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Today's episode we look at a different angle in this meaning creation process.

It's our own Kirkagard's Lillie of the Field and Bird of the Air.

I hope you love the show today.

So when I was 19 years old, I read Kirkagard for the first time.

And at just 19 years of age, I was convinced that I was one of the lucky ones.

I had basically figured out most of the world already at that point in my life.

For example, at the time, fundamentalist religion was the scourge of humankind to the 19-year-old Stephen.

The transparently tribal way they take delusional beliefs, force feed them into people at a young age,

shut down any hope of a reasonable conversation, and then label anyone that lies outside of their echo chamber

a heretic that needs to be burned, this seemed like a formula for cultural control.

If that's something you had ambitions to do.

19-year-old Uncle Steve had to stop it.

I had a Richard Dawkins-Wonsey, and I was wearing it when I sat down to read Kirkagard for the very first time.

I started calling him Churchagard at first.

He was a Christian, and when I read him there was all sorts of talk about God and faith and sin and spirits.

These words that had become the vernacular of my enemy at the time.

How could I possibly see humanity in my enemy with all the bad those words do in the world?

I mean, what philosophers muggles in so much metaphysical baggage unapologetically,

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