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Infants on Thrones

Ep 32 – Ender’s Game & Mormon Success

Infants on Thrones

Glenn Ostlund

Personal Journals, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2013

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Bob discusses author Orson Scott Card’s influence on his life, and the concept of “Mormon Success” as he remembers it growing up in the Mormon Church. He is later joined by Logan for a review (don’t worry, spoiler free) of the movie Ender’s Game.

Transcript

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My test of people's religion is this. I push until they get angry and then I found their religion. I found the thing that they think is so true that it makes them angry if other

0:14.7

people don't accept it you know especially when somebody is angry at religion you

0:19.2

know you people really so ridiculous then it really is usually a matter of six or seven

0:24.4

questions at the most to get to the point where they are demanding that other

0:27.9

people behave as they prescribe. They really believe that people who don't

0:32.0

behave the way they think they should behave are wrong and should be punished

0:35.4

Even the most tolerant people. We believe in tolerance, you know, they are completely intolerant when you hit them in their religion

0:41.8

Everyone has a. Everyone has a religion. Everyone has a set of beliefs that

0:45.6

they think the rest of the world should live by. And the secret to life here is

0:50.5

finding out what your own religion really is and perhaps adapting it and

0:54.4

learning what your religion should be in order to get along with other people

0:58.1

what what actually are the set of stories that when people live them they function better as a community

1:04.9

they thrive they're happy that's religion. This is infants on throne.

1:15.0

This is infants on throne.

1:19.0

The philosophies of men,

1:21.0

beingled with humans. We are the core.

1:25.0

The core.

1:27.0

Hi everyone, I'm Bob Caswell and today I want to talk about the book Enders game.

1:38.0

Which is now also a hundred and ten million dollar big budget movie. Actually what I really want to discuss

1:45.6

is the book's author Orson Scott Card and what I want to do is I want to use him and

1:50.3

his book as a proxy for the air quotes topic of the day.

1:54.4

Mormon success.

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