Ep. 7 - The Love That Would Not Die
The Conspirators Podcast
The Conspirators Podcast
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2016
⏱️ 16 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Love makes us do funny things. It's the one common emotion that binds us all. From the earliest sensation of being an infant and finding comfort in our mother's |
| 0:15.5 | arms to the sweaty awkward first pangs of puppy love in our teenage years, to getting married |
| 0:21.1 | and having children and all the other ways humans connect to one another and experience that sense of completion |
| 0:26.3 | We can only get from having someone else in our lives |
| 0:29.5 | Be a spouse a child the best friend or even a pet. That's love. Poets and songwriters and artists have |
| 0:41.0 | tried to define what is love for as long as there has been poetry and music and art. |
| 0:45.0 | It's that most unselfish of emotions that's only fully experienced when you have that special partner in your life that you can't be without, that certain someone |
| 0:54.4 | who is as much a part of you as one of your own limbs. |
| 0:58.6 | What happens when that special someone dies and suddenly it's as if you had that limb amputated. |
| 1:03.0 | What do you do then? |
| 1:06.0 | Psychologists talk about the seven emotional stages of grief, shock, psychological categories and not all people are able to move past those early stages of grief. |
| 1:27.2 | Some people absolutely refuse to let their loved ones go, even long after they're dead. |
| 1:35.0 | I'm Nate Hale coming to you from an unnamed amusement park on a solo ride through the tunnel of love. |
| 1:40.0 | And this is the conspirators. In ancient Greek mythology, Penthesilio was a beautiful and fierce Amazonian warrior queen, the daughter of Ares the Greek |
| 2:06.0 | God of war, and Oterra, the previous queen of the Amazons. |
| 2:10.6 | Think of her like Wonder Woman without the invisible jed or magic lasso and a lot more violent. |
| 2:15.0 | While on a hunting trip, Penthesilia accidentally killed her sister Hippolyta with a spear. |
| 2:20.6 | Penthesilia was so overwhelmed with grief at what she had done that she only wished to die herself, |
| 2:26.8 | but she needed to do it in the most honorable Amazonian way in battle. |
| 2:32.4 | So in order to receive the death she so desired, Penthesilia, along with 12 |
| 2:36.5 | companions, decided to join in the Trojan War, fighting on the side of Troy's defenders |
| 2:41.4 | against the Greek invaders. |
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