Embrace The Void

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Today we have a very special guest, and friend of the show, Abe. We discuss his journey and experience as a former edge lord and follower of Carl Sargon, and Milo Yiannopoulos. Examining what types of arguments convinced him, and what it was that got him to change his mind.

Opening Invocation
Philosophy of Personhood

Hero of the Week
Women from Project Veritas that tried to tell a fake Roy Moore story to The Washington Post

SUPERINTELLIGENCE by: Nick Bostrom Chapter 2: Paths to Superintelligence.

This episode we have a special guest: Dr. Kristi Winters. Starting from the basics we define the term which has been getting a lot of use lately: intersectionality. Diving into what it is and how it can help us understand the societies we live in.

References:
On Suicide
Weapons of Math Destruction

Dr. Kristi Winters:
https://www.youtube.com/user/drkmwinters

Opening Invocation:
Get Out

Hero of the Week:
Evangelical Pastors supporting Roy Moore

The world is on fire, and we didn't start it. Today we talk about some recent news regarding the recent indictments and update everyone with our doomsday predictions.  In our main segment we dive into tribalism and talk about the good and the bad.

References:
Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them by Joshua Greene

Hero of the Week:
2 Mass-murdering douche canoe's

Opening Invocation:
Norse Mythology

This time around we examine toxic masculinity with Thomas Smith of such podcasts as Serious Inquiries Only. We explore the differences between biological distinctions from gender norms, the roles it can negatively impact young boys, how we can fight against it, and probably the most socially obvious manifestations in sports including MMA. 

We don't have a hero of the week because it was either cut that or remove roughly 10 minutes from the main segment, and we opted for the very engaging conversation about toxic masculinity.

References
The Lucifer Effect
It's Alright To Cry - Song

Thomas Smith
https://www.patreon.com/seriouspod/posts
https://www.patreon.com/law

Guest Appearances
https://www.patreon.com/kevinandbenedict

Opening Invocation
Star Trek

With Natalie Newell and Jerimiah Traeger we dive into scientism, logical positivism, anti-vaxers, the scientific method, combating personal biases, and we tie this bow with ripping into Harvey Weinstein.

Natalie Newell:
https://www.patreon.com/tSEpodcast
https://www.facebook.com/ScienceMomsDoc/
https://www.facebook.com/NatalieCNewell/
https://www.facebook.com/RomanticNihilism/

Jerimiah Traeger:
http://www.podcasts.com/the-sjw-circle-jerk-85
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/tippling/

Books:
Weapons of Math Destruction

Opening Invocation:
Fermi paradox and simulation theory.

Void Hero of the Week:
Harvey Weinstein

In today's episode we explore what Buddhism is, and how the philosophy is the roots for a lot of void philosophy. We talk about the "self", Buddhist monks, why kneeling lives matter, why has nobody dealt with Flint, and what group is all to blame.

Cold Open:
Stopping by the Void on a Snowy Evening
With apologies to Robert Frost
By Anthoni Fortier

Hero of the Week:
Graham-Cassidy bill

In this weeks podcast, we're joined by Ris and Bethany of the Inciting Incident Podcast. Here we discuss what a purist position is, how it relates to politics and social issues, and how it can be damaging. We compare it to a pragmatist point-of-view.

Also, GW had a bad mic cable so some of the audio quality sucks. Send hate mail to GW via [email protected].

Joss Wheadon speeches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDmzlKHuuoI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn866ryQ5RY

Hero of the Week:
Joel Osteen

We're back for a recap! In this episode we take a look at what's happened over the last two months while Aaron's been away. We reevaluate our long standing debate on if we're in the darkest of all possible timelines or just a dark timeline.

Opening:
The bible, I guess?

Hero of the week:
Christopher Cantwell,
Anthony Scaramucci