Oh So Terrible Many More Ruhe/Pannobhasa Videos

     Well, it’s time again for the most recent onslaught of Bitchute and YouTube videos, most of them costarring Herr Brian Ruhe. As usual, there’s the unusual assortment of talks on Buddhism, politics, general philosophy, literature, ancient history, and the JQ. It’s all pretty much self explanatory, so I’ll stop explaining. Enjoy.


3 February 2020

Did Jesus of Nazareth really exist? I say he very probably did, even if all the stories about him aren’t true. Brian, conspiracy theorist extraordinaire, thinks Jesus was a made-up propaganda conspiracy of the Roman government to weaken Judaism. With emphasis on the critical technique of using embarrassing or awkward passages as evidence of historical truth. (39:05)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/gJ0fD6uEMpHf/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyLC_cG61Go&feature=youtu.be

On how the left is in a state of increasing schism and fragmentation, largely due to the postmodern rejection of empirical reality (25:42)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/pR0tiipFDpqS/

A discussion of the traditional and non-traditional duties of Theravada monks (and no, lighting ourselves on fire is not a duty) (35:45)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/YBAEfXn60uzR/


10 February 2020

What is truth? (1:01:24)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/XxBk2wxGq3n5/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiHo-FtgPPY&feature=youtu.be


17 February 2020

On western SJW Buddhism: Cultural Marxism masquerading as Dharma. I was getting annoyed during this one, and Herr Ruhe appears to have been twisting the knife a little. (47:41)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/bSfmAni6Nstu/

On the evolution of the Bodhisattva concept in early Buddhism, or: What the Buddha Didn’t Say about the Bodhisatta Metteyya (28:48)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/zCHDAtGv4WZJ/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8c84Ys3P8g&feature=youtu.be

A rambling talk on Fyodor Dostoevsky, the literary symbolism in his later works, and on literary symbolism in general (33:37)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/Yo0LQ3M6D9hA/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEbgbJ6ImfE


24 February 2020

Buddhism on Racism (48:40)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/4zHBAE6q7tTG/

On Indo-Aryans and Indo-Greeks. With special thanks to Diane for going to all the trouble to edit this. My two main “regrets” with regard to this are that I confused the Mauryan and Gupta Empires throughout most of the talk, and that the Internet connection sucked so bad. (59:44)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/TIC16TE4WwlW/

Reflections on the new Coronavirus, and on maintaining equanimity (29:52)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/7TxtXhIwoc2a/


2 March 2020

On how suffering is ultimately self-inflicted (31:15)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/AJ26PNQf5lEb/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1F3YhsBMSO4&feature=youtu.be

Ram Dass in Retrospect (43:10)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/CisRQGHLVsjl/

Why the Black Death of the 14th Century Wasn’t All Bad (40:38)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/f8uLp34uJ3ys/


16 March 2020

Debating Over Prehistoric Advanced Civilizations. This is a weird one. Sometimes I am astonished at my own patience. (1:27:22)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/n7CorLRnIo5b/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbc5h6rrV4Y

On Jewish Buddhism and Jewish Christianity, or why western lay Buddhism is pervaded by Jewish influences (47:53)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/wBsKQF81XnsN/


30 March 2020

On Buddhist Ways of Dealing with Enemies (26:22)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/yh6sb5AzwTXf/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAo0SpOY3BI&feature=youtu.be

On the Parable of Lord of the Flies, and on the idea of humans being saved by higher beings. With Brian characteristically trying to inject the idea that human beings were put here on earth by space aliens. (35:00)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/KSjcDBq4nX0s/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzjEBGOGl4A&feature=youtu.be

On the left’s chronic rejection of empirical reality, because they like their ideology better; a classic case of Krishnamurti’s Ideal vs. Real dichotomy (40:38)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/SccKyiW2Fsxw/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=US-dkmq_DSI&feature=youtu.be



Special Bonus Video

Otto Excelsior and me on Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, on Hegel himself, and on German Idealist philosophy in general (22:09)
Bitchute: https://www.bitchute.com/video/8iKFVdmjYq2N/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmrGv-gU_8I