Ep. 121: Save the Republic, Turn Off Your Dang Phone
Young Heretics
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The Pleasure Lover's Plea
Rie: We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it. The pleasure lover's pleasure is only a shadow of the pleasure the wisdom lover takes, even in physical pleasure. People who are in passionate marriages are also colouring that physical pleasure with their relationship and their respect for one another. And so they don't feel all the anxieties that're associated with infidelity. Those things are actually much more pleasurable by its being kind of ennobled. So this is why the one last passage i want to leave youwith is actully, not from plato, but from the screw tape lettersan. It's about god, the he
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