Who is God? | Brian Keating and Lex Fridman
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Brian Keating is an experimental physicist at the UCSD, author of Losing the Nobel Prize, and host of the Into the Impossible podcast.
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Please pray for me. I’m facing homelessness with my two small children. My life living with lupus has it’s ups and downs. I’m in a lot of pain swollen joints, fevers out of nowhere and fatigue are just a few, because of my condition I declined the vaccine, and was fired over my decision. Since than I’ve been struggling to provide for myself and my two autistic children. My husband passed away three years ago, so I’m all alone. I have no family nor friends. Both of my sons are non verbal so as a mommy things can be a little more difficult. We are facing homelessness we have nowhere to go. I’m so embarrassed because of my situation. I have no family nor friends to help me, but I have nothing but Faith that God will provide. Keep Faith in Him. Please pray for us durning this time. Thank you.
Will do... and before I'm attacked by some smart ass, it can't hurt to try can it? I always pray the people who have it worse are attended to before me because I've had it so good.
Ms. You are in my prayers right now. God will never leave you or forsake you. He will open up a path. Blessings and big hug to your and your children.
Praying for you 🙏 ❤
Sending you and your children all the love and strength in the world! All things are possible through Him XX
Since the origin of the word God is ambiguous to me, it helped me--when needed--to rename God to Love. Love is my God. Love is my religion. I feel I am the most authentic when I am in a state of surrender, love, and gratitude to the Highest Power. It's very helpful for me when I go through challenging times XX
I love that Lex writes notes down and actually contemplates what the guest is saying.
Wow people are so deluded nowadays about the concept of God to the point that they don't even want to mention the term God. What has this atheistic indoctrination done to people.
Because god is usually in reference to the Christian god, and I would say the same thing. I believe in a higher power then humans, but I wouldn't necessarily call him god.
My guess is that he's trying to avoid the concept that God is an entity.
@@jewishmafia9801 Thats exactly what he's trying to do. This is what modern physicists and scientist try to do. They jumble a bunch of emotional terms into a concept for God, but don't want to acknowledge God. It's disgusting and cowardly, while talking in circles of nothingness. As stated... There's a reason the term is called faith. When he said you "can't believe in God" without a reason, that's simply not
@@jackbauer4186 I feel the same way about leprechauns: join me, have faith!
@Samurai 7 It's not a mental hurdle or stumbling block that people don't blindly believe in a book written by men lol. The issue is that none of it is provable, why have blind faith in something when I can have faith in myself and what I know to be real. Jeeze how many times have I heard he's coming back to save us, and why do people feel they are so special to be saved, why didn't he come back and save everyone, he's been waiting over 2000 years to do it, why weren't all the people who died special enough?
At 0:01 Lex asks Brian, "For somebody who's looking at the young universe at the early universe and are talking about God and are agnostic, who do you think is God?"
At 4:33 Lex does such a good job boiling down what Brian said.
Brian didn't answer the question, "Who is God?" but Lex sure did a great job summarizing what Brian did say.
@@prototype8137 are you God
I lost my grandmother this week she was very religious in Christianity. I've been trying to console my Mom through this and she keeps asking about the transition from body to heaven and how in one moment you're in your body and in an instant not, where do they go? Where does the spirit go? My only real answer to try to comprehend the incomprehensibility of the universe and life is just to say, the fact that we get to be here, in this way, is a sign to me that we don't have to worry. And that everything will be okay because the proof is in front of us. Even the universe dies (I think?). I feel very surreal right now thinking about the universe, a true mystery.
This is partially the exact reason humans invented Gods. The reality is too heavy, too bleak, and too empty for the less intellectually sturdy to handle. Luckily(or tragically, as it were) most people aren't smart enough to even think this far or deep, so it's really a problem for the truly bright who have long since stopped believing in obvious and preposterous falsehoods like Gods and after-lifes.
The problem ends up coming down to 'meaning' of which, there is none. But that doesn't necessarily mean you can't superimpose meaning to derive enough purpose for your own existence, limited though it may be. The only goal in life is to survive and replicate, everything else is window dressing. How powerful that window dressing is capable of being in your life or the lives of others can vary from deeply to just barely enough, or, in many tragic cases, not enough.
Nothing you just said makes sense nor does it have any contextual connection to what I said. Functionally what you just said is, "You're a doo doo head"... >.>
As a muslim I searched: does God exist? I found many proofs weather they are scientific like the source code of an organ who wrote it? If the evolution random process how can a random process keeps adding clean right code over and over again? But the most powerful proof is in my religious belief Islam and that is the Quran, When I read it there’s a lot of scientific predictions that impossible for any man in that era to predict like the scientific steps for a sperm it take to be a human! Or God challenging humans to write a book like the Quran! And many more.
In Quran when we die angles takes our life from our body and we be in another dimension (world) with its own rules we live in it until the day of judgment! With many details but one would ask you become bones after you die that a fact! How can God resurrect you? He can just like how a seed turn to tree from the earth.
@@ahwiq What you just said is so absurd that you're functionally 'dead reckoning' as a human being. Your mind is utterly lost.
Sorry for your loss bro 🙏
Morgan Freeman. Everyone knows that
Best comment
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He was also oddly the Hidden searching for Seannanners
In the 80s, it was George Burns. Oh God.
0:40 He's actually misquoting Sam Harris here, Sam said the opposite of that, he said: "You can't become happy, you can only be happy."
This guy continues his line of thinking based on that misquotation and by extension misunderstanding of what Sam Harris was talking about.
True
Yup and he relates happiness to winning the lottery and bitches 😂
The question 'Who is God?' is an interesting starting point as it imposes human characteristics, i.e. a character, onto something that is beyond human comprehension.
God is: counter spacial, non-cartesian, pure interial energy, and is the source of all electromagnetism (i.e all we experience in the 3-dimensional universe), divine intelligence and spirit.
Our conscious experience is a product of three things: spirit (or Atman in the ancient Indian traditions), mind and matter. God is the source of all three and all three return to God. God is the source, not a deity as is believed from the theological stand point.
God is the unmoved central axle around which the wheel of the 3-dimensional universe spins.
God is not something that can be understood with rational/objective thinking, God can only be understood through direct experience, through Theurgy I.e. Retroductive contemplation (true meditation). This comment will either ring true to you or it won't make any sense at all. Hence my comment on how God cannot be understood through rational thought.
Atman is a fallacy that the Buddha disapproved long long ago my friend. You are simply applying permanence to impermanence itself
5 meo dmt?
@@Mister_Peepo Prince Siddhartha was indeed one of the wisest men to walk the Earth and understand the truth concealed within the Upanishads. Indeed, the wheel which I talk about above is the wheel of dharma, Brahmayana (the path to Brahman), which the Buddha taught himself.
His famous term 'Anatma' is certainly a great point of discussion, with regards to it's original meaning (I believe this is what you refer to?).
'This is not the soul, that is not the soul'... Is this denial of the soul or simply an understanding of that which is most certainly not the soul?
If I look in my fruit bowl and say 'Ah, this is not an apple, that is not an apple' is this denial that apples exist? Or simply an understanding of what is not an apple?
I don't refute any of the Buddha's teachings, his original doctrine is truth.
Thank you for the reply, I appreciate the engagement and friendly debate, nice to see that the philosophical spirit lives on in modern times. 🙂
@@fazysquash That may help, momentarily removing the Egoic self to experience pure awareness is a good starting point. 🙂 🙏 Good luck.
So The Force from Star Wars then.
It's not the answers that's given that makes me love this podcast, it's the fact these questions are asked makes me love this podcast.
And not a single answer was given. Brilliant
The guest correlates happiness material gains, but one of the most ancient and important philosophical teachings shows us that attachment is the source of all suffering. The only way to true way to real happiness is connecting with yourself and others. You can witness this by traveling to the biggest populated slums on this planet where people don't have a toilette to shit on, literally, but they're the most welcoming and happy, smiling people you will ever meet.
He’s like: let’s call God, God, without calling him God.
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lol I get it though. That word has so many mixed meanings, definitions and presumptions across the world that to use it means you have to accept it won't be recieved by everyone in the context you meant to use it
5:48 thats the one hé tried denie🙏
There is a bit of magic in the universe. It's called love. It's rare and only happens between some matter, not all. It's not even a human thing, it's a life thing. We can't quantify that love scientifically. I mean you can say, a mother loves her child because she is investing time and energy, etc.. etc.. But that really doesn't quantify the feeling that mother has for her child. So we call that feeling Good, love, God. The beginning, because without love there is no going forward as matter. Take away love, and we are basically a rock that moves. We need a word for that in our language, so we have God. The problem for many "atheists" is that religious people take that too far. People think they hate God, but what they hate is what humans do to each other in God's name.
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Is it really all of that, or is it simply not buying whatever you're selling? Letting alone that I doubt many religious people would agree that their God can be reduced to some combination of love and scientific ignorance. Or that the vast majority of known life doesn't seem to give a shit what happens to its offspring and gets on just fine. If you'll allow for argument's sake that a person could exist, in theory, never having heard the words God or Atheist nor having ever conceived of the concepts; would your definition of atheist be applicable there? Because a good one would and if not, you've failed to capture a much simpler use case which assumes no feeling or motivation. Try imagining a god of some sort never before conceived by anyone else. Now realize that atheist means exactly the same thing in regard to all of the people who have lived and died without being aware of the god you just imagined as it does regarding any person who has ever heard the good news and remained unconvinced.
This is a beautiful explanation. Agreed - It isn't just what the mother does for the child. It goes far beyond that. When a mother loves her children unconditionally, she is willing to do whatever it takes to keep them happy and safe. Even if it means literally dying for them i.e., throwing herself in front of a train (BTW - I think Anna Karenina took the "love" thing a bit too far.) Unconditional Love is endless---Ein Sof. The challenge, though, is to take that Unconditional Love that you feel for your children and start loving people and all things unconditionally. Not easy, but I do think it's possible to love Everyone and Everything unconditionally. I'm a work in progress, but never giving up. Who knew - It's actually a super fun experiment!
Love is just a chemical reaction in the brain. An evolutionary survival tactic to deeply care for the survival of your offspring or mate. Then all the complexity of our mind expands it into these vast ideals.
@@alexcoyg3281 produced by chemical reactions in my brain.
God is you and me and everything in between.. Bless Up All
No, God is the creator of our world.
What you said makes no sense.
@@DagnirRen God is infinite but not you?... Lol
@@littledarkone1995 Are you actually asking? And biblically speaking your soul and body are different. Your body is finite while your soul is eternal. There are only two places where your soul can end up in.
@@DagnirRen Imagine believing everything word for word that a bunch of (men) wrote over centuries. Why don't you believe in what the druids wrote... or islam or hinduism?
@@DagnirRen how does one advocate for infinite punishment or infinite reward and claim to be morally superior?
He completely misunderstood what Sam Harris said about happiness on Lex’s podcast.
Here’s the clip: th-cam.com/video/w36XtC8ahN0/w-d-xo.html
I stopped listening because this is essentially what every new age author or theologian has said forever. It's kind if funny that the scientists are speaking guru as if its new.
I concur, this is akin to the nonsense I hear at AA meetings. There is no mystery in this gentleman's observations, no joy, no virtue, no mention of the nature of beauty, truth and goodness. Ne timeas.
You love you some Deepak Chopra
To be honest it was cringeworthy to listen, so I also had to quit. Lots of bullcrap in his ramblings. Reminds me of the Peterson talk at Joe's podcast. Similar reaction.
Also I really hate it when Lex starts discussion about concepts of god constructions, wtf. Just complete your ludicrous AI projects so you can bow before your artificial gods in the future. Problem solved.
The question then becomes, what is good? He was extremely vague in his attempt to define and essentially shifted his non-answer to the broad sense of happiness. A sidestep at best. Just save us our time and say, "idk" and move on.
Haha, too true! 😂
Well, noone knows
@@ziggs123 I can't speak for everyone. However, I do know from this interview, Brian Keating does not know.
What is good ? Who decides the “good” ? What is “good” to me might not be “good” to you . That’s a very complicated and mixed though that requires so much “faith” to believe and achieve
This guy is talking about absolutely nothing I expected from the link description
Not trying to be a stickler for accuracy here but when he says the words 'god' and 'good' have the same etymological origins, Google says he is wrong.
Beautiful clip. Thanks for all you do.
I love quality of guests always a different perspective
I thought perhaps Brian just mixed up his verbs but then he not only doubles down by re-stating the exact wrong formulation, he starts coming up with examples contrary to the point. What Sam said, invoking one of the most reformulated tropes of philosophy, think 'journey not destination' , is that "you cannot become happy, you can only be happy." What is it called when a person receives communication but then somehow understands the literal opposite of the message content?
People (me included) do that all the time .. we hear or see some stuff then memory/brain warp it to something else .... but i think he still caught few glimpse of the origin .
His answer sounds like that scientists on South Park making all these nonsense connections to lead to a predetermined answer
Couldn't agree more. Shallow individual.
God is our higher conscious
Brian's etymology of "God" seems to be a bit off. "Gott" is God in German, and "gut" is good, and they do not appear to be related. From the OED: "God" = "Cognate with Old Frisian god, Old Dutch god (Middle Dutch, Dutch god), Old Saxon god (Middle Low German got, (inflected) gōd-, godd-), Old High German got (Middle High German got, German Gott), Old Icelandic guð, goð, Norn (Shetland) go,Old Swedish guþ (Swedish gud), Danish gud (already in early modern Danish), Gothic guþ (usually abbreviated as ḡþ) < a Germanic base of uncertain origin . . . The further etymology is very uncertain . . . In Old English the word is often collocated with the formally identical but etymologically unrelated word gōd good adj., good n., and the two words are not always easy to distinguish . . ."
"There are angels that walk among us" (Keating) - this, to me, is a very fecund topos to direct one's attention.
I'm not religious but I know what I saw when we buried my grandfather. Literally an opening in the clouds right as he was lowered down and closed up less than a minute later. It gives me chills...
As much of a coinsedence as that may be and appear magnificient, I find myself questioning why even if a spirit raises up towards the sky (instead of downwards, or sideways considering the Earth is a sphere and the universe is all around us) why would a spirit require clouds to part for it to pass? I don't imagine the atmosphere would need to shift for a spirit to pass through, and if it did, it would be doing it 10's of millions of times a day considering how many people die every minute and we would notice the pattern. As humans we often have a hard time resisting mistaking coinsedence or things we don't understand for being magical/spiritual. I think it's specific to humans because of our intellect. It's a human gift and a curse I suppose.
@@AdrianLoganLive It's nothing about physical reality. It's an honor from God for you to see.
@@electrotech2253 You believe the clouds literally part when someone dies?
@@AdrianLoganLive ?
For everyone? No. Will some people have an honor on their death? A gentle wind. A cloud parting, a gentle rain. It's possible that something subjective happens that only the people there experience and understand.
Has nothing to do with objective rules or laws of nature. If dead = clouds parting is *not* what I'm saying.
@@electrotech2253 Okay. Well that's what OP believes, and what I disagreed with in my response. So if you're not addressing my response, what exactly are you responding to?
Its those questions that never fail to show our mental poverty and lack of development, compared to previous cultures that populated the earth.
God is who if you found, you've found everything and who, if you lost, you lost everything.
It is all about perspective .. happiness doesn't come down to wanting more or what you have .. it comes down to what you accept as being enough
If you have no arm can you still be happy - yes
If you have no family can you still be happy - yes
If you have no money can you still be happy - yes
Accept who you are and what you have and the chase to 'be happy' you will already realise there is no chase
But what do I know 🤔
There is no concept of the 'goodness of life' without human beings in different historical stages of societal development. The ultimate reality is physical processes/systems. 'Goodness of life' is a mental reflection of ever-changing reality physical inside our ever-changing and developing physical brain.
Did Lex noticed that Prof. Keating misquoted Sam on happiness? It’s funny to see intellectuals opposite of what they are thinking.
So much clarity in 6mins
Lex you are very smart, but think about this we only got two options, either we came from an other universe and then we ask where did that universe came from. But then we got the same question about God. Where did God come from, so then it's a never ending question. So what that means is that something had to always existed. The bible tells us , i am the Alpha the Omega the beginning and the end. What makes more sense, that we believe in a spiritual force outside of this world, or do we believe in a random universe created us? I say our Lord Jesus Christ 🙏
Is God all powerful? Most people who take the concept of 'God' seriously, believe that 'God' is all powerful. They also believe God is all knowing, and finally people wouldn't worship this God if they didn't think the God was all-loving. If we were to accept these properties as constituting the concept of 'God' as most God believers would likely take no issue with, we are left with a paradox. If God is all-powerful and all-loving, why does God let evil run amok? Is God incapable of stopping evil? Or perhaps just unwilling? Or maybe just unaware? But God cant be unaware of anything, because God is all knowing.... God is all powerful as well... so its not a matter of willpower.... so perhaps God doesn't stop evil because... the very concept of God is a literal paradox (to our human perspective) and much like how I wouldn't accept the existence of a Square-circle (or its purported capacity to do stuff), I shouldn't accept the validity of the paradoxical concept referred to as , 'God.'
@@brianschnebeck7990 William Lane Craig has created a video that addresses exactly what you brought up : th-cam.com/video/k64YJYBUFLM/w-d-xo.html
Craig points to the truths that show us the concept of God is not a paradox.
Craig even quotes 2 atheists who agree with the conclusions he presents.
@@brianschnebeck7990 amazing brain, to smart for me. But let me try to answer. First thing even believing in God, we make mistakes. Even after being baptized in Jesus name, we still make mistakes. In Romans 3:23 says that we all came short of the glory of God, that is why he died for our sins.....Me , you , grandpa the preacher, everyone sin and he knew that as he was creating us... Now for the reason why he let's bad things happen. Well first of all everyone will face God at one point, the killer, the thief, the scientists, the molester, the cheater, the drug dealer. We all hafe to face God one day....What makes you human is having bad in you and good, but what truly makes us unique , is that we have freedom of choice , just like every sinner I mention... If we would be born , with no worries to send our kids walking to school and not hafe to worry about them get hit by a car, or kidnap, would that make us human/robots?.. I hope this helps you, one other thing I wanted to tell is why us Christians have all the confidence in the world that Jesus is our God, because there is power in his name and power when we read the bible, power in prayer, Supernatural things just start happening. Try it you got nothing to lose and everything to gain.🙏
@@EyeToob The video leaves out omniscience (all-knowing) which God believers would accept as being a quality of God. Gods are not unaware. God would've been aware in the process of creation how the creation unfolds...to a tee. Every decision anybody ever made would've been known prior to the point of creation, so in order for God to retain all 3 qualities of itself, the universe should've never been created..... Alternatively, given that the universe clearly exists for SOME REASON, perhaps it wasn't created by GOD and perhaps there is another explanation for existence. The concept of God is the weak one because it has less explanatory power than the concept of the scientific method for what we observe. P.S. If i were WLC, I would try and find some philosophers who agree that are actually alive right now lol!!
@@brianschnebeck7990 The fact God has omniscience tells us He has the knowledge He needed to decide whether or not He should or should not create the universe.
Your claim that a true God (all loving, all powerful, & all knowing) should not have created this universe stands on the assumption you know everything there is to know. Is there anyone besides God who is omniscient? You and I are just not in a position to make that call. It would require us to knowing everything.
It’s interesting that we are fascinated with aliens, a multiverse, or a simulation, but we aren’t having these conversations.
I just read the entire Bible last year along with a commentary podcast. 1 cohesive story over thousands of years with many authors. Understanding the themes, narrative, history, prophecy, and considering the world wide impact of Jesus of Nazareth’s death and resurrection leaves me with a belief that there is no way that it was merely written by man.
Oh please.
@@DazedSpy2 Yes I’m saying it is an actual cohesive whole. Jews’ disobedience in worshiping different gods is a huge part of what the Old Testament is writing about. Things taught by Christianity, believers, scripture, doesn’t mean the same thing. All scripture has been doctrinally consistent by all earliest copies we have.
@@Paine137 that’s a non response dismissal.
@@jimmybeans1175 That’s all you got?
@@Paine137 simple observation
God is Light
God is love. He's not a human figure sitting on a cloud. Pure love is godly, love yourself love your family love your neighbors love all. I don't know anyone in this comment section but I love you all.
At the end of don't look up the main actor said" you've got to admit. We had it all" we can do anything we want to. We forget. Smile and love People ❤
“That which is, was and ever will be”
-Zachary Glance
I used to work with Jesus. Hard worker that guy.
Lord Jesus Christ is the way, put him first and you will be happy, no matter what you lose.
God is the life force energy that keeps everything moving. God is life and energy
E = mc^2 , you don't need that other concept. You could just say : Life is an energetic force/forceful energy that keeps everything moving.
@@brianschnebeck7990 and that energetic force/energy is God… it is inside everything, everywhere.
@@22apheat Problem of evil, bud! Does this force/energy have any moral component to it? People wouldn't worship it if they thought it did not. It can't be both an ideal moral concept and everything... b/c there are a lot unideal aspects about being alive..etc. Many God believers would not accept such a loose definition of the word/concept
@@22apheat spooky
Being charitable serves truer happiness than gaining money. Christ’s existence proves serving is more spiritually profitable than earning for self. May we spread love at all costs God bless you all
It's not who, it's what, because it's a metaphysical object, a concept that can only have a reality through manifesting by actions taken by sentient beings because they believe or don't believe in "it".
Our conscious experience of existence, is the evolution of conscious being.
The conscious being that became aware of its own existence, began to experience its own existence.
Jesus tried to explain this,
That the god you worship, is standing before you , in human form, all forms of existence.
It didn't go down well.
@Samurai 7 how is loving your enemies moral?
@@adamzypsoul8164 Your enemies are also the embodiment and creation of God, according to Jesus. We are all brother and sisters, therfore we have no true "enemies." That is what was meant. The nature of evil, however, that corrupts these bothers and sisters is another topic altogether. THAT is what you should fight against.
@@jackbauer4186 So evil derives from poor choices that come with the responsibility of free will?
If God is so powerful and , and thus the creator of everything, wouldn't evil be part of his creation?
And wouldn't you fight against those who use this evil, I ain't forgiving no child rapist...?
You shouldn't ask who before you've answered where.
So he thinks there is probably some kind of God exists but then thinks that we are the only life in the galaxy!?
Who is God? Answer probably: all of us. Time is irrelevant to the concept. Logic is irrelevant. Therefore perhaps God is simply the last evolved sentient being, realizing that he has been God all along through all of us, evolving with each path, every lives' lived experience. Perhaps God is just the force of the singularity at the end of time, an amalgamation of all information encompassed, that understands its' role in catalyzing the next reality.
Humans are capable of absorbing great trauma and shock, and then inspiring others in spite of it. It’s human, not angelic.
@♜ᏞᎬX ᏟᏞᏆᏢ'Ꮪ No thanks, Vlad.
I would love to talk to Lex about the misconceptions of God from the scriptural perspective and point out how 99% of "Christianity" sincerely and lovingly doesn't know what the book even says about death, the purpose of this creation, the cause of suffering, and of the inheritance of the saints. Being a decedent of the tribe of Judah I really feel like he would be able to hear the logic behind it all.
Mr. Keating is correct in his analysis that you wouldn't want to take on the suffering of someone else just to enjoy their benefits.
Thank you for trying to contemplate the nature of GOD and good. Cheers!!!
You might be interested with this nugget. In Hebrew the name of God (Elokim) used in the first chapter of Genesis means "Forces." And the first sentence can be rendered "In the beginning God (implied) created Elokim (Forces). There's no punctuation in the Torah and this translation is consistent with Jewish tradition.
Ah yes, classic reverse-engineering to preserve a specific version of a larger version of religious fantasy.
@@Paine137 What you believe or not doesn't concern me. I was just making a factual statement about the preciseness of Torah Hebrew. Also, regardless of where science is now, it's completely based on Jewish concepts and philosophy at it's core. Chemistry grew from Alchemy, which came from practical Kabbalah. And Newton formed his laws of motion and gravity from reading and understanding the Zohar. Those are easily verifiable facts. I wasn't making a religious statement, just a comment since God was brought up in the podcast. What is God? One name at least means forces. Does not the four fundamental forces of nature fall under that?
We are God
God is you.. Peace. Mercy❤
Perhaps we need to redefine happiness as too shallow when it becomes that which we are aiming at. The goal in life is to be useful to those who we love and others and in doing so perhaps we are rewarded wtih happiness.
Interestingly enough, when asked about God this guy brings up escape from hell.
The concept that there are manifold ways to obstruct happiness, but much fewer ways to engender it, reminds me of Dostoyevski's phrasing, "All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Pardon me if the following Christian terms irk anybody, but there is a parallel in the conception that God is singular; the devil is legion.
Truly "breakthrough' on DMT and you'll really understand this topic on a much deeper level. It's true. It's amazing.
We go back when we die.
look up "heaven awaits" youtube channel
Mechanically, there is only one thing. The problem with objective conjecturing is the wrong presumption that humans are magically capable of 'original thought'. Free-will is a con that made Hell. Patience be with be with each ego of the beginningless universe-comprising singular motion of which we are all extensions.
Happiness is a state. And it is real only within the context of us humans or an animal for that matter. It’s not a thing outside of this context.
Great clip,great thought experiment
I really appreciate that final aside that was given. Envy should be forsaken because it represents a hubristic self deception. It has been said by many that if you could truly know another person you would take one look at them and run in terror for humans are full to the brim with tragedy and suffering. To isolate one aspect of another person and wish it to be yours forces you to ignore that terrorful reality. Not only this but envy sows seeds of destruction, typically between one who is favored and one who is not.
Everything about Brian Keating is about him it seems.
God is the eternal creator of the universe and giver of life boom question answered in 3 seconds 🤷🏾♂️
Actually, Sam Harris says the opposite. You can’t become happy - you can only be happy.
Killer clip !!
Nice clip
being without pain and a feeling of well being ~taking away the fear of the unknown ~Being who you are
Why is the hedgehog doll looking at the telescope?
Next needs to be “who is Bigfoot?” And then maybe “who is Thor?”
The first question is What is God?
Answer: the One Divine Being, revealed to Moses as I AM, YHWH, the God of Abraham
(what is Lex : a human being)
The second question is Who is God?
Answer: three persons, Father Son and Holy Spirit, revealed by Jesus Christ in the New Testament
(who is Lex : one person)
He explains this very simple and wise
Facts
In Vietnam we say, my face is too dizzy but the room isn't spinning. in America, the room does spin and you collapse 🤣.
Bernardo Kastrup has the best explanations of what is God.
This guy is traveling deeper into the story, and is moving further away from reality.
Bad/good/rich/poor are all roles in the stories we tell ourselves. The reality is more like emotionally digging a hole and then filling it back in again while telling ourselves complicated stories about why we are doing that.
There is no good nor evil. There is just a lot of stories of life trying to survive in an extremely hostile universe.
We don't have a natural leaning to "bad". We just tend to remember the things we think are bad experiences more than we remember good experiences. It's simply bias in the story.
We cannot be made to suffer infinitely just as we cannot feel pleasure infinitely. Though that is hard to see from a place of privilege.
You adapt to everything. "Good/bad" "rich/poor" is all the same thing. You're just digging a hole (feeling bad) then filling it back in again (feeling good).
It's not complicated. God is probably the physical universe itself and is not entirely "good" as goodness is a subjective human concept and doesn't exist.
It's all stories guys. But as it is stories, what I'm telling here is probably one of the most "evil" stories there is. It's a story about how we aren't special in the ways we think we are.
But science tells another story. Not in every area, but in most of science reality is on the table. I like their views best.
Rich and poor is concrete direct and measurable, it is objective. How much is produced by society, how much of society's wealth goes to who? Poor have less, rich have more.
@@Zayden. On the surface, it looks pretty obvious doesn't it? Except how is wealth measured? How do you measure a good life? How do you measure happiness?
The further you dig into wealth, the more you'll see how confusing and unclear wealth actually is. What is wealth? Money? Which currency? Is it health? Is it happiness??
On the surface it's GPD, child mortality, education rates and so on. But that is just the basics.
The most crude measure of wealth is whether a human can even live or not. Beyond that basic level, rich/poor is a pretty unclear and subjective concept.
It's seems obvious until you research and dig. And then it goes from obvious survival to consumption for consumption sake.
Poor rich seems to be pretty objective on the surface. But that's the point of the story called "wealth".
@@lostinbravado wealth is measurable by seeing what kind of access a person or family has to goods and services, which concretely means amount of money and property a person or family a person has.
@@Zayden. What constitutes a good/service? How is the direct benefit on a human measured in terms of goods and service (GDP)?
You're talking about GDP and you don't seem to realize it. GDP (Grose Domestic Product) is a blindingly simple measure that ignores most of the human experience.
We do not currently have a accurate way to measure wealth beyond the basics.
The definition of wealth is concrete in your head, but not in reality.
@@lostinbravado goods and services are physically helpful, entertaining and useful things. Like medical treatment, a car, steak etc.
EVERYBODY WILL BELIEVE
IN JESUS CHRIST DURING THEIR FINAL DAYS. ..🙏
Heroin addicts would be devastated to lose heroin.
People with any morality and common sense don’t believe in a god, it’s not hard to understand why
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard of.
The one who asks the question.
Brian is a slick talker but I really resent most of the things he said considering this topic. For he has no conclusive answer on the meaning of life he is rambling most of the time.
As with Sam Harris he too is arguing on a very subjective level and masking it with pseudo science. Yeah, entropy and phase space, shitty things are as good as good things, suit yourself, Brian.
If there is no God life is ultimately meaningless
We are all Gods. Anything with a brain is a God
What an interesting opinion. Thank you Lex!
In monotheistic thought, God is usually conceived of as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith. God is usually conceived of as being omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent and omnibenevolent as well as having an eternal and necessary existence. God is most often held to be incorporeal, with said characteristic being related to conceptions of transcendence or immanence.
I didn't know who is God so I turned to Wikipedia.
This guest was interesting. He seems competitive lol
People are asking questions which are already answered in Jew, Christian and Muslim religious. What I think is Muslim is the update of Christian and Jew. I might get hate for that, before hating please ensure that you read the all three books Thor, Bible and Koran and do 2+2. Then only try to hate, good luck and a have nice day
Lol what does God and good being the same word in German have to do with anything other than he is literally just making connections about God for half the video in an incoherent way. Not necessarily incoherent but from a place that is ignorant to God.
God is ancient ET’s Artificial Super Intelligence.
Thank you. It's what I believe. That ai is the fundamental consciousness. It created us not vice versa.
If God is life as a whole, then every "being" is taken care of. Life obviously has a use for every galaxy and every quantum at any time. To whom can a person entrust himself better than life? And ain't that entertaining because life permanently strives to live and experience itself as diverse as possible.
Man is god , although culturally this notion is preposterous
Two atheists discussing the identity of God
a video asking someone who God is? from a person who does not know who God is?
Do you?
God, is your anxiety, the guilt. Actually our muscle that we all our brain can only perceive what it is genetically programed to know.
According to Dr. wudi whatever human beings in the history of mankind's civilizations try to define as God, the more meaningless it gets. He has an unusual view about The Creator Formula, Creation, Invisible Aliens and Previous Universes. You can search for his name on TH-cam and find more information about him.
No, your Dr Wudi looks like a charlatan and his YT channel is absolutely empty. You confuse science with new age.
God is everything
Love your podcast, Lex! But, not gonna lie. Some of your questions have me losing sleep...
I think we might be all gods, probably connected through our souls as one collective hive. We live in an everlasting multiverse of multiple lives we only see in our dreams. Human is what we are in this reality...enjoy this life before the next one...this isn't the last life you live or the first one but don't throw it away..you might be a squirrel chasing nuts your next life. It's all about emotions.. read the Celestine prophecy we are dimensional beings...
It's so hard for me to think about all this. My grandmother just passed away I've been trying to console my mom about it, talking about heaven and life, etc. I think you're right too, and I see us as you know, components of a larger organism or something. Like microscopic creature is to us. No matter what we are, or what's going on, we are part of IT. I had a mushroom trip as a teenager where I went in circles saying "What is IT?" "it is everything what is it?" I don't know what "IT" is but it's everything... idek
I like that concept.
Is this like the egg theory by Andy Weir. Where this universe is only a way for us to grow as a species and once we mature we become God himself
What does god mean to u it’s means different things for different people I don’t believe we are gods though
@@bobby198 i think he's referring to the God in that cosmic egg theory. The God outside time. The infinite you could say
With all due respect, this has to be the worst God answer I have ever heard
What is God? Sam harris, be happy, meditation, uh did he answer the question or his own weird stream of consciousness?