Comments by "coreycox2345" (@coreycox2345) on "Academy of Ideas" channel.

  1. The quote from "They Thought They Were Free" is an apt description for today.
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  2. Right? I had not even thought of the Stoics as badass until I watched the Academy of Ideas. In college, my professor made them sound like people who were ridiculous because they tolerated reality. I imagined them as people who wouldn't have fun at a birthday party. So wrong.
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  3. Stoics are the most badass, maxfield painter. A true nihilist would not even care to be optimistic. A stoic actually feels happy even when things are going badly and can care deeply at the same time. If that is not badass, I don't know what is.
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  4. I missed the lesbian sex. I watch TSoL regularly, and find them, like this excellent.
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  5. Thank you for this. I loved "On Liberty" when I was a young college student and am about to read it again. I am looking forward to it because I recall reading passages and thinking "this is just so good."
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  6. Listening and thinking, Analogous to Tower 7 : Ameaning
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  7. Thank you. I have read about the hero's journey in Joseph Campbell's books. I had forgotten that he based this on Jung.
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  8.  @bugsbunny8742  Excellent point. I have had the experience of thinking a news outlet was cutting edge only to realize later that they predictably put a suspicious spin on some stories. It took me a while to see it.
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  9. Botton teaches philosophy to many who would not typically have a reason to hit the philosophy books in a way that is clear, concise, and engaging. Ideally, one would explore many sources to gauge the accuracy of perceptions. I would be in favour of a bogus philosophy video channel where someone did their best to sound factual while spouting lies. This would be a test of how much we had paid attention. I feel like I can establish a broader insight if I hear a variety of divergent interpretations.
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  10. I did not attend a Catholic school but can relate to your comment. Some people are more comfortable conforming. I didn't have that choice, so I had to figure out my values for myself. I am pretty sure that I would not change things if I could because I have loved much of my work and life as a result.
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  11. ​I can't remember what I was responding to a year ago in my comment, saroth1978. Regardless of who said it, it is a lovely quote.
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  12. Even in the major cities, small groups of like-minded individuals with common goals are a good way to work. My best work has been in this kind of setting. People who respect each other sitting around a table. Sometimes even disagreements can produce the best ideas. That kind of an environment will often spark my own thinking in ways that would not have happened if I were working independently.
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  13. I am a retired urban planner. I did not articulate my point well. After doing a lot of work on consensus and also mediation, I think that a consensus is not always a good or implementable policy. It can be. Often what is paraded out as a consensus is actually not. ((Unsurprising when you look at who is running the process and why.) A successful consensus starts with all the cards on the table and everyone with the same access to information. Everyone walks away from the table a and a little unhappy, but they get something out of it. If someone cares deeply and remains disgruntled, they will come back and try to mess up the "consensus.". This was a bit rambling. A consensus is useful, but not without its flaws.
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  14. I doubt that the perfect human could ever exist. Oxymoron.
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  15. I did not hear this part of Jung until now. I like it. Thank you.
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  16. Right. But lots of books on Kindle do not remind you to start reading as a giant pile of unread books does. I like having the collection. Time makes one have to sort them.
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  17. I see them more as embracing reality.
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  18. Good question. At one point, I thought they were trying to set me up with an imaginary boyfriend. I think maybe I should get out more.
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  19. It is sometimes useful to take a sabbatical from social life to work on one's inner world. It can be overdone, though.
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  20. To cease feeling is one way to eliminate emotional pain. As someone who developed a pattern of this method, I now think that it should not be done. Emotions are as important as logic. Without feeling, one is not truly alive.
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  21. "Don't worry too much about saving the others?" Let's save them. Who are they? What should we do?
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  22. I love the way myths of different people at different times have so many common threads. Actually, he does not seem that similar to Jesus, except maybe that he changed everything. Dionysus seems darker. This reminds me more of Eastern religions that more fully embrace death and destruction as a part of the cycle.
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  23. I know nothing about him. How is that our business?
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  24. There must be at least a few cute ones, Chessiah.
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  25. Then what. Wallow in hopelessness? It seems more interesting to have a purpose, Make one up, even.
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  26. I can see how that could happen, James Brooks. I have learned from YouTube but it it is sometimes tempting to be interested in everything and nothing. It is best to have at least some focus.
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  27. Thank you. This is especially well-written.
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  28. I went through a phase where I thought that if I created something in my work, it had to be good. You are right, ReVitelect, being too smug can detract from the work. It can give you blind spots. Nonetheless, I would like to be more that way again.
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  29. Thank you. I appreciate your channel. These short pieces sometimes come into my YouTube feed juxtaposed in enlightening ways. This dovetails nicely with your discussion on Jung that you end with "a thousand zeros do not add up to one." Nice work.
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  30. Seven months and some reading later, the more I learn about Jung, the more brilliant he seems. I doubt that many men have had such genius. Your channel has steered my thinking in some beneficial directions. Thank you.
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  31. The Coffee Nut, This is what I thought at first. Stoics visualize and train for good fortune and have a mindset to be content even in the difficult times that every person encounters in some form or another.
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  32. If you are correct, It may have to be a big one. I have seen cataclysm to little effect. This seems an oxymoron, but we have this odd capacity for avoidance.
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  33. You appear to be attempting to get someone to think about sex.
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  34. In planning, we adopt a naieve approach at the outset. The first step is always "define the problem." It sounds simplistic, but slowing down the process at the beginning can sometimes have a big payoff later (in policy development). If the one facilitating listens carefully. she will begin to have ideas of what to expect from whom. Opportunities can emerge.
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  35. Perhaps you should hear "The Demagogue." There's no turning back,
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  36. To me, morality is doing what I perceive as the right thing. My ideas about this were formed by things I have experienced. Although we were not religious, my parent's thinking was consistent with the Judeo-Christian tradition. Because they were humans, also the Pagan tradition. Add in whatever random things life exposed me to and my intrinsic personality. This is a lot fuzzier than something like the law. I would have no qualms about killing Hitler if I had the chance. Squeaky Fromme had no qualms about shooting Ronald Reagan. How are we different? These examples of morality do not seem related to the social contract. They are more personal. My version of the social contract, which I may be taking liberties with...I restrain my impulses toward things that would be pleasant for me and unpleasant for other people in exchange for the belief that this will keep people from doing similar unpleasant things to me. That is somewhat like the golden rule in Christianity, but the idea that it is a contract implies that it could be broken. Because it is a contract, there are even times when it should be broken. It seems like this thinking is behind many laws, even behind the idea of police protection. (I am not saying that this is not a component to this in Christianity, which espouses an "eye for an eye.")
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  37. Thank you for this. I have never understood Nietzsche in this way. He was brilliant.
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  38. If Camus said it first this is not a misattribution.
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  39. I don't understand nihilism. I simply need meaning. To each hos own, though.
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  40. It doesn't help if you cry, IndustrialBonecraft.
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  41.  @BlondeManNoName  It doesn't even seem like a sin. I just never want to date a man who treats me that way, TheManWithNoName. As I have said many times, you do seem to deserve her. Good for you.
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  42. Self-help bot?
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  43. It doesn't have to be strictly one thing or the other chan tzu kit. Sometimes one can follow interests without knowing the result, and this will open doors to new potentials that would not have been seen otherwise.
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  44. I had that same thought, Simte. I have learned a lot from YouTube.
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  45. You write well, Andrea. In some ways, we are all alone. We die alone even if surrounded by people. The connection of realizing we are understood and loved is one of the more beautiful human experiences.It seems sad that Nietzsche, in all his brilliance, could not have this. It may have saved him or not.
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  46. Agreed. He sounds smart, SparkyonPC.
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  47.  @marblenerdjones4630  Don't have too many drinks when one goes out is useful. I have no idea if I frightened or disgusted anyone, but I was left with a pang of vague, unspecified guilt.
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  48. Same here, Sammy Stone. Change for me this minute.
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  49.  @brandonwhite4992 I don't know about you. I needed to hear it.
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  50. Our body/brain's unconscious feelings are often correct. Does this mean that we are meant to be depressed, CampingforCool41?
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