86: All these episodes and still not a connoisseur of words yet

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🗓️ 18 July 2017

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Summary

The words for today are: Connoisseur, Droll, Inchoate, Refractory.

Today's quote is from Being and Time by Martin Heidegger

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0:00.0	Hello there. This is Sam Fold and this is episode 86 of the Victor Prep vocab
0:08.0	podcast. It's Tuesday. It was a little cooler today in California. We've had a lot of hot days recently.
0:17.2	A bit cooler, a bit cloudy, at least where I am was quite nice and let's just review our words from yesterday.
0:28.9	We had Mordlin, deride, malinga and gestation so mordlin meaning self-pityingly or tearfully sentimental often
0:42.3	maybe through drunkenness, over-emotional, lacrimose.
0:48.8	We had deride, deride, to express contempt for something, to ridicule something or someone,
0:57.0	malinga, malinga to feign or pretend or pretend illness in order to escape work.
1:08.0	And we had gestation, the process of carrying or being carried in the womb between conception and birth.
1:18.1	So pregnancy.
1:20.1	All right then, so that was yesterday and today I want to start with a quote from another philosopher I guess I'm having a thoughtful
1:29.6	Philosophical week this week and this is a quote from Martin Heidegger and this is from Being in Time a book he wrote I actually
1:37.4	didn't originally read this quote in being in Time I read this in another book
1:42.4	about metaphysics and introduction to metaphysics, but I think it's just a really thoughtful interesting quote and just fits my my thought for today. So here we go. Why are there beings at all instead of
1:58.4	nothing? That is the question. Presumably it is no arbitrary question.
2:04.8	Why are their beings at all, instead of nothing?
2:09.0	This is obviously the first of all questions.
2:12.4	Of course, it's not the first question. Of course, it's not the first question in the chronological sense.
2:18.2	Individuals as well as peoples ask many questions in the course of their historical passage through time.
2:25.0	They explore, investigate, and test many sorts of things before they run into the question,
2:32.0	why are their beings at all instead of nothing?
2:37.0	Many never run into this question at all.
2:40.0	If running into the question means not only hearing and reading the interrogative sentence is uttered,
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