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Monday, 24 August 2026

Talking to @CollectiveDismal9 about narratives and the teleology of the doxastic


1:00  Narratives
2:00  Nietzsche on the Death of God
3:00  Science as a religion
4:00  Secular Koranism

Normative, epistemological and ontological

5:00  Mind is in the brain in the skull in the body.
6:00  Ideas come to life when there are minds to conceive of them. 
Lindsay Clancy
7:00  Mental health issues used to be masked.
8:00  Noahide laws
9:00  Marriage

10:00  [Crackling]
13:00  Agnostic
14:00  Foundational commitments
17:00  Agnosticism
18:00  Referring to a Higher Authority
19:00  Philosophers
21:00  Atheists
22:00  Unicorn, fairies and leprechauns
23:00  The government is not taking God seriously.
24:00  Categories of Christian
25:00   Christian Fellowship
Christianity is just a cultural affiliation. 
26:00  Trinitarian and non-Trinitarian Christians
27:00  Mormons and Jehovah's Witness
28:00  Female deities
29:00  Christians are not afraid Jesus.
30:00  Doxastic Preclusions
31:00  Impossible to be an atheist in ancient times?
32:00  Jay Dyer
33:00  Zeus
34:00  David Hume on Doxastic Involunteerism
35:00  Assimilated beliefs
36:00  Pretending to believe
37:00  The use of certain forms of words to show membership of a group

Atheists pretending to believe

38:00  Employers using someone's religion to predict their behaviour
39:00  Going to church as a child
40:00  Meta-atheism by George Rey
41:00  Belief in belief
42:00  Adopting a belief if you see it as beneficial
43:00  Scientism and psychology
45:00  "Would you like to believe that good to be rewarded and evil punished?"
46:00  Evil 
47:00  Abortion
51:00  Innate sense of right and wrong
52:00  Nihilism
53:00  People who think it is OK to kill babies for fun and in fact do so would find themselves extinct.

Antinatalism

54:00  Jews are evidence of God's existence.
55:00  Respect for Judaism
56:00  Sam Harris the Zionist and Islamophobe
57:00  No such thing as an ethnic Christian.
58:00  Hierarchy of blood
59:00  Jews are seen as upper middle class. 
Merchant and managerial class
1:01:00  Genealogy
1:02:00  Prophecy
1:03:00  Greater Israel Project
Nick Land
1:04:00  Obsessed with Jews
1:05:00  Israel is a US colony. 
1:06:00  Philosophical Pragmatism
1:07:00  Stereotypes
1:09:00  Class

The tyranny of small differences

1:10:00  Judging Jews
1:11:00  Categories
Stereotypes
1:12:00  Genealogy
1:13:00  Bad Jews or non-observant Jews
1:15:00  Jesus and Bret Weinstein
1:16:00  Observant Jews and non-observant Jews

Stephen J Gould

1:17:00  Sigmund Freud
1:18:00  God is the biggest idea of all.
1:19:00  Christians and Muslims base their religion on Judaism.

Supersessionism

Theological arms  race

1:20:00  Adam Green
1:29:00  Narratives of an afterlife where good will be rewarded and evil punished
Sacrifice
Bhagavad Gita
1:30:00  Jews and warfare
1:31:00  Valhalla
1:32:00  Soteriology
1:33:00  Average age of Western nations
1:32:00  Low average age necessary for a revolution
1:35:00  Supply of labour
Pizza
1:36:00  Limits to growth
Useless eaters
1:38:00  The purpose of a society
Teleology
1:40:00  The purpose of life according to the Koran
1:41:00  Christian and Buddhist thought
1:42:00  Desire is suffering.
1:43:00  Eightfold Path and Four Noble Truths
1:44:00  Ship of Theseus
1:45:00  Co-Dependent
1:48:00  David Hume
1:49:00  Duka and attachment
1:50:00  Intrinsic nature
1:51:00  Dying to self
Christian Nationalism
Born again
1:52:00  Turning over  a new leaf
1:53:00  Warlike Christians with their global empire
Christian pacifists: Mennonites, Jehovah's Witnesses, the Amish
1:55:00  The Fourth Political Theory by Dugin
1:56:00  Christo-Liberalism
1:57:00  Historians
1:58:00  The full list of the unalienable rights men created were endowed by their Creator can be found in the Koran,

Liberalism = Enlightenment

1:59:00  Our God-given reason
2:00:00  Ben Franklin
2:02:00  Logic

Science and Philosophy are two different branches of knowledge. 

2:04:00  Presuppositions
2:05:00  We are here because there was a Creation etc.
2:06:00  Valid contradictions

The principle of sufficient reason

Brute fact

2:07:00  Infinite  regress
2:08:00  Aristotelian logic
2:09:00  Epistemology
2:10:00  Destructive and Constructive
Nietzsche and Hume
2:11:00  Wittgenstein
2:12:00  Rabbis/imams would be more likely to be understood than academic philosophers.
2:13:00  Evolution
The Noble Lie
2:14:00  The Koran forbids suicide.
2:15:00  Julius Evola on Kamikaze pilots
2:18:00  Suicide Mission
2:19:00  Immortal souls
2:20:00  Mandarin
2:23:00  Intention
2:24:00  Universalism
2:25:00  Dying for principles
2:26:00  Jihad
Joining the army
2:28:00  Taking drugs and alcohol
2:31:00  A dangerous or suicide mission?
2:32:00  Speaking to be understood rather than being agreed with
2:34:00  Agreement, disagreement, seeking clarification
2:35:00  The Truth
Arguing with others is really for the purpose of knowing what we ourselves really think. 
2:37:00  RT interview

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Talking to @CollectiveDismal9 about narratives and the teleology of the doxastic

1:00  Narratives 2:00  Nietzsche on the Death of God 3:00  Science as a religion 4:00  Secular Koranism Normative, epistemological and ontol...