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Philosophize This!
"albert camus" Discussed on Philosophize This!
"To think about tennis every day, thousands of hours invested into it, but then never playing tennis or playing tennis in just choosing to be horrible at it for some reason. And it's because of this mindset she had, as well as just the short duration of her life, that a lot of people when talking about Simone V will try to describe her by telling anecdotes from her early life. They'll talk about the time she was 6 years old, and she told her mom and dad that she refused to eat sugar or wear socks because she heard about the soldiers on the front line and what they have to go through. Or the time she was a teenager and taught herself Sanskrit so she could read the Bhagavad Gita and its original language. These are supposed to be stories where people say after the fact, wow. Wow, we sure saw the writing on the wall with this one early on, didn't we? But to me, this sort of naturalizes Simone in a way that really isn't fair to her. It suggests that she was just born someone with a genetic predisposition to live in the way she did. Born to be a person some religious people referred to as an actual modern day saint. Born to be what Albert Camus called the only great spirit of our time. To be the person Simone de beauvoir envied for having a heart that could be right across the world she said. No, if we want to understand the incredibly rare exception to humanity that was Simone bay. We have to understand how her life was lived, and all the beautiful changes that go on when you're someone is truly open to what the universe has to offer as she was. And no one is simply born with the genius that she developed. This is going to be a series on the life and work of Simone Wei. And I find myself in a rough spot at the beginning of all this as someone that does a 30 minute podcast for you all to listen to.
WNYC 93.9 FM
"albert camus" Discussed on WNYC 93.9 FM
"The application dropped on Friday evening and was open throughout the weekend. The White House says more than 8 million borrowers have successfully submitted their information without any reported glitches or crashes. The application is intended to be quick and easy No forms to upload, no special login to remember. It's available in English and in Spanish. I'm desktop and mobile. The form asks for name, date of birth, and social security number, among other things. The program is designed to give higher relief to lower income borrowers, up to $20,000 for people who received a pell grant to go to college. And up to $10,000 for other qualifying borrowers. The White House estimates over 40 million Americans will qualify for some level of debt cancellation. The application can be found online at student aid dot gov slash debt relief. And it will be open through the end of 2023. Sequoia carillo NPR news. This is NPR news. This is WNYC, later on morning edition, China wants a one country and two systems policy with Taiwan, but that is an idea that Taiwan firmly rejects. They don't think that it is Beijing's goal to kind of symbolically unify, but not actually seek to control Taiwan. We'll have more on that in about 15 minutes. WNYC supporters include Albert Camus the fall, featuring Ronald Gutman live on stage in a revelatory theatrical adaptation of
Philosophize This!
"albert camus" Discussed on Philosophize This!
"Than most people I know at being right about things. But then again, I'm extremely humble as well. I'm one of the best people I know at admitting when I was wrong about something. In fact, I'm wrong about stuff all the time. I'm the first to admit that. Don't feel ridiculous at all saying that I not only have the best strategy for being right all the time, but also the best strategy for being wrong all the time. In fact, I take pride in that contradiction. I actually think it makes me a balanced person. Something I want to make super clear here about what Camus was saying. He is not saying that you are a weak person if you sometimes embody contradictory values at different moments. To Camus, this is part of living in an absurd universe. This is part of being a human being. The weak person is the person who can't see or won't see the built in duplicity and contradiction in their own thinking. The person that's playing some variation of a psychological game that allows them to believe that they're just living universally by a set of values every day of their life. Like if you never find yourself speaking passionately about something you believe in and then catching yourself and saying, oh, but then again, there's that other area of my life that I do almost the opposite of what I'm preaching about now. If you never do that, then you're probably not looking at yourself as thoroughly or as honestly as you could be. And maybe it's impossible for us to ever totally escape contradictions in our values. But one thing we can do chemo thinks is to be more self aware of them. What Clements wants more than anything in this book is the dream of innocence. Like many others in modern society, what he wants is to be innocent of any moral wrongdoing. What he realizes, though, is that nobody out there is innocent.
Philosophize This!
"albert camus" Discussed on Philosophize This!
"Clement says despite what they say, this service is actually what your friends want from you. Camus says, this is symptomatic of what he calls a sort of modern amnesia where we're able to conveniently forget about all the mistakes we make in our lives and just move on as though nothing is really happened. We've all met somebody like this before. You know, a person who has no problem at all, judging everybody else for what they're doing wrong. They'll define a person's entire character based on a single moment. They'll hold a grudge against people for years because someone mistreated them. But when something goes wrong in their life, they'll go to their friends, their friends will tell them it was all the other people's fault. And they'll just continue being the exact same person thinking, no rational person ever has a problem with me. If anybody thinks I should be judged, well, that person's just irrationally holding onto the past. They need to get over it. Make no mistake. This modern amnesia is a defense mechanism against that feeling of guilt and responsibility that comes with always being judged by others. And Clements always found a way to conveniently forget about all the mistakes he made in the past. That is, until after the motorcycle incident. After the woman on the bridge, after hearing the laughter of others, at that point, he says, there came a time in his life where he just couldn't forget about the person he was anymore. For the first time, he was forced to look at himself in the mirror honestly. And what he sees in the mirror sends him into a total panic. Remember, finding a way to avoid the judgment of other people was the main goal of his life now. Once these events make his old strategies ineffective, he tries out like 5 other ones that all fail miserably for him. And this is obviously Camus as an author laying out several examples of ways people in modern society try to avoid judgment as well.
Philosophize This!
"albert camus" Discussed on Philosophize This!
"Option is exactly what he decides to do. And again, it messes with him and his ego. This is the kind of guy that before these things happen to him, would probably wax poetic about how, you know, if I were there, what I would have done, I would hear the scream in the splash, and without question, I would dive into that water and save the day for everyone. But presented with the actual moment in his life, he realizes who he truly is. This moment again, illuminates weakness in him rather than absolve some of it. The last event that really sends him over the edge into his downward spiral also happens on a bridge. He's walking just like the second event, but this time he hears behind him coming from the darkness, someone just laughing. Just hack Lin and cackling to themselves like a witch flying away on a broom. And to someone is insecure as Clements, the assumption here is that this laughter is directed at him. Now, this laughter on the bridge that Camus uses in the story is symbolic. It represents the fact that we are always on trial. We are always being judged by other people around us. Clements, for the first time in his life, after these events, after the illusion of who he is has been shattered, clamato for the first time feeling the weight of this omnipresent judgment coming from everyone around him all the time. And it doesn't feel good to him. He's once again smacked across the face with the cold backhand of reality. This is just what people do. They judge other people. And nobody's doing this because they're a mean person or something. This is how people keep their family safe. This is how people decide who they do or don't want to associate with. This is part of what keeps society together. But for Clements, this is something he's never really had to consider in these safe bubble that he formerly lived in. Remember, as a lawyer in Paris, he was never the judge or the one accused of the crime. He was always able to play the middle ground there. And in the everyday world, he figured everyone just agreed that he was this remarkable exceptional person just like he thought he was. Once he realizes though, that he is not, in fact, God's gift to humanity. And how vulnerable he is to the constant judgment of others. This leads to a paradigm shifting moment in Clement's life. The biggest priority for him from here on out was going to be to find a way to avoid being judged at all costs, and thus to avoid the feeling of responsibility or guilt for his actions. For Clements, there is nothing more important for your survival in this modern world than to find a way to do that. In fact, he thinks you're downright stupid if you don't try to find a way to avoid the judgment of other people. I mean, why wouldn't you? He says, if you're someone living in modern society and you have no strategy at all to avoid the judgment of others, that's kind of like being an animal tamer that cut themselves shaving that morning, you got blood all over you, you
Philosophize This!
"albert camus" Discussed on Philosophize This!
"Now, the person he's talking to. You quickly realize that it doesn't really matter who they are. This person barely speaks over the course of the entire book. They could be anyone. They could even be you. And that's kind of the effect Camus going for here. 99% of the book is just Clements, more or less talking at this person about himself. Anecdotes from his life, his thoughts about other people, his thoughts about his thoughts. Like, if you've ever known anyone in your personal life that's prone to going on long, narcissistic, dramatic monologues about themselves, they'd probably be a big fan of Jean Baptiste Clements and his work. I mean, it truly is a glorious display of narcissism. And without question, some of the first shots fired by Camus at a type of person that is rampant within modern society. Now, what becomes obvious as Clement starts talking about himself? Is that he's not a very happy person. I mean, not only is he sitting in the middle of a bar in Amsterdam, not only is he drinking. But then you find out that he's drinking gin. I mean, that's just nasty. This man clearly doesn't love himself anymore. And as a reader, you can't help but start to wonder what happened to this man that got him down to such a lowly lowly place. And as he goes on what you discover is that what happened to him is that he had a bit of what you could call a fall in his life. That he used to be one version of himself, some events played out in his life that led to his fall, and now he finds himself in a bar in Amsterdam talking to strangers. He starts out the book telling the person next to him about the man that he used to be. He tells this person that before the fall, not too long ago.
Philosophize This!
"albert camus" Discussed on Philosophize This!
"Hello, everyone. I'm Stephen west, this is philosophize this. You know, there's a lot of notifications that come up on your phone that just bring up negative feelings. The news app that tells you the world is ending. The bank telling you your accounts overdrawn. Text messages from your family, tell me about God knows what. Look, I got one ambition in this entire world, and that's to make a podcast where I release an episode. It comes up on your phone as a notification, and it produces nothing but positive feelings. Like, wow, looking forward to listening later. If that's a feeling you've ever had with this podcast, then it warms the ventricles of my heart. Thanks to the people out there who give back, Patreon, philosophize this dot org. I hope you love the show today. So one of the things people have requested the most over the years on this podcast are more episodes on Albert Camus. He was a French Algerian absurdist philosopher known for his fiction, nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature. I think 11 different times.
Today, Explained
"albert camus" Discussed on Today, Explained
"What do you think about when you hear the word philosophy? Maybe nothing at all, which is totally fine. Or maybe it makes you think of a stuffy seminar room, or marble bust of dead Greek guys, or giant books, written a long time ago, with little to say about your life. But philosophy is meant to be accessible to everyone. At its best, it speaks to issues we all face every day in the here and now. Vox conversations has a new monthly series called the philosophers. Each episode focuses on the ideas of a philosopher or a school of thought from the past, and explains why they still matter today. I talk with some really smart professors, but this is not a college course. We're talking about things that are relevant, and vital, and we're interested in ideas that crystallize the world around us. Check out our episode on how Albert Camus can help us understand the war in Ukraine. Or our newest episode on how Hannah arendt describes the political dangers of loneliness. Listen to the philosophers with me, Sean hailing, every month, right in the vox conversations feed. Check out these chords..
Today, Explained
"albert camus" Discussed on Today, Explained
"What do you think about when you hear the word philosophy? Maybe nothing at all, which is totally fine. Or maybe it makes you think of a stuffy seminar room, or marble bust of dead Greek guys, or giant books, written a long time ago, with little to say about your life. But philosophy is meant to be accessible to everyone. At its best, it speaks to issues we all face every day in the here now. Vox conversations has a new monthly series called the philosophers. Each episode focuses on the ideas of a philosopher or school of thought from the past, and explains why they still matter today. I talk with some really smart professors, but this is not a college course. We're talking about things that are relevant, and vital, and we're interested in ideas that crystallize the world around us. Check out our episode on how Albert Camus can help us understand the war in Ukraine. Or our newest episode on how Hannah arendt describes the political dangers of loneliness. Listen to the philosophers with me, Sean hailing, every month, right in the vox conversations feed. Check out these chords..
The Eric Metaxas Show
"albert camus" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Then this program that I'm doing with canon J John is a miracle Monday program. But even if it's not Monday, it feels like a miracle Monday program. We're talking about a lot of beautiful, important things you can and J John have a new book out called will I be fat in heaven and other curious questions. And by the way, that's a very funny cover. We are mostly radio shows so people can't see this, but if they go online, it looks like that might be you on the cover. It's his lying on a donut, a giant donut. Giant donut, a giant donut. Well, we'll leave that where it is. We were talking before about the story of the woman at the well, and then you shared with great vulnerability, your story about Amy Winehouse. And I want to talk to you about the idea that God speaks today. And there are Christians, many devout Christians who are either uncomfortable made uncomfortable by that subject or they shrink from it or sometimes they push back theologically. It's been my experience that God speaks today. It just as when I read Jesus knows these magic things about this woman, how is that? Well, it's because he is God and even if you're not God, as you are not and I am not, God, through the Holy Spirit speaks. Sometimes, to us, about other people, because he wants to reach them. He wants to blow their minds and say, see, I am real. I'm outside of time and space. I know who you are. I love you. And I want to convince you of that. So you'll receive me. You've experienced this many times. Now, did you experience God speaking to you immediately on coming to faith when you were in university as you put it? Well, I received Christ on the 9th of February 1975 at 10 o'clock. It was the moment I opened the door to use that picture from revelation three 20. Jesus stands at the door and knocks. If you hear the knock, open the door, let him in. And I said, Jesus, I don't even know where this door is. But wherever the door is, can you break the door down and come into my life? And I fell. My mind was illuminated, and my heart was warmed. But I didn't have the vocabulary Eric to articulate what was going on. But I knew something had
The Eric Metaxas Show
"albert camus" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Step up. Kate Anderson, God bless you, thank you. I don't know is it come easy? Hey there folks. Exciting news. We're going into the home stretch. That means that my book is launching, I can not believe it. As the author, you work so hard on something. I work really hard on this book. And there's stuff in here, which I promise you is going to blow your mind. Alvin, you've been reading it and you've been having very positive experiences with it. When a friend tells me, you know, what he's reading. Yeah, I've been reading it and it's fascinating. It's blow your mind fascinating. No, I mean, it is. And it's not because I wrote it, it's the stuff that I'm writing about is inherently fascinating. And so, okay, two things. First of all, I've not mentioned this, I don't think before, but one thing you can do is you can ask your local library to carry this book, carry copies of the book. It's already a bestseller. And that would be really helpful. When libraries carry the book. So please, if you can, if you think of it, do that. I also ask you to think about buying copies to donate to libraries to school libraries. It's just important this information get out there and be available. And you'll see when you read the book, if you haven't already done so, if you remember the launch team, also, I want to say that please post your reviews if they're favorable. As soon as possible because there are a lot of atheist trolls out there and they work really hard to destroy books like this. Like they post one star reviews on Amazon and they've never read the book and stuff. So we need your help to please as soon as the links go live wherever it's good read your Barnes and noble or Amazon. As soon as you can, please post your reviews. It makes a big difference. And by the way, if Albert Albert Camus was still alive today, he'd be given this a 5 star review. Yes, he would. That's right. I mean, some of the craziest stuff in the book is the fact that Camus and SARS became believers at the end of their lives. No one seems to know about this. Don't ask me how I discovered it except by God's grace. But when you discover what you think, this is monster news. We've got to tell the world. The world needs to know whenever their names came up and say, oh, by the way, at the end of their lives, they accepted God. People are gonna think that's not possible. Well, you can look it up not only in my book but in the footnotes and the bibliography. I also want to stress we are doing a campaign for lines defending freedom. We really ask you folks to do I've become more and more free in asking, not just for money for these organizations or for people to buy my book because I feel like we're on a crusade..
The Eric Metaxas Show
"albert camus" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"The Germans bought into this stupid idea. They thought, hey, we're German, which means we're Lutheran, which means Luther invented Christianity as far as we're concerned. He invented this idea of grace, grace means I don't have to do anything, and that's that. And of course, Bonham wrote about cheap grace and the idea that if you don't really understand grace, you treat it like nothing. You know, you treat what God has done for you like nothing, which means you don't get it, which means you don't believe which means forget about grace. There's no grace because you have an appropriate degree. I really believe for other reasons the church in America today has done the same thing. I think there are different reasons, but there are tons of people who've excoriated people like me and Frank and said, you've made an idol of politics. You've made an idol of Donald Trump. You know, ridiculous things. And the point is no, we just believe that our faith touches everything. It's not some little parochial religious thing that stays in the corner, like the official church is doing China. It's something that has to come out of the church and live everywhere. We have a free exercise of religion, freedom to do that. So if you keep it in this little religious theological corner, then it's phony. It's abbreviated faith. If you don't live it out in the school, on the workplace, on the radio, on the whatever it is, if you don't do that, you don't really believe it. Your phony. So when people talk about, I just want to preach the gospel. I don't want to be I don't want to be political. We think that's just stupid. That makes no sense. Because if you're a Jew in a boxcar going to Treblinka or Auschwitz, you think, you know, I would love it if there was some Christians out there on the other side of this boxcar who believed what they said and would get political and stand up against the system that is sending me my family to death. That means getting political.
The Eric Metaxas Show
"albert camus" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"I exhort you to take advantage of it because these deals usually don't last i i don't know who's doing this promotion or why but all i can tell you a great price and usually if a book sells incredibly well maybe amazon will discount it. You know three months in or something like that on but to be able to pre-order it at a price like this where it will never go lower than this price that is. That just doesn't happen so this is one of the reasons i'm pushing it. I'm thrilled because i've mentioned this that we want people to preorder the book and if you pre-order it. Obviously you're going to get that insane price. I i'm guessing you're going to want to buy christmas presents. And whatever get it at this price. You don't wanna pay thirty dollars. You wanna pay fourteen ninety seven so but yes if you sign up for the launch team. When you go to eric metaxas dot com. You will be able to read the book immediately. If you sign up for the once team you'll get an electronic copy of the book email to you elettronica. I don't know how they do it but they do it. And you'll be able to stop reading the book today. And you're going to be freaked out. By what i put in this book folks. I have stuff in here. i mean. Here's a headline regime. Pulsar and albert camus. Two of the leading. French existentialist atheists of the twentieth century. Actually that's wrong there too. They are the two leading french existentialist of the twentieth century. But they're also probably two of the most famous of the twentieth century the most outspoken dedicated to this atheist view. Both of them and almost no one knows that either of them came to faith both of them at the end of their lives independently. One row nineteen sixty around nineteen. Seventy eight came to christian faith. Now that is a headline gigantic headline. No one knows this. No one knows this. Some people may have heard that camus. Sorry that start came to faith but camus. Nobody heard of it. A guy wrote a book about it forty years after the death of kim. I mean it's it's insane so please go to Indexes dot com. Sign up for the newsletter. Please we're gonna have free excerpts and all kinds of stuff and also we'll send out the my interview with jason jones about the book the johnson mira video about the book Sign up preorder. The book please folks tell your friends honestly. I think you're gonna want to copy and you can't do better than this price and it helps a lot if you preorder. Yes thank you very much. Great audience Oh don't forget. J. p. is coming up in the second hour and he's and today say endgame. We're gonna be talking to jp against his book as game. It's about saving marriages and think this is very important. In fact it's so important that i'm going to give you a link if you go to endgame book dot com. Aw org dot org a sorry. Endgame book dot org. Yes and use the code. Eric you get fifteen percent off. Endgame book dot org write that down and game book or fifteen percent off the book. jp against the author. It's about saving marriages and sort of amazing solutions. That he's come up with that have worked. Well anyway we'll talk about that with him in the next hour actually in a few minutes and a couple of minutes in the next segment. I didn't know okay thanks..
The Eric Metaxas Show
"albert camus" Discussed on The Eric Metaxas Show
"Rosenberg. Welcome to the program. Thanks bob it's great to be with you. Oh eric trish. I even heard of you. I've heard of you in fact i've had you on the program many times. You have so many new york times. Bestsellers that i. I laugh because to somebody who i don't know. I think i have five officially but i thought you have written so many books and your books do so well and you now have another book so before we get into current events. 'cause i wanna talk about the middle east. Sure i'm tell us about the new book. Because it's i know it's it's the new book. Well what's interesting about this book. Enemies and allies is. It's the first book. It's the only book that really takes you inside the middle east twenty years after the horrific events of nine eleven to to assess. Where are we today right. Who our enemies today. Because they've changed and who our allies today. They've also changed but what makes us book. Distinctive is not just that. I'm sort of analyzing it from my own vantage point. But i'm taking the readers inside the palaces and the presidential compounds in every major american ally in the middle east. You're sitting with prime minister. Benjamin netanyahu you're sitting with israeli president ruby. Rivlin you're sitting with. Israel's defense minster by you're also sitting as i take you with me into riyadh saudi arabia and you're meeting mohammed bin salman most consequential and i think the most controversial leader in the arab world and presidency in egypt and king of jordan and the leaders of the united arab emirates and bahrain. This there is no book. Might this that has allowed you to sit there and listen to these leaders. What are they think are the worst threats facing not only the united states but them how do they how are they changing their societies because there are massive changes. So that's what makes us book interesting and for me fascinating to live it over the last few
Mythology
"albert camus" Discussed on Mythology
"For centuries after the greeks. I told the story of sisyphus. Zeus proclamation held true when anyone spoke of the king of era they only referred to him in relation to his rock sometime around the eighth century. Bc the greek poet homer mentioned cicis in the odyssey when odysseus arrived in the underworld he saw cicis in violent torment seeking to raise a monstrous stone with both his hands. Homer wasn't the only ancient writer to acknowledge sisyphus in eight ce. The roman poet avid cited him in his epic collection of mythological. History metamorphosis in one passage of a describe orpheus is song about his lost love eurydice see the song was so heart wrenching and beautiful that even cisa took a break from his boulder to listen once again however sisyphus was only a passing mention a piece of local flair in the underworld after homer and of it sece's life story was even more obscured by the sands of time in forty two french philosopher. Albert camus published the myth of sisyphus for the first time in history. The king of a fierro was the title character however come. You didn't mention anything about cleverness or penchant for murder it was only about his punishment and it's symbolism for the absurdity of human existence what writers and historians seemed to have missed was that he was a rare example of a mythological sociopath of course violence was a fact of life in ancient greece but sisyphus didn't kill enemies in battle bore while conquering new lands. He chose to kill guests in his home. Besides murdering visitors he also seduced and forced himself on his niece. Perhaps even worse. He showed no remorse for his deeds. Even after he was sentenced to haiti's there's an age old expression that a punishment should fit the crime in the case of sisyphus. One could argue that. His extreme sentence truly did fit his crimes perhaps the first greek storytellers who crafted the tale of sisyphus intended for him to be a warning for future. Sociopaths commit heinous acts and you'll suffer an even more horrifying punishment but there was one thing they didn't count on making the punishment so terrifying that everyone forgot about the crimes.
Túnel de vento
"albert camus" Discussed on Túnel de vento
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KIRO Radio 97.3 FM
"albert camus" Discussed on KIRO Radio 97.3 FM
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I get lonely and I knew I was napping, Manipulating manipulating him monopolizing your time. So all kinds of side. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but apology accepted. You can have a friend now not talk it all. It's a Segway. Actually, you could have a friend, not talk it all and pay that individual and still call them a friend. That's right. So there's a guy in Tokyo who has turned himself into a business. You can rent him and what you rent him out to do is quote, do nothing. He is the living breathing Seinfeld a man about nothing So his name is Shoji Mori Moto and he's been advertising himself as a person who can quote, eat and drink and give simple feedback but do nothing more, and in the past two years he's received over 3000 requests. For people who want to eat and drink and give simple feedback and do nothing more with this man. So this is how it works. It's basically if you want. We've heard the stories in the past. Oh, rent somebody to pretend to be your boyfriend bring home for the holidays. Read somebody because you're lonely. This is a little bit different. This is like, If you want to talk and talk and talk and have somebody not say anything back like you just want to get it off your chest or you want to tell somebody a secret who's not in your circle who you can trust because you don't know them. This is kind of that kind of thing, so he might be hired. If somebody is going to go file for a divorce and they want somebody there with them. Or lately he's been listening to health care workers who've become mentally unwell due to their work. Or if somebody is playing a game and they need 1/4 player. They can hire him to be the fourth person, But he says he started doing this because quote I myself don't like to be cheered on by others. I get upset when people simply tell me to keep on trying when someone is trying to do something. I think the best thing to do is to help lower the bar for them by staying at their side. So He's basically the person he's the opposite of me. I have a problem Where, When a friend, you know, kind of wants to vent, I have so much advice. Why don't you do this? Why don't you do that? It is very annoying, and I have a really hard time just listening or just being supportive. And I think that that is what he does. He gives you full support without giving you any opinions or falsely encouraging you to be better in your life. Mm hmm. Who would be willing to admit that they need him. Well, I guess that's the thing is, you only have to admit it to him. Nobody else has to know about it. I'm curious if this is something that people would use in our culture because I spent some time in Japan. I lived there for a year and I can see how this would be a very Japanese thing from my experience being friends with my Japanese co workers and hearing a lot from my students who are adult. They can be very private. They don't like to share a lot of personal information with their co workers. I don't know how much they share with friends. But like people kind of keep a lot of stuff to themselves, And so I can imagine in that culture. It might feel good to have this stranger, but you can kind of release to who won't have any judgment in your life in our culture. We kind of let it all hang out, and we go to therapy, which in Japan going to therapy was pretty taboo. So I'm curious if this would be necessary in the U. S or a bartender. It sounds like what bartenders have to do a lot. You listen sympathetically and you know you don't offer that much. You just you're sympathetic listener. Are you are sympathetic Listener e can I can't imagine somebody that would need this would be willing He was then hire this guy right town. It doesn't seem to fit the person who would then needed somebody who's sort of self actualized enough to realize that I could use somebody like this would not need someone like that right? But the idea of sharing silence with a companion. I think is one of the most remarkable things you can have in a relationship. I forget. Who was it Might have been Walt Whitman or Albert Camus or somebody was talking about it is to be it was current rating. He said it later he was quoting out Kamu the idea that true friendship is to be able to sit across from somebody else. Not that you're reading or doing anything else but in a space with that other person and not feel the need to speak. Yeah. I need so much more of that in my life. I've always had that with my partners and the people I've dated, Which is why I think I prefer traveling with them over friends because my friends are a lot like me and that they never stop talking. And I do. Stop talking. I do like quiet, You know, like on a hike. I don't like to talk the whole time on the drive home. If I'm tired, I don't really want to talk the whole time. But most of my friends do. And I've had a couple occasions where I've traveled abroad with friends where I was able. I was close enough to them to say, Can we not talk for an hour? Or can you not talk to me for this whole bus ride and say to the nice way because it's just too much. It's no. You would hire this guy. Ah, yeah, That's right, Rachel. Maybe that's what I'm saying. Yeah. Do you think that there's some Great quality time in that silence, sitting across from a companion and not feeling the need to speak Well, The thing is, I think that's true of a lot of happily married couples. I understand a lot of married couples don't talk to each other because they live in their own resentments. But I think that's true of a lot of happily married couples is that we don't even have Paige and I can spend all day in the house and we're doing our various things, but it's like we're just aware of their presence, and it's a comforting presence. But we don't Need the you know, when we were first dating. It's like everything on what about this? What about this? You taught you can talk yourself out once you once you known somebody for decades, you're very comfortable. You know them. They know you. You know if they need you, you're there. And vice versa. But what good question to both of you. Question to both of you on a scale of 1 to 10 sitting in a restaurant. You happen to notice the couple sitting to the left of you, and they're eating dinner and not speaking 1 to 10 10 being terribly uncomfortable, assuming that they hate one another, or they have nothing left to say to another or one being. Isn't it wonderful that they've come this far in their relationship that they can share a meal in silence? Rachel and I have always judged people with the former But now that we're having this conversation, I shouldn't because there's been many times when I didn't want to talk that much during dinner, but you feel like you need to, and then you fill the conversation with things that you don't even care about, like. That's the problem. It's nice to talk when it's engaging. But when you're kind of just filling the silence for the sake of it, So, yes, I have definitely seen couples and went. Oh, my God, I'm glad I'm not on that date or those four people. They've been together so long. They have nothing left to say. But maybe they are just having a nice quiet dinner that happens.