Fisherman catches one of the most terrifying creatures of all time. The deep dark blue is full of mysterious secrets and creatures, which fishermen happen to stumble upon every now and then. We've only explored 20% of our oceans, leaving nearly 80% of it unmapped and undiscovered. Every year never before seen creatures make their way to the surface, shocking all who get to witness them. Captain Carl Moore spends his days shrimp fishing enjoying the routine. It was spring in Key West Florida and Moore was ready for what the day was about to bring him, or so he thought. The sun was shining and the breeze was whistling a cool wind, the day seemed perfect. When he noticed something unusual was caught in his net, he was left in shock. Moore had spent decades on the water and fishing was a part of his soul. But on April 19, 2014, he caught something he didn't even know existed. He knew this was going to be a day to remember as he pulled the net closer to the surface, revealing the hideous creature. The creature was thrashing and causing a scene, clearly fighting for its life. He was struggling to pull the net up all the way and began to worry that he was going to lose the net and whatever he had just caught. He was about 10 miles off the coast, alone, and now fighting against a monster. When he finally got the creature on board, he didn't know what to think. He had never seen anything like it, and he knew it was something not seen by many. It looked kind of like a shark, but had a long hideous snout. It also looked to be dying very quickly, something the normal sharks that roamed these waters don't do. When it came up, I didn't know what it was, Moore told NBC. I didn't measure him because his head was slashing around, and he had some mean-looking teeth and I didn't want to get caught up in those, he stated. Fearing for his safety, he couldn't do anything but stare, shocked at what he had just caught. It was clear that the shark was deteriorating and fast. But that didn't mean it didn't have some fight left in it. It looked as if its skin started to sag around the body, instead of staying firm like most animals at that depth do. Its teeth were hideously protruding from its mouth, and its stare was the most intense stare Moore had ever seen. As the captain got closer to the creature, it gave one last giant thrash and lunged towards him.  He thought the shark deserved a chance to survive, especially after putting up this much of a fight. He quickly grabbed his camera, ready to snap a few photos of the beast before releasing it. He knew no one would believe him if he didn't have some evidence of this strange creature, and he was excited to have some proof. Plus, he knew he could use these pictures to learn more about the monster he discovered. Using a crane, he carefully picked the monster up. He then dropped it into the ocean, hoping to watch it swim away. He earned it, after all. He lingered in the area for a while, watching as one of a kind creature swim back into the depths where it came from. When he got back to port, he decided to contact Noah, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, detailing his findings. Although Moore didn't know what it was, researchers at Noah knew immediately. There was only one creature that had all these attributes. John Carlson, a researcher at Noah, told NBC, We don't know very much about these animals, this is a very rare finding. Although they don't know the details of this creature, they do know its classification, and a few interesting facts about it. It turns out, the creature that Captain Moore caught was in fact, a goblin shark. The goblin shark isn't often photographed because of its elusive nature. It also lives at depths as deep as 4,300 feet, making it one rarely witnessed creature. The goblin shark is usually seen near California and Japan, so how was it found in Florida? Unfortunately, not much is known about these sharks so scientists aren't quite sure. However, they do know that they come from a family line that is 125 million years old. These sharks range from 10 to 13 feet in length, and can weigh up to 465 pounds. Its sluggish body, small fins, and protruding jaw lead scientists to believe that it moves rather slowly through the water, preserving energy.  Goblin sharks' bones are also poorly calcified, and their muscles are underdeveloped due to their natural environments deep beneath the surface of the ocean. When they're brought up to the surface or shallow waters, they don't do well due to the difference in pressure. They're generally not seen as a threat to humans due to their habitats being so isolated. Along with the little information about their life cycles, we know little about the reproductive stages. A pregnant female has never been observed in the wild, but it is believed that they don't reproduce quickly due to their limited numbers. Scientists have even tried to keep the sharks in captivity to study them further, but sadly, to no avail. At Tokai University researchers were only able to keep a captive goblin shark alive for a day, unable to study it. At the Tokyo Sea Life Park, researchers tried again, but were only able to watch it for two days before it perished. Although there wasn't much information gathered in the short period of time that the sharks were alive, they do know the pressure needed to sustain life is greater than they originally thought. In 2003 off the coast of Taiwan nearly 100 goblin sharks were caught at once, an occurrence that had never happened before and hasn't happened since. Although scientists are unsure why the sharks came to the surface, they assume it was due to an earthquake that disturbed their normal behavior. The goblin shark remains one of the most interesting and elusive sharks our ocean has to offer. We have yet to investigate most of the darkest depths, but every year we learn more information about how amazing all sorts of creatures are at adapting to even the harshest environments. Hopefully, we will continue to learn more about this amazing creature in the years to come.


What's the word y'all 11 games slate in the association, which is nothing. I just went up to Twitter and somebody told me that on Monday All 30 teams are playing 15 games. So I had trouble keeping up with the 11 I cannot imagine the type of work room I had to put in Monday Um, but the thing that's on my mind as of right now in this second Is matt ryan the Lakers game just ended matt ryan off the bench comes in a fourth go to his two big shots Including the one to go to ot and then codes darvin ham said thank you for your service Get your butt on that bench and let the real players play and the Lakers get they second win of the season We'll talk about that a little bit later I really want to talk about the Cleveland Cavaliers Because boy, oh boy, do they look amazing right now They are six and one on the season and their only loss was the first game of the year When it went against the Toronto Raptors in a game where Darrius garlic I hit all up in his face and he missed Three quarters of it. So the team has been really really good. They beat the Bulls by million points They beat the wizards the magic the Celtics and overtime the nicks and then the Celtics and overtime again I saw people on the timeline going as far as saying a this is a preview of the Easter Conference finals for this season And I I can't go that far Because in my mind At least through the first two weeks in basketball the the Kenny power rankings in my brain without thinking about it says milwaukee bucks So i'm gonna like that were they're my pick to win the championship So milwaukee bucks sons calves or calves sons one or the other So, uh, I don't know if the season's gonna be in the conference finals But hey, they did it last year. They could definitely do it again I know they tired of seeing that boy donovan mitchell because boy, oh boy two games two over times and really The game of the night if you ask me there were some question marks for me When this trade went down, I was extremely excited if you go back and watch the video of the trade where we reacted to the donovan mitchell trade I was extremely excited I told the world that it was not an overpay because donovan mitchell is that nice and people low-key kind of forgot The one major concern I had was like how good of a defensive team Can you be down a stretch if derrius garland and donovan mitchell are your two guards? And again, the sample size is really small because this was their first real game together in the clutch The defense looked really good and the offense looked even better. So I did some digging Oh, I did some digging You know, I'm excited about something if I did some research So last season the cleven of cavaliers played in 46 Clutch games at his second most in basketball last season under the la lakers And I think what they determined to be clutch is like the game was within five points What x amount of minutes ago and in those games the cleven of cavaliers were 22 and 24 sub 500 team when it got down to the nitty gritty And it makes sense if you watched the team last season because we got to the fourth quarter We get to the clutch situations Let's be honest the NBA is very simple once we get to the clutch situations Like give the ball to our best player and let him do something and in that case it was derrius garland derrius garland derrius garland And derrius garland is such an unselfish dude like he can't take over these games But like once we get to the fourth quarter, they were just giving them the ball likes Please do something. Please do something and what we saw in today's game It's like don't admit to a takeover and then now is derrius garland too Like they have multiple options down the stretch That's not just derrius garland gold maker play and this game. It was don't admit you um step back jump shot lay up Dunk there was three straight possessions in this game where don't admit you score late in the fourth quarter He missed a shot and derrius garland called for the ball and then he hit a shot We saw the tandem working in real time and it was amazing And I also think it's going to be amazing from donovan mitzvah because I don't know if y'all remember some of the clutch stats from last Year in utah. This article was written last year this year mitzvah has atrocious shooting splits of 37.5 field goal percentage of 22 3 point percentage and a 53 free throw percentage in clutch time Which is wild donovan that you went this far into a season and you were shooting 53 percent from the free throw line That was like the yips or something and you know, he got that free throw We close his eyes and he breathes deep shooting 53 percent of clutch time free throws is ridiculous I and they were saying that last year he was better in fact And they were saying the year before that wasn't much better And he's never had a season in which he shot over 42 percent from the field and 33 percent from three in the clutch And so far this season it is a small sample size But not really because they've played six clutch games this season already Um, and that's like tie with the utah jazz. It's tied with the miami heat or whatever And in this one so far he's shooting 44 percent from the field and only 30 percent from three in the clutch time But again, keep her into his field goal percentage Before hand and his three percent before hand slide upgrade And what we saw in this one is that you had him going off but also derrius garland doing this thing as well so far The teams that made the big time traits I always just say it will take a minute to gel to take a minute to gel I said to say think about the land of hawks. They had a big win today We'll talk about that in a minute And you're seeing it with the with the minnesota timbles as well Once you add an all-star caliber player to your lineup It will take time, but for the cleave and cavaliers. It hasn't really yet I still believe there will be a gelling pier because we have to remember that derrius garland and donovimichu Played 12 minutes together basically in the first game and then this was their real first experience on the court together For a full full cycle So I wouldn't be surprised if maybe they lost a few games in the near future as they try to figure everything out But for it being their very first game basically playing together It looked really really good the unksong heroes on this one Of course had to be like dean wade or specifically today evan mobily got a huge huge rebound and overtime Offensive rebound overtime that led to a derrius garland three point shot And evan mobily in general has just been so amazing like you just watch him individually When they're on the defensive side of the ball all the things that he has been able to do With him being the his size and still pretty slim when it comes to mba power four to mba bigs He has been amazing. So even with the small guards up top They've been locked in and the defense still looks elite before this game They were one of the they were the last team that was top five in offense of top five in defense But again small samples as considered with seven games to the season I think their offense dropped from like number four to like number 11 after today Regardless if they stick around there in their defense to steal top five This team is a legitimate team And I thought it was going to take maybe a year before I consider them a contender But based on what I've seen so far it's hard not to put them in that camp Maybe I won't because some of the competition they've played so far isn't amazing like the two selters wins are big But I need to see maybe another game against one of the top ant teams before we say it officially But boy oh boy do they look damn good All right, let's get to some of the other games on the day like the lakers beating the pelicans And they are now two on two or five on the season When streaking la ladies and gentlemen, they are here. This is a second game And I guess technically third game in a row where it feels like russo westbrook Is I don't want to say him because the version of him that we know was averaging like 30 10 and 10 But he he has really bought into the role off the bench And it's kind of weird that it took this long considering that they played a game And the pre-season were rus coming off the bench and it was I and they were like Ah, we're gonna get to the regular season We're gonna start him anyway, and then it took him x amount of games But the game's off the bench. He's look good. He shot 60 percent feel today He hit a three nine assist seven rebounds all of this off the bench and uh overall The team won another basketball game not the most beautiful game for anthony davis He missed a lot of bunnies down the stretch But a win is a win to see uh, chicago bulls led in shroy brown jr. Cutting back door every possession Is dope the pelicans definitely could have used somebody down a stretch That would be their primary shot taker maker and that would be brandeningrum So pelicans fans everything will be okay. Um, this is definitely not a game you want to lose But they looked young today Um, dyson danu's played really really solid But at the end of the day he missed those two free throws open up the door for matt ryan regardless Eventually brandeningrum will be back and so will y'all and oh to have a game Where trey murphy shot 0 for 5 from 3 that don't happen off. I'll just say that don't happen often Tyler hero in the fourth court actually I don't remember how many total points it was in the fourth quarter Tyler hero gave them 13 points including the game winner And you know what was the best thing about this if you're in miami he fan It's kyle larry's kyle larry's performance today man 22 points seven assists This was the best he's looked on the court all season long And i'm not even just talking about the production because 22 points can be I don't know 12 points. He was moving way better today than he has moved all season And that is a very very good sign. Um, the kings are of course missing deer and fox in this one I saw somebody say hey if deer and fox was playing This is the king's win and then somebody else said if jimmy butler was playing The the heat went by 20. So uh jimmy butler told the world Hey, we gonna win the championship still and then since that day they have not lost so i'm I don't know jimmy butler gave it in that pet talk and it is what it is When I watch this king's team and there are so many different versions of this team It's the it's the deer and fox version, right? It's the sub-bonus version And then it's the sub-bonus and deer and fox version and i'm sure every team has their own But it feels so disconjointed and they're still trying to figure out which version of the team Is their best lineup or which version of their team is going to have the most success But in this one, I mean you could tell that they were Desperately desperately missing a lead ball handler in a uh playmaker and they have losing down the stretch So it is what it is king's fans the streak ends at two But you'll probably be back only once deer and fox comes back I need deer and fox to come back for the sake of my fantasy team because I am losing Deer and fox and jimmy ball on my fantasy team and they both set out these games crazy The bulls win a back-to-back and you know what the best thing about this is zack levine played Us bulls fans have been a little bit scared. We talked about knee management for knee injury management Oh, no, he was questionable questionable questionable. He hadn't played a back-to-back all season long played today And we didn't I mean none of our starters actually played really well other than patrick williams But luckily for us, we're going against the team that was missing their star player in lamella ball They're missing probably their second best player in terry roger and their third best player got injured halfway through But a win is a win at the end of the day. The best thing about this entire game was patrick williams I know I got to give a lot of love to givante green He was the first chicago bull player to go seven for seven from the field since christianna felicia Stacy king said that on the broadcast the first bull since felicio did it years ago to go seven for seven from the field Crazy But two games in a row back-to-back nice patrick williams looked aggressive And billy donovan talked about it yesterday Saying that patrick williams has to realize that his role isn't just play defense and pass the ball to the to the good players it's like Go get yours and he has been doing that over the last two games And if we get this version of p will all season long or for an extended period of time I think a lot of bulls fans are super happy with it, you know because of the first Week and a half of the season a lot of us were really iffy on some things But the bench unit so far this year for the bulls has been really good one of the best Benches in basketball, but deeper than that. I think a lot of bulls fans We're going to be excited about the fact that we're defending this season the offense has to come around Actually, our offense is one of the worst in basketball, but the defense is slightly above league average I thought it'll be the other way around, you know So um eventually shots will start falling and eventually opposing teams like tonight We'll stop hitting every shot because the bulls give up a ton of made three pointers and a lot of them not even open They just hit contested shots today. They did not and the bulls went comfortably next game Paul george did his thing again 28 points But this is what I want to talk about alprensen going while this game was going on the seltsics and the cavaliers game Was also going on so I feel like the only people that are watching this game is probably clippers fans and rockets fans I want you to go to mba.com and then go to play-by-play and watch all the singoon's possessions I'm talking about get all 13 of his shot attempts even the one to be missed I need you to go out there and get his 13 rebounds just watch his performance today because he was amazing He was going at zubach and uh, he looked like the better center today and zubach has been really good all season long So he got outplayed by the young guy the bucks wind did not get a single second of play for me And then the spurs game got like the first quarter and I was like, oh my god The spurs are gonna do it again. There was no Keldon. There was no A dev of a sale they sat up bunch of people today and through the first quarter Hold on when the score was 32 to 31 I'm like, I didn't go try to I didn't go figure out a way to win this game without like three starters Nope Because we get to that second quarter and it was 32 18 then it was 40 to 21 Both in the favor of the the raptors by the way and in the fourth quarter it was 39 To 30 So yeah, the the raptors put it all together after that first quarter and killed the game Pascal Siakam is just looking so amazing So far. I've been seeing people who sent MV Pascal MVP Pascal I don't know if we're going that far but boy, oh boy He said he wanted to be top five and he's probably at this point in the season looking top 10 Oh, so that is an improvement 22 11 and 10 today and only played 27 minutes because they were winning by 40 Um, oh gian and obi continues to pick pockets second game in a row between the last one against the ellen hawks and then tonight five steals tonight and I think six steals the previous night So he is really clamping up, which is great the jazz didn't have the magic today Just all right, you know, it's all right Because on the other hand we saw christian would have probably his best performance other than I guess open a night For him with 21 points and then who else um, do I pow do I pow gave them some really really quality minutes Basically being out of the rotation for the first week and a half of basketball Then javiel mcgee wanted to rest and then do I pow is played pretty solid in a minute So they've given him um since the javiel mcgee rest javiel played eight minutes in this game And then the rest was to christian wood slash do I pow slash Maxi cleaver one thing that was really interesting that came out in the news earlier today Was that there was one western conference team that was thinking about giving up veteran shooters to get Ben Simmons And I saw a lot of people in the timeline saying the only team that makes sense is the mavericks Because they do have tim hardaway jr. Who in this game shot one for nine and they also have um Davis burton at the google it because he's not even on the stat sheet and I know He didn't play but like even the people that don't play like a puzzle jayden hardy and the open And get a dmp coach decision. So I don't really know what's going on with davis burton. So I'm not even to be on the report Ah, he has knee injury. That's why okay cool. I mean not cool. That makes it seem like That made it seem like we were rooting for an injury. Absolutely not I have actually skipped over this atlanta hawks nicks game a game that I turned off to focus on other ones Because at one point in this one, let me see what the biggest lead actually was for the nicks tonight The biggest lead was a 23 point lead in the first half and they ended up losing by 13 They were up by 23 and then later in this game was down by 19 Uh, did y'all say murray put together his best performance on the team? I'm doing a little bit everything getting them passing lanes and getting steals and then running the break Hitted three pointers. I think this is the most three point. He's ever hitting this nba career Or i'm sorry attempted attempt. I don't know about the mix But 12 attempted threes the most he's ever seen I think nine was the previous one a 36.5 is five steals nine assists and You know how tray young is once he gets to that mecca, you know, I'm saying even though he didn't have no crazy game It just feels like he always wins And you know, I put him in one of my entries today because if you look at his numbers in madison square garden He has hit the over every single time and in today Just 17 points. So I didn't hit on that one But I did get one five or five on prize picks shout out to me and that was pretty solid Um, I I did not watch the turnaround of this game So I don't really have any notes and I asked nicks fans like what the hell happened And he was saying tom thibodeau put ever forney a back in the game and then julie's randall was selling nicks fans you tell me if that's true. I don't I don't really know and that is every single game That we were able to watch today the grizzlies trailblazers one got no seconds because I was really invested in lakers versus pelicans I'm gonna be honest with you. Um, but the grizzlies end up winning the game I see effort assignments had 31 points desmond bane had 29 So, you know, some of the young players that are really enjoyable to watch had good games and I probably I probably Watched the possessions from anthony simons and the possessions from john desmond bane Uh, but overall great slate of games, man Great slate of games tonight if you enjoyed leave it a like and uh, see y'all tomorrow. Maybe or did they have that? I don't know


If you think of iconic villains in Yu-Gi-Oh, you probably think of characters from the original Duel Monsters or even Sartorius Kumar. From Yu-Gi-Oh GX, Generation Next! Anyway, today we're going to get our game on as I'm going to be playing the role of Jaden and Siriax here will be playing the role of Sartorius Kumar and you are using the Arcana Force deck so you need luck on your side. Do you dare test fate? Oh brother, this guy plays Duelings. He's familiar with the cards. Oh brother, this guy's in gold. I haven't played since the rank reset. You know what? I feel like I wouldn't have won that coin toss so I'm going to let you go first actually. Okay, alright. I feel like Jaden would make his opponent go first. I gotta mention this, as always, just a little preface, we did not create the optimal elemental hero deck versus the optimal Arcana Force deck. This is literally a legacy of the duelist decks of these characters. Yes, so that is very important to mention. These are legacy of the duelist decks where these characters dueled. We did not make them ourselves. In fact, we actually don't even know how to play these decks. We just made them without even reading the cards. Silence, boy. I played Pot of Greed. We had to replace Pot of Greed with Pot of Extravagance. Oh yeah? He doesn't have an extra deck so I can... Well, guess who's getting ash blossomed? Probably somebody in 5D. He's not here. Could you imagine? I'll start by playing a card face down. Oh brother, this guy's breaking. I'll end my turn. I'll draw. Hmm, interesting. You know what? I'm also... I'll use... Here's what I'm going to do, right? Here's what I'm going to do. I'll activate the spell card Dark World dealings for avid viewers at home. I'm looking.  He didn't use that card. Listen, Jayden ran three copies of Graceful Charity. It's no wonder he won as many duels as he did. He cheated. That card is great. Anyway, I'll just discard a card. So I'll just discard a random card. You don't have to look at that. Oh yeah. It makes me discard one, too. I will throw this ball away. And then I think I'll also just... I don't even roll a pie because I'm just going to set one face down.  I'm going to copy my moves. Yeah, well your moves are pretty inspiring. How lucky do you feel? I'm feeling pretty lucky. Cup of Ace. Oh, you're just doing it raw. Oh, come on, brother. Give me two. I could have really used that advantage right there, man. I'm going to save this. I'll play. I'll play a card face down. I'll play another card face down. All I need to draw is my boss monster and you're cooked, man. Yeah, I doubt it. Hey, I doubt it. Hey, I doubt it. Cup of Ace. Cup of Ace.  I'll not cost that. I'll not cost that. I'll play my Arcana Force. The Emperor. He's just skipping a number. You're not even sure. Oh, damn. We win now. I got two. Damn, that's a huge L for you, man. Oh, damn. That's a huge L for you. Bro, are you not a Jaden player?  He doesn't get his effect. You could have just got destroyed. Yeah, he doesn't get his effect, but you know what? He's going to have to deal with that. Anyway, I'll activate the spell card Dark World dealings. Oh, brother. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. I didn't know you had three.  All right. Come on. Move this away. You dare test fate. I guess I do, right? But then I'm just going to give you advantage. You know what? I'm going to trust in my cards.  Sorry, I use a lot of elemental heroes. A spell card.  What? Impossible. This duel's just getting started, bro. Anyway, I'm going to lose. This duel's about to end. What if I power up my Neospacian Glomaw with a bit more attack? Oh, it didn't work like that. Well, whatever. I'll activate Neospac.  This card is useless. Your fate is sealed. Oh, yeah?  I'll play second coin toss. This is getting very ridiculous. I'll play the agent of creation. I'll activate its effect. Oh, brother. This card is so good. I'll bring forth a mystical shine ball. This guy's actually using modern, well, not even modern, but old engines. You can't afford taking these lifeline losses, man. I'm fine. Are you going to do like a triple tribute to him? And now I will send three cards to the graveyard to bring forth Arcana Force. EX, the light ruler. Oh. Tails. Hmm. Do I like Tails? Let's see. Oh my God. What a spell trap that targets this card. And I can negate it. You know what? I don't want that. I don't want that. Really? Yeah. I'm okay with this result. And now battle. The thing is you might have luck when it comes to coin tosses, but how about your draws? Yeah, we'll see. Glomoss, make him draw a monster. Yes. Your battle phase is over. Damn it. You dare test your fate? Now it's my turn to draw. Oh. Wait. So what do I need? I need to draw. Okay. Either a spell or trap gets rid of you. Looks like it's time to get our game on. I'll use the effective elemental hero in the graveyard to break forth Nios. Ooh. Yeah. You didn't know I got it like that. That's almost as strong as my Arcana Force. And then I'll fusion, Southern, using contact fusion, of course, shuffling both my Glomoss and Nios to the deck to break forth Glow Nios. What does this guy do? Target one face-up card you would destroy. You really should have left it on Tails. I don't know it because I think it's only spell or trap. Like, I wouldn't be able to negate a monster effect. No, or monster effect, spell trap, or monster effect. Thanks for the reminder. Reversal of fate. And now I'm Tails. Make your move. You know what? I will make my move. Not as simple anymore, is it? No, it's not. No, it's really not.  My second coin toss. Impossible. And now because I destroyed a spell card, I get to walk my way to your life point. What? I didn't know I did that. This is going to hurt. Yes, it is. Ow!  Tested me for too long.   Don't do that. There's really no need to do that. There's really no need to do that. I'll play the field spell, light barrier. You got a field spell too, man. This is whack. Yeah. Yeah. I can just choose which effect without tossing a coin. Oh yeah, it's your standby phase. And now I'll play my Arcana Force. The Emperor. The Emperor. The Emperor. I will select heads. That's whack, bro. If you had two tails, that could have saved me. Well, why am I not plus- Oh, does Neo Space lower me? No. You already have heads on one of your Arcana Force. Oh, this little dork.    Bro, this guy has no extra deck. All right. That's your fault. I'll attack. What do you mean it's my fault? He didn't have one. That's the only reason I- Contact Fusion is not good, Konami. Why did you think Contact Fusion was what? Oh, give me some life ones.  Don't you test fate with me, boy. Oh, yeah. Okay. I'm going to have to really draw my way out of Tickle here. Oh, normal summon. Oh my God. It's my only chance. You're stalling, SB. I'm going to have to deck him out, bro. A monster card meeting my battle phase is unfortunately empty.  You're going to have to hope I get unlucky on five attacks. What do you mean? You get unlucky on the first one.  Oh, yeah, I'm going to monster on just one of them. And my phase. No. Hmm. How should I cook this one? Hmm. Hmm. It's like a Minecraft villager over there, bro. Arcana Force VII. Tales, tales, tales, tales. Yes. Oh, brother. E-wink. Bro, now I just can attack that instead of your- Oh, see, that's not as funny now. This works out for me, brother. And I get some life points for this. No, I don't, because it was your monster. All right. You just need to stop one of these attacks. What do you mean I need to stop? I need to stop the first one.  Oh, yeah.  And it looks like you didn't. I drew this. MST. Stupid. Wax it out of here, bro. Glomos, no. I'm a merciful God.  I don't think there's a single card in my deck that can save me here. You know, a miracle contact or something. Draw. No. God. Damn it.  This card would have been useful. I'll activate Neon Space. Oh, brother. Yeah, maybe if you had those three critical charities. I was going to say, what's crazy of contact fusion?   But Neos went back to the deck and not the graveyard. Here is life is just a shame. Life is a shame. Anyway, go next.  All right, brother. Let me just go ahead and wrap it up. The end. Arcana force. The light ruler. Finish him. It really had me just glomossing my way, hoping for a victory, bro.  That was pretty good. I did. I kind of forgot that it when you hit me so hard, you were going to gain back the life points anyway. I forgot about that too until it happened. I'm going first now, bro. You're wack. I'm going first. All right. That's what I need to, I need to realize that I, you know, I can't always contact fuse. That was my bad. I'll activate the spell card E emergency call, allowing me to add one elemental hero monster from my deck to my hand. Impossible. Nope. It's very possible. And I'll choose spark man. Then I'll activate reinforcement of the RV. Combos. And I'll add avian. I don't know if I want to play any of these. I probably can't OTK you.  I'm just saying, like, if you don't play a monster, if you're trying to protect your monsters or something. No, it's fine. I'll just play spark man and attack mode and end my turn. I'm not going to win this duel by playing afraid. What kind of villain has MST? Pot of extravagance. Jesus Christ. Light barrier. And now I'll play my arcana force. I get to choose. And I'll select heads this time. Putting me just above your spark man. And now I'll attack. Okay. That's annoying. I'll activate hero counter attack. Hey, stop. Now you have to choose a random card in my hand. And if it's an elemental hero, you lose that card. And I get the special summon mine. Looks like you lose. Pop. And Burstinitrix hits the field.  Burstinitrix can't take that much, dude. I'll play a card face down and end my turn. Every once in a while, there's got to be a video where you just get cooked, bro. What can I say? It's that video. It's that time. All summon my avion. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I bet you're regretting. I bet you're regretting this normal hero beatdown you're seeing right now. You're getting kind of bodied for real. I've lost 600 life points total so far. Now flip tail so you can't choose whatever effect you want. Tails, tails, tails, tails, tails, tails. Protagonist. I need it. Actually, I have to have confidence. Cup of Ace. Yeah, have confidence. Yeah! Yeah! I really needed that. Oh, you want to see a combo, Dotto? I don't want to see anything but you getting tails on Cup of Ace so I can win. I'll play Arcana Force One. I will select heads. Okay, so you're going to spell card. And now I'll play my second Cup of Ace. Please, please, please, please. Heads. Yeah! Dear God, somebody help me. Yeah, double my attack. I don't say it once per turn. I don't know. I don't say it once per turn so my second light barrier. Yeah! Oh, damn it. I had no work. It's already it's double original attack. Oh, double the original attack. I thought it would just keep doubling. The card would be kind of broken if that was the case. I thought it was going to add on another. Look, look, look, look.  No matter to me. Should I activate this? Two is not two. Crazy. You just get to juice me for life points like this. Yeah, bro, I'm air hummingbird. I don't have air neo so. Yeah, you better not play a spell. I'll activate foolish burial.  And I'm going to send Necrochet. I should have attacked first time. I told you, bro. I didn't think that through. I literally told you before you did it. You did or you did but I didn't think about it, bro. You put it in defense mode when I couldn't attack over you unless I had a spell. You don't have a spell? Oh, brother. You have a spell. In my hand? No. What? What? I don't.  I however will simply. Oh, this is interesting. I will simply. I'd like that burstinatrix you got there. Would you mind sharing it? Give me heads. I'm on tails. Shit. Thank God, man. Finally, I've been eaten. I've been eaten now. Now I've got the Arcana Force. Shit. I wish I left for Cititrix and attack now.  I was. Why couldn't I use this? I could really turn this around if I draw Nios. Every decision I've made has been the incorrect one. Anyway, it's time for me to attack now. Impossible. I'm given now. Now it's duel time, baby. I've accessed the duel terminals. You enjoy this while you can. I need another tails.  The Arcana Force is just out in full effect tonight. Yeah, on your side, too. Except for the chariot. The chariot is constantly on my side. And you know what? I could appreciate that. What you got that gets over 1700, bro. I end my turn. Nice turn. Do they make it for men? Anyway, I draw. You're gonna say that. Oh, yes. I'll take it. I'll activate the spell card E Emergency Call, which I've only just realized. I crafted this for this video, and that's a prismatic right there. And I'll get Elemental Hero Nios. Then I'll activate... That's pretty. Then I'll normal summon Nios using Necro Shades effect in the graveyard. Boom. Then I'll use the spell card H Heated Heart. Oh, brother. This guy's jaded. And in power, my Nios. Piercing damage. That's right. This is gonna hurt. This is gonna hurt. But I'm not destroyed because I can't be destroyed by battle. Dammit. My Heated Heart was the only thing I had going for me then.  Tails again, please.  Let's play a game. Arcana Force. Yeah. Cannot be destroyed by battle.  I guess I can use one of my Nios contact fusions, but... Yeah, that's what I'm kind of scared of. Damn. God damn. Arcana Force. Damn. Oh, you get to choose, huh? I was a little worried it was gonna boost you up too. I was hoping. Well, get rid of the traitor. That's the chariot. He was, he was, would be shooting into Jim. Oh my God. This is such an uphill battle for me. It's ridiculous. I'm a boss battle, bro. This is the... New turn. New me. Once again, I'll activate the classic Jaden spell card, Dark World Dealing. And I'll ditch my Necro shade of my hand. Then I'll play the spell card, Neospace. Hey, Dotto, I'm just gonna tell you right now, tread lightly. This motherfucker kind of is... I'm warning you. I'm warning you. I warned. Warn me what? Honest. Honest?   I told you to tread lightly, boy. You didn't listen to me. This is dumb. All right. Well, just so I won't die, I guess I'll play my Silent Doom card. What? What do you mean what? My attacks stay like this. I know. Okay. Well, you're fine, bro. Silent Doom is good. Silent Doom is good if I don't contact these. Yeah. Tales. I actually wanted tales for this one. That's bad. Yeah. Don't worry. At least you don't have to like get rid of this monster anymore because I'll get rid of it for you. Oh. The light ruler. That's not good for me. Yeah. Oh, very nice. Destroyed Nels. Oh, I don't have a lot of cards in my hand. Hey. I like Nels.  Oh, I can only revive. I thought I could revive you, monster. I was ready, bro.  You just be getting one from your graveyard today. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.  How did Jayden win this duel or did he lose in the show? I don't know. I don't know about Sartorius. I don't know about Sartorius. I don't know how to carve a duel. I don't know about Sartorius. I don't know how to carve a duel.  This ain't real. Jayden just actually not win this duel. Your hand or what? What's up? I got three monsters in my hand.  You saw me just pick one up. That's right. I did, but I forgot. I mean, it's all like I could have stopped it anyway. Hey, bro, you know I'm a merciful god, though. I don't like that. Nah. Nah, I don't like that. I don't like that. I don't like that result. All right, brother. Enjoy the last turn. This is bad. There's not a card in my deck that gets me out of this. Oh, and just in case you act up, I can't be targeted. He's reversing his fate again. That seems about right. God, Jayden was not winning this duel, bro. Hey, don't worry. We're going to get tripled over time, bro. Where's that other Jayden deck, man?  I hated that deck. That deck maybe could have done it, but this is the... Nah, actually, that deck probably loses, too. It was hero counter deck. Surprisingly, by one and only chance of beating that monster, but you reversed his fate anyway. Bro, I got two couple of aces, man. Maybe Jayden can win this. You did. I haven't missed one couple of aces yet. Maybe Jayden wins this if I just believe in my card. Maybe I just haven't been on my protagonist yet. Hold on. Let me change. I'm just out here doing for fun, bro. Like, this is just fun to me. This isn't even my main deck. Now, this is a Jay... I knew if I believed in my protagonist's powers that he would come through. Let's go, dude. Let's go, dude. I don't plan on playing any spells. I bring out Arcana Force. Yeah, so it looks like I'm going to have to be in a huge spell of my spell here, actually. I'll draw. Ooh, wee! Oh, huh. Get on. No, I don't even care for real. I'll activate the spell card Dark World Dealings.  And I'll get rid of my Necro Shade. I will get rid of Ball, since I always have these in my hand. 2200's pretty impressive. If I wasn't summoning Elemental Hero Nios using the effect of Necro Shade. Come here. I'm good to say I was beating. I should have activated the spell card in my hand, but whatever. Goddamn! I'll wait for main phase two, and then I... Why not? I'll throw us into Neo Space. Yeah! You didn't know I was the protagonistess tool, did you? You forgot about me, huh? Yeah, I did. I did. You kind of forgot about a guy named me, huh? Yeah, I did. Didn't I? Man, them couple of aces would hit right now. Yeah, where are you without your pot of greeds every seven... You regularly play so many pot of greed cards. Yeah, I have. I've got, like, plus six on... Oh, brother. I haven't had to think in a while. Exactly, bro. But now that I'm the protagonist and luck is on my side ain't nothing gonna get me down. Ain't nothing gonna get me down.  I'll draw.  I'm just seeing what kind of trickery I'm trying to get into for real. I don't know what your defense is like. It's pretty, it's pretty strong. You better be careful. You should be careful, man. I'll just play... Let me be nice and sway with it. I'm gonna play Granmo. Step into the Granmo. Granmo, Granmo. Brother, I hate this guy. Hey, bro, we bouncing. Nice. Yeah, yeah. Now that I know you got that in your hand. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, they ain't tellin' me about me. They ain't tellin' about the protagonist. I didn't wanna have to do this now. I just need some defense, man. What should I get into for? I can mill out my deck a little bit. I could help you do that. I'll draw. I have to reserve these cards for my Arcana Light Ruler. What's the coolest? Bro, the coolest play would be like no play at all in your turn. God, you having fuckin' Granmo is devastating. I didn't know you had that little mole.  Even if I got Light Ruler, that guy could just maybe go back to the hand. I'm gonna use Reinforcement of the Army. And I'm gonna get... Congratulations! You good? I'll get my Aqua Dwarfen.  Like, look at my hand or something? Yeah, he could inspect the gate of your hand. I don't know if I wanna do that, though. I mean, that's very funny, but I don't know if I wanna do that right now. Bro, I'm gonna have another turn. You'll get another turn to do it, bro. Uh, you kinda shittin'. Anyway, I guess I'll go ahead and play Lair Scarab.  Your expired driver's license? Or reversal of fate? Oh, brother. Yeah, you going through it? I'm going through it. Mmm, now this is where I could get zesty or I could get... I could get real jetty with it. This is the type of hand you love to see. This is the type of hand you love to see. Oh, no. What? How you gonna say, oh no, bro? I'm getting cooked. Uh... I must have just been... The gods just gave me great hands in those first two duels. I'm gonna use my Aqua Dolphin's effect. I'm gonna discard a Sparkman. What you got in here? Well, I got something stronger than that. Light Cherry, two tributes. That's pretty useful. I don't even know if I have any of these idiots that can be... Ah!  My light ruler just sends to the graveyard. I don't even know what the point of that guy is. Hey, we splash. Hey, we splish-splash him. You've reached a wall that you cannot attack over. No way, dude. But I know you have that stupid-ass mole, so I gotta figure something out. I do have that mole. Uh, do I want to play that mole right now? Can't, you already summoned. I know, but... Look, I'm the protagonist. You will get to play that mole because I'm about to show you the meanest combo of all time. What's the meanest combo? First, I flip over my second coin toss. Okay, that's what you were hiding under there. You should have gotten rid of my chariot. I didn't need to because I know he's gonna be mine. Heads. Damn!  I can then take your dolphin. Oh! Way to rid it, Dion. Activate dolphin. Wait, what? No, not attack.  I'm in battle phase. I'm in a tough spot, actually. Yeah, there is the... There is the hole. I only have 18. You get punched in the face. But other than that, that was a pretty good play. Yeah, you can get rid of my grand mole now. His card. He only has 900 attack. What a move. You can get rid of him. And, uh... See, now... Now I just gotta... I just gotta beg, bro. I just gotta... I just gotta beg you.  I made you stronger. Oh. Well, okay. Like, what do you want me specifically not to do? Finish me off? Anything else you wanna do?  I was merciful, God. Now, with this, you're turn, Ed Blake. Hey, you didn't have that in your hand before. What is this? I didn't.  I need three for this. All right. Let me get rid of this arcanef. Whatever, dude. Why? What did he do?  Oh, no! I thought you meant the chariot, man! No, he can stay. Woo! All right. There you go, Dion. There you go. No, Glomoss. Don't leave. I appreciate the, uh... Tell me that, Ed Boy. God, Glomoss tried to run for his life.  Defense. Defense. Oh, brother. What is your face-down card? Why could you activate it? What is that? It wasn't my face-down card. Glonios was trying to run away again. Anyway, I'm going to target your spell card that you left out in the open. You weakened your scarab. Yep. Excuse me. Oh, I forgot you could do that! Excuse me. Damn, I forgot you could do that. Finally, dude. Okay, so, you know, if not Buster, Jaden could have won. It's just very unlikely. I'm likely, brother. Contact Fusion sucks, man. Hey, bro, I'll take pride in the fact I never missed a couple of things. That was pretty impressive. Your coin tosses were good. Anyway, let us know some other characters you'd like to see in these character duels down below. Other than that, I like the video. Subscribe, check out Dion's channel, and goodbye. I think we'll do it now! No!


Today we discuss Seneca's on the shortness of life and instead of having an old man berate you about how short life actually is and as you all find out once you reach the dreaded age that I have, instead of doing that, I thought what we would do is go around the room and have you identify a passage that stood out to you that you would like to comment on or ask a question about. This is one of the essays that I start underlining and then the whole thing gets underlined or it's like you shouldn't you should have underlined the parts that you don't want to emphasize because there's so much in there that seems relevant and good and you would say ink that way but I'm sure you noticed some of this outstanding rhetoric and so forth and so I'd like to hear your thoughts about it including thoughts about what does any of this have to do with stoicism and what is what is the virtue at stake in any of this or is this even an issue of virtue? I see a lot of virtue in vice talk but what is once again I'm like in the case with mercy seem to be dealing with some subject it doesn't look like a standard stoic topic doesn't look like the name of the stoic emotion doesn't look like the name of the stoic virtue or vice all we care about is emotions virtue and vice is stoic so what is this doing here? So how don't we start randomly with you Bronson and we'll just go around the room this way you give us a passage and make a 30 second or a minute long comment. Okay so in section 14 on page 155 I thought it was interesting that we highlighted all of the various philosophical schools that we've been talking about and it seems to me that he almost said at least if you're thinking philosophically you are living your life as you should be despite the fact that life is short you're not wasting it looking into the future looking to the past you're discussing philosophical arguments and even if you're discussing the wrong schools it seems that you're at least still doing something correct does that seem to be a good interpretation? Well of course you picked my favorite passage because it says you're only really living if not only you do philosophy but specifically history and philosophy so it turns out that only those people doing ancient philosophy are really living life correctly so I don't know if you're just pandering to the relevant audience here but yes this one has got lots of red ink on it for me and it's a good observation to make that he's very inclusive here if we wish by the greatness of mind pass beyond the narrow confines of human weakness there is a great track of time to wander through we may hold argument with Socrates, field doubt with carnades, find tranquility with Epicurus, conquer human nature with the Stoics, exceed it with the Senex, Senex and then he goes on later in section 14 the ones you should regard as devoting time to the true duties of life for those who wish to have as their intimate friends every day Zeno that's a Stoic that's the founder of the Stoic school Pythagoras, Democrates neither of those are Stoics those are pre-Socratic philosophers and all other high priests of good learning Aristotle and Theophrastus two more non-Stoic philosophers so this is a very ecumenical statement very open not a partisan Stoic thing and so we've seen that tendency in him before almost a tendency towards what Michael Alvarez was was calling eclectic philosophy on the basis of that book that we read and the point is that basically the only way to not feel like life is short is to dwell on things that have happened over long and great stretches of time and to dwell on those things of how to do with the mind and so on so that's that's a very good one I don't think I have anything else to say about that but that's a good one to mention all right next so on section two on the tranquillator the mind pages 117 sort of goes like this passage where he sort of speaks against like the the habits of like more well off roads to go off and sort of like take tours through the rest of Italy to kind of escape from like their problems at the moment and like when I was reading this like I don't know if you kind of like jumped out to me like this isn't particularly philosophically inclined but was travel like a particularly common pastime for Romans or just like you know ancient people of the era to like participate in and if so like did the stones have anything in particular against travel I know that there have speaking on how exile away from one's homeland isn't necessarily a bad thing but like is there ever any mention about how you know there's sort of things now travel being good for you and spanning your horizon yes well I think I think I mean yes there is this stuff about exile and if even exile isn't bad how would travel be bad exile is forced travel so I think we can pretty much infer it's not a bad thing per se but what he's saying here is that it's not the cure for anxiety that people think it is so you think if I was just if I just went on vacation and I was just at that spot in Hawaii that they're showing on the TV commercial or something then I would be feeling tranquil and the problem is that wherever you go you're still there he says you can't you can't as it were travel away from your own soul so if you have an anxious soul then what you do is end up sitting on the beach kind of anxious in Waikiki or you have to and and so travel does not immediately relieve anxiety even vacation so we're all I'm sure thinking oh it's just a couple of weeks and then I will be tranquil right school will be out and it'll be summer break that's nice to think now and what you'll find is you're equally anxious then once it helps maybe it'll be because of social anxiety maybe it'll be because of anxiety about how you look when you go to the beach anxiety about the fact that you can't go to the beach and actually have to take summer classes or even worse than that you can't take summer classes that you need to take because you have to work and you have to drive to work and all of that's very stressful and so forth so the changing our location does not change the cause of a lack of tranquility okay yes why are you slow to action if you don't seize the date slips away when you seize it it will slip still slip away answering must compete with times quickness and the speed which you use it you must get from a fascinating point that will not always blow essentially for me this means that people perceive life as moving slowly in the present but as you like look back you see it like moving that like rapidly for example it's weird for me very slowly but like look yeah seems very quick now yeah it seems very quick now so essentially like trying to like understand that it doesn't rapidly just look at it just like trying to perceive it slowly does not like make you more efficient so I try to take things day by day and doing things in the moment rather than may have me a pass by as most clothing even taking it day by day it still flows by quickly though you're saying or the only take it day by day then it won't go by as quickly yes actually when I'm trying to say is I try to like put lit up in the moment so like you can complete as much as you can rather than like thinking about what could have been okay so that's a nice thought we hear a lot about that mindfulness and everything the strange thing is here he seems to be saying even even trying to do that doesn't work that's what you quoted even though you've seized it it will still run away and so in speed of using it you must master match the switch swiftness of time and drink quickly as though from a whirling torrent that is not always going to flow yes so he's saying the opposite of what you're saying I think like what I was trying to say is like trying to like the doubt to what I'm trying to like contradict that you're not adapting it you're contradicting it you're saying no if we if we have a mindful live in the moment then time will appear to slow down and go more slowly okay so that's about the contradicts with the bit that you read I mean which is fine you might think that that might be true but it's all to say that and then quote a text that says the opposite of it but it's an interesting point and I really like what you said about think about it think about the flow of the time over the school year so when it started in the beginning seemed like it was going very slow in the days were long and filled with lots of different activities and meeting new people and now at the end of the year it seems to be rushing by so quickly there's that you don't have time to do anything about it you can also do that with the calendar year at the beginning in January everything seemed seemed fine and there's lots of time and everything's before you by the time it gets to December everything you've been planning to do that hasn't happened and you're running late for your Christmas shopping and you haven't seen the relatives that you want to do and everything and you run out of time in fact you take any arbitrary length of time and do that and you will see that from the beginning of it time appears psychologically to be moving more slowly and towards the end to be moving more quickly and so of course that applies to life life in the beginning seemed like everything being before you it's going very slow and there's lots you can do in fact you can do anything you put your mind to and so forth and then you reach this elderly decrepit state and it looks like it's moving so fast that it's rushing by and you can't do anything with it it's going too quick to be able to act so one thing he says is that recognize that that structure that it has that that you will always feel like that for any arbitrary length of time for the entirety of life and face that take that into account it means you have to actually try to do more if you're going to be having the same amount of time not less okay so that's that's a tough one that's that's that's a difficult one and the exact advice one should take from that it's not clear because he then goes on to say and whatever you do don't become too busy like do more do lots of stuff but if you're busy you're dead life super busy men is very short he says okay so it's not it's not clear how to make use of that but as a psychological fact about time perception that is absolutely true yeah if death is just an indifferent does it really matter if your life seems short if you're busy if you're busy maybe you have a better chance of actually acquiring virtue then it would seem irrelevant that it's short well that's the question about what this is is it is it supposed to be a virtue if life seems long yes isn't since life itself isn't indifferent which is another way of putting the point that death isn't is an indifferent then length of life can't possibly be a good but yet perception of life being short he thinks is bad and produces emotional anxiety so what is it that causes the perception that life is short and let's figure what out what is what's doing that and then attack that problem okay and so I won't just answer that question I think I know what he says that is but we can let's go on to get some more texts on on board here so my this has seven on the short list of life around section 7 page 146 where he talks about how nothing can be done properly reductively can be done properly when someone is busy with many things and he has that not liberal arts especially yes it seems like that's what liberal arts education is it's like you cover a lot of things most of education is covering a lot of subjects and so I think it's interesting that if you were to apply that to like what we do today I'll be specialized school but kind of a warm rod that he seems you would have been critical of it and it's just later in the passage that most people spend an entire lifetime learning how to live and the entire time learning how to die and it seems that for the most part until now they don't really have given that or especially like allocated time just to that learning how to do those activities right okay so first of all yes I love the point about one liberal arts are not possible without leisure and in fact no activity is possible without having time to do it and the people that are good at things are the people that had time and spent the time to become good at it period nobody's born good at anything but especially liberal arts that just is a matter of putting time into it and it's really poignant what he said it's right no activity can be properly undertaken by a man who's busy with many things not eloquence and not the liberal arts since the mind stretched in different directions takes nothing takes in nothing at depth that spits out everything that has been so to speak crammed into it perfect perfect motto for finals right cram all this information and spit it out on a final exam and then it's just gone it's worthless it hasn't um one hasn't learned anything by approaching it that way that's why we have final exam in here why do I everything's built onto long ranging research you've been doing over 10 weeks you need time in order to do liberal arts now and much darker is the second thing second why you called attention to and you didn't quote exactly what he says yes one must spend an entire lifetime in learning how to live and which may surprise you more yet to spend an entire lifetime in learning how to die so you're quite right that people don't actually spend a lifetime learning how to live most people don't give any don't spend any time thinking about it I just too busy trying to survive basically so if they're not even figuring out how they're gonna live then what they really aren't doing is figuring out how to die which is why everybody has all these problems of death things it's a bad thing things that's the worst thing cries at funerals you know in Seneca's mind we should be having parties at funerals that's that's great that suffering is over that person is going to deal with the anxiety and misery of this crazy stupid world anymore and we should and we admire those people who know how to die and do it do it the right way you know don't go kicking and screaming from it but also there's some people that even turn dying into this kind of art form where they actually make something of their death like soccer these days but it's a dark it's a dark dark saying I think but another good one so let's let's move on to another one now so the part I'm interested in is section 15 and it says that what philosophy has made sense I'm so glad you said that I actually wrote false with three exclamation marks in my book for that reason that is true time can lay waste to philosophy and has to 99 percent of ancient philosophy the works that were written by Greeks have not survived and as you point out even Seneca's okay we could interpret it to mean oh well the great points of philosophy you know Hegel has this crazy dog and it says any philosophy that disappeared it had to because it was it must have been worth all the good stuff actually makes it it actually keeps getting better and better until it leads to hateful but and so that's false that's wrong the loss of the works of democrat is a little mental loss of most of the confusion this works loss of all this early Buddhist up time does do great damage so thanks for you guys are you guys are choosing some of the some of the best ones here so what about you coincidentally I picked the next section after here which is section 16 on the shortness of life and I like the quote but those who forget the past ignore the present and fear for the future have a life that's very brief and filled with anxiety when they come to face death the wretches understand too late that for such a long time they visit themselves and do nothing and I think that that's it you know kind of going off like people said earlier what he said about the shortness of life is that many people are just trying to survive and they may not look they may not think about the past or the present or even what's going to happen but they're just trying to survive and then they come so unexpectedly to death because they've taken no time to think back right and this relates to his claim that life divides into three parts the part you've already lived the part right now and the part in the future the part you're living right now is so short and vanishing that some people think it doesn't even exist at all and it's constantly going into the past the bit that's in the past cannot be changed and is already immune to fortune and so forth and the part this future we don't is totally not in our control and we shouldn't have any expectation about and yet it's possible to basically ignore all these parts forget the past ignore what's happening in the present and then just dwell on the future with anxiety and fear and those people never actually live according to his concept of life it reminds me of a quote my dad always says about like our dogs a great great a cowardly dog dies many times a brave dog but once so that almost sounds like a cynic and your father should you know start writing these thoughts down very philosophical because he doesn't say that vicious people live short lives and virtuous people are like immortal and never died basically and in fact that's the answer to the question of what is it that makes life seem short it's vice it's the fact that when we look back on what we've done in the past we're not proud of it but we think it's not been very good and we look at the present and we realize we're not very good right now so we look at the future and we're afraid that we're not gonna get any better but if it would be possible to look back on your life and think think no I've done these things this has been excellent I've had these accomplishments and I've helped these people and you can reflect on virtues that you would be comfortable with who you are in the present and you would feel fine either about not having a future if you were gonna die or about whatever might happen to you and so it's actually that's how it relates to stoicism is that virtue and vice in his view is what makes life seem fast or short okay so you're next my favorite passage is in the beginning section one of on the short list of life at the end of section so it's been you do not receive a life that is short but rather than we make it so you're not beggars in it but spend it just as great and pricey wealth when it falls into the hands of a radical spawner in a moment well what wealth that is by no means great it becomes a property of a guardian grown but grows my youths so our span of life has ample measure for one who manages it properly I thought it was a beautiful transition from the tranquility of one which is the seeding chapter and it really embodies the stoic mindset of being flexible and accepting what it is and being able to make out of it what is virtuous or what people are what lets people be wise and so it can be it can be taken as a very positive thing or a very intentional way of living because it's up to us whether life is short or not that is whether it seems okay now what does it mean he says we do not receive a life that is short but rather we make it so we're not beggars in it but spend groups what is spend with me I think it is what I the sense that I get in it is that it's parallel to the moderation aspect of wealth that was introduced in the previous chapter where you don't want too much of because losing money is really a problem if you have money then you're gonna lose it and that creates problems for you versus also that if you're hearing poverty then that is also very difficult so you don't want to be on the other side in the same sense that's nice to relate it related to his views on wealth because he's comparing time and money but what does it mean to say we're not beggars in it but spend thrifts to spend life means to that you are able to choose who you put in it what you do with it okay anybody else have a different interpretation what he's saying here I feel like he's saying it's not that we don't have a lot of life and that we're begging for it and trying to get as much as we can but that we have it and we're just choosing to spend it very we're being really cheap with it and we're not taking advantage of it is that what you're doing from it yes or that or that we're wasting it yeah we're we're spending it without thinking about it we're like drunken sailors with our time we're not we're just we we're we're not bet we we think oh god life is so short that we're begging to have more we've got plenty of it and we're just wasting it all over the place beggars aren't people that have a bunch of life and a bunch of money and we're just spending it all over town but that's like what we are with our time and then we perceive ourselves to be not having much of it and it's exactly the opposite okay we're squandering it like somebody that inherited a bunch of money and just wasted it okay so that is it that's a good one too and it does connect with tranquility of the mind and this is the invention of this idea of time is money but like money time is therefore and indifferent and how much actual time we have is not what matters but our approach to and use and really the condition of our soul when when we have it when we live somebody raise their hand yeah so the shortness is just a like almost false judgment of what our life is in a sense we don't have a short life we just ways what we have yes so life quoting from the beginning of section 2 life is long if only you know how to use it okay so the point of on the shortness of life don't get confused by the title it's not on the fact that life is short it's on the confusion of thinking life is short thinking life is short is a view not fitting for a wise person to hold and he actually takes Aristotle to task for having and other people to task for saying that it's short it's not short we we wasted that same saying it's short is like a rich person having blown all of their money gambling saying there's not enough money in this world okay so what about you shine section 18 from all the shortness of life now you have now given sufficient proof of your virtue by laboring without respite for all to see that's what it can do in your leisure the greater part certainly the better part of your life has been given to your country take some time for yourself as well I do not call you to a repose that is idle or inactive or to drown all your personal energy asleep in pleasures that delight the crowd that is not rest you will discover the release of your retirement tasks to keep you busy that outweigh those that you pursue with such energy before now I think that this basically just means like keep an accounting of what you've contributed in your life obviously if you've been paying attention to what you've been doing in your life at all you would know like what you've done right what you haven't done right and obviously all of these struggles that you've overcome but once you reach your retirement age whatever that is you should just take some time to contribute to things that matter to you personally rather than to everyone else yes so a very concrete piece of advice and I'm sure you're not really looking forward to retirement yet since you don't even have a job right but okay do you know who he's saying that to yeah and what do you know anything about him not beyond what was in the text right he's he's he's a knight he's this kind of bureaucrat and he's in charge of grain distribution in Rome so in other words he's had a very very stressful job he decides who goes hungry who does it basically by distributing grain and so he's constantly dealing with people coming to him saying we need more and dealing with finite resources and trying to distribute them and he's saying yes you've had this stressful career doing all of this stuff and don't think you have to keep going on doing it retire and do something do something else good but that's because he has already done a lot of good with it so that he can look back on that and reflect on this virtuous action not forget the past not ignore the future and not dread or fear but it does not ignore the present and not dread or fear the future all right what's next really section three kind of the whole thing but it's not how I serve parts it really like stuck out to me said no one is found no one is found to be willing to buy up his own money but when it comes to life each of us gives others a share in it and how many others and then he goes on to say think of how much your time was taken by a creditor or by vicious by client how much you're arguing and then he kind of contrasts that with how much time have you spent yourself when your face was kept a normal expression when your mind is to come to fear and the first part is really highlighting like our value systems and kind of stove idea of treating external things as good in themselves and he's highlighting why that's a problem and when you treat money as a good in itself or even others opinions or whatever you you allowed to take away from your own goodness in your own time and then comparing you know our day to when he says how much you spent arguing or punishing slaves versus how much have you spent with yourself like how much of our day is spent doing all these frivolous things that don't actually help us in any way and how much time we actually spend like benefiting ourselves and I kind of heard the first part to this thing I read a while ago he's like imagine this if you had eight eighty six thousand four hundred dollars in your account if someone stole ten dollars would give you upset throw away the remaining money it's like no you would keep the rest of your money it's like the same thing we have eighty six thousand four hundred seconds in each day but you know someone says one thing to us takes ten seconds or a day and we let the rest of our day be ruined by a lot of someone's but you know our time it's like it's completely a lot so this was some other writer or something you were reading about that was making this time money and now yeah interesting no no but but you see it comes from this that's interesting I mean I've been a magazine or something and that is directly a descendant of this work okay and this I and this comparison the problem with time is money comparison is that we don't is that yes it's very intuitive but we don't actually treat it like that because we care about our money and we check our accounts and exactly how much we have we take a we account by the scent of what it is but do we could do we account for the seconds of our life or even the minutes or even the hours and so he says when it comes to the matter of wasting time right men are tight fisted in keeping control of their finances but when it comes to the matter of wasting time they're positively extravagant in the one area where there's honor and being miserly right so it would make sense if you're like sorry I don't have time to devote to this or that and everybody should easily be able to understand that but we won't and so we'll just give away our time somebody asks us for a dime on the street we're like oh no I can't possibly afford to give you a quarter but somebody wants to stop you on the street and you know talk about you know banning abortion or something I got all day to waste in this conversation I also really said you fear everything is more desired to have everything is God's yeah where is that that's that's really it's closer to the end of section three yes so it's on the top of 143 you fear everything is mortals but desire to have everything is gone I feel like what he's kind of saying there's like our fears make us small so we try to forget about them and like not really pay attention and focus so much on our desires because we feel infinite in our desires like they grant so much power but forgetting your fear in that aspect allows you to forget your time and how important it is and how much you shouldn't be spending like he gives another example where he talks about people putting off what they want to do in life and so they retire he's like you should be doing that now like you don't even know right right right yes this is the problem with the look looking forward to retirement right whatever you don't do that because then you won't live in the present but then encourage anyone you can to retire as soon as possible okay so we've only got 11 minutes left so well I'm gonna have to shut my mouth and let's go let's go more quickly through calling our attention to some of these passages I like was on page 147 near the end of section 7 there is therefore no ground we're thinking that because of his white hair or wrinkles someone has lived too long he has not lived a long time but existed a long time I think kind of sizing with what you said about that life if it's long is a virtue in and of itself because it's on happy like the answer is no because you might be old and age but that doesn't necessarily mean your wife right and so had a long life in the sense of having a lot of making it work a while yes so once again a nice a nice rhetorical use of paradox there don't interpret my white hair and wrinkles as meaning I've lived a long time I may have wasted all of my all of my time okay good one thing that helped for me really understand the idea of facialism but it wants to show that's good comparison between two texts and they got to the good life by William Irvine which is an advocate I've been reading that speaks about in their advocacy for facialism no I want to text from on the shortlist I was going to go compared to on tranquility section 14 okay let's go to that first okay so on section 14 he says called obstinacy on which fortune I can steal something in the scary anxious and rich and inferiority is much more troublesome since never keeps itself under control both conditions are hostile to tranquility not being able to change anything and not being able to endure anything I would make that comparison to change anything reflecting kind of the view on fatalism which is explained in the guide to the good life as the past and endure anything as with regards to the present because here they say in the advocacy for fatalism then the states who advise us to be fatalistic not with respect to the future but with respects to the past and the present so it helped me make that connection between understanding that often thinking about the past and the present and how we are unable to change this is something that we prevent us from reaching the trample state of being like that's like the modern interpretation. Say that again. Say that last part again. Thinking about the past and the present drawing on the past and the present is something as something that we can't change often prevents us from beating that tranquil life as like stipulated by a more modern transcription of. Okay so that and that's the opposite of what Seneca says right? Yes. Because once again it feels like you're giving advice that goes opposite of what he says which is that we should dwell on the past because it is outside of the scope of fortune and it's already secured. But Seneca describes them as both conditions as hostile to tranquility not being able to change anything and not being able to enjoy anything. So if you dwell on them then you are, you are like. Where's the part that says if you dwell on them then you are. That's my interpretation. Right so your interpretation is there for the opposite you're contradicting what he's saying right? No I'm saying that quite. His view is that we ought to dwell on the past because it has escaped from fortune. We dwell on the past and reflect on the ancient philosophers and on our past virtuous activities and by doing that we escape the feeling that life is short. Oh I was saying by doing that we all we are unable to reach a state of being tranquil because if you think about things that you cannot change in the current moment which you cannot change which is the present we can't be in a state of being. Fine I just wanted to make sure you were aware that's not, you're not embodying his view you're contradicting it.  Alright Michael. Mine's in section 13 and it's like so he goes on about all the ways to, it would be a lengthy business to mention all the different people who spent their lives engaged in all these times, or wasted time and stuff, but then he like fully goes in and or sorry he like talks about how to be foolish to acquire to the number of things like, or the number of warsmen he was used at, and like, you know, like he's talking about useless facts or something like that, but then he goes and like displays all of this information that he has acquired about things that he's kind of, I don't know if that was pretty good. Yes that one, that's in 13? Yes. Of the long short as well. Oh yes right. Sorry right okay, yes that's kind of a touchy subject because you know when you do ancient philosophy you can look into things like how many ores Ulysses have, so here he rails against scholarship, really detailed scholarship and here the kind of scholar and kind of philosopher Seneca is really comes out, he's not a detail, not like precipice kind of level of detail, he's more into providing all these details. I think that's funny because it gives us this view of scholarship then was very similar to what it is now, and we think it's a waste of time, so I agree with that. Okay, what about you? I made a connection between section 14 on the short list of life and the book I wrote for my scholar assignment which was Adonis, I said it helped, and Adonis' commentary of really some meditations, you know it's how really asked the question when he's talked about difference between is it promise or happens, and he goes on like which one is right, which one doesn't matter, but then Adonis' commentary that really isn't trying to improve one over the other. In the end he eventually said like oh what matters is that we're just trying to pursue wisdom and find out what is right. And so I think I like how it's a similar theme between Seneca and I realized that it doesn't matter in the end you know which philosophy is the best or the other, what matters is that we're pursuing a wisdom and I think that lines with still philosophy. Well I look forward to what you say about that when Marcus Aurelius and we'll read some of where he says that it's either God or just Adam or it's Providence or just material bits flying around. That might be a bit too hard and fast of a distinction and it seems to be saying it's one interpretation of it which it sounds like Ado and you reject is that he's saying it's Epicureanism or Stoicism. It's either atoms and material bits flying around at random or there's a God who's providentially organized the whole cosmos. That's one way to interpret what he's saying there and then we know which side he thinks we should choose, right? So we'll have to get clearer on that or I'll have to find you to hear about that interpretation. So what I thought was interesting is kind of going up with Michael said is putting chapter right after section 13 about going against all detail oriented studies and then going straight into talking about just study philosophy and history of philosophy in general. Because it sounds like a lot of the topics in philosophy especially if you want to get like true wisdom like he wants you to, you kind of have to go into some detail oriented work and maybe even reject some. Well here's a way that perhaps we're supposed to square that. Go into detail about ancient philosophy but don't go into detail about Homer and how many boards. So don't do, drop this literature major and pick up a philosophy major basically. But also there is no fact of the matter about how many boards Odysseus had. There's a fictional story about a fictional person. It's a ridiculous thing to do. But if you were to look into what Socrates thought about how you should think about virtue, that you should go into as much detail and you're right. That takes total absorption in doing it. So this might be one of these hard work, I mean there's a, it's not, and so I disagree actually with how Michael put it. It's not just he's attacking scholarship and then he's telling you to pursue scholarship. When he's talking about doing philosophy here, he isn't talking about doing scholarship. This isn't like academic philosophy like what professors here do, what you know Monty Johnson does. It's kind of like being a philosopher, right? Someone like Socrates. And it's not just confused about, just because a lot of people including my colleagues use the name, call themselves philosophers and say what they're doing is philosophy. He's not talking about that.


Buckminster Fuller, Bucky, one of the most interesting characters of the 20th century, a futurist, in the real sense of the term, really imagined different possible futures. The inventor who came up with the famous geodesic domes, round houses, round cars even, imagined developing what he called livingry as a substitute for weaponry, applying the same kind of technology that was used for military purposes, imagined applying that for everyday life and finding technological solutions, inventions that could improve all humanity. That was his dream. A lot of it seems a bit overly optimistic. Now in the 21st century, but he certainly had some interesting perspectives and attempts to change the way that we look at the world. So one thing that I find interesting about his one interesting statement he made is about how to change things. His view is that in order to change something, we shouldn't actually directly try to change it. It's not about trying to break down something that's already there, trying to undermine it, but rather his view was that in order to change something, we create a new model, a new system, one that makes the previous system obsolete. So it really is sort of the inventors and the innovators way of approaching problems. You solve the problem by inventing a new way to do the whole thing. And so I find it interesting to apply this to everyday life. When we have certain habits or ways of living that seem maybe like they're not working, it can seem very difficult to challenge them to change them because of course we have the strength of our habits, the strength of what we keep doing day after day and it seems like it's hard to change it if we look at change as being here's the way I am and now I have to kind of bend that. I have to just kind of take the way I am now and kind of reshape it and bend it. But this way of looking at things is to just not worry about the way things are now. Look for a new solution, look for a new way to do things, a new model, a new design. It's a designer's perspective on life. Design a new way to do something. Irrelevant the way you're doing it now. It's not about directly changing that, directly modifying that, but we can really start from the basics and design what we want to do. And then when we have a new possible way of doing things, then the old way can simply be allowed to fade away. Now I think this applies to a lot of change. We don't have to try to force the change. We start with a new solution and the old solution will gradually fade away. So I find this a hopeful way of thinking about how we can change our lives or the world. It may not be possible to solve every problem through design and innovation and certainly not through technology. But some of that spirit of the inventor and the designer of like whatever the situation is, bringing it down to the basics. What is really the root of the problem? Forgetting about the established system, the established way of doing things. So just what is the issue here? Can we find some creative new way of solving the problem? And if we can find new ways to do this, then we don't even have to directly change the old ways. We can make these new ways of living and the old ways, these old problems, old patterns, don't need to be directly changed but rather can be allowed to fade away as we bring in the new solution. I feel possibly overly optimistic but I think there's something in it to bring some of that spirit of the creator, designer, inventor, innovator into our lives.