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Ep 764 – The Word of Weird-dom Chapter Six: Deconstructing Belief

Infants on Thrones

Infants on Thrones

Personal Journals, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6 β€’ 1.1K Ratings

πŸ—“οΈ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Do beliefs just go away, or do they simply change? For example, does “I do not believe in God” mean the same thing as “I do believe that there is no God?”

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0:00.0

the word of the weird, the word of the weird, the word of the weird, the revelation by and

0:18.2

through the mind of an infant, chapter, chapter, chapter, chapter, six, six, six, six,

0:25.6

deconstructing belief. So you have figured out that the beliefs that you were taught as a child

0:39.6

are no longer true. The Book of Mormon isn't really what claimed to be the Book of Abraham,

0:47.6

now the facsimones in the Book of Abraham with the translation in the footnotes that Egypt

1:01.1

colleges can look at and tell you, no, no, that's not what it says. There's so many things like that

1:09.2

in the Mormon Church that if you're listening to this, you've probably recognized, okay, those

1:18.4

beliefs that I had, no, they're not true. And you probably recognized the truth about the nature

1:27.1

of the Mormon Church and about those stories, but have you recognized yet the nature of belief

1:33.0

itself that what is a belief? A belief is an idea that you have decided is true. For whatever reason,

1:44.7

maybe it was decided for you, maybe you're just trusting other people, but it's something that you

1:53.1

have set in your mind as if this is true. And maybe it's not so much just about Joseph Smith trying

2:04.5

to pass off Egyptian translations in a day and age before the Rosetta Stone was discovered and people

2:13.8

really knew how to translate Egyptian. Maybe it's more about the attachment that we as humans have to

2:22.1

believe themselves. And maybe we have attachment to beliefs that don't have anything to do with

2:29.6

Mormonism, but are equally as problematic because the loyalty that we have to these beliefs

2:39.7

blinds us from other possible truths, other possible realities. What do you think about that?

2:52.7

Is any belief true? Do you hold any belief that if you found out tomorrow that there was very good

3:04.8

evidence to change your alter that belief that you wouldn't change your alter it?

3:10.1

I think if you committed to that scientific method, that scientific process of having the best

3:23.9

conclusion based on the best possible evidence and changing it as more evidence becomes available,

3:30.4

then to rigidly hold onto or claim to any belief is really antithetical to that entire scientific

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