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Our question for episode 356 is something like, should philosophy restrict itself to talking only about concrete social and material matters,

or maybe what is religion without theology? And we read Ludwig Feuerbach's principles of the philosophy of the future from 1843, as well as the introduction to his book, The Essence of Christianity,

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This is Mark Linton Meyer, establishing a moral and rational relationship to my stomach contents in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is the Messiah of Speculative Reason in Austin, Texas.

This is Wes Alwin, dissolving God by assimilating him rationally in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey pointing his index finger into the eye of nothingness in Madison, Wisconsin.

Did you actually say your name, Seth, or did you just say you were the Messiah?

He just said he was the Messiah.

Okay, okay.

I just said I was the Messiah.

All right, that's fine.

Your singularity.

In case anybody's confused by who said it.

Your singularity is spread throughout.

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