The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 124
What is the true nature of Being? That’s one of those “big” questions that we probably cannot answer. Related to it is another huge question: how should we be disposed toward the fact of Being? That’s a fundamentally religious, or even pre-religious, question, and it’s important to answer. While we may not know the true nature of Being itself, of all of existence, we can say something about the mood of our relationship to it. In this philosophical episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay explores four essential dispositions toward being: the Prison of Being, the Tragedy of Being, the Comedy of Being, and the Miracle of Being. Join him to understand these views and what they mean, particularly in light of the Gnostic and Hermetic esoteric religions lurking within Woke Marxism.
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This was fun. Kinda felt like just hangin out.
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This episode helped fill some gaps I had become aware of. It’s difficult to truly imagine oneself within a different mindset to one’s own … mportant nevertheless. I appreciate the honesty with which Dr. Lindsay … presumably still an atheist … credits the biblical Christian worldview of wonder, thankfulness and obedience, even going as far as to quote from Leviticus and Hebrews.
The Taoist. stoic . Buddhist, and traditional view is to flow with life and accept circumstances as they reflect a mirage or surface layer of illusionary thinking about the future over which we have no control. Misery and pain comes from resisting and fighting and struggle to be other than what one is. Do well by being stable and live without a sense or blame or complaint. As the outer form is seen it its apparent that it is in constant flux yet some force is at work to bring balance and health. Christians think a state of perfection lies on the other side or outside reality. But they see through wokeism thank God. Marx was obsessed with a future utopia and his deluded brain went all the way into a black hole of darkness and fantasy. I dont see anyone figuring out the Mystery of existence. Everyone must remain centered to some degree in the present moment. Yet that becomes boring to the mind and escapes are sought to ease the harsh reality that all we have is the present.
There is simply “the isness of being”. That is the premise that what exists just is what it is, has the identity it has and the realm of evaluation belongs to the “could have been otherwise” realm of the manmade and voluntary…..