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Introduction
On 2/8/2019, I (Nick) have an idea for Season 2 of the PVD Philosophy TV Series. The idea is presented in the following seven topics. Together they make up the script for what I have to say in the video.
- Season 2 of PVD Philosophy on YouTube
- PVD Philosophy | S2E1 | Thumos & Mateo
- Homepage for PVD Philosophy Season 2
Topic 1 Ri4CTV
- Greetings from Providence!
- I’m Nick Quach, creator of Rhode Island Foresight Television.
- You can find us on YouTube using six characters: Ri4CTV.
- Again, it’s R-i-4-C-T-V (using ASL).
- Our mission at Ri4CTV is to bring forethought to the development of personal philosophy, which is your way of life.
Topic 2 Mateo
- We do not tell you how to live.
- We show you our philosophy as a template for yours.
- When you first create your personal philosophy, use ours as your baseline.
- PVD Philosophy is a mouthful.
- Let’s give it a shorter name, Mateo!
- That’s M-A-T-E-O (using ASL).
- From now on, let’s consider Mateo as a short name for “PVD Philosophy”.
- When you first create your personal philosophy, you use Mateo as your starting template.
Topic 3 Thumos
- Your personal philosophy is your way of life but you cannot create it by yourself.
- No ones can create their personal philosophy alone.
- That’s because you cannot believe in your own philosophy without first testing it in real life, in person, and with other people.
- In order to fully understand our philosophy Mateo, in order to fully express your personal version, you need to speak Thumos.
- That’s T-H-U-M-O-S (using ASL).
- Thumos language is the nomenclature of Mateo.
- Mateo philosophy tells you how to use Thumos as its language.
- Thumos language tells you how to explain the mechanics of Mateo.
- Both Mateo philosophy and Thumos language work closely together.
Topic 4 Glossary
- Thumos language is a set of about 500 glossary entries.
- Each entry in the Thumos glossary is a short sentence defining a key concept for use in our philosophy.
- Here are two examples.
- Relation; that means, purposeful involvement.
- Relationship; that means, ongoing relations.
- Mateo uses these two definitions to show you how you can actually count the number of relationships you actually have.
- This number is important because it tells you how you can best manage your relationships.
- Your relationships are all the shortcuts and roadblocks in your life.
- If this number is too high, you need to stop spending time on several inconsequential relationships.
- If this number is too low, you need to start spending more time on several consequential relationships.
Topic 5 Relation
- Again, the two concepts are relation and relationship.
- Let’s talk about the first concept: relation.
- Relation; that means, purposeful involvement.
- If you want to have a relation with me, you have to involve me in an activity but for a specific purpose.
- If you and I are doing things together without a reason why, without a purpose, we are not creating a relation between the two of us.
- Companionship; that means, shared experience.
- When two strangers ride the same bus together, they are traveling companions.
- They create no relations.
- If you and I are doing things together without a reason, we are creating a companionship but not a relation.
- To create a relation between the two of us, our activity must serve the same purpose for us both.
Topic 6 Relationship
- Let’s talk about the second concept: relationship.
- Relationship; that means, ongoing relations.
- In this definition, it is important to notice the plurality of relation.
- This definition requires two or more relations.
- However, you cannot use any two.
- They both must be ongoing.
- Involving me in a one-time activity does not count as having an ongoing relation with me.
- Involving me in two different activities but for the same purpose, for the same reason does not count as two different relations.
- When you work with a man every workday, you have a relation with him.
- If you have a drink with him after work on a regular basis, you have another relation with him.
- That’s one way to have an actual relationship with another person.
- If you have less than two ongoing relations with him, you only have a phantom relationship.
- A phantom relationship is a relationship without at least two ongoing relations.
Topic 7 Conclusion
- With Thumos, you can count how many phantom relationships as well as how many actual relationships you are having.
- With Mateo, you can decide which phantom relationships should become real and which actual relationships should be terminated.
- With neither Thumos nor Mateo, you can also make those decisions but with low confidence, not sure why, or not sure how.
- With neither Thumos nor Mateo, you always need ask people around you for help with many decisions of yours.
- However, with both Thumos and Mateo, you have high confidence in explaining to them why and how you on your own make those decisions.
- Based on both Thumos language and Mateo template, your personal philosophy can have a bigger chance in taking you further into the future, beyond your initial imagination.