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[@troyvinson2655]

I love it. "We must have free will, we have no choice in the matter.". Robert Anton Wilson. Come on Stevie,do a show on R.A.W..

[@gabriel.omniversal]

I really enjoy listening to this show and I am truly thankful for having found it. Thank you for helping me learn more about philosophy, the way you explain things is just awesome.

[@MrCrazyace31]

i love listening to these podcasts in these times, when my mind is reeling from everything going on this podcast is fascinating and helps me a little bit

[@TheCarlosgrau]

Brilliant, thanks! Never thought I'd learn so much from a podcast that mentions Joe Rogan...

[@doogliebop]

"I LOVE ROCK N ROLL HAGGGH HUUUG HUUUM"

[@stevesayewich8594]

Enjoyed your presentation on Spinoza.

[@matthewroche3827]

Love this channel to bits

[@DirtyBottomsPottery]

Dr. Strangelove was a conceptually harmonious symbol of the absurdity of nuclear war. His left hand constantly trying to kill himself. While the film was recorded in black and white, the table on which they communicated was covered in green felt. Such a good movie.

[@gazrater1820]

Earlier Will to power. Thank you.

[@asoulist4829]

Interesting how Spinoza's arguments Have been used by both free will and determinism believers.

[@justamoteofdust]

Spinoza is ❤️

[@CancelledPhilosopher]

I didn't know that Spinoza's God is deterministic. Also, is his monism the same as Alfred North Whitehead's immanent God? Or isi it different? They both seem to be part of the structure of nature, but can Spinoza's God change and evolve? It seems like it would, since nature does. But that might not be the case with a deterministic God. Can that type of a god change and evolve?

[@LunaLu-00]

Emotions=tendency to increase power

[@leader95949]

Listen , smile and then read Spinoza!

[@AsadZaman7]

@Stephen West: Are you aware of the philosophy of Wahdatul-Wajood - or the Unity of Existence - popularized by Ibn-e-Arabi - which says that everything is God,

[@christinemartin63]

The need to have ANY god is mindboggling.

[@josetorres3355]

Now on youtube, huh?

[@clydeking8138]

Spinoza gets it. That everything exists because of a first cause, God, I believe is the truth of our existence. But I don’t agree with his belief that free will is entirely an illusion. If we are made in God’s image, I.e., his personal qualities, then free will must be a gift that He gives to all people. It has been the misuse of free will that has caused all the suffering and misery on this planet. If God has free will then we must have a measure of it too. I agree that we allow ourselves to be conditioned by external factors and that ignorant people are guided in this manner.

[@robhowse9097]

Spinoza doesn't think god has free will either.

[@vukadinstanisic4580]

For Spinoza God is free, not because he acts by his free will, but because only God acts from the necessity of his own nature. everything other then pure substance is connected to something else (in order to exist), only substance acts on his on (only God is the cause of himself, nothing else is), but not because God wants this or that but because it is in his nature to "act" in that way and not the other. if any thing could be any other way, the supreme perfection of his nature (infinite-existence (power), infinite attributes) would be problematic, or in other words, the very definition of God, for Spinoza (infinite substance) tells us that everything flows necessary from God, and that there is nothing contingent in things (everything depends on God-Nature, there is nothing else).

[@madedunia6208]

As if you listening to entirely different podcast huh

[@joshcornell8510]

Secular philosophy is hot garbage