Eric Kaplan's Comic Wanderings "If You Change Your Life,

Eric Kaplan's Comic Wanderings "If You Change Your Life, Angels Will Give You Cookies"

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Eric Kaplan's career as a TV writer (Big Bang Theory, Simpsons, Drinky Crow), book author (Does Santa Exist? A Philosophical Examination) philosopher (Ph.D, U.C. Berkeley), and religious seeker spans decades and at times seemingly lifetimes. In this episode we follow the fascinating and multiple expressions of his lifelong quest to grasp and navigate the space between the embodied (subjective/finite) and "free" (objective/eternal) dimensions of human life--including his definition of spirituality ("an invitation to change your life") and comedy ("a way of dealing with contradictions we care about but have not yet processed"), and how he begrudgingly came to acknowledge that you can be smart and still like Star Wars.

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