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The Counsel of Trent

#358 – Capturing imaginations with my “past self”

The Counsel of Trent

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality

4.82.4K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Trent talks about the necessity of “imaginative apologetics” and the art of persuasion, with a little help from his 2012 past self!

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

0:10.2

I was going through my hard drives the other night and I came across something I thought

0:13.3

you would find really interesting.

0:15.4

Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast.

0:16.9

I'm your host, Cavigancer's Apologist and Speaker, Trent Horn.

0:20.2

And today, what I want to share with you is a talk that I gave at Benedictine College

0:24.2

back in 2012, correcting arguments and capturing imaginations.

0:29.3

I mean, it's fun when you go back through the old computer files, old hard drives.

0:32.9

Now I was just looking for pictures, you know, with our baby on the way.

0:36.9

I was just going through and saying, okay, what can I find in here?

0:40.2

I really like cleaning and organizing things.

0:42.9

And so I was going through the folders and then I saw it, the old MP3 of this talk that

0:47.4

I gave.

0:48.4

So I started listening through it.

0:49.8

And a lot of times when I confront my previous work, I really don't like it, especially

0:54.3

when it's been five years or ten years or a long time.

0:58.2

I always think to myself, oh, I would have, I would have done that better.

1:01.5

I would have done that differently.

1:02.5

But I thought to myself, hey, this wasn't too bad of a talk.

1:06.2

I wish it had been recorded on a better device.

1:08.8

I just had, well, it was a little MP3 recorders I put on the desk in front of me.

1:13.0

So the audio quality is just terrible.

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