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Corrupt vs. Virtuous
00:02:17
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| All right. | |
| She writes about her relatively wealthy husband. | |
| I can be critical because he's not super, quote, fun in an energetic way, but that's because he's emotionally very level. | |
| So no extreme highs or lows. | |
| I am more of an extreme high and low person, actually, so when somebody's super level, I feel like my energy can be too much. | |
| Well, I mean, but he's a team lead because he's not super emotional, right? | |
| Super emotional team leads. | |
| Let's go on the roller coaster, right? | |
| John says, very interesting points. | |
| I felt like I lost 20 years due to my childhood. | |
| Long story short, I treated life as a sprint, as a way to make up for the time that's gone with the wind. | |
| Someone says, that's amazing to this woman. | |
| Hearing you talk about your husband makes me want to work even more. | |
| I've been working quite hard on my career with a good degree of success. | |
| also planned for years now to give a girlfriend of mine real-time relationships. | |
| Right. | |
| I had a conversation It's a call-in show. | |
| It's a public call-in show. | |
| It'll be out, I'm sure, soon. | |
| But it was a guy who was still enmeshed in a corrupt and immoral family system. | |
| And we went through the exercise of, well, what does a quality, virtuous woman... | |
| He was in his late 20s. | |
| I said, well, what does a quality, virtuous woman see when she is in your environment? | |
| She sees this crazy, corrupt family. | |
| She sees you bowing down before it, and she sees that. | |
| She won't have any real authority because you're going to count out the irrational and corrupt in your life and at the expense of the virtuous and moral. | |
| And he's like, so I've got to prepare myself for this woman who's coming down the pipe. | |
| I'm like, bro, bro, she might already have come and gone. | |
| She might already have come and gone. | |
| If that doesn't give you goosebumps, I don't know what will. | |
| Do it now. | |
| Because you don't know when she's coming. | |
| She could be here tomorrow and you should have cleaned up your social environment six months ago. | |
| She might have come and gone. | |
| She might have seen you across the room, saw the flash of submission in your eyes as you laughed at an unfunny joke from a dominant person and said, No. | |
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She Might Already Have Gone
00:03:29
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| All right. | |
| Question. | |
| I was laid off yesterday. | |
| I'm sorry to hear that. | |
| I have a decent amount of savings and I'm not in a bind financially. | |
| I'm a software developer. | |
| A former co-worker referred me a job listing that I fit well. | |
| It would be a 20% raise, but it is for a cannabis e-commerce site slash company. | |
| I have major reservations about working for a company like that. | |
| Would I not be profiting from people doing what I consider to be dumb lifestyle choice and those self-medicating, even if it is partially marketed as medical? | |
| Thank you, Lloyd. | |
| I appreciate that. | |
| You know, we all, there's no particularly obvious solution to the problem of Overlapping corruption, right? | |
| I mean, I've mentioned this before, and this is when I was still a minarchist, so it wasn't so bad, but I did business with concerns in the distant past. | |
| I would say, obviously, you know this, if you have a choice, don't do it, because you are contributing, unless it's purely medical, right? | |
| but you are contributing to people's dissociation and time wasting. | |
| So keep looking as if you don't have a job, and if you're starving, take the job. | |
| That would be my particular solution. | |
| Somebody says, I've very much been sprinting, trying to make up time, but my health issues are a huge roadblock that I just can't tough guy my way out of, like I used to do when they affected me in my 20s. | |
| I'm sorry about that. | |
| that? | |
| What are your health issues? | |
| The readiness is all. | |
| It's a great line. | |
| It very much affected me from Hamlet. | |
| I love this. | |
| I love this quote. | |
| I've read it before. | |
| I will read it again. | |
| We defy augury. | |
| There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. | |
| If it be now, tis not to come. | |
| If it be not to come, it will be now. | |
| If it be not now, yet it will come, the readiness is all. | |
| Since no man of ought, he leaves known. | |
| What is to be, to leave betimes, let be. | |
| Sorry, the last bit, who cares, right? | |
| We defy augury. | |
| Augury is a form of prophecy. | |
| We don't, we can't see the future, right? | |
| There's a special providence in the fall of Aspera. | |
| If it be now, it is not to come. | |
| It's happening now. | |
| If it be not to come, it will be now. | |
| If it be not now, yet it will come. | |
| The readiness is all, right? | |
| Stuff's going to happen now or it's going to happen soon. | |
| And the readiness in life is everything. | |
| I studied computers for years so that when an opportunity came to be the principal architect, Of a big software project, I was ready. | |
| I studied philosophy for decades before podcasting came along. | |
| and sure as Sherlock I wouldn't be able to do any of this shit in a university or in a publishing house because I ain't no fucking communist. | |
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Can't Dig For Water Desperately Thirsty
00:01:01
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| I did self-knowledge for years and therapy for years before I met my wife. | |
| then I was ready. | |
| The time to plant a tree is not when you desperately need the shade because it's going to take 10 or 15 years to grow. | |
| You can't dig for water when you're already desperately thirsty. | |
| Prepare for things in life. | |
| Do not wait to react. | |
| You will lose every time. | |
| I went to theater school. | |
| So I could act like a philosopher. | |
| No, I mean, I wrote for decades, and then I just happened to get my first book published when I met my wife, and that's one of the things we talked about to begin with. | |