What do you think intellectualism is?

Living an intellectual life is like success. Those who are busy living what they enjoy, intellectual life /& success follow unnoticed.

This is--in a word--amazing. Gonna watch this all the time now.

Really enjoyed this video and it’s simplicity. Life pared down to the basics are key to understanding what makes us tick and why we should always try to improve our own minds and encourage others to expand theirs. Learning and growing is possible for each and everyone of us no matter who we are.

I love Prof. Hitz's insights and book. It inspired me to talk about nourishing yourself intellectually in my newest video on this topic. So important!

“We can always become more human.”

I love this stile and clarity. Thank you¡

Indeed intellectuals are not necessarily very smart. That's why I sometimes feel slightly offended when people refer to me as an intellectual. And I also think they use it in a derogatory meaning

I wish this was 2hrs long

i would add that an intellectual that doesn´t try to change the world for the better... is not a real intellectual. It´s something else

It's act swarms of resentment, little bugs around a light... intellectual is such a broad term as to mean nothing, like many terms, but living an intellectual life does mean something. Switching careers, making a turn, that's real...

Thank you for this video.

"Intellectuals" now are just critics who don't make anything themselves.

This was really good

Very interesting

Welcome to the beginning

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سلام وقتتون بخیر اگر برای تولید محتوا نیاز به گوینده دارید میتونم براتون نمونه صدا بفرستم🌸

That's me. Can't get work to disrespectful.

Puse "maau" y me aparecio este commercial fino xd

You don’t live “intellectual life” People who aspire to do that live a fake life. You live how you live. A normal person. You can do things to enhance your daily habits but it doesn’t attain to an individual becoming and “intellectual”

Instead of drowning in Saturnian suffering, one may apply that tension as disciplined time management, then our tendrils can really explore spiritual gravitics beyond the tangible senses when potted in the proper ratios of study, prayer/meditation and rest 3, 6, 9 hours every day.

Determining what being intellectual is, doesn't really matter.

A whole lot of words for a whole lot of nothing. I am not impressed by the vapid posturing of such life-affirming self-promoters

A whole lot of words for a whole lot of nothing, not surprising from somebody retiring to a monastery! Pompous posturing of intellectuality is far from living an intellectual life...

No

Boring

Zena, what prompted you to leave academia to spend time in a religious monastery? Was it philosophical curiosity or faith based reasons? Einstein was NOT a genius without equal, as Newton was much more visionary than he was, and still is! All you need to do is study MOND (Modified Newtonian Dynamics) to see this! Throughout time, religion has created many gods to stand in for the gaps in our knowledge, to try to explain the unexplained and indoctrinates children from birth to believe, very much like people teach their kids to believe in Santa Claus. At some point children realize that Santa is not real, but they are told until death, that the stories and gods of the old books, written by men are true, and many people believe it all their lives. Free will absolutely exists, Gods do not, except in the minds of propagandized people! Einstein was a very intelligent person and contributed a lot to our knowledge of light, speed, alluded to mass, energy and relativity, but as an intellect and thinker, he can not hold a candle to Newton! Newton was and IS right about the universal clock and nothing exists other than the present instant in the ticking of the cosmic clock. As every action that is taking place in this instant is happening regardless of it's position in the universe, but requires an observer to make it a part of our perceived reality. Countless supernova explosions are happening in this instant throughout the known universe, and even though they may not be visible to us, they are, none the less, happening at this moment. We are not living in a simulation, but everything does work by established natural laws over time according to Newton's "Cosmic Clock". What is called "Dark Matter and Dark Energy" was actually referred to many years ago as aether or ether. The universe is not expanding, but rather, all of what we call matter in the universe is shrinking due to the force exerted on it by the ether, or "Dark Matter/Dark Energy", if you prefer to think about it that way. Kind of like CO2 bubbles in a soda under pressure. All that we perceive as the matter of our universe is just a temporary rift in the void. In much the same way that that we observe energy appearing and disappearing in a vacuum, so have we, on a much larger scale of distance and time. The universe isn't expanding, everything in it is shrinking proportionally which gives the illusion of expansion. It's really just a matter of time, literally! Like they say, as Newton's "Cosmic Clock" continues to tick, all the stars and galaxies will appear farther and farther away from us and each other until they eventually all just wink out of existence for us. Compare the law of gravity, which is the force of the ether compressing matter and forcing us back into the vacuum from which we came, with the formula for expansion of the universe, and the formula for electromagnetic radiation over distance, and I think you will see what I'm saying here. They are directly related. This is why the light from distant galaxies appears to be red-shifted to us and a longer wavelength. The frequency of the originally emitted light didn't change before it reached us, it just appears to be longer waves to us because we are smaller, having shrunk, because of the time that has passed for that light to reach us. Matter doesn't really exist. It's all basically empty space occupied by transient energy of all frequencies that react with each other to give us what we call reality or particles. What is matter really, other than what we observe and measure it to be? While I don't agree with the "Big Bang" theory, I do subscribe to a version of the "Many Worlds" theory, which may as well allude to the "Many Universes" theory, however, that is not necessary to explain our existence. The earth is in the center of the bubble of our known universe and it appears the same regardless of the direction in which you look and new data from the JWST confirms large galaxies existing near the edge of our universe, where they should not be according to the big bang origin theory. Our known universe contains billions and billions of galaxies, which each contain billions and billions of stars, each of which is home to a multitude of planets and moons in differing zones of distance from those stars. The probability of many of those worlds having conditions similar to those here is undeniable. If you lived on a planet that we consider to be half of the distance from earth to the edge of our known universe, and if you had the same JWST technology to view your own place in your visible universe, what would you see? Your universe would appear the same to you as ours does to us - a bubble in which you are at the center! But, the fact is that like two venn-diagram intersecting spheres, your known universe would share a part of our known universe. The rest of both universes would be unknown to the other! The past is behind the "now plank-length-moment" and is set in stone, unalterable, and the future is yet to be written and is certainly not determined. Yes, Space, time and speed will alter conscious observers perceptions of reality, but not what happened in that tick of the cosmic clock. It would not matter if you could travel at warp speeds, 10, 100 or 1000 times the speed of light, you can never go backwards in time with respect to Newton's cosmic clock. That is to say that you can never leave a place and return to it before you left it. The question of determinism can not be separated from the debate over consciousness, but, that being said you should also know that it is based on the relationship of perceived reality by a consciousness. Some amount of determinism does exist on the macro-level, and plays out under Newton's cosmic clock. Think about it like the impending merging of the Milky Way Galaxy with the Andromeda Galaxy and other Newtonian physics down to and including our solar system's existence and our sun's interactions with other stars in our galaxy. However, determinism on the micro-level as it relates to biological entities and our lives is much less a factor. Consciousness plays a much bigger role there. Peoples lives and events that occur in them are determined more by our conscious decisions that are made in basically three different ways. Many are made emotionally, while some are made logically, and many are a mixed combination of both. The timelines of our lives generally follow the path that we lay out for them from the time we become sentient and throughout our lives. If you want to see the difference that your conscious decisions make on your reality timeline, try this experiment. Make a conscious choice to let any significant decisions you make for a set amount of time be determined by a coin toss or cutting a deck of cards, a purely random act of chance. I assure you that the events of your life's expected time line will change drastically, but it will fit nicely with the many worlds theory. Now, lets talk a little bit about consciousness and it's effect in our lives. First, without consciousness there is nothing, and I do mean NOTHING. The perceptions of our senses actually creates our reality. Without our ability to perceive it, it would not exist. Without consciousness everything that existed would be totally predetermined, but there would be nothing to acknowledge it and give it substance - No reality could exist. Consciousness is in fact a very complex electromagnetic waveform, call it "brainwaves" if you like, generated by all sentient life forms and just like in electronics theory, the product of merging of all those complex probability waveforms results in many more waveforms that are the sum, the difference, plus all of the originals. The number and types of those interactions are innumerable, or if you prefer "infinite", although I dislike using that word because infinity does not exist any more than "zero" exists in our reality and math. You are the Captain of your own ship of destiny and you pick the directions, speed and ports. Your own reality IS what your mind and senses perceive it to be and it is just as real and valid as anyone else's perceptions of it. If you only consider the other eight billion people on this earth, with which we have a somewhat shared perception of reality, less with some and much more with friends, family and colleagues, you should quickly realize that it can be considered to be a giant venn diagram with intersections indicating the areas where our individual perceptions of reality converge into a shared reality. If you are reading this, our realities are converging and there is a sharing of our perceived reality going on right now. I will leave you with one last thought. Consider that our reality is all about consciousness and many worlds and this is the formula for it. R=I/Z In which R = "Reality", I = "Infinity", and Z = "Zero" Anything divided by Zero equals Infinity and Infinity divided by Zero equals "Infinite Infinities"!