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[@philosophizethispodcast]

Shout out to KZbin! In the past I've posted these non-video videos here just as a convenience for people that don't want to use a normal podcast app or for people that live in a country where the show isn't available. A person close to me recently made me aware of how many cool people get something from the podcast here on KZbin. Can't thank you enough for the kind words and for listening. Hope I can continue bringing you whatever it is you get out of the show, and I'll try to think of ways to add more of a video element with some KZbin specific stuff in the future. Real close to that 100k sub button having never posted an actual video! Thanks again for everything, people! :)

[@whatdupdoh]

I listened to every single podcast on here/KZbin up until I got got caught up and then got a spotify for JRE and realized you were on that as well. I did have to listen to your logical fallacy episode and a couple others on your web page as they aren't on this platform. like me a lot of people don't really venture out past youtube for much stuff especially Android users with no iTunes.

[@O.G.Rose.Michelle.and.Daniel]

I remember the first time I encountered your videos nearly a decade ago-congratulations on the upcoming anniversary! Your consistency, incredible quality, and the sheer work you put into your channel, is inspiring. I’m also an Emerson fan, and it was a delight to start my Saturday with this episode. Thank you!

[@phiswe]

24:48 Yes! Like Thoreau said: _"A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.”_

[@strangemarkings]

I love that this channel has 100k subscribers. I used to think that podcasts were just people blabbing and that the world of Philosophy was impenetrable for a doofus in his late 30s. Enter Philosophize This! Years later it’s opened so many doors and enriched my life in so many ways. Thanks Mr West!

[@asoulist4829]

Emerson might be my favorite American philosopher.

[@likeatree7825]

This is severely underrated. More people in the upcoming generations would greatly benefit from becoming curious about this sort of stuff and exploring these concepts.

[@soulstice99]

Excellent video. One of your best yet. Challenge of modern society is that we are always occupied/distracted

[@projectmalus]

During my Walden Pond experience I've noticed off handedly three things about Nature. One is how a flock of birds has the awareness entity equivalent of a person, just done differently, so interfering with that (or pack, swarm or herd ecosystems) reduces intelligence in the world. Two is how much cycloids play a part as if beauty is that efficient shape and so it's the will to power, personalities, different ways to get there as expressed by different cycloids and the urge to do so. Modern surfaces tend to be homogenized and slick so that shape is lost or should I say replaced. Third is the way of thinking, the sense data that presents being in context, and is changed up constantly, so this "object of being" occupies the thought until it's time to move on, like a flock debating whether a cat is really there. When more data comes in the focus shifts to a new object. These objects are like puzzle pieces, I see the mortise hole part leading and the tenon tab part lagging, fitting into the previous piece that way. These puzzle pieces would fit but the size is wrong, so essentially a small room is left when the too-small tenon of the new thought object enters the mortise of the previous, while a thread is left hanging out and the sides filled with a neutral material so that the new thought fits. This thread of intent we follow with our awareness but it goes there anyway like a cycloid does. After leaving that junction of previous and current thoughts the thread of intent goes orthogonal and around the piece and away, or usually dives into the current object and emerges in that secret space buried in the interface between thoughts. Which can get kind of circular or reciprocal. There's a really old con (confidence) trick called the 3 Card Monte, a search will show how the parts work, I think by asserting being or value where there isn't any. Thanks for the video and all your work!

[@LETSgoBRANDON08.]

I watched 164 and 165 and found them very interesting and informative. I will share them with freinds!

[@fellnermichael8401]

Love your work. Just here to get that algorithm working 😊

[@robertoruiperez3736]

This podcasts have enlightened me so much in my personal life, and continues to do. I always look forward the next episode. Greetings from Spain!! Pd: I try to use a translation of "boiling in you're own soup" as much as I can, and it turn out to be quite usefull, so thanks for that too!

[@aaronblanchard209]

I look forward to this podcast more than I do any other form of upcoming media. Makes me wonder how oddly society has been shaped when even casual conversations epistemology are so vehemently craved by the subconscious and conscious mind. Most people I know shy away from these conversations, but the ones that don't have always loved listening to certain episodes when I reccomend them after a specific conversation, which always deepens my relationships with them. People like my parents, lifetime friends, my nephew and even a few college lacrosse players I coach. I can't thank you enough Stephen West, i sincerely cannot remember all the times the information you've shared with this podcast has positively benefitted my life and those around me. When I used to work as a security guard, your podcasts kept me awake and engaged during my shifts. You helped my mother come to terms with me being spiritual and not religious anymore. You showed me stoicism through struggles, made me laugh tears hearing about diogenes and the featherless chicken and your work helped me find identity through my own self examination. Thank you Stephen, for everything. I'll always support your work as best as I can, thank you again for putting all this work into something you clearly love so dearly, you are sincerely inspiring. Ganbaru.

[@federicolarosa1486]

10:40 freaked me out a lot in the dead of the night

[@malikialgeriankabyleswag4200]

Thanks for bringing Emerson's work to light. I'm Algerian and he was writing at the time of the founding of ElKader in Iowa (after the man in my picture). Emerson represents to me the height of American Honor and Greatness of Soul. Something happened since which has made your ruling class into a basket of degenerates. I believe it has something to do with the metaphysical landscape of America and if Emerson and people lime him were promoted more, if the noble morals he holds were perpetuated through the American education system, the entire planet would look much different today. So salute to this channel for your work.

[@darillus1]

love your work Steven!

[@JustBNow3]

Thank you! 🙏💪

[@gstlb]

There’s a wonderful quote from some artist, I’ve forgotten who, basically that their uniqueness resulted from trying to be someone else and failing.

[@thetoastnbutterpodcast64]

Congrats on 100,000 subs!

[@i_dream_of_memes]

RWE is my favorite!!! Most beautiful prose on planet erf. Stated perfectly “you can never give him too much rope to work with” because a lot of his statements can seem rose-colored and fanciful at a glance. In my experience, when I scrutinize his ideas and think about them long enough, eventually I find the real-world truth to what he’s saying and am satisfied. There are plenty of ways to pick him apart, but if you look deeply at what he’s trying to convey I think it stands the test of time.

[@IgneousGorilla]

Takeaway: touch grass

[@christinemartin63]

Travel is a fantastic experience: entertaining and informative. When we're retired, we typically have more time and money to enjoy this pasttime. It's only natural after years of work and often quite a lot of self-sacrifice. Trust fund babies don't get it. Middle-class people do.

[@pooria1]

👌❤️✨

[@S4LtyTrIcKs]

Next episode... what about the bear spray?

[@darkness1293]

16:12

[@imas1239]

In this intereduction very clearly you rever to human as specy of different animal kind , real assumption .

[@i_dream_of_memes]

You wouldn’t classify a human as an animal in nature? Do you ascribe to the idea that humans are separate from nature? Perhaps you could provide some supporting information for that assumption, if that is the case 😜

[@imas1239]

@@i_dream_of_memes off course, animals? Excemen their behavior

[@i_dream_of_memes]

@@imas1239 What traits of animals do humans not exhibit? What behavior of animals do we not mirror?

[@truthterrain3484]

WWI… the armistice. I know you know ;-)

[@imas1239]

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[@ozzy5146]

So are we supposed to invent language with each generation? Should everyone try heroin to learn that it's not a good idea? Sorry... but who thinks that today's disunity can be solved by MORE individualism? ABSURD.

[@BangBang-wu3np]

I think what people consider today to be "individualism" is really just a stubborn subscription to ones own beliefs informed by the society they live in, which are often not based on fundamental truth and exactly what Emerson suggests shedding. It's not be stubborn and stick to your own rigid beliefs you've had forever, it's to release yourself from what you've been told about the world and try to come closer to a fundamental truth outside of contrivance. If we all did that, we would probably all come to similar conclusions about the world we live in...

[@rawazuk]

i live in middle east we just use cash, idk how to suport that guy im really mad

[@patacorn]

No sound on this at all!

[@lawlietblank6695]

Reading this sorts of philosophy spoiling people's mind.