Ep 748 – John’s God, Randy’s God, and Optimistic Nihilism

Infants on Thrones

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Philosophy

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🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Welcoming back beloved Infant brothers John Hamer and Randy Snyder to talk about God, meaning, and Randy’s miraculous conversion to the Jehovah’s Witnesses.

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0:00.0	The last thing I wanted to do was listen to myself from seven years ago.
0:05.1	That was when you became COVID witness, you like, you gave up.
0:09.1	Yeah, we've got a lot of kids.
0:11.0	Oh, you got a lot of kids. Yeah, I'm going to check up and check out now.
0:12.7	Yeah, a lot of the blisters you're having to read that.
0:20.0	Do you like the red room?
0:21.7	I love the red room. It matches you.
0:23.8	No, I thought we were talking about John's God, because I don't have a God.
0:36.2	But if you make a specific claim, which a lot of people like claim to know the mind of God all the time,
0:42.4	then I know your full of shit because I know nobody knows, I know, nobody knows, I know, nobody knows.
0:48.8	Is everything meaningless? Is there nothing? Is there nothing?
0:51.8	And so, in other words, I don't actually, I reject nihilism.
0:58.4	I think you actually have to make a positive leap of faith or philosophical statement to in order to say that you believe that there is no meaning,
1:06.2	because I think you have to actually, now you're asserting something.
1:11.2	And so, in other words, in order to positively state that you are a nihilist,
1:15.8	you have to have actually now made a leap of faith that you think that nothing is true or real,
1:20.8	or have that meaning.
1:21.8	I know, nobody knows, nobody knows.
1:23.8	So, where are you these days, Glenn, with your God, your quantum God, I'm guessing.
1:31.8	I mean, I think God is just an idea that people have as a way to explain the unknown.
1:37.8	It's like a label or a symbol that people slap on things that they don't understand.
1:51.8	This is infants on thrones, baby steps, who want some to preach to you.
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