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[@langwaters9653]

Stephen, please tell me you'll do an episode on Alfred North Whitehead at some point. LOVE your podcast. My BA is in Philosophy about (mumble mumble) years ago. This podcast allows me to rediscover old friends and make new ones. It makes me do what I love to do best--think! Thank you!

[@seanpatrickrichards5593]

"Dont let other people's perception become your reality" -Marcus Lutrell (unless you like their perception i guess)

[@christinemartin63]

And that's why some of the best novels show characters faced with a crisis during which they discover (much to their surprise) an often shocking side of themselves (eg., Conrad's Lord Jim).

[@EmanuelSpader]

Great episode!

[@seanpatrickrichards5593]

the "self" is such a weird concept.. reminds of a Star Trek episode where they keep replacing part of this guy with machine parts, and Dr Crusher says "at some point they stop being the person they were".. yeah, the soul or self seems like nonsense to me, malarky! a hondpodge of changing input and influences. Look, i'm talking like Stephen West after listening to his podcast for hours.. that seems to be how it goes.. How much can a thing be a thing in a constantly changing world? Its like watching a wave move across the ocean and calling it a constant thing even though the water that makes it up is constantly different.. but as long as we have fingerprints, a social security number, and facticity i guess thats kinda how we are.. (Hey: The words you are thinking right now are the words i'm writing... so are you still the free author of your thoughts, or are we interconnected.. seems like the latter to me, an interconnected changing everything parsed entities by words.. i could be wrong tho.. plato thought i was wrong.. i feel crazy i'm going to walk my dog Charlie)

[@LunaLu-00]

"we choose our friends because they reinforce the way we view ourselves" (Sartre)

[@ViVeriVniversvmVivusVici]

That explains why I have no friends

[@LunaLu-00]

@@ViVeriVniversvmVivusVici How so?? How do you see yourself?

[@ViVeriVniversvmVivusVici]

@@LunaLu-00 I haven't had friends since I was 14 in middle school. I'm 35 now and I love myself.

[@LunaLu-00]

@ViVeriVniversvmVivusVici Why you didn't have friends? Because you were too shy or didn't think you "deserve" them? Trying to understand the reasons behind it...some people are loners and don't even have time for friends as they prefer reading, thinking, working...Glad to hear your love yourself👍 I am still struggling with that..I do not "approve of" myself, lol. I need to be a "better version of myself", so only then would I attempt to get the friends on that same level as well, which might justify leaving more important things (like work, reading etc) to "waste" time with people (only half kidding as I do consider it waste of time, unfortunately..but it wasn't like that before, but I was a different person before and did choose my friends based on this principle.. )

[@Mai-Gninwod]

If you say that something is a social phenomena rooted in Christianity, as you describe in the first section of the video, you need to prove that by contrasting that social phenomena with other time periods or non-christian cultures. Or else who’s to say it is not universal, or rooted in some larger structure

[@SuperStockexchange]

Hi Stephen. You are doing an amazing job but I think you should turn up the volume a little bit. It is hard to hear it without headphones.

[@joessonguf]

🤣 the beginning of the episode

[@64_bit80]

oh my god this is just the last episode of Evangelion

[@TheFrankHuda]

Random question: do you believe Alan Watts should be considered a philosopher?

[@ipsofacto1435]

Great question. Yes. I love him.