Introducing Objectivism & debating God w/new chatters; Adam Smith, Will Durant etc. w/Holden & more!
December 24, 2025
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as posted by the channel23 December 2025, Livestream #72
The original title of this livestream was "Down with Jesus Christ! Up with Ayn Rand! Reason & egoism are the way, not faith & self-sacrifice." (I typically update the titles of my livestreams afterwards, after I know the topics that came up.)
Yaron Brook Show
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I'm in the top 0.7% of viewer watch time for Yaron's show this year
"I'm an atheist, but I'm not against all religious people."
Perk for my first 1,000 subscribers who are publicly subscribed (25 spots left!)
What is an "Objectivist?"
The meaning of "self-interest"
Garrett Mayer update (he was interested in Objectivism and converted to Christianity)
Emotivism
Is consciousness fundamental or emergent?
The how, whether, and why questions
Consciousness and reality
Debates in the works
Polling chat on what to do next
Religion as a mix of good and bad elements, the Golden Rule
Peikoff on Christmas
Polling chat re: size of chat
Agnosticism
[From this point forward some topics may be missing or out of order. I might edit it later, and add more timestamps, if I have time.]
Kant's universalizing principle
Religion/altruism as a tool of exploitation
Motivation by love vs. motivation by fear
Is the concept of "God" contradictory? (engaging with a chatter)
Did I work when I was in college?
Adam Smith
Will and Ariel Durant's The Story of Civilization
My undergraduate experience, applying to PhD programs
Holden's interview of Michael Liebowitz
Holden's aims for the future
My show
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