22 September 2025 Livestream #53 0:00 Intro 2:28 Show title: "This world, not God; reason, not faith; egoism, not altruism; capitalism, not statism. Ayn Rand! 👍👍👍" Robert: "🍀 A provocative show title ... should make for an interesting episode!" Charlie Kirk's religious memorial Upcoming shows announcements 13:15 Destiny got demonetized, my own path to monetization What you can and can't say on social media 23:47 Comments on Erika Kirk forgiving Charlie Kirk's murderer My X thread on forgiveness/justice 36:26 Schadenfreude Forgiveness, earned and unearned ARI podcast on forgiveness, "Does Forgiveness Heal — or Whitewash Evil?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-WB-fhVJls 51:06 Schadenfreude (continued) Capital punishment vs. life in prison Mindful vs. mindless forgiveness Reason and emotion re: justice; biases 1:26:40 Emotions, social influence & free will Schadenfreude (continued) Faith, rationalism and empiricism Defining "faith"; axiomatic concepts; ostensive definition Leap of faith vs. leap of logic; Leonard Peikoff's theory of induction 2:42:21 Atheism/agnosticism The basic laws of logic/reality: excluded middle, (non)contradiction, identity God, proving a negative, and the arbitrary 3:04:21 The laws of logic and Aristotle; true, false, and arbitrary 3:26:00 Break God and contradictions/miracles Ayn Rand, reason, and the Industrial Revolution Heisenberg's uncertainty principle: metaphysics vs. epistemology Miracles and the primacy of consciousness 3:55:56 Reading update: Medieval England; Wall Chart of World History timeline book Testing screen sharing when detaching/reattaching tabs to windows Mayo vs. Miracle Whip My YouTube Analytics Polling chat on how I should highlight comments I'm engaging with 4:26:48 The Groyper movement & Charlie Kirk 4:32:36 Highlighting comments; poll results; my YouTube studio analytics 4:44:52 Why does Ayn Rand think there should be a state? Why wouldn't the free market provide security services? (J Yossarian, Jason, Robert) Anarchy/dictatorship cycle 5:10:09 Leader board; breaking my record on stream length Competing governments and revolutions 5:28:23 Monopolies (Evolutionary) Evolutionary's view; my previous questions to him; finding a fundamental topic to discuss Evolutionary's political view and free will 6:16:14 If we're made up particles, how does free will emerge? (J Yossarian) How do we know we have free will? 6:29:19 Outro _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ www.patreon.com/DanNorton www.paypal.me/DanNorton11 #aynrand #objectivism #philosophy #debate #charliekirk #erikakirk