Mourning Talk Show

Mourning Talk Show is an interview-based podcast about philosophy, spirituality, psychology and art. Reciprocal conversations with diverse thinkers.

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I am so honoured to release this interview with Dr. Iain McGilchrist. @dr_mcgilchrist He is a treasure and a deep well.

YouTube video:
https://t.co/m7l4CKPwL5

Link to audio platforms:
https://t.co/4BsdtvgKHH

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@seangois Good one.

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@laisofealdwine @raypleat Yeah, I see the fall as inevitable. Hard to blame those naked babies.

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@seangois @raypleat @laisofealdwine I know, I know. 😁

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@laisofealdwine @raypleat Just slightly trolling. But reading the story, he comes off weaker to me than Eve. And it bugs me a bit because Eve has been vilified for millennia over that.

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@raypleat @laisofealdwine Adam sucks in that story.

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@laethcore @seangois Just thinking about the Mormon thing.

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@raypleat In a way I think we all are. But I also think we’re all Christ in a way.

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@seangois @Chronodendron I didn’t know how authoritarian I was until I had an obstinate child. I eventually had to decide I couldn’t be what I needed to be to get him to “behave” because I’d be a monster.

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@laethcore I like this.

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@seangois @Chronodendron We’ve got a kid with pretty severe anxiety about sleep. At a certain point we had to cave to his need for extra time from us at night because the cost of the alternative was extreme. No reward, demand or punishment worked. Restraint would have been the only way.

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The nice thing about this era of fashion is that you can generally wear any fit of pants that is flattering to your particular frame and unless they’re extreme on the baggy or tight and most people will agree you look great.

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@laethcore I have a long-standing suspicion that that's what faith is: an action performed in fealty to an ideal, strengthening the reality of that ideal.

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@laethcore You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. But seriously, my opinion is the same regardless of how productive the conversation was. Good faith openness and candidness are worth investing in on a spiritual level.

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@laethcore Yeah, I say jump in. Your explanation could be helpful to them, or theirs could be helpful to you.

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@Thomasdelvasto_ One of the unfortunate things about the strict rejection of evolutionary theory is that there starts to be scope, creep, and all forms of evolution, even cognitive, become devalued. You begin to think that nothing changes, even gradually.

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@laethcore That said it’s still good to internalize any valid criticism, even if it’s expressed rudely by an asshole. You just stare yourself a frustrating conversation with someone who is not in good faith.

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@laethcore It would totally depend on their initial tone. To add context and explain yourself if they are being rude, is to lend credence to them, which they don’t deserve.

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My Christianity is slowly rebuilding after being basically gone. But oddly, it is essential that leaving the religion is always a viable possibility.

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@Kilbride_in_ROK I think my ideas on evil lately most closely align with the Lord of the Rings. Particularly in the range of compromised leaders, from Boromir (not evil but succeptible) all the way to Sauron (almost non-corporeal and given power by the power-lust of many others)

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Evil’s most toxic attribute is that it is not one pole of a polarity. Light/dark, death/life, these are proper polarities—dual, valid realities. Evil doesn’t have a place in a balance or in a productive tension. It is alone.