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Related: About this forumUltra Spiritual Exclusive Interview on Religion & Science - with JP Sears
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Ultra Spiritual Exclusive Interview on Religion & Science - with JP Sears (Original Post)
cbayer
May 2015
OP
Conversations like that lost much of their charm for me after I stopped toking
struggle4progress
May 2015
#1
I guess I just had too many conversations like that in my dissipated youth
struggle4progress
May 2015
#5
struggle4progress
(126,147 posts)1. Conversations like that lost much of their charm for me after I stopped toking
I'm afraid I've just lost most of my spiritual profundity, as well as any conviction that philosophical analysis can reveal anything except the confusions that naturally result from careless abstraction
Yorktown
(2,884 posts)2. I think the video is meant as a joke
The mock seriousness, the mock 'deepity' of the initial answers on religion and science,
they're just having fun.
struggle4progress
(126,147 posts)3. Yes, you're probably right: it has a tongue-in-cheek character
cbayer
(146,218 posts)4. It's a spoof.
One of his best bits is about being gluten intolerant.
struggle4progress
(126,147 posts)5. I guess I just had too many conversations like that in my dissipated youth
Yorktown
(2,884 posts)6. Yes. We hard about your dissipated youth.
Shame on you.
struggle4progress
(126,147 posts)7. I blame LBJ
Yorktown
(2,884 posts)8. Oops. Blind spot on my part.
Had totally forgotten that bit of the movie.
cbayer
(146,218 posts)9. Well, I think that is what makes him funny.
Not for everyone, I guess.
struggle4progress
(126,147 posts)10. Well, personally, I resemble that remark!