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What do we do in our daily lives that's fun? How do i/can you look at fun in your life  what do you reckon it means? This is what I'll be having a philosophical stab at in this episode. 

Important people are always ones with cool jobs or in positions of power. today you're gonna hear from someone in  a very different situation. How someone in a dead end job reconciles their big dreams with their very ordinary reality.

In this epsiode i have 4 quotes from the man himself a great and wise philosopher. I am just gonna unpack what he says in these quotes as much as i can. Share some eastern wisdom that is eerily help for modern life. The quotes in this episode are as follows.A man may steal and be punished as a thief, or perform good deeds and be commended, but the power of Consciousness, which remains only a witness, is neither thief nor good man.  All troubles which we encounter in our life are due to treating the world as real.A master of the world and a companion of the self simultaneously The influences in the world are such as to make one feel weak feeble and fearful and to cause one to feed on rubbish which makes one week feeble and fearful only good company can undo such influences so that the natural essence of Truth consciousness and Bliss may prevail. Everyone is a lion every being is absolute. 

Everything is not a bleak as it seems honest!! I'm chatting about what nihilism is, how it appears in everyday life and how we can move past it as the glorious dollops of humanity that we are. Starting dark finishing strong.  

I'm hear to talk about energy not in fact juicing as you may have thought also about being comfortable with your own thoughts to not be at the mercy of your own memories and brain majigers. Come on in have a listen see if I'm talking sense.   

its in our lives so much and it lives in our heads rent free all the time. i'm chatting about why we don't need it and a few things that could help on the road to removing this mental weed from your sexy mind bushes. 

I have accumulated a wei box of philosophy nuggets that i will be sharing with you in this episode. There is no overriding lesson no vein that connects all these thoughts except philosophy i guess. Come in and join in my musings with me. 

There is an epic quote from a Shakespearean play said by the character Jacques we are going to talk about it. There will also be tangents. 

I'm going to go through one of the things that I think trips up most people when learning philosophy and why this is such a hard problem to navigate in modern life. Is my title mysterious? Is my description unhelpful and vague? Ohhh no, ohhh my I guess that means you'll have to give it a listen to understand what it is about. 

On this episode we pool our collective brain jellies to try and find the deepest answer we can about evil and where it comes from. Fuel your inner emo and join us. 

Missy has joined me again for more musings and random wanderings for the tomes of ancient philosophy. This time I'm going to be doing my best to explain the pillars of Stoicism so as you the listeners and missy my cohost can grasp the school of thought and way of life that is Stoicism. 

This week i have a guest and as a place to start I thought since it was something i was recently researching we talked about action, knowledge and devotion, There is also a fair amount of me expanding on how great philosophy is practically. I am in no way biased , I wanted to see how someone with little knowledge on this subject reacted to these thought and premise.  

This episode is all about a movement and philosophical awakening that happened largely in Europe in the 1700-1800's. It was at its source started by philosophers but its influence spread out into many different aspects of society. I hadn't heard about it until i did and now you too shall hear about it. Lend me you listening holes for a little while. 

If you were unsure of which of the three you are have no fear i shall do an episode on each describing the type of philosopher each way encompasses. For this episode to make the most sense listen to action devotion and knowledge first. In this episode I'll be going in depth a little into how a philosopher of actions thinks and what sort of exercises they practice to improve at philosophy. 

This episode is about the three different ways or types of people that study philosophy. Are you a person of action, a devotee or a keeper of knowledge? Listen and find out. 

This episode is a look at the simple decision making school of thought of utilitarianism and how philosophy looks at decision making in general. There is also a tiny bit on consequentialism in their for flavour. 

I think about philosophy and I share my thoughts on it how it relates to modern life. If old things can be used to improve our lives but in new ways. No prior reading necessary come in have a listen see what you think. 

In this episode I'll be talking about the philosopher Kabir and about the three paths of Philosophy. exerts from Songs of Kabir are listed below:evelyn underhill   Songs of Kabir, Introduction  There are in his universe no fences between the natural and supernatural worlds; everything is part of the creative play of God and therefore – even in its humblest details – capable of revealing the Player’s mind.(IV) Do not go to the garden of flowers! O Friend! go not there; In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the Infinite Beauty.(XXXVIII)The lock of error shuts the gate, open it with the key of love : Thus, by opening the door, thou shalt wake the Beloved. Kabir says : ‘O brother! do not pass by such good fortune as this.’(XII)Tell me, O Swan, your ancient tale. From what land do you come, O Swan? to what shore will you fly? Where would you take your rest, O Swan, and what do you seek? Even this morning, O Swan, awake, arise, follow me! There is a land where no doubt nor sorrow have rule : where the terror of Death is no more. There the woods of spring are a-bloom, and the fragrant scent ‘He is I ‘ is borne on the wind : There the bee of the heart is deeply immersed, and desires no other joy.

Transcendentalism do you know anything about it? Neither did I. It seems history is littered with alternate ways off living like this. Have a listen and see what you think. 

What is nihilism?What is Solipsism? Where do they lead? I'm going to breifly explain these three things and talk around them in this episode.