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#11270 Weird Questions - Jimmy Akin

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 05:21 – I am a bit of a survivalist nut and I am always preparing for the collapse of civilization. I was just wondering, if there was a nuclear war or really any kind of catastrophe that would trigger a societal collapse, and the chaos was so widespread that most of the bishops and all of the cardinals were killed, how would the new pope be elected? Could the surviving bishops (who I would imagine would not be cardinals because most likely they’d all be remote rural bishops) elect the new Pope? Furthermore, what if all the bishops were killed? Could regular priests somehow advance one of their own to the bishopric? If not, could they at least lay their hands on laypeople and continue apostolic succession that way? 19:12 – When the Magi came, do you think it made the Holy Family wealthy? Enough to travel and stay in Egypt, provide for a 3-year ministry of 13 plus, and for the care of his beloved mother Mary until the Dormition? 22:43 – Are the laws of logic and thought — identity, non-contradiction, and excluded middle — true of all *possible* universes, or only of ours? Would multiverse theories or alternate dimensions modify these rules? And do the laws *certainly* apply even here, or could one argue that maybe an extreme form of Scotistic “haecceity” versus “quiddity” means that maybe they don’t? 28:19 – Why is most lunch meat round when bread is mostly square? 36:28 – Jimmy, huge fan of your work, your terminal intellect and towering beard. Or maybe I got that backwards. If we, in the eschaton are given our infallible bodies and the new Jerusalem in essence becomes our planet krypton… can you postulate on what we will do in the eschaton? Saints are generals in God’s army etc? But what will our missions be? Will we go and evangelize the universe of fallen creatures? If so, will Christ have to incarnate on that world to save them or will we as we have been “made Gods” or is that a blasphemous thing? If we do hypothetically have to incarnate for them, would our infallible bodies change to the alien form we incarnate for thus we become aliens only until we go to the next world? Or if only Christ can do the incarnating / saving would be or are there already millions of incarnations of Christ and his form in heaven adjusted to whatever creature he’s interacting with? 44:40 – Why did Humans take so long to be advanced just recently with agriculture, medicine, economy, infrastructure etc. What were they doing for 200,000 years!? 52:45 – With admission by the USA of ufos, what do we think about extraterrestrial beings—souls, evangelizing, origin, etc.? …

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0:00.0

Welcome back to Calvaganza's Life.

0:21.2

Jimmy Acons are guests this hour.

0:22.6

I'm Sy Kelly to your host and it's Weird Questions for Jimmy Acons.

0:27.8

Boy do we have a lot of weird questions.

0:30.0

Jimmy deals with a lot of weird stuff over at Jimmy Acons Mysterious World too and I believe

0:34.1

I forgot to ask you about that.

0:35.9

How's everything going in Jimmy Acons mysterious world?

0:38.5

Oh the mysterious world continues to turn.

0:41.0

The mysteries continue.

0:42.7

Yeah no shortage of them.

0:44.2

No I know there's no shortage of them but how often do you find a new one where you go

0:48.0

oh that's that's that that might go on the list.

0:51.6

Oh that happens yeah I don't know pretty regularly.

0:56.2

People send in suggestions although most of the ones they suggest are already on the list.

1:01.4

And I run across ones myself in my own reading and research and think oh this would make

1:05.8

a good episode.

1:08.2

It just depends but currently there's I think over 2000 mysteries on the big list and

1:15.2

we've only gotten we've only gotten to a little under 300 of them so far.

1:21.4

Well yeah if you've got a list of 2000 it someone have to really find something special

1:26.4

for it not to have been on that list.

1:28.6

Yeah at least of the kinds of mysteries that we do.

1:31.8

Yeah yeah you can find out Jimmy Acons mysterious world at mysterious.fm and this week is the

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