#179

[@DoubleBob]

I wish there were more episodes.

[@deathbycognitivedissonance5036]

What a great selection. Thanks for the review fellas.

[@JohnHenrysaysHi]

Thank you, Scott and Karl. God bless you both.

[@MarcSoer]

Thank you Ken and Scott, for your time and attention in caring and spreading awareness. The good must be associated with the cycle of life. When things are in natural process and evolution, it is good. When new babies are born, it is good. All beauty affects the good in that it gives a desire to want natural order and with that clarity and common sense, life is then complex but experienced in simplicity of ones own awareness being part of the greater evolution of Life. It is not bad that Eve ate the apple, that is part of the process, the bad is that Eve continues to eat it. Once we learn from the evolution of being disconnected from that which is natural order and then return with greater understanding, that there is no need to eat it, we then have a greater good. We are not all devolving, in terms of moving away from the higher self, but rather evolving in gaining a greater understanding as why we have no need to eat the apple in the first place. That there are things which we have no need to place time and attention on, and other we should. The city is the, the kingdom, the empire we so vision is never greater than that which has already been created through natural order. We are distracted by the illusion of it from afar but wallow in it's synthetic abstract of paved roads. The greatest experience we can have is that in the thick of Live, and danger, in Natural Law. Even Jesus refused the offer of kingdoms as there was already a much greater one. Violence in self defense, in birthing a child, in killing a beast is part of the burden that must be paid to exist. Violence is just an act of disorder, chaos and volatility, without it Life itself cannot adapt or evolve. Not all violence is equal, as that in birth is of a greater good, while violence in ego and self gratification serves no other than the delusion of the self.

[@DoubleBob]

What happened? Where are the new episodes?

[@Telly234]

Thank you!

[@jondaly4501]

Parson Weems was a writer who wrote a blo of Washington. I think that is where the cherry tree story comes from. I think that there was also one about him tossing a silver dollar all the way across the Rappahannock.

[@roca967]

(1h 17mins) "If you reject the idea that things are good in and of themselves then heirarchy is impossible" While chatting amongst friends I often find myself butting up against what looks to me like a reflexive relativism. If I utter a word like "beauty", "truth", "virtue", "goodness", very soon someone will call into question the very notion - "well what is virtue anyways?". I don't mind the question or getting into the discussion (though it always seems to get abandoned just as I'm getting warmed up!), but I begin to wonder about the effect of this rejection of values on their lives. It seems to me they might struggle with focus and direction in their lives and have a hard time making a decision and sticking with it. One good friend has such a hard time that he suspects a mental illness diagnosis and seeks some pills. That's entirely possible, but I really wonder if less screen time, a little quiet contemplation and an acceptance of a heirarchy of The Good wouldn't be more to the heart of his problems.

[@carolinafine8050]

Karl, “if you’re immersed in the everyday….”. Sounded like a theme from Walker Percy

[@benpape3811]

You guys are the Abbott and Costello of philosophy

[@deathbycognitivedissonance5036]

36:10 Let's go! 🤝

[@bobbyjosson4663]

Good work uncovering the real Greeks. What they strike me as and the reason they seem so alien, is that they are unadulterated, purified, Social Darwinists - the right of might to do what it chooses, because it has a superior bloodline. Very much like the Mongols. In this, they are the anti-thesis of most of the faiths of today. And the reason the world seems so awful is that we are being descended into it by the monied Oligarchy that run the central banks. Who were also behind, as per General Smedley Butler, the Vietnam War.

[@aconnellsmith]

This is a really great Convo. But re violence. I don't think it's right to say "homer shows them die." But this was auditory. Nobody was shown anything and depictions of death were prohibited on the stage. So I must disagree that the Greeks thought citizens should be shown violence

[@berniekagel659]

lol “salt lick”