Talk Heathen 05.34 08-22-2021 with Jmike and Johnny P Angel
Talk Heathen
Atheist Community of Austin
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🗓️ 22 August 2021
⏱️ 96 minutes
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First up we have Josh in AR whose position is that free will has to exist and if it does not exist, punishing criminals is amoral since they have no control over their actions. He believes that human thought is too complicated to be attributed to just brain cells interacting. This is not an argument for belief, but rather stating what you think.
Defaulting to moral responsibility and calling when you are already angry is only clouding your judgement. Calm down bro, why are you so angry? We are not going to stop removing criminals from society if we can’t change their behavior.
Next is Andrew from Canada asking about god's grace. What good is god if we can do whatever we want? We have never met god nor do we believe in the existence of god so therefore we would not believe in the corresponding grace. Human beings can be nice or cruel to each other, and sometimes get away with being cruel. Suspiciously, god tells people to do what they already want to do, and sometimes that is cruelty. God’s grace is a cop out.
Roberto in Italy wants to learn about consciousness and what constitutes the beginning. We would like to know how you would apply this as a fundamental feature of consciousness and what utility this would have. This topic has not made a lot of progress in philosophy. This can be considered identity and is a fun thing to look at. Keep reading and thinking.
Jared in ID would like some opinions on how to talk with family about extremist groups and their symbolism. Anytime I try to bring up anything, one of my family members shuts it down. Try asking your family questions about what they think rather than stating what you believe; you will be putting them on the defensive. Open yourself up to a true conversation that takes place over a lifetime, not confrontations. Be aware of how your words are received. People will not be responsible for independent beliefs when they can’t even be responsible for their own beliefs. There are layers to it and you have to peel them and break down the walls until you get to the center.
Paul in NC would like to talk about the tale of Moses and how it lines up with the cycles of Osiris. You are preaching to the choir. Moses was most likely copy and pasted from other myths. The claims that surround the being itself do not fit. There is a substantial amount of research into the history of the Bible and the apocrypha. Thank you for the suggestions; we do read a lot of what is sent to us.
Quit complaining about the masks and get the vaccine already. Enough of this nonsense. Thank you for joining us today for these fascinating topics! Peace out and we love you.
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| 1:07.8 | They're so dedicated. Yeah, right. They're very dedicated. |
| 1:09.7 | Anyways, welcome to Talk Ethan, everybody. I'm glad to be back on here. And you heard the, the, the, the, the, the docile tones of Mr. Johnny P. Angel right before the show. Johnny, how are you doing today? I'm, I'm well, and I'm glad to be back here and here with you. You're my new you're my new favorite co-host. |
| 1:44.3 | We're gonna, yeah, do this each week where you're the favorite for only the week and then we move on to a new favorite. Fine. I'll just be my own favorite. Oh. And then I'll just solve the issue there. I've been excited about this as I am every time I'm on the show with you because you're freaking awesome. Oh, thank you. And they even, they prompt me with a nice little |
| 1:47.8 | koala in the background and you got a nice, I think we're looking a little spiffy today. |
| 1:52.1 | Anyways, Taki then is a product of the ACA, 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion |
| 1:58.9 | of positive atheism and separation of religion and |
| 2:02.5 | government. There are many ways to support us. I would say like the one that I like to talk about at the |
| 2:07.3 | beginning is to get rid of the, well, A, it directly supports us in a lot of ways, but two, it gets |
| 2:12.5 | rid of that pesky slow mode. And you can look right below the video, there's a join button for |
| 2:17.1 | members. You click that and you can, well, okay, I don't want to say you can comment as many times you can. That might not, that might get a little annoying after a while, but you can reasonably comment now that you have the restriction off. Yeah, I mean, I think it's a good feature. I think it's a good feature to be able to not wait two minutes before you want to say, |
| 2:34.9 | ooh, I didn't like that point. I want to say something now and then you're sitting there for about a minute, 45 seconds until you can actually say something. That's right. Slow mode is a is a synthoid way of slowing down people who texts too much, message too much, But we still have humanoids that have brilliant, |
| 2:52.4 | wonderful humanoids that will check you before you have done something to do some wrecking. |
| 2:58.6 | Indeed. |
| 2:59.3 | Indeed. |
| 3:00.1 | Well, Johnny, let's just get straight into it. |
| 3:01.9 | I like getting right into the calls right away. |
| 3:05.0 | And we have one. |
| 3:06.0 | So we have one already from a theist, which is an amazing thing for my perspective. |
| 3:11.5 | I much like the idea of giving the preference to theist callers. |
| 3:15.7 | And so we have Josh on who thinks that free will has to exist and then a conjunction |
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