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Finally had a discussion with Ms. Biolumination. Her channel is fantastic, btw, if you haven't seen it already.

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Hidden Passage also just dropped a new vid. Hit the dam like button so that the algorithm will actually show people his videos. They are fantastic.

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Photographic evidence that a new video is actually, foreal foreal, legitimately on the way... finally

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The word "loosh" is the dumbest sounding bs ive ever heard and if you use it, you sound like a braindead teenager who snorts permanent markers for fun.

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Part 3 of the ongoing convos with ‪@the_dialectical‬

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Recently (ish) the channel "religion for breakfast" released a video which addressed the "zoomer religious revival" phenomenon. In the video, Mr Breakfast argues that this phenomenon isn't actually occurring, and that the headlines claiming otherwise are all misleading, and presents a decent pile of survey/statistical data which seems to suggest that no such revival is happening.

This, my friends, is a great example of why quantifiable data should never be trusted more than your own eyeballs. Source; my eyeballs. What the statistical data does show is that there had been a very pronounced downward trend in religiosity over the past few decades, and that this downward trend seems to be coming to a halt. But, argues Mr Breakfast, this halt of a downward trend is not a "revival" because there has not been an uptick in church attendance, professed religiosity, conversions, etc...

Statistical data is, I ven under the best of circumstances, a sawed-off shotgun among epistemological tools, due to the fact that it is extremely reductive and abstract, and - significantly - because the extent of this glossing is usually not fully clear to people.

In this case, what those numbers aren't accounting for is the fact that not all human beings are equal in terms of cultural influence. Among any generation of people, you are going to have a very large majority of people who are just kind of "going with the vibe", and a very small minority of people who are standing on the razor's edge between present and future. The latter are what the kids these days refer to as "main character energy", so I'm told.

So if you want to understand the direction a given zeitgeist is headed in, you shouldn't be taking surveys of everyone as though everyone were equal. You need to look to the "main character energy" people and see what they are doing, bc in very short order, the "just going with the vibe" people will be following along with the trail being cleared by the former.

When I - a millennial - was in my late teens and early twenties, all of us "main character" kids were into things like Marxism, new atheism and postmodernism. No statistical study performed in 2008 would have predicted that in 15 years, those ideas would have leaked into every aspect of pop culture. But anyone paying attention could have told you that, bc they could see with their own eyeballs that those were the topics of interest to all of the people of that generation who were undoubtedly going to become novelists, opinion piece writers, screenplay writers and academics in the coming decades.

The current religious revival is like that. Look at the people who are suddenly converting to Orthodoxy and Catholicism. They aren't the "go with the vibes" kids. They are the cerebral, autistic nerds who will be novelists, opinion havers, screenplay writers, etc in the next decade or two.

Now to be clear, I don't think that this is a good thing - for reasons I'll be getting into in my next unscripted rant video, so stay tuned for that - but it is definitely happening, and that is in fact what the statistical data shows if you have eyeballs with which to see what the statistical data is actually about.

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Lovely discussion with Mr. Dialect ‪@the_dialectical‬​

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Update on upcoming video essays;
So I've encountered a setback regarding the next videos, not because I haven't made progress, but because I've been making exactly the kind of progress which demands that I redo a number of things and change my game plan. I initially planned on the next video essay being a kind of grand climax of the (alleged) EPO series, in which I lay out all of the cosmological implications of the journey thus far, and set the stage for the next mega-project.

Buuuuut I very quickly realized that that was going to be difficult once the script got to about 24k words, and so I decided that I would have to break it apart into two separate videos. But then in the process of reworking the original scripts, a number of very significant insights fell in my lap; i.e., I discovered some new pieces of the puzzle which were going to require even more thorough reworking of what I had thus far... And so ultimately I've decided on a new game plan altogether;

The next video is actually going to be the first episode in a completely new series, which is going to be entirely about cosmology. We are going to continue to expand, elaborate and retcon topics from the EPO series, so this will be a direct continuation of that project in many ways, but the scope will now be much larger. Currently the plan looks like this; four videos, each detailing a different compositional stratum of reality. So we are going to be returning to the "Chromagram" from the "structures of the archetypal realm video" in one episode. In another we will be looking at the Tree of Life diagram. In another we will be looking at the zodiac. And another for the "Crucifix" diagram which I haven't talked about on the channel yet. We will also be getting very deep into Aether physics - a topic I'll also be coming back to in a different project I'm also working on currently.

So long story short; sorry I'm taking so dam long but the chef is indeed cooking 🍳

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Part one of TWO 😎 ‪@DemystifySci_Podcast‬

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For those of you who still think that the AI channels are harmless fluff, I recently came across an iceberg video written by AI which had an entire segment on the "butterfly people of Hiroshima."

Only there was never a "butterfly people of Hiroshima". It confused Hiroshima with the tornado which destroyed the town of Joplin Missouri, and then fabricated an entire, relatively plausible sounding narrative. I didn't see a single comment even mentioning that this story was completely fabricated

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