Talk Heathen 05.02 01-10-2021 with Eric Murphy and Ethan Micheal

Talk Heathen

Atheist Community of Austin

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🗓️ 10 January 2021

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Greetings Heathens! Hope you all are having a pleasant new year so far, we are glad you are here! In today’s episode of Talk Heathen, Eric Murphy is joined by Ethan Micheal. Ethan is a friend of the show and we are really excited to have him here! Here’s his channel: https://www.youtube.com/yfnatheist
Let’s get to calls! Joe from New York would like to talk about how he doesn’t think Atheists are choosing to use common sense when they analyze evidence for the existence of God. As requested, he gives the examples of how something can come from nothing and that personal miracles prove the existence of a deity. But how though?
Jeff in Washington is up next, he is wondering about consciousness, integrated information theory, and the exchange of information within a conscious. Except he is anthropomorphizing this exchange that is basically chemical reactions. But how does this prove a deity?
Macy in New York, is calling about mental health, religion, and existentialism. Eric is now very excited and looking forward to this conversation, it is totally his jam. How do we get over the fear of hell and the feeling of being all alone?
Gage in Pennsylvania claims everything is ALIVE! He goes on to say that atoms are alive including the energy that powers atoms. But how can energy be alive? He is anthropomorphizing things as well. Oh my this guy! Sounds like deepity!
Lucas in Brazil wants to chat about how to deal with arguments that use pseudoscience to justify the religious beliefs. He goes on to explain how within this belief, we attain a higher being status through a sort of evolution. It’s really weird. This is a good question, maybe using ‘Street Epistemology’ would be a great approach.
Minh in California is wondering how we deal with hardships in life and suffering. How do we as secular folk deal with grief and grieving. It’s definitely a difficult process, but it’s unique to most of us. However, having others (or a community) to grieve with is incredibly helpful.
That’s our show for this week, please continue to be safe in your area, wear your mask. The world is better with you in it. See you next week!

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0:00.0	Ethan Michael, you're ready for this.
0:17.0	Oh my God, I am.
0:19.0	Good. Oh my God, I am.
0:33.6	My palms are sweating.
0:38.3	Hello and welcome to talk heave-h. Today is January 10th, 2001, Season 5, Episode 2.
0:46.3	I'm Eric Murphy, and with me today is Ethan Michael.
0:49.3	How's it going?
0:51.3	Dude, as I was just saying, my palms are sweaty.
1:02.7	I am so nervous, but I am also like beyond excited because it was just a year ago that I called in and I was a caller on the show.
1:05.0	And now I'm doing the show with you.
1:06.2	Like, dude, this is.
1:12.7	Well, I mean, so in the last year, I've been watching everything that you've been doing and you've been putting out content like crazy.
1:13.7	You've been building community.
1:17.6	You started your own call-in show in the mornings with our own Jenna Belk.
1:29.3	You've been getting so active and promoting so much when it comes to building this atheist community, talking about it, being kind and gentle. Your style is just you're a positive listener. And I just, I appreciate what you're doing. And now you have a
1:34.4	year's worth of content that we can point people back to. So, Ethan, you've earned it. Welcome.
1:38.9	Thank you, Eric. Yeah, there is a lot of content. I do a variety of things. And I am truthfully, thank you so much for giving me
1:46.8	the opportunity to be here. I really never imagined being here. Like to give an example,
1:53.8	when I was like at a lower part of my life, all I had once a week that I looked forward to was
2:00.3	talk heathen and AXP.
2:02.4	And I was always like, you know, before I die, I have to meet these people.
2:07.1	And the fact that I'm working with you all is like, it still blows my mind.
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