Thanks Milo!

Haha I think it was Socrates who said "by all means get a cat. If you get a good one you'll be happy and it not you'll become a philosophy" 🤣

one day you might learn you can't improve yourself

philosophy: the love of wisdom, normally encapsulated within a formal academic discipline. Wisdom is the soundness of an action or decision with regard to the application of experience, knowledge, insight, and good judgment. Wisdom may also be described as the body of knowledge and principles that develops within a specified society or period. E.g. “The wisdom of the Tibetan lamas.” Unfortunately, in most cases in which this term is used, particularly outside India, it tacitly or implicitly refers to ideas and ideologies that are quite far-removed from genuine wisdom. For instance, the typical academic philosopher, especially in the Western tradition, is not a lover of actual wisdom, but a believer in, or at least a practitioner of, adharma, which is the ANTITHESIS of genuine wisdom. Many Western academic (so-called) “philosophers” are notorious for using laborious sophistry, abstruse semantics, gobbledygook, and pseudo-intellectual word-play, in an attempt to justify their blatantly-immoral ideologies and practices, and in many cases, fooling the ignorant layman into accepting the most horrendous crimes as not only normal and natural, but holy and righteous! An ideal philosopher, on the other hand, is one who is sufficiently intelligent to understand that morality is, of necessity, based on the law of non-violence (“ahiṃsā”, in Sanskrit), and sufficiently wise to live his or her life in such a harmless manner. Cf. “dharma”. One of the greatest misconceptions of modern times is the belief that philosophers (and psychologists, especially) are, effectively, the substitutes for the priesthood of old. It is perhaps understandable that this misconception has taken place, because the typical priest/monk/rabbi/mullah seems to be an uneducated buffoon compared with those highly-educated gentlemen who have attained doctorates in philosophy, psychology and psychiatry. However, as mentioned in more than a few places in this book, it is imperative to understand that only an infinitesimal percentage of all those who claim to be spiritual teachers are ACTUAL “brāhmaṇa” (as defined in Chapter 20). Therefore, the wisest philosophers of the present age are still those exceptionally rare members of the Holy Priesthood! At the very moment these words of mine are being typed on my laptop computer, there are probably hundreds of essay papers, as well as books and articles, being composed by professional philosophers and theologians, both within and without academia. None of these papers, and almost none of the papers written in the past, will have any noticeable impact on human society, at least not in the realm of morals and ethics, which is obviously the most vital component of civilization. And, as mentioned in a previous paragraph, since such “lovers-of-wisdom” are almost exclusively adharmic (irreligious and corrupt) it is indeed FORTUITOUS that this is the case. The only (so-called) philosophers who seem to have any perceptible influence in the public arena are “pop” or “armchair” philosophers, such as Mrs. Alisa “Alice” O’Connor (known more popularly by her pen name, Ayn Rand), almost definitely due to the fact that they have published well-liked books and/or promulgate their ideas in the mass media, especially on the World Wide Web.

​@@aussiebeermoney1167 Well, it's wonderful in my home country of AUSTRALIA - the people are all very humble, religious and respectful folk. Oh, and incidentally, pigs can fly.🤪

Cheers Zach!

That's so nice to hear. Thank you for the kind words and long may it all continue!

Thanks a million DCR! Hope the move is going well!

Muchos gracias Bill!

Ah wow! Always great to see one of the early folks! I'm delighted to have been a part of your journey and thanks for being part of mine

Cheers Patrick!

Thanks a million! Mad to see your name show up. It must have only been a couple of hours before your comment that I was on your channel checking for newer videos and being a fan of Lord Huron's Lonesome Dreams I've that one added to my watch later. Love the pivot into being just about music. I saw the documentary on Bowie a few months back and thought about your Nick Drake video and would love to see you do something similar on the philosophy/music of Bowie

@@TheLivingPhilosophy haha what a coincedence! yes I think the direction I'm taking the channel now is less saturated compared to what I was uploading before. Is Moonage Daydream the documentary about Bowie you're refering to? I'll def check it out! Thanks again and best of luck with your future videos 😄

@@withinmotion It was indeed. Great podcast. Bit mad (apprpriately I guess) but definitely left me fascinated with the mind of Bowie and his worldview I thought it'd be great to make an episode about him and then when thinking of you I thought how I'd LOVE to see your take on it with your exceptional visuals. Thanks for the kind words and I wish you more than the same!

@@TheLivingPhilosophy Hoping this comment will still reach your notifcations otherwise I'll shoot you an e-mail. But, If you're still interested enough in making a video about Bowie we might be able to collaborate on such a video for your channel 😄

​@@withinmotionooh that sounds like it could be a lot of beautiful fun. Absolutely shoot me an email about this and we'll talk details. I'm working on a few other vids at the moment but I could sit down and watch moonage daydream again soon and start from there

What kind words! Thanks a million!

Thanks PhilosophyToons!

Thank you kindly!

Thank you so much 😀

That's actually a brilliant idea

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Sings: “It ain’t necessarily so...” 🎤

this is beautiful

Love this Mark. Great reply

Hahaha that's a done deal Mark

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Haha unforunately not but there's still time! It's funny only last night I was thinking of what I'd look like with just a mustache 🤣

Welcome aboard bayu! I think I will do more long form content in future if not on youtube then I'm planning on doing courses over a couple of months that will allow us to get deeper into these topics. Thanks for the interest and great to hear from you all the way from Indonesia!

Go home Last Brehon you're drunk

Haha we'll see about that! I really appreciate the faith though that means a lot 🙏

Hmm yeah it's a bit long for a comment because I'm not exactly theist and I'm not agnostic either. I'm floating out in a space of not knowing (but not like the agnostics saying that we can't know). It's almost like it doesn't seem like a question to me any more (though I expect it to become one again at some point in my life). But my original big shift was caused by a wonderful book called The Great Transformation by Karent Armstrong which talked about the emergence of the golden rule in disconnected societies across Eurasia (a sort of Perennial Philosophy sort of idea). That's the tldr of it

Hahaha I don't think I'm a suitable candidate to debate anyone. But I sure would love to have a chat with the fella I think we'd have a hoot of a time

Can't wait to meet freddyyyyy

Hahaha you'll love him!

Ah Ming! How could I forget I'm delighted to see your name showing up here! I'm still intending on digging into the works of Confucius and the Taoists on the channel at some point. I deeply enjoyed our chats and it's great to hear from you!