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Monday 19 February 2024

Discussing spirituality with Vincent Bruno


0:30  Contemplative
1:00  Spirituality, atheism and nihilism
2:00  Substitute for God
The best things in life are free.
Believing in God does not mean abandoning reason. 
4:00  There is only one Abrahamic God.
5:00  Yuval Harari's Sapiens
6:00 "I'm not religious but I'm spiritual."
8:00  Spirituality is the desire for justice.
9:00  Reincarnation
10:00  Afterlife of some kind necessary for religion
11:00  This life is an examination hall.
12:00  "Almost does not count except for horse shoes and hand grenades."
13:00  Rabbi Ouri Cherki
15:00  Beggars can't be choosers.
16:00  Christian nationalism
17:00  Muslims don't know their Koran and are not encouraged to know it.
18:00  Idolatry
19:00  Secular Koranism would protect gay people.
20:00  Spirituality
21:00  The bests things in life are free.
22:00  It is in the national interest to support the patriarchy.
23:00  Established churches
24:00  Christian missionaries from Rome
26:00  Thomas Aikenhead
27:00  The Founding Fathers
28:00  The French and Russian Revolution
29:00  Christendom ended  in 1918
30:00  David Irving and 1914
31:00  Oswald Spengler published Decline of the West in 1918
32:00  Dugin's Fourth Political Theory
34:00  Motivating good behaviour and God as a social tool
35:00  Yuval Harari on stories people want to believe
36:00  Presumption of innocence or guilt
37:00  Agnostics are intellectually obliged to entertain  the idea of God's actual existence.
Jewish philosophy is about resolving the cognitive dissonance of a benevolent God allowing evil.
38:00  Emunah and bitachon
The Book of Job
40:00  The problem of evil
41:00  Gratitude and humility
42:00  Gilgul
44:00  God accepted the bet Satan offered.
46:00  The proper attitude towards the poor for those who believe in reincarnation
48:00  Repeated lessons, Snakes and Ladders
54:00  Muslims don't follow the Koran correctly.
55:00  Satan
59:00  Creation was an act of love by God.
1:00:00  Moral agency
1:01:00  Yuval Harari
1:02:00  Suffering is punishment for sin.
1:03:00  We are affected by everything that ever happened to us.
1:04:00  Noahide laws
1:05:00  The treatment of suicides
An epidemic of suicides after the Emancipation of Serfs
1:06:00  Russian nihilism
1:07:00  War and scientific advancement
1:08:00  Socialism with Chinese Characteristics
1:11:00  Carol Balizet
1:12::00 Therapist
1:13:00  Jehovah's Witnesses
1:14:00  Cognitive dissonance
1:15:00  Regulating sin
1:16:00  Medical grade ketamine
1:18:00  Ketamine, melancholia and the blues
1:20:00  Dr Martha Welch
1:21:00  JW education methods
1:22:00  Himmler impressed by Jehovah's Witnesses

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