Episode 160: Everything is Meaningless: The Book of Ecclesiastes

Very Bad Wizards

Tamler Sommers & David Pizarro

Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2019

⏱️ 94 minutes

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David and Tamler dive into the book of Ecclesiastes, an absurdist classic that is somehow also a book of the Bible. Is everything meaningless, vain, and a chasing after the wind? Are humans just the same as animals? Are wise people no better off than fools? Will God judge us after we die, rewarding the good people and punishing the shit-heels? What if there is no afterlife and this is all we get? How should we deal with our pointless, unjust existence? Plus we return to our opening-segment bible— Aeon—and talk about an argument for replacing jealousy with...wait for it…compersion.

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0:00.0	Very bad wizards is a podcast with a philosopher, my dad, and psychologist Dave Pizarro,
0:06.1	having an informal discussion about issues and signs and ethics.
0:09.5	Please note that the discussion contains bad words that I'm out of allow to say,
0:13.8	and knowing my dad some very inappropriate jokes.
0:17.2	That's how life works, that's right.
0:19.3	Sometimes the people with the motion get to say the least shit.
0:22.3	And the people with the least shit get to say the motion.
0:25.3	So if you want to say motion, get rid of some of your shit.
0:30.0	The pain in life has been spoken.
0:37.0	We do our attention to that man behind the curtain.
0:41.0	Who are you?
0:48.0	Who are you?
0:49.0	I'm a very bad man.
0:50.0	I'm a very good man.
0:51.0	Good man.
0:52.0	I'm a very good man.
0:59.0	And with no more brains than you have.
1:02.0	We do our attention to that man.
1:08.0	Anybody can have a brain.
1:12.0	You're a very bad man.
1:14.0	I'm a very good man.
1:16.0	Just a very bad wizard.
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