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Ep. 122: A Complete and Total Shutdown on Celebrities

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The Myth of Er

This is a story of the long myth that that socrates tells, once again, sort of slyly, giving the lie to his idea that we're never going to have a story telling or fairy tales. And this is the story. I mean, i guess, technically he represents it as a truth, but it's very much a kind of allegory of this guy that dies, right? It's part, part of it is a kind of argument for the endurance f the soul. There's only a certain fixed number of souls in the world. No soul is ever destroyed. So at the end of their purgatorial journey, the souls that die get to choose a new life

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