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"Structural Nonsense"
🕑 Added 2019-12-26 13:06:00 +0000 UTCPatreon Exclusive! In this "Maximal" episode, Joshua and Ryan discuss the internal conflicts many people experience when it comes to community and individualism, reason and spirituality, and religion and atheism with mathematical physicist, economist, and podcaster Eric Weinstein, and they answer the following questions:
Can Eric please dumb down his tweets? (24:44)
We all know how to declutter our homes, but how do we declutter our desires? (45:51)
How do I differentiate between what I truly believe and what I was taught to believe? (1:03:53)
Can I believe in something like religion, even if I have doubts, and remain open to others who believe differently than me? (1:11:55)
How do I stop judging people for their religious beliefs that I find silly? (1:29:00)
Can universal morality exist? (1:32:59)
Do attempts at societal purity have to do with creating order? (1:36:37)
LINKS
Article: 20th Anniversary Fight Club
Book: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Book: Civilized to Death
Book: Fight Club
Explore: Object A
Explore: Polygyny Threshold
Instagram: Jordan Moore
Instagram: Podcast Shawn
Instagram: Eric Weinstein
Instagram: Jessica Williams
Podcast: Bryan Callen
Podcast: Sam Harris
Podcast: Chris Ryan
Podcast: Andrew Schulz
Podcast: The Portal
Resources: The Minimalists
Twitter: Eric Weinstein
YouTube: Eric Weinstein
MAXIMS
“We all have a general lack of self-awareness when it comes to self-awareness.” —Eric Weinstein
“We must question what we hold close, otherwise we cling to everything.” —Joshua Fields Millburn
“We live happier lives when we fulfill our own expectations rather than others’ expectations.” —Ryan Nicodemus
This Maximal episode corresponds with Minimal episode 212.
Comments
Jennifer Mulyck
Do you ever think that timestamps on podcasts will one day be looked at like the various books of the Bible? On this our day of Revelation we read from the Book of Rogan #1542 timestamp 2:45:10. And now we read from the gospel of logic, from the Book of Weinstein #25, timestamp 1:38:56
Edgar Cornejo
Literally the 5th time listening to this one. Very needed conversation in my life
