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    This is Water by David Foster Wallace (Full Transcript and Audio)
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    1. domrazz 09 Sep 2025
      It will actually be within your power to experience a crowded, hot, slow, consumer-hell type situation as not only meaningful, but sacred, on fire with the same force that made the stars: love, fellowship, the mystical oneness of all things deep down.

      I find this part to captivate the message of the entire piece, that everything is around us in the world is up for interpretation as long as you take the time to think about and interpret it. Any experience can be sacred or mundane or meaningful depending on the way you look at it and what it means to your values as a person.

    2. domrazz 09 Sep 2025
      True, there are plenty of religious people who seem arrogant and certain of their own interpretations, too.

      I like how he takes the time to recognize the arrogance that is present in both parties, both believers and non-believers, to show that his message is universal. One doesn't have to be religious nor be an atheist to change their thinking and the way they take in the world around them.

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