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Infants on Thrones

Ep 530 – A Manual for Creating Atheists, Part 6 – Street Epistemology

Infants on Thrones

Glenn Ostlund

Personal Journals, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.71K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2018

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

What is it like to actually do Street Epistemology?  Glenn is joined by Randy, Delany, and Jimmy to talk to Street Epistemologists Reid Nicewonder and Anthony Magnabosco.  Their YouTube videos can be found below: Anthony Magnabosco’s YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/magnabosco210 Cordial Curiosity (Reid Nicewonder’s YouTube Channel): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiWKxPMKUBFjN3Ny_VxpkYw

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0:00.0

Final question, what do you think has changed your mind?

0:06.0

Like, what are thoughts that you have now that you wouldn't have had before because you've been going out and doing your straight

0:15.4

with a straight strategy.

0:19.4

First, atheists are not rational by default.

0:23.0

Just because you don't believe in a God

0:24.7

does not mean that you came to that decision

0:27.1

using a reliable process,

0:28.8

nor does it mean that you are exempt from other beliefs that are untrue.

0:34.0

There's nothing special about an atheist where the second you discard your God

0:37.9

belief you're suddenly this wise rational person.

0:42.0

And a second, I would say saying I don't know is okay. It's okay to

0:47.4

be uncertain. There's nothing wrong with saying that you don't know and

0:51.3

that's a good that's actually a good thing to model. I'd rather say I don't know and that's a good that's actually a good thing to model

0:53.7

I'd rather say I don't know something than pretend that I do and then the third thing

0:58.8

that I wrote down is it's so important to be there for people for people.

1:02.1

You can go out and have all these conversations It's so important to be there for people.

1:03.5

You can go out and have all these conversations and spend time editing videos and

1:07.1

doing interviews, but you have to build in some time to be there for the people that you talk

1:11.6

to, that they're starting to doubt and they need support. be there spend quite a bit of my time every week talking to people that have either

1:24.5

watched my videos and they're having some difficulties or they're actually

1:28.0

people that I've spoken to that are struggling with the belief that we talked

1:31.3

about and and that's important make time for the belief that we talked about.

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