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As a recent college grad who’s in between jobs, this episode was so helpful. I’ve been listening to you since I was 15 and you never fail to make me think about what it all means. I love this show so much, thank you for another incredibly thoughtful episode 💕

Being in the military forces you to be conscious in a high stress situation. I always liked Nietzsche’s approach to the biggest problems we humans have to deal with. Applying his mindset has helped me tremendously in so many areas of my career. Thank you for this upload sir, needed a moment to think about who I REALLY am and what values really matter in my life. Props to those who keep pushing and striving through their trials of life, keep it up warriors!

Now I understand why I have never had a "bad" day, only days I've enjoyed more than others. I didn't learn the term Amor Fati until today, yet, I live my life that way. ❤️

Excellent video. Been reading Nietzsche for going on 2 decades. But your summary is fresh and original.

Vlad here I'm a philosopher. This is a wonderful podcast: fresh, honest, helpful. There is so much to like here. A small correction and then compliments. Nietzsche quite certainly didn't oppose art to truthfulness. The opposite, what he means when he says WE NEED ART LEST WE PERISH FROM THE TRUTH is that certain truths can only encountered in art without them breaking us. The rest of the discussion is excellent, allowing for just how complex the balance is between Nietzsche's insistence on the tragic element in life AND the psychological goal of The Eternal Recurrence / Amor Fati - to strive for a life in which you regret none of the significant events in your life. Great work!

I love your content !!!!! Thank you for still doing these ! I’m thankful for what YOU do

I’ve listened to this podcast again and again for years on end now and it’s gave me some of my best and funniest insights. Thanks for showing me how to be less wrong.

Thank you so much for what you do, forever grateful that you exist and do all this work for us.

Personal bookmark:- 1. experiment with different values and see how much of those values your spirit can endure till it starts getting toxic for you 2. last 5 minutes

One of the best episodes yet- keep it up, good sir!

I love this guy's mind

I wanna thank you for making the things you do, i love your style of rethoric and it helps me to organize my own thoughts at times. I find myself in a struggle to comphrehend the different world views of people around me, Thanks to your podcast i will try to listen more to people, instead of a constant dowloading my own thougths into the deeper understanding of things! i hope you will have a nice day!

Thank you for being the channel I look forward to every night before bed. Thank you.

Truly eye-opening and informative.

First time listening your podcast. I'm not a native English speaker. By the way the talk was well clear and understandable for me. Appreciate your work. Amor fati is a system or game where you can provide a meaningful to the things around us based in our freedom of self perception that makes every life intense unique and valid at least for ourselves.

phenomenal working through pragmatism, cioran, beauvoir, amor fati. thank you for what you're putting into your work. i appreciate you.

Perfect timing!!! You are a godsend, dude

I love your podcast, please continue. It is so good, so useful!

Aw, fantastic that you've put sections on the timeline!!

Absolutely love the content!!

Thanks for the new episode Steven !! Big fan of your meaningful work from India 🇮🇳🤍

Fantastic!

You're the best, Mr. West!

This is dynamite 🧨…thank you so much. You hit the nail on the head once again, extremely concise and succinct.

Love the content! I am from spotify and thought I would subscribe to the youtube channel as well. It is amazing how underrated this show is!!! I thought it was kinda dry at first but after getting through the first couple episodes I have taken a strong liking to your dry and on the nose humor. Stay safe and remember that you are appreciated for all your hard work!

Been anxiously waiting for this new episode. Made my day 👍 Thank u for what u do

What a great episode!

You are truly an underrated G.O.A.T. in my opinion.

I love this show

Helpful to ponder

"God is dead, and your cringe has killed him", seems like it could be the new zeitgeist

I love this channel, I love the content, life changing 🔥🔥🔥

how is this channel not bigger. great work

Thank you for your content.

I'm beginning to think that "nothing is good or bad [or real or imaginary, or absolute or relative, or authentic or inauthentic, etc.] but thinking makes it so." This after listening to about twenty of these episodes.

I've never thought of Schopenhauer as pessimistic. It seemed to me he was directly referencing Buddhism (or Stoicism) in the idea that, no matter what you want, when you get the thing you want, you will want something else. That the drive to acquire isn't about the stuff acquired, but the drive. That part of human nature is to desire things you don't have, and if you constantly entertain that desire you will often get what you wanted but it will never actually make you happy. Buddhism has made me happier and healthier because I understand that the desire to attain something and the act of attaining it do not lead to satisfaction, and the only way to achieve satisfaction is to stop wanting things you don't have. That doesn't mean to stop trying, nor is it an excuse for laziness, and people who look at it that way are just looking for excuses to give up. The key is The Middle Way.

Hey Steven, Anxiety is the Dizziness, and this episode, were both deep comforts upon losing my job in 2 very different times and places. I just wanted you to know how your work deeply helps folks like me on the literal day of chaos that is "losing one's job." ❤

I've wanted to embrace these thoughts. To love life, and to accept one's failures and suffering. But it's hard when it feels like you've made the biggest mistake of your life. And you doubt that you'll ever be as happy again.

Thankful for what this podcast has done for me over the last three-or-so years, especially during those longer days in the warehouse.

Great intro!

Thanks!

Nice episode. However, wisdom is the ultimate absolute value that you can never have too much of, as underlined by Nietzsche and this show. Checkmate Nietzsche!

5:06 temporary alleviation 6:45 mastery- asceticism 9:17 20/20 new approach:♥️urFATE? 20:30 moral pluralism

I always cry listening/reading about Nietzsche's ideas ;u;

I was listening to a science show earlier that talked of the bioluminescence of deep sea creatures, how creatures took advantage of this to put on quite a display. Some fish use blobs of mucous with the bioluminescent ingredient to attract mates, a series of blobs in a line showing the trysting spot, different species using different spacing. Otherwise the light show would attract predators and be counterproductive. Thanks.

Please do an episode on Bergson! :)

Dude, I’ve listened to you on and off for 5 years now. Your podcast is like church for philosophers, and as an ex-religious person myself, it’s always been nice to listen during my Sunday morning rideshare drives as if it’s a sermon. Haha. Anyways, hey, quick tip/request: utilize this channel more! Even if it’s just a simple video feed, having a visual to see you actually speaking the podcast and to play it on my tv would not only get my roommates to pay attention, but garner you more views/listens in general. I think it requires minimal effort, and would lend even more of a homegrown touch to your already grassroots operation (you have authenticity in spades, my friend). Can still be an audio based podcast if you do that. Many of my fav podcasts do it. Beautify your mic setup and try it out ;) it’s all I ask. Anyways. Cheers. Keep it up.

Brilliantly incisive content as usual.

Creation / construction / birth of meaning in the halls of mirrors, in which stories flow and immerse ourselves in us?

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It’s a good day

More Stoics please.

do u have a spotify podcast?

spotifys got the latest episode if anyones checking on youtube for it

18:43 roasted

I just found out, that I almost spent 2500 minutes listening to this show on Spotify...

10:06

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The assumption of the vid is humans create meaning, which in the face of death is absurd. I believe meaning is inherent in the world, ie, it's ultimate goal is the Absolute.

"God is dead and your cringe has killed him." -Steven West

The creative nothing: “The Unique and Its Property “,Max Stirner, 1844/2017 Landstreicher translation. Few ( Nietzsche, Marx, Dilthey etc) have recovered from “Saint Max”. Neither good or bad, no morals. Shameless Max upsets all apple carts.

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If you listen to Nietzsche then God is Dead, so you have to create your own meaning, why?, because we can't stand the void, but if Nietzsche got it wrong and God is alive and well, then meaning is built into the universe and human existence has a ultimate goal= eternal life.....

I don't get it , you have a bunch of Patreons but the views and like ratio seems to reach just the patreons only

"God is dead and your cringe has killed him."