lectures

Ok i like listening to lectures when i have time. Insightful with humor at the same time.



Share a good lecture that you like.

Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying. In essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.

Alain de Botton, On Love

I wonder if he has Sun in 7th 🤔

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Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying. In essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.

Alain de Botton, On Love

I wonder if he has Sun in 7th 🤔

what you've described is part of existentialism. it's an interesting thought. sartre wrote a lot about the gaze and nothingness and what it means.

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Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying. In essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.

Alain de Botton, On Love

I wonder if he has Sun in 7th 🤔

what you've described is part of existentialism. it's an interesting thought. sartre wrote a lot about the gaze and nothingness and what it means.

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Thank you. Ill read up about it. nice to learn that we are not the only ones who might have "strange" thoughts sometimes

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Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying. In essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.

Alain de Botton, On Love

I wonder if he has Sun in 7th 🤔

what you've described is part of existentialism. it's an interesting thought. sartre wrote a lot about the gaze and nothingness and what it means.

Thank you. Ill read up about it. nice to learn that we are not the only ones who might have "strange" thoughts sometimes

Lol wut

Do you think you have insight because of your sun sign

. what a narc

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You can twist ideas to fit your perception. have a good weekend

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Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying. In essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.

Alain de Botton, On Love

I wonder if he has Sun in 7th 🤔

what you've described is part of existentialism. it's an interesting thought. sartre wrote a lot about the gaze and nothingness and what it means.

Thank you. Ill read up about it. nice to learn that we are not the only ones who might have "strange" thoughts sometimes

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i enjoyed the lecture. i didnt realise he was such an entertaining and engaging speaker. thanks for posting it.

i studied philosophy at uni. it's a fascinating subject (unsurprisingly i particularly enjoyed ethics... *eyeroll*). if you like this stuff, definitely read more into it. if you are not all that familiar with philosophy you might like to read "Sophie's World". it's a novel but which introduces philosophical ideas. have you heard of 'big think'? website about concepts told in bite size pieces.

towards the end of my studies i found philosophy really really hard. i was studying aesthetics (again, eyeroll for a libra) and the whole thing of what beauty means, when does it occur and who decides painful. immanuel kant made my head hurt. i found the limits of my intelligence and it was kant who lead me up to the dead end.

i still like to listen to that sort of stuff. i don't think i know nearly enough about eastern philosophy or middle eastern philosophy or african philosophy. maybe one day i'll get a chance to learn a little more.

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Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there is someone who can understand what we are saying. In essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.

Alain de Botton, On Love

I wonder if he has Sun in 7th 🤔

what you've described is part of existentialism. it's an interesting thought. sartre wrote a lot about the gaze and nothingness and what it means.

Thank you. Ill read up about it. nice to learn that we are not the only ones who might have "strange" thoughts sometimes

i enjoyed the lecture. i didnt realise he was such an entertaining and engaging speaker. thanks for posting it.

i studied philosophy at uni. it's a fascinating subject (unsurprisingly i particularly enjoyed ethics... *eyeroll*). if you like this stuff, definitely read more into it. if you are not all that familiar with philosophy you might like to read "Sophie's World". it's a novel but which introduces philosophical ideas. have you heard of 'big think'? website about concepts told in bite size pieces.

towards the end of my studies i found philosophy really really hard. i was studying aesthetics (again, eyeroll for a libra) and the whole thing of what beauty means, when does it occur and who decides painful. immanuel kant made my head hurt. i found the limits of my intelligence and it was kant who lead me up to the dead end.

i still like to listen to that sort of stuff. i don't think i know nearly enough about eastern philosophy or middle eastern philosophy or african philosophy. maybe one day i'll get a chance to learn a little more.

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I also enjoyed ethics at uni. We had a cool prof.. and the arts appreciation course too 😊

If all profs are like them i wouldve enjoyed uni more haha

Check out Dan Ariely too. His lectures are entertaining.

Thanks for sharing Big Think and Sophie's World.

Diff philosophies.. hmm i like Thomas Merton's works. He also kind of studied eastern philo esp Buddhism. But these things are romanticized in the west.

I remember, once when i went to a mountain in Sichuan (china) with a local friend. she kept reminding me to breath properly. It dawned on me that this "meditative" breathing is normal and necessary in the Nepal/Tibet/Sichuan highlands because of low levels of oxygen. And i had to wonder about the effects and purpose of this rhythmic breathing imported to the lowlands. 😝