The Cost of Escaping Reality
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I think the ill effects of our current usage of technology as a method of escape are already becoming wildly apparent. As it tempts us to escape the real world more and more, you may notice that the real life you’ve been given is one that competes with your distractions and becomes something that you might resent instead of love as you ought to.
There’s an old phrase that poses a dilemma about the nature of the good that goes like this: “Did men love Rome because she was great, or was she great because men loved her?”
And I would argue it’s the latter. A thing becomes great because it is well loved. A person can take an empty and infertile plot of land and then love the heck out of it and turn it into something great, something worthy of that love. And love in this sense, doesn’t mean like a strong affection, but to will the good of someone or something else and find that in so doing, the object of the lover becomes more lovable.
A good parent, does this with a child every day. They take an ignorant and helpless human being, and they care for it’s good. They sacrifice their time, their energy, their bodies, and their resources, to turn that human into the best version of their potential. Love makes someone or something unremarkable into something great.
This is true of all aspects of our lives - our education, our careers, our homes, our relationships. We can make them better by our willingness to embrace and love them. But we can also neglect them because of the sacrifices and the struggle that love requires, and instead choose to escape those responsibilities for our own selfish and fleeting amusement.
And that’s how the real world and the real things that compete for our attention fall into decline and dilapidation
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"If you find yourself with a desire that cannot be satisfied by anything in this world, the only probable explanation is that we were made for another world." - C.S. Lewis
The point about Rome being great because it was loved is spot on. Julius Caesar and Emperor Aurelian are prime examples of this. Caesar crossed the Rubicon and destroyed the corruption feasting upon the Republic, Octavia carried this on and Aurelian was known for restoring the Empire. These men loved Rome and wished to see it bloom, no different than a gardener with his plants.
I think it is more true that Julius Caesar was motivated by ambition than by any love of Rome. He grew up under Marius then Sulla where the Republican rule of law was proven to be flexible to men with enough ambition and ability, of which Caesar had plenty. If Caesar loved Rome, he didn't love it enough to respect and restore its Republican spirit. He was a populist and appealed to those who had disdain for the aristocratic senate. His power grab killed the Roman Republic and Augustus' capable administration put the nail in the coffin by establishing precedent for an Empire.
In reality Ceasar thought about Ceasar and wanted everyone to belief that he thought abiut Rome In his mind he wanted to be the most powerful man in Rome.
'If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.'
C.S. Lewis
We do that unplugging from reality when reality gets to difficult to bear, the younger you suffer experiences that you can't handle mentally the more you will dissociate from your physical experience, what we do with phones as adults it's just repeating a habit we've developed since we were babies. It gets imprinted in your mind and body that the way to behave in unsettling or even perceived unsettling environments it's to dissociate your mind from your body in a sense, to go full on thinking mode or just wandering through your imagination like mad to avoid the pain of being fully embodied.
Brian, your channel is so great, but this video specifically stands out to me. You hit the nail directly on the head. I hate my phone lol
Brian, fantastic video! I believe you hit the nail on the head.
10 years ago before I had a smartphone, I wouldn't have ever thought I'd use such a device so frequently. It has been a blessing, watching your videos and others that have helped me grow in faith. But certainly obstacles that interfere with my attention to the present moment in real life.
Honestly, I’ve been praying and meditating upon this issue. Here’s what I discovered: we are all hypocrites. I read an article yesterday about how people have gotten meaner, how people have never felt lonelier, how people don’t have friends. We’ve done it to ourselves. If we want good friends, if we want to stop being lonely, then all it takes is being the good friend you hope to be. Jesus wants us to love our neighbor. You can’t love your neighbor when your nose is stuck on your phone and your cheap earbuds are in your ears while you pretend you didn’t hear me. Just saying.
Thank you 🙏
Good stuff. Thank you. I know it's not really the type of video you normally make, but would love some parenting advice videos! Specifically, discipline. We are struggling to know what to do with our 3 year old. Desperate to figure out how to be effective in changing the child's behavior (easier said than done, the gentle parenting stuff doesn't work) but also maintain a solid, loving relationship.
I think this is true for some people but for others including myself escapism is a way of survival. I don't think I'm neglecting the world, there just isn't a lot I can do in the world right now. I'm going to school and I'm trying to satisfy my responsibilities as a student, a friend, a brother, a son, and a Christian but for a good portion of my days I find that I'm alone with nothing to do but reflect on my own existential dread. If I didn't have the distractions that I have, I would lose my mind. Essentially I have nowhere else to go but inside of my own mind and people aren't meant to live like that for very long. I would love to have something else to do, I would love to have a community of friends that I could interact with, I would love to have a job or a career that kept my mind busy doing something productive. But I don't. I go to school, I go to mass, I come home, and I play video games until I'm called to go out again. Escapism isn't the problem, it's a symptom of something much bigger and often something we have no individual control over.
@ToqTheWise I understand where you’re coming from, as I struggle with falling into the same mindset. Making friends is hard because it requires love and commitment, but its importance can’t be understated. Go out and build friendships with people. You can’t put the onus on others and expect them to come to you. You have to be the one who initiates and keeps on initiating. In the beginning it’s anxiety inducing, and at times getting friends together can feel like herding cats, but the alternative of being alone far worse for you and me. Please I implore you to seek out true friendship. God bless you!
Allow yourself to do other things, if you rule out video games (or limit it), you will find something else to do. Talk, reflect, paint, draw, write a story, create something, puzzle, gardening, learn something, experiment something, walk, observe things like if it was the first time you ever saw it. And the list can be infinite 😊
@@ravaeric6458I think that this man does not miss things to do, he misses human relationships. And I agree with him. From my 57 yearold standpoint I can attest to the fact that we have lost that realm.
@@ravaeric6458Yes!
Again to paraphrase Tolkien: sometimes the people condemning your escape are your jailers. I don’t think that’s what Brian is saying but I agree there is a much larger issue here. I am much like other commentators here with respect to escape and escapism. It’s a tough balance.
4:48 I think Chesterton actually did mean love in the sense of infatuation.
As to "intending the good of someone" ... it is possible that by "desperate" Chesterton meant the Peabody Estates of Pimlico:
_"Through the late nineteenth century, Pimlico saw the construction of several Peabody Estates, charitable housing projects designed to provide affordable, quality homes."_
It could very well have been those that made Chesterton say:
_"Let us suppose we are confronted with a desperate thing - say Pimlico."_
This is sadly one of the common problems plaguing video games as a whole. Being dominated by nihilists, quite a few developers focus on "immersion". Immersion is about making it feel like you're really there, like you really are the protagonist. Seeing real life as meaningless and sad, many who play video games use them as a way to ignore reality and enter a fiction where they can more easily feel like they have a purpose. Something like: "At least in 'Doom Eternal' I can succeed in my fights against evil." I believe, however, this problem is merely a symptom of nihilism, and thus our efforts should be focused on combatting the falsehoods of nihilist philosophy.
That distraction of the children is heaven on earth.
Your videos are appreciated. Thank you.
4:40 And before that effort bears fruit, the love will very certainly be described by some as "escape from reality" ...
Point taken. I think your reasoning is pretty solid. Let yourself be resolute in your singular life. Try to bring love and joy into the world. Salvation comes to those who believe. Belief is all we really have. According to the scriptures it is our belief in Him that saves. Hesforth virtual distractions from that very belief is the end game fo the vitual prison of the mind
Thank you very much for this video!
The book Ready Player One is FANTASTIC. The movie, not so much.
People with earbuds-or worse, playing music on a speaker-while recreating outside in is one of my biggest pet peeves. Not just because they cant hear me when I pass but because they are depriving themselves of the interesting sounds of nature as well as the solemn quiet.
You know, I never thought of that and I hunt and love being in the woods and listening to nature. So funny because when I walk in the park I wear ear buds haha.
When I have access to parks and open nature spaces where I can go for a walk or other recreational moment, the last thing I would like to have around would be earbuds. But walking in my city’s hectic downtown sometimes requires ear plugs (there are some that block out only the excessive noise, while still allowing the wearer to be attentive to traffic and incoming people). In fact, living in the downtown, the solemn quiet is what I miss the most, because there is no real silence even at night.
The world would be a better place if people took more long walks while being alone with their thoughts, reflecting upon life in quiet. This is also ample time to spend meditating and thinking deeply on Scripture.
They can hear you bc most people are so cheap, they don’t even bother to buy the noise cancellation. 😒😒😒
If you live in a gross city maybe you are listening to nature sounds via the earbuds
VR isn’t portrayed as escape, but rather an important social space. Real world analogues include the workplace, sporting events, market places, performance halls etc. all of which can, of course, become “escapes” - but only if they are taken up in the place of loving others. It is possible for a world in which VR becomes prominent that people love and serve, create and work. All social spaces are constructed. Construction isn’t bad, but rather construction with the wrong telos - namely, construction unto death and fear instead of life and love.
It's not just another space don't fall for the devil's trick. It directly competes with reality.
@@bruno-bnvm it’s not a “devils trick” - you’re just not being rational on this matter. When two people sit down to play chess together they enter into a constructed social space. There are rules, turn order, ritual behavior, goals etc. VR is an extension and complication of something like a game. It is morally neutral, just like fire is morally neutral. But fire can cook a meal or burn your house down depending on the context. God made us to be stewards of creation. Part of stewardship is constructing realities: a garden, for example, is such a construction. But there are good and bad ways to order a garden. There are also good and bad ways to order something like a “virtual space”. If you disagree you need to explain why, not just assert accusations about “tricks”.
@@wierdpocket I don't care about what you call "rational". It is of the devil and to hell with it.
I agree. How many things have a good use, but become toxic when over-consumed! I think VR has a good use in specific situations, but misuse is just so attractive. Telephones were great when they just sat there until contact was needed, and then used for a specific contact. As something in our hands demanding our attention all day every day, it is not life-enhancing. Online video meetings are very good when people need to meet and discuss a topic but physically being at the meeting is prohibitive.
I attended a VR meeting where the host took our selected avatars through various rooms as we talked, and it was most unpleasant. That VR meeting was 90 min. of my life that I won't get back.
(ironic that I'm engaged on CZcams, instead of talking with people.. but there aren't people, and YT can be practice..)
Brian: running in his chic formal wear.
Youngster: * jump scare ... *
Brian: keeps running.
Youngster: goodness, truth and beauty are real!
That's pretty much how it happens.
9:38 Being inattentive to the world around is a physiological need.
If it takes forms like walking with head phones it is because that need is not respected when they are sitting at home or in the bus or whatever. When you sit, you usually can avoid needing to quickly move - unless it's in enemy territory.
Yeah I know what you mean about the anxiety. I’ve taken steps to reduce it set boundaries on my work so I don’t keep getting distracted and limiting how much I listen to podcasts such as yours.
Recently I had to pull my 10 year old nephew off the tablet and the anxiety it produced in him was something to behold. After about and hour he was okay but after a major temper tantrum. Now when he comes to spend a few days with us I’ve banned him and my daughter from tablets just to limit there exposure.
6:29 When it comes to the phone, I think it is distracting without offering what's normally referred to as "escape from reality" - I'm actually considered escapist by some for my refusal to get one.
3:45 , about the thing that Ready Player One is the anti-thesis of love, that it's recognizing that there is something external to yourself, there is a missunderstanding there: Ready: Player One describes a virtual world where real people interact with each other, so is not really that self-centred or selfish in nature.
The movie's commentary is not about entertainment media being bad, it's a more balanced commentary: entertainment media can serve as a relief to abide in a world that it's unwelcoming, however it can create a comfort zone where is too tempting to not try to fix the real world problems and just stay there.
This is SO many years old.
Great commentary!
4:24 I was tempted to go to St. Augustine ... when I recalled it could be Chesterton. Indeed.
“Let us suppose we are confronted with a desperate thing - say Pimlico. If we think what is really best for Pimlico we shall find the thread of thought leads to the throne of the mystic and the arbitrary. It is not enough for a man to disapprove of Pimlico; in that case he will merely cut his throat or move to Chelsea. Nor, certainly, is it enough for a man to approve of Pimlico; for then it will remain Pimlico, which would be awful. The only way out of it seems to be for somebody to love Pimlico; to love it with a transcendental tie and without any earthly reason. If there arose a man who loved Pimlico, then Pimlico would rise into ivory towers and golden pinnacles… If men loved Pimlico as mothers love children, arbitrarily, because it is theirs, Pimlico in a year or two might be fairer than Florence. Some readers will say that this is mere fantasy. I answer that this is the actual history of mankind. This, as a fact, is how cities did grow great. Go back to the darkest roots of civilization and you will find them knotted round some sacred stone or encircling some sacred well. People first paid honour to a spot and afterwards gained glory for it. Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.”
Note, he did not say loving Pimlico for what it is, but loving Pimlico arbitrarily - and the very next phrase suggests loving Pimlico as Pimlico can be shown in a Sims game.
_"The area has over 350 Grade II listed buildings and several Grade II* listed churches."_
_"In the mid-1930s Pimlico saw a second wave of development with the construction of Dolphin Square, a self-contained "city" of 1,250 up-market flats built on the site formerly occupied by Cubitt's building works. Completed in 1937, it quickly became popular with MPs and public servants. It was home to fascist Oswald Mosley until his arrest in 1940, and the headquarters of the Free French for much of the Second World War."_
It seems that some people took Chesty's advice to love Pimlico. Perhaps Chesterton meant morally : _"Pimlico is the setting of the 1940 version of Gaslight."_
“But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into this world: and certainly we can carry nothing out. But having food, and wherewith to be covered, with these we are content. For they that will become rich, fall into temptation, and into the snare of the devil, and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, which drown men into destruction and perdition. For the desire of money is the root of all evils; which some coveting have erred from the faith, and have entangled themselves in many sorrows.”
well said..
great video as always brother.
SO CLOSE to a moment of self-awareness.
Oh, and you totally broke the irony meter.
In what sense?
@@throngarastora7569 Hmmm. Let's see...
Well, right off the bat: "I have seen the trailer...so I feel like I can speak about it authoritatively."
Try holding that up to a mirror: "I didn't watch your video, but I saw the thumbnail preview. So I feel like I can speak authoritatively about you."
Would _that_ be a reasonable opening to a discussion?
0:32 "The potential for humanity to become servile to it's technology..."
Brian criticizing people for becoming "servile" to non-corporeal forces, while he believes that people should serve his preferred immaterial god.
0:41 "...human beings have sacrificed good things about the potential of their lives in the real world out of a kind of slavish preference to escape into their virtual distractions."
People preferring to spend time in a fantasy environment and having their decisions made by virtual entities outside our physical reality. I might agree with Brian that that is _very_ dystopian.
0:54 "People...suffer an unenviable existence, except for the fact that they are able to escape it and become and do anything they want in virtual reality."
That is EXACTLY the Christian promise of heaven - we are sinners in life, that all our ailments are from sin, but if you something something and donate 10%, we promise you this [literally] perfect place that has no ailments... after you die.
There's FOUR examples of an _incredible_ lack of awareness and/or irony, and I'm only a minute into the video. Want to keep going?
And I'm gonna jump ahead to the most egregious one:
11:31 [Smart phones and social media] These things that are with us all the time, in our pockets, vibrating, whispering at us to escape.."
Seriously - a content creator COMPLAINING about people receiving social media notifications? HOW unaware can someone be?
Brian, you seem to have gained a coterie of haters in your comments section. I'm not sure yet whether they're garden variety atheists or Protestants or both. Great channel, by the way!
The reason everyone is so anxious is because we are discouraged from living by our convictions. We aren't allowed to know our neighbors and we must spare our neighbors from ever having to know us. 3 cheers for diversity.
12:08 _"that's what sleep is for"_
And prayer?
And reading?
And music?
And doing cross word puzzles and sudokus?
And comfort foods, including sweet coffee or tea and small amounts of alcohol?
Or _just_ sleep?
If you push someone out of all moments of escapism _except_ sleep, you may end up not respecting sleep either. I've dealt with both types.
Or rather, _not_ been able to deal with them. How does a homeless person compete with the fashionable shrinks in his neighbourhood for attention about how to treat him?
Especially if some don't _want_ him to be charismatic when presenting his blogs?
And Gregorian and Eastern rite liturgic music ...
This could not be truer.
On a more superficial level, what kind of collar is that? It's awesome.
Spot on!
What is that thing behind you on your left (right side looking at video) of the bookshelf? It’s beautiful and I would like one for my study.
Brian this is an excellent but I think incomplete description of “escape.” I beg you if you haven’t already to go read JRR Tolkien’s essay “On Faery Story” and the accompanying allegory called Leaf by Niggle for his view of the dangers and proper use of escape and comment on it. In my own life I am constantly confronted with the dilemma your words and his essay provoke. I’ll paraphrase a portion of his point (poorly) as a sort of teaser: in our world, one good reason to condemn escape is in fact because you are a jailer. Professor Tolkien’s discussion is more complete and nuanced and if you’ve not read it I think as an artist you’d find it interesting. I’d dearly love to hear a video on it from you.
11:50 Being startled is not necessarily anxiogenic.
A man I admire far more than shrinks was once startled by discovering himself to be trying to open his door with a cork-screw - before putting it to its proper use. I think you cited him in a Pimlico / Rome connexion.
TOPS,THANK YOU!!!!!
11:58 There is a kind of getting startled that actually _can_ be anxiogenic.
Getting startled by grown up people who absolutely exact your attention to them, because they "know" (from a man like your psychologist friend) that you need to attend to them. Not that _they_ need your attention. You could arrange so they didn't. But their pov is that _you_ need it, for instance in order to come back to the real world.
Here is the witness of someone who at the age of thirty (or past) _did_ escape from such people:
czcams.com/video/3g5HkfUrna0/video.html
9:25 I've never recommended anyone to walk around with ear phones ... may have sth to do with inadequate opportunities for healthier escapism ...
You are spot on about the need for escape by the modern, especially younger generation. The escapism is greatly enhanced by the producers of the media products, which try to alternate stimulate a fake challenge to the mind, then a calming satisfying resolution, all simulated, in the manner of gambling. This makes users to frequently become addicted to the media and keeps their eyes on the screens and advertisements, which ultimately pay for the media.
You are wrong about Rome, though. Rome was built upon military power, centralized control, advanced military technology (for that time), engineering of roads and aqueducts, vasal states forced to pay taxes and draftees, slaves, and sheer power and fear, not love.
5:41 The majority of people who play with Sims are in fact teens or tweens who so far do NOT have parental responsibilities.
And the more one takes away from them the right to "escape reality" the less likely they are to succeed in acquiring such or similar responsibilities.
Noah had three sons around the age of 500 ... how come? Perhaps his earlier children had died, from not escaping the realities of sth like the Mahabharata war - or perhaps someone had consistently stamped him as "escaping from reality" so he didn't _get_ a wife to when he was 500. From when his father begat him or his son his grandson, we can at least gather, it was not like puberty back then took 500 years to achieve.
Tolkien has a answer in his discussion on fairy stories.
I read The Abolition of Man, by CS Lewis a few months ago. It was like Clive had a Time Machine.
Canadian Catholic media theorists Marshall Mcluhan had a name for what you are talking about. Mass man.
Have not watched the video all the way yet. But Ready Player one came out in 2018.
5:06 While the duty of parents is well described, you forget that some hormones of bonding are involved in making them in a sense infatuated with their children. Not sexually, but still, they are very far from being purely objective observers with no escape from reality.
Indeed, they arguably manage to raise their children better above their natural tendencies the more they are escaping from reality while doing so.
One eyed symbolism in the photo!
True
4:02 Antithesis to love is "narcissism"?
Is this a word from _Catholic_ moral theology?
I mean, I can't recall finding it either in the Prima Secundae or the Secunda Secundae ...
Can you at least trace it to St. Alfons Maria Liguori?
I can't claim having read him _as moral theologian,_ just The Glories of Mary.
Brian, you gonna have to get out of my head ;)
The world is distancing itself more and more from reality, from Truth, from God.
You sure got that concept backwards.
The more we learn about Reality, the less reason there is to believe in mythology.
Dear@@13shadowwolf, can I infer that you do not believe in Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God?
@@pcjgrjpaj I know the history of Monotheism, from Plato's Republic, the deliberate creation of a Platonic Idealistic religion.
Christianity is a manufactured religion, originally designed to stabilize the failing Greek States. Polytheistic beliefs were pulling people in different directions, so Monotheism was created to better organize the populace to support the Greek States.
The Roman Empire did most of the real work spreading Christianity, as the united Roman religion.
All of the biblical stories, are re-writes from pre-existing mythology; Jesus was a mis-match of several characters.
Jesus Christ was a created character, not an actual individual.
Dear @@13shadowwolf God Bless you in your journey, as for me, a broken man, I have found Love in the person of Jesus.
All the best.
@@pcjgrjpaj Cthulhu will consume your soul if you continue to leave yourself open.
If you choose to believe, your soul will become disjointed upon your death, and Cthulhu will consume you forever.
UnBlessings Upon You.
2:19 _we're escaping our _*_real lives_*_ in pursuit of something more exciting and more seductive_
This kind of analysis has very long been popular with shrinks.
My atheist granny, who died in 1993 used to harrass ma and me over Christianity, discussions on theology, prayer, reading the Bible being "verklighetsflygt" = "escape from reality" ...
Before you make this kind of analysis, would you mind telling me, when a real part of someone's life means "an escape from his real life" ...?
Are Renaissance fairs evil because the participants escape the real life in XXth / XXIst CC.?
12:47 Oh, indeed.
But God has not refused either to be or to provide refuge ... what road would you rather take to holiness ...
* Calvin says you need to fairly and squarely face how evil and utterly unworthy you are
* Thérèse of Lisieux preferred to look away from herself and unto the Babe Jesus - and the Holy Face in Gethsemaneh.
Who of these do _you_ think went justified when quitting the meditation for a chore?
Oh, wait, absorbed in real life chores leaves no room for meditation ... what was St. Thomas saying about why porc (meat) signifies impurity?
I think you can look up in Leviticus that the pig is not a ruminant ...
_"The animal that chews the cud and has a divided hoof, is clean in signification. Because division of the hoof is a figure of the two Testaments: or of the Father and Son: or of the two natures in Christ: of the distinction of good and evil. While chewing the cud signifies _*_meditation on the Scriptures_*_ and a sound understanding thereof; and whoever lacks either of these is spiritually unclean."_
I think ruminants do escape from surrounding realities while ruminating ....
It's not good to provoke someone. Right?
7:36 Scrolling on your phone is not "virtual reality" ... your mistransferring what you did with what people playing Sims do ... not that I ever did.
How does one love God? How do you will the good of that which is defined as either maximally good or even goodness itself?
Jesus said it in Matthew 25:40. “Amen I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.” For more context, read just before that verse. That’s how you show love to God.
Worshiping Him and following the commandments
10:56 I begin to worry about your attitude to a Man who spent nights in prayer, removing Himself for hours on row from the world around Him. In case you are not aware, prayer usually does involve alpha state. Which certainly does lower your attention to the world around you.
So in reality, what exactly is the Gospel of Jesus Christ according to the Roman Catholic Church? What does one have to do in order to "be saved"?
You mean the Catholic Church. “Roman” is just a slur Protestants created for the Western rite of the Church. There are many Eastern Rites, all of them One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic.
Anyway, to be saved you must, as Christ said, “abide in me and I in you.” That is to say, you have to, as Paul says “run the race” and “keep the faith.” Christ’s grace precedes all things, and it is only by Christ’s grace that anyone can be saved. Peter says “baptism now saves you” and Paul equates baptism with circumcision, as it is the sign of the new covenant. Our Blessed Lord himself says that we must be born of water and spirit in order to inherit the kingdom of God. Furthermore, a rich man asked him what he must do to be saved, and Christ said “keep the commandments,” meaning the moral law (not to be confused with the ceremonial laws, which have passed away.)
As the book of Hebrews says, people can initially have the faith, but then lose it. Faith itself is a gift of grace, but God gives us the freedom to choose.
So short answer: abide in Christ, keep the faith. Long answer: be baptized, repent of your sins continually, and grow spiritually by letting God sanctify you rather than being rebellious.
Read John 6, the whole thing, and Matthew 3:13-17. If I can sum up salvation for anyone, that’s pretty much it right there. It’s basically the source and summit of our faith. The sacraments are super important, bc it’s how we can physically experience God’s grace.
@@juice2307
P1: No, "Roman" is what it's called. Has been for a LONG time. I mean, didn't it supposedly start in Rome? A slur? Why would you even say that?
P2: I think I'm more confused than I was before... So how is one "saved" or do you not know till the end? Have YOU kept the commandments?
P3: What? I don't know what that means...
P4: What does it mean to "abide in Christ"? Was the thief on the cross baptized? Why do you believe that being dipped in water is a necessary action to be "saved"? Are their other actions/rituals you must perform to "abide in Christ"?
@@ntmn8444
So what is the Gospel? What do you mean "the sacraments are super important"? "Physically experience"? You're talking to much Religionese! I need English! Jesus' baptism = the Gospel? I don't understand... And what's the significance of John 6? The feeding of the 5,000? Jesus walks on water? Jesus talking about his death on the cross? I can see where that would be significant! So what does it mean that Jesus is that "bread of life"? What of verse 63?
@@juice2307 it's accetable to call it "Roman", to distinguish it from Orthodox Catholic Church.
13:38 Taking up one's cross is one thing, but He also gave an example of praying, which is escapism.
Between Martha and Mary, who was escapist?
Who was holier?
Here is another quote that fits with the idea of loving something first before trying to change it. It is from G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy: "Let us suppose we are confronted with a desperate thing - say Pimlico. If we think what is really best for Pimlico we shall find the thread of thought that leads to the throne or the mystic and the arbitrary. It is not enough for a man to disapprove of Pimlico: in that case he will merely cut his throat or move to Chelsea. Nor, certainly, is it enough for a man to approve of Pimlico: for then it will remain Pimlico, which would be awful. The only way out of it seems to be for somebody to love Pimlico: to love it with a transcendent tie and without any earthly reason. If there arose a man who loved Pimlico, then Pimlico would rise into ivory towers and golden pinnacles; Pimlico would attire herself as a woman does when she is loved."
Thank you for this! ❤
11:35 _"smartphones and social media"_
I never access my social media on smartphones.
I don't even own one.
What your superstitious friend said about smartphones may well be worth saying, but he showed his superstition by adding social media to them. Why are you even friends with someone who's into the superstition of psychology?
Would you be friends with a pythic medium?
The irony of that title tho
12:27 Did you say we are created _for this world?_
If you said adapted, you might just be an Evolutionist Atheist ... I thought I heard _created._ A k a made ... let's check with the Penny Catechism ...
*2. Why did God make you?*
God made me to know him, love him and serve him in this world, and to be happy with him for ever in the next.
Knowing God, loving God, serving God, all three depend on _looking away from this world,_ in which His presence is not immediately known or visible to the senses.
There is a reason why my atheist granny called Christianity "escape from reality" ...
5:58 _"real relations"_
Are you speaking of teens' and tweens' "real" relations to those _older_ than themselves?
Have you considered, with an aging society, older people willing to _give_ advice compete in greater and greater numbers for fewer people willing to _hear_ it?
In other words, the older generation are less and less a real support, and more and more a real competition about the relations that could have gone into for instance getting a wife or a husband ...
When those busibodies are being fled, it's a boon for them if they can pretend those fleeing them are in fact hurting themselves.
"I have seen the trailer...so I feel like I can speak about it authoritatively."
I didn't watch your video, but I saw the thumbnail preview. So I feel like I can speak authoritatively about you. (Edit) You're good with that, right?
He wasn't doing a review of the entire film. He's talking about using technology to escape the grim confines of reality, which is one of the many themes of the movie *AND* which the trailer explicitly shows. There's no need to be supercilious.
With every new technological innovation, I wish for an asteroid impact
Escapism is the wrong word here, because I think you're being a little too narrow-scoped. The end goal is not just these goggles, or distracting us from the real world per se, it's to prime us for fully virtual space as the replacement for the real world and de facto public square. The people who own and operate these spaces will be so much more empowered to control your day-to-day experiences than they are now. A fully virtual space would mean the ability to decide what you see, when and how much of it. You'll have to have a subscription service just to be able to interact with almost everyone and of course, will be inundated with perfectly tailored ads. Companies & governments will be able to curate your entire life for you, keeping you a happy, complacent consumer. And if you don't "play nice," they just disconnect you. These fully immersive spaces will also offset the crackdowns on living conditions as we're all gradually corralled into the 15-minute city they keep teasing. Who will care about being stuck in these small cities when you have the entirety of cyberspace to explore.
What this video does, is demonstrate that Brian knows very little about humans outside of his very narrow life experiences.
Currently, it is Known that particular memories within the human brain can be surgically removed from one brain, and put in another brain.
Fully successful neural-surgeries have been done, in which groups of Neurons have been surgically removed from one brain, and added to another.
Once the neurons have been moved, the brain that originally had the memories has forgotten them, and the new brain now has and can act upon the memories from the original brain.
We have hard, physical proof, that the human brain is a Biological Computer and our neurology stores experiences the in much the same way a non-biological computer does.
Theisitic beliefs towards a god, take up space that could be utelized for real Knowledge. This is why the vast majority of "high-intellectuals" that gravitate towards STEM fields...do NOT believe in a god.
The more of your time and effort you spend jamming ancient mythology in your brain, the less room there is for dealing with Reality.
Religious Indoctrination does much greater harm to children, than video games ever have/will.
Brian come on! You're no dummy so why the one eye pic!? You must know ..so why? Sad to think why, another one bites the dust.
Huh?
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Lol, it’s amazing how a snivelly whiney-sounding seemingly overly sensitive guy on virtual realia can make a living complaining about sniveling over-sensitive whiney people addicted to their virtual realia. Anyone else just blown away by this? 👏
Brian is a hypocrite like most televangelists. Don’t fall for it.
How so?
The same tired “kids these days” complaining. Big boomer energy and zero evidence lol
I'm a zoomer and he's right, people were never meant to be connected all the time, on phones like this. It's been wearing on me and I'm trying to stop or slow down.