Main Character Podcast

Each of us is the Main Character in our own story. Join me as I interview people from all walks of life, beliefs, experiences to find what their reality is like

[Aristo @aristomarinetti]

Become who you are. Do not remain what others have made of you. The task of life is not to discover yourself but to create yourself.

- Friedrich Nietzsche (1882)

[Alan Watts 📖 | Philosophy & Timeless Wisdom ✍️ @AlanWattsQuot]

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water.

When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown.

Instead you relax, and float.

[Norm Macdonald @normmacdonald]

At times, the joy that life attacks me with is unbearable and leads to gasping hysterical laughter. I find myself completely out of control and wonder how could life could surprise me again and again and again, so completely. How could a man be a cynic? It is a sin.

[Carmichael Dave @CarmichaelDave]

The immortal Chris Cornell making the impossible seem effortless

[Tim Denning @Tim_Denning]

Please, get addicted to believing everything is going to work in your favor and it will.

[Lucid Dreams @sanjabh]

“One of these days you will fall into the self, and you will disappear. There will be no body, no image, no concept, no I, no mind, no universe, no God, yet you will appear to be all of those things.

That's the paradox.🧵

[Alan Watts 📖 | Philosophy & Timeless Wisdom ✍️ @AlanWattsQuot]

How monotonous Earth would be if we all did it the same way.

[Alan Watts 📖 | Philosophy & Timeless Wisdom ✍️ @AlanWattsQuot]

Your real self, the real you, is everything there is..

But concentrated and expressing itself at the point called your physical organism.

[Alan Watts 📖 | Philosophy & Timeless Wisdom ✍️ @AlanWattsQuot]

Everything that happens, everything that I have ever done, everything that anybody else have ever done is part of a harmonious design, that there is no error at all.

[Alcuin Press @AlcuinPress]

Do. not. stop.

Thoreau

[Main Character Podcast @monkeydrummer33]

@elevamiami Become so valuable you don't have to transact in other people's currency

[Iranian Observer @Ms_Iranian]

@RealCandaceO This is why Charlie Kirk assassinated.
Must watch this to understand.

[TZ @Templozeldero]

Siguen pasando los años y A Link to the Past continúa siendo una auténtica belleza. Ese arte en Super Nintendo y sus sprites nos regalaron momentos inolvidables. hace poco fue sus 34 años desde su lanzamiento… ¡feliz aniversario a esta joya eterna!

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

US fertility reached 1.57 last year, the lowest ever recorded, and the WSJ explanation is "uncertainty about finances, relationship stability, and the political climate"

my great grandma had eleven children during the second world war, in a country being bombed, in a house with no running water, on rations.
poor people have always had kids. the poorest people on earth right now still have kids and the financial excuse is a story we tell ourselves because it makes us feel good and the real one is unbearable

the real mechanism is that we got rich enough to redefine children as an expense instead of the point. somewhere in the last fifty years the cultural goal inverted and a child stopped being what life is for and became a line item competing with the lifestyle. once you frame it that way the math never works, because the math isnt supposed to work. that's the point

we are living in the richest moment in human history and we decided to use the surplus to buy ourselves out of the future. the most prosperous civilization that has ever existed is committing demographic suicide at the altar of personal optimization and comfort, and the official line is that we cant afford it

the birthrate is a lagging indicator of a civilization that forgot why it was alive

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.”

— Jean-Luc Godard

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

I have a theory that 90% of problems could be fixed if everybody just stopped lying.

From governments, to corporations, to the media, to the everyday man and woman.

[Andrew Yeung @andruyeung]

The most successful people I know all have an almost irrational belief that everything will work out

And I just recently learned the word for it: Pronoia.

It means the opposite of paranoia. The belief that the world is secretly conspiring in your favor.

The funny thing about Pronoia is that it's self-fulfilling.

When you believe things will work out, you try harder. You persist longer, and you see opportunities where others see dead ends.

What's that quote again?

"Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money." – Nat Friedman

We all need a little more pronoia in our lives.

[Main Character Podcast @monkeydrummer33]

#FreeIran

[Joshua D Phillips @JoshPhillipsPhD]

“Conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created.”

Sir Roger Scruton