Ep 308 – Education and Faith

Infants on Thrones

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 September 2016

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This is the audio to Glenn’s Sunstone presentation given on July 30, 2016, where Glenn explains the type of Mormon he was before and after his graduate studies (culminating in a MA Thesis Japanese Lost Tribes stories and a half-finished dissertation on Mormon Humor), and walks through some of the reasons why — for him — faith ultimately yielded to education (and uncertainty).

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0:00.0	When I was young, it seemed that life was so wonderful, a miracle,
0:10.0	of it was beautiful, magical.
0:13.0	No, sir.
0:14.0	Because I gotta have fan.
0:16.0	I gotta have a fan.
0:18.0	Because I gotta have a friend,
0:20.0	because I got to get my friend,
0:21.0	I'm friend, the friend.
0:24.0	Then they show me a world where I could be so dependable,
0:30.0	or clinical, or intellectual cynical.
0:35.0	That's why I'm keeping the faith.
0:39.0	Yeah.
0:40.0	There are times when all the world just deep,
0:47.0	the questions run too deep,
0:50.0	for such a simple man.
0:55.0	If I ever lose my face,
1:01.0	don't you need this. I know it sounds like you please tell me what you come
1:07.0	I know it sounds like so
1:11.0	and I know it sounds like so please tell me who I am.
1:15.0	Who I am.
1:18.0	Who I am.
1:21.0	Oh, I am. This is infants on thrones.
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