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This is Water
« on: September 17, 2014, 07:41:56 pm »
I feel the importance to spread this speech everywhere I go and I beg you to invest 20 minutes of your life listening to this man. What he says in this video saved my life a couple of times and surely made it more worthwhile living it.

David Foster Wallace - This is Water

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« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2014, 12:18:22 am »
This thread reminded me to try and find The Infinite Jest.

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« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2014, 01:06:08 am »
I have yet to read that myself but the readings of DFW on Youtube are all great. He was a great mind for sure.

Oh, and you're welcome.  :)
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« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2014, 02:21:54 pm »
Great video, by the way. Well worth a watch. Don't be turned off by the stuff about liberal arts.

There was a bit in there I was going to comment on but I'm too high and can't remember it.

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« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2014, 02:43:33 pm »
Here's him reading a collection of short stories. All are magnificent and worth listening but at 30:45 the most disturbing thing I've ever heard or read starts, "Incarnations of Burned Children".


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« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2014, 02:51:08 pm »
holy fuck. that was disturbing.

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« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2014, 02:53:53 pm »
I know, man. It's like a kick in the guts that never goes away.
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« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2014, 08:29:46 pm »
Great vid, I've been trying to teach my mind to open up like this for a little over a year now and could never find the right way to describe it to people.   His speech encapsulates the idea better than I've been able to explain it to anyone so far
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« Reply #8 on: September 18, 2014, 08:31:20 pm »
Good video  :tup:
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« Reply #9 on: September 18, 2014, 08:35:47 pm »
Great vid, I've been trying to teach my mind to open up like this for a little over a year now and could never find the right way to describe it to people.   His speech encapsulates the idea better than I've been able to explain it to anyone so far
You're not the first one to tell me this. He was on point. Nailed it.


I'm glad you guys have great minds. :)
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« Reply #10 on: September 19, 2014, 01:00:14 am »
Great vid, I've been trying to teach my mind to open up like this for a little over a year now and could never find the right way to describe it to people.   His speech encapsulates the idea better than I've been able to explain it to anyone so far

Yeah, everyone has those realisations at some point, but it definitely helps to have them so clearly articulated.

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« Reply #11 on: September 24, 2014, 12:09:31 am »
Dropped by here from Rusty's thread. I remember watching this many years ago. While I'm not a hippie, this guy touches on one of the fundamentally best pieces of advice you could ever get. At least I think so after around two and a half decades spent on this ball of rock. When you look around and think how others are living through the same thing at the same time, it starts being kinda funny, so all the problems you are having dont seem as important. Since theyre not important anymore, you're left to ask yourself, what really is important to you? Then you start getting that and people treat you like a weirdo but you're so happy, you can't give a fuck.

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« Reply #12 on: September 24, 2014, 12:13:52 am »
I am purposely not going to watch this video.  I want to ignore good advice, and even if he is telling the goddamn secrets of the universe, I am a one man army and I will make it on my own.  Plus, look at that goofy motherfucker. 
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« Reply #13 on: September 24, 2014, 12:22:23 am »
I am purposely not going to watch this video.  I want to ignore good advice, and even if he is telling the goddamn secrets of the universe, I am a one man army and I will make it on my own.  Plus, look at that goofy motherfucker.
This is water.  :)
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« Reply #14 on: September 24, 2014, 12:29:17 am »
I am purposely not going to watch this video.  I want to ignore good advice, and even if he is telling the goddamn secrets of the universe, I am a one man army and I will make it on my own.  Plus, look at that goofy motherfucker.
This is water.  :)