Saturday, 6 December 2025

Discussing spirituality, reverse psychology, Jonah, Job, the Hegelian Dialectic and the purpose of religion with Chris Howard


9:00  CLAIRE KHAW joins to discuss the purpose of prayers and rituals. 
10:00  Doubt is more destructive than loss. 
12:00  Cause and effect
Talking ourselves into belief
13:00  Conviction and confidence
14:00  Being within or over the speed limit
15:00  Fear of punishment
Beliefs 
17:00  FAFO
18:00  We are creatures of habit.
19:00  Making pot legal
20:00  Adam and Eve victims of reverse psychology
21:00  Krishna
Jonah
24:00  God conscripted Jonah.
25:00  We must have faith and trust in God for our own peace of mind. 
26:00  Job and Isaiah
The problem of evil
28:00  The trials of Job
29:00  Job hadn't done anything wrong. 
30:00  Mrs Job told her husband to curse God and die.
31:00  Only conviction would make you confidently do the right thing without necessarily expecting good to be rewarded in this life. 
32:00  Forgiveness and mercy
33:00  Penitence of the Ninevites
35:00  Leaders following their followers
37:00  Louise Perry
38:00  Hypocrisy and virtue signalling
39:00  Jews and Judaism
40:00  Judaism is an exclusive club, Islam a one-party state.
41:00  Noahides
The moral power of Jews and Judaism
42:00  Latter Day Saints
43:00  The Abrahamic God
44:00  Competing through scripture
Ishmael and Hagar
45:00  Hegelian Dialectical
47:00  Official handbook

48:00  Noah's Noahide laws were not taken seriously because he didn't have a book.
 
50:00  MAGA is what Trump says it is, not Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Monarchy and republic
51:00  Absolute dictators < absolute monarchs
53:00  Military Industrial Complex
Lockheed
54:00  US vassal states
55:00  Cheaper for Europeans to buy weaponry from the US
56:00  Ukraine War
57:00  Missiles in Ukraine
58:00  Buffer state
59:00  Demlitarised Zone
1:00:00  The right to national self-determination
1:01:00  Crimean War
1:02:00  Canada and Puerto Rico
1:03:00  51st state
1:04:00  Xenophobia
Annex Central and South America
1:06:00  Anti-natalism
1:07:00  Religion was created to frighten people into becoming responsible married  parents.

A continuation of the previous discussion as a monologue:

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