#259: Existence is Futile (@DuncanTrussell)

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🗓️ 30 March 2016

⏱️ 165 minutes

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Summary

Duncan Trussell invited me up to his compound in the mountains to explain to me what existentialism means. It's a heady conversation that I barely remember thanks to marijuana, but it was really interesting at the time. And it starts with a rational breakdown of the story of the Jewish holiday, Purim, in the intro.

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0:00.0	The concept that consciousness is not related to neurological activity, so it's not embodied.
0:08.4	Then you could theoretically, that would mean that someone who was truly enlightened or
0:12.8	who had really woken up would have access to the disembodied reservoir of all information
0:22.6	that exists in the micro thing that they call the soul, which means you could look at
0:28.8	and be like, here's what happens.
0:30.0	So that would be the...
0:31.2	Wait, wait, what?
0:32.5	Couple in the next room, bound to win a prize, they've been going at it all night long.
0:42.1	Well I'm trying to get some sleep, my days and motel walls and chill,
0:47.2	then can dunk in his mind, and here's my song, here's my song.
0:58.2	Attempts number three, hello everybody, welcome to R-E-Shi for the Skeptic Tank.
1:03.4	Today's episode, Mr. Dunkin' Trussell, who doesn't love Dunkin' Trussell?
1:08.9	Who doesn't love Dunkin' Trussell?
1:10.7	What was somebody, right?
1:14.5	What was somebody?
1:17.0	So you think your guy rose, just out of the blue rose from the dead, and then...
1:24.6	But nobody saw him, and he never came back.
1:28.2	And then, so then when the Messiah comes, it's going to be, so when Jesus, when he comes
1:32.9	back, but why did he have to rise again?
1:36.4	Like why was that part of it?
1:38.4	Couldn't he just die?
1:40.7	And then come back as the Messiah?
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