Podcast Benomtad

Angst in the Vastness of Space and Time

LL talks of her feelings of fear and irrelevance pondering the many peoples before and after her seeing the same topography around her.  Then zooming out into space, there is the observation were are but a blink in the eye of the universe.  I give an account of previous humanity, who lived in a world of myth, as opposed to us moderns, who know of the vast and dangerous forces and of our ignorance of many more than those.  So we live by philosophy to some extent, like Stoicism and Buddhism, which help parse the vast unknown and focus the mind on what it can control, and to train its attention, so that one can deal with the vast knowledge and mystery both, and ultimately live a happy life.
 
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Do you Need to Know It? (Clip)

Rousseau has an idea of there being an art to being ignorant.  You don’t need to know many things, including many things people make pretenses about knowing, but it’s good to know how to not know those things. 
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Monitoring Your Own Speech to Make Wisdom More Likely (Clip)

Taking a look at whether you’re starting think in black and white terms, etc.  Your ultimate enemy is yourself.  The enlightenment of the Buddha.  
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The Truth Refining Ideal in this Podcast, and Other Practices (Clip)

Dialectic, meditation, Stoic meditation… ways to gain insight and grow.  Critical thinking; being nonreactive.  Listening in conversation.  
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Words and Ideas Besides Wisdom People Seem to Generally Value (Clip)

Success and other things people seem to value, what we think others see when they see us… We’re very practical…
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Do People Seek Wisdom? (Clip)

There is more practical wisdom, prudence, and something deeper, but anyway, how much value does that word hold in the West?  “Success” seems like something more sought after.  Health.  Do we know what wisdom is?  Do we care?  
 
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Where Do We Go for Wisdom? (Clip)

John Vervaeke points out we don’t really seem to have a place we can go if we want wisdom.  Where is the market for this? (Haha)  Universities much of my life are said to be the places people go to for… a career.  It seems like we have more trust of Eastern than Western religions/philosophies. 
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Ultra Processed Emotional Salience (Clip)

Akin to empty calorie foods, much of the information we receive seems to be loudly salient but unimportant, fleeting and empty.  They hit sensory buttons but don’t feed us.  How does this information inform – form, us?  
 
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Awash in UltraSalient Unimportant Things (Clip)

I misspoke and asked if we’re awash in ultrarelevant but meant “ultrasalient” loud assortments.  People seem to jump now to conspiracy to explain things where there are not clear causes.  I favor tentative, open and careful explanations instead of things with satisfying feeling of emotional relevance.
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Lots of Truth, Lots of Relevance, but not Lots of Relevant Truth (Clip)

Drawing a parallel Vervaeke points out between roughly the time of Plato and our own, there were many teachers and conmen.  A spiritual and political tumult.
 
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