One More Thing: Santa Claus Made me Do It

Young Heretics

Spencer Klavan

Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

The conversation after this week's episode on demons and psychology has been so fascinating that I wanted to add one more thing. If on Tuesdays we wear pink, on Fridays we talk about language--so in this episode I'm exploring what it means to think about the transition from soul-talk to therapy-talk as an act of translation, by which, as in all such cases, some things are lost and some are gained. Like a camera lens shifting in and out of focus, we may need both sets of vocabulary--spiritual and scientific--for seeing the whole depth of field.

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0:00.0	If you might remember the TV show Jackie Chan Adventures.
0:08.0	This kind of deep lore, ancient magic, but there's a cartoon aired on Kids
0:12.0	W.B.
0:13.2	featured Jackie Chan, the great karate action hero.
0:16.8	There was a cartoon version, and he would go out
0:18.9	and he would fight the bad guys, but he had this mentor, who was this old man, I think it was his uncle, but kind of a
0:25.8	Mr. Miyagi figure he would give him sage advice or pointers about where to go and what to do,
0:31.6	and right as Jackie was about to run out the door and beat the bad guys,
0:35.4	the old man would pop back up into the screen and hold up his finger and say,
0:39.9	one more thing. And that is how I feel after Tuesday's episode about psychology, souls,
0:47.2	angels, and demons. I feel like I have one more thing to tell you about this. So let's get into it. Okay, I am going to get back to words, words, words, and our series on translating
1:05.8	untranslatable words and concepts, but while it's still fresh in our minds,
1:09.5	I wanted to say one more thing about this whole set of issues that I raised on Tuesday regarding
1:16.4	demons and psychology and the relationship between therapy speak versus soul speak and
1:22.0	not just the movie Inside Out but that this whole
1:25.0	kind of parcel of issues are demons real because as you probably know by
1:29.2	now on this show on Tuesdays we wear pink and on Fridays we talk about language and it occurred to me as I was
1:36.2	watching people discuss that Tuesday episode which generated a lot of interesting feedback.
1:40.4	I was getting in the conversation with you guys and it occurred to me that this issue of whether demons exist in any real sense is kind of an issue of language and it reveals some of the properties of language that I've been
1:55.9	trying to drive home as we talk about translation and some of the more mysterious
2:00.1	elements of what language really is not just just the words we say, but what it represents as a function of, I would say, our souls, that I think our souls really are, in some sense, defined by their production of language and their understanding of the world in linguistic terms,
2:17.0	using words in the broadest possible sense and concepts to that this issue of
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