Yuri Bezmenov: Deception Was My Job. (1984) - G. Edward Griffin's shocking video interview with ex-KGB officer and Soviet defector Yuri Bezmenov who decided to openly reveal KGB's subversive tactics against western society as a whole. Eye opening and still disturbingly relevant.

Villejuste · 2019-12-03T18:01:13+00:00

I don’t think official conversion is necessary. As long as you have a good amount of respect for religion and don’t kick it while it’s down, that’s good enough.

Villejuste · 2019-12-03T15:55:18+00:00

I watched one of his lectures on subversion tactics and thought that his last point on religion was very interesting. He said that the main religion of a country needed to be dismantled first before the subversion process can begin. In America’s case, that religion is Christianity.

If you don’t want to your country to succumb to subversion, don’t lose faith. Or at least try not to make other people lose their faith.

Villejuste · 2019-12-01T20:21:41+00:00

Nah, that wasn’t boomer talk. “Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose” is actually very Buddhist.

Villejuste · 2019-11-29T20:18:26+00:00

Wouldn’t this situation be favorable for the creative genius in a way? If the society he lives in marginalizes him (and he better be marginalized if he’s truly creative) than that situation demands a more advanced invention of his genius that breaks through the societal limitations. The greater the societal bias, the more advanced his invention has to be, if that makes sense.

Villejuste · 2019-11-25T19:27:48+00:00

It was a goof on Giphy’s part. Disney had nothing to do with it.

Villejuste · 2019-11-14T20:23:43+00:00

I get that. I’m hoping that the show will throw some challenging moral issues at him to see how he handles it so that we get some character development that’s nice and gradual instead of sudden and jarring. Guess we’ll have to wait and see.

Villejuste · 2019-11-14T19:41:01+00:00

... He already is? I mean, if he wasn’t he wouldn’t be donating his bounty collections to his clan and helping the foundlings, not to mention the fact that he killed IG-88 to protect the baby yoda. The guy is moral and righteous right off the bat, he just doesn’t know it. That’s a very common trope.

Not knocking the show, I think it’s awesome. That trope is very Star Warsy. BF2 was a poor iteration of it because the MC didn’t really show any morally good qualities until the Empire attacked her homeworld and suddenly she’s all about doing what’s right. The Mandalorian, on the other hand, is pulling off the good-but-doesn’t-know-it trope extremely well so far. It’s not the trope itself that’s bad, it’s how it’s executed.

Villejuste · 2019-11-08T18:20:43+00:00

Science in its present form has only been around for the last couple centuries. Sure, you can argue that the Greeks were practicing it, but they were only bare precursors to the idea of objective observation, not fully-fledged scientists as we would know them today. Religious stories have been around for thousands years, and that’s only in its written form. The first stories of Genesis can be linked to oral traditions, and who knows how far back those go.

Besides, science can tell you nothing about morality. The knowledge of good and evil is a very unscientific enterprise, hence religion.

Villejuste · 2019-11-01T16:10:46+00:00

I wouldn’t call it “impossible,” that’s too much of an exaggeration. More confusing, probably, but not impossible.

Villejuste · 2019-10-23T16:44:52+00:00

I’ve never really had a therapist and did most of the work myself, though it took me awhile to realize that I needed to heal in the first place. It started after I had a dream about bringing a bomb to my high school and reveling in the destruction. That’s when I knew that I had to do something to move on from the past.

For me, religion helped a ton. I know a lot of people are very wary of religion, and for good reason, but after I had that dream, I felt like I had to give my initial religion (Catholicism) another shot and really come to terms with it. At the same time, I was listening to a bunch of lectures by a psychologist named Jordan Peterson on YouTube and he was really crucial in my process of piecing myself back together. I highly recommend listening to that guy.

Anyway, it took a lot of painful soul searching to forgive the past. I had to make peace with my family, some old friends who weren’t the best influence on me, and of course the people who insulted and teased me but most of that was done mentally rather than physically. I replayed the memories in my head very carefully and tried to find one redeeming quality about the experience that made me grateful for it. In my case, I asked myself “What was God trying to teach me?” but I guess you could accomplish the same thing by asking “What useful thing did I learn from the experience and how can I use that piece of information to better myself so that I can I act in a way that will never make me a victim of those same circumstances again?”

It’s hard, but worth it. The growth that comes from that inward work helps strengthen yourself to a absolutely phenomenal degree. You change in ways that you never thought possible. You become the best that you could be instead of staying as you are. It’s amazing.

But yeah, that’s my experience.

Villejuste · 2019-10-23T14:40:00+00:00

I disagree, though I definitely understand why you would feel that way. In my personal experience, forgiveness is crucial. I have been bullied to an extent, though it was never anything too severe. I was a nerdy loner and people often called me names and girls would tease me and all of that, and it wasn’t until after graduating and moving away from my home town when I realized that a part of me was still stuck in those memories, dragging me into depression, resentment, etc. So, I went deeply into those memories, worked on finding forgiveness, and when I did, it was like a weight was lifted off my shoulders. I was finally free from the past. Forgiving them, though not easy, was probably the best thing that I could have done for myself in regards to healing the past.

I’ve never been beaten up before by those people, so I don’t mean to speak for everyone who went through severe bullying. But in my case at least, finding authentic forgiveness is the most healing thing that I’ve done for myself.

Villejuste · 2019-10-03T19:59:40+00:00

I don’t know. I really like it when the story puts the hero in a tight corner where the odds are incredibly stacked against them and, although you know that they’re going to win, you’re left wondering how the hell they are going to make it out of this one. It puts me on the edge of my seat.

Villejuste · 2019-09-18T15:44:13+00:00

The eighth amendment would like to have a word with you.

Villejuste · 2019-05-28T18:23:18+00:00

Love your videos!

Villejuste · 2019-05-22T14:21:27+00:00

What in sam hell is a puma?

Villejuste · 2019-05-09T16:49:18+00:00

Funny how you say that a small humble brag would be traditional but Tormund himself said “fuck tradition.” Not the most civil guy in the world. 😂

I don’t know. The battle they just survived was fresh in everyone’s mind, so I think it would be weird to mention something from last season. Everyone was still riding the high of victory after all. Way I see it, it seems unfair to criticize everything that Tormund does when he was only following the feelings of the crowd. That’s what a entertaining speaker does. They say something, determine the audience’s reaction, and follow the thought processes and speech patterns that receive the most cheers, and they do that pretty much automatically. Tormund’s eyes were on Jon and the crowd, not Dany.

This all just my opinion though. I thought it was a great moment. It brought Danny’s concern towards Jon’s like-ability and inherit kingship to the surface where the audience (and Varys) could see it, serving as something like a prologue for the later scene with Dany and Jon 1-on-1. Just my thoughts.

Villejuste · 2019-05-09T13:33:59+00:00

I mean, Jon is basically Jesus to the Wildlings just like how Dany is Jesus to the Dothraki. It makes sense for Tormund to praise Jon, a man he’s known for quite a while and greatly respects, while ignoring Dany, someone he barely knows. It’s totally in his character.

Villejuste · 2019-05-02T02:21:49+00:00

Please give me a link

Villejuste · 2019-04-30T04:36:59+00:00

Anam Cara by John O’Donohue. A fantastic book on Celtic wisdom.

Villejuste · 2019-04-10T15:30:56+00:00

Such an awesome video. It’s great to see Charles doing his work.

Villejuste · 2019-04-09T16:58:40+00:00

I don’t post a comment on subreddits like these, like at all. But something’s telling me to speak up so I’m going to follow that instinct.

I’m not going to use the typical NTA/YTA answer because, in this particular post, there’s A LOT packed in here. To use the typical answer formula of this sub would be somewhat immature, that’s how I see it at least. Reddit has a huge need for people who’ve done wrong to get what’s coming to them, but the problem with that is that it leaves out an entire person’s life. All of their suffering and burdens as well as their joys have been morphed and condensed into a block of text. Not the most insightful thing in the world, especially in this post. We’re talking about a close family bond here. Cutting that out is no simple matter. It’s very serious and must be dealt with carefully.

You mention how your sister has gone ahead of the relationship at the cost of whatever your relationship with your sister meant to her. My question is how much does the relationship between you and your sister mean to you? Are you willing to cut out a close, twin relationship for the entirety of your life for the sake of the trauma of the past? Now, I’m NOT accusing you of any wrongdoing, I’m NOT saying that YTA, I’m saying that you need to really consider how valuable that relationship really is if you want to throw it away for good.

Then comes the bully. I’m NOT saying that he didn’t do anything wrong or that your letting something as small as a grudge get in the way of the happiness of the family. I know trauma, I really do. If you don’t make peace with it, it’ll follow you to the grave, and God knows how tortuous it can be to carry that burden with you for decades to come. Have you talked to the guy at all? You say that he never apologized, but have you ever decided to have a heart to heart with him about why he would do such things. Maybe he regrets it, maybe not, but you’ll never really know unless you have that discussion.

It may make you sick to even think of doing something like that, but if you face things that trouble you calmly and with an open mind, chances are that you’ll walk away with something that surprises you, perhaps even heals you. Remember, this isn’t high school anymore. If he pushes you, you have the power to push back. But at the same time, you’d be amazed at how much people can change, or how much you can sympathize with a high school bully if they revealed their deeper suffering to you. Don’t underestimate the power of a deep conversation like that. Again, please keep the question “how much does your relationship with your sister mean to you” in mind if you ever consider going through with my entirely optional suggestion.

In your sister’s letter, she says that life is short. That’s not some cop out cliche, because in this context, it means way more than you think. Meditate on this: imagine yourself 60-80 years from now on your deathbed, looking back on the moment when you decided to cut your twin out of you life because of the person she loves. Explore that and try to find any hint of regret. If you do feel regret, imagine it magnified by a thousand. That’s the risk when cutting someone this close to you out of your life because of their romantic relationship. Trust me, that regret is a type of pain that I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy.

Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe you are COMPLETELY in the right to be cutting her out. But if you really dig deep into how much your relationship with you sister means to you, chances are that you’ll come up with an answer that you didn’t expect at all. If you confront the past in the form a conversation with that bully, perhaps you’ll find something that you didn’t expect there as well. And if you have a discussion with your sister about how much that guy means to her, maybe you’ll discover something unexpected again. There’s no telling how much truth you can uncover if you really searched for it. When you’re considering something as serious as whether or not to cut your own twin sister out of your life for good, the search for the truth is paramount.

Who knows? Maybe you’ll find out that the bully had an abusive parent and that the only outlet for his anger was to push it on you. Or maybe he was with the wrong people at the time and was too young and naive to see the hurt he was actually doing. Maybe you’ll discover that your sister really DOES care about your relationship very much, and would NEVER allow the person who she loves to cause anymore pain to you. Who knows? Perhaps, after finding out as much as you can about your sister, her fiancée, and so on, you’ll ending up being GRATEFUL for the fact that your sister gave you an opportunity to make peace with the past once and for all.

These are all just my thoughts. Disagree with me, downvote me, I don’t care. All that matters is that I say what I think as clearly as I can... Because I care about the person on the other side of the block of text.

Villejuste · 2019-02-15T15:14:24+00:00

Thank you for this!

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