A Mechanical God
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Summary
Is God real or not? What is the difference between a philosopher's god and a real God? And why is there no such thing as a God at all? Is God real, or is he just a figment of our imagination?
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You know, there's a study published recently, I'll link to it down below, that the top 10
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countries in the world with the freest media, eight of them were monarchies.
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This is an interesting thing you see, generally speaking, statistically, monarchies and absolute
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rulerships tend to actually be the freer countries in the world.
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See, if you separate the totalitarian democrat and the monarchal hand of god countries in
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the world, generally speaking, monarchies are the most free.
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And the particularly unfree totalitarians tend to call themselves people's republics.
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Talking about god makes you sound like an idiot, makes you sound like a southern baptist.
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You've got all of these morons on the news, on YouTube, talking about god and what god
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And each one has their own interpretation of the bible.
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Each one of them has their own understanding and their own dictatorial understanding of this.
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You see, modern atheism is rejecting the conception of god that we had in the 1800s.
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And the 1800s was a time renowned for either completely misunderstanding philosophers like Nietzsche or
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philosophers that couldn't even begin to comprehend what their forefathers had described like Hobbes.
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So if I talk about god, when I talk about god, I'm not talking about the Santa Claus for grown-ups.
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I'm not talking about that Yahweh with his strong positions on masturbating within the camp versus
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outside of it and what we should do with women on the rag.
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I'm talking about the ineffable, the absolute, that thing that is so much grander than anything
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The first cause, the mathematical formula that allows other mathematical formulas to exist.
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That which it allows Godel-Escherbach to be such a ridiculous self-proving and self-contradictory book.
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That thing that philosophers, the good philosophers, have demonstrated and know exists.
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Not the guy with very strong opinions about how you live your life, in particular.
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There's a saying that, quite frankly, irritates me when most people say it.
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But, the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he doesn't exist.
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The greatest trick was convincing the world that God didn't exist.
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You get all of these atheist cult movements, all these arguments, all these 400-page books
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about how God is such an idiotic concept, and, well, Jesus.
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But these people seem completely unable, unwilling, uninterested to study the actual arguments that we had for God.
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They address the watchmaker argument, they address all this other nonsense for the proletariat,
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And so, Hobbes comes along, 1800s, you know, we've forgotten about God.
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Nietzsche pointed out that we killed God, we eliminated the concept.
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So, Hobbes comes along and invents the mechanical God.
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He invents the Leviathan, that thing we must believe in for the sake of society.
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It's the materialistic atomization of humankind.
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It breaks us down into nothing but sense pleasure, sense pain.
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Designing the perfect system to create this perfect race of man.
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That has the correct institutions to manipulate and control their desires.
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And what you wind up with is a logical framework
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that creates this hedonistic society of consumerism, of cheap sex, of atomization,
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of humans being interchangeable, humans being objects.
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Humans not being ends in themselves, as Kant reacted to it,
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The exact same logic which justifies the nightclub
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justifies starving millions of Ukrainians to death for the sake of the USSR.
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The materialist world, the relativistic world, the world without a God, so we had to build our own.
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And this God, you can call it Marxism, you can call it communism, you can call it democracy,
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This celebration of the mundane and the base and the complete rejection of anything grander,
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They've done such a great job proving that ghosts don't exist.
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They ignore the philosophical concept of the supernatural.
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Of the thing beyond mathematics, beyond thought.
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You see, when you get right down to it, and I suppose I'm being a very bad atheist,
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Flaws that they knew a thousand years ago, and that philosophers wrote about.
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They aren't celebrated, they aren't put in the media.
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So, we're told that these Southern Baptists, these snake handlers and faith healers,
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these idiots and magicians, these horoscopes, these astrologists,
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We know the world is nothing but vibrating atoms, bouncing against each other.
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And that we've completely discovered mathematics.
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So, you wind up with this world where pleasure and pain, that's everything that exists.
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Why not go in the heroin drip for the rest of your life?
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Why not kill a million people to make 10 million people happy?
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Bags of carbon and hydrogen and some oxygen and a few trace minerals bouncing around.
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Our grand destiny, our heaven on earth, is being plugged into the matrix,
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reprogrammed to have that permanent Stepford wife grin on our faces.
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Because all they can imagine is basic animal pleasure.
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And ironically, it's the countries that believe that.
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It's the nations and the ideologies that subscribe to the materialist, utilitarian,
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and hedon's over dollars philosophy of life that become the most tyrannical,
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the most ugly and inhuman, the most base and ugly.
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those that believe that the monarch is chosen by God,
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The most happy and productive with the greatest culture and the greatest industry.
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If you pursue pleasure, if you put physical pleasure, hedonism, as your highest priority in life,
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if all you do is seek after happiness, you wind up living in misery.
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It's those that dedicate themselves to what is good.
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Those that contemplate an ultimate purpose to human life.
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Something great and worthwhile worth dying for.
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it's those that are willing to die for something
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who wind up finding the greatest happiness in life.
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Somewhere on that miserable road of self-sacrifice and dedication to an ideal,
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somewhere along there you just fall into the most ridiculously happy situation
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Those that try and measure everything to treat humanity like atoms,
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a bunch of statistics to be correlated and measured and controlled and directed.
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they create misery for millions and millions of people.
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So yeah, folks, I dream of a society that lives for something bigger than itself.
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And if you want to call that the divine right of monarchs, suppose I'm a monarchist.
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And yes, for the record, Dunhill, take care of yourselves.