Hey, everybody's the family from Free Domain. Hope you doing well.

This is round two, take two.

Tech issues, but anyway, so these are questions from the Wednesday last live stream.

Sorry, I didn't get to them there, but I want to follow up.

There's some great questions.

So, Eric writes, my sister has a saying, don't get involved with matters of the heart.

As much as I get on her about her behavior, I've learned not to meddle with her boyfriend stuff.

It breaks my heart.

Yeah.

Yeah, so there's a general perception in the world that the mind is a seat of reason and the body is this seeting

mass of contradictions and passions and hedonism and lust and pain and it's somehow inferior

or base or negative or a problem. This view is entirely pushed by hyper-political powermongers

of the primarily familial, religious, and political stripe

in order to have you self-surrender to their endless bullshit.

So I studied philosophy for 20 years before I really began to put it into practice

because the study of philosophy and the abstractions and these beautiful high snow-capped

alpine crystalline platonic ideals are just intoxicating and to study reason and

to study argumentation and metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, is just fantastic.

Actually putting it into practice, though, kind of a different matter.

And once I started to actually put philosophy into practice,

all of my relationships fell apart. I was cast into the wilderness for a lot longer than 40 days

and 40 nights until I found rational people and built an entirely new life. I tell you, man,

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