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#164 - Nietzsche’s Superman vs. The True God-Man—Who Will Win? · Brandon Fogal Evolution

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  So, Friedrich Nietzsche had set up the Superman that was going to run its course
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  and human history was going towards the Uberman.
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  As we get closer and closer to probably the pinnacle of history,
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  what's going to happen is there going to be a showdown between the Uberman versus Jesus Christ.
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  All right, let's dive into this. I want to look at this and it's fitting because
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  the movie Superman was just released today.
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  So you should go check that out. But I want to actually take a look at a conference
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  that kind of a like kind of podcast sit down that Timothy Albarino had with Joe Allen.
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  And they discussed transhumanism and a lot of different things.
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  I want to first take a look at this clip by Timothy Albarino.
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  And he discusses that the goal of Nietzsche and what he kind of set front and
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  center was evolution was one thing and Darwinism was one thing.
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  But Friedrich Nietzsche, he saw how meaningless and pointless that is,
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  and it leads to nothingness.
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  And he was the one who kind of postulated that we need to have directed course
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  of action to draw the human species to a goal, that this superhuman being is
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  what we should be going towards,
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  and that humans actually are just a bridge.
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  They're not the final destination, and we need to get somewhere.
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  But let's actually take a look at what Timothy Albirino said is pretty eye-popping.
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  He was beginning to craft a vision, a destination, that now evolution in his mind had a destination.
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  And Nietzsche critiqued, he believed in the theory of evolution,
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  but he wasn't a Darwinist.
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  Because the theory of evolution by natural selection, natural selection is blind,
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  it's purposeless, it's random.
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  But Nietzsche saw purpose in evolution, and he believed that the purpose,
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  the very purpose of human evolution was to bring forth the ubermensch,
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  the superman, the overman on planet Earth.
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  That was the drive, the impetus of evolution.
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  And that's really what's behind all of this, as I said before,
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  to bring forth the godman, to bring forth the ubermensch, the overman on planet Earth.
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  Okay, so Friedrich Nietzsche, there's a lot there. He was a 19th century philosopher.
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  If you've read anything about philosophy, you've definitely run across this guy.
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  And he was, I think he was the one that had the best realization of what his
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  ideology and worldview meant.
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  He was real about it. He wasn't going to just put it on the back burner.
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  Oh, let's just go through regular day, but let's get to the heart of the issue.
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  If, if everything is just nihilism and nothing means anything,
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  then nothing means anything. There's no point to anything.
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  So I think it was maybe the desire within him that like, we got to like,
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  not just go with whatever comes our way, but we need to actually make change.
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  We need to do something about it. We need to fight to the death to make something
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  greater than just this pointless universe has to offer.
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  But this sets us up against the worldview of Christianity because Christianity
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  says there is a purpose. There is meaning to life.
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  We aren't just here. We aren't just evolved species.
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  We aren't just cosmic accidents, but rather God is directing everything.
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  And it's the difference between us putting ourselves in the driver's seat as
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  opposed to knowing God's the one in the driver's seat.
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  But in this conference, they talked about a number of different things,
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  and they also went on to, like, discussing the topic of what CERN,
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  if you've heard of them, what they are doing in this world, and the God particle
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  and all that, it was pretty cool.
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  All right, so this is where they get into Joe Allen.
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  He brings up the point that what people at CERN are doing, they might not understand
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  that they're doing something very religious and guiding the God particle and
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  trying to create something out of nothing.
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  And trying to get back to the singularity, they're actually maybe doing something
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  more religious than they might not know they're doing.
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  These people don't necessarily have a self-conscious sense that what they're doing is religious.
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  Some do, many don't, but what they are doing is fundamentally religious.
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  That despair you're talking about, the evolutionary or atheistic point of view, it's crushing.
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  The big zero is the most depressing idea anyone could ever have,
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  that everything that we're doing right now ends in zero. in nothing.
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  You may be Alexander the Great.
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  You may be Elon Musk, but in 200 years, you, your consciousness will be zero.
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  It will be as if you never existed.
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  Maybe you take comfort in the continuation of your legacy. In a billion years.
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  Sun explodes, blah, blah, blah, blah, zero.
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  Let's say you've got probes going out into space that have your upload and you're
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  spreading it across the entire universe.
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  Well, you still have, at least according to the kind of scientific models,
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  either a dissolution into a flat, almost zero Kelvin, everything turns to mush as the big bang just.
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  Or you have the big crunch when everything becomes again, a singularity and
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  you are back to zero, nothing.
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  Okay. So that's, those are like, those are the options. And I think.
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  I think this is this almost becomes
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  the the pie in the sky for the atheist that
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  this is you you know that there's nothing you're
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  heading towards nothing so we can just live how we want and that's
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  the way we can pacify the conscience that we have or that when we deep down
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  know that God has set eternity in our hearts he we know that we're gonna live
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  past death we we realize that we I think everybody fundamentally understands
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  that. We just try to suppress it.
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  We want to believe that our actions don't have, you know, we're not going to
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  be judged about them, you know?
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  And I think that's the only way that we can kind of have peace in that sense.
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  Because what the story of Christ shows us is that there is a point to everything.
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  It's not just you're getting up and every day you're just living for nothing,
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  but rather you are living ultimately either for God or not for God, you know?
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  And it's a stark contrast, but I think that a lot of times atheists just,
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  they, and I myself was an atheist.
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  I myself did not believe in God at one point, you know? For most of my life,
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  I didn't believe in God, but it's just being confronted with the reality where
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  we deep down know that there is something out there.
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  We know there's something out there and we have this fire to be religious and
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  we're going to guide this religion that's in our heart towards something.
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  We're fundamentally religious. Everybody is.
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  And Nietzsche, he was religious and he wanted to turn it towards the Superman,
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  the Superman, whereas the real superman is
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  jesus christ he's the he's the true superman
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  and he's the one that will ultimately be proven
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  right and ultimately will slay the dragon slay
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  the devil slay you know the false prophet the antichrist and all that with the
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  breath of his mouth but it's like it seems like everything is culminating into
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  something to some final final verses showdown and i think we're getting closer
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  and closer by the day but this this whole video this whole conference was pretty.
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  Intriguing because when they delve into transhumanism, you can tell that it
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  just, it feels like that.
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  So many things are happening in this world. So many things are just coalescing
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  into the God man of, of us trying to create something.
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  We were going towards that. You can feel it in the air.
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  All right. We'll leave it at that. So if you've enjoyed this video,
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  hit this video over here and I'll see you on the other side.