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290 - John Vervaeke - How to See the End of the World

The Symbolic World

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The Stoic Response to Disappointment

Krikigar plays these two responses off against each other, the night of faith in the night of infinite resignation. The stoic response is, look, I totally get your disappointment thing with like 100% agree, right? And so don't place your heart in anything that is ultimately disappointing. Then they say, well, what's the one thing that's always good? And their answer is wisdom. There's no situation in which the endeavor to become wiser can turn like, turns bad. Wisdom is the good.

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