Talk Heathen 04.20 2020-05-17 with Vi La Bianca & Anthony Magnabosco
Talk Heathen
Atheist Community of Austin
4.7 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2020
⏱️ 118 minutes
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Summary
Let’s get to calls. The first caller is Nicholas. His wife recently passed and is wondering how to keep the memory of his wife alive for their daughter. He is also trying to figure out how best to mourn her passing and what is acceptable for him and his daughter. We are so sorry Nicholas, please definitely reach out to the Secular Therapy Project and Grief Beyond Belief if you need help https://www.seculartherapy.org/ and http://griefbeyondbelief.org/
Next up, Shawn from Minnesota would like to talk about how religion is a social construct and what is wrong with understanding that? He goes on to talk about instead of battling for his position, he’d like to approach it more of a reasonable and rational person would. That can be helpful, but I’d also ask this: Why are you getting value out of this belief rather than other places.
The following caller Kevin from New York wants to claim that the pineal gland in the brain proves a soul. For those interested, from Wikipedia, the pineal gland produces melatonin, a serotonin-derived hormone which modulates sleep patterns in both circadian and seasonal cycles. Vi asks the all important question, where is the evidence the pineal gland also produces a soul? And how do eyes play a part in this proof? HUH? I got lost completely.
The next caller in the queue is Adrian in Texas wanting to discuss how science proves a designer God and lists off a couple scientific facts and discoveries that prove this, except they don’t. He includes in this list, the axial tilt of the Earth, the Moon, and evidence of design all around us. Oh boy.
Next up, Clear as Crystal is a theist after being an atheist for a time. Claims that they have trouble with evolution and humans just can’t seem to get it together without a looming and helicopter parent/God. Evolution without God isn’t good enough for me, so there must have been an authority figure of some sort. She also had a tough time and claims it was God that got her through it. Actually, Crystal, that was you getting through it and you are stronger than you give yourself credit for.
That’s the episode for today! Stay safe and healthy folks! See you next week!
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| 0:00.0 | The Hello and welcome to talkie then. |
| 0:23.6 | Hello and welcome to Talkieven. |
| 0:39.3 | I do not have access to the soundboard, so we are once again without audience cheering, |
| 0:44.3 | but I'm certainly happy to see you all today. |
| 0:47.3 | I'm Vla Bianca, and with me is Anthony Magna Basko. |
| 0:51.3 | Hello, V, hello audience. |
| 0:53.3 | How's everyone doing? Hey, it's so good to have you on the show. |
| 0:56.6 | I'm so excited. We finally get to host something together. I know. I know. It's the first time we've hosted. This is so cool. Thank you for inviting me on. Of course. Of course. We've color coordinated. So we're both very somber and serious today. |
| 0:54.2 | We didn't get too crazy with it, though. |
| 0:55.5 | I think I just said, you want to color coordinate it? |
| 0:57.2 | You said, We've color coordinated, so we're both very somber and serious today. |
| 1:11.6 | We didn't get too crazy with it though. |
| 1:13.0 | I think I just said, you want to color coordinate it? |
| 1:14.7 | You said, hell yeah. |
| 1:16.3 | I wear back all the time. |
| 1:19.2 | I could do black, so here we are. |
| 1:21.4 | Oh my gosh. |
| 1:22.4 | Well, it's the 420 episodes, so I hope that everybody is making the most of that. We don't have too many announcements |
| 1:31.0 | today. And before we get into calls, I do want to talk a little bit with you, Anthony, about what you do |
| 1:35.8 | and kind of where people can find you. But let's get some housekeeping out of the way first. |
| 1:40.0 | As always, this is a 501C3 nonprofit organization, atheist community of Austin. |
| 1:47.7 | And if you like what you see here, if you want to keep us going through this very strange time where we're all remoting in and doing this on, |
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