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[@artgarrido5294]

At 71 years of age , often wonder how different my life could have been , if your channel and your accesible manner of sharing, would have existed 50 years ago . Nevertheless, it help me to understand life in retrospect and appreciate more the years ahead . Thank so much

[@cerebralcathedral3247]

If I could eliminate one thing from the world, it would be, NARCISSISM.

[@schelsullivan]

I love your channel and I'm learning tons. Constructive criticism begins here, the audio levels are so low I have a hard time hearing it in the car and in other noisy background situations. Please make this podcast much louder, folks can always turn down but I can't turn it up enough to hear it in the car.

[@Poppyfreeza]

Agree

[@wentinggao3064]

Man, you have amazing storytelling skills!

[@delynkirstein2974]

I have got to episode 58 since April. I listen to each one more than once trying to learn as much as I can. Thank you.

[@themetascroom5063]

smart ima do this too

[@user-no3fv4xm4r]

Your closing statements reminded me of John Lennon's Imagine, arguably the greatest lyrics ever. BTW you're doing a great service to the humanity, hopefully, your content reaches millions of people. I appreciate your altruism in sharing the philosophy. Philosophize this! This channel is a goldmine. Thank you.

[@seanpatrickrichards5593]

"If you could leave one thing to the world that would leave it a borderline Eutopia, what would it be?" Outlaw the needless suffering and slaughter imposed on animals who are as sentient as our dogs, and capable of feeling the same fear and pain. I've never understood why people think thats ok but are horrified when similar things happen to people. It'd make life on earth more of Eutopia for many more lives than there are people.

[@rodrigodiazcasas384]

But i dont get it? will you stop lions of eating gacels? Crocodiles from eating oxs? Spiders from eating mosquitoes? how is human eating animals any different than the rest of alimentary chain?

[@abbiramyarumugam8623]

@@rodrigodiazcasas384 because humans can think and be empathetic? It's a long road, maybe we'll get there someday don't you think?

[@rodrigodiazcasas384]

@@abbiramyarumugam8623 No. I do not. It is our nature to kill stuff to eat. You say that it is "empathy" that prevents us to harm animals. I tell you that is selfishness. We "empathize" with animals because we ARE animals, because of our resemblance with them. I could tell you in the same way "hey dont harm plants, empathize with them" and we would die of starvation in a couple of weeks. Plants DO have feelins, when in harm they send smells to other animals, they send signals through the roots to other plants, in order to combat predators. So, why do we "empathize" with animals and not with plants? because our nervous sistem, our way of "feeling" resembles animals ones. But make no mistakes, plants also feel, only that in their on way.

[@justamoteofdust]

@@rodrigodiazcasas384 then why does the scientific community around the world consider _plant perception_ a pseudo-science?

[@rodrigodiazcasas384]

@@justamoteofdust i dont know what planet perception is, my friend. Would you care to educate me on the subjetct?

[@MrGaryFry]

Superb podcasts. Witty, informative, to the point. Best wishes from the UK.

[@yohansin3430]

This system is clearly still present in South Korea. How would one go around breaking this kind of cultural structure? Filial piety is fine, unless what your parents want for you might not necessarily be the best decision. The friend status is really weird in Korea. Even if the other was half a year older, I would have to treat them with respect due to culture. I do agree however that people should be constantly improving themselves. Morality should also not be forced, but rather encouraged through self action. The role of being a teacher in order to make many "Confucius" really resounds with me. I would see a borderline utopia a place where everyone has the ability to think and therefore change themselves through thought, creating a world where everyone is constantly removing detrimental mental obstructions where they can strive to be the best moral and self improving person they can possibly be.

[@matthewroche3827]

To break the walls between everyone that show we are all different and break the walls that make us think we are not what the other is and instead hear each other out and don’t become hostile if you disagree, do it for knowledge and too better yourself by picking out the things you like and think are right. So see the world in black and white but always think openly

[@silvialozeva]

Love you channel!

[@chrisjarmain]

With these videos, they are brilliant! Sticking with Confucianism and Dàoism, it would be brilliant for you to touch on Alan watts. Who had a lot to say and orchestrate on the tenents of Eastern philosophy and religion. ❤

[@glenndowdle1434]

Confucius wasn't just transmitting ideas, he knew people could be influenced by tradition so he wrote the histories that backed up his own ideas.

[@asoulist4829]

I feel like Mencius should get an entire episode

[@asphaltpilgrim]

Do I dectect the influence of Dan Carlin in ur style? ;) And you are *really* good at it too! Awesome stuff either way.

[@stacyfiske7903]

23:42 you say it's six things, yet you only listed 5. Unless 'quit-witted diligence' is quit-witted and diligent.

[@bobelsgaming8238]

misshapen😭

[@alyfaye9735]

Dawkins gibe 😂 🤗💗👌

[@christinemartin63]

Having listened to over 80 episodes now, I can say that ALL these great men (and two women) seem to fall into two very broad categories (among others): dreamers and realists. Having lived several decades of life, I like the latter; they are just that more truthful, and one can at least avoid all the pitfalls and traps of life by trying to adhere to their philosophy. Long live the pragmatists! (Confucius sounds like another dreamer. It's incredibly difficult to believe that a a 70-yr old is not cynical by that stage in his/her life--just not credible.)

[@BrunoWiebelt]

the learning and adapting ... he laking the scientific method of development ... we maybe too

[@promyk9255]

There is no transcript for this episode : ((

[@matthewmurdock7246]

I would do away with the central bank

[@theo287]

(just for me, will delete 22:30)

[@jacobh2147]

You didn't delete it theo

[@jacobh2147]

How could you?!

[@WebCamParrot]

You betrayed us Theo

[@leroybrown4797]

Generative AI

[@DosBear]

I would eliminate the class system and replace it with a fair system where access to the necessities would be readily available to all. The leaders in Government would be the scientists and engineers who best know how to utilize all our resources including the human one's to the best of their ability to eliminate waste and create prosperity. Similar to a system known as Technocracy which was purposed just after the 2nd World War but was squashed by false accusations of it being Communism. Your John McCain comparison is laughable but what can I say you have me laughing quite often during your shows.

[@dfferentpoint]

lack of a mind and reason cos animals don't have wars they just live and die

[@felixuniverse6009]

@loki katzbalger u like chaos pussy?

[@mushussu838]

Actually, animals can have wars, the chimpanzees are an example. Ants can also have a war.

[@rodrigodiazcasas384]

In my opinion, there is no such thing as utopia. That kind of idealizations is what poisons human thought. We need to accept we are 99% chimpacees, that conflict and "tribalism" is inherent to human (animal) nature. Only by accepting so, we can start thinking what kind of (realistic) world we want, and how to achieve harmony. I don't see human as capable of perfection, since perfection only exist in the world of platonic fleeting ideas.

[@rodrigodiazcasas384]

having said so, the only way humanity can actually evolve is by stopping to see consumption as the realization of happiness. We all need so much to live (materially speaking). If we gain independence from the consumption-work-family-stress cicle, we will be definitly be closer to harmony and peace.

[@mushussu838]

@@rodrigodiazcasas384 I think there's a problem with that thinking, and is that consumption is a very modern thing. Before capitalism consumption never existed. But still there was problems in society

[@rodrigodiazcasas384]

@@mushussu838 consumption is certainly a modern phenomena. But it doesnt mean it is the beggining of human problems. The problem with us is our biological tendences to conflict, in order to prevail and survive. Consumption is only the way that that instict is canalized in capitalism.

[@carlcarlsberg5900]

Utopia exists for those who love everything the way it is.

[@mayagoldberg786]

2712

[@shenwang7597]

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[@toomuchprotein1]

Is there a philosophy channel on which the host doesn't remark thinly-veiled whines that religion is irrational? Even if I were atheist, I imagine I would find the incessant insinuation that belief in God is necessarily belief in magic to be childish and annoying. Before someone points out how I'm wrong about something or actually answers the question, I don't read replies to anything I say here.

[@okra7648]

l'll answer anyway. Try Bruce Gore, l watched his lecture series on philosophy, he tackled it from a christen lens. I thought it was interesting and insightful, despite not being christen myself.

[@DaKoopaKing]

Well, we have scientific evidence that theism is false. All modern religions integrate parts of their stories from varying mythologies present throughout history. The myth of Creation and most of Genesis was plagiarized from the Sumerians, who had a remarkably different theology than the Christians. Much of the later parts of the Bible were taken from the Assyrians; and this trend is visible in the Quran, Torah, pretty much any major world religion today. Believing in a god that's never interacted with humans and never will isn't necessarily irrational, since we can't prove/disprove it one way or the other, but most modern religion is theism, which does make it irrational.

[@gabrielonibudo5710]

@@DaKoopaKing so where is the scientific evidence that theism is false. but what you said is just really speculation, similarities aren’t really evidence for anything more than similarities

[@stacyfiske7903]

@@gabrielonibudo5710 'All modern religions integrate parts of their stories from varying mythologies present throughout history. The myth of Creation and most of Genesis was plagiarized from the Sumerians, who had a remarkably different theology than the Christians. Much of the later parts of the Bible were taken from the Assyrians; and this trend is visible in the Quran, Torah, pretty much any major world religion today.' This IS the evidence. Science only gets answers after testing the question over and over and seeing if the results change. Religion is a social construct to better control the masses. it's proveable, proven and regarded as facts dude. Science isn't just people's opinions. It's proven through interrogation and fact-finding based on large swaths of data.

[@carlcarlsberg5900]

​@@stacyfiske7903It only proves the similarities exist, and the variations exist. Multiple sources are capable of finding the same truth and also interpreting it differently, just as they are capable of having the exact same ideas, and solutions totally independently. It's also been scientifically proven that scientific conclusions have been wrong before.