What is the meaning of disaster? Perspectives from Kanye, ancient history, Enlightenment Lisbon, psychology, conspiracy, and the zombie apocalypse.
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Selected references:
Forbes Kanye interview: https://www.forbes.com/sites/randalllane/2020/07/08/kanye-west-says-hes-done-with-trump-opens-up-about-white-house-bid-damaging-biden-and-everything-in-between/#53d2645947aa
Kourtney Kardashian: https://metro.co.uk/2020/03/19/kourtney-kardashian-shares-passage-god-punishing-world-evil-epidemic-12422424/
Hulk Hogan: https://www.instagram.com/p/B-o-YE_jgvU/
Jones & Cox, PRRI 2011 survey: http://www.prri.org/research/few-americans-see-earthquakes-floods-and-other-natural-disasters-a-sign-from-god-2/
University of Chicago & AP-NORC 2020 survey: https://apnorc.org/projects/how-faith-shapes-feelings-about-the-coronavirus-outbreak/
Wikipedia, Gallup importance of religion map: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Importance_of_religion_by_country
Gallup Pakistan 2012 survey: http://gallup.com.pk/bb_old_site/pollsshow.php?id=2012-08-03
Chester et al in Wisner et al 2012 on disaster history: https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Handbook_of_Hazards_and_Disaster_Risk_Re.html?id=Ko23AwAAQBAJ
Janku in Mauch & Pfister 2009 on China and King Tang: https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Natural_Disasters_Cultural_Responses.html?id=VpIjAQAAIAAJ
Chester et al in Wisner et al 2012 on Vanuatu: https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Handbook_of_Hazards_and_Disaster_Risk_Re.html?id=Ko23AwAAQBAJ
Akasoy in Mauch & Pfister 2009 on Islam: https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Natural_Disasters_Cultural_Responses.html?id=VpIjAQAAIAAJ
Mauelshagen in Mauch & Pfister 2009 on northern Europe floods: https://books.google.com.au/books/about/Natural_Disasters_Cultural_Responses.html?id=VpIjAQAAIAAJ
Kerkhove 2008 on Mesoamerica: https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/index.php/SSR/article/viewFile/208/187
Dynes 2000 on Lisbon quake, Voltaire, Rousseau: Dynes 2000. The Dialogue between Voltaire and Rousseau on the Lisbon Earthquake: The Emergence of a Social Science View. International Journal of Mass Emergencies and Disasters, 18(1), 97-115.
Langenbach 2007 on Carvalho construction: https://doi.org/10.1080/15583050601125998
Kay et al 2010 on randomness and God: Aaron C. Kay, David A. Moscovitch, and Kristin Laurin. 2010. Randomness, Attributions of Arousal, and Belief in God. Psychological Science 21(2) 216 –218.
Whitson & Galinksy 2008 on anxiety, randomness, God: https://rifters.com/real/articles/Science_LackingControlIncreasesIllusoryPatternPerception.pdf
Essential Research 2020 on corona conspiracies Australia: https://essentialvision.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Essential-Report-180520-1.pdf
Jan-Willem van Prooijen on conspiracy theories and religion: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2017/12/23/conspiracy-theory-psychology/815121001/
NASA on climate change: https://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
Mandela on poverty – BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/4232603.stm
Hiroo 2016. Vengeful Spirits, Divine Punishment, and Natural Disasters: Catastrophe and Religion in Japan. Religious Studies in Japan volume 3: 3–20.
Guardian experts pandemic warning: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/sep/18/a-deadly-virus-could-kill-80-million-people-in-hours-experts-warn
Images and video:
Kanye rally North Charleston: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cufQytUCAt0
Japan 2011 footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObSo4VxCFzs&t=0m27s
Japan aftermath Al Jazeera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twdPe0hjyLE
Enlightenment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:An_Experiment_on_a_Bird_in_an_Air_Pump_by_Joseph_Wright_of_Derby,_1768.jpg
Lisbon: http://historic-cities.huji.ac.il/portugal/lisbon/maps/braun_hogenberg_V_2_b.jpg
Tokyo disaster preparedness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NM_oMPflkHg
Earthquake simulation machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4y17LVVSDU
Beirut “My government did this”: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/i5xeqm/beiruts_port/
Bill Gates protestors: https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/fox-news-viewers-bill-gates-coronavirus-vaccines-tracking-1004415/
Juice Rap News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4nSjPdT788
Beirut Sky News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKFupx9x0-k
Nuclear blast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We50I8fNFCE
Ragnarok by Fakelore: https://www.deviantart.com/fakelore/art/Ragnarok-125357181
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Well made video, it is welcome to see big questions dissected.
This is a very good video. I wish more people used critical thinking like this, but I do think that a feeling of control is directly linked to happiness, and so admitting that things are complicated and nuanced and out of your control is, while closer to reality, depressing.
16:50 Ah yes, just as a wise man once said; Memes, the DNA of the Soul
Lining the wuhan lab as a possible source isn’t crazy and never was… you have bought into the terrible trap that there isn’t mistakes people make like having terrible safety standards at a lab…
Your pretty ignorant
Funnily enough, the World War Z book it's all about what you said wouldn't make a sexy story. The movie literally has -100 correlation to the book.
Nah, the reason why Lisbon Earthquake occurred is because some Assassins were stupid enough to mess with the Precursor Artifact.
Look into David Bowie blacks star theory that deals with Kanye
Why believe in a religion that is so inherently evil?
"Whatever is right" – Alexander the pope.
GREAT VIEW
SILVER BETRAYAL
CHAIR CHAINS RA AMUN
Thank you for your Video!
"Stories and ideas define our history" slow down bud, you're starting to sound a bit like s8 Tyrion over there
God doesn’t interfere into the world as much as he can. Yes he does control everything. But in more like he controls it like a game. He made this world for us to live in and to test us. Most of the time when something bad happens its because of human incompetence. I as a religious person think its very dumb to blame God on every single natural disaster
11 48 your avarage conspiracy theorist is allergic to wokenes I say that becose most popular conspiracys like quanon and maybe anti vaxers are conservative ( :
Religion = bad got it
Your take on the lab leak didn't age well
Interesting take, haven't seen anyone really talking from this framing. The world may be being punished for being so stunningly moronic
We could give examples on how other smaller animals can't possibly understand complex topics like philosophy or science, and compare those animals to us and those ideas as God's but realistically, we're not gods, we can't compare ourselves to the one almighty because we aren't almighty even if we think we are. Humans will never understand God and can never explain God's actions no matter how much we study religion, God isn't another human with great powers, we can't challenge God because we can't comprehend God. Many imagine God as a wise old man but that is just the human mind trying its best to make an image out of nothing, we know God isn't a literal wise old man yet we imagine he looks like one, that proves that people literally see God as a man and compare themselves to him, only that man is both omnipotent and omniscient, and they're challenging that man and his morals, not God himself.
In conclusion, we can't say "*blank* is a punishment/blessing from God," that's just not for us to decide, we know what is a sin and what is not and we could make ideas based off of that but nothing definitive.
God doesn’t exist.
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It's so refreshing to hear a reasonable voice in times like these. Thx!
video is so underrated its a crime
Greed is one of the seven deadly sins. One might make the connection and argument that man's greed caused them to sell fossil fuels in spite of science pointing towards the inevitability of climate change. These ever increasing calamities are absolutely a result of our sin. It says in the Bible that the wages of sin is death. Never does it say the wages of your sin is your death. The greed of oligarcs and company ceo's like those who work for company's like Philip Morris sell products they know kill and tear families apart. Yet, they still do it, in order to fill their insatiable greed. The wages of there sin is the death of others. IDK, just a thought.
Okay wow, thank you! This video open eyes about reality, people are really living in a fantasy world
You used "my government did this" from Beirut blast, people here were not blaming the government they were stating facts
Or maybe you just used this picture for the phrase
"39% think the virus was created in a Chinese lab…"
– That one didn't age well, did it?
don't Christians say that god made humans free, plz check my facts
bUt ThAtS sOcIaLiSm….
I remember when I was a kid and thought that the adults were in charge and knew what they were doing. Then I grew up and realized the adults were always pretending and didn't have any idea what they were doing and had no control at all. They were all just putting on a show for the kids.
The sins of elites. Not the citizens who are always being punished. We are innocent compared to the true evils out there:The true adrenochrome addicted Epstein island disguised human beings.
So people are just coping when something bad happens
I believe that natural disaster is
Just nature causing disaster
God this video is so good, I think I have watched it more than five times already
See, people are overlooking the fact that it IS a punishment… But not from God, but from ourselves. If we don't end up with mega churches after this I will be surprised.
Also people forget that God in the bible wasn't generally that subtle when he was mad at you. Like, if it was God i'm expecting a few sudden moonless nights or frogs to rain down or the firstborn to die… Not just the super flu.
More please
the virus is not a punishment. its a challenge given by GOD to the chosen human race.
Is he running for President of the USA or a Security company? His Attire is confusing.
Ok but could that explain why every 100 years we get a nasty pandemic/fire disaster?
It's so predictable to the point that we got viral memes jokingly overshadow the disasters of 2020 months or even years before covid was a thing.