In Grey Town, Napoleon Bonaparte continues to move further and further outside of the city to the point where he can no longer be reached. In a recent interview Sam Harris seems this way - moving further away from those who would challenge him. We discuss the way of thinking that lacks redemptive spirit, and the responsibility that requires respect, which enables individual rights.

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References:
Matt's thoughts on the idea of completeness - https://mattmccloskey.substack.com/p/its-ok-its-alright
Sam Harris interview - https://youtu.be/Qyrjgf-_Vdk
The great divorce - https://www.amazon.com/Great-Divorce-C-S-Lewis/dp/0060652950
A wrinkle in time - https://www.amazon.com/Wrinkle-Time-Quintet/dp/0312367546
David Sack on Respect - https://twitter.com/davidsacks/status/1635888160701046784?s=42&t=uUAQApxVipInVr2sarwbFA

Ep 152: Who are the experts?

“The line between good and evil runs not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart.”
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Ep 180: The line between good and evil

Like Ted Lasso, Viktor Frankl, and Joseph with his coat of many colors, your attitude has the power to transform the worst circumstances into unimaginable goodness.

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Ep 181: Attitude… what is it good for?

By way of Good Will Hunting, C.S. Lewis, and 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon, we explore what might be possible with the right orientation.

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Ep 182: A g’damn white unicorn with wings!

What are you responsible for? You might have your responsibility assigned to you, and yet you may transform yourself and the world by taking responsibility for something out of your own desire, and your own personality.

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Ep 183: Everything the light touches

From the structures of a relationship to the games that we play, how do we discover and use rules for better or for worse. When done well, a script can be flipped, and a life can be transformed.

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Ep 184: Old men should be explorers

"Mental health is based on a certain degree of tension, the tension between what one has already achieved and what one still ought to accomplish, or the gap between what one is and what one should become... What man actually needs is not a tensionless state, but rather the striving and struggling for a worthwhile goal, a freely chosen task."

- Viktor Frankl

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Ep 185: Open the churches and close the bars

“In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost. Ah, how hard a thing it is to tell what a wild, and rough, and stubborn wood this was, which in my thought renews the fear!”
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

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Ep 186: Be open to the tension

We celebrate the birth of Matt's daughter, Eletta Claire. 

You came like a sure fire, with unpredictable timing, unstoppable intent, and precise aim. You joined us with a calm precision entering space and time, relaxed, as if arriving pre-curtain.
Eletta - Truth - Veritas
If that is your banner, what is there to fear?
You are the boundary between anticipation and completion.
I look forward to applauding your curtain draw.
Love, 
Dad

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Ep 187: Verity, Truth, Footloose & Free

Life can be at once wonderful and frustrating, full of joy and full of war. What are we to make of all of that, and how are we to live? We suggest that the answer has something to do with faith.

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Ep 188: In Good Faith

Inflation sucks, bitcoin is the answer.

Links referenced in the show:
Sovereign Threads - http://sovereignthreads.shop
Broken Money - Lyn Alden - https://a.co/d/dgZ7yPh
The Hidden Cost of Money - https://a.co/d/66xAsrE
The Bitcoin Standard - https://a.co/d/36kniqY
Bitcoin is Time - https://dergigi.com/2021/01/14/bitcoin-is-time/

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All Michael’s Links - https://solo.to/michaelvaclav

Ep 189: Bitcoin Is Hope

A podcast by Matt McCloskey and Michael Vaclav

Ep 152: Who are the experts?

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