Young Men Are Giving Up | The Doomer Trap

Summary

The video by Young Don Reacts delves into the issue of young men feeling disillusioned and apathetic in today's world, exploring whether giving up is a logical choice or a byproduct of fear and negativity. Addressing the concept of 'the Doomer Trap,' it navigates through societal expectations, personal growth, and the role of mental attitudes in shaping one’s reality. It challenges the narratives of genetic determinism and suggests a shift in mindset as a means to a more fulfilling life. The discussion incorporates philosophical and metaphysical beliefs along with practical advice on focusing on positivity to manifest a better life.

Highlights

• Video games provide a sense of progression, often missing in real life. 🎮
• Many young men feel stuck in a cycle of negativity and see no clear future. 😔
• Mindset shifts, such as focusing on gratitude, can drastically improve life quality. 💡
• Genetic determinism is contested; life outcomes aren't pre-set. 🔍
• Spiritual principles on positivity and believing in your goals can lead to success. 🌟

Key Takeaways

• Young men face a crisis of meaning, but giving up isn't the answer. 🚫
• Self-improvement is beneficial but must be aligned with a core purpose. 💪
• The societal narrative setting negative expectations contributes heavily to disillusionment. 😤
• Changing your mindset can significantly alter your life experiences. 🧠
• Focusing on positivity and gratitude can shift one's reality towards better experiences. 🙏

Overview

Young Don Reacts tackles the emotional and existential struggles many young men face today. The video, titled 'Young Men Are Giving Up | The Doomer Trap,' explores why young males often feel stuck in a negative spiral and whether choosing to give up is a valid option or a symptom of a deeper issue. The creator highlights the stagnation many feel regarding traditional markers of success, like relationships and financial stability, and suggests that this phenomenom is tied to generational changes and societal expectations.

The video navigates the realm of self-improvement and existential thought, questioning the utility of chasing conventional goals without a deeper underlying purpose. It posits that one's mental attitude significantly influences the quality of life, suggesting that a shift towards a positive mindset—one that emphasizes gratitude and resilience—can be transformative. The discussion critiques the idea of genetic determinism and champions a mindset that anticipates success as a cornerstone for realizing positive change.

Through anecdotes and philosophical musings, Young Don outlines a path away from the 'Doomer Trap' by promoting a focus on the process rather than the outcome. He emphasizes that enjoyment and fulfillment come from actively engaging in life and finding purpose beyond material success or societal validation. The takeaway is an encouragement to embrace a more expansive view of self-worth and potential, utilizing spiritual and psychological insights to reshape one's reality.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction: The Doomer Trap The chapter explores the allure of video games, which offer a consistent and direct way to experience a sense of progression and achievement. There is also a humorous and candid exchange where one individual realizes they are unintentionally matching outfits with another person, leading to a lighthearted moment of self-reflection.
• 00:30 - 05:00: Video Games as a Coping Mechanism The chapter explores the role of video games as a coping mechanism, especially in the context of young men's mental health. It addresses the challenge of escaping negative thinking patterns, particularly the 'doomer' mentality, and investigates how gaming might provide a positive outlet for emotional struggles. The chapter includes a video reference by Gerbert's Void, focusing on strategies to avoid spiraling into negativity and using games as a constructive activity that can offer solace and social connection.
• 05:00 - 10:00: Struggle of Modern Young Men The chapter explores the common struggles faced by modern young men, capturing the realities behind their social media facades. It highlights their struggles with forming meaningful relationships, financial challenges, and dissatisfaction with the current economic conditions. It questions the traditional narrative of relentlessly pursuing societal goals and reflects on the sense of futility in trying hard without guaranteed success.
• 10:00 - 18:00: Disillusionment with Self-Improvement The chapter explores the narrator's sense of disillusionment with self-improvement. They express a feeling of indifference towards life, admitting that the idea of not waking up doesn't scare them and might even be relieving. The narrator questions the value of effort when the expected satisfaction seems unlikely, and suggests that sometimes giving up might be a valid solution.
• 18:00 - 25:00: The Illusion of Progress and Success The chapter titled 'The Illusion of Progress and Success' opens with a playful suggestion to create a video on the topic. The speaker humorously questions if conventional self-improvement methods like going to the gym, taking cold showers, or taking supplements have been tried. They jokingly propose traveling to Thailand for relaxation. The chapter notes the existence of a particular portion of the internet focused on these self-improvement methods, indicating a critical but lighthearted take on these suggested 'solutions' for progress and success.
• 25:00 - 30:00: The Concept of Apathy and Escapism The chapter discusses the prevalent response to individuals experiencing mental health struggles, often suggesting physical remedies like cold showers, gym sessions, or diet changes. While these activities can positively impact mental health, they are not substitutes for having a core purpose or drive in life. The conversation highlights the importance of addressing deeper existential needs rather than solely focusing on surface-level solutions.
• 30:00 - 40:00: The Impact of Genetic Determinism The chapter titled 'The Impact of Genetic Determinism' delves into the lingering effects of genetic determinism on individuals and society. It questions the reasons and principles that drive one's actions and purpose in life. It reflects modern concerns, particularly how the current generation feels disillusioned and unprepared for the challenges they face. This section of the text addresses the sense of a 'rugpull'—a sudden and unjust disruption of security or expectations—experienced by contemporary society, challenging the beliefs and perspectives that were instilled in people, leading to a reevaluation of their life purpose.
• 40:00 - 45:00: Epigenetics and Environmental Influence The chapter 'Epigenetics and Environmental Influence' explores the biological and sociological challenges faced by Generation Z, characterized by a lack of economic opportunities and bleak social prospects. It discusses how external factors have a detrimental impact on the viability of current generations, emphasizing the despair and hopelessness experienced by young adults in today's environment.
• 45:00 - 55:00: Challenging Determinism: The Power of Mindset The chapter, titled 'Challenging Determinism: The Power of Mindset,' explores the issues faced by Gen Z, specifically focusing on the challenges encountered by Gen Z men. The narrator spends a significant amount of time creating content and discussing these topics on various channels. A central theme is the dilemma of perseverance versus giving up, highlighting a personal experience of the narrator being deeply engaged in these discussions and contemplating the value of persistence.
• 55:00 - 65:00: Manifestation and Belief Systems The chapter discusses the interplay between manifestation and belief systems, focusing on personal experiences of disillusionment and apathy.
• 65:00 - 80:00: Personal Experience with Negativity and Growth In this chapter titled 'Personal Experience with Negativity and Growth', the author reflects on their journey of creating video content from a young age, around 16 or 17 years old. They note that their earlier videos had a brighter, self-improvement focus, which involved setting and sharing personal goals. The author remembers using a whiteboard to list these goals, although the specifics have faded over time. This reflects on how their outlook and content might have evolved, indicating growth amidst the struggles with negativity.
• 80:00 - 105:00: Biblical Teachings on Belief and Reality I was disillusioned with the self-improvement industry, seeing it as a competitive and exhausting endeavor that offers diminishing returns. These feelings made me question my motivations and aspirations for the future.
• 105:00 - 120:00: The Power of Positive Focus and Emotion This chapter delves into the concept of focusing positively and managing emotions effectively. It begins by discussing how the mind often conjures sporadic daydreams and the importance of allowing others to express themselves. The author hints at exploring personal low points, indicating that self-improvement is a significant theme. The emphasis is on understanding personal emotions and using positive focus as a means of self-betterment.
• 120:00 - 124:00: Conclusion and Final Advice The final chapter titled 'Conclusion and Final Advice' discusses the diminishing returns of continuous self-improvement. The process can feel like an endless climb that becomes discouraging over time. Despite making visible progress in various areas, the relentless pursuit itself can seem exhausting. The chapter warns about the trap of perpetual self-betterment and offers insights into finding balance and contentment.

Young Men Are Giving Up | The Doomer Trap Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 What video games offer is a direct, mostly nonvariable way to reliably experience this sense of progression journey. Bro, I just realized we're both wearing this [ __ ] zip up like collar sweater [ __ ] Bro, I swear on everything that was not intentional. Um, now I feel pretty gay.
• 00:30 - 01:00 Let's take this [ __ ] off. Young men giving up the doomer negativity spiral video by Gerbert's Void. Gerbert. I've heard that name before. For all right, let's go ahead and check this out, man. What are we talking about? Topic of today's video is um how do you keep
• 01:00 - 01:30 going? Obviously, I don't know anything about you, only a front you put on social media, but you seem to struggle with the same things we're all struggling with. No hoes, meaningful relationships, no money, bad economy, whatever. And obviously you could work really hard and keep trying to eventually get these things that we want, but why? I think I've noticed that honestly not trying
• 01:30 - 02:00 might be better than trying. I'm not even crazy depressed or anything, but am I the only one that thinks if I don't wake up tomorrow, I wouldn't care or mind? I might even be relieved. The concept of death doesn't scare me. It's kind of relieving. Why put all that effort in when it probably won't even be that satisfying anyways? Maybe sometimes the best solution really is to just give up. Maybe you got something to say to that.
• 02:00 - 02:30 Make a video on this. Well, well, uh, have you ever tried maybe working on yourself? Going to the gym? Have you ever tried going to the gym, bro? Have you tried taking a cold shower, taking zinc supplements, going to Thailand, getting rubbed off? No, I'm just joshing around. Yeah, that's funny because there's an entire side of the internet
• 02:30 - 03:00 that would say that as a response to this young man. Oh, the problem is you haven't taken a cold shower today. Oh, the problem is you haven't gone to the gym. The problem is you need to fix your diet. And listen, I'll be the first to tell you that those things, those kind of activities um are very beneficial to your mental health and the way you feel. However, they cannot replace having a core driving
• 03:00 - 03:30 principle and reason for why it is that you do those things in the first place. What is it exactly that you're living for? I get messages like this on occasion and to start with I'll tell you I totally get it. This generation has been rugpulled. The world we were prepared
• 03:30 - 04:00 for that we expected to inherit no longer exists. We find ourselves in a desert of economic and social dating opportunities. No [ __ ] no paper, and no hope. Such seems to be the standard for the economically inviable excess Gen Z man.
• 04:00 - 04:30 I spent the bulk of my time making content on both of my channels talking about this stuff. It's just all about Gen Z problems, particularly Gen Z men problem. There is truth to this situation. And when you ask how do you keep going and when you say you think maybe giving up might be a good idea. I will tell you there was a certain point immersed in all of this
• 04:30 - 05:00 where I did kind of give up. I reached the bottom of the the dark doom black pill and eventually it did start to color my perception of everything. Now, in my case, it wasn't a conscious decision to give up. I just gradually became more disillusioned and apathetic. This is something the viewer might be able to
• 05:00 - 05:30 track just by looking at the course of my channels. I started making videos when I was 16 or 17, I think. And when I look back, I do I do have more of a glimmer in my eye. the uh the videos had more of a self-improvement tinge. One of the first videos on this channel is something to the effect of reading out my goals. I had this whiteboard where I would write out my goals. I can't remember what they were exactly. I'm pretty sure they're they're
• 05:30 - 06:00 different now, but I didn't end up accomplishing them or working much towards them. But I became increasingly disillusioned by all of this self-improvement stuff as well. It just seemed like a sort of red pill marketing tactic. It seemed to be endless hard competition for increasingly dwindling results. The only motivation or hope for the future my
• 06:00 - 06:30 mind would conjure up would be these sporadic daydreams. You know, there's so much I want to say, but um I'm going to try and let him speak a little bit longer that did not demonstrate a couple things that off the top I want to touch on. the two lowest points of my life. And I think I have I have my reason or what I believe to be the reason why self-improvement for the sake of
• 06:30 - 07:00 self-improvement ends up being a dead end for a lot of people. It ends up feeling like a neverending ascent up a mountain. And that can become discouraging after a while because after years of reading the books, doing the things, going to the gym, working on yourself, and all that. And even when you see yourself making progress with certain things, you start
• 07:00 - 07:30 to get better with talking to girls. You start to make more money. You start to get your cloud up, whatever the things it was that you prioritized, your body starts getting in amazing shape and yet you still find yourself feeling hollow. And a lot of people believe that the solution to that is I mean people find different things to make the new goal, but it ends up just being a different iteration of the exact same problem. Um,
• 07:30 - 08:00 but we'll dive into that in a bit. Any sort of real intention or plan? It was just like fantasy. The feeling you describe about not caring if you wake up or not is also real. It's a sense of being in limbo, not really wanting to live, but not actively wanting to not live. But it's all good, dog. It's a sense of
• 08:00 - 08:30 what's the point exactly? What's the point? Because inherently everybody knows to some degree that these various things that we are told to pursue, maybe not everybody, but a lot of people understand because as humans we have the ability to extrapolate. What do I mean? You went from walking to having a car. And then if you go from if you upgrade that car, if you've ever upgraded
• 08:30 - 09:00 anything truly, whether that be going from the Xbox 360 to the Xbox One, going from uh booty Android to your very first relatively new iPhone, whether that be going from wearing pretty lame shoes to the very first time you got a pair of really nice sneakers, maybe it was Jordans, Yeezys, or maybe you know some designer [ __ ] whatever. We have all
• 09:00 - 09:30 tasted leveling up materialistically. Also, maybe you've tasted what it feels like to go from being in worse shape to better shape. Going from not having a girl to having a girl or going from pulling girls that you didn't think were that attractive to, you know, bagging a pretty girl for the first time. Point is what all these things have in common is that it's it's just not fulfilling right
• 09:30 - 10:00 you don't feel satisfied you don't feel like h there I did it you get used to it very quickly and somehow you find yourself more or less feeling the same way you felt when you had nothing before you started the journey, you find yourself halfway up the mountain. Now, the mountain never you never go past
• 10:00 - 10:30 halfway up the mountain. No matter how high you climb that mountain, you're always halfway there. And that's how it's a trap. But you get to that point and you should feel exponentially better than you did at the bottom of the mountain, but for whatever reason, you find yourself feeling no different. You can even experience this with religion. I felt this with religion when I compared how I felt right before I deconstructed and
• 10:30 - 11:00 left religion and left Christianity. How I felt about myself as a Christian and my dedication to God. I felt no more holy or closer to God than I did or devoted to God than I did in the beginning. In fact, maybe in the beginning I felt even more. But when I look at how I was living my life at the end, I was so devoted in terms of my
• 11:00 - 11:30 commitment to the religion. How long fasting, praying, sacrificing the flesh, you know, my language was clean, not drinking, not smoking, all these various things. So dedicated. And yet I I felt still so far away from the top of the mountain, right? And um but again, whether it's money, whether it's success, clout, whether it's chasing
• 11:30 - 12:00 women, it's all the same if you approach it from the wrong perspective. Now, you can have all of those things and have a very happy, fulfilled, enriched life and you where you have these things and you enjoy it. You have this money and you enjoy it. You have the clout, you enjoy it. You have the success, you have the girl, you have all these things and you
• 12:00 - 12:30 thoroughly enjoy it. But the difference is understanding one thing. And we're going to dive into that one thing a little bit later. That's how it is. You didn't you didn't think you would go your whole life without a period where you're yearning for the sweet release, did you? Get real. This is we're here. It ain't all roses and hoes. All of that is to say, I feel you. I get it. But now I
• 12:30 - 13:00 must suggest an alternate path. You know, Gerby doesn't feel this way, no mo. This is coming straight from the heart of the black community. what you are exper What the [ __ ] was that? The heart of the black community. This guy. Oh [ __ ] When you frame it as a sort of logical, rational decision that maybe giving up is better. I would posit this is not logical or rational at all, but quite emotional. And here's
• 13:00 - 13:30 why. First, I got to get the corny stuff out of the way. When you say, "Why put all that effort in?" when it probably won't even be that satisfying anyways. Maybe sometimes the best solution really is to just give up. The way this is framed is peculiar. The reward itself, the goal being completed, it provides some satisfaction, but it's very
• 13:30 - 14:00 transient. Of course, the actual fulfillment comes in the effort itself. So when you say, why put all that effort in when it won't be that satisfying? The effort is the satisfaction. Do you play a game to beat the game or to play the game and enjoy the game when you are locked in? Well, you only enjoy the game if you're winning. I don't know about you, but I hate playing games when I'm losing, especially if I'm getting blown out. Pause. And a lot of people feel like
• 14:00 - 14:30 they're getting blown out by life. That's why people don't want to play the game. See, if it was an objective truth that just going through the motion, walking the journey, that the the the way is the [ __ ] goal or whatever the cliche sayings that they have to basically say, "Oh, no, the joy comes from doing the thing." If that was the case, nobody would ever need to be
• 14:30 - 15:00 told that. They would just wake up every day, do the things, and be happy, right? Oh [ __ ] headphones got unplugged there. They would do the thing and be happy. No one would need to teach them or tell them that, hey, by the way, you're supposed to enjoy the process, right? And so it's not true that the process is inherently the point. Again, all of this I'mma bring it
• 15:00 - 15:30 together so nicely for y'all in a very succinct and concise way and so simple but completely changed my life and I know it will change yours. It feels great and this type of hard work is its own reward. I told you it would be corny. That's basically just saying it's not about the destination but the journey. when you were expressing this why why do anything and this walking in between sort of life and
• 15:30 - 16:00 death not really caring what you are experiencing is apathy and what I think should be understood about apathy is that it is merely a cover for fear for being scared maybe the best solution really is to just give up when you say give up. You're not talking about just lying down and rotting. Nor are you talking about
• 16:00 - 16:30 directly ending your life because you're not describing a genuine desire for annihilation. You're just describing apathy. So what does giving up look like then? In the context of young men today, what it looks like is not doing anything. Sitting at home, smoking, interacting with new media, gooning, gaming, watching shows, constantly coping, constantly seeking escapism.
• 16:30 - 17:00 So what you're doing when you do that, when you goon, when you watch shows, when you play games, is you are merely artificially simulating this same sense of journey, progress, and reward. Your mind still produces the chemicals to like it. That's still what your heart desires. It's still what you're made to do. The reason why you're attempting to do it in the real world is because you have
• 17:00 - 17:30 fear and then the apathy covers for the fear. Now, this is just me weighing in here. But if this was not an emotional response, if this was a logical response, not made out of fear, it would not manifest in this way. It would not express itself in compulsive and constant escapism. The reason people try to escape life is because they're living in hell. That's
• 17:30 - 18:00 why I promise you every person that is feeling this way, they've done all the things before. Maybe they haven't done it at a high level or consistently, but they've done it before. They've gone to the gym. They've taken a cold shower. They've gone for a mile run. They have tried but yet
• 18:00 - 18:30 the reward that they got for the effort they expended did not equate to this idea that oh it's just you the process the progress is the source of joy. And look, it is always rewarding to see progress and all that, especially when
• 18:30 - 19:00 you believe you're progressing towards a goal at the end of the road. And so progress can feel rewarding. But the internet is filled with testimonies of people who've climbed all the hills. They've accomplished all the things. They [ __ ] all the baddies and they're suicidal. They know the journey better than anyone. So if anyone should know that the
• 19:00 - 19:30 process is the reward, then they would and they would just keep going back to the workbench. They would keep going back to the grindstone and continue to make progress in new areas of life because they would understand that that is the source of fulfillment in life. If it was, but it's not. But we will continue. We're genuinely neutral about this kind of
• 19:30 - 20:00 thing, you would say, well, I might fail. It might not mean anything, but [ __ ] it. We ball. I'm just going to do it. I'm not dependent on the outcome to justify me doing it because I'm not doing it. Practically all I'm doing is seeking cheap alternatives to actually doing it. You could smoke weed, goon a hundred times to the finest eeki in town, beat a hundred games. None of it will come close to trying and failing to
• 20:00 - 20:30 actually manifest something in the real natural world. I would go as far as to say it's a verifiable fact that constant escapism in no way will will make you happy. You just continue running from these things. They're not solved. It's called repressive coping. So your tolerance will just continue to build until you eventually do something that will actually end your life or you get a health condition that will end your
• 20:30 - 21:00 life. So it is kind of just a roundabout way of killing yourself. If you say obviously you could work really hard, keep trying and eventually get these things. Some people don't yield that. It's something uh even I used to think about a lot that I talked about before on I think on the main channel a video about video games. What video games offer is a direct, mostly nonvariable way to reliably experience
• 21:00 - 21:30 this sense of progression journey. Bro, I just realized we're both wearing this [ __ ] zip up like collar sweater [ __ ] Bro, I swear on everything that was not intentional. Um, now I feel pretty gay. Let's take this [ __ ] off. I didn't realize that. I was just like, "Wait a
• 21:30 - 22:00 second. Hold on." I'm like the uh like what's what the [ __ ] going on here? All right. There we go. That's much better. And community that men now may feel is completely inaccessible to them in the real world. it's just not there in the sense that that self-improvement is just this race for scraps that's ultimately futile because one of the main essences of the black
• 22:00 - 22:30 pill as I know it and as most of you know it is a kind of determinism a genetic determinism in which the situation and genetics you are born with determines the rest of your life. It's set in stone. It's written in the code. your looks, your height, your IQ. We study these genomes now. We find how heritable they are and how much they predict the trajectory of your entire
• 22:30 - 23:00 life. There is something to it. And this is a dark black pill. I could go into the contesting evidence. People like to pick out these twin studies where identical twins are separated at birth. They they have completely different environments yet they turn out the same. But there are other studies following the same model that that reveal completely different life paths. It's not like all of this stuff is always replic. I mean also you can find examples of identical twins who are
• 23:00 - 23:30 raised in the exact same environment and have completely different outcomes which completely contradicts this idea that your life is predetermined by your genetics and [ __ ] like that. It's not at all. You can find exceptions to every rule, which means they're not even rules. They're just what h it's just what happens most of the time. That's it. But it's not a rule. And we can always isolate these
• 23:30 - 24:00 genes and and see their predictive power. I'm not trying to undermine the value of these things, but here's the deal, okay? If you fully accept genetic determinism, here's your model of how things work. Animals are born into a certain hierarchy, a certain genetic cast. They are arranged and the lower you are on this hierarchy, the less dopamine you produce. You don't mate.
• 24:00 - 24:30 Your life is materially worse as this creature. It's like the famous lobster. When you're at the bottom of the dominance hierarchy, you have no dopamine. Jordan Peterson, something like that. But if you believe in genetic determinism, we are also arranged in this hierarchy. The difference between us and lobsters. We still have no means of ascending or controlling our fate. But we just simply have the awareness, the consciousness to bear full witness to the pain of being born in a lower
• 24:30 - 25:00 cast, which most of us will be because the hierarchy is a pyramid. You are born with this genetic fate. Okay, so I've spoken about this in the past. I'll link to it again. A speech that was given on a Tony Robinson or Tony Robbins platform by a um PhD a doctor uh in I think it's
• 25:00 - 25:30 biology. He is an expert in the field of genetics and genealogy and he speaks about the fact that the way in which our genes are expressed are most certainly alterable. You can alter them. You can change them. You can impact the way your genes are expressed after you're born. Yes. In fact, there's an entire field known as epigenetics talking about how your
• 25:30 - 26:00 environment can incredibly change the way your genes are expressed. Again, we circle back around to what I said earlier about twins, identical twins born and raised in the exact same home under the exact same guidance turn out completely different night and day. How do you explain that? Epigenetics, but also genetics,
• 26:00 - 26:30 the genes you're born with, so to speak, are not what determine how your life is going to go. You did not choose this fate. You did not choose to be born. Where you're born, who your parents are, what your life situation growing up is like. You're thrown into this con. It doesn't matter if you are short, fat, conventionally ugly, or not conventionally attractive. It doesn't matter if your IQ isn't very high. It
• 26:30 - 27:00 doesn't matter anything you could tell me about yourself as to why you believe that you are disadvantaged and thus relegated to a life of suffering, mediocrity, uh being a loser, being a lame, whatever. I will tell you by the end of this video exactly what you need to do in order to live an amazing life. It's simple, but it's not easy. But it's not difficult in the way that people like this young man right here,
• 27:00 - 27:30 which I'm not knocking him, but look at him. He's a baby. He doesn't even have facial hair. He hasn't lived life. He's not married. He doesn't have children. He hasn't been through a lot. And look, there are some 50-year-old who might look at me and say the same thing about me by comparison. And that's why I know there are a lot of 50 year olds that could teach me a lot of [ __ ] But um I keep unplugging my
• 27:30 - 28:00 headphones here. Point is though, he's in a good place for his age, but I think I can offer something a little different. fluence of factors that will determine your life. And the only purpose, your consciousness, your self-awareness serves is to to experience the misery, not just physically like an animal does, but mentally, the fear, anguish, and doubt that will lead a human to take his own life unlike an animal would do. This is
• 28:00 - 28:30 this what you believe? Then why are you still here? I refuse. I mean, I could frame it like a Pascal's wager. you know, even if it is real, I I would not choose to accept this model of the universe because it's just [ __ ] But honestly, it's not like that. I I I don't choose to not believe that. Honestly, it is kind of just a matter of intuition. I'm not going to apologize for any phil philosophical or theological beliefs I have. It doesn't
• 28:30 - 29:00 make any [ __ ] sense to me just on a basis of my intuition. The purpose of awareness of consciousness is the ability to have some agency to somewhat be able to transcend your position beyond your animal conditions in which you are born into. This is just something I believe and it's not really something I could choose not to believe. Even after falling into this stuff, I still knew
• 29:00 - 29:30 it. And it might be presumptuous to say even people who think they believe in genetic determinism, think they believe this model of the universe, they don't even truly believe it. Tommy, I mean, I don't want to really push that hard. But if you really believe that, I feel like your actions would be different. You know, you can transcend, but you don't want to. And again, it goes back to the fear because the truth is there is a kind of pleasure. There's a
• 29:30 - 30:00 comfort, there's a pleasure in the darkest depths of the black pill because you're a tragic soul. Anyone who has a brighter model of things is just coping. You know, people say religion is a cope. Well, in your framework, everything is a cope. Every action humans do is a cope to distract from the inevitable death they will experience. So it's ultimately absurd to call something a cope and also keeping it real. Somebody saying a claim and you
• 30:00 - 30:30 saying, "Oh, that's cope." Somebody saying a claim that they believe in something higher, that they believe in their own agency. Oh, that's a cope. You calling things cope is a cope, right? That's why it destroys itself. You're sniping dopamine. You're being right. You're just sitting in your self-satisfied void where you can shoot everything down and be miserable forever. There's a pleasure and comfort
• 30:30 - 31:00 in sitting there and always knowing you will be right and bad things will continue to happen to you and you will be right. It will affirm what you think you know. So I mean by the way to answer the question, how do I keep going? That is true what he just said. Why haven't I given up? Whatever. I'm not a materialist. I don't think that's what life is about. It's not about, oh, have fun, climb up, make money, everything has to be good, I have to be comfy, snuggle. That's not
• 31:00 - 31:30 what this [ __ ] is. I talk about the problems this generation is facing. It is mostly the frame of comparison are just like the millennials, the boomers, somewhat the greatest generation. I mean, you go before that, World War II, World War I, Great Depression, you go back further into antiquity, it's just there's all sorts of human suffering. Sometimes I got to get philosophical on your ass. You think life is just about being born with the
• 31:30 - 32:00 right circumstances, the right genetics at the right time so you can have these experiences, the girls, the money, the material comfort. Most of all of history is not like that. The instant it became like that, the boomers when they had a good dating market, they had all this material wealth, it was postwar economic boom, baby boom, they had the culture, they
• 32:00 - 32:30 had the rock and roll, they had all of it. They it up for all the future generations because they they became so selfish and so insular that they [ __ ] off all future obligations to posterity. They're selling off estates, their family. I mean, we know that's not true, though. How do we know that? Because they're people who become multi-millionaires every year. Jeff Bezos wasn't born into money. I mean, he may have been born into some
• 32:30 - 33:00 degree of money, maybe middle class or something like that, but he wasn't definitely he definitely wasn't born a millionaire, nor was he born a billionaire. And he is well, hold on, let me go tend to my daughter real quick. Give me a second. Okay, little lady. She fell and hit her elbow, so she needed kisses on her elbow. Now she feels better. But I don't know where we left off. if I was talking or if we were watching him. So, we're just going to continue to react and the
• 33:00 - 33:30 good part is still coming anyway. He's been sitting on for hundreds of years just completely devouring the youth to maintain their whatever. A man does not live on bread alone. Is that why we're here? Empires rise and fall. The instant things get good. That that that group of people fortunate enough to be born in that time [ __ ] it up for everyone else. Oh, yes. Now I remember. Yeah, that nothing's [ __ ] up for anybody because
• 33:30 - 34:00 if that person becomes you, if you become a millionaire or even if you just live a good life, not everybody needs to become a millionaire. You don't need to become a millionaire to live a good life. You know what I'm saying? You but you you do it. You know what I'm saying? You are comfortably making ends meet. You have a home. You have a family or whatever it is that you desire. I mean, at that point, can you even say that [ __ ] got [ __ ] up for you if
• 34:00 - 34:30 you're living a good life? So, I guess it didn't get [ __ ] up for everybody. And if you can find people who come from literally every walk of life that attain that, then who's it [ __ ] up for? If black people, Asian people, white people, Hispanic people, illegal immigrants, people born here, if literally people born into poverty, people born into good families or wealthy families, if everybody, you can
• 34:30 - 35:00 find examples from every walk of life doing it, then who exactly is it [ __ ] up for? It's [ __ ] up for the people who fall into the trap, who don't escape the trap that has been laid for you. We'll get to it in a minute. And the cycle continues. That's what you think life is all about is material comfort and accomplishment. And there's no meaning to any sort of suffering or no reason
• 35:00 - 35:30 why you might be born in a certain time in a certain body. That's what you think. You got to realize what model of the universe you're accepting. History is full of war and famine. Life is a Pandora's box of horror. You will die. You will see everyone you know die. You will get debilitating health condition. you know, being completely atheistic about these things, it's uh it really is a luxury because if the material conditions of
• 35:30 - 36:00 your life every day are suffering, you can't do it. You c you do not have a choice in this situation to consider there's no meaning to your suffering, no reason to stick it out. It is only now in relatively high yet, you know, admittedly declining material conditions. They're still high. It's only now that we have this luxury that
• 36:00 - 36:30 we think life is just about doing all these things, making these accomplishments, and if you're not able to do them, it's pointless. I really did become disillusioned with self-improvement, and there was truth to that. Uh, I made a video, I can't remember, it was like gurus and fake hope or something. And in it I talked about how the law of attraction is kind of f like it itself is saturated. You know conditions are
• 36:30 - 37:00 getting you know slowly declining not that slowly anymore after the pandemic honestly they're declining. So all these people are trying to get the same things. They're all like manifesting. And this to a large degree is still true. I have changed my tone about these things though. There's a book called our thoughts determine our lives. The life and teachings of Elder Thaddius of
• 37:00 - 37:30 Vitrovnikica. Reading this was able to reconcile something in my mind. I feel I still maybe felt there was something about this law of attraction stuff. It was just completely off and this reconciled it for me. Um, and as I read more and more, you know, I found more and more philosophers, great men I respect and would like to follow and emulate. They have similar teachings.
• 37:30 - 38:00 They have similar outlooks. It differs from the secret from all this manifestation practice, but it still is highlighting the same metaphysical principle which I have become entirely convinced of. Wow, this was a pleasant surprise. I didn't see this coming because this is a direction we're going to be going in. Interesting path that he took to get here, but I like where we're going now. Let's see where he goes from here, which
• 38:00 - 38:30 is that your life corresponds to your predominant mental attitude. St. P. Wow. Yeah. But let's see if he can package this information in a way that answers the email that he started this video off with. OS of Mount Aos says similar things. If you read about his dialogues with people who came to visit
• 38:30 - 39:00 him and ask for him, ask for his advice. I mean, this is the purpose of prayer. A thought is a thing. It has energy and form. People don't control them. They're controlled by them. They get in these neurotic thought patterns and their life gets much worse. You don't have to believe me. Too many men I respect hold this belief. And I've seen it happen. I have seen it happen. People
• 39:00 - 39:30 enter this negativity spiral. They constantly express fear, despair. That's all. You can tell he's a little nervous talking about this. He's probably cultivated a fan base of materialists. Um, you can tell because he keeps um swallowing paws like and we've all been there. I've I've experienced that talking about things that I'm somewhat uncomfortable to talk
• 39:30 - 40:00 about because you always are concerned that some you know when depending on what you're talking about that you're you know people are going to think you're foolish but as the Bible says the wisdom of God is foolishness to man but I ain't religious and I sure as [ __ ] am not a Christian but we'll get to it in a second. all they think about and it keeps on happening. I've seen it way too many times. But this does differ from the
• 40:00 - 40:30 secret. It differs from these manifestation techniques, you know, where you just sit down and you try to imagine all these things because all that stuff is entirely connected and dependent upon the result. It feels Yeah. Essentially, I agree with him. the book, the concept of manifestation that you would learn in the secret. And that's how I became a YouTuber. I read the secret. I applied it and I became incredibly successful
• 40:30 - 41:00 and was making I went from making like I don't even remember at this point I don't know like less than $1,200 a month doing various jobs to my first check from YouTube was8 thou $8,000 and I never saw a decline in how much money I made. It only went up from there. I never saw a decline until I
• 41:00 - 41:30 became religious, became a Christian. And that was fine because I so value that arc, that period of my life because it equipped me with so much wisdom and understanding that I can now apply the things that I was reading in the Bible in a more metaphysical way. and the results that it is yielding in my life. Amazing. Amazing. But we'll get
• 41:30 - 42:00 there. We're almost done. The greed, the lust, what would be called the passions. When you can observe the principle itself, if you're always thinking about the problems in your life, you will find you always have more problems. If you instead switch your mindset to being grateful and thinking peaceful good things about yourself and others, you will find your life will be peaceful. You will have more things to be grateful for. I experienced this in immersing myself in all these black pills in
• 42:00 - 42:30 accepting all of these things. Not only the genetic determinism stuff, but the economic, the other social issues facing Ginz now. Oh, it's so much worse than it was, you know, 1960s. You know, back then their mindset was so optimistic about the future. Now everything's pessimistic. Everything's going down. I saw this and it colored my whole view of the world. And I did reach this state of also. I don't know if that's so true,
• 42:30 - 43:00 bro. Maybe there were some people who are optimistic about the future, but there are some people who are optimistic about the future today. Um, I mean, if you take a look at black people, for instance, living in America in the 1960s, don't forget the civil rights movement, uh, resulted in the passage of the civil rights laws in 1964. Black people are getting hosed down and dogs sat on them. Uh the point I'm making is I don't think universally
• 43:00 - 43:30 everybody was optimistic about the future and thought they had the whole world ahead of them. But I'm sure many people did and it's the same thing today. It's the same thing today of apathy which was caused by the fear of me constantly thinking about these things. And I as Jesus said the poor will always be among us something like that emotion. I mean, I could have made some [ __ ] ass course and made a bunch of money, but not even like that. I could have grown this channel a lot more if I
• 43:30 - 44:00 would have been more active certain moments of growth. But I was in this spiral. I was in this state of apathy because that all I would think about is the problem. So I would always encounter more problems and my pessimistic outlook of the world colored my life. There is a fundamental reality, but there is also a layer of the reality that you shape with your thoughts. Your attention, your mind is the only real thing you have control over. It's what
• 44:00 - 44:30 differentiates us from the animal kingdom. Controlling it properly is what allows you to transcend your fate, to transcend the animal genetic cast you were born into because it is the aspect of creation, the aspect, the image of God inside us. Because I am growing out of apathy and this compulsive need to escape. I have things I want to accomplish. I intend to accomplish them. I am letting go of my dependence on the
• 44:30 - 45:00 outcome. My lust to really achieve these things. I am simply trying to achieve them. And every day when I wake up, I thank God that I have another opportunity to create my will onto the world. I want to be an example. Even when I do succeed, people are going to be like, "Oh, okay. Cool. Now, I don't believe in God." The way how he just used that word, he thanks God. I don't believe in a person sitting
• 45:00 - 45:30 up there, you know, watching you, judging you, checking off a list if you're naughty or nice, going to send you to burn in hell forever or whatever the [ __ ] it is that the various religious religions push and all that stuff. Also, you heard me quote the Bible. I said I'm not a Christian. I don't believe the Bible is literal. I don't believe it's historically accurate. I think it's uh for the most part fictional stories, symbolic stories, but the wisdom embedded in the
• 45:30 - 46:00 parables, in the stories, in the characters are true. And you can find this wisdom expressed in a multitude of sources. I haven't read the Quran, but I imagine you would find it in the Quran as well. I haven't read the various Jewish books besides the Jewish Bible or the Tanakh aka the Old Testament. Um, you know, they have other religious texts. I'm sure you can find aspects of this in there as well. And I'm sure you
• 46:00 - 46:30 can find it in you can find it all over the place. You can find it in TV shows, in movies, in songs. This is because this truth is embedded within all of us. And some people tap into it more than others. Some people see it more clearly than others. Some people align with it more instinctually than others. And then there are some people who, you know, never never see it to any degree. And
• 46:30 - 47:00 those are the people who live the most uh terrible lives. So let's boil this all down. Essentially, life operates very similar to your YouTube algorithm. What you focus on, you attract. What you focus on, you will get more of. As the Bible says, you will always to whoever has more will be given. and he who does not have even what he has will be taken
• 47:00 - 47:30 away. Uh the point here is in the same way that if you click on a video about dogs or cats or whatever, the algorithm will give you more dogs and cats, whatever. And you don't have to believe me because I'm going to give you an opportunity to prove this to yourself and you will see that it is true. Anyway, um right in the same
• 47:30 - 48:00 way the emotions, it's not just the thoughts. See, people think about things all the time. You can think about a Lamborghini every day for, you know, a year doesn't mean one's going to show up in your garage. Just because you think of it, just because you have a picture up on your wall. And that's why you have so many people who say this [ __ ] doesn't work and it's not real. Vision boards don't work. affirmations don't work, da da da, and it's because they don't understand it. Because it's so obvious once you realize it and actually
• 48:00 - 48:30 practice it and implement it, it doesn't take very long for you to actually rack up a fair amount of evidence in your life. And at the end of the day, whether or not it's real, if it works, does it matter? If you're getting results, does it matter? Okay, so let's Let me help you to understand what I mean by feelings and emotions. As they say, emotions are
• 48:30 - 49:00 energy in motion. That's what emotion is. And whenever you have emotions connected to thoughts, stronger emotions make those thoughts more powerful. And whatever energized thoughts energized by emotion you focus on or pour yourself
• 49:00 - 49:30 into, you will get more of that. That's essentially how you tell the algorithm what you want more of. Now, even just a small amount of attention has an effect. However, small amount of attention, not tied to any great degree of emotion, will yield a small effect. That's why your fleeting thought of you accomplishing insert whatever thing here
• 49:30 - 50:00 doesn't yield that thing coming into fruition tomorrow. So again, life operates very similarly to how your YouTube algorithm does. If you focus on negativity, you will yield more negativity. If you focus on positivity, you will yield more positivity. The secret, no pun intended, is you have to be vigilant.
• 50:00 - 50:30 See people are it's very easy to catch the big things but there are all these subtle beliefs that we all hold. These subtle negative things we tell ourselves about ourselves and the world that often times reside underneath the surface that you don't really see or detect. And the reason why there are people who say
• 50:30 - 51:00 manifestation doesn't work is because underneath their overt attempts at manifesting or trying to determine the course of their reality with their mind is because underneath the surface they are negating all of those overt efforts with their subconscious beliefs. and negative conversations that they're
• 51:00 - 51:30 having with themselves about themselves and the world around them. And so think about the Buddhist concept of enlightenment. Uh if you're not familiar, essentially in Buddhism they teach that attaining enlightenment is similar to cleaning a dirty
• 51:30 - 52:00 mirror. It is not a destination. It is not something you need to go out and achieve. The problem is all the [ __ ] you already have in your life that's in the way. The problem is your negative beliefs. The problem is you engage in negativity. When you argue with people, when you any time you engage in anything
• 52:00 - 52:30 that makes you feel bad, whether that's watching a show, getting into a fight with someone on the internet in a comment section, you know, getting all riled up by the news or politics or something you saw on Twitter, aka X. Can we I mean will we ever call that that [ __ ] is Twitter man but whatever you know getting engaging in anything that makes you feel
• 52:30 - 53:00 bad you're going to yield more bad when you tell yourself negative things about the world. And so much like attaining enlightenment is akin to removing the dirt off of a mirror, attaining a life where you are happy and fulfilled and just love life is really more about not engaging in and
• 53:00 - 53:30 entertaining negativity than it is about trying to be positive. I'm not telling you to walk around and just smile. I'm telling you like and force it even though in the back of your mind you're thinking about the bills that need to be paid and this person's sick and you know this person's at at work is a dick and you're failing this class and da da da and you just walk around and be I'm so positive. Oh,
• 53:30 - 54:00 life is great. Oh, if I just think about getting straight A's, I'll get straight A's. No. What you need to do is eliminate the negative. Now, counterintuitively, you actually can't make yourself not have bad thoughts. You have to redirect your focus. So, let me simplify.
• 54:00 - 54:30 Your negative thoughts and more importantly your negative feelings are what are causing bad things to happen in your life. Simply put, doesn't matter the source, doesn't matter the topic or whatever. anything negative, anything that's making you feel bad about yourself, about your life, whatever these things, much like your YouTube algorithm, it's like you're telling the
• 54:30 - 55:00 universe, I want more of this [ __ ] However, unfortunately, you cannot stop yourself from having bad thoughts. It's like if I tell you, don't think about a pink elephant. You can't make yourself stop thinking about a pink elephant. What has to happen is your focus needs to shift to something else. And then eventually you might just
• 55:00 - 55:30 realize, "Oh yeah, I stopped thinking about pink elephants. Interesting. And in doing that with a high degree of discipline and consistency and persistence and perseverance, what you will notice is less bad [ __ ] happens. And then when good [ __ ] happens, [ __ ] that makes you feel good, [ __ ] that makes you smile, whether it's watching a funny show,
• 55:30 - 56:00 going on a walk, having a laugh with your friends, enjoying a glass of wine in the evening, right? Um, you know, whatever it is that makes you feel good, something good happens. You you you you you some good fortune happens to you which you will notice as you stop focusing on the bad and you start focusing on the good more good [ __ ] will happen and then you appreciate
• 56:00 - 56:30 it. You dwell in it. You soak it up. You soak it up and you soak it in. All of the good [ __ ] right? the, "Oh man, I'm really enjoying this movie. Oh man, I'm really enjoying this food. Oh man, I'm really enjoying spending time with this person. I'm really enjoying this workout. I'm really enjoying playing basketball. I'm really enjoying focus on these things. Ooh, I
• 56:30 - 57:00 got a little extra money on my paycheck this week. Oo, I I I did better on this test than I thought I was going to do." And you just focus on that. And every time something bad, something negative tries to rear its head, oh uhoh, nope. Now the next level up from that is actually telling yourself the opposite. And so for instance, you might
• 57:00 - 57:30 have the thought, "Oh, I'm not attractive. I'll never be with a beautiful woman." that thought pops into your head in some form, right? Let's say that's you. Well, then you identify it. You don't judge. You don't criticize yourself. You don't blame yourself. You don't look this this it's not your fault. You didn't choose to have that thought, did you? You didn't make yourself have that thought. So, why guilt yourself for it? So, you
• 57:30 - 58:00 just But what's important that you do is that you notice that that thought occurred. And then you have to realize, listen, this is just a story you're telling yourself. Who's making this up? Who is the person that is assertain that you will never marry a beautiful woman? Because whatever thing you want to point to, you can find a guy with that condition, whatever it is, who managed to marry a beautiful
• 58:00 - 58:30 woman. And so you can't that's not a real rule. What you really are saying is you don't believe that you just because you're you will ever attain that thing. It's not because of any excuse you want to, oh, I'm not tall enough. I'm not good-looking enough. This, that, and the third, cuz you can always find exceptions to that. So, it's really just a rule you're making up for yourself. Why impose that rule on
• 58:30 - 59:00 yourself? It's it's just this negative mindset you have. And so you see that, you notice it, and then you assume the state of being the opposite. And so, oh, I'll never have a beautiful woman because whatever. Notice it. No, no, no. Not entertaining that. Then you shift and
• 59:00 - 59:30 you imagine what would life be like if I currently had a beautiful girlfriend that loved me and respected me and appreciated me or a beautiful wife that loved me and and supported me and respected me and appreciated me. How would I feel? How would I walk? How would I talk? What decisions would I make? And then this is now using your imagination. You assume that state. You just you're you're
• 59:30 - 60:00 essentially pretending the better. This is what it truly means to visualize. This is true visualization. Immersing yourself in the actual reality that you wish to occupy. If you're sick, you immerse yourself in the reality of being healthy. Now, of course, the greater the perceived distance between your current re reality
• 60:00 - 60:30 and the reality that you wish to attain, the harder it is to feel that way. And so, for instance, if you have the sniffles or you have a little ache in one of your joints, it's fairly easy to imagine yourself feeling healthy. But if you have terminal cancer and the doctor told you you have 3 months to live and you can't even get out of bed, you're so sick. Then imagining that you're
• 60:30 - 61:00 healthy now becomes a lot more difficult because it it perceive you're perceiving that the distance between you and that is so much greater. And that is the definition of a miracle. When you close great distances in incredibly short periods of time, this is what people consider a miracle, right?
• 61:00 - 61:30 Um things that seem just incredibly unrealistic when you when they happen. And so at least that's what people call a miracle. I'm not calling it a miracle anyway. Um, so that's the challenge, is it not? That's the challenge. See, if you're a good-looking guy with charisma and maybe even had a girlfriend in the past, but maybe you're just in kind of a rut, it's probably pretty easy to imagine what
• 61:30 - 62:00 it'd be like to be with a hot girl that loves you and respects you and is a good woman, right? Maybe you just got to take one of the girls you've dated in the past and maybe like tweak her a little bit, upgrade her a little bit. pretty easy. But if you're a guy that, you know what I'm saying, by society standards, you're busted or whatever the [ __ ] Uh now, and maybe you've never even been with a girl. This is a lot harder. And so that's that's where the
• 62:00 - 62:30 entire challenge is, but that's where your faith comes into play, right? Um that's why Jesus said if you had the faith of a mustard seed, you can do whatever the [ __ ] You can do anything, right? Tell the mountain to get up and go over there, right? This is this this is the real messaging behind it, right? That's why Jesus said, "Anything that you wish to receive, if you believe
• 62:30 - 63:00 you've already received it, it will be yours." This is not new age. This was not invented now. Recently, Jesus literally taught this, but reality is people taught it before it was ever written in the Bible. It's a truth. And so, um, this is a concept that's been around for a long time. But here's a beautiful thing. You can do this yourself. Um, just practice not focusing on
• 63:00 - 63:30 negativity and focusing on positivity in the way that I described and you will see good [ __ ] starting to happen, less bad [ __ ] happening. Now, of course, there are always ways to rationalize it away, and ultimately whatever you believe to be true will be your reality. And so, there are those
• 63:30 - 64:00 who will carry such a high degree of skepticism about this that they will never entertain it, never try it, never give it a real shot, always have this like high level of doubt underneath it. Why? Because they don't want it to be true. And people don't want it to be true for a number of reasons. Um ultimately it comes down to not wanting to be disappointed, right? Or maybe it conflicts with some other major belief
• 64:00 - 64:30 in your life, right? Um can't believe this [ __ ] if you're a religious person. Well, you can actually because again, like I said, it's biblical. But you know, there I've been around the block with Christianity. I know there is a large swath of Christianity for instance that demonizes prosperity gospel, right? This idea that God wants you to be prosperous, healthy, and happy and all that [ __ ] right? It's demonized. And
• 64:30 - 65:00 so that really is the version of Christianity that encapsulates that. But it's literally what Jesus says. Jesus says, "Anything that you ask for if you believe you have already received it, assume the state of the reality you wish to occupy, it will be yours." Now, of course, people don't really believe what Jesus said. And it's not just concerning that. They don't believe what he said about most things, most practicing Christians. And uh as a result, they'll
• 65:00 - 65:30 explain it away. Oh, well, well, he didn't really mean anything. He just meant the will of God. And then you ask, "Oh, what is the will of God?" They can't tell you. Is it God's will that everyone be saved? I'm pretty sure that's in the Bible. And so if you believe that, will that be true? Nope. Right? No. Because then, you know, all it would take is the faith of one man to ensure the salvation of the entire human race. But nah people got to burn in hell because you need that
• 65:30 - 66:00 threat of people burning in hell so that you can, you know what I'm saying? Scare people into doing what you want them to do and all that [ __ ] Anyway, this is not about taking digs at Christianity or anything like that. I'm I'm just trying to show you that this [ __ ] is biblical and it's not new age, but [ __ ] it. Call it whatever you want. I don't care. It's real and you can try it. Um, and the people who understand this and implement this, they live amazing
• 66:00 - 66:30 lives. It it becomes a positive feedback loop where it just keeps spiraling upwards and there will be challenges. I'm not saying that it's all roses like you'll never be tested emotionally. You will be, right? Because faith without works is dead. And so you will come upon situations where
• 66:30 - 67:00 your faith in thinking positively and focusing on positive things will be tested. Right? If you have the belief, let's say, oh, I have the belief that [ __ ] just will always work out for me. And then you come upon an opportunity where you got to spend your money to help somebody out and it's the last bit of money you have. But supposedly you believe that
• 67:00 - 67:30 [ __ ] always works out for you. Here comes an opportunity to test your faith in how much you really believe in this [ __ ] And then in your following through with it, you see the return on investment of your faith. And you know, and so that aspect, if you're hip to prosperity [ __ ] in Christianity, you know, that might sound
• 67:30 - 68:00 somewhat familiar. It's a little different though um because with the religion it's somebody else. It's external. It's separate from you. But reality is everything is all you. Right? You are yet another expression of the divine consciousness. Right? We are all one. I
• 68:00 - 68:30 and the father are one essentially. Um if I and the father are one and we are all one with the father then we are all one. And so yeah man but the beautiful thing unlike religion see with religion you got to take it on a nigga's word cuz I mean I was a Christian for three years. I didn't see a single miracle right? I didn't see a single person do anything miraculous.
• 68:30 - 69:00 And I'm not saying that there aren't people who do accomplish these things. I believe there are. I just didn't see it. And I think that's the experience most Christians have. You know, people see [ __ ] that they chalk up as miracles and that does it for them and that's good for them. But the point is most people are kind of just hanging on to the faith with the hope that they're going to die and go to heaven or at the very least avoid hell.
• 69:00 - 69:30 And so you kind of have to keep your keep the course on this journey until you die to find out whether or not this [ __ ] was real or not for the most part. Um, however, with what I'm suggesting to you, this is something you can literally try experiment with and see how it plays out. I guarantee you if you do not entertain negativity to any degree, focus
• 69:30 - 70:00 exclusively on things that you can appreciate, positive things in your life. And when negative self-t talk comes up, you recognize it, you stop it. And by stop, I mean you stop entertaining it. And you assume the state of the opposite of whatever it is you are saying, right? Man, I always get sick at this time of year. Oh, no, no,
• 70:00 - 70:30 no. I'm always healthy at this time of year. I always feel great at this time of year. And then you assume that state. And like I said, the difficulty of assuming the state depends on your perceived distance from that reality when compared to your current reality. So to the person who sent him this email initially um and all the things he was saying, if
• 70:30 - 71:00 he were to ask me what is the point, I would respond that the reason that you feel this way about life, why you feel this apathy, why you feel this negativity and this despair and all of this is because you are entertaining an array of negativity in your life. You're arguing with people. You're talking [ __ ] about people. You're
• 71:00 - 71:30 gossiping with about people. You're complaining about this and that. You're focusing on the bad. You're talking [ __ ] about the politics and you know, you're you're watching negative this and negative that. Um, you're reminiscing on past pre experiences that went wrong. You're reliving bad events in the past. You're arguing with people in your head. You're
• 71:30 - 72:00 holding grudges. You're doing all these things and that's why your life feels so dark. However, if you were to stop all of that and guys, when I became aware of this and I made the shift in my own life, two weeks it took me to become a completely different person and to put my life on a completely different
• 72:00 - 72:30 trajectory. Two weeks doesn't take very long if you're determined. See, it's not going to take your whole life to then die and find out whether or not you're going to come before some bearded guy sitting on a throne in the clouds. Two weeks is all it takes to figure out if this [ __ ] is real or not because the evidence will be blatantly obvious. And then you'll also see when you start to make little mistakes and slip back into your old self, you'll see
• 72:30 - 73:00 bad [ __ ] start to happen. And you're like, "Oh, I'm seeing a lot of cause and effect here. This is starting to feel a lot more scientific than you know what I'm saying like it's starting to feel pretty Newtonian but really it's quantum physics. I mean I can't speak to it in depth but the person that I mentioned earlier who spoke at Tony Robbins his conference he can. And uh like I said I'll link to that that speech that
• 73:00 - 73:30 lecture in the description. And so, yes, my friend, it's all up to you. It's all up to you, man. You can live whatever life you want. Mark 11:4, "Therefore, I tell you everything, everything you pray and ask for, believe that you have received it." Not that you will receive it, that you
• 73:30 - 74:00 have received it. Assume the state of the reality you wish occupy and it will be yours. All right, guys. Hope that helps.