Tuesday, 6 October 2026

Vincent Bruno on theodicy, reincarnation and the social problems caused by bad parenting


1:00  Anyone can change, according to his experience as a Jehovah's Witnesses.

13:00  Vincent is glad he was never Trinitarian.

What does logos even mean for Trinitarians when the Trinity is so absurd?

15:00  Jehovah's Witnesses are supposed to avoid highfaluting philosophy.

17:00  Rich JW's two children disfellowshipped

21:00  NPD and neologisms

22:00  New names for the consequences of bad parenting

24:00  Over-diagnosis and neologisms

25:00  Our Tower of Babel

26:00  Vincente is the most straight-talking American I know.

27:00  Mental health issues and depression

28:00  Jehovah's Witnesses are encouraged to pray often. 

31:00  Algorithms

32:00  YouTube friends or displays of friends

34:00  Substack

35:00  Mad, silly or evil?

36:00  It's important to say things out loud.

37:00  How we grow

38:00  The determinants of status are nebulous and uncertain. 

39:00  Brevity and clarity needs to be repeated 100 x before people understand. 

40:00  Censorship

41:00  Life is word game. 

Rectification of Names

42:00  Jews and their recidivism

Idolatry

43:00  Divine revelation

Chicken Little

44:00  Allegories and fables

45:00  Adam and Eve

46:00  Adam was led astray by his rib. 

47:00  The First Man and Woman could have been evolved.  

48:00  Belief in the afterlife

49:00  Sadducees didn't believe in the afterlife.

50:00  Compliance is higher in adherents of the Abrahamic religions.

51:00  Mortal sin

52:00  Venial sin

Jehovah's Witnesses are annihilitationists.

53:00  Manicheaism

55:00  God is Creator of good and evil. 

56:00  God's will

57:00  When bad things happen

58:00  Jews are supposed to thank God for suffering. 

Isaiah 45:7

59:00  Reincarnation

1:00:00  Poor people are supposed to think rich people are more likely to be tempted into sin so they don't envy them. Rich people are supposed to be kind to poor people to earn brownie points for heaven. 

1:01:00  Generous Hindu woman was told her suffering was bad karma.

1:02:00  Rich people problems

Theodicy - the problem of evil

1:03:00  The Book of Job

1:04:00  Nobody is protected from suffering. 

1:05:00  Social programmes

Would people feel happier if they were told that their suffering is caused by random chance?

1:06:00  Social services

1:07:00  Communism and Socialism

1:09:00  Social policies to prevent social problems

1:10:00  Never married parents, bad parenting and bad partner selection

1:11:00  Government spending

1:12:00  Preventing homelessness

Changing the culture of unstable relationships

1:13:00  Birth control

Working class

1:14:00  Marriage

1:15:00  Better partner selection

1:16:00  Polygamy

1:17:00  Communal child rearing

1:18:00  Family responsibilities

1:19:00  Jehovah's Witnesses is a close knit community

1:21:00  Stigmatising divorce

1:23:00  Americans don't live in villages.

1:25:00  Creating marriageable men and women

1:26:00  Prince was Jehovah's Witness.

1:27:00  Ambiguity

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Vincent Bruno on theodicy, reincarnation and the social problems caused by bad parenting

1:00  Anyone can change, according to his experience as a Jehovah's Witnesses. 13:00  Vincent is glad he was never Trinitarian. What doe...