Bookshelf Tour 2
Added 2025-08-19 13:31:06 +0000 UTCHello there!
Here is another book, I hope you enjoy it!
- Joe :)
Comments
I imagine that saying all boys like trains is rather analogous to saying all kids like dinosaurs today. Though for all I know that predilection may already be passé. My grandchildren live 500 mIles away so I’m not all that up on the latest cool thing.
Shirley Noble
2025-10-11 22:29:17 +0000 UTCBought the book. Just put together that the column I read at my mother's funeral (at her request) was Russell. I have to wonder if that was her way of poking my father's sadly nice, Catholic family, but probably she just liked it. You are the only Patreon I support. Not that there aren't other worthy efforts, for sure, but what you are doing seems valuable right now. Because of you, I'm reading, not just Russell, but Benatar, Han, Cioran, and Hoffer. Thank you for this gift.
Cheryl Jeska
2025-09-09 15:10:00 +0000 UTCHi Joe, somehow unrelated but could you consider including links to papers, books, publications you quote in your videos? :3 could be helpful
Matilda Novshadian
2025-09-03 23:09:12 +0000 UTCHey Joe! I just watched your talk with Alex O'Connor. I've been meaning to implore the two of you to discuss emotivism and virtue ethics, and specifically to combine the two. Hereby. (I also posted the request on Alex' Substack.) I’m working through Jordan Peterson’s latest book (reading about 10 pages a day / writing a response to those pages), and when he writes of the necessary conclusions of moral relativism (pg 231) something in me just goes ‘no’. I don’t know much about emotivism - only what I heard through Alex - but it makes sense to me, to the extent that I imagine I might be inclined to this stance, as an “is”. Virtue ethics I picked up through the years, and I am very much drawn to it as an “ought”. And it feels to me as if there should be something in virtue ethics that explains why we hurrah “the rescuing hero Oskar Schindler” and boo “the mass murderer and sadist Carl Panzram”. Something about character, I suppose. I don’t have the knowledge or brain power of the two of you, though, hence my appeal to discuss it sometime. Anyways ... I hope you have a wonderful day.
Lizelle Van Wyk
2025-08-24 16:13:34 +0000 UTCFor me it's the mechanics and look of the different trains. Though for one of my friends it's the history of the trains and significance. I'm not a boy but I am autistic which is another generalized public who are stereotypically into trains lol.
Natrice
2025-08-24 02:14:48 +0000 UTCI genuinely look forward to these 🤣
Natrice
2025-08-24 02:12:49 +0000 UTCWhile you’re at it, please put the teapot lid on — it’s killing me one video at a time 🥲
Farnaz Gbd
2025-08-21 04:21:21 +0000 UTCI respect your empathy for people’s feelings❤️ It definitely comes from a kind heart. However living 30 years of my life under a brutal theocracy which disguises itself as democracy, I can tell that in certain situations antitheism can be a path towards freedom and a stance against systemic oppression.(I am a pantheist)
Farnaz Gbd
2025-08-21 00:35:20 +0000 UTCI just adore this series of yours. It's so satisfying. Thank you, Joe. You're so sweet to your fans and know exactly what we want. ❤️
corporeal.phantom
2025-08-20 18:42:22 +0000 UTCHere to wish that you will eventually become your dream philosopher, the one who writes the ideal philosophy book you've always wanted to read. By the way, I also can’t help but find brilliant and charismatically arrogant people to be very charming. I went through an Isaac Asimov phase a few years ago, and he basically opened his memoir with: “What can I do? The statements I make certainly seem to make it clear that I think highly of myself, but only for qualities that, in my opinion, deserve admiration.” (Though he also added, “I also have many shortcomings and faults and I admit them freely, but no one seems to notice that.”)
100% Human
2025-08-19 19:14:27 +0000 UTCI love these casual talks. I feel like I'm there. if I were, I think I couldn't help but style the bookshelf and room a bit for you haha. I actually made a little mockup design. If you wouldn't mind, I'd like to send it over somewhere. I think you'll enjoy it :)
Kate K
2025-08-19 18:06:45 +0000 UTCLove your book talks!
H. Reitsma
2025-08-19 17:23:19 +0000 UTCI hate antitheism; it literally helps nobody and hurts everyone. Not all of us - regardless of religion (I'm pagan) - hold to the harmful ideology associated with Christianity today.
Aliana Skýrrskuggi
2025-08-19 15:52:31 +0000 UTCI'm currently reading (a.o.) Leo Tolstoy's 'The Kingdom of God is within you'. I feel that I now need to read War and Peace again. A Russian friend of mine said that to them one is either team Tolstoy or team Dostoevsky. I imagine I know who you'd choose if you had to. ;) Still curious about your views on Tolstoy, though.
Lizelle Van Wyk
2025-08-19 13:56:09 +0000 UTCI am curious why you keep these books / hard copies.
Lizelle Van Wyk
2025-08-19 13:49:58 +0000 UTCWhat is it about trains that people find so compelling?
Tea Terzin
2025-08-19 13:48:12 +0000 UTC
