Leo D.M.J. Aurini - February 26, 2013


A Mechanical God


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Length

13 minutes

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96.41514

Word count

1,256

Sentence count

89

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Misogyny

2

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Toxicity

16

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6

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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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00:00:00.000 You know, there's a study published recently, I'll link to it down below, that the top 10
00:00:12.920 countries in the world with the freest media, eight of them were monarchies.
00:00:18.660 This is an interesting thing you see, generally speaking, statistically, monarchies and absolute
00:00:30.840 rulerships tend to actually be the freer countries in the world.
00:00:36.540 See, if you separate the totalitarian democrat and the monarchal hand of god countries in
00:00:44.900 the world, generally speaking, monarchies are the most free.
00:00:51.460 And the particularly unfree totalitarians tend to call themselves people's republics. 0.54
00:00:59.940 God. 1.00
00:01:05.140 Talking about god makes you sound like an idiot, makes you sound like a southern baptist. 1.00
00:01:10.340 You've got all of these morons on the news, on YouTube, talking about god and what god 1.00
00:01:18.900 wants you to do. 1.00
00:01:19.900 And each one has their own interpretation of the bible.
00:01:24.420 Each one of them has their own understanding and their own dictatorial understanding of this.
00:01:30.660 But let's talk about the philosopher's god.
00:01:39.220 You see, modern atheism is rejecting the conception of god that we had in the 1800s.
00:01:48.180 And the 1800s was a time renowned for either completely misunderstanding philosophers like Nietzsche or
00:01:57.940 philosophers that couldn't even begin to comprehend what their forefathers had described like Hobbes.
00:02:05.940 So if I talk about god, when I talk about god, I'm not talking about the Santa Claus for grown-ups. 0.69
00:02:13.620 I'm not talking about that Yahweh with his strong positions on masturbating within the camp versus 0.99
00:02:21.060 outside of it and what we should do with women on the rag. 1.00
00:02:26.500 I'm talking about the ineffable, the absolute, that thing that is so much grander than anything
00:02:33.220 we could imagine.
00:02:34.020 The first cause, the mathematical formula that allows other mathematical formulas to exist.
00:02:46.660 That which it allows Godel-Escherbach to be such a ridiculous self-proving and self-contradictory book.
00:02:55.860 That grand, inestimable thing.
00:03:04.260 That thing that philosophers, the good philosophers, have demonstrated and know exists.
00:03:13.060 Not the bearded man in the clouds.
00:03:14.900 Not the guy with very strong opinions about how you live your life, in particular.
00:03:20.740 There's a saying that, quite frankly, irritates me when most people say it.
00:03:30.580 But, the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he doesn't exist.
00:03:36.900 Well, no.
00:03:38.900 The greatest trick was convincing the world that God didn't exist.
00:03:42.340 You get all of these atheist cult movements, all these arguments, all these 400-page books 1.00
00:03:53.380 about how God is such an idiotic concept, and, well, Jesus. 0.99
00:03:59.140 I don't believe in that God, either. 0.99
00:04:00.420 But these people seem completely unable, unwilling, uninterested to study the actual arguments that we had for God.
00:04:14.980 They address the watchmaker argument, they address all this other nonsense for the proletariat, 0.97
00:04:21.300 and, of course, that God doesn't exist.
00:04:23.060 And so, Hobbes comes along, 1800s, you know, we've forgotten about God.
00:04:32.100 Nietzsche pointed out that we killed God, we eliminated the concept.
00:04:35.300 So, Hobbes comes along and invents the mechanical God.
00:04:38.900 He invents the Leviathan, that thing we must believe in for the sake of society.
00:04:45.940 And where are we now?
00:04:53.140 We're at utilitarianism.
00:04:56.260 Utilitarianism is hedons versus dollars.
00:05:02.740 It's pleasure versus pain.
00:05:06.900 It's the materialistic atomization of humankind.
00:05:11.140 It breaks us down into nothing but sense pleasure, sense pain.
00:05:22.340 Statistics, logic, political science.
00:05:31.220 Power, manipulation.
00:05:35.220 Designing the perfect system to create this perfect race of man. 0.88
00:05:41.300 That has the correct institutions to manipulate and control their desires.
00:05:47.140 And what you wind up with is a logical framework
00:05:54.100 that creates this hedonistic society of consumerism, of cheap sex, of atomization,
00:06:02.340 of humans being interchangeable, humans being objects.
00:06:05.780 Humans not being ends in themselves, as Kant reacted to it,
00:06:11.380 but as happiness being an end in itself.
00:06:19.380 The exact same logic which justifies the nightclub
00:06:23.540 justifies starving millions of Ukrainians to death for the sake of the USSR. 0.95
00:06:34.500 The materialist world, the relativistic world, the world without a God, so we had to build our own.
00:06:44.580 And this God, you can call it Marxism, you can call it communism, you can call it democracy,
00:06:51.460 you can call it free market capitalism.
00:06:54.580 This celebration of the mundane and the base and the complete rejection of anything grander,
00:07:05.540 of the supernatural.
00:07:08.500 They've done such a great job proving that ghosts don't exist.
00:07:17.620 And they call that the supernatural.
00:07:20.020 They ignore the philosophical concept of the supernatural.
00:07:25.860 Of the thing beyond mathematics, beyond thought.
00:07:37.380 You see, when you get right down to it, and I suppose I'm being a very bad atheist,
00:07:42.900 a very lapsed atheist saying this.
00:07:46.820 The material world doesn't make sense.
00:07:49.220 It has flaws in its theory.
00:07:51.140 Flaws that they knew a thousand years ago, and that philosophers wrote about.
00:07:56.980 But you don't read those philosophers anymore.
00:07:59.380 They aren't celebrated, they aren't put in the media.
00:08:02.420 So, we're told that these Southern Baptists, these snake handlers and faith healers, 1.00
00:08:09.060 these idiots and magicians, these horoscopes, these astrologists, 1.00
00:08:16.420 what a silly bunch of people they are. 1.00
00:08:18.260 We know the world is nothing but vibrating atoms, bouncing against each other. 0.99
00:08:28.420 And that we've completely discovered mathematics.
00:08:31.460 Everything is math.
00:08:33.540 Even though math is unable to contain itself.
00:08:37.460 So, you wind up with this world where pleasure and pain, that's everything that exists.
00:08:48.260 There is nothing but pleasure and pain.
00:08:51.220 Why not go in the heroin drip for the rest of your life? 1.00
00:08:53.780 Why not kill a million people to make 10 million people happy? 1.00
00:08:59.540 What's the difference? 0.99
00:09:00.500 We're just atomized individuals.
00:09:03.540 Bags of carbon and hydrogen and some oxygen and a few trace minerals bouncing around.
00:09:11.460 And none of it matters at the end.
00:09:14.500 Our grand destiny, our heaven on earth, is being plugged into the matrix,
00:09:22.100 reprogrammed to have that permanent Stepford wife grin on our faces. 1.00
00:09:26.980 That's their heaven.
00:09:32.900 Because all they can imagine is basic animal pleasure.
00:09:38.100 And ironically, it's the countries that believe that.
00:09:49.300 It's the nations and the ideologies that subscribe to the materialist, utilitarian,
00:09:57.060 and hedon's over dollars philosophy of life that become the most tyrannical,
00:10:04.980 the most ugly and inhuman, the most base and ugly.
00:10:12.500 While those that believe in the ineffable,
00:10:15.220 those that believe that the monarch is chosen by God,
00:10:20.340 wind up being the most free.
00:10:21.620 The most happy and productive with the greatest culture and the greatest industry.
00:10:30.260 It's funny, ain't it?
00:10:40.980 Here's another funny thing about life.
00:10:42.900 If you pursue pleasure, if you put physical pleasure, hedonism, as your highest priority in life,
00:10:54.980 if all you do is seek after happiness, you wind up living in misery.
00:11:00.420 Well, it's those that forego pleasure.
00:11:07.060 It's those that dedicate themselves to what is good.
00:11:12.820 To satisfaction.
00:11:15.620 Those that contemplate an ultimate purpose to human life.
00:11:22.420 Something great and worthwhile worth dying for.
00:11:31.780 Despite what John Lennon says,
00:11:35.220 and despite what Lennon says,
00:11:38.580 it's those that are willing to die for something
00:11:42.340 who wind up finding the greatest happiness in life.
00:11:47.060 Somewhere on that miserable road of self-sacrifice and dedication to an ideal,
00:11:52.660 somewhere along there you just fall into the most ridiculously happy situation
00:11:59.140 that you don't even deserve.
00:12:04.900 And those that try and be happy?
00:12:07.300 Those that try and measure everything to treat humanity like atoms,
00:12:12.340 a bunch of statistics to be correlated and measured and controlled and directed.
00:12:18.340 They not only find misery for themselves,
00:12:23.700 they create misery for millions and millions of people.
00:12:34.660 So yeah, folks, I dream of a society that lives for something bigger than itself.
00:12:40.100 And if you want to call that the divine right of monarchs, suppose I'm a monarchist.
00:12:46.980 And yes, for the record, Dunhill, take care of yourselves.