Talk Heathen 05.21 05-23-2021 with ObjectivelyDan and Jmike
Talk Heathen
Atheist Community of Austin
4.7 • 611 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2021
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Before we get to calls, we get to learn more about ObjectivelyDan and Jmike. As you know, Dan is the host for another ACA call in show called Truth Wanted (It’s one of the show notes writer’s favorites!) Jmike is joining the host roster and really “enjoys” talking to presups. Welcome Jmike!
Let’s get to calls! Kevin from New York (yes, that Kevin) would like to discuss the ‘Eternal Now’ philosophy and according to him, why a God is involved in it. Either Jmike scared him away with his fantastic questions or he just dropped, I’m going to say he got a bit scared. Bye Kevin!
Joe in Virginia is up next, he is wanting to challenge us on our disbelief by asking a series of questions. At one point asking about beliefs in God and Jmike asks for a definition of God based on the belief of this claim. Joe keeps repeating that the question didn’t go anywhere, maybe that’s because you got an answer you didn’t want. Asking for proof of a claim isn’t a bad thing and the burden of proof lies on the one making the claim.
Vincent in the UK is wondering about faith healing and watching evangelical religious shows on telly in the US. Dan breaks it down for him, the US is made up of a lot of conmen and cynical money grabbers, but seriously. There is an industry of this and quite a history of this here in the US.
Guy in Georgia is asking about life after death and seeing loved ones. He thinks this is what keeps people religious which is a tragedy and a huge disservice to everyone.
Alison in Canada is calling about folks with aphantasia which is the inability to voluntarily create mental images in one's mind and if they could see images eventually. She asks, if someone has this and then all of the sudden can see images within her mind, would this be a sign of a God?
Paul in the UK is calling in about the Kalam Cosmological argument and has a bit of an adjustment to it. He’d like to run through the premises with Jmike and Dan and see where we all end up with it.
That’s our show for this week, please continue to be safe in your area, get vaccinated if you can, and continue to wear your mask. The world is better with you in it. See you next week!
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Hello, hello everybody and welcome to another episode of Talk Heathen. |
| 0:43.4 | I am your host for today, objectively, Dan, you may usually know me from hosting the Friday night production of the atheist community of Austin Truth Wanted, but I am here today on this |
| 0:54.2 | fine Sunday afternoon to host Talk Heathen with you. And I'm joined by a, what's going to be a |
| 1:01.9 | continuing co-host of Talk Heathen. This is Jay Mike. Jay Mike, welcome to the show. |
| 1:08.7 | Yeah, I mean, it feels really good to finally have someone say that so that I can |
| 1:12.7 | I can now brag about it and things like that, which is great. I've been like holding it in, |
| 1:16.7 | like, I can't say much. So yeah, that's really great. I'm also impressed with someone that does a show |
| 1:21.8 | like Truth Wanted as much as you do that you didn't say truth wanted instead of talk evenathom because that is what i would have done i |
| 1:27.7 | had to mentally i had to mentally prepare myself because that was just going to be so automatic for |
| 1:33.4 | me i had to like lock that in and i was going to say the right thing but yes i haven't been on talk |
| 1:38.4 | heathen in at least a year so i have been on before though And so now I'm here today hosting again with you, |
| 1:45.0 | J. Mike, J. Mike, welcome to Chalk Heathen, what's going to be a continuing production for you. |
| 1:50.1 | Before we get into the intro for the announcements and stuff, why don't you introduce yourself |
| 1:55.0 | a little bit for folks who aren't super familiar with you. Yeah, thank you. I've, well, first I |
| 2:00.0 | would state just like a lot of people |
| 2:02.2 | watching, I've been a huge fan of the ACA and all the content that the ACA produces. And so for me, |
| 2:09.5 | this is, it's still kind of a pinch thing to know that I get to associate and work with you guys. |
| 2:14.2 | It's really cool. But what I like to do do is I just like to have these types of conversations. |
| 2:19.7 | I didn't really grow up in a necessarily religious home or anything. |
| 2:23.7 | I had parents that were religious. |
| 2:25.1 | I just had a little bit more leeway to navigate through these types of conversations. |
| 2:30.3 | And that led me into just having a weird obsession with like philosophy and things like that when I was younger and science and things like that to try to get to how I can understand the world around me. |
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