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Episode 242: Losing My Religion

Very Bad Wizards

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The Honey Has Lost Its Sweetness

I think the key is that the honey has lost its sweetness. That's not something that's rational. Once lhike, two things are inevitable, he will the mice are going to finish eating the twig, and you're going to fall into the dragon. But what's not inevitable or logically entailed by anything, is whether you find the honey sweet or not. And i think the fact that he didn't find the honeysweet, the fact that these pleasures are no longer pleasures for him, that is an emotional reaction to the facts. You should get to this life or death point where the fact that you're eventually going to die shouldn't make you just question whether you want

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