.589 --> 00:22:09.950 only perceive one thing because we operate on 00:22:09.950 --> 00:22:18.210 language and language, we chunk that entire field 00:22:18.210 --> 00:22:21.910 of grass into just a big carpet of one thing 00:22:21.910 --> 00:22:26.430 and we call it grass, we call it like a park 00:22:26.430 --> 00:22:31.910 or something like that. So in reality, we are 00:22:31.910 --> 00:22:38.309 receiving infinite amounts of information. But 00:22:38.309 --> 00:22:51.230 in practice, we are only interpreting or we're 00:22:51.230 --> 00:22:56.779 only actually, there's a word, it's we receive 00:22:56.779 --> 00:22:59.180 it and then we interpret, I don't know, we're 00:22:59.180 --> 00:23:03.119 only interpreting one piece of data and it's 00:23:03.119 --> 00:23:06.299 just a sheet, like a big blanket of grass, just 00:23:06.299 --> 00:23:09.400 one thing. We're like chunking it and we do that 00:23:09.400 --> 00:23:13.539 with everything. Like a water bottle, I'm chunking 00:23:13.539 --> 00:23:18.380 this entire object into one object. I'm chunking 00:23:18.380 --> 00:23:21.059 all of these. this collection of infinite amounts 00:23:21.059 --> 00:23:24.200 of data into one object. We do that with every 00:23:24.200 --> 00:23:29.960 single object, and we do that with every single 00:23:29.960 --> 00:23:33.799 phenomenon. And whenever we discover a new phenomenon, 00:23:33.940 --> 00:23:36.000 we immediately put a label to it. We do that 00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:41.019 with everything physical, emotional, mental, 00:23:41.200 --> 00:23:43.619 all of that stuff. We just put a label to it 00:23:43.619 --> 00:23:47.329 immediately. And so that's what I'm proposing 00:23:47.329 --> 00:23:49.750 that if the matrix is representing something, 00:23:50.289 --> 00:23:53.470 it is a very fundamental thing like language. 00:23:53.849 --> 00:23:58.930 And now that brings me to my next model that 00:23:58.930 --> 00:24:02.789 I've started to develop. And it's the point. 00:24:03.109 --> 00:24:06.069 It's called the point. So basically the matrix, 00:24:06.230 --> 00:24:10.250 I like to call the point because we have infinite 00:24:10.250 --> 00:24:13.769 reality, which is, let's just say, Going back 00:24:13.769 --> 00:24:17.289 to the yardstick analogy, total reality is like 00:24:17.289 --> 00:24:23.170 100 yards of infinity. And then human reality 00:24:23.170 --> 00:24:26.849 that humans are able to perceive is like 10 yards 00:24:26.849 --> 00:24:29.410 of infinity. Just for convenience sake, I'm making 00:24:29.410 --> 00:24:31.630 these numbers up. I don't even know if it's possible 00:24:31.630 --> 00:24:36.589 to actually, no, it's impossible to actually 00:24:36.589 --> 00:24:38.630 say this, but we're just saying these numbers 00:24:38.630 --> 00:24:42.230 for conversation sake. 100 meters of infinity 00:24:42.230 --> 00:24:45.470 is total reality, 10 meters of infinity is human 00:24:45.470 --> 00:24:49.829 reality, and then just a tiny speck that isn't 00:24:49.829 --> 00:24:56.470 even a fraction, that's not even anything, is 00:24:56.470 --> 00:24:59.650 abstract realm, and that's like the matrix, that's 00:24:59.650 --> 00:25:02.710 everything abstract, like numbers, labels, symbols, 00:25:03.329 --> 00:25:07.869 language, all of that stuff is what I call the 00:25:07.869 --> 00:25:13.430 point, and it's finite. So if you compare 100 00:25:13.430 --> 00:25:18.089 yards of infinity to 10 yards of infinity, and 00:25:18.089 --> 00:25:24.730 then to a point of finite, of finiteness, that's 00:25:24.730 --> 00:25:27.289 the comparison we're making. So 100 yards of 00:25:27.289 --> 00:25:30.150 infinity is total reality. 10 yards of infinity 00:25:30.150 --> 00:25:34.910 is human perception of reality, like human reality, 00:25:35.690 --> 00:25:41.480 still infinity, still fully reality. But then 00:25:41.480 --> 00:25:45.140 there is a point of finite perception. It's not 00:25:45.140 --> 00:25:48.839 even on the same scale It's a tiny point that 00:25:48.839 --> 00:25:54.559 that single point isn't even Comparable to a 00:25:54.559 --> 00:25:57.539 yard of infinity or a point of infinity It's 00:25:57.539 --> 00:26:00.279 a point of finiteness and that's our language. 00:26:00.279 --> 00:26:02.900 That's and that's all that stuff. That's what 00:26:02.900 --> 00:26:05.839 I call the point And the point is also the matrix, 00:26:06.140 --> 00:26:08.640 analogously to what we were just talking about 00:26:08.640 --> 00:26:10.319 a moment ago. But I'm going to call it the point 00:26:10.319 --> 00:26:13.319 because I like that word better. Because it's 00:26:13.319 --> 00:26:16.079 easy to visualize the 100 yards of infinity, 00:26:16.180 --> 00:26:21.819 10 yards of infinity, and then the point. So 00:26:21.819 --> 00:26:30.549 the point is supposed to be a tool. It's supposed 00:26:30.549 --> 00:26:35.329 to be a tool, a tool to help us understand or 00:26:35.329 --> 00:26:40.430 make sense of reality. But by definition, that 00:26:40.430 --> 00:26:44.430 is a flawed assumption because you can't understand 00:26:44.430 --> 00:26:49.730 infinity. Infinity is fundamentally mysterious. 00:26:50.890 --> 00:26:56.089 And also when you translate infinity into a finite 00:26:56.089 --> 00:27:05.180 realm, it becomes severed. So for example, the 00:27:05.180 --> 00:27:09.000 pen, a pen, like a writing utensil itself, the 00:27:09.000 --> 00:27:11.599 actual object itself, contains an infinite amount 00:27:11.599 --> 00:27:16.599 of data. But the word pen only contains one bit 00:27:16.599 --> 00:27:20.799 of data, and it doesn't contain all of the information. 00:27:21.900 --> 00:27:24.059 Like when you label it, and then you stick with 00:27:24.059 --> 00:27:27.700 the word instead of the thing, you immediately 00:27:27.700 --> 00:27:32.299 lose an infinite amount of information. And it's 00:27:32.299 --> 00:27:35.880 a different type of information. So for example, 00:27:36.339 --> 00:27:40.019 in our culture, we point at things to direct 00:27:40.019 --> 00:27:41.839 people's attention to the thing we're pointing 00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:45.980 at. So right now I'm pointing at a Rubik's Cube. 00:27:47.359 --> 00:27:51.180 This, when you point, the finger that's doing 00:27:51.180 --> 00:27:55.119 the pointing is called a label. And that's a 00:27:55.119 --> 00:27:59.289 label is also a word. So me pointing to this 00:27:59.289 --> 00:28:02.430 object, a Rubik's Cube, I'm directing your attention 00:28:02.430 --> 00:28:07.630 to the Rubik's Cube. And that's how labels and 00:28:07.630 --> 00:28:15.549 words behave. When you say the word pen, you 00:28:15.549 --> 00:28:19.369 are not... necessarily bringing your attention 00:28:19.369 --> 00:28:22.670 to the word pen itself you're bringing your their 00:28:22.670 --> 00:28:25.390 attention to the thing that that word is pointing 00:28:25.390 --> 00:28:29.869 to which is the object of a pen if that makes 00:28:29.869 --> 00:28:35.950 sense and so that's where the point the point 00:28:35.950 --> 00:28:42.990 is supposed to just pull the point of in in the 00:28:42.990 --> 00:28:48.269 context of 100 yards of infinity, 10 yards of 00:28:48.269 --> 00:28:51.849 infinity, and then a point of finiteness, that 00:28:51.849 --> 00:28:55.009 point is supposed to just be a pointer that's 00:28:55.009 --> 00:29:01.049 pointing to all of infinity. But it's fundamentally 00:29:01.049 --> 00:29:07.549 flawed, especially if, no, it's fundamentally 00:29:07.549 --> 00:29:11.069 flawed as a mode of operation. And in practice, 00:29:11.289 --> 00:29:15.150 it is our mode of operation because we are living 00:29:15.150 --> 00:29:21.490 in the point. We are usually not present. We 00:29:21.490 --> 00:29:26.250 have internal dialogue going on forever and all 00:29:26.250 --> 00:29:35.210 that stuff. But. So that's the point, and it 00:29:35.210 --> 00:29:39.960 creates issues. It creates a. The reason why 00:29:39.960 --> 00:29:46.400 it's dangerous is because it creates a, it severs 00:29:46.400 --> 00:29:52.400 you from reality. For example, and the way that 00:29:52.400 --> 00:29:57.980 it affects our behavior is very potent, but it's 00:29:57.980 --> 00:30:00.980 become so normalized that we don't really notice 00:30:00.980 --> 00:30:05.779 it. For example, I'm going to give two examples 00:30:05.779 --> 00:30:10.349 that. One of them happens every day another one 00:30:10.349 --> 00:30:13.789 happens once I mean it probably happens every 00:30:13.789 --> 00:30:19.029 day too, but it doesn't really it's a lot more 00:30:19.029 --> 00:30:22.509 Separated from everyday civilian life, but both 00:30:22.509 --> 00:30:25.970 these examples are structurally very similar 00:30:25.970 --> 00:30:33.450 So imagine you're a manager who's in charge of 00:30:33.450 --> 00:30:38.250 managing the park the parks in your town like 00:30:38.250 --> 00:30:42.970 the the grass parks and You're in the office 00:30:42.970 --> 00:30:46.769 and someone tells you that this one park park 00:30:46.769 --> 00:30:54.910 a needs To be Mowed like the the grass has grown 00:30:54.910 --> 00:30:57.970 too too high and it needs to be mowed So like 00:30:57.970 --> 00:31:02.369 okay, and you send someone out to go mow the 00:31:02.369 --> 00:31:07.259 lawn Now, you've never been to that park. You 00:31:07.259 --> 00:31:09.960 may have, but in this example, you're not at 00:31:09.960 --> 00:31:14.759 that park. You just received data from someone. 00:31:15.359 --> 00:31:17.839 Someone told you that the lawn needed to be mowed, 00:31:18.039 --> 00:31:22.140 and so you sent someone to go mow the lawn. You 00:31:22.140 --> 00:31:23.859 didn't know what happened before. You didn't 00:31:23.859 --> 00:31:26.299 know what happened during. You didn't know what 00:31:26.299 --> 00:31:30.680 happened after, except from the language. You 00:31:30.680 --> 00:31:33.240 weren't at the park yourself to see that it was. 00:31:33.289 --> 00:31:35.569 Overgrown you you weren't at the park while this 00:31:35.569 --> 00:31:37.710 being mowed you weren't at the park after it 00:31:37.710 --> 00:31:45.049 was mowed That is a separation from reality that 00:31:45.049 --> 00:31:51.789 was only made possible because of language and 00:31:51.789 --> 00:31:56.029 This is a seemingly harmless example because 00:31:56.029 --> 00:32:00.910 no one really cares about if a field of grass 00:32:00.910 --> 00:32:07.940 gets Mowed down but I'm going to connect that 00:32:07.940 --> 00:32:13.200 example to a thing that a lot of people care 00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:17.359 about and a thing that really affected millions 00:32:17.359 --> 00:32:23.099 of human beings and It's an example of the atomic 00:32:23.099 --> 00:32:28.339 bomb being dropped on Japan or like both both 00:32:28.339 --> 00:32:34.529 both times so In the office in the Oval Office 00:32:34.529 --> 00:32:37.609 in the White House the president was given information 00:32:37.609 --> 00:32:42.230 that This country on the other side of the world 00:32:42.230 --> 00:32:48.009 needed to be disciplined like we needed to We 00:32:48.009 --> 00:32:52.690 needed to Obliterate that country or not even 00:32:52.690 --> 00:32:54.789 just obliterate it. We just needed to kind of 00:32:54.789 --> 00:33:01.220 like Like mow them down I guess we needed to 00:33:01.220 --> 00:33:05.720 mow them down to end the war to just keep order. 00:33:06.019 --> 00:33:10.519 Okay. Which mowing a lawn is also keeping order. 00:33:11.119 --> 00:33:14.259 Um, so we just needed to keep order. The president 00:33:14.259 --> 00:33:16.240 was given that information and he was like, all 00:33:16.240 --> 00:33:19.940 right, here's the green light. Let's do it. He 00:33:19.940 --> 00:33:23.079 was never in Japan. He never lived a life there. 00:33:23.160 --> 00:33:25.480 He was never in there before, during, or after. 00:33:25.539 --> 00:33:27.839 Maybe he was there. I don't know. But the point 00:33:27.839 --> 00:33:32.940 is that He didn't, he didn't have firsthand experience 00:33:32.940 --> 00:33:37.380 being a Japanese citizen. He didn't have a firsthand 00:33:37.380 --> 00:33:41.599 experience while he was there. He didn't, and 00:33:41.599 --> 00:33:46.079 now like the, he very well might have, I don't 00:33:46.079 --> 00:33:48.099 know the actual history of it, but in the point, 00:33:48.380 --> 00:33:51.980 in the purpose of this analogy, those details 00:33:51.980 --> 00:33:54.839 aren't really important. The thing that's important 00:33:54.839 --> 00:33:59.750 is the disconnection. from reality that was made 00:33:59.750 --> 00:34:04.509 possible. So he was given data. And sure, it 00:34:04.509 --> 00:34:10.150 was a heavy decision. But not really, because 00:34:10.150 --> 00:34:16.369 that's millions of people. That's an entire land 00:34:16.369 --> 00:34:23.130 of an entire country that you are making, like 00:34:23.130 --> 00:34:29.119 polluting and destroying and all that. the sure 00:34:29.119 --> 00:34:31.500 they might have taken a long time to weigh the 00:34:31.500 --> 00:34:35.079 the decision and feel the the the emotional elements, 00:34:35.139 --> 00:34:39.300 but no like it's not the same thing because if 00:34:39.300 --> 00:34:43.559 he grew up with every single one of those human 00:34:43.559 --> 00:34:47.039 beings if he Actually, like if every single one 00:34:47.039 --> 00:34:49.659 of those human beings was his mom. He wouldn't 00:34:49.659 --> 00:34:53.679 have even considered that possibility and so 00:34:53.679 --> 00:34:57.550 the I'm not like bringing point to the moral 00:34:57.550 --> 00:35:00.610 issues here, I'm only bringing the moral issues 00:35:00.610 --> 00:35:07.269 up to prove or to like shine light on the deeper 00:35:07.269 --> 00:35:11.949 structural issues. And it's that language, the 00:35:11.949 --> 00:35:15.849 abstraction made all that possible. In the lawn 00:35:15.849 --> 00:35:19.590 mowing example, the abstraction made it possible 00:35:19.590 --> 00:35:23.670 to mow their lawn, to go mow that lawn. And it 00:35:23.670 --> 00:35:27.900 was just like, not that big of a deal. And it's 00:35:27.900 --> 00:35:33.460 very alarming how structurally similar that analogy 00:35:33.460 --> 00:35:36.579 is or that example, that everyday example is 00:35:36.579 --> 00:35:43.400 to the example of dropping the bomb on Nagasaki 00:35:43.400 --> 00:35:47.099 and Hiroshima. And actually, it's not it doesn't 00:35:47.099 --> 00:35:49.119 even have to be a nuclear bomb. That's just like 00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:55.269 the most emotional, emotionally packed. Example 00:35:55.269 --> 00:35:58.849 in history in my opinion, but like there's everyday 00:35:58.849 --> 00:36:03.510 examples happening like like people like military 00:36:03.510 --> 00:36:07.849 generals dropping bombs on other countries or 00:36:07.849 --> 00:36:11.889 sending troops to go Spray down the enemy or 00:36:11.889 --> 00:36:13.869 like all like these are all examples that happen 00:36:13.869 --> 00:36:16.510 every day and it's not even just in like military 00:36:16.510 --> 00:36:21.369 or war settings. It's also like in everyday examples 00:36:21.369 --> 00:36:34.019 like we Like I mean we Send I don't know, but 00:36:34.019 --> 00:36:37.639 basically the the point is that The language 00:36:37.639 --> 00:36:40.039 makes it possible to have a disconnection and 00:36:40.039 --> 00:36:44.039 I should have come Ready with examples of everyday 00:36:44.039 --> 00:36:50.480 Things that's being made possible. Oh Well, here's 00:36:50.480 --> 00:36:54.110 one example of an everyday thing There it's become 00:36:54.110 --> 00:36:58.809 a big trend Nowadays to acknowledge the land 00:36:58.809 --> 00:37:01.550 that you live on and who that land used to belong 00:37:01.550 --> 00:37:07.510 to so for example like people A lot of people 00:37:07.510 --> 00:37:11.289 nowadays acknowledge that they live on like a 00:37:11.289 --> 00:37:16.690 certain indigenous tribes land and that they 00:37:16.690 --> 00:37:20.679 don't They're only able to live here because 00:37:20.679 --> 00:37:23.199 they were forced out the indigenous tribe was 00:37:23.199 --> 00:37:29.099 forced out but that is a Perfect example of the 00:37:29.099 --> 00:37:34.179 separation because They're literally only acknowledging 00:37:34.179 --> 00:37:37.760 the label of that tribe. They're not acknowledging 00:37:37.760 --> 00:37:40.619 the actual people well first of all the actual 00:37:40.619 --> 00:37:44.380 people that were Pushed away are long dead now, 00:37:44.599 --> 00:37:51.269 but like the ancestors are still alive And they 00:37:51.269 --> 00:37:55.750 don't have direct experience of living with them. 00:37:55.769 --> 00:38:00.769 They don't have direct experience of pushing 00:38:00.769 --> 00:38:06.329 the people away from their land. It's a disconnection 00:38:06.329 --> 00:38:10.690 from reality. They're acknowledging the language. 00:38:10.809 --> 00:38:14.269 And sure, there might be people who have experienced 00:38:14.269 --> 00:38:18.630 it. But I would still say that it's still a disconnection 00:38:18.630 --> 00:38:24.349 because if there was a physical If there was 00:38:24.349 --> 00:38:27.610 no disconnection then things would be very different 00:38:27.610 --> 00:38:32.710 like people wouldn't be so Tolerant of living 00:38:32.710 --> 00:38:36.190 like that and I am speaking as a hypocrite right 00:38:36.190 --> 00:38:42.070 now because I live on Stolen land I and I'm still 00:38:42.230 --> 00:38:45.329 Okay with it because I am disconnected right 00:38:45.329 --> 00:38:49.130 now. I am not Saying things are good or bad. 00:38:49.130 --> 00:38:53.110 I'm just pointing out things that I've observed 00:38:53.110 --> 00:38:57.469 that I'm not sure people pay attention to and 00:38:57.469 --> 00:39:02.550 These are so structurally Fundamental in our 00:39:02.550 --> 00:39:06.730 mode of life that I have no possible clue on 00:39:06.730 --> 00:39:10.210 how to go about fixing it because I don't think 00:39:10.210 --> 00:39:19.730 the answer is to acknowledge the natives or acknowledge 00:39:19.730 --> 00:39:22.329 the people that you're dropping a bomb on. I 00:39:22.329 --> 00:39:26.630 don't think those are the answers. I think the 00:39:26.630 --> 00:39:28.570 answer is going to be something a lot more fundamental. 00:39:30.469 --> 00:39:33.710 So that's the point and how it affects our life. 00:39:35.489 --> 00:39:41.760 Its implications on life is on our behavior is 00:39:41.760 --> 00:39:47.280 disconnection from reality. And that is not just 00:39:47.280 --> 00:39:52.559 the outside world. And that is also inside in 00:39:52.559 --> 00:39:56.280 our own beings. And that brings me to the next 00:39:56.280 --> 00:39:59.000 model that I've come up with. And this model 00:39:59.000 --> 00:40:03.460 I came up with because I'm still injured. I injured 00:40:03.460 --> 00:40:06.760 my foot three or four months ago during the summertime. 00:40:07.420 --> 00:40:12.110 It's November now. And I kept re -injuring it. 00:40:12.150 --> 00:40:14.150 I kept healing it and then re -injuring it. Healing 00:40:14.150 --> 00:40:16.849 and re -injuring it. Like probably six times 00:40:16.849 --> 00:40:20.610 at least by now. I should have, this injury should 00:40:20.610 --> 00:40:24.590 have been healed probably within a week, but 00:40:24.590 --> 00:40:27.929 I'm still injured. I have a boot on right now 00:40:27.929 --> 00:40:31.750 actually, like a walking boot. Three months later, 00:40:31.750 --> 00:40:37.230 I'm still injured. Like two weeks ago, I was 00:40:37.230 --> 00:40:40.010 the worst injured. like the most injured that 00:40:40.010 --> 00:40:42.269 I've been all three months, all three months. 00:40:44.130 --> 00:40:47.110 And I should have healed probably less than a 00:40:47.110 --> 00:40:50.889 week when I first got injured. And so that that 00:40:50.889 --> 00:40:53.829 injury, this whole injury made me start thinking 00:40:53.829 --> 00:40:56.730 about a lot of things. And one of the things 00:40:56.730 --> 00:40:58.690 I've I thought about was like the matrix theory, 00:40:58.690 --> 00:41:01.110 the point that I just discussed. But the the 00:41:01.110 --> 00:41:04.989 main thing or I mean, one of the things that 00:41:04.989 --> 00:41:09.449 directly Or that I was directly made aware of 00:41:09.449 --> 00:41:12.630 because of this injury was something I like to 00:41:12.630 --> 00:41:18.610 call the root cause so the root cause is So my 00:41:18.610 --> 00:41:22.210 model it's easier for me to describe it with 00:41:22.210 --> 00:41:26.190 a video So you can see my hand gestures, but 00:41:26.190 --> 00:41:30.829 imagine the root cause is a circle on top and 00:41:30.829 --> 00:41:36.849 then there are three circles underneath so a 00:41:36.849 --> 00:41:39.630 line of three circles on the bottom, and then 00:41:39.630 --> 00:41:44.110 a one circle on the top, which I label that one 00:41:44.110 --> 00:41:46.289 circle the root cause, and then the three circles 00:41:46.289 --> 00:41:49.530 on the bottom are different symptoms, different 00:41:49.530 --> 00:41:52.170 aspects of life that the root cause is manifested 00:41:52.170 --> 00:41:58.570 in. So, for example, the root cause, or we'll 00:41:58.570 --> 00:42:03.110 get into the root cause, but let me describe 00:42:03.110 --> 00:42:07.190 what I'm getting at. So, I have probably six, 00:42:07.289 --> 00:42:11.349 at least six injuries on my body right now. They're 00:42:11.349 --> 00:42:13.130 like chronic, a lot of them are chronic injuries. 00:42:13.869 --> 00:42:18.650 So for example, my shoulder has been chronically 00:42:18.650 --> 00:42:24.949 injured for the past four, four years, four to 00:42:24.949 --> 00:42:32.010 five, like four years. And my elbow, I got nerve 00:42:32.010 --> 00:42:36.150 damage on that, like a couple, Months ago like 00:42:36.150 --> 00:42:42.889 in the beginning of this year my left knee Has 00:42:42.889 --> 00:42:50.610 issues if I Overuse it sometimes My foot has 00:42:50.610 --> 00:42:52.489 an acute injury right now that's been injured 00:42:52.489 --> 00:42:55.090 for the past three months where I can't walk 00:42:55.090 --> 00:42:58.190 I have to wear a boot and Even with a boot. I 00:42:58.190 --> 00:43:01.010 can't walk longer than like a couple minutes 00:43:01.010 --> 00:43:04.960 a day Like basically I have a bunch of injuries 00:43:04.960 --> 00:43:10.059 on my on my body. Those are all symptoms of The 00:43:10.059 --> 00:43:15.820 root cause Manifesting itself in the physical 00:43:15.820 --> 00:43:22.440 aspect of my life so I Don't listen to my body 00:43:22.440 --> 00:43:24.960 that's what the root cause is the root cause 00:43:24.960 --> 00:43:30.260 is a Not listening to it's a disconnection from 00:43:30.260 --> 00:43:34.739 our being a holistic sense so in the physical 00:43:34.739 --> 00:43:36.880 sense that's where the three circles come in 00:43:36.880 --> 00:43:41.480 the three circles are the physical sense like 00:43:41.480 --> 00:43:49.239 movement and and eating and then Like posture 00:43:49.239 --> 00:43:51.920 and all that stuff like movement and eating the 00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:56.119 second circle is Emotional it's like mental. 00:43:56.119 --> 00:43:59.599 It's all all of the all the emotional stuff all 00:43:59.599 --> 00:44:02.690 the spiritual stuff all that stuff like internal 00:44:02.690 --> 00:44:06.909 dialogue, emotions, soul, spirit, all of those 00:44:06.909 --> 00:44:10.349 labels that you like are going that. And then 00:44:10.349 --> 00:44:14.670 the third one is like social aspect, like being 00:44:14.670 --> 00:44:19.230 in isolation or being in social settings and 00:44:19.230 --> 00:44:26.210 just your social realm aspect of life. And the 00:44:26.210 --> 00:44:29.349 root cause, which is the circle on top, affects 00:44:29.579 --> 00:44:34.239 All of those, the root cause is a disconnection 00:44:34.239 --> 00:44:37.400 from reality. And in this case, disconnection 00:44:37.400 --> 00:44:40.659 from my own being, disconnection from my physical 00:44:40.659 --> 00:44:46.639 sense, like my physical aspect, my mental, like 00:44:46.639 --> 00:44:50.619 my emotional, spiritual, that aspect, and my 00:44:50.619 --> 00:44:54.820 social aspect, disconnection from that. And the 00:44:54.820 --> 00:44:59.159 root cause, and then a symptom. in the physical 00:44:59.159 --> 00:45:04.340 aspect that has continually manifested for me 00:45:04.340 --> 00:45:07.500 over the years is injuries, overuse injuries. 00:45:07.559 --> 00:45:09.960 I don't listen to my body when I'm injured or 00:45:09.960 --> 00:45:13.019 when I'm working out. I work out and I feel like 00:45:13.019 --> 00:45:15.780 pain, but I keep pushing through. I work out 00:45:15.780 --> 00:45:17.800 and I feel something that shouldn't be there 00:45:17.800 --> 00:45:19.659 and I keep pushing through and I end up getting 00:45:19.659 --> 00:45:24.579 injured. So that's a example of the cause manifesting 00:45:24.579 --> 00:45:29.860 in the physical aspect. Another example is in 00:45:29.860 --> 00:45:32.260 the eating aspect, where I'm not really doing 00:45:32.260 --> 00:45:35.119 this that much right now. Well, actually, right 00:45:35.119 --> 00:45:37.380 now I'm eating really fast. Like, I always eat 00:45:37.380 --> 00:45:40.260 really fast. And especially if I fast in the 00:45:40.260 --> 00:45:43.719 morning, like don't eat until later in the morning. 00:45:44.159 --> 00:45:47.019 and then I eat my breakfast really fast, then 00:45:47.019 --> 00:45:48.980 I get a really bad stomach ache for the rest 00:45:48.980 --> 00:45:51.460 of the day, and my stomach is in a lot of pain 00:45:51.460 --> 00:45:54.260 for the rest of the day. But I still do it, and 00:45:54.260 --> 00:45:56.980 I ignore, I'm disconnected from the reality of 00:45:56.980 --> 00:45:59.119 that, and I still do it, and I feel the consequences 00:45:59.119 --> 00:46:03.960 of it very often. But a thing that I used to 00:46:03.960 --> 00:46:06.099 do, which I don't really do that much right now, 00:46:06.239 --> 00:46:10.159 is I would eat a lot. Like I would get really 00:46:10.159 --> 00:46:12.619 bored. Or, like, whenever I get bored, I would 00:46:12.619 --> 00:46:14.900 just go to the kitchen and eat food. Eat food. 00:46:15.099 --> 00:46:17.900 Eat food. And I would feel really full, but I 00:46:17.900 --> 00:46:20.280 would still be bored, so I would just eat food. 00:46:20.519 --> 00:46:22.519 Eat food. Keep eating more food. And I would 00:46:22.519 --> 00:46:25.079 get a bad, like, my stomach would be so bloated, 00:46:25.079 --> 00:46:27.860 it would hurt, it would be uncomfortable, and 00:46:27.860 --> 00:46:32.000 all that. That's two examples, or a couple examples, 00:46:32.099 --> 00:46:37.159 of the physical aspect. Now, it's not just the 00:46:37.159 --> 00:46:39.139 physical aspect. A lot of people just focus on 00:46:39.139 --> 00:46:42.500 one thing. They just focus on, oh, I'm getting 00:46:42.500 --> 00:46:45.599 fat. I need to pay attention to my body. Or, 00:46:45.800 --> 00:46:48.380 oh, I exercise too much. I need to pay attention 00:46:48.380 --> 00:46:51.159 to my body. No, no, no. It's in a holistic sense. 00:46:51.280 --> 00:46:55.289 It's also in the mental sense. where I don't 00:46:55.289 --> 00:46:58.510 listen to my emotions. I have a disconnection 00:46:58.510 --> 00:47:01.309 from my emotions because I'm too focused, my 00:47:01.309 --> 00:47:04.230 attention is too focused on my internal dialogue 00:47:04.230 --> 00:47:08.829 or it's too focused on, or for example, there's 00:47:08.829 --> 00:47:11.730 structural things in place to where if I do pay 00:47:11.730 --> 00:47:14.849 attention to my emotion, I don't actually take 00:47:14.849 --> 00:47:19.889 action on it because there's something that needs 00:47:19.889 --> 00:47:23.860 to be done in the real world. For example, With 00:47:23.860 --> 00:47:27.900 my my actual injury my foot injury that has continually 00:47:27.900 --> 00:47:32.539 gotten re -injured for the past Three months 00:47:32.539 --> 00:47:37.019 It's a pattern. So I feel my foot starting to 00:47:37.019 --> 00:47:40.539 get a little icky and I'm like, okay Well, it's 00:47:40.539 --> 00:47:43.059 about to get injured But then I have commitments 00:47:43.059 --> 00:47:45.559 or I have something that I need to do which is 00:47:45.559 --> 00:47:49.340 the structural thing that's in place For example, 00:47:49.360 --> 00:47:52.550 the next day I might have to go to the park, 00:47:52.670 --> 00:47:56.550 or I might have to go work, or I might have to, 00:47:56.949 --> 00:47:58.690 whatever it is, I might have to go to class, 00:47:58.769 --> 00:48:02.210 or whatever it is, I have a thing in place that 00:48:02.210 --> 00:48:06.789 I have to go. So I feel the emotion, I feel the 00:48:06.789 --> 00:48:09.590 warning signs in my emotion, like, I can feel 00:48:09.590 --> 00:48:13.789 the emotions of my body, of my emotional being 00:48:13.789 --> 00:48:17.250 being, getting anxiety, getting stress, all that, 00:48:17.269 --> 00:48:19.710 I can feel those emotions, the warning signs. 00:48:20.159 --> 00:48:28.420 But there's a structural element in play to where 00:48:28.420 --> 00:48:35.400 I ignore the emotions so that I can pursue that 00:48:35.400 --> 00:48:40.639 structural necessity. And what ends up happening 00:48:40.639 --> 00:48:42.960 is I ignore that emotion and I end up re -injuring 00:48:42.960 --> 00:48:50.130 myself. Root cause manifests in the physical 00:48:50.130 --> 00:48:53.750 and the mental. I don't listen to my emotions. 00:48:54.230 --> 00:48:57.510 I don't know how to listen. In the past, I didn't 00:48:57.510 --> 00:49:02.369 listen to my desires, my real desires. And now 00:49:02.369 --> 00:49:05.630 I am, but it's really hard to decipher between 00:49:05.630 --> 00:49:11.110 my real desires and my not real desires. It's 00:49:11.110 --> 00:49:15.010 hard to know what my desires are, all that stuff. 00:49:15.690 --> 00:49:18.889 I think because of the skill has attribute in 00:49:18.889 --> 00:49:26.130 the past because of the disconnection from From 00:49:26.130 --> 00:49:29.110 reality the root cause is a disconnection from 00:49:29.110 --> 00:49:34.650 reality and now in the in the social side of 00:49:34.650 --> 00:49:40.150 things I have social warning signs like are like 00:49:40.809 --> 00:49:43.570 signs in my body like oh I need to socialize 00:49:43.570 --> 00:49:48.909 more or oh I may need to be isolated more right 00:49:48.909 --> 00:49:53.630 now but I always ignore it for example like when 00:49:53.630 --> 00:49:55.349 I was in school there were times where maybe 00:49:55.349 --> 00:49:58.869 I needed to be maybe I need to just spend like 00:49:58.869 --> 00:50:02.449 a period of time in isolation just so I can like 00:50:02.860 --> 00:50:06.079 come back to equilibrium, which isolation is 00:50:06.079 --> 00:50:08.340 still important, just not if it's only isolation. 00:50:08.760 --> 00:50:12.280 Same thing with socializing is important. Like 00:50:12.280 --> 00:50:18.659 socializing is a necessity. But also isolation 00:50:18.659 --> 00:50:22.420 is important too. Because you come back to equilibrium, 00:50:23.320 --> 00:50:26.840 you can re -entune with yourself. But like when 00:50:26.840 --> 00:50:28.880 I was in school, there might have been times 00:50:28.880 --> 00:50:33.860 where I needed to be in more isolated for a little 00:50:33.860 --> 00:50:35.679 bit to come back to equilibrium, but I couldn't 00:50:35.679 --> 00:50:37.300 because there was a structural element in play 00:50:37.300 --> 00:50:40.139 to where I had to ignore that feeling and I had 00:50:40.139 --> 00:50:46.280 to go to school. Another example is right now, 00:50:46.940 --> 00:50:50.619 since I am more introverted by nature, which 00:50:50.619 --> 00:50:53.059 I don't like those labels, introvert and extrovert, 00:50:53.099 --> 00:50:55.179 for the same reason I don't like labels of like 00:50:55.179 --> 00:50:59.699 Christianity or Muslim, all that stuff. And like 00:50:59.699 --> 00:51:02.000 different reasons to like it's I feel like it's 00:51:02.000 --> 00:51:05.559 a spectrum and I also feel like it's Debilitating 00:51:05.559 --> 00:51:07.539 to label thing people like that like I don't 00:51:07.539 --> 00:51:10.880 like labels like autism or ADHD and all that 00:51:10.880 --> 00:51:13.699 stuff Because it's like debilitating or like 00:51:13.699 --> 00:51:16.059 eating disorders eating disorder that labels 00:51:16.059 --> 00:51:19.719 so debilitating That's I don't like the label 00:51:19.719 --> 00:51:21.719 introvert or extrovert for a similar reason why 00:51:21.719 --> 00:51:25.599 I don't like the label eating disorder It might 00:51:25.599 --> 00:51:29.639 provide valuable information on how to effectively 00:51:29.639 --> 00:51:35.519 improve, but I don't like it at the price of 00:51:35.519 --> 00:51:38.960 the label. But that's a different topic. Basically, 00:51:42.639 --> 00:51:46.699 what was I even saying? The example of the root 00:51:46.699 --> 00:51:49.139 cause manifesting, oh, in the social aspect. 00:51:50.159 --> 00:51:53.079 So it manifests in the social aspect, since I 00:51:53.079 --> 00:52:02.800 am more introverted by nature. I lean more, if 00:52:02.800 --> 00:52:05.420 I don't have those structural elements in play, 00:52:06.119 --> 00:52:09.199 I lean more towards introversion, which right 00:52:09.199 --> 00:52:12.900 now, the way I set up my life recently to make 00:52:12.900 --> 00:52:14.860 a lot of progress in the pursuits that I wanted 00:52:14.860 --> 00:52:20.699 to make, it led to a deficit of social skill, 00:52:21.019 --> 00:52:23.840 or not skill, well skill, yeah, but also social, 00:52:25.599 --> 00:52:29.420 experience socializing and That made it so that 00:52:29.420 --> 00:52:31.440 like there are times where I'm like, okay I need 00:52:31.440 --> 00:52:34.480 more socializing but I needed to ignore it or 00:52:34.480 --> 00:52:36.420 not even just needed to ignore it but I just 00:52:36.420 --> 00:52:40.119 ignored it because I just did and so that's a 00:52:40.119 --> 00:52:47.360 disconnection from reality and A lot of the solutions 00:52:47.360 --> 00:52:50.980 basically all the solutions that I have found 00:52:51.750 --> 00:52:54.269 only deal with the symptoms. So for example, 00:52:54.389 --> 00:52:56.969 like the solution in the physical and right now 00:52:56.969 --> 00:52:59.889 I'm talking about solutions of the root cause 00:52:59.889 --> 00:53:04.630 in a holistic sense of the physical, mental and 00:53:04.630 --> 00:53:07.929 social aspects of life, all aspects of life. 00:53:11.150 --> 00:53:16.409 And the solutions I found only target symptoms. 00:53:16.610 --> 00:53:19.800 For example, like if you wanna fix that root 00:53:19.800 --> 00:53:23.960 cause manifesting in your in it creates injuries, 00:53:24.440 --> 00:53:26.800 like in my case, I have lots of injuries, well, 00:53:26.820 --> 00:53:29.820 then go to physical therapy, and then you'll 00:53:29.820 --> 00:53:34.380 heal your injuries. But it never heals the root 00:53:34.380 --> 00:53:36.880 cause, which is the thing that made the injury 00:53:36.880 --> 00:53:38.539 happen in the first place. And it's the thing 00:53:38.539 --> 00:53:41.239 that will make another injury happen again in 00:53:41.239 --> 00:53:45.400 the future. So it's not really effective. It's 00:53:45.400 --> 00:53:48.099 really effective for fixing the injury that you 00:53:48.099 --> 00:53:50.480 have right now, but it's not effective for fixing 00:53:50.480 --> 00:53:54.119 anything, for fixing anything long -term or lasting 00:53:54.119 --> 00:53:57.639 or worthwhile. Like if you want to fix your injury, 00:53:57.719 --> 00:54:00.000 the best way is to fix the root cause so that 00:54:00.000 --> 00:54:03.800 you don't have injuries in the future. And you 00:54:03.800 --> 00:54:05.820 also do physical therapy so you can fix the injuries 00:54:05.820 --> 00:54:14.699 you currently have. Then in the mental it's also 00:54:14.699 --> 00:54:18.719 like therapy people suggest therapy or they are 00:54:18.719 --> 00:54:20.739 like that's like an emotional side, but in like 00:54:20.739 --> 00:54:24.679 the spiritual side people suggest like Religion 00:54:24.679 --> 00:54:26.679 or like reading the Bible like have you read 00:54:26.679 --> 00:54:31.000 if you tried the Bible? That's a symptom fixing 00:54:31.000 --> 00:54:33.980 the symptom Therapy is fixing a symptom, but 00:54:33.980 --> 00:54:36.300 it's not fixing the root cause for the same reason 00:54:36.300 --> 00:54:40.119 that physical therapy doesn't fix the root cause 00:54:40.119 --> 00:54:43.159 that is going to cause you to get injured again 00:54:43.159 --> 00:54:47.360 in the future. So therapy, I've never been to 00:54:47.360 --> 00:54:49.179 therapy, so I'm not speaking from experience, 00:54:49.260 --> 00:54:53.219 but I'm speaking from experience of living for 00:54:53.219 --> 00:54:57.920 20 years in the civilization that is so disconnected 00:54:57.920 --> 00:55:02.039 from reality. So I imagine I'm making a logical 00:55:02.039 --> 00:55:08.210 leap that therapy also similar to physical therapy 00:55:08.210 --> 00:55:10.869 in the sense that it may not necessarily fix 00:55:10.869 --> 00:55:13.829 the root cause and even if it did it doesn't 00:55:13.829 --> 00:55:17.030 fix it in the holistic sense like I have issues 00:55:17.030 --> 00:55:20.590 in the material in the physical movement eating 00:55:20.590 --> 00:55:26.469 all that stuff in the spiritual emotional desire 00:55:26.469 --> 00:55:29.449 like all that aspect and in the social aspect 00:55:29.449 --> 00:55:33.190 I have issues my root cause is affecting all 00:55:33.190 --> 00:55:37.400 of my life So I don't want to just fix one issue 00:55:37.400 --> 00:55:39.539 I want to focus the entire I want to fix the 00:55:39.539 --> 00:55:43.820 entire thing and I think that it's all being 00:55:43.820 --> 00:55:48.960 um, I Think the cause of it all is Disconnection 00:55:48.960 --> 00:55:52.300 from reality its language. It's like it's the 00:55:52.300 --> 00:55:56.420 way that our language is just like the structural 00:55:56.420 --> 00:55:59.360 elements of our language, it's highly disconnected 00:55:59.360 --> 00:56:05.000 from reality and Or maybe just language in general. 00:56:05.619 --> 00:56:07.920 But especially our language is highly disconnected 00:56:07.920 --> 00:56:10.699 from reality. And that's why I think that that 00:56:10.699 --> 00:56:14.239 root cause is abstraction. It's the point that 00:56:14.239 --> 00:56:16.860 I talked about earlier. The point. Living in 00:56:16.860 --> 00:56:25.420 the point. And so I'm not satisfied with trying 00:56:25.420 --> 00:56:30.409 to find solutions in s - one or two aspects because 00:56:30.409 --> 00:56:34.070 it's that by definition is not going to actually 00:56:34.070 --> 00:56:37.250 not necessarily by definition but that in this 00:56:37.250 --> 00:56:41.550 case is not going to fix all of it or the entire 00:56:41.550 --> 00:56:49.119 root cause and so that brings me to two different 00:56:49.119 --> 00:56:51.619 approaches. There's a structured approach, and 00:56:51.619 --> 00:56:55.440 there's an improvement approach. So the structured 00:56:55.440 --> 00:56:59.619 approach of trying to fix these issues looks 00:56:59.619 --> 00:57:07.000 like this. So in the movement issue, if you want 00:57:07.000 --> 00:57:10.519 the improvement, our society is all about improvement 00:57:10.519 --> 00:57:14.460 approaches for all of this stuff. The movement, 00:57:14.860 --> 00:57:17.869 like the physical, the mental, and the social. 00:57:18.130 --> 00:57:21.710 It's all about improvement for everything. And 00:57:21.710 --> 00:57:24.230 it's not about structural. So if you wanted to 00:57:24.230 --> 00:57:30.570 improve your movement with the improvement approach, 00:57:31.369 --> 00:57:33.630 or if you wanted to fix your movement issue with 00:57:33.630 --> 00:57:36.909 the improvement approach, you would start working 00:57:36.909 --> 00:57:42.500 out, you would start... Improving your posture 00:57:42.500 --> 00:57:44.780 being mindful of your posture all that stuff 00:57:44.780 --> 00:57:48.300 and what like some issues that come with that 00:57:48.300 --> 00:57:52.400 is That you you'll have like there's relapse 00:57:52.400 --> 00:57:54.719 There's a high chance of relapse like most people 00:57:54.719 --> 00:57:57.920 that start diets or who start going to the gym. 00:57:58.500 --> 00:58:02.880 Don't Don't stick with it and It takes a lot 00:58:02.880 --> 00:58:10.579 of effort But if you tackle it with a structured 00:58:10.579 --> 00:58:14.019 approach, then it looks totally different. You 00:58:14.019 --> 00:58:16.460 would totally change your environment. For example, 00:58:17.400 --> 00:58:23.880 in a city, like in a home, in a city, it is very 00:58:23.880 --> 00:58:29.039 gridlocked in the sense that right now I'm sitting 00:58:29.039 --> 00:58:33.920 in my basement. If I want to move around in the 00:58:33.920 --> 00:58:37.679 basement, I can only move in certain places. 00:58:38.139 --> 00:58:42.260 because there are objects in the way, which is 00:58:42.260 --> 00:58:44.840 a normal part of reality, like whether you're 00:58:44.840 --> 00:58:49.840 in a home or outside in the forest. But if I 00:58:49.840 --> 00:58:53.860 want to go outside, I have to follow a predetermined 00:58:53.860 --> 00:58:57.019 path to get out there. So I have to turn right, 00:58:57.199 --> 00:59:01.420 go left, go up the stairs, go out the door. Like, 00:59:01.519 --> 00:59:04.590 I can't just, like, it's a... There's a barrier 00:59:04.590 --> 00:59:07.650 to entry. There's friction involved with going 00:59:07.650 --> 00:59:10.510 outside. But then once you are actually outside, 00:59:10.789 --> 00:59:13.989 which has a higher degree of freedom of movement 00:59:13.989 --> 00:59:18.809 as opposed to inside. For example, like you can 00:59:18.809 --> 00:59:22.690 run around. You can like go run outside, but 00:59:22.690 --> 00:59:25.510 you can't really run inside. You'll have, you 00:59:25.510 --> 00:59:30.110 can't like freely run like and not stop for a 00:59:30.110 --> 00:59:33.179 while inside. You have to like run back and forth 00:59:33.179 --> 00:59:36.380 and stop every every couple moments. But outside 00:59:36.380 --> 00:59:39.199 you have a higher degree of freedom in movement. 00:59:39.719 --> 00:59:42.719 But in a city that's not really true because 00:59:42.719 --> 00:59:46.539 you can only move on sidewalks in a straight 00:59:46.539 --> 00:59:48.880 up and down line because you can't really move 00:59:48.880 --> 00:59:51.079 around in the street because that's dangerous. 00:59:51.960 --> 00:59:56.159 That's like the area for cars. You can't really 00:59:56.159 --> 01:00:01.199 move. In other people's property because that's 01:00:01.199 --> 01:00:03.559 trespassing that's illegal but also if you even 01:00:03.559 --> 01:00:06.699 if you could it would be inconvenient because 01:00:06.699 --> 01:00:09.340 you'd have to like hop the fence you'd have to 01:00:09.340 --> 01:00:11.860 like go through a bunch of obstacles like basically 01:00:11.860 --> 01:00:15.440 the only areas that are have free degrees of 01:00:15.440 --> 01:00:18.960 movement are sidewalks and parks and Usually 01:00:18.960 --> 01:00:22.099 people have to walk or travel a couple blocks 01:00:22.099 --> 01:00:25.099 to even get to the park So that's another that's 01:00:25.099 --> 01:00:27.639 a lot of friction to achieve freedom of movement 01:00:28.329 --> 01:00:34.570 And even in a park, you're still confined to 01:00:34.570 --> 01:00:38.590 that area, that area of park. So that is gridlock. 01:00:38.789 --> 01:00:41.190 That's what I like to call gridlock in the sense 01:00:41.190 --> 01:00:44.190 that there are lots of objects, there are lots 01:00:44.190 --> 01:00:48.389 of obstacles preventing you from achieving freedom 01:00:48.389 --> 01:00:55.000 of movement in this instance. And so... an improvement 01:00:55.000 --> 01:00:59.320 approach on fixing your movement issues like 01:00:59.320 --> 01:01:03.219 fitness and all that stuff would be operating 01:01:03.219 --> 01:01:06.619 within the gridlock like start going to the gym 01:01:06.619 --> 01:01:09.519 start going on walks that's operating within 01:01:09.519 --> 01:01:12.840 the gridlock keeping that gridlock element intact 01:01:12.840 --> 01:01:16.480 but a structural approach is totally different 01:01:16.480 --> 01:01:19.860 it would it would address the gridlock itself 01:01:20.349 --> 01:01:24.269 And then naturally you'll fix your other movements. 01:01:25.289 --> 01:01:27.789 And so like, for example, a solution would be 01:01:27.789 --> 01:01:31.389 like to move out into the, into like a hundred 01:01:31.389 --> 01:01:35.190 gathered lifestyle. And that would naturally, 01:01:35.710 --> 01:01:39.070 you'll naturally work out all day. You'll naturally 01:01:39.070 --> 01:01:42.050 fix your movement and all that stuff. That's 01:01:42.050 --> 01:01:45.409 like the structural, like I'm just giving these 01:01:45.409 --> 01:01:50.539 examples to explain. differences in approaches. 01:01:51.099 --> 01:01:55.239 One ignores the structural thing and addresses 01:01:55.239 --> 01:01:58.900 the symptoms and the activities, like the improvement 01:01:58.900 --> 01:02:01.559 approach. And then the other addresses the structural 01:02:01.559 --> 01:02:04.539 thing. And then the activities are kind of like 01:02:04.539 --> 01:02:07.039 a byproduct of addressing the structural thing, 01:02:07.400 --> 01:02:14.039 like in the hunter -gatherer approach. So that's 01:02:14.039 --> 01:02:16.820 an important concept when dealing with the root 01:02:16.820 --> 01:02:20.289 cause. All of the solutions that I have found 01:02:20.289 --> 01:02:23.170 when dealing with the root cause in terms of 01:02:23.170 --> 01:02:29.650 physical emotional and Social they all are improvement 01:02:29.650 --> 01:02:32.989 approaches Which is totally fine. Like I am all 01:02:32.989 --> 01:02:38.309 for improvement approaches but Not if that's 01:02:38.309 --> 01:02:41.630 all you think about like it when you only think 01:02:41.630 --> 01:02:45.829 about the improvement approach then you are not 01:02:45.829 --> 01:02:50.429 made aware of a fundamentally different way of 01:02:50.429 --> 01:02:55.590 operating. I have always improved my improvement 01:02:55.590 --> 01:02:58.690 approaches, but I've also done structural approaches 01:02:58.690 --> 01:03:06.349 too, but not to this degree. And so that's where 01:03:06.349 --> 01:03:12.210 improvement approaches by definition never fix 01:03:12.210 --> 01:03:15.929 the root cause. And it always is like putting 01:03:15.929 --> 01:03:19.519 a bandaid on it. Just addressing the symptom 01:03:19.519 --> 01:03:23.920 and it's not going to fix or prevent any Issues 01:03:23.920 --> 01:03:26.599 in the future. So that's why I'm turned off by 01:03:26.599 --> 01:03:30.699 a lot of the solutions proposed to me on How 01:03:30.699 --> 01:03:33.800 to solve the root cause and another important 01:03:33.800 --> 01:03:36.079 thing is that this root cause is not unique to 01:03:36.079 --> 01:03:41.480 me It's actually I I feel like it's Prevalent 01:03:41.480 --> 01:03:46.789 in everyone in the world less so in other cultures 01:03:46.789 --> 01:03:53.510 like hunter -gatherer less document or less Documented 01:03:53.510 --> 01:03:59.010 tribes, but like more so like very much so in 01:03:59.010 --> 01:04:04.969 our Humans in our civilization Like if it's to 01:04:04.969 --> 01:04:07.650 the degree of a hundred with us It's probably 01:04:07.650 --> 01:04:10.949 like to the degree of one or like point one with 01:04:10.949 --> 01:04:15.199 people in like a hunter -gatherer setting who 01:04:15.199 --> 01:04:17.619 like the parahas are who I'm thinking about because 01:04:17.619 --> 01:04:20.420 their language is Totally different and we'll 01:04:20.420 --> 01:04:24.599 get to language in a little bit. So That's the 01:04:24.599 --> 01:04:28.039 root cause and that's why I am turned off by 01:04:28.039 --> 01:04:32.900 improvement approaches Now let's let's talk about 01:04:32.900 --> 01:04:37.360 language Language is supposed to be a tool Not 01:04:37.360 --> 01:04:40.199 a mode of operation, but in our way of life. 01:04:40.199 --> 01:04:43.909 It is a mode of operation not a tool And so here 01:04:43.909 --> 01:04:49.670 are an example. So the English language is very 01:04:49.670 --> 01:04:54.889 much, it labels everything. So first of all, 01:04:55.150 --> 01:05:00.610 it has lots of nouns. It has a label for every 01:05:00.610 --> 01:05:04.550 object. It has a label for every phenomenon, 01:05:04.809 --> 01:05:12.159 every possible thing. And then the And then it 01:05:12.159 --> 01:05:14.960 also has tenses. So it has like the past tense, 01:05:15.039 --> 01:05:18.239 the present tense, and the future. And it also 01:05:18.239 --> 01:05:21.940 has a mathematical system, and it has a scientific 01:05:21.940 --> 01:05:29.059 system. It has all this stuff. And let's create 01:05:29.059 --> 01:05:32.219 a spectrum. So on one side of the spectrum is 01:05:32.219 --> 01:05:36.099 highly abstracted, and that's English. And then 01:05:36.099 --> 01:05:39.059 I'm not sure if English is the most abstract 01:05:39.059 --> 01:05:43.030 language. known to man? I actually am curious. 01:05:43.110 --> 01:05:45.050 I'm going to write that down to look that up. 01:05:45.269 --> 01:05:54.750 What is the most abstract language? But let's 01:05:54.750 --> 01:05:58.449 just assume that English is. I'm not sure if 01:05:58.449 --> 01:06:01.750 it is or not, but for this conversation, let's 01:06:01.750 --> 01:06:04.989 just assume it is. I'm really curious if it is. 01:06:04.989 --> 01:06:08.090 And if it's not, I want to find out what is and 01:06:08.090 --> 01:06:10.130 understand what that's all about. But basically, 01:06:10.400 --> 01:06:13.159 Let's say English is the most abstract on the 01:06:13.159 --> 01:06:16.000 right side of the spectrum. And then on the totally 01:06:16.000 --> 01:06:18.880 opposite side of the spectrum is a language spoken 01:06:18.880 --> 01:06:22.820 by the Paraha tribe, which is a hunter gatherer 01:06:22.820 --> 01:06:28.960 tribe in the Amazon rainforest. These guys languages 01:06:28.960 --> 01:06:33.099 or this language does not have a past tense or 01:06:33.099 --> 01:06:37.039 a future tense. It is only in the present. And 01:06:37.039 --> 01:06:41.800 I'm not sure if it has large amount of labels 01:06:41.800 --> 01:06:47.239 like nouns and I also am not sure if it has labels 01:06:47.239 --> 01:06:52.059 for things like anxiety which points to like 01:06:52.059 --> 01:06:54.360 if they haven't needed to create a label for 01:06:54.360 --> 01:06:57.000 that maybe it's because it's not in their environment 01:06:57.000 --> 01:07:00.880 but basically the point is that their label let's 01:07:00.880 --> 01:07:03.119 just stick with the tenses and they are also 01:07:03.119 --> 01:07:06.820 in their their counting system, I think they 01:07:06.820 --> 01:07:09.840 have like one, two, and many. I'm pretty sure 01:07:09.840 --> 01:07:12.380 there was a guy who tried to teach them how to 01:07:12.380 --> 01:07:14.639 count, but they literally couldn't, like grown 01:07:14.639 --> 01:07:20.760 adults could not count. They didn't have the 01:07:20.760 --> 01:07:24.840 faculties for it, apparently. Even though they're 01:07:24.840 --> 01:07:26.739 still the same species as us, so they still have 01:07:26.739 --> 01:07:29.579 the same brain, it's just that. the way their 01:07:29.579 --> 01:07:32.260 brains have been wired because of the language. 01:07:32.519 --> 01:07:35.539 And this is where it gets to this. My question 01:07:35.539 --> 01:07:41.659 is, how much of our thinking and way of living, 01:07:42.019 --> 01:07:45.219 perceiving the life, perceiving the world and 01:07:45.219 --> 01:07:49.519 behavior is really affected by our language? 01:07:50.239 --> 01:07:52.900 Because if I am able to count so easily, I'm 01:07:52.900 --> 01:07:59.219 able to visualize numbers and like, Count my 01:07:59.219 --> 01:08:03.280 reps that I'm doing without even saying the actual 01:08:03.280 --> 01:08:05.760 number in my my head I just point straight to 01:08:05.760 --> 01:08:11.340 the essence if I'm if I'm able to Do all that 01:08:11.340 --> 01:08:13.639 and I was raised in the English language, which 01:08:13.639 --> 01:08:18.479 is heavily abstracted But someone my age who 01:08:18.479 --> 01:08:21.300 was raised who's the same species same human 01:08:21.300 --> 01:08:24.859 being? Who was raised in a totally different 01:08:24.859 --> 01:08:28.760 language that does not have those? that abstraction, 01:08:29.520 --> 01:08:32.279 if they're not able to do that, they didn't develop 01:08:32.279 --> 01:08:34.760 that skill or they don't have that way of thinking, 01:08:36.119 --> 01:08:39.220 how much of our actions and our behavior and 01:08:39.220 --> 01:08:41.880 our way of perceiving the world is affected by 01:08:41.880 --> 01:08:46.180 that? So that's just something that I'm really 01:08:46.180 --> 01:08:50.380 curious about. And that's where it gets to, I 01:08:50.380 --> 01:08:53.539 connect it back to the point where the point 01:08:53.539 --> 01:08:59.170 is because Our language, English, is heavily 01:08:59.170 --> 01:09:01.810 disconnected from reality. We have past tense, 01:09:01.909 --> 01:09:05.050 we have future tense, which by definition are 01:09:05.050 --> 01:09:07.649 abstract. They are disconnected from reality 01:09:07.649 --> 01:09:11.550 because the past tense is not real. Like it's 01:09:11.550 --> 01:09:14.550 what we can talk about the past, but it's not 01:09:14.550 --> 01:09:16.770 now. The only thing that's real is right now. 01:09:17.090 --> 01:09:21.289 And what I mean by that is the only possible 01:09:21.289 --> 01:09:25.149 way to convey or perceive information from the 01:09:25.149 --> 01:09:30.170 past or the future is to use language. I'm unaware 01:09:30.170 --> 01:09:33.609 of any examples of time travel or like being 01:09:33.609 --> 01:09:37.029 able to perceive past or future. There might 01:09:37.029 --> 01:09:39.770 be like dreams and stuff like that, but basically 01:09:39.770 --> 01:09:45.569 the main way that we as a civilization do it 01:09:45.569 --> 01:09:51.510 is through language. And that by definition is 01:09:51.510 --> 01:09:54.710 disconnected from reality. And so whenever we 01:09:54.710 --> 01:09:56.609 talk about the past and the future, which are 01:09:56.609 --> 01:09:59.350 fundamental parts of our language, we are disconnected 01:09:59.350 --> 01:10:03.229 from reality. And a lot, a huge portion of our 01:10:03.229 --> 01:10:07.409 day -to -day life is in past tense and future 01:10:07.409 --> 01:10:12.449 tense. Like it's really weird to say, I am making 01:10:12.449 --> 01:10:16.470 food. Or I mean, no, that's not weird. But like, 01:10:16.590 --> 01:10:18.529 like people usually don't like label the things 01:10:18.529 --> 01:10:25.210 they're doing right now all the time. So if the 01:10:25.210 --> 01:10:27.310 past and the future are so fundamental in our 01:10:27.310 --> 01:10:30.789 language, and we are in the past and the future 01:10:30.789 --> 01:10:35.289 a lot, which is disconnected from life, and this 01:10:35.289 --> 01:10:37.369 other language, the Paraha language, on the opposite 01:10:37.369 --> 01:10:39.510 side of the spectrum, they don't even have a 01:10:39.510 --> 01:10:42.829 past or future. They are, and they are operating, 01:10:43.789 --> 01:10:46.750 okay, let's assume that we are operating in a 01:10:46.750 --> 01:10:51.960 mode of language. Our language is heavily disconnected 01:10:51.960 --> 01:10:54.260 from reality. It has lots of labels, has lots 01:10:54.260 --> 01:10:59.300 of tenses. The Paraha language is not heavily 01:10:59.300 --> 01:11:01.619 disconnected from reality. They only tell stories 01:11:01.619 --> 01:11:05.600 about things that have happened to them, like 01:11:05.600 --> 01:11:09.659 things they've actually experienced. They only 01:11:09.659 --> 01:11:11.619 have a present tense, which is happening right 01:11:11.619 --> 01:11:15.810 now. If they're operating in that mode, They're 01:11:15.810 --> 01:11:18.609 only in present and all of the benefits in like 01:11:18.609 --> 01:11:21.909 neuroscience and like psychology have been documented 01:11:21.909 --> 01:11:26.130 on like presence and mindfulness How different 01:11:26.130 --> 01:11:29.510 of their way of life is it to ours simply because 01:11:29.510 --> 01:11:31.590 they have a different language now? Yeah, they 01:11:31.590 --> 01:11:35.270 they have a different environment too, but like 01:11:35.270 --> 01:11:37.789 The different language I think is an important 01:11:37.789 --> 01:11:40.409 factor now. Obviously the environment is a very 01:11:40.409 --> 01:11:42.350 important factor too, but right now I'm talking 01:11:42.350 --> 01:11:46.430 about language so That's just something I've 01:11:46.430 --> 01:11:52.270 been so fascinated about lately. Just how different 01:11:52.270 --> 01:11:58.510 is it? I can't even comprehend how, and it's 01:11:58.510 --> 01:12:00.829 impossible to speculate. You have to experience 01:12:00.829 --> 01:12:02.909 it for yourself, which I have not experienced 01:12:02.909 --> 01:12:06.890 it for myself. But it's just so fascinating to 01:12:06.890 --> 01:12:09.529 me, something I've been really curious about. 01:12:15.650 --> 01:12:20.149 Yeah, that is language and now I Still on the 01:12:20.149 --> 01:12:22.810 topic of language. I started learning Spanish 01:12:22.810 --> 01:12:25.390 like maybe one or two months ago But I was really 01:12:25.390 --> 01:12:28.510 only just learning a bunch of vocab words because 01:12:28.510 --> 01:12:30.670 my strategy was I just wanted a bunch Learn a 01:12:30.670 --> 01:12:33.090 bunch of vocab words to lay a foundation for 01:12:33.090 --> 01:12:36.189 when I went to Mexico which I want to go to Mexico 01:12:36.189 --> 01:12:40.229 and Once I feel my foot in like January maybe 01:12:41.690 --> 01:12:44.270 Was gonna lay that foundation memorize thousands 01:12:44.270 --> 01:12:46.810 of words and then go to Mexico and immerse myself 01:12:46.810 --> 01:12:48.789 because I thought that was the best way to learn 01:12:48.789 --> 01:12:53.829 But I actually discovered a real way to like 01:12:53.829 --> 01:12:55.829 or not a real way because both are both work 01:12:55.829 --> 01:12:59.489 but a Way faster way more effective way more 01:12:59.489 --> 01:13:02.250 efficient way and a way you don't have to go 01:13:02.250 --> 01:13:06.069 to Mexico to learn Spanish and so I started that 01:13:06.069 --> 01:13:10.760 method maybe like one or two weeks ago Probably 01:13:10.760 --> 01:13:13.600 like nine days ago actually or less than two 01:13:13.600 --> 01:13:16.260 weeks ago. I bet Less than two weeks ago. Basically, 01:13:16.260 --> 01:13:20.279 it's where you memorize thousands of sentences 01:13:20.279 --> 01:13:24.720 And not just memorize them but internalize them 01:13:24.720 --> 01:13:26.899 so review them every day so that you immediately 01:13:26.899 --> 01:13:30.979 can recall them and then you listen to them Basically, 01:13:30.979 --> 01:13:34.779 I found the guy. He's a polyglot. His name is 01:13:34.779 --> 01:13:38.149 like superglot Mikkel on YouTube or something 01:13:38.149 --> 01:13:40.350 like that, or Hyperglot Mikkel. I don't know, 01:13:40.449 --> 01:13:43.810 but he can speak 12 languages. He has a website 01:13:43.810 --> 01:13:46.550 called Natural Language Learning, and I went 01:13:46.550 --> 01:13:48.189 through his seven -day course, and right now 01:13:48.189 --> 01:13:53.010 I'm going through his 30 -day course. And basically, 01:13:54.029 --> 01:13:56.770 the three things that are important are learning 01:13:56.770 --> 01:14:00.329 a bunch of sentences, having a bunch of listening 01:14:00.329 --> 01:14:04.409 input. Then having speaking practice with feedback 01:14:04.409 --> 01:14:08.130 and so what I've been doing is Memorizing hundreds 01:14:08.130 --> 01:14:10.609 of sentences so far. I've memorized like right 01:14:10.609 --> 01:14:12.630 now. I'm doing like 50 a day today I'm taking 01:14:12.630 --> 01:14:15.590 a full rest day from Spanish, but Right now I'm 01:14:15.590 --> 01:14:18.609 doing 50 a day for four days and then for two 01:14:18.609 --> 01:14:25.850 days. I I learned the opposite so like I do 50 01:14:25.850 --> 01:14:29.649 a day with English -facing flashcards, so I have 01:14:29.649 --> 01:14:35.609 to generate the Spanish to learn 200 sentences 01:14:35.609 --> 01:14:40.149 and then for two days I basically learned those 01:14:40.149 --> 01:14:43.729 same 200 kind of like review but with Spanish 01:14:43.729 --> 01:14:47.090 -facing flashcards so I kind of confirm like 01:14:47.090 --> 01:14:49.449 and solidify that doesn't really matter basically 01:14:49.449 --> 01:14:52.189 I'm learning a bunch of sentences a day and he 01:14:52.189 --> 01:14:55.310 said and then that's to learn a bunch of sentences 01:14:55.310 --> 01:14:59.489 and then you have to have massive input not just 01:14:59.489 --> 01:15:06.409 random videos quite yet, but have like he gave 01:15:06.409 --> 01:15:11.569 text to speech files of in a really good voice 01:15:11.569 --> 01:15:14.949 over AI in Spanish with a clear voice sounds 01:15:14.949 --> 01:15:20.149 natural saying all the sentences that we're learning. 01:15:21.550 --> 01:15:23.890 And so you memorize the sentences and then you 01:15:23.890 --> 01:15:26.850 listen to them actively throughout the day or 01:15:26.850 --> 01:15:29.770 passively throughout the day. And then that confirms 01:15:29.770 --> 01:15:34.689 it, and it also gets it so that you learn it. 01:15:35.250 --> 01:15:37.770 But then once you hear it, eventually you'll 01:15:37.770 --> 01:15:40.869 be able to start understanding what it's saying 01:15:40.869 --> 01:15:43.090 without having to translate it to English first. 01:15:43.810 --> 01:15:46.569 And that's started to happen with me already. 01:15:47.770 --> 01:15:51.250 And so that is the listening, massive listening 01:15:51.250 --> 01:15:55.369 input. And then speaking practice is like pronouncing 01:15:55.369 --> 01:16:04.579 correctly, speaking fast. also having feedback 01:16:04.579 --> 01:16:07.560 with your speaking so that's like what the flashcards 01:16:07.560 --> 01:16:11.859 are about all about where you can see the English 01:16:11.859 --> 01:16:15.579 sentence and then translate it to Spanish out 01:16:15.579 --> 01:16:18.300 loud and then you immediately get feedback on 01:16:18.300 --> 01:16:20.300 what you got right and what got you got wrong 01:16:20.300 --> 01:16:23.319 which you don't get in conversations even with 01:16:23.319 --> 01:16:26.739 a tutor so that's why I like it a lot Because 01:16:26.739 --> 01:16:28.800 I was doing tutors for like four days straight 01:16:28.800 --> 01:16:32.680 on baseline like two weeks ago, but then I realized 01:16:32.680 --> 01:16:37.539 that I needed to focus on my Sentences I needed 01:16:37.539 --> 01:16:39.439 to do this method for a little while until I 01:16:39.439 --> 01:16:41.720 learned a bunch of sentences worked on my pronunciation 01:16:41.720 --> 01:16:49.140 and then talk with tutors But yeah, that's so 01:16:49.140 --> 01:16:51.619 basically I've made more progress learning Spanish 01:16:51.619 --> 01:16:55.069 in the past one or two weeks than I have in the 01:16:55.069 --> 01:16:58.810 past month before that, just doing flashcards 01:16:58.810 --> 01:17:01.689 with single words. Single word flashcards are 01:17:01.689 --> 01:17:04.930 terrible, because I learned 1 ,200 words and 01:17:04.930 --> 01:17:07.909 hundreds of conjugations. But then once I actually 01:17:07.909 --> 01:17:10.550 started talking with a tutor, I didn't know how 01:17:10.550 --> 01:17:14.069 to use any of them. So I basically learned nothing. 01:17:14.810 --> 01:17:17.909 But now that I'm learning sentences, I actually 01:17:17.909 --> 01:17:20.189 know how to use them, and it's a different story. 01:17:20.630 --> 01:17:24.210 And so I've learned more. In the past two weeks 01:17:24.210 --> 01:17:27.649 of using this method of Spanish, it made more 01:17:27.649 --> 01:17:31.829 progress than I have in over a decade of learning 01:17:31.829 --> 01:17:35.329 Spanish, like in school and on my own. Like in 01:17:35.329 --> 01:17:37.409 middle school, I would practice on my own. And 01:17:37.409 --> 01:17:40.229 in high school, I would practice on my own. And 01:17:40.229 --> 01:17:46.949 also over the past month learning in isolated 01:17:46.949 --> 01:17:49.930 vocab terms, which is such a terrible way. Like 01:17:49.930 --> 01:17:54.590 you don't learn anything that way. And so Yeah, 01:17:54.649 --> 01:17:56.810 that's I'm actually learning Spanish for real 01:17:56.810 --> 01:18:01.609 this time. So yeah, and I'm excited about that 01:18:01.609 --> 01:18:06.529 and Yeah, all right. So now this is the last 01:18:06.529 --> 01:18:10.170 thing I want to talk about Why I'm not Christian 01:18:10.170 --> 01:18:15.550 I I never really cared for Christianity even 01:18:15.550 --> 01:18:19.510 when I was growing up like I I was taught to 01:18:19.510 --> 01:18:23.649 care about it, but I never really like It was 01:18:23.649 --> 01:18:28.869 always kind of weird to me. And then once I read 01:18:28.869 --> 01:18:30.630 a book called Reality Transurfing, that's when 01:18:30.630 --> 01:18:34.869 I was like, okay, yeah, I'm not this. That's 01:18:34.869 --> 01:18:39.109 when I began to be able to articulate why I didn't 01:18:39.109 --> 01:18:43.869 want to be that. But lately, I actually have 01:18:43.869 --> 01:18:48.029 a better explanation of why I'm not Christian. 01:18:49.029 --> 01:18:51.850 And over the course of the months and years, 01:18:52.060 --> 01:18:55.340 I always have better and better explanations. 01:18:55.420 --> 01:18:58.119 I'm able to articulate it better. But right now, 01:18:58.140 --> 01:19:01.079 I just wanted to say what I have right now, why 01:19:01.079 --> 01:19:04.020 I'm not Christian right now. So there's two important 01:19:04.020 --> 01:19:10.060 aspects, labels and faith. So labels is Christianity 01:19:10.060 --> 01:19:13.680 is a label itself, but also all of Christianity 01:19:13.680 --> 01:19:17.000 operates within the point, which is just labels. 01:19:19.310 --> 01:19:23.130 And then the other aspect is faith. Faith is 01:19:23.130 --> 01:19:28.689 like a primary behavior of Christianity. It's 01:19:28.689 --> 01:19:32.390 a one of the most important behaviors to cultivate 01:19:32.390 --> 01:19:41.369 in yourself in order to be a Christian. So the 01:19:41.369 --> 01:19:44.069 going back to so with the first part with labels. 01:19:45.579 --> 01:19:48.680 When you point at something people in our culture 01:19:48.680 --> 01:19:50.819 know immediately to look at the thing you're 01:19:50.819 --> 01:19:53.539 pointing to so they their attention is directed 01:19:53.539 --> 01:19:56.819 at your your finger for a split second and then 01:19:56.819 --> 01:19:59.699 their and their attention is immediately directed 01:19:59.699 --> 01:20:04.079 to the essence like the actual object that you're 01:20:04.079 --> 01:20:09.920 pointing to and It's the same thing with text 01:20:09.920 --> 01:20:13.659 where when people read a book or they read a 01:20:13.659 --> 01:20:20.869 sentence like The pen was gray. Their attention 01:20:20.869 --> 01:20:24.390 is not stuck on the sentence. They immediately 01:20:24.390 --> 01:20:27.529 visualize or they immediately understand from 01:20:27.529 --> 01:20:34.630 their experience the essence of a gray pen, if 01:20:34.630 --> 01:20:39.090 that makes sense. So like I'm using a direct 01:20:39.090 --> 01:20:44.279 analogy of the way that pointing operates is 01:20:44.279 --> 01:20:49.579 the same as the way labels, like words operate, 01:20:50.039 --> 01:20:54.180 where it's just the pointer, the finger itself 01:20:54.180 --> 01:20:57.420 is not the thing to be studied, the thing to 01:20:57.420 --> 01:21:01.539 be studied or paid attention to is the thing 01:21:01.539 --> 01:21:04.140 that it's pointing to. And same thing with labels, 01:21:04.619 --> 01:21:06.979 like words themselves are not the things that 01:21:06.979 --> 01:21:10.119 are supposed to be studied, but it's the thing 01:21:10.119 --> 01:21:13.569 that's paid attention to. And the thing that 01:21:13.569 --> 01:21:16.449 has always turned me off about Christianity is 01:21:16.449 --> 01:21:22.250 that one of the main behaviors, another main 01:21:22.250 --> 01:21:27.869 behavior of Christianity is words. Whether it's 01:21:27.869 --> 01:21:31.189 reading the Bible, going to the church and listening 01:21:31.189 --> 01:21:36.149 to the sermon and all that stuff. And also the 01:21:36.149 --> 01:21:39.350 scholars that we so praise are the people who 01:21:39.350 --> 01:21:43.189 have studied the words for decades. Those are 01:21:43.189 --> 01:21:47.529 the people and like the priests the pastors They're 01:21:47.529 --> 01:21:50.090 the ones who have studied the words for decades 01:21:50.090 --> 01:21:54.170 And so the thing that I'm turned off about Christianity 01:21:54.170 --> 01:22:02.090 is that It's very much stuck our attention is 01:22:02.090 --> 01:22:07.649 very much stuck focused on the words on the label 01:22:07.649 --> 01:22:13.979 on the finger and That's extremely Like that's 01:22:13.979 --> 01:22:19.159 um, that's also very relevant or prevalent Because 01:22:19.159 --> 01:22:24.340 a lot of words we actually don't know What it's 01:22:24.340 --> 01:22:28.180 pointing to so like when I read the apple was 01:22:28.180 --> 01:22:32.380 green. I Know exactly what it's describing I 01:22:32.380 --> 01:22:37.399 can immediately visualize a Green apple and I 01:22:37.399 --> 01:22:40.659 just from experience just from being able to 01:22:40.659 --> 01:22:45.279 just know You know what I mean? There is no friction 01:22:45.279 --> 01:22:47.779 between the word and the essence it's pointing 01:22:47.779 --> 01:22:53.760 to. But there are some key fundamental words 01:22:53.760 --> 01:22:59.960 in Christianity, and I'm sure in other religions 01:22:59.960 --> 01:23:05.659 too, that there's a lot of friction that's involved 01:23:05.659 --> 01:23:10.439 and a lot of rational leaps in order to Get to 01:23:10.439 --> 01:23:16.579 the essence. For example, faith, God, sin. So 01:23:16.579 --> 01:23:21.119 if someone asks what sin is, usually people describe 01:23:21.119 --> 01:23:27.319 another definition. They give another definition. 01:23:27.699 --> 01:23:31.500 If you ask what sin is, they can't. And it's 01:23:31.500 --> 01:23:33.739 really abstract. It's like separation from God. 01:23:33.979 --> 01:23:38.390 OK, well, what's God? It's breath. It's Yahweh, 01:23:38.649 --> 01:23:45.949 it's wind, it's your heartbeat. That's not really 01:23:45.949 --> 01:23:52.630 something that has a direct essence that I can 01:23:52.630 --> 01:23:56.890 connect to. And from all of my years of being 01:23:56.890 --> 01:23:59.050 raised in Christianity and exposed to all that 01:23:59.050 --> 01:24:02.130 stuff, the thing that I really think about of 01:24:02.130 --> 01:24:06.659 what is God is this energy. Right now I'm like 01:24:06.659 --> 01:24:11.380 picturing in like a dark pitch black realm, but 01:24:11.380 --> 01:24:14.199 like this golden energy that's like full of life 01:24:14.199 --> 01:24:17.420 and it's vibrant. That's like kind of the essence 01:24:17.420 --> 01:24:20.739 that I'm describing, that I'm visualizing. But 01:24:20.739 --> 01:24:24.680 it's not, but it's stuck in like the abstract, 01:24:25.279 --> 01:24:29.119 if that makes sense, where like the apple, I 01:24:29.119 --> 01:24:32.659 can immediately picture something tangible or 01:24:32.659 --> 01:24:36.239 real. something that's not so tangible like love 01:24:36.239 --> 01:24:42.279 I still can immediately feel a feeling or like 01:24:42.279 --> 01:24:48.779 know what that feeling of love is but like um 01:24:48.779 --> 01:24:54.199 with God first of all it's depicted as like a 01:24:54.199 --> 01:25:03.079 humanoid thing which is very symbolic so I can't 01:25:03.079 --> 01:25:07.840 really picture that very much, but I Mean I can 01:25:07.840 --> 01:25:11.760 picture it but not in not in reality not connected 01:25:11.760 --> 01:25:15.260 to something tangible or something I can feel 01:25:15.260 --> 01:25:20.439 And then with faith faith is like when you're 01:25:20.439 --> 01:25:24.800 asked what faith is its belief in something that's 01:25:24.800 --> 01:25:29.199 not That you don't necessarily understand or 01:25:29.199 --> 01:25:37.409 you don't necessarily know is real. And so this 01:25:37.409 --> 01:25:41.489 gets to the next part. Okay, so basically, the 01:25:41.489 --> 01:25:43.930 first part of why I'm turned off by Christianity 01:25:43.930 --> 01:25:47.149 is, and just any religion in general, and spiritual 01:25:47.149 --> 01:25:51.369 system too, is because they focus way too much 01:25:51.369 --> 01:25:56.109 on the words. And a lot of times the words are 01:25:56.109 --> 01:25:59.029 abstract, and you don't really have something 01:25:59.029 --> 01:26:04.149 to connect it to. And the arguments that people 01:26:04.149 --> 01:26:12.970 get into are usually arguments over words. People 01:26:12.970 --> 01:26:16.050 use the Bible to prove their point, but one person 01:26:16.050 --> 01:26:18.590 can use it for something and another person can 01:26:18.590 --> 01:26:21.250 use it for a totally opposite, contradictory 01:26:21.250 --> 01:26:24.029 cause to that other person. And they're both 01:26:24.029 --> 01:26:27.130 right, because the Bible says both of those things. 01:26:28.689 --> 01:26:32.619 Or at least, Parts of the Bible do and so basically 01:26:32.619 --> 01:26:34.720 I'm turned off by the Bible because it's stuck 01:26:34.720 --> 01:26:38.199 in the point Or not just the not the Bible. I've 01:26:38.199 --> 01:26:40.960 never read the Bible, but I'm turned off by Christianity 01:26:40.960 --> 01:26:45.659 because it's stuck in the point and then how 01:26:45.659 --> 01:26:49.800 it actually is important is the second part of 01:26:49.800 --> 01:26:53.779 my explanation is deals with faith where faith 01:26:53.779 --> 01:26:57.380 is like the holy grail almost of Christianity 01:26:57.380 --> 01:27:01.310 where Lot of times you just need faith just have 01:27:01.310 --> 01:27:03.510 faith like that's what people say just have faith 01:27:03.510 --> 01:27:10.170 and Or it's like a really important part but 01:27:10.170 --> 01:27:14.130 the implications of the way that it's used in 01:27:14.130 --> 01:27:20.449 modern -day Christianity is Debilitating so let's 01:27:20.449 --> 01:27:26.050 let's create an analogy So I'm an American I've 01:27:26.050 --> 01:27:29.380 I live in America. I've never been to Sweden 01:27:29.380 --> 01:27:34.859 But I have faith that that country exists I have 01:27:34.859 --> 01:27:38.840 been told information I've been it's been described 01:27:38.840 --> 01:27:45.920 to me I've read articles. I've read books About 01:27:45.920 --> 01:27:50.199 Sweden now connecting this analogy to Christianity. 01:27:50.739 --> 01:27:56.300 I have faith that heaven exists or You can interchange 01:27:56.300 --> 01:27:59.260 that with God or heaven or whatever you want. 01:27:59.420 --> 01:28:04.279 I have faith that X thing in Christianity exists. 01:28:04.560 --> 01:28:09.300 So I have faith that heaven exists. I have been 01:28:09.300 --> 01:28:13.119 told descriptions of it. I have seen pictures 01:28:13.119 --> 01:28:18.659 of it. I've seen artist interpretations of it. 01:28:18.680 --> 01:28:22.920 I've read books about it, I've read passages 01:28:22.920 --> 01:28:28.619 about it, I have had words, sentences, I've read 01:28:28.619 --> 01:28:32.539 sentences that describe it, word pictures, all 01:28:32.539 --> 01:28:37.859 of that stuff. I have a, I have lots of information 01:28:37.859 --> 01:28:42.119 about it in the point. And I have faith that 01:28:42.119 --> 01:28:45.260 it exists. Now going back to the Sweden example, 01:28:46.180 --> 01:28:52.149 I have faith that Sweden exists. but Let's say 01:28:52.149 --> 01:28:56.029 that I actually take a ticket and Go to Sweden 01:28:56.029 --> 01:28:58.350 that was made possible because first of all I 01:28:58.350 --> 01:29:00.710 was told that Sweden exists because I didn't 01:29:00.710 --> 01:29:03.810 know it exists before that I probably was never 01:29:03.810 --> 01:29:07.250 gonna know it exists and So because I was told 01:29:07.250 --> 01:29:10.069 that information now I can go to Sweden and go 01:29:10.069 --> 01:29:12.149 check it out for myself But now once I actually 01:29:12.149 --> 01:29:15.850 check it out for myself. I don't need faith because 01:29:15.850 --> 01:29:18.210 I know that it exists. And I also don't need 01:29:18.210 --> 01:29:21.069 all the descriptions because now I have infinite 01:29:21.069 --> 01:29:24.590 information. It's going back to the point and 01:29:24.590 --> 01:29:28.390 it's going back to the point and like staying 01:29:28.390 --> 01:29:32.729 in the point and infinite reality. Once you have 01:29:32.729 --> 01:29:37.170 an experience of something, it is an infinite, 01:29:37.470 --> 01:29:40.270 it's part of infinite reality now. And now it 01:29:40.270 --> 01:29:43.560 doesn't need to be a Now you don't need to be 01:29:43.560 --> 01:29:52.399 solely focused on the point. And then relating 01:29:52.399 --> 01:29:56.079 this back to the Christian analogy, I have faith 01:29:56.079 --> 01:30:01.079 that heaven exists. Oh, but wait. I actually 01:30:01.079 --> 01:30:04.039 can't get there until I die. So I have to have 01:30:04.039 --> 01:30:07.600 faith to the very last moment. Very well, my. 01:30:08.360 --> 01:30:11.460 It very well could be my last opportunity to 01:30:11.460 --> 01:30:13.739 actually go to heaven, because how is it possible 01:30:13.739 --> 01:30:17.000 that people who are alive described heaven if 01:30:17.000 --> 01:30:20.899 they've never been there? But this is just an 01:30:20.899 --> 01:30:24.579 example. If my very last opportunity, I have 01:30:24.579 --> 01:30:27.960 to hold faith. In practice, in modern day Christianity, 01:30:28.060 --> 01:30:30.260 you have to hold faith until you die, and then 01:30:30.260 --> 01:30:34.039 you can go to heaven. Now we don't need to get 01:30:34.039 --> 01:30:36.340 into like the theological discussions like people 01:30:36.340 --> 01:30:38.680 disagree on that doesn't matter basically the 01:30:38.680 --> 01:30:41.520 point is that in real life I can have faith in 01:30:41.520 --> 01:30:45.739 Sweden and then I can go to Sweden and Once I'm 01:30:45.739 --> 01:30:48.279 actually in Sweden. That's the real thing. I'm 01:30:48.279 --> 01:30:51.399 not focused on the finger like pointing at something 01:30:51.399 --> 01:30:57.659 I'm experiencing the real thing and then and 01:30:57.659 --> 01:31:01.949 it's possible to go to the real thing but Christianity, 01:31:02.069 --> 01:31:06.109 it's like debilitating because we have to satisfy 01:31:06.109 --> 01:31:08.569 ourselves with just faith. We have to satisfy 01:31:08.569 --> 01:31:12.670 ourselves with just the finger. Faith is supposed 01:31:12.670 --> 01:31:15.729 to be a tool to be able to direct our attention 01:31:15.729 --> 01:31:18.210 to the real thing and to be able to experience 01:31:18.210 --> 01:31:22.670 and perceive the real thing. But staying in faith 01:31:22.670 --> 01:31:26.210 the way that it's practiced in modern -day Christianity 01:31:26.210 --> 01:31:31.800 is debilitating because we are keeping our attention 01:31:31.800 --> 01:31:35.260 locked on the finger and that is why that's a 01:31:35.260 --> 01:31:37.000 big thing that I'm turned off about Christianity 01:31:37.000 --> 01:31:39.539 because you have people that study the Bible 01:31:39.539 --> 01:31:44.220 for like decades and they still have never experienced 01:31:44.220 --> 01:31:47.720 like they've probably experienced less than like 01:31:47.720 --> 01:31:54.100 a child in terms of like spiritual stuff and 01:31:54.100 --> 01:31:58.119 so that's like that's a just Something that's 01:31:58.119 --> 01:32:03.880 so curious to me how in Christianity No one like 01:32:03.880 --> 01:32:06.939 we are just stuck on on the point We're stuck 01:32:06.939 --> 01:32:09.199 in the point and we never go to heaven until 01:32:09.199 --> 01:32:11.819 after we die which very well could be our last 01:32:11.819 --> 01:32:14.260 opportunity I'm not I don't know if it is or 01:32:14.260 --> 01:32:21.100 not, but like That doesn't matter So that's that's 01:32:21.100 --> 01:32:29.520 what Just so fascinating to me Because the only 01:32:29.520 --> 01:32:36.100 reason why it Because knowing about Sweden is 01:32:36.100 --> 01:32:40.079 Not the same as being in Sweden It's literally 01:32:40.079 --> 01:32:43.159 a qualitative different different thing and it's 01:32:43.159 --> 01:32:45.020 hard to visualize that but the best way to visualize 01:32:45.020 --> 01:32:48.800 that is the difference between a lamp and the 01:32:48.800 --> 01:32:52.300 finger that the and and the or the difference 01:32:52.300 --> 01:32:55.159 between a finger and the the lamp that the finger 01:32:55.159 --> 01:32:58.609 is pointing to So like the finger is something 01:32:58.609 --> 01:33:01.949 qualitatively different than the lamp and that's 01:33:01.949 --> 01:33:05.329 the same thing with knowing about Sweden is something 01:33:05.329 --> 01:33:09.170 qualitatively different than being in Sweden 01:33:09.170 --> 01:33:12.670 and actually Experiencing Sweden for yourself 01:33:12.670 --> 01:33:15.449 in the same way that the finger is different 01:33:15.449 --> 01:33:18.989 to the lamp and it's the same thing with knowing 01:33:18.989 --> 01:33:21.989 about heaven and actually experiencing it for 01:33:21.989 --> 01:33:29.289 yourself and It's debilitating because no one 01:33:29.289 --> 01:33:32.970 even realizes that you can go because there's 01:33:32.970 --> 01:33:38.590 no procedure and Because no one does it But I 01:33:38.590 --> 01:33:40.710 mean I've read stories about people doing it 01:33:40.710 --> 01:33:43.729 in real life and like or like people experiencing 01:33:43.729 --> 01:33:46.729 it and like and lots of different procedures 01:33:46.729 --> 01:33:53.189 so there's definitely procedures, but It's that's 01:33:53.189 --> 01:33:56.630 why I that's why I'm not Christian because the 01:33:56.630 --> 01:34:00.489 Christian in practice is debilitating. Christian 01:34:00.489 --> 01:34:04.029 in practice is a label, the word Christian is 01:34:04.029 --> 01:34:09.449 a label itself, but also it's restricting you 01:34:09.449 --> 01:34:12.149 to the point. You have to have faith and stay 01:34:12.149 --> 01:34:18.390 in the point. And so, no modern day Christian 01:34:18.390 --> 01:34:22.069 that I have met, not a single Christian that 01:34:22.069 --> 01:34:27.189 I have met, has achieved levels of skill in Christianity 01:34:27.189 --> 01:34:31.069 that have been depicted in the Bible stories, 01:34:31.130 --> 01:34:33.810 for example. Like the disciples, like one of 01:34:33.810 --> 01:34:35.869 the disciples could walk on water. Like Paul 01:34:35.869 --> 01:34:38.989 walked on water, literally walked on water. Like 01:34:38.989 --> 01:34:42.069 how much skill is that? Let's just say that Jesus' 01:34:42.369 --> 01:34:48.239 skill was like 99. Then Paul he was able to walk 01:34:48.239 --> 01:34:50.640 on water. So maybe he reached like skill level 01:34:50.640 --> 01:34:54.119 60 and then like the other guys They were all 01:34:54.119 --> 01:34:56.399 able to like heal people. So maybe they reached 01:34:56.399 --> 01:35:00.359 like level like level 40 But like the modern 01:35:00.359 --> 01:35:02.779 -day Christian I'd say is like level one like 01:35:02.779 --> 01:35:06.939 not exaggerating like level one Like no one and 01:35:06.939 --> 01:35:09.720 so that's why I'm not a Christian because it's 01:35:09.720 --> 01:35:12.140 stuck on level one and people think they're making 01:35:12.140 --> 01:35:16.699 people don't even Yeah, like basically that that's 01:35:16.699 --> 01:35:18.439 why that's why I'm not a Christian because in 01:35:18.439 --> 01:35:22.840 practice it's all about Staying in one just the 01:35:22.840 --> 01:35:25.279 way that it's set up the the nature of the point 01:35:25.279 --> 01:35:29.319 and the nature of faith. It's like a It's like 01:35:29.319 --> 01:35:31.739 a parrot. It's not a paradox, but it's a trap. 01:35:31.760 --> 01:35:35.859 It's a double -sided trap where the structure 01:35:35.859 --> 01:35:41.439 of The though Christianity itself exists on paper 01:35:41.439 --> 01:35:47.359 in the point And like in order to be a Christian 01:35:47.359 --> 01:35:51.600 you have to read the papers or you have to hear 01:35:51.600 --> 01:36:01.789 through words how to do it. And usually people 01:36:01.789 --> 01:36:05.090 determine who is more Christian or more advanced 01:36:05.090 --> 01:36:08.069 of a Christian in terms of who knows more about 01:36:08.069 --> 01:36:11.649 the Bible, who can talk more theologically. So 01:36:11.649 --> 01:36:16.149 a fundamental piece of it is that you have to 01:36:16.149 --> 01:36:21.289 know more and more point, like language, relating 01:36:21.289 --> 01:36:25.529 to it. But then important behavior that you need 01:36:25.529 --> 01:36:34.439 to adopt is faith. That stuff exists. but it's 01:36:34.439 --> 01:36:40.039 a double -sided trap because you need faith that 01:36:40.039 --> 01:36:46.579 these words exist, but there is no procedure 01:36:46.579 --> 01:36:51.380 to go experience it yourself. So in practice, 01:36:51.640 --> 01:36:54.460 Christianity is stuck at level one in principle 01:36:54.460 --> 01:37:01.770 and in practice. Well, not necessarily in principle 01:37:01.770 --> 01:37:03.470 because there are Bible stories of people like 01:37:03.470 --> 01:37:06.729 walking on water so and like people separating 01:37:06.729 --> 01:37:09.869 an entire ocean and letting a bunch of slaves 01:37:09.869 --> 01:37:13.189 walk across and then collapsing it on top of 01:37:13.189 --> 01:37:15.989 an army like that was a different guy to Jesus 01:37:15.989 --> 01:37:21.449 and that is just as much of a A miracle or godly 01:37:21.449 --> 01:37:27.170 feat so but basically That's why I'm turned off 01:37:27.170 --> 01:37:29.770 on Christianity because it's stuck in the point 01:37:30.039 --> 01:37:37.260 and because it's stuck on level one. Yeah. And 01:37:37.260 --> 01:37:43.039 we're basically taught to accept a lot lesser. 01:37:43.260 --> 01:37:46.939 Like the miracles, the standards that the ancestors, 01:37:47.180 --> 01:37:51.420 the people in the Bibles set for us, the standards 01:37:51.420 --> 01:37:54.899 for quality of miracles, like walking on water 01:37:54.899 --> 01:38:00.319 or duplicating food, loaves of bread. healing 01:38:00.319 --> 01:38:06.659 people or Being resurrected like all that stuff 01:38:06.659 --> 01:38:11.159 like coming alive from the dead which Jesus Did 01:38:11.159 --> 01:38:13.659 it himself and then some other person was resurrected 01:38:13.659 --> 01:38:17.619 from the dead But those are the standards of 01:38:17.619 --> 01:38:24.859 miracles not like oh My but my bike was stolen 01:38:24.859 --> 01:38:28.289 and I I was in a hard time That stuff wasn't 01:38:28.289 --> 01:38:30.869 written about in I mean, maybe it was I don't 01:38:30.869 --> 01:38:33.590 know I never read the Bible But like the the 01:38:33.590 --> 01:38:37.590 standard that they set are like level 99 level 01:38:37.590 --> 01:38:40.449 Miracles like healing people duplicating loaves 01:38:40.449 --> 01:38:43.270 of bread the level 99 level miracles, but we 01:38:43.270 --> 01:38:50.270 have been conditioned to accept Level one miracles 01:38:50.270 --> 01:38:55.630 like oh my bike was stolen and then I Saw it 01:38:55.630 --> 01:38:59.590 was returned next to my trash can the next morning 01:38:59.590 --> 01:39:03.409 like that's a level one miracle if you're comparing 01:39:03.409 --> 01:39:08.069 it to like walking on water like like i literally 01:39:08.069 --> 01:39:10.449 could have pulled a prank on somebody now i'm 01:39:10.449 --> 01:39:13.590 not saying this is what happened but like uh 01:39:13.590 --> 01:39:16.270 i'm just giving this example to where you can 01:39:16.270 --> 01:39:19.149 explain things any way um i could have literally 01:39:19.149 --> 01:39:21.729 achieved the same result through material means 01:39:21.729 --> 01:39:23.949 of like pulling a prank on my friend stealing 01:39:23.949 --> 01:39:26.819 their bike during a Hard dark period of their 01:39:26.819 --> 01:39:30.199 life and then the next day return it on at their 01:39:30.199 --> 01:39:33.359 trash can and so that's a miracle to them But 01:39:33.359 --> 01:39:37.039 I literally did that through material means you 01:39:37.039 --> 01:39:40.479 can't oh I mean actually you can do that with 01:39:40.479 --> 01:39:42.279 walking on water like there's pranks on YouTube 01:39:42.279 --> 01:39:44.500 But people like setting up a carpet they can't 01:39:44.500 --> 01:39:47.000 really see underneath a lake and then you walk 01:39:47.000 --> 01:39:50.220 on it but basically like Like a lot of the materials 01:39:50.220 --> 01:39:52.520 are a lot of the miracles that are level 99. 01:39:52.560 --> 01:39:58.300 You can't You can't fake or like you can't get 01:39:58.300 --> 01:40:00.619 the same result not fake. You can't get the same 01:40:00.619 --> 01:40:06.159 result through material means Or at least the 01:40:06.159 --> 01:40:09.779 same it's not the same thing Just like it's not 01:40:09.779 --> 01:40:11.760 the same thing to pull a prank on my friend and 01:40:11.760 --> 01:40:16.000 steal his bike and then return it to Like God 01:40:16.000 --> 01:40:19.199 Performing a miracle and returning the bike. 01:40:19.359 --> 01:40:21.420 That's not the same thing. They're different 01:40:21.420 --> 01:40:25.869 but comparing the God miracle of the bike to 01:40:25.869 --> 01:40:29.729 the miracle of walking on water that's like level 01:40:29.729 --> 01:40:33.529 one to level 99 and we have we're stuck at level 01:40:33.529 --> 01:40:38.390 one and we're stuck accepting level one miracles 01:40:38.390 --> 01:40:43.989 and it's that's why I'm not a Christian so yeah 01:40:43.989 --> 01:40:45.510 all right peace