Sebastian Junger
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2,422 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2024
last heard 13 Jun
Sebastian Junger’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I've never thought that I would ever go to the ER for anything other than a car accident or a chainsaw accident or something.
I had an aneurysm in my abdomen that I didn't know about, an eruption.
Wow.
And I lost half my blood, and I came extremely close to dying.
And I didn't know I was dying, but I got to the hospital in the last phases of hemorrhagic shock, convulsing on the table and stuff like that.
And it barely saved me.
But one of the last things I remember was that they were working to put a large gauge needle through my neck into my jugular to transfuse me.
And as they were doing that, I'm an atheist, right?
My dad was a physicist and an atheist, like atheist squared, basically.
And the universe kind of cracked open underneath me, and I started to get pulled into it.
And I was terrified.
I didn't know I was dying.
I was terrified of the darkness.
And then my dead father appeared above me to comfort me.
and said it's okay you don't have to fight it you can come with me i'll take care of you i said to the doctor you got to hurry because i'm going i didn't know where i was going but i knew i was i was leaving and uh so that you know i'm still an atheist and i'm happy to talk about that but but that really rearranged some of my assumptions about the nature of uh of life and consciousness and time and life and death and all those all those big things and now here i am
Yeah, I mean, I don't know in other countries.
In the United States, the military is filled.
I mean, in some ways, it's our most democratic and diverse organization, right?
I mean, it's kind of extraordinary that way.
Combat itself is a very select group.
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