Episodes

Sunday Apr 27, 2025
Sunday Apr 27, 2025
My friend LL relates how a nice relationship with a local boba shop owner started – putting down her cellphone.
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I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Sunday Apr 27, 2025
Sunday Apr 27, 2025
Simple Human Connection and Deeper Realization (Clip)
I ask LL about practices that help her come into a deeper connection with reality. She attributes the simple human connection and the topics we discuss to the participation in the podcast’s doing that for her.
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Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
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https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
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I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Sunday Apr 27, 2025
Sunday Apr 27, 2025
I ask LL about the experience of realization that pursuit of acquiring things makes her less contemplative and grounded, less compassionate, and so on. We talk about our curbing of video games.
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https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-pwa7x-188bf62
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Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
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I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Sunday Apr 27, 2025
Sunday Apr 27, 2025
You can talk of the sage to the adult as the adult is to the child, so in this view, great wisdom provides great maturity. We talk about attempt to discursively fulfill needs with consumerism.
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Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
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I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Sunday Apr 27, 2025
Sunday Apr 27, 2025
An orientation towards consumption in our society, towards a kind of perfection. Fulfilling needs. Erich Fromm distinguished between “being needs” and “having needs,” and Vervaeke talks about how the market provides us with things to have when we have needs to be.
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For the full episode:
https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-pwa7x-188bf62
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https://benomtad.podbean.com
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
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I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Saturday Apr 26, 2025
Saturday Apr 26, 2025
Not upholding knowledge above wisdom, but realizing it is important for the development of wisdom. Balance in the soul, and Balance in Society.
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Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
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https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
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I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Saturday Apr 26, 2025
Saturday Apr 26, 2025
I talk about mindfulness, its mundane salutary effects, and enlightenment. I ask LL what wisdom is. She grounds it in understanding and experience and contrasts it to knowledge. I link wisdom to judgment and having a balanced self.
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For the full episode:
https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-pwa7x-188bf62
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Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
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I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Saturday Apr 26, 2025
Saturday Apr 26, 2025
Vervaeke’s project of resurrecting from Clichedom the terms we bruit about, like wisdom, knowledge, rationality, mindfulness, etc.
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For the full episode:
https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-pwa7x-188bf62
For more in this podcast, please go to:
Podbean:
https://benomtad.podbean.com
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
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https://x.com/Benomtad
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I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Saturday Apr 26, 2025
Saturday Apr 26, 2025
I like having a contemplative morning routine. We talk about why she doesn’t even though she says meditation provides a great benefit when she does it.
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For the full episode:
https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-pwa7x-188bf62
For more in this podcast, please go to:
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Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
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I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Saturday Apr 26, 2025
Saturday Apr 26, 2025
I ask LL why she doesn’t continue with the painting. She says it would be hard with how much she is interrupted where she lives. I shift the conversation to bodily sensations meditation.
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For the full episode:
https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-pwa7x-188bf62
For more in this podcast, please go to:
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https://benomtad.podbean.com
Apple Podcasts:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/podcast-benomtad/id1748320863
YouTube:
https://m.youtube.com/@scissorsandpaper/videos
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/show/4kJPGlaJjGVyLa9AKhci6t?si=8XXrX9FUT3CU71reCfA5kQ
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I plan to conduct more interviews with various guests, so please check back later for those.

Becoming Human
I view having deep, open conversations as perhaps the primary way I explore my and others' humanity. I am looking for self-transcendence, knowledge, depth and love though exploration of experience, stories (such as myths and folktales), and ideas. I hope you enjoy these conversations for personal growth and happiness, and thank you for listening.