#11718 Ask Me Anything - Jimmy Akin

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🗓️ 14 June 2024

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Questions Covered: 04:03 – Does the trial of Pope Formosus disprove Papal Infallibility? 10:50 – Does time exist in the Church triumphant and the Church suffering as it does for the Church militant? 17:56 – How can we explain to an animal rights activist that humans have greater value and dignity? 24:36 – What’s the morality of interacting with algorithms that can influence others to encounter questionable material? 31:09 – I want to start defending the faith. How do I defend the words “Praying to” when referring to Mary? 36:42 – What is the Catholic perspective of the orthogonality thesis within general purpose intelligence research? 42:29 – In your recent debate with James White on Sola Scriptura you argued the different ways “Word of God’ was used. What resource did you use to build that argument? 46:33 – My wife and I both grew up Catholic but never got married in the Church. Do we have to get our marriage blessed by the Church? We now live like brother and sister. 51:05 – My son is in college and questioning whether God is real. How do I start a conversation with him without scaring him away? …

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0:00.0	I'm going to Welcome back to Cathagans was live, Jimmy Aiken, our guest this hour.
0:20.0	So you better dial, because you know how it gets when Jimmy's here.
0:22.8	888 3, 1,8, 7, 884.
0:25.1	We continue with Ask Me Anything.
0:26.8	You can ask Jimmy Anything.
0:27.8	And when we say anything, it's like in capital, it's like in all caps.
0:30.9	When Jimmy's here, you can ask him anything 888 3187 884
0:35.1	although I have been told by my children you're not supposed to text in all caps
0:37.9	apparently that's bad form makes you look it's shouting is that is you're
0:42.2	shouting when you're texting in all caps?
0:45.6	For some reason, Jimmy, my children think it's hilarious that I talk into the phone
0:49.9	to write a text.
0:50.7	I don't type it with my thumbs.
0:52.2	Is that a bad sign or something or am I
0:54.8	is that's fine whatever works for you that's why it has a microphone feature
0:59.2	there that's what I you can use the microphone you can use your thumbs you can do whatever I just I think it's probably because young people learned to use their thumbs
1:06.8	They just are they're like magical with their thumbs. I can't do that
1:10.4	You know you're just not practiced at it. I am. I type with my thumb almost, my
1:15.8	thumbs almost all the time. Really? But occasionally, I recently, occasionally I've
1:21.2	used the microphone, like if I'm walking the dog and one of my thumbs isn't available because I'm holding on to the leash
1:26.8	Then I'll then I'll use the microphone is that your sister's dog that you're talking my sister's dog's dog, yeah. That dog that you've been
1:33.8	training to do stuff? Yeah. How's he? It's a she or she? Yes. Yeah.
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