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#317 – John Vervaeke: Meaning Crisis, Atheism, Religion & the Search for Wisdom

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Romantic Bullshit - The Essence of Life

"I think meaning of life gets at the same kind of relationship between you and the glass of water," he says. "It's trying to understand the relevance, realization of the Big Bang to the feeling of love you have for another human being." It could be that romantic bullshit is actually the essence of life and the source of its deepest meaning,. Well, I hope not... But technically speaking, romantic b*****. In the philosophical sense, yes.

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