A logical examination of some video

 

is it true that a person seeking to be unbiased seeks the unbiased news of ______.com which if you visit provides not only unbiased reporting, but also 30% off at check out.

in other words, they guy talking wants paid to convince you about unbiased products.

This guy is peddling the same mind trap that he is simultaneously disparaging.

Only this mind trap feigns itself as being the untrapping of ones mind. Except, its stuck in repeat. Never self reflection.

Emotionally Captivating+Personal Ties+smearing out group+persecution narratives = thought traps which deter rational thinking and help a belief system retain it's believers

• Emotionally Captivating

  • like the emotion that one might feel when someone comes along and says, everything you believe is based on a thought trap. But look at me, I've been set free. Just use this essential oil unbias news site to be set free like me. Save 30% with my promo code.

• Personal Ties

  • I am a rational person, I don't want to grouped with people who don't think rationally

• Smearing the out group

  • People who believe are duped

• Persecution Narrative

  • If people were told these thought traps, they'd escape. Isn't it sad they haven't escaped.

Now Jr. here isn't saying these things, they are implied. This is the reason I brought up the curious advertising which helps line Jr's pockets yet at the same time presents Jr. as unbias because he uses this product which is also unbiased.

I could easily write off the entire video on this fact alone. Jr. says things that will get him paid, hence his Youtube Play Button reward on display in the background.

But I will grant him the possibility that all of Christianity is a thought trap...except, all the thought traps he speaks about are...not really present in the bible, the document from which we get our beliefs. It sounds more like Jr. didn't investigate Christianity, instead he investigated what people said about christianity.

So how does he justify this lack of investigation. He points at memetics. If the meme of hell is fire and brimstone then truth is irrelevant because the fire and brimstone hell is a thought trap...and tho he doesn't say it, he is teaching you that Thought-trap = Bad Ideology.

First followers of Jesus didn't believe in hell, but were apocalypticists. This is the gnostic view, if memory serves, and this is the first meme that Jr. has replaced instead of citing what the bible says

• James references Gehenna, so does Mark. Arguably 2 of the earliest authors. So they at least knew of it's existence, philosophically or otherwise.

• 2 Thessalonians 1:5-12 also early, indicate an everlasting punishment and reward...

• Peter also says hell is where the rebellious angels were thrown in 2nd Peter (don't hate me, I know there is a fair amount of skepticism regarding 2nd peter, but I'm a disciple of Jesus, not bart.)

Jr further describes apocalyptics as believing the end were coming soon, yet there is no smoking gun to say that this was so, only the perception.

The second lie Jr. told is that this view merged with another meme. Reward in heaven vs. Punishment in hell. I think we can admit that there could have been a blending...but again, salvation and heaven were already mentioned in both James, Mark, and Paul's letter. Which I think gets us into a chicken/egg controversy. Were the meme's about heaven adopted by christians or were they falsely attributed to the greeks/romans? I will admit my ignorance on this issue.

His rhetorical question, "why does christianity look like the most popular philosophies packaged into one?" Isn't asked for an answer. It's asked to get you subvert reason, something he claims he is against, to get you to accept the narrative that christianity stole it's claims from other places. I've yet to see actual proof of this.

Another rhetorical question, "why does God reason morally like a man?" is again, designed to get you to subvert reason and accept the idea that God reasons like a man.

And the last question, which really shows Jr's hand, also rhetorical, also for the purpose of subverting your reason. "why believe the biggest religion of all time was the result of God's intervention, when the doctrine demands that you spread the faith...or else." This is a lie. There is nothing in the bible about spreading the faith except the great commission, which doesn't demand you spread the faith or else...it says "Make students."

If jr's rhetorical questions at the end of this video were successful, you might believe:

• Christianity is a copy cat religion

• God is really just a personification of whom ever was writing

• And the whole thing is thought trap

Which then brings you to place where your thoughts are trapped by the subversion of reason for emotional pay of being "set free" After all, who doesn't want to be set free?

What we really should be asking ourselves is why would anyone heed the advice of someone prone to thought traps...but that doesn't get you views....nor sponsors.