Which Public Personalities Are 4D STO Candidates?

[Beau]

I would say that Luke Nichols, the man behind the immensely popular (and my favorite) YouTube channel Outdoor Boys, is quite possibly an STO candidate. I've watched darn near all of his content, and it's not just about building survival shelters in the bush and other outdoor survivalist content. If you watch his videos, he's very selfless, he promotes all the different people who he patronizes when he posts videos of his family's vacations, he promotes Christian values without proselytizing, he provides a great example of how to be a good father and how to raise children. He actually had to stop making videos because he got so popular that it was affecting his family's daily life. He recently made a video on a friend's YT channel to help him because that man's wife is battling cancer and they have 4 children:

He's got an interesting story. Grew up in Alaska, traveled to Hawaii and Japan in his formative years as a missionary for the LDS, got his law degree and became a lawyer in DC, then moved back to Alaska with his family where the majority of his survival/bushcraft videos were filmed. He has 17 million YouTube subscribers and his videos have been viewed almost 7 billion times.

Some of my favorite parts of his videos extend beyond survival/hunting content. The family vacations where he shows his kids the history of their locale are great. I especially love when he makes his famous honey butter bread from scratch when he's camping in the woods. He's got a very pleasant demeanor and always treats the land and people around with respect. He may be one of the few true role models for the younger generation, at least in the West.

Here are a few of my favorites from his page, for those interested.

 

[dennis]

Bushcrafting videos are cool. Take a couple of hand tools out into the woods and use the natural available materials to build a cozy little hobbit house. They all seem to cook a meal and then curl up to take a nap at the end. People who watch comment that it's a great way to unwind before bed. There are people who do this in the tropics as well as cold climates.

Is this an analog form of "strategic enclosure" ?

 

[Wandering Star]

I would say that Luke Nichols, the man behind the immensely popular (and my favorite) YouTube channel Outdoor Boys, is quite possibly an STO candidate. I've watched darn near all of his content, and it's not just about building survival shelters in the bush and other outdoor survivalist content. If you watch his videos, he's very selfless, he promotes all the different people who he patronizes when he posts videos of his family's vacations, he promotes Christian values without proselytizing, he provides a great example of how to be a good father and how to raise children. He actually had to stop making videos because he got so popular that it was affecting his family's daily life. He recently made a video on a friend's YT channel to help him because that man's wife is battling cancer and they have 4 children:

He's got an interesting story. Grew up in Alaska, traveled to Hawaii and Japan in his formative years as a missionary for the LDS, got his law degree and became a lawyer in DC, then moved back to Alaska with his family where the majority of his survival/bushcraft videos were filmed. He has 17 million YouTube subscribers and his videos have been viewed almost 7 billion times.

Some of my favorite parts of his videos extend beyond survival/hunting content. The family vacations where he shows his kids the history of their locale are great. I especially love when he makes his famous honey butter bread from scratch when he's camping in the woods. He's got a very pleasant demeanor and always treats the land and people around with respect. He may be one of the few true role models for the younger generation, at least in the West.

Here are a few of my favorites from his page, for those interested.

I've seen some of thid videos.

He does exactly what he likes and enjoys it.

Good hotels, plane trips, rental cars, good restaurants, and he also records it and makes money from it.

As a catalyst to foster the desire to recreate that way of life, it is very good, which will lead some people to do what is necessary to obtain the necessary amount of money.

I don't see anywhere how this helps anyone.

It would be interesting to see what think the child in Africa watching the video on a mobile phone with his parents' income of 100 dollars a month.

 

[Beau]

I don't see anywhere how this helps anyone.

I don't know if you have reading comprehension issues but he made a video on someone else's channel to help him as his wife battles cancer. Also, you could try reading the comments.

I usually don't ever comment on videos, and I've never been able to donate before. And I know it isnt much, but I hope it helps you and your wife Steven And you've aquired yourself a new subscriber! And to Luke, thank you for everything you've done for so many people, myself included. Your content has been a light that many of us needed more than you could have imagined. And I'm grateful for the opportunity to show my thanks by helping Steven

You’ve provided us with not only just entertainment but comfort in our lives during some of the worst days. I’m sure many others share the same sentiment. I look up to you and strive to be as caring and kind hearted as you are. You are a role model inspiring millions of people. Glad to help in any way

Thank you Luke for inspiring all of us to be better fathers, husbands, and human beings. Prayers to Steven and his wife and I hope this helps a bi

Outdoor boys has kept me going and helped me in the darkest of times.

I cried reading all these comments and my hope in humanity was restored

The outdoors boys changed my life and saved me from depression multiple times.

Luke, I grew up looking up to people like Steve Irwin, and it’s amazing to have someone like you to look up to now. You show what real masculinity can look like, kind hearted, a bit goofy, and always there for the people who need you. Thank you for leading future generations by example and for the real, positive impact you’re making on the world.

Etc., etc. etc.

 

[Wandering Star]

I don't know if you have reading comprehension issues

Is it necessary to attack me in order for you to defend your idea?

 

[whitecoast]

Is it necessary to attack me in order for you to defend your idea?

Hi Wandering Star, looking from the outside it does seem like Luke Nichols pushed some buttons of yours, hence the judgements and attack rhetoric. I think Beau is just reflecting that back to you.

I am curious about what Luke represents for you, what the motivation for making someone like him “wrong” is, and if there’s anything you see in him that you could also see in yourself?

 

[Wandering Star]

Hi Wandering Star, looking from the outside it does seem like Luke Nichols pushed some buttons of yours, hence the judgements and attack rhetoric. I think Beau is just reflecting that back to you.

I am curious about what Luke represents for you, what the motivation for making someone like him “wrong” is, and if there’s anything you see in him that you could also see in yourself?

I don't know who this person is, that's all.

He may be a candidate for 4d STO or he may not.

Beau has given his opinion and seems to be a big fan of this person, so he may very well be right.

I'm just giving my point of view.

To paraphrase the C's in the session where they talked about the best music to listen to, "if something is very successful and has enormous media coverage, it's because it fulfills the agenda."

 

[whitecoast]

I don't know who this person is, that's all.

He may be a candidate for 4d STO or he may not.

Beau has given his opinion and seems to be a big fan of this person, so he may very well be right.

I'm just giving my point of view.

To paraphrase the C's in the session where they talked about the best music to listen to, "if something is very successful and has enormous media coverage, it's because it fulfills the agenda."

I’m aware you don’t know him personally, but that doesn’t stop the mind from forming opinions, judgments and projections about people. We do that all the time, in milliseconds. It is that aspect of your experience of him that I was curious about. Don’t you have that curiosity yourself?

It’s these kinds of questions that let us see how our mind and perceptions really operate, so we can practice greater objectivity.

 

[Beau]

I don't know who this person is, that's all.

The whole point of posting some of his videos and the link to his channel was to let people who didn't know him get a chance to do just that. Instead of doing that, you decided based on... a cursory glance I guess, that he didn't have any of the qualities that I saw. You do realize how that comes across, yes? You shouldn't be surprised when someone bristles at such a way of communicating with someone.

In your case, based on your history of posting here, I would say the best thing to do on this forum is to adopt the maxim that if you don't have anything nice to say, you shouldn't say anything at all. That way your disagreeable nature doesn't come to the forefront as it seems to so often.

 

[sid]

he provides a great example of how to be a good father and how to raise children.

Being a father now myself, anyone out there promoting how to be a good father and raise children is doing some real good. And that should make him a good STO candidate. Who knows, he might me one of those experienced souls who have done and seen it all and just wanted to come back here and live a quite and good life, closer to the nature.

 

[Wandering Star]

In your case, based on your history of posting here, I would say the best thing to do on this forum is to adopt the maxim that if you don't have anything nice to say, you shouldn't say anything at all. That way your disagreeable nature doesn't come to the forefront as it seems to so often.

So be it!

Oops, I said something!

 

[fifty_five]

So be it!

Oops, I said something!

I apologize for being disagreeable . But your reaction to his reaction, which is effectively a personal and snake attack, is merely automatic. This is said without prejudice to your contributions to the forum, which, as far as I am concerned, are effective, especially with regard to the RA content. There is always something true and something false, even when you or he/she seem to be manipulating the facts to put him/her or you in a bad light. After all, we are all human beings. That said. More than 20 years ago, when I found out I was pregnant, I moved to the mountains, with the agreement of my son's father, in order to ensure that the child would grow up in an environment as close to nature as possible. It was a choice made by the MOTHER and supported by the father. We both made sacrifices by working every day in the plains. But it was worth it. And not for a moment did I think it was fu*cking STO-oriented behavior.

 

[Ennio]

It’s these kinds of questions that let us see how our mind and perceptions really operate, so we can practice greater objectivity.

When we take a moment to reflect on what's being said, and how something might be true - maybe not as a definite, but as a possibility at least, we are doing much greater justice to the process of acquiring knowledge and widening our perceptions than we might do otherwise. And that is really one of the main focuses or reasons for having all kinds of discussions here.

We are also under no obligation to form any kind of set opinion immediately, never mind posting a hard and fast view on what's being said right away, as tempting as that may be sometimes when we just don't see what others are seeing necessarily.

And here's the other thing - particularly as it relates to your posts, Wandering Star: You DO bring up a few valid points. But you seem to do so to the exclusion of all the points Beau brought up and his honing in on this YouTuber's BEING as he, and others, understand it. In this way, its like your habit of 'thinking fast' becomes a limiting factor in what you're able to assimilate or, at least, consider.

I'm not even saying that Beau's 'right' here necessarily. These things can sometimes be hard to know without more data and assessment. But what I AM saying is that, at the very least, given the way he made his case, and the substance of his observations, I can certainly see why he chose to bring this person up here as a good possibility.

On that point, and for myself too, it was a good reminder that being a possible STO candidate can look somewhat different than what one might think of ordinarily. Especially when one considers all the many ways that one can be in service to the well-being and knowledge-sharing of all.

 

[Wandering Star]

When we take a moment to reflect on what's being said, and how something might be true - maybe not as a definite, but as a possibility at least, we are doing much greater justice to the process of acquiring knowledge and widening our perceptions than we might do otherwise. And that is really one of the main focuses or reasons for having all kinds of discussions here.

We are also under no obligation to form any kind of set opinion immediately, never mind posting a hard and fast view on what's being said right away, as tempting as that may be sometimes when we just don't see what others are seeing necessarily.

And here's the other thing - particularly as it relates to your posts, Wandering Star: You DO bring up a few valid points. But you seem to do so to the exclusion of all the points Beau brought up and his honing in on this YouTuber's BEING as he, and others, understand it. In this way, its like your habit of 'thinking fast' becomes a limiting factor in what you're able to assimilate or, at least, consider.

I'm not even saying that Beau's 'right' here necessarily. These things can sometimes be hard to know without more data and assessment. But what I AM saying is that, at the very least, given the way he made his case, and the substance of his observations, I can certainly see why he chose to bring this person up here as a good possibility.

On that point, and for myself too, it was a good reminder that being a possible STO candidate can look somewhat different than what one might think of ordinarily. Especially when one considers all the many ways that one can be in service to the well-being and knowledge-sharing of all.

I agree with everything you've said.

That's why, as you say in the last paragraph, I commented on Beau's enthusiasm for that guy in the videos.

Regarding the idea that if there's nothing to say it's better to remain silent, I assure you all that I try, but damn it, sometimes I read something and think, "This is missing!"