Podcast Benomtad
autor: Ben Lundy
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A Little Bad’ll Do You Some Good
A Little Bad’ll Do You Some Good
O tym podcaście
Open, philosophically-oriented conversations about almost any topic with almost anyone, but focusing on culture, spirituality and personal growth.
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- A Little Bad’ll Do You Some Good · 6 min · Odcinek 482Hair of the Dog that Bit You: the hair of a rabid dog used to be thought of as a cure for rabies, which seems to operate on the logic of like cures like. In the Brothers’…
- The Meaning of the Zombie Apocalypse · 1 godz. 29 min · Odcinek 481Ian and I discuss Vervaeke et. al.’s writing on the symbol of the zombie apocalypse. They show that our use of “apocalypse” is a telling transformation of the original Christian…
- Grimm’s “The Three Snake-Leaves:” Bewitched by Beauty · 28 min · Odcinek 480A poor man’s son leaves his large family with great sorrow so he will not be a burden. He joins the army of an emperor and turns the tide of a large battle and is given treasures…
- Hamlet & the Boy Who Could Not Shudder (Clip) · 4 min · Odcinek 479These rational characters do not accept what others say, in their fear, and go forth. Hamlet's story continues with his indecision, but this boy is oriented to action. (From a…
- Sticking Your Head in the Sand (Clip) · 5 min · Odcinek 478Choosing to be Oblivious: Zombies may be a warning from our unconscious. "The danger of the zombie is the danger of unconsciousness to life's problems." --Jordan Peterson The…
- Grimm’s “The Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was” · 1 godz. 35 min · Odcinek 477Who Do You Think You Are? Anyone interested in the education of the individual might enjoy a few minutes with this light, yet important tale. There is a folktale trope of the…
- Purposelessness & the Zombie Myth · 1 godz. 46 min · Odcinek 476The zombie might be a sign that people feel a lack of purpose in the world. Ian and I discuss this idea from John Vervaeke et. al. in their book. We go on to talk about…
- The Kingdom Protects Her from Her Father (Clip) · 5 min · Odcinek 475In the Brothers Grimm’s “Fur-of-All-Kinds,” the princess demands a fur made of all the kingdom’s animals for a marriage gift from her widowed father. It doesn’t prevent his…
- Grimm's “Hans Hedgehog:” The Rejected Becomes the Cornerstone · 1 godz. 23 min · Odcinek 474A wealthy, childless peasant feels something is missing and is mocked for not having a child. He wishes, “I wish to have a child, even if it is a hedgehog!” He and his wife are…
- Zombies, Meaning, and Ritual · 1 godz. 16 min · Odcinek 473Zombies are everywhere in our culture, in movies and shows, and even in real life (on zombie walks). They’ve gone from being an object of horror to one of fascination, one that…
- A Dying Queen’s Wish Poisons Her Family’s Future (Clip) · 9 min · Odcinek 472In Grimm’s Fur-of-All-Kinds, the beautiful, dying queen makes her king promise that he will only remarry another as fair as she. Why does she do this? She wants to live on in his…
- Xenia: Ancient Greek Guest-Friendship (Clip) · 10 min · Odcinek 471This ancient Greek concept was a big part of their culture as well as Homer’s “Odyssey,” and according to translator Emily Wilson, the poem can be treated as a study in xenia. It…
- Our Dual Nature and the Culture Wars (Clip) · 5 min · Odcinek 470Humans participate both in the animal and the divine nature, and I think this is behind much of the culture wars. We veer between overemphasizing the divine or, especially, our…
- Sing, Muse, Remember the MAN Odysseus (Clip) · 7 min · Odcinek 469Homer’s second epic starts with an incantation of a man, a man who rejected godhood with alluring Calypso, a man who pined for years to be at home and hearth with his family…
- Xenia: Odysseus' Blessing and Curse · 1 godz. 35 min · Odcinek 468In Homer’s “Odyssey,” Book 7, Odysseus, who has at this point lost all his men and washes up alone on the Scherian beach, has through his wit and bearing, and with the goddess…
- Beauty is Sus to Us (Clip) · 11 min · Odcinek 467Modern German philosophers like Marx, Nietzsche and Freud have spread the "hermeneutics of suspicion" in our culture. We have a deep suspicion of appearances and, therefore…
- Odysseus Appreciates Nausicaa's Beauty (Clip) · 5 min · Odcinek 466Pornography participates in beauty, but also is consumptive, and especially, unappreciative. This is contrasted to Odysseus' paise of Nausicaa in his speech to her, without the…
- Beauty Herself Greets Odysseus (Clip) · 9 min · Odcinek 465Odysseus, when he sees nubile and beautiful Nausicaa when he washes up on shore at the beginning of Book 6, does not try to capture her in any way. This in a time with raiding…
- Odysseus, Nausicaa, & Beauty’s Education · 1 godz. 29 min · Odcinek 464Man is he who suffers, and Odysseus is the man “of twists and turns,” the builder and destroyer, the journeyer trying to reach his beloved homeland. Here Ian and I discuss what…
- Grimm's Fur-of-All-Kinds (Allerleirauh) · 1 godz. 19 min · Odcinek 463A dying queen demands that her husband remarry only someone as beautiful as she. After the mourning period, his advisors scramble around to find a new monarch, but the king’s eye…
