"This Is Water" by David Foster Wallace

[BrotherShamus]

I'm sure a lot of you Dudes have heard of this one, but this is a famous commencement speech that is basically about how to abide. It is considered one of the best commencement speeches ever written, and in my opinion is very Dudely.

There is a short 10 min video of the important parts:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaVrn1Sz0H8

And the full speech here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhhC_N6Bm_s

I'd love to get some Dudes' thoughts on it.

[MindAbiding]

Great thoughts, mang! Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I think this fits in nicely with the idea that it's our impressions of things that bother, scare, anger (you name it) us, not the things themselves.

[cckeiser]

Yes, thank you for the link. My kind of philosophy. I did a share on both Facebook and G+.
While we are at it dudes....please take a look at the Do No Harm website linked as my signature.
I have been posting here since something like 2009 or so and we get very few visitors from this Dudeist forum. I'm just a little disappointed more dudes are not drawn to our do no harm philosophy.
By the way, in Dudespeak....do no harm translates as "Don't be a Dick"!

[BrotherShamus]

I'm glad you guys like it. I'm currently writing a contextual analysis on it for school. I need to find some sources on awareness in neurology and so forth.

cckeiser, I will definitely check out the site. Sorry I guess I just never notice it on your signature.