My commencement speech.
By: Greg Swann,
Phoenix Real Estate,
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RSS FeedPosted: Monday, September 3rd, 2012, 10:14 am MST
Category: Egoism in Action,Flourishing,Group Therapy
This is me from SelfAdoration.com:
What I’m doing here is a sort of commencement speech, a celebration of my moving on to a different state of excitation — even if everyone else stays exactly the same.But I’m using extended arguments about the idea of preferring the subjunctive to the existential to defend my way of thinking in a comprehensive way.
I’ve spent my whole life thinking about how to talk to you — I say that in the movie — and this little clip may be the most comprehensive job I have done so far of communicating at least this small idea: We are not talking about the same things.
I don’t trade in your currency — I say that in the film also — but I am trying to convey to you why my currency is so much better for you than the stuff you’ve been trading with until now.
This stuff ain’t easy, I know, and it is plausible to me that my take-no-prisoners approach makes things harder for you, not easier. Oh, well…
This is me at my most me, the meest of the mes I have presented in these videos — all of which are intended to acquaint you with my style of being as the result of your having spent time with me being me.
I love this movie. I hope you do, too.
The video is in this YouTube clip. Fair warning, it’s 40 minutes long.
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Nice post.
Well, Greg, the speech is interesting and informative. But that guitar “torturing” while talking driven me crazy)) I stopped it in14 min.
Take care)
Sorry to disappoint you. If you find I’m in your head in the coming days, come back to see the rest.
That melody is still in my head)))
It’s a 12-bar blues in wide-open E, a song I wrote called “Jenny’s got some rhubarb.” My wife wants to know who the hell Jenny is.
I talk — and listen — with a guitar in my lap much of the time now. I don’t even think about it, it’s there for me just like talking with my hands is there for me.
No offense, but for me personally it is much more interesting to listen what you say and what you sing/play separately.))
p.s. Today I have watched the video to the end))
nice post, and awesome website!