Truth Wanted 03.05 2020-02-21 with ObjectivelyDan & Rebecca Fox

SHOW TIME-STAMPS

00:00:00 Introduction
00:13:41 River - MI: How do we know logic is true? (Doubting Skepticism & Laws of Logic)
00:28:33 Doug - FL: Was the Bible Made Up to Discourage People from Human Sacrifice?
00:37:30 Woo is Me (A Brief Discussion on Woo-ey Beliefs)
00:42:25 Tom - UK: My Country Isn't Religious, but We Have a Lot of Woo Beliefs
00:48:44 Fred - ID: Weird Mormon Stories Derived from Their Mythology
00:57:31 Bobby - CA: Life Extension Research
01:11:49 Nathan - TX: Spirituality, Conspiracy Theories, & Schizo-Effective Disorders
01:21:07 Jeremy - IA: Is/Ought Gap...Why is it an issue?
01:40:10 Outro

SHOW NOTES
You know what’s fun about Truth Wanted? We always have new and different guests! Today, we have Rebecca Fox. She’s an illustrator, animator, podcaster, and all around awesome human being. Rebecca recently worked with a few atheist content creators, including our young Dan (or Yung Dan as he’s known in the “rap game”) and his grandmaster Anthony Magnabosco, to create a Twitter survey about atheists and their deconversions, then making a video about the responses. (That video can be found here at Anthony Magnabosco’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EMyPABdCHc.)

River in Michigan shares an issue that’s bound to sound familiar to a lot of skeptically-minded people: He’s doubting the very foundations of knowledge, including the Laws of Logic. It’s an interesting question precisely because we have no answer. What do?

Doug in Florida has a potentially interesting thought about why stories like Abraham sacrificing his son and the entire sacrifice motif of Jesus might exist: The stories are intended to show human sacrifice as reprehensible to discourage a society of people who were already sacrificing humans. (The society is made of people doing human sacrifice, why do any of them care? Why would a story about human sacrifice bother people engaging in human sacrifice?) Dan has some interesting counter-points to this based on Jewish ideas about the Old Testament.

Following Doug’s calls, Rebecca & Dan get into a short discussion about woo and “spirituality” from acupuncture to tarot cards!

Tom in the UK continues a bit of the conversation about woo by chiming in to agree with Rebecca: the UK has lost a lot of standard religions, but has become infested with woo. Then after Dan & Rebecca discuss further, we realize Tom seems to have dropped. You win some, you lose some. Moving on!

Fred in Idaho has a decent interest and knowledge of Mormon mythology, and tells us some of the hilarious tales people spin about how some of these strange Mormon stories fit with their real lives-like 3 men in white suits magically fixing a car with no tools! This gets into the more interesting side of why people tell these tales-is it because they believe these stories or that they like telling the tale?

Bobby in California calls in to ask what we think of Life Extension Research. Bobby claims to be attaining a Masters degree in fields related to Life Extension Research, and offers some information about the research he’s aware of.

Nathan in Texas (Hey! We’ve been there before!) describes his own schizo-effective disorder, saying that he started to become more susceptible to spirituality and conspiracy theories after he developed the schizo-effective disorders.

Jeremy in Iowa follows up on a previous call about secular moral frameworks to talk about the is/ought gap, and why he thinks it’s actually not an issue.

That’s our show, folks! Follow Dan on Twitter (@ObjectivelyDan), e-mail the show (truth@atheist-community.org), and check out our merch at bit.ly/aenmerch! Rebecca Fox’s Instagram and Twitter are @rebeccaonpaper, and her podcast is The Seeker & The Skeptic.

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