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Dee Williams's avatar

Fear has been a lifetime struggle. Only in my case, I let it restrict my life. Now at 66 I will face many of my fears and nauseously power through. Because I've lived a long life and seen firsthand there are worse ways to go out. Bravo for this video! Entertaining and very relatable. 👏👏👏

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Rusty Eyeball's avatar

Thanks Dee! Go get some!

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Joey Short's avatar

I am about to board my first flight and I saw this. I knew I should have eaten those mushrooms

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Rusty Eyeball's avatar

😏Next time💥

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Lawrence Cleveland's avatar

Well Done!

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Rusty Eyeball's avatar

❤️

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Annemarie Nickerson's avatar

Thank you! 🧡

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Lesa Spravka's avatar

Love.

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Hot Dang's avatar

"Memento mori" (a Latin phrase that translates to "remember that you have to die" or "remember death") . As long as you realize that it's normal to remember death...the Stoics left that gem. None of us make it out alive....but I'm not saying anything to you that you don't already know!

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Rusty Eyeball's avatar

Memento Mori leads to Amor Fati if you do it right😉

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Hot Dang's avatar

Honestly, that's the one I struggle with...is it fate or is there a plan for me personally? I have to believe it's all a plan...but then I'd have to believe in God. And I struggle with that everyday. But then there's that pesky word "faith". You're smart...you know where I'm going...but I do appreciate your personal brand of philosophy (and of course, faith in human's overcoming and adapting)!!

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Rusty Eyeball's avatar

I don’t really take the Stoic concept of Amor Fati as literal, in the sense of the literal translation. Wondering if fate and God is a thing and all that is unproductive and will fuck us up and bind us from what it is really pointing at. What I’m talking about is an experiential thing, a melting into reality just as it is. Appreciating a moment just as it presents independent of anything outside of us simply existing. “Love the moment” would be more apt. Or really- “dump all your baggage and bullshit and see what’s left” hits closer to the mark. It’s more a practice, a fake it til you make it and then eventually- you make it to the center of this existential tootsie pop and that is something hard to describe.

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Hot Dang's avatar

We do seem to get wiser to the world as we get older, don't we?

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Rusty Eyeball's avatar

Some do😉

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Dog Milk's avatar

What kind of beer you drinking that makes your head implode? Send one over here.

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Rusty Eyeball's avatar

Airport Bloody Mary, extends the belly, implodes your melon😉

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Pancho Escobar's avatar

Always interesting, keep touching those planes, brother It only takes that one time to find out

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Rusty Eyeball's avatar

😏🫵🏼

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Justin Levi's avatar

Thanks Shawn. I'm no artist or art critic, but I reckon the way you use AI in that is super cool. Really added to the atmosphere. And spit and drippy d@#cks hahaha!!

As to your central tenet, like many of your listeners I managed to get a dose of the old PTSD. But your monologue on fear was maybe the ah, linchpin, I needed to hear to return to something I've been avoiding like the plague. Mayhaps!

As always, much love and metta from Perth.

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Rusty Eyeball's avatar

Right on Justin❤️

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