Episode 017 with Spencer Hicks

(3) Spencer Hicks is an intellectual friend of mine of who's conversations hold great value to my contemplations and thinking. In this one, we hit on life being a choose your own adventure, choose your pains, choose your un-comforts journey. We begin to expose a Metta conversation surrounding the importance of being able to have conversations outside of narrow beliefs. The importance of having free conversations can't be understated, these are conversations we feel afraid to have out loud - and often we are thrown into arguments and 'sides' instead of realizing we need neither side to have the connection and understanding being ultimately searched for. Spencer and I both feel the important holy grail that is the human conversation - is being attacked and misused. This area of our talks will be returned to often. I share my plans to "learn to vote out loud" for the upcoming election. We try to talk about politics without... falling into the maze of politics. We make sure you've noticed our world's people each hold differing opinions of the same words too often, and certain words hit parts of you that do not hit others. Spencer and I talk on philosophy/psychology and philosophical points - Spencer shares his views on the Frankfurt school of thinking, Absurdism, Marksicm, Nihilism, realizations and world views. We express our love for Wonder and never having an answer, and we talk more on the weirdo stuff around social media that nobody seems to have mentioned yet. We share the joy of not knowing and questioning beliefs, we touch on being the alpha male and unspoken conversations that send us down strange rabbit holes. I complain about my chair a few times, and then Spencer teaches me a lot-o-bit about Dungeons and Dragons. We talk about victimhood and complaining, Getting beat down by life and some healing remedies for those sorts of things. The back and forth conversations between Spencer and I are evolving and will continue to advance as a third.