🌟 Internet Famous WhatifAltHist / Rudyard Lynch - History youtuber, galaxy brained, no credentials and no sex

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Morta Della said:
He tells this really bizarre and obviously made up story about how some cute girls came up to him and made fun of his handbag, but after explaining to them the rich history of artisinal leather in Mexico, they were falling in love with him.
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He has a couple stories like this, I think what happens is he starts aggressively sperging about stuff - then people tell him it's cool and interesting to gas him up and he takes it as being 100% genuine because he's autistic AF.
 
cloUder said:
Message to all the haters in this thread: You lost, he won.

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This is one of the parts that I saw that was the most baffling to me in a certain way. It's completely intellectually bankrupt. He "won because [he] said so?" He would rightfully call out an ideological opponent for being completely retarded if they tried to say what he's saying here.

Also what's his deal with Odin? Does he really believe Odin is real or is this an allegory of some kind? Does he believe in other mythological creatures?
 
Jaws Of Hell said:
Also what's his deal with Odin? Does he really believe Odin is real or is this an allegory of some kind? Does he believe in other mythological creatures?
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Because like Odin hanging himself from Yggdrasil, he too was inseminated.
 
Jaws Of Hell said:
Also what's his deal with Odin? Does he really believe Odin is real or is this an allegory of some kind? Does he believe in other mythological creatures?
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Rudy places a big emphasis on “muh ancestors” and his heritage, and those crowds tend to invite a lot of neo-pagan larping and such.
It wouldn’t shock me if Rudy got exposed to that nonsense and then it subconsciously influenced how he interpreted his “spirit trip” and his later schizo breakdown. Frankly I’m more surprised that it was Odin and not Cernunnos or some other Celtic god since Rudy appears to identify with his Irish heritage most. But Rudy is also a retard so it wouldn’t shock me if he has a worse understanding of Celtic myths than your average Wiccan larper.

Edit: also I wouldn’t go looking for much sense in Rudy’s schizo religion. He claims to be a devout Christian who loves God, but his entire stream was so heretical it’d make even gnostics and syncretics like the Manichaeans say “dude i think you might need to reread the Bible, you seemed to have missed a few points”
 
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Rimanah said:
Rudy places a big emphasis on “muh ancestors” and his heritage, and those crowds tend to invite a lot of neo-pagan larping and such.
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You'd think if he valued his ancestors so much he'd think about why they stopped worshipping those gods in the first place. Call me a cringe blue pilled Christ cuck, but Neo-Paganism is always so lame. It's not even like I don't respect other religions at all, I love learning about all the world religions tbh, but like you mentioned it's always a larp. Just listen to pirate metal and wear a leather jacket like a normal guy with a fixation on vikings, those dudes usually have sex at least.
Rimanah said:
also I wouldn’t go looking for much sense in Rudy’s schizo religion.
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I do hope he writes a full theology book for us. Based on his videos it has great potential for memes, especially if he makes an audio book.
 
Rimanah said:
I’m more surprised that it was Odin and not Cernunnos or some other Celtic god
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If Rudy had claimed it was Toutatis talking to him, and not Odin, I would have joined his Chud Cult in an INSTANT.
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Rimanah said:
Frankly I’m more surprised that it was Odin and not Cernunnos or some other Celtic god since Rudy appears to identify with his Irish heritage most.
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He appears to take the "European pagan dieties came from the same ancient Indoeuropean pantheon" position, but is too high to articulate it.
 
Almost done with the first part. Guy seems very autistic and mentally un-well. His mom (if we take everything he said about her as fact) seems extremely unhinge and mentally unstable. Dont have kids in your late thirties/forties.

Finished the first part. Pretty funny how all the Chinese friends he made turned out to be soulless bugmen.
 
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Rimanah said:
Im about 20 minutes through this and it’s frankly boring.
It’s just him going on about how taking ayawascha, getting raped, and being a schizophrenic is actually based and redpilled. His starts with some retarded basic premises.
For example, he asserts that taking drugs and thinking you went to the spirit realm is both an accurate depiction of what happens when you take ayawascha, and that real trad people would understand this means Rudy’s on to something. This seems to be based upon the belief that in ancient times religious figures did drugs, and people believed they talked to gods during it, so to really be trad you have to believe this too. While that isn’t entirely inaccurate, it’s a reductio ad absurdum of traditionalism.

The entire thing is a bit of a mess, and it’s not entirely clear what his thesis is tbh. It’s also somewhat difficult to tell if this is serious or not, since it’s right on that edge between what could be a parody of a crazy right-winger or not. I’m leaning towards serious though.

I’ll watch the rest and report more for those who don’t want to watch 3 hours of this garbage, but unfortunately this doesn’t seem to be a serious attempt to defend Rudy’s breakdown, nor is it particularly lol worthy content in of itself.
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...Is that fucking Kraut & Tea?! It sound like him but no longer attempting the accent.
 
waffle said:
He appears to take the "European pagan dieties came from the same ancient Indoeuropean pantheon" position, but is too high to articulate it.
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I got the impression he’d been reading stuff on hermeticism and other esoteric/occult works and that’s where it came from. I know he mentioned he’d recently read Evola and then Odin just happened to tell him things that line up with what Evola claimed. Add in some neo-pagan stuff and I can see where the delusions came from.

He might be reading some comparative religious stuff, but that’s a field that’s more specialized than Rudyard normally reads imo. This man revels in only reading pop-history and only that. If he was to get exposed to comparative religion it would almost certainly be limited to stuff like Deus pater to Jupiter/Zeus connections. Maybe throw indra and in there too since iirc he has a weird worship of Indian spirituality.

Edit: actually now that I think about it I think it’s far more likely he’s coming at the connections from a Jungian perspective than an archeological one. Like his connection between Odin and Hermes Trismegistus probably has nothing to do with the comparisons Tacitus drew between Odin and Mercury in his works, and instead is just noticing common themes and doing the normal Jungian stuff.
 
Rimanah said:
He might be reading some comparative religious stuff, but that’s a field that’s more specialized than Rudyard normally reads imo. This man revels in only reading pop-history and only that. If he was to get exposed to comparative religion it would almost certainly be limited to stuff like Deus pater to Jupiter/Zeus connections. Maybe throw indra and in there too since iirc he has a weird worship of Indian spirituality.
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His interest is sincere. He's like a victim of circumstance, because he's said that growing up as a Quaker was his springboard into Jordan Peterson and Jung. In the original 'Spirit World' video, he says that Hudson Smith is one of his favorite authors, singling out the 200 page Forgotten Truth as a favorite (33:30). Smith was close to Ram Dass if that means anything to you.
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I've always been interested by his appropriation of the Axial Age concept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_Age. This was a periodization thought up by somebody older than Spengler, that has been reinvented many times over by people trying to falsify a cause. The story goes that all of the major religious and philosophical movements happened in Europe and Asia at the same time and all reached comparable conclusions. We don't know why. Karl Jaspers never said when he pitched the concept. Rudyard actually picked all this up from David Graeber, who used to be a visible leftist intellectual. He was a libertarian socialist, anarchist if you prefer, and Rudyard read his two best selling works, Bullshit Jobs and Debt: The First 5000 Years. Bullshit Jobs was a big influence on this video about economics.
Debt is a book about money, debt, and the history of thinking of money and debt. Chapter Nine covers the Axial Age. Graeber suspects that B.C. ascetic movements were inspired by alienation from coinage, then a recent technology. Rudyard did a whole podcast about it, and it's just an unrigorous talk about syncretism.
To be clear, Debt: The First 5000 Years is not meant to be an academic work. The first chapter explains that it's really supposed to be a history of anarchy, because Graeber thought his friends needed a history lesson. It wouldn't be a great primary source. However, I've noticed Rudyard quoting this book literally word for word. In Spirit World, he talks about "Buddhist and Hindu holy men" at 10:44, which he took from page 224.

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Gravityqueen4life said:
Almost done with the first part. Guy seems very autistic and mentally un-well. His mom (if we take everything he said about her as fact) seems extremely unhinge and mentally unstable. Dont have kids in your late thirties/forties.
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I reviewed his mother's and sister's Facebook profiles, and they appear to be ordinary individuals with no unusual online presence. I'm currently focusing on locating his father. So far, I've found a video featuring Mark Lynch, a banker.

I think he blames feminism and socialism/communism on his parents divorce and his incel'ness. Rudy essentially wants an enslaved woman to iron his shirts

vettii said:
I've always been interested by his appropriation of the Axial Age concept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_Age. This was a periodization thought up by somebody older than Spengler, that has been reinvented many times over by people trying to falsify a cause. The story goes that all of the major religious and philosophical movements happened in Europe and Asia at the same time and all reached comparable conclusions. We don't know why. Karl Jaspers never said when he pitched the concept.
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That's a historically inaccurate account with no academic backing. It's poor history masquerading as philosophical aesthetics. Rudy claims to be a "YouTube historian" but hasn't read any academic-backed textbook since high school. He uses ahistoricism to push his reflexive political beliefs, which are partly rooted in his own lack of self-esteem.

I'm kind of pretentious with this post but the kid is a moron. I do vow the 14 incel words for Rudy though
 
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