Alex OConnor
Religion Is Still Evil - Richard Dawkins
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David Nutt is an English neuropsychopharmacologist specialising in the research of drugs that affect the brain and conditions such as addiction, anxiety, and sleep. He was the UK Government's chief advisor on drug policy. He was fired in 2009 after criticising the Government's approach to drug harms.
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- TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Why The Government Fired David Nutt
2:55 Is Alcohol the Most Harmful Drug?
10:35 How Prohibition Led to Cannabis Demonisation
15:16 Why Does the Government Hate Drugs?
20:50 The UN’s Disastrous Campaign Against MDMA
29:50 Why There is a Fentanyl Crisis in America
35:24 Peter Hitchens’ Objections
44:57 Do We Want a World Without Drugs?
50:54 How Kings and Queens Used Cannabis
54:28 How Medical Cannabis Saves People
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Justin Sledge is currently a part-time professor of philosophy and religion at several institutions in the Metro-Detroit area and a popular local educator. His YouTube channel is @TheEsotericaChannel.
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- TIMESTAMPS
0:00 When Gods have a history
4:53 What is the Demiurge?
7:52 Plato’s Demiurge
17:26 The early development of creator gods
24:31 How YHWH became an evil Egyptian God
37:00 The development of the donkey-headed God
42:06 The earliest depiction of Jesus is a donkey-headed God
48:10 The early development of Christianity
50:58 Marcion and the first Christian Bible
1:08:18 The popularity of early Christian gnosticism
1:13:12 The connection between the Demiurge and the Jews
1:20:12 The evil Demiurge in Christianity
1:28:07 The theology of the Demiurge
1:35:44 How Christianity merged with other mythologies
1:42:56 The context in which Christianity evolved
1:48:35 Ending
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What does Christian art get wrong?
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Original article on my Substack: alexoconnor.com/p/biblical-inaccuracies-in-religious
- TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Adam and Eve
1:59 Doubting Thomas
5:18 Moses' Horns
7:33 Jesus' Physical Appearance
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Piers Morgan debates Richard Dawkins on the question of God's existence, and what if anything came before the big bang.
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Piers' recent interview with Richard Dawkins: youtu.be/pA4Hx-dJAn4?si=kVmqHHrF9WGdVkfb
Piers' previous interview with Richard Dawkins: youtu.be/505UazMNgLg?si=z5rQoBY1D-6RXQQB
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Joe Folley runs the YouTube channel Unsolicited Advice @unsolicitedadvice9198 - he graduated from Cambridge University with an MPhil in Philosophy, specialising in logic, in 2023.
Watch my previous episode with Joe: youtu.be/6bJk00UM_9o?si=1E32qj1IVpzUx28Y
- TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?
32:20 Atheists Can’t Answer ‘Why’ Questions
40:59 Atheists Can't Get an ‘Ought’ From An ‘Is’
59:05 How to Explain Sensus Divinitatus
1:14:23 Why Has Atheism Never Worked on a Civilisational Level?
1:23:41 Trusting Human Rationality as a Guide to Truth
1:38:05 Where Do the Laws of Logic Come From?
1:53:00 What is Consciousness?
2:13:14 How Atheists Respond to Fine-Tuning
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This conversation took place at the Dissident Dialogues festival in Brooklyn in May 2024.
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0:00 Intro
2:50 Is there a meaning crisis?
11:56 Is philosophy the way to meaning?
18:50 The value of the non-propositional
25:05 Are we screwed?
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Nick Bostrom is a philosopher known for his work on existential risk, the anthropic principle, human enhancement ethics, whole brain emulation, and superintelligence risks. His recent book, Deep Utopia, explores what might happen if we get AI development right.
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By Deep Utopia (affiliate link): amzn.to/4g1lyrn
- TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Are you optimistic or pessimistic about AI?
4:05 What is the biggest threat from AI?
7:37 What are the biggest benefits AI might bring?
12:26 What happens to meaning in an automated world?
30:45 What does life look like in the AI utopia?
39:27 Will AI become our victim?
45:28 What can we do to prevent AI dystopia?
56:07 What does conscious AI look like?
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- TIMESTAMPS
00:00 An Ethical Coin-Flip
03:51 A Day in Alex’s Life
06:31 Mixing Blue & Yellow M&Ms
08:07 If Determinism is False
11:23 Is the Glass Half Full?
12:41 Moral Relativism
14:35 When Alex Has Changed His Mind
16:54 Alex’s Loosely-Held Opinions
18:59 The Wisest Book in the Bible
23:02 Views on Consciousness
23:55 Is a Meal Deal Really a Deal?
25:53 The Kalam Cosmological Argument
28:37 Favourite US State
28:58 Jordan Peterson’s Suits
29:40 Alex’s Passionate Hates
31:15 Is From Ought
32:25 The First Cause of Everything
32:33 Teaching Kids About Free Will
34:02 What Colour Was the Dress?
36:08 Is the Milk or Cereal First?
36:33 The Problem with Sam Harris' Moral Landscape
38:28 Plantinga’s Argument from Reason
43:32 Where Are the Drawers?
43:37 Beard Care Routine
43:48 The Moustache
43:53 If Alex Wasn’t Human
44:02 When is Alex Releasing a Book?
45:36 Thoughts on Alcohol
45:43 The Opposite of Spicy
48:09 Christianity’s Biggest L & W
50:50 Being Used by Fundamentalists
52:25 Alex’s First Job
53:06 Outro
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Elaine Pagels is an American historian of religion. She is the Harrington Spear Paine Professor of Religion at Princeton University. Pagels has conducted extensive research into early Christianity and Gnosticism.
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- TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Who is Satan?
6:37 Early Satan in Job and Zechariah
8:32 The development of Satan in the Babylonian Exile
12:32 What are the Dead Sea Scrolls?
15:34 The Book of Enoch
17:58 Satan in the New Testament
21:11 Did Zoroastrianism Inspire the Character of Satan?
23:38 Satan in John’s Gospel
28:58 Are the Jews Responsible for Jesus’ Death?
38:14 The Origins of Christian Antisemitism
45:11 Satan in the Real World
54:30 Satan in Revelation
1:00:53 Was Satan the Snake in the Garden of Eden?
1:04:41 Why Specialise in Satan?
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Rory Sutherland is a British advertising executive, and vice chairman of the Ogilvy & Mather group of companies.
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Read Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly, by John Kay: amzn.to/3LO4Uxm
- TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Why Podcasting is the Supreme Philosophical Form
08:39 What Do We Want Out of AI?
16:09 Why Google Maps Sucks
20:40 Why We Need a Quaker Revival
28:17 What's the Point in Voting?
37:19 Is Just Stop Oil Effective?
51:23 Encouraging People to Spend Money
57:23 Is Housing a Good Asset?
1:05:45 Explaining Georgist Economics
1:13:05 Property Ownership Makes People Stupid
1:19:59 Why Double-Income Households Have Become the Norm
1:29:38 The Government Needs to Experiment More
1:36:10 Why We Buy Such Unremarkable Things
1:41:12 Predicting Elon Musk’s Big Plan
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ChatGPT is an impressive mimicry of a fully-conscious conversational partner. Perhaps too impressive?
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Bart Ehrman is a New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the origins and development of early Christianity.
His courses are available for study here: bartehrman.com/alex
- TIMESTAMPS
0:00 Substack
0:07 Who Was Judas Iscariot?
04:32 Why Did Judas Betray Jesus?
12:01 Is Judas in Hell?
19:05 The Historical Judas
21:28 What is the Gospel of Judas?
23:09 Explaining Gnosticism
29:38 How Gnosticism Describes the Material Realm
37:05 The Gnostic Role of Jesus
42:32 The Beginning of Judas’s Gospel
48:38 Jesus’s Teachings to Judas
54:16 Why This Gospel is So Confusing
59:15 Judas Being Called the 13th Spirit
1:02:45 Jesus Appearing as a Child
1:04:50 The Person Who Carries Jesus Around
1:06:57 How This Gospel Explains Adam & Eve
1:11:24 Destiny of the Cosmos
1:14:33 Evidence That Judas Was Saved
1:18:42 Judas’s Motivation to Betray Jesus
1:21:34 How Ancient is This Text?
1:24:10 Where Was it First Rediscovered?
1:33:50 How Old is the Coptic Version?
1:38:33 Bart’s Reaction to the Gospel of Judas
1:48:26 Publishing the Gospel of Judas
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Jonathan Pageau is a French-Canadian icon carver, YouTuber and public speaker on symbolism, religion and the Orthodox faith.
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- TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Origin of ‘Bless You’
06:16 Alex’s Conversation With Jordan Peterson
14:01 Alex’s Primary Issues With Genesis
26:04 The Problem With Purpose
34:27 Why is the Serpent in the Garden?
44:28 Was it Fair for Eve to Be Punished?
53:36 The Big Problem With the Creation Story
1:03:05 Could Eve Have Turned Down the Fruit?
1:09:25 The Gnostic Interpretation of Genesis
1:27:51 Jesus’s Role in Eden
1:39:42 An Alternative Version of Events
1:48:28 Why Did it Happen This Way?
1:55:32 Jonathan’s Thoughts on Alex
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Steven Bonnell II is a popular American political streamer known online as Destiny.
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00:00 Why Destiny Got Banned From Twitch
10:16 Should Social Platforms Be Liable for What People Post?
19:00 Being Governed By the Popular Vote
31:55 The Ethics of Voting
42:27 Debating Jordan Peterson
53:35 Does Anyone Have Political Principles?
1:03:22 Legal and Moral Principles
1:16:06 Just Stop Oil's Radical Action
1:29:31 Why Just Stop Oil Won't Turn Violent
1:49:16 The Last Time Destiny Changed His Mind
2:03:32 Dissecting Jordan Peterson's Debating Style
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Steven Bonnell II is a popular American political streamer known online as "Destiny"
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David Wolpe is an American rabbi, and Visiting Scholar at Harvard Divinity School. He was named the most influential Rabbi in America by Newsweek in 2012.
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More about David Wolpe: sinaitemple.org/about/clergy-senior-staff/rabbi-david-wolpe
- TIMESTAMPS
0:00 What is Judaism?
7:44 How To Become a Jew
16:11 Are Jews the Chosen People?
21:01 Old Testament Atrocities
36:07 How Should We Read the Hebrew Bible?
39:45 The Book of Job
43:27 How is Suffering Explained in Judaism?
48:02 Does Judaism Have an Afterlife?
54:50 How Do You Explain Jesus?
1:01:40 Circumcision
1:07:29 Christopher Hitchens
1:18:58 Outro
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Jordan B. Peterson is a clinical psychologist and one of the world's most famous public intellectuals.
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Joe Schmid is a PhD student in philosophy at Princeton University. He graduated with a B.A. in philosophy from Purdue University in 2022. He has published articles in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and philosophy of time, and the author of books including "Existential Inertia and Classical Theistic Proofs".
Today, we construct a tier list of arguments for atheism, covering:
The Problem of Evil
Divine Hiddenness
Religious Confusion
The Stone Paradox
The Scale of the Universe
The Evil God Challenge
The Improvability Argument
The Argument from Material Causality
The Modal Argument From Evil
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Joe's channel: @MajestyofReason
Felipe Leon’s 200 arguments for atheism: exapologist.blogspot.com/2023/03/200-or-so-arguments-for-atheism.html
- TIMESTAMPS
Introduction - 0:00
Problem of Evil - 03:34
Divine Hiddenness - 19:43
Religious Confusion - 42:37
Stone Paradox - 57:17
Universe Big - 01:08:28
Evil God - 01:22:07
Improvability Argument - 01:50:15
Material Causality - 02:06:19
Modal Argument from Evil - 02:22:17
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From the debate, "Is The Bible True?" held in the Bronx, NYC between Alex O'Connor and Dinesh D'Souza on June 1st, 2024.
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John Nelson earned a PhD in New Testament and Christian Origins from the University of Edinburgh in 2023. His thesis is the first book-length study of Jesus' physical appearance in the Gospels. He runs a weekly Substack called "Behind the Gospels" which aims to make Biblical studies accessible to all.
- TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction
01:44 Does God Look Like Elon Musk?
04:52 Jesus Christ’s Physical Appearance
08:30 Was Jesus Short?
17:49 Where Else is His Appearance Spoken Of?
23:00 Intentionally Withholding Physical Descriptions
28:53 Imagining Christ in Different Ethnicities
32:48 Is it Significant That Jesus is a Man?
37:35 Should We Depict Jesus?
45:42 Could Jesus Have Been Disabled?
53:29 What Did Jesus Wear?
59:29 Is it Inappropriate to Fixate on Christ’s Appearance?
1:03:27 Where to Find John
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- VIDEO NOTES
From the debate, "Is The Bible True?" held in the Bronx, NYC between Alex O'Connor and Dinesh D'Souza on June 1st, 2024.
- SPECIAL THANKS
A special thanks to my top-tier supporters on Patreon:
Tom Rindell
James Younger, DDS
- CONNECT
My Website: alexoconnor.com
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The Within Reason Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/within-reason/id1458675168
- CONTACT
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Or send me something:
Alex O'Connor
Po Box 1610
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- VIDEO NOTES
From the debate, "Is The Bible True?" held in the Bronx, NYC between Alex O'Connor and Dinesh D'Souza on June 1st, 2024.
- SPECIAL THANKS
A special thanks to my top-tier supporters on Patreon:
Tom Rindell
James Younger, DDS
- CONNECT
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The Within Reason Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/within-reason/id1458675168
- CONTACT
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Alex O'Connor
Po Box 1610
OXFORD
OX4 9LL
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- VIDEO NOTES
From the debate, "Is The Bible True?" held in the Bronx, NYC between Alex O'Connor and Dinesh D'Souza on June 1st, 2024.
- SPECIAL THANKS
A special thanks to my top-tier supporters on Patreon:
Tom Rindell
James Younger, DDS
- CONNECT
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The Within Reason Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/within-reason/id1458675168
- CONTACT
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Alex O'Connor
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Joe Folley is the creator of the YouTube channel "Unsolicited Advice" (@unsolicitedadvice9198) which creates short, digestible philosophical videos on a wide range of topics.
He joins me today to discuss nihilism: its history, its meaning, and its significance in philosophy.
- LINKS
Find Joe's Channel here: @unsolicitedadvice9198
- TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Introduction
04:32 Why Focus on Nihilism?
11:40 Nihilism's Ancient Origins?
21:47 Was Diogenes a Nihilist?
31:37 Dostoyevsky and Nihilism
41:15 Was Nietzche a Nihilist?
49:32 The Myth of Sisyphus
1:02:41 Is Existentialism Just a Cope?
1:08:02 Is There Such a Thing as a Nihilist?
1:19:07 Where to Find Joe
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