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AS13: Poetry and Solipsism

Serious Inquiries Only

Thomas Smith

News, News Commentary, Politics

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2014

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

The Road Not Taken doesn't mean what you think it does…  Thomas discusses an interesting intellectual journey he went through and the guys apply it to art and to atheism in general.

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0:00.0

You're listening to, atheistically speaking. Oh, So David, the other, the other, well it's been a few months now, something happened to me and I found it so interesting, set me on sort of a mini little intellectual journey.

0:46.7

And I honestly, I found it so fascinating that I really want to talk about it.

0:50.2

I hope others find it as fascinating.

0:52.8

And if they don't, well, you know, turn it off.

0:54.8

I don't know.

0:55.8

But it was just so interesting.

0:58.3

Someone on a podcast I was listening to

1:01.1

mentioned completely in passing just a quick throwaway thought that they had

1:07.6

heard that the poem the road not taken which I'm sure you're probably familiar with, Robert Frost, that it actually means something completely different than what everybody thinks it means.

1:20.3

And then this person said, well, maybe that wasn't true.

1:23.0

Maybe I'm confusing with something else.

1:24.7

And I thought, oh, they probably are confusing with something else

1:28.1

because it seems pretty straightforward, right?

1:29.6

It's the two roged, the quote you always see, two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference you know you always see that quote places and it seems to say you I if you take the road less traveled that less people have been on,

1:46.7

that makes a big difference in your life.

1:48.1

And it's always a like one of those inspirational, you know, be a pioneer kind of kind of quotes but I don't know just because this

1:56.7

person had said that I can't remember it was just some podcast I was listening to I

2:00.4

had to look at it and and I read the whole thing and at first I read it one time and I thought

2:05.7

Yeah, this is this is what that means. I mean this is this is normal and then something went off in my brain. I was like wait a minute. Maybe it's maybe this isn't and I read it like two more

2:14.7

times and finally I just took it very slowly like a line at a time and I realize it means completely

2:21.9

the opposite of what everyone thinks it means when they put that quote on posters and give the quote in speeches for graduations and stuff.

2:31.6

And it was so just mind-blowing to me that I'd like to share it because

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