"Nine in 10 young people in the UK believe that their life is lacking purpose and a lot of people are turning back to religion. There is something going on. This is about the most important thing that ..."

"Oleg Greg Alex. The reason I wanted to speak to all three of you today is to discuss meaning and purpose. And there's some stats that I wanted to share that kind of frame the discussion. Three in five..."

"mentioned a lot about mental health. I'm a psychiatrist. So for me, finding meaning and purpose is like a very practical thing. So literally, a patient will come into my office. They'll say, "I have n..."

"just define two terms that you said there. One is purpose. And it doesn't have to be a perfect definition, but roughly what you mean by that. And then you said you introduced spiritual practice. What ..."

"lived experience the academia that um lends itself to that perspective? Yeah, there's a whole bunch of that fitting in and I relate to a lot what you're saying uh Alo about people's challenges. Now wh..."

"terms of your perspective, your experience and maybe some of your sort of personal journey. Well, for for my own part, I was quite swept up in the new atheism movement, uh, which was a mid2000s publis..."

"people are doing in religious traditions is realizing the finitude of their existence and therefore trying to commune with something. Can I add a less finite? Of course, we have this hunger and I I ha..."

"conversation? Yeah. So I think that the ultimate answer that we're looking for is it appears that the numbers around purpose and meaning are fluctuating at this moment in time. A lot of people are tur..."

"objective one, this is about the most important thing that anyone could ever find out about their life if they were created for a reason. In my view, the reason I'm here is because I'm convinced that ..."

"I just wanted just to add something in here. So, I I think part of the reason I've also convened um you guys to have this conversation today is because I've got several people in my life that are I ca..."

"payoff at the end. Is that what you were saying earlier? I'm saying something a bit different. I what I was going to go on to say is to is to point out that and bear in mind this comes from a part of ..."

"some sense of hunger, you're not going to seek out food and you will die. And so it just so happens that those who develop this feeling of hunger will be more likely to survive and therefore hunger is..."

"problem of consciousness which is I think a new question but an important one. I wanted to point out earlier that that when I gave an explanation as to why people feel a lack of meaning and you said t..."

"of of uh support and evidence. Crucial obviously the crux one might say is the resurrection of Christ, the death and resurrection because of the theological significance of that is in the whole system..."

"I have a question for you on that. This a personal question more than anything. So I find myself in the same position as Alex where I think I'd be happier all things considered if I had an anchoring i..."

"And at the time I was doing it to grow my following. But it had this profound impact on my life and two remarkable things happened when I did that. I managed to learn faster because every single day I..."

"from our audience. One of the most popular questions we had is, "Do we each have a specific per purpose or is it self-chosen?" Greg. Well, in my view, if God has made us for a reason and he wants us t..."

"that we haven't talked about yet. Dharma and karma. And um I think these are concepts that are sometimes hard to understand. I'm going to do my best to kind of speedrun them. So, dharma is the Sanskri..."

"Greg can I ask you do you think you have a you can have a fulfilling life without having a transcendent purpose in some measure. in some measure. What I described earlier is if God made us for a purpo..."

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"how did life come to be on the earth? What would your answer to that be? Oh, I have no idea. Okay. Of course, I have no idea. And how does someone who is agnostic create a really meaningful life in yo..."

"Do you remember? What did I say? You told me that you have seen things and gone to a place. But when I asked you what you saw, you told me you wouldn't tell me. Yeah. But you're happy to say that you ..."

"lost in their life, is there any advice that you could give them or a simple action that they could take that would help them to find to remove the feeling of feeling lost in life. Hm. It's always dif..."

"they feel stuck in their life, which is what I asked Alex, what is something that they can do tomorrow, a small step that they can take to become unstuck in your worldview? Yeah. So I I would start by..."

"to um to give us deliver your sort of closing thoughts and reflections and and arguments. Well, um I want to re-emphasize that this topic of meaning and and purpose is difficult to even define, let al..."