Daniel is probably the person I look up to most in the world. I’m 23 right now, moving my way though the world. Working my way through trauma and trying to help the world in any way I can. Daniel changed the way I think about psychology and mental health and even so society. A gift to this world.
Trauma generated compulsion are so strong that they eliminate whatever free will a person has, but it is my belief that authenticity and the unification of the body and mind are what can pose as a solution to these compulsions.
I try to avoid saying I don't have free will when my trauma is upwelling but God damn does it feel like im genuinely not in control, or like if I try to turn the wheel it turns it the other way 3x as hard. I think you may be right. I just don't wanna treat it like a free pass to do bad things.
thank you for keeping this channel updated. So many people are abandoning youtube and I think it's for the best, but you're one of the best therapists I've ever encountered, and your videos have helped me.
@@dmackler58 thanks Daniel. I discovered your channel a few months ago and I have watched nearly every video. You are so unique and I find your perspective incredibly helpful in understanding my own experiences. I hope you keep recording and posting your thoughts. They are valuable to people like me. I feel like you are my guide, an older brother I wish I had :) Your ideas are pure and your channel is free of any political or religious agenda, which I love.
@@not-a-russianbot8845 @Not-a-Russian Bot yeah, I agree with most of Daniel's points and mostly share his perspective. But. I wouldn't say there's absolutely no agenda. When it comes to climate/enviromental issues (I'm not saying we shouldn't care about ecology, but oftentimes things don't really work the way we are told they do, and suggested solutions are becoming increasingly horrific), to antinatalism, he's totally on board. Do you you remember that creepy cathead video, btw?
"Limited free will" is an oxymoron. Instead, we all have limited slave will. Also, if we had "free will", NOTHING would be fated in our lives. Only God has unlimited free will.
If humans have free will, then outcomes are not determined by antecedent causes. Outcomes are determined by antecedent causes Therefore it’s not the case that humans have free will.
I agree with a lot of what you say, but the one thing I disagree is the separation of the hurt and traumatised parts of ourselves with the true and genuine parts. For me at least, a big part of the progress I was able to make was because the hurt that had been inflicted on me also did galvanise me somewhat. It hardened me. So that when I was given the choice to feel the pain of grief or to push it down further, I was able to have the courage to say to myself, this may be painful but I will do it. I will grieve and heal. I will honor myself and I will change no matter the pain. In this aspect, the traumatised and the true sides of me were standing side by side together. These sides of us may be at war, but their unique traits can work in tandem, and I think part of grieving, healing and growing is also recognising that our traumas may be terrible, but they can serve us well nonetheless sometimes in the right settings, but only sometimes, and that's a part of finding peace
I thought the same thing when he spoke about the honest part VS the traumatised parts - IMO sometimes the traumatised parts are acting out in order to express the truth of what happened to them, too. Just in the only way they know how because they don't have words or enough safety to express their truth. It's complicated certainly.
I know that when I'm in the throws of trauma being reactivated, just resisting the urge to dissociate is 100x more painful than just allowing it to do its thing. We wanna say "oh its all under our control" but it's like saying we can choose not to scream or writhe around if we're on fire. Its like, sorry, but the unconscious has a way of overthrowing the conscious mind when it needs to. It's like trying to wrestle back control of a car from a gorilla in the passenger seat at times.
To your point, Dr. Bruce Perry talks about how our reptilian brain gets first crack at the incoming data before the more conscious parts. I'm not a huge 'neuro-' person, but the development of our brain in the womb and first 3-4 years can help describe attachment associations since this is when the majority of brain organization takes place.
This is deep. And you put it so well: many people leave a whole world unexplored while being content with superficial norms of society. This is exactly how I feel on my spiritual path.
Your videos have helped me so much over the years. You point out the glaring gaping voids in society that most people are desperately trying to ignore for the sake of their own sanity. These things must be faced sooner or later, the longer they're ignored the more catastrophic the consequences when the dam breaks.
You are a jewel to me, Daniel! When I allowed Jesus Christ to be born again in me, He started healing my SOul. His Light and two-edged sword started to Shine on and softly cut into those unhealed painful places and the defense mechanisms that kept all in place for a lifetime. Grieving started occurring, and I can say after a few years of allowing the "healer' to do His work, my Soul is prospering more and I experience more power and Joy than ever.
Excellent, Daniel! TY very much. It is full of information and great ideas!! My question. 'Who', 'what' inside us decides that we want to heal? Which part? My answer would be the part that was loved. So that's why I belive that a loving therapist can make people heal. But not only therapist, nice and loving people help us in the path of wanting to heal. TY again.
I've binged almost all your videos in the last week or so as I was looking for healing in my own journey and I just have to say that I love your honesty and perspective in almost everything I've seen. A true gem.
Yeah. i can't just do whatever i want, i am limited with various laws of nature. I think we are like the robots in westside show where every possible action is already predicted and programmed and none of them can hurt humans the robot thinks every decision is their own but its actually not
I can attest to the trauma part. It's hard to break "free" from certain patterns as they are so deeply ingrained. Some other considerations made me come to the conclusion that we don't have free will. We have free choice to a certain degree, which sounds a bit like a paradox. But it stops with bodily functions (try to have the will not to go to the toilet, good luck with that.. ), illness and last, dying.
I believe that every human beings have a little bit of dissociation and that is the rational part and the emotional part. Our rational side is the one that have freewill which decide how we carry out our day to day activities while our emotional side doesn't have freewill since it is the one that deals with impulses and reactivity and sometimes these two sides can coexist for instance when someone angers you, you don't control the feeling of anger it is there whether you want it or not but we can consciously decide to not react to our anger (it requires discipline) but sometimes these two feelings can exist in contradiction as a personal example someone really angered me and I wanted to react but I was instead paralyzed I literally felt as if two entities were fighting within me to take over. Long story short if think that we have freewill over personal matters but when it relates to others our freewill diminish
When other people abuse, bully, harass, mishandle, & mistreat u; that cre8s trauma which erodes free will. When attempting 2 address such matters (i.e.: abuse, bullying, harassment, etc.), I often get dismissed & disregarded (i.e.: denied) & as a result, compounding the trauma & erosion of free will bc of denial by others & THEIR unwillingness 2 acknowledge, address, & resolve the a4mentioned matters.
I am intrigued by this mystery of what makes someone have a strong will, or as Frankl talks about, the will to meaning. I really suspect it's environmental but I'm fine with people humbly romanticizing the idea since we'll never know. I know Fred Timm talks about how he is grateful for being born with something special. Thanks for discussing this topic.
Hmm, I'd have to go back and rewatch the video...is that the video where I make predictions about twenty years in the future? I'd bet I probably still agree with what I said...
Yeh it was the one where you I have to say pretty predictably have a real downer on humanity as if your not one of 7 billion people that know and feel the stressors of being human albeit many being so called unconscious But again just pretty predictable and almost apocalyptic etc etc etc….etc
I think a lot of people are caught between wanting to say yes we have free will because they don't wanna just shuck personal responsibility, and saying no because they can't fathom why people would "choose" to act in certain ways. I think Daniel's probably right. And it would make a lot of evolutionary sense because both the conscious and unconscious mind have benefits. One can be aimed and applied like a laser, the other with its infinite information and capability can take control of the ship in the event of an emergency. Would be freaky if the conscious mind was an invention of the unconscious mind for survival. Would explain quite a bit.
You might have free will, but you cannot really escape your nature, or can you? I am free to act independently of my emotions, for example, remaining in an unhealthy relationship when my body says it's wrong for me. But doing so is damaging. You might not be controlled by your emotions by going against your emotions is unhealthy, so it's as if you are. I suspect it's possibly a paradox in the end.
My intellect tells me there is no free will. There's nature and nurture. Everything we do is controlled by those two things. There's no ghost in the machine that gives us free will. Even lifting our hands is dictated by the thoughts and feelings that came prior to our "decision" to do so. I think part of our suffering is dictated by the illusion of free will, both for ourselves and for others: shoulda, woulda, coulda. My parents had no free will to accept their part in my traumatization. They were / are incapable of choosing responsibility. How many of us have parents willing to accept their fair share of the blame? Very few. It's the same thing that caused them to traumatize us in the first place. If they had the free will to accept blame, to fully understand their own actions, our trauma wouldn't exist. There's still a part of me that wants my mother to admit her faults, but she is incapable of doing so. My father never admitted his cruelty. He died hanging on to those comforting delusions. My mother will do the same. Expecting her to do differently is a pipe dream.
Einstein thought of the universe as a mechanical clock and as deterministic. Quantum mechanics shows us that the universe is not a mechanical clock. For me, this makes free will likely, because every moment is determined by new decisions.
@Tess Stickels Its not necessary to control all my bodily processes to have free will. The fact that these happen automatically gives me space to make meaningful conscious decisions.
QUESTION: Daniel if the universe only has one timeline? If the universe plays out like a DVD/Blueray movie right to the very end...from point (a) to point (b) How can freewill exist? Unless there is more than one time line freewill does not exist...(But an illusion of freewill does) How many timelines do you believe the universe has?😊🤔👍
Hi Daniel, thanks for your insights, as always. It's hard to really be sure one way or another on this, or if the reality is in-between, as you suggested, and we have free will about some things snd not others. Scientist Sabine Hossenfelder made some quite compelling arguments in a recent video that at a fundamental level we don't have it - we make decisions, but actually we could never have made a different one given everything that has led up to that point. A strange thought if true, at the same time disconcerting but also kind of comforting as it absolves us of fault for making bad decisions.. But either way I think we have to go on living as if we do have free will..
6:38 I also see a lot of people who are just "in too deep" to allow themselves to ever process the demons. They're pot-committed. For example if they sexually abused and mostly got away with it. They like the quotes about "don't ever look back" that are so popular these days.
My issue with free will is; When you decide to lift your left arm, and then do it, why did you decide that? Where did that idea come from? I think we have no conscious control over what thought enters our mind, or over whatever notion our directing cognition will take, so simple free will bugs me. I think the only true freedom comes from awareness of this within oneself. Just my two cents, its something that fascinates me💚
Hi, Daniel 👋 I watched your videos about your testimony about your getting mugged, and I appreciate them a lot; they're insightful and very consoling. Thank you for making them. I watched them for the first time when I was mugged myself last year, and then again just recently, now that I've learned that my offender will be released from prison next month on the 29th. I want to ask if you have any advice on the matter. How likely is it, do you think, of his getting out and exacting revenge on me for effectively putting him in jail? Should I be concerned, or not? Everyone else in my social circle keeps telling me not to worry about it, but they've never been mugged before. I want to hear your thoughts, as someone who's experienced the same thing I have. I'll wait for your response :) Brandon
Hi Brandon -- I'm wishing you the best with this one!! Well, I really don't know what to say as to your question, but I did talk about this with the police and what they told me was that basically in their experience it's VERY uncommon, rare even, for people like your mugger to try to exact revenge. Probably the last thing the mugger wants to do is to get into further trouble by bothering you. But I think could understand why you'd be apprehensive!!!! Again, all the best to you! Daniel
@@dmackler58 Thank you so much, Daniel! This have given the closure that I wanted. I wanted for so long to hear it from you :) Have a happy Halloween! 😁 Brandon :)
You sometimes mention the true self, and I wondered if you could consider a video expanding more on what it is. According to Buddhists the self is just an illusion, but that does seem.a bit counterintuitive to how we experience life.
free will is the ability to say to what you are about to do No stick less to what you know, you stuck old sage edit: maybe go back and see the record of your past self, this will make you less desotiated
I’ve done quite a bit of professional video editing and book editing and proofreading. Before that I was making documentary films and doing a lot of lecturing about them. Writing books too.
I think all humans have free will. It's something we are endowed with at birth. It's an energetic power I think is part of the human soul and it differentiates us from the animals. Maybe it's harder for people with a lot of unresolved trauma to access their free will but they still have it.
@@hbhealthandsuch6179 I don't agree. I asked an open-ended question in the title and did my best to explore the answer in the video. Nothing clickbaiting about that.
@@dmackler58 I guess that applies to the youtube standard then. I watch every video to get more questions than answers now, always. Happy times i tell you.
@@hbhealthandsuch6179 Perhaps so. And I thought about it since my last answer. Technically my question in the title wasn't "open-ended." There is a sort of implication that I'll give a clear "yes" or "no" answer. Alas, I don't have one...
Daniel is probably the person I look up to most in the world. I’m 23 right now, moving my way though the world. Working my way through trauma and trying to help the world in any way I can. Daniel changed the way I think about psychology and mental health and even so society. A gift to this world.
Agreed
Trauma generated compulsion are so strong that they eliminate whatever free will a person has, but it is my belief that authenticity and the unification of the body and mind are what can pose as a solution to these compulsions.
So true trauma eliminates an individuals ability to have free will.
It’s just a cycle of repetition compulsion
I try to avoid saying I don't have free will when my trauma is upwelling but God damn does it feel like im genuinely not in control, or like if I try to turn the wheel it turns it the other way 3x as hard. I think you may be right. I just don't wanna treat it like a free pass to do bad things.
thank you for keeping this channel updated. So many people are abandoning youtube and I think it's for the best, but you're one of the best therapists I've ever encountered, and your videos have helped me.
Thanks Junjae!
@@dmackler58 thanks Daniel. I discovered your channel a few months ago and I have watched nearly every video. You are so unique and I find your perspective incredibly helpful in understanding my own experiences. I hope you keep recording and posting your thoughts. They are valuable to people like me. I feel like you are my guide, an older brother I wish I had :) Your ideas are pure and your channel is free of any political or religious agenda, which I love.
@@not-a-russianbot8845 Thank you :) I appreciate this, not-a-russian bot -- wishing you only the best!! Daniel
@@not-a-russianbot8845 @Not-a-Russian Bot yeah, I agree with most of Daniel's points and mostly share his perspective. But. I wouldn't say there's absolutely no agenda. When it comes to climate/enviromental issues (I'm not saying we shouldn't care about ecology, but oftentimes things don't really work the way we are told they do, and suggested solutions are becoming increasingly horrific), to antinatalism, he's totally on board. Do you you remember that creepy cathead video, btw?
I'm wondering if I should hang out somewhere besides CZcams. It's become more and more hostile to creators.
To allow the core of truth to overtake the traumatized false self is, to me, one of the greatest forms of generosity.
Based on experience, I think we have free will, but it's limited, and some things are fated in our lives.
Yes, maybe so...
"Limited free will" is an oxymoron. Instead, we all have limited slave will. Also, if we had "free will", NOTHING would be fated in our lives. Only God has unlimited free will.
If humans have free will, then outcomes are not determined by antecedent causes.
Outcomes are determined by antecedent causes
Therefore it’s not the case that humans have free will.
I agree with a lot of what you say, but the one thing I disagree is the separation of the hurt and traumatised parts of ourselves with the true and genuine parts.
For me at least, a big part of the progress I was able to make was because the hurt that had been inflicted on me also did galvanise me somewhat. It hardened me. So that when I was given the choice to feel the pain of grief or to push it down further, I was able to have the courage to say to myself, this may be painful but I will do it. I will grieve and heal. I will honor myself and I will change no matter the pain. In this aspect, the traumatised and the true sides of me were standing side by side together.
These sides of us may be at war, but their unique traits can work in tandem, and I think part of grieving, healing and growing is also recognising that our traumas may be terrible, but they can serve us well nonetheless sometimes in the right settings, but only sometimes, and that's a part of finding peace
I thought the same thing when he spoke about the honest part VS the traumatised parts - IMO sometimes the traumatised parts are acting out in order to express the truth of what happened to them, too. Just in the only way they know how because they don't have words or enough safety to express their truth. It's complicated certainly.
I know that when I'm in the throws of trauma being reactivated, just resisting the urge to dissociate is 100x more painful than just allowing it to do its thing. We wanna say "oh its all under our control" but it's like saying we can choose not to scream or writhe around if we're on fire. Its like, sorry, but the unconscious has a way of overthrowing the conscious mind when it needs to. It's like trying to wrestle back control of a car from a gorilla in the passenger seat at times.
To your point, Dr. Bruce Perry talks about how our reptilian brain gets first crack at the incoming data before the more conscious parts. I'm not a huge 'neuro-' person, but the development of our brain in the womb and first 3-4 years can help describe attachment associations since this is when the majority of brain organization takes place.
This is deep. And you put it so well: many people leave a whole world unexplored while being content with superficial norms of society. This is exactly how I feel on my spiritual path.
Thank you Daniel for being you, thank you for sharing!
Your videos have helped me so much over the years. You point out the glaring gaping voids in society that most people are desperately trying to ignore for the sake of their own sanity. These things must be faced sooner or later, the longer they're ignored the more catastrophic the consequences when the dam breaks.
You are a jewel to me, Daniel! When I allowed Jesus Christ to be born again in me, He started healing my SOul. His Light and two-edged sword started to Shine on and softly cut into those unhealed painful places and the defense mechanisms that kept all in place for a lifetime. Grieving started occurring, and I can say after a few years of allowing the "healer' to do His work, my Soul is prospering more and I experience more power and Joy than ever.
Excellent, Daniel! TY very much. It is full of information and great ideas!! My question. 'Who', 'what' inside us decides that we want to heal? Which part? My answer would be the part that was loved. So that's why I belive that a loving therapist can make people heal. But not only therapist, nice and loving people help us in the path of wanting to heal. TY again.
I like your idea Astréa!
Daniel your thinking has greatly influenced my practice as a counselor!
same
I've binged almost all your videos in the last week or so as I was looking for healing in my own journey and I just have to say that I love your honesty and perspective in almost everything I've seen. A true gem.
When theists tell you god gives free will I remind them he holds it against them in the end...
True, but a life without consequences isn't much of a life. We are accountable for our choices.
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A life with out consequences would be amazing
@@src3360 amazingly chaotic
Yeah. i can't just do whatever i want, i am limited with various laws of nature.
I think we are like the robots in westside show where every possible action is already predicted and programmed and none of them can hurt humans the robot thinks every decision is their own but its actually not
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There is no god or gods so it doesn't really matter.
I can attest to the trauma part. It's hard to break "free" from certain patterns as they are so deeply ingrained.
Some other considerations made me come to the conclusion that we don't have free will. We have free choice to a certain degree, which sounds a bit like a paradox. But it stops with bodily functions (try to have the will not to go to the toilet, good luck with that.. ), illness and last, dying.
I believe that every human beings have a little bit of dissociation and that is the rational part and the emotional part. Our rational side is the one that have freewill which decide how we carry out our day to day activities while our emotional side doesn't have freewill since it is the one that deals with impulses and reactivity and sometimes these two sides can coexist for instance when someone angers you, you don't control the feeling of anger it is there whether you want it or not but we can consciously decide to not react to our anger (it requires discipline) but sometimes these two feelings can exist in contradiction as a personal example someone really angered me and I wanted to react but I was instead paralyzed I literally felt as if two entities were fighting within me to take over. Long story short if think that we have freewill over personal matters but when it relates to others our freewill diminish
Hmm -- interesting. I like the way you put it.
I am so, so grateful to have found your channel! Thank you 🙏
We have free will with very costly consequences
couldn't have put it better myself
Well articulated sir
When other people abuse, bully, harass, mishandle, & mistreat u; that cre8s trauma which erodes free will. When attempting 2 address such matters (i.e.: abuse, bullying, harassment, etc.), I often get dismissed & disregarded (i.e.: denied) & as a result, compounding the trauma & erosion of free will bc of denial by others & THEIR unwillingness 2 acknowledge, address, & resolve the a4mentioned matters.
Great video, I personally believe we don't have any free will and I can explain very well why do I think so.
I am intrigued by this mystery of what makes someone have a strong will, or as Frankl talks about, the will to meaning. I really suspect it's environmental but I'm fine with people humbly romanticizing the idea since we'll never know. I know Fred Timm talks about how he is grateful for being born with something special. Thanks for discussing this topic.
Daniel that letter you wrote about future of humanity etc years ago
Do you still align with that or have you evolved or changed your position much?
Hmm, I'd have to go back and rewatch the video...is that the video where I make predictions about twenty years in the future? I'd bet I probably still agree with what I said...
Yeh it was the one where you I have to say pretty predictably have a real downer on humanity as if your not one of 7 billion people that know and feel the stressors of being human albeit many being so called unconscious
But again just pretty predictable and almost apocalyptic etc etc etc….etc
yup, thanks Daniel
How in the living f can we even KNOw the answer to this. With our limited minds...yeah I think not.
I think a lot of people are caught between wanting to say yes we have free will because they don't wanna just shuck personal responsibility, and saying no because they can't fathom why people would "choose" to act in certain ways. I think Daniel's probably right. And it would make a lot of evolutionary sense because both the conscious and unconscious mind have benefits. One can be aimed and applied like a laser, the other with its infinite information and capability can take control of the ship in the event of an emergency.
Would be freaky if the conscious mind was an invention of the unconscious mind for survival. Would explain quite a bit.
You have free will to choose from our limited experiences
A lot of psychology is philosophical. There are no answers in the back of the book.
So interesting. Thanks so much. X
You might have free will, but you cannot really escape your nature, or can you? I am free to act independently of my emotions, for example, remaining in an unhealthy relationship when my body says it's wrong for me. But doing so is damaging. You might not be controlled by your emotions by going against your emotions is unhealthy, so it's as if you are. I suspect it's possibly a paradox in the end.
i think we have Some free will. there may be several factors at play to determine behavior, and free will or our being conscious is part of it.
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To the degree we are unconscious (have not healed our traumas), we do not have free will.
My intellect tells me there is no free will. There's nature and nurture. Everything we do is controlled by those two things. There's no ghost in the machine that gives us free will. Even lifting our hands is dictated by the thoughts and feelings that came prior to our "decision" to do so.
I think part of our suffering is dictated by the illusion of free will, both for ourselves and for others: shoulda, woulda, coulda.
My parents had no free will to accept their part in my traumatization. They were / are incapable of choosing responsibility. How many of us have parents willing to accept their fair share of the blame? Very few. It's the same thing that caused them to traumatize us in the first place. If they had the free will to accept blame, to fully understand their own actions, our trauma wouldn't exist.
There's still a part of me that wants my mother to admit her faults, but she is incapable of doing so. My father never admitted his cruelty. He died hanging on to those comforting delusions. My mother will do the same. Expecting her to do differently is a pipe dream.
Yeah i agree, i also came to this conclusion from knowing myself. I don't know why people believe in free will.
going to have to watch this again . .
Einstein thought of the universe as a mechanical clock and as deterministic. Quantum mechanics shows us that the universe is not a mechanical clock. For me, this makes free will likely, because every moment is determined by new decisions.
@Tess Stickels Its not necessary to control all my bodily processes to have free will. The fact that these happen automatically gives me space to make meaningful conscious decisions.
@Tess Stickels Behavior has a profound effect on physiology
QUESTION:
Daniel if the universe only has one timeline?
If the universe plays out like a DVD/Blueray movie right to the very end...from point (a) to point (b)
How can freewill exist?
Unless there is more than one time line freewill does not exist...(But an illusion of freewill does)
How many timelines do you believe the universe has?😊🤔👍
It's very easy. The prefrontal cortex have control over the limbic system. Or not! That`s all.
Hi Daniel, thanks for your insights, as always. It's hard to really be sure one way or another on this, or if the reality is in-between, as you suggested, and we have free will about some things snd not others. Scientist Sabine Hossenfelder made some quite compelling arguments in a recent video that at a fundamental level we don't have it - we make decisions, but actually we could never have made a different one given everything that has led up to that point. A strange thought if true, at the same time disconcerting but also kind of comforting as it absolves us of fault for making bad decisions.. But either way I think we have to go on living as if we do have free will..
We do not
6:38 I also see a lot of people who are just "in too deep" to allow themselves to ever process the demons. They're pot-committed. For example if they sexually abused and mostly got away with it. They like the quotes about "don't ever look back" that are so popular these days.
Yeah. Free will is the ability to actualise potential. Trauma blocks that ability.
My issue with free will is;
When you decide to lift your left arm, and then do it, why did you decide that? Where did that idea come from?
I think we have no conscious control over what thought enters our mind, or over whatever notion our directing cognition will take, so simple free will bugs me.
I think the only true freedom comes from awareness of this within oneself.
Just my two cents, its something that fascinates me💚
Hi, Daniel 👋 I watched your videos about your testimony about your getting mugged, and I appreciate them a lot; they're insightful and very consoling. Thank you for making them. I watched them for the first time when I was mugged myself last year, and then again just recently, now that I've learned that my offender will be released from prison next month on the 29th. I want to ask if you have any advice on the matter. How likely is it, do you think, of his getting out and exacting revenge on me for effectively putting him in jail? Should I be concerned, or not? Everyone else in my social circle keeps telling me not to worry about it, but they've never been mugged before. I want to hear your thoughts, as someone who's experienced the same thing I have. I'll wait for your response :)
Brandon
Hi Brandon -- I'm wishing you the best with this one!! Well, I really don't know what to say as to your question, but I did talk about this with the police and what they told me was that basically in their experience it's VERY uncommon, rare even, for people like your mugger to try to exact revenge. Probably the last thing the mugger wants to do is to get into further trouble by bothering you. But I think could understand why you'd be apprehensive!!!! Again, all the best to you! Daniel
@@dmackler58 Thank you so much, Daniel! This have given the closure that I wanted. I wanted for so long to hear it from you :) Have a happy Halloween! 😁
Brandon :)
@@Brandon-os1db Happy Halloween to you too!
agitating,interesting,lively.pushes back the calendar...
You sometimes mention the true self, and I wondered if you could consider a video expanding more on what it is. According to Buddhists the self is just an illusion, but that does seem.a bit counterintuitive to how we experience life.
We have (can exert) free will in the short term if we are resourced enough.
Free will as a concept is not real.
This is literally the answer
Only truth has traction in reality.
free will is the ability to say to what you are about to do No
stick less to what you know, you stuck old sage
edit: maybe go back and see the record of your past self, this will make you less desotiated
what do you do for money if you're not a therapist anymore?
I’ve done quite a bit of professional video editing and book editing and proofreading. Before that I was making documentary films and doing a lot of lecturing about them. Writing books too.
I think all humans have free will. It's something we are endowed with at birth. It's an energetic power I think is part of the human soul and it differentiates us from the animals. Maybe it's harder for people with a lot of unresolved trauma to access their free will but they still have it.
This is what I believe in my heart.
Do you have a psychoanalytical background? I think psyche must be examined from a more scientific, less esoteric, less speculative point of view.
Didnt answer the question in the title. misleading
I answered it as best I could...
@@dmackler58 Never said it was not good content. Its simply a misleading title. Its bad. Thats called clickbaiting. I expect better from a pro.
@@hbhealthandsuch6179 I don't agree. I asked an open-ended question in the title and did my best to explore the answer in the video. Nothing clickbaiting about that.
@@dmackler58 I guess that applies to the youtube standard then. I watch every video to get more questions than answers now, always. Happy times i tell you.
@@hbhealthandsuch6179 Perhaps so. And I thought about it since my last answer. Technically my question in the title wasn't "open-ended." There is a sort of implication that I'll give a clear "yes" or "no" answer. Alas, I don't have one...