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Mormonism LIVE: 044: Straw Man vs Steel Man: A Lesson In Rational Thinking

Radio Free Mormon

Mormon Discussion Inc

Religion & Spirituality

4.81.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Today we take a look at the Logical Fallacy of the Straw Man argument and juxtapose it against what it means to Steel Man someone. A Straw Man argument is when you misrepresent someone’s argument to make it easier to attack. We define a Straw Man argument, share an example, discuss how to incorporate good… Read More »Mormonism LIVE: 044: Straw Man vs Steel Man: A Lesson In Rational Thinking

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0:00.0

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, we proudly bring to you...

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...Marmonism!

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...Live!

0:16.0

Shut up and sit down!

0:30.0

Good evening, Mr. Bill Real. How are you doing tonight?

0:53.0

RFM! I am great!

0:57.0

So we've got 84 people in here to begin with, and any thoughts from you before we jump into it?

1:04.0

Many are called, but fewer chosen, and the 84 who are here at the outset are the chosen.

1:09.0

And now they're 119. So folks, hit the like button, hit the subscribe button, follow a long Mormonism Live with Radio Free Mormon and Bill Real.

1:18.0

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1:24.0

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1:37.0

RFM tonight was my week, it's my chance to put something together, and what I wanted to do, I thought this would be just multifaceted.

1:45.0

We can put on some commentary by Midnight Mormons. It's regarding when you and I had Quakeoo on, and...

1:53.0

Do we have Quakeoo on the show?

1:55.0

We did, months ago, my friend. It was a long time ago, okay. You can't remember that very well.

1:59.0

It was a long time ago, and Midnight Mormons ended up doing several videos off of that, right?

2:06.0

They took the things that we asked Quakeoo and the things we said and the things he responded with and tried to create some videos out of that.

2:13.0

And we're going to start off by playing one tonight to get us started. This will get us going down the right track.

2:18.0

So here is that audio. Let me turn up my sound a little bit.

2:24.0

So this is going to be us in the side, watching them in the middle, talk about us on the right.

2:30.0

Yeah, yeah, that'll also be them on the side talking about us at the top, having a conversation with him on the bottom.

2:37.0

I'm feeling like I'm doing the time warp.

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