Lex Fridman: belief

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…It’s very obvious that every person wants or desires love. My wife has recently convinced me to watch Love is Blind with her one time. And you watch the show and if you’re not familiar with it, it feels like just a disaster of an experiment to just cause crazy filming. But anyways, the idea is that if you just don’t see somebody, you can fall in love with somebody and want to marry them after 10 days or some very small period of time. And what you really end up seeing is all these people who are just desperate for actually love. And there’s some part of it… I told my wife, “It’s like love gladiators.” We’re watching people battle it out for drama and really what they want is love. And it’s like they’re fighting to the death and love, if you will. And it’s this almost kind of sad aspect to watch. And so I think that it’s hard to call, what is its role in the human experience, because I think it’s just something that we all naturally not just want, but need. And I don’t think that you can really progress, and when I say the word love, I would like to kind of narrow it down maybe a bit more. And I don’t mean Eros, the Greek word like sexy love, I think that paternal and friendship love are extremely important. And I think agape, God love is also very important. Agape love is the one that is superior to them all, but obviously different and also co-needed with the parental ones and all that. And so you kind of need this mixture of them all, and each one is different for each reason and where it’s applied. And so I don’t think… I just don’t see a world in which is good of any kind without that as a very foundational piece. Because again, I didn’t come here trying to quote any sort of scripture, but it says that it’s not the nails that hung on there, it’s love. That’s the reason why these things happen. And so if forgiveness is the requirement to kind of pay off hate in some sense, then love has to be the motivation for forgiveness. Yeah, that’s the tragic aspect of life. I think there’s a deep loneliness in all of us and a longing to be a part of this bigger thing. And that longing is a love and it has many names, but yeah. Yeah, the love aspect of it, it’s the beautiful aspect of life, the tragedies, the loneliness, and the unfortunate suffering that is a fundamental part of life and the beautiful aspect is the love. Yeah.…

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