… and I think that that’s, that’s a thing that is maybe it’s possible because of social media, … um, I think it’s also just the Internet more broadly, I mean I think podcasting is obviously a huge — an important — part of that too, … um, I mean I don’t know to what extent you feel like you kind of got to be large … like, because of social media or just it’s, or just the podcasting platforms that you used.
In a recent episode of the Joe Rogan Experience, in which Joe interviewed Julian Lennon, Joe mentioned some “valuable terms” — such as Mindfulness, Spiritual, God and Love — and he mentioned that such valuable terms often get ruined by something like insincerity or insincere people. Julian suggested that these terms were hijacked. Joe agreed, and then when Julian noted that this was sad, went on to say:
Joe: Nya — we can take it back … Julian: Well, probably … Joe: We can take it back from those hijackers — fuck them!
Source: https://www.cosm.org (a website featured on the JRE episode) Alex Grey, the founder of “Chapel of Sacred Mirrors”, apparently inspired Joe Rogan (Joe: “we were talking about this and he said that he took the term God back” ca. 2:02:00 – 2:02:07)
Since I myself have been very enthusiastic about rational media for quite some time (see “Rational Media” [ https://phlat.design.blog/2024/01/14/rational-media ] ), I was pleasantly surprised to discover Joe Rogan calling for a campaign to save our language. [1]
I recall that for a very long time, AOL / Time Warner owned love.com — and I repeatedly poked fun at the ineptitude of the company for having nothing better to do with the property than to redirect it to the AOL homepage. Today, love.com connects to a website showing the following text as its “Our Mission and Core Values” statement:
At Love.com, we are dedicated to nurturing well-being and enhancing the collective health of our community. We only carry products that reflect our core values of quality, integrity, and sustainability. Our mission is to create a trusted space where individuals can find support and inspiration on their journey toward better health, guided by our commitment to transparency, ethical practices, and the pursuit of wellness in every aspect of life.
God.com doesn’t seem to load in my browser — perhaps the domain is not actually connected to any website (the domain also doesn’t return any results via the most popular search engines). God.net is connected and under the heading “About Us” displays the following:
Gary Robert Ballard is the main author at God.net. Together with his wife and children, they currently work in Christian ministry in The Philippines. God.net is a family ministry that we are able to provide with the help of our ministry supporters. We will add more resources as we continue to develop the site. Being led by the Holy Spirit, has been our focus since we began this ministry. We continue the development as the Lord provides support. We give all glory to our Lord Jesus Christ and God our Father; without Him we can do nothing.
Both mindfulness.com and spiritual.com seem to work fine for me, but perhaps they do not work for Joe Rogan?
I welcome Joe’s initiative and wish to encourage him to actually follow through on his proposal to become a leader who is willing to take back our language!
Because: It’s just control — and you can’t allow that kind of control to be in the hands of any government body … where, because of the words out of your mouth, they can now put you in a cage.
One of the things I wanted to talk to you about — I wanted to play this, but we decided we shouldn’t play it because it could get copyright-struck and we don’t want to get the episode … we don’t want anybody to have any sort of way to get it down …
You and I have outlets to expose this. The average person doesn’t. They gotta keep their fuckin’ mouth shut, or else they’re gonna lose their job (and they’re told that, almost … um, …) — I think, you know, that’s what, you know, that’s why it’s sort of incumbent upon people like you and I to kind of step up, you know, I mean Jordan Peterson does it all the time, right?
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