Soon I will kill you...
Discussion
Zombie knife duel🤔?
Just listened to lectures 2 and 3 in bed before I go to sleep. REALLY fascinating stuff. I can see me listening to a lot more of these tomorrow. I've got the bug😬.
YODL knows what I'm referring to😂😂.
Yes...YYESSS! was at ep 3 where I was like, "I'm gonna have to go deep with this one." Glad you like it too! I'm at talk of some more modern philosophers now, and he's losing me just a bit, but all the stuff leading up was really good, and seems he's about to come back to his initial framing of flow state soon, so I'm getting excited
Wittgenstein is a good one to read up on, he was a student of Bertrand Russel and is often cited as the greatest philosopher of the last century (He was also a miserable fucker, so chimes a lot with me😬). He frames a lot of his work around language, which is where this guy has started off his lectures.
I'm a big Russel fan...as a mathematician anyway. Will check this out in a couple weeks or so, once I get through these lectures. I'm a philosopher now 🤓
My only tiny gripe so far, is that I'm listening to it on Spotify (So no video) and I can hear him writing stuff on his whiteboard and pointing at it to reference things😡, but that's my problem, not his😬😂.
If it's any consolation, he writes in a light green marker that is impossible to see on the video (what an idiot!). And I've since moved to Spotify as well, cuz I hate YouTube. It's rare that I wish I could see his drawings anyway
He once said, I am paraphrasing here, that any ordinary mystery novel has more to add to human thought than any book on philosophy. I took is word for it skipped him and all philosophical drivel.
Oh come on, make yourself miserable and confused about the futility of everything. Read some philosophy🥳.
😂 I filled my head up with all that shit in my 20’s.
My rule now is to read for enjoyment.
A wise choice🙏🏻. Though I do still like to punish myself with an occasional dip, ha ha.
An occasional masochist. Nothing wrong that.
Funny, I made a conscious effort to do the opposite. I opted to not confuse myself with philosophy after seeing that I'd find myself agreeing with each new thing I read, and putting it off for later in life after I had a stronger personal position. TBD if I stick with it, but right now it's doing it for me, at least the high level historical overview provided here (may not enjoy digging into any particular author deeply).
I need to get on that bandwagon!
Maybe this afternoon in the sunshine 🌞