Keith, the Vintage Card Curator, joins Jimbo to discuss collecting and baseball cards.

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Definitions

Relativism: Relativism is the view that what counts as true or right depends on a person’s or group’s standpoint—such as culture, upbringing, or historical context—rather than on a single universal standard.

Pluralism: Pluralism is the idea that a society can contain multiple, differing belief systems or authorities and still function without requiring everyone to share one worldview.

Indoctrinate: To indoctrinate is to teach beliefs in a way that discourages questioning and aims at acceptance rather than evaluation.

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Here is the initial brainstorming I did. I think it came out better if anyone would like to read it. Here is a ore organized blog post post recording.

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Anyone with kids and strong opinions, I'd love to hear what you have to say. Comment, text, or email your ideas. If you don't personally know me, my blog post or Spotify are great places to share your ideas.

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Professor David Enoch studies moral, legal, and political philosophy. He is affiliated with Oxford University and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. At Oxford University, Professor Enoch is a Professor of the Philosophy of Law. At The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he is The Rodney Blackman Chair in the Philosophy of Law and the co-director of the Center for Moral and Political Philosophy.

Here is a link to Professor Enoch's paper "Why I am an Objectivist about Ethics (And Why You Are, Too)." This paper contains the Spinach Test.

More from David Enoch:

• Taking Morality Seriously: A Defense of Robust Realism (Book)
• The Good Fight "David Enoch on Certainty and Compromise" ⁠(Podcast Episode)
• "David Enoch - Should AI Be a Moral Realist?
  
  
• University of Oxford Professorial Inaugural Lecture

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Tyler is the host of ⁠STAG⁠. This is part two of Jimbo and Tyler’s conversation, see Ep 52 for part 1.

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Tyler is the host of STAG. He tells his story about why he started STAG. Jimbo tries to sell self deception again. They discuss weak men, authenticity, and somewhat ties those ideas to STAG and self deception.

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Rich Mueller is the founder of  SportsCollectorsDaily.com. Sports Collectors Daily is a sports collecting news site that publishes 20+ new pieces each week. Follow them on Twitter or Instagram.

Rich's interview is somewhat of a continuation of Ep 43 1980 Topps #482.

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People & groups

• Gnosticism — Umbrella label for diverse early Christian movements that emphasized secret/experiential knowledge (gnosis) to awaken a divine “spark” within.

• Proto-orthodox — Modern term for the streams of early Christianity that later became mainstream “orthodoxy.”

• Sethians — A Gnostic school with elaborate myths about Sophia, a false creator, and rescuing divine sparks.

• Valentinians — Gnostic movement from teacher Valentinus; tended to see the creator as ignorant rather than evil and blended in with church life.

• Basilidians (followers of Basilides) — Early 2nd-century movement; reported to teach many “heavens” and often associated with Docetism.

• Marcionites — Followers of Marcion of Sinope who rejected the Hebrew Scriptures’ God as distinct from the Father of Jesus.

• Ebionites — Torah-observant Jewish-Christian group; generally skeptical of Paul and insisted on Jewish law.

• Justin Martyr — 2nd-century Christian writer who mentions churches reading the “memoirs of the apostles.”

• Irenaeus — Late-2nd-century bishop who argued for exactly four Gospels and wrote Against Heresies.

• Tatian — 2nd-century Christian who created the Diatessaron, a harmony of the four Gospels.

Links to References in the Episode

Read The Legendary Muhammad Ali” here.

Read the critical analysis of the Nag Hammadi story, "How Reliable is the Story of the Nag Hammadi Discovery?" by Mark Goodacre.

For more about the Nag Hammadi discovery click here, including a list of the texts discovered.

Read the review related to the tales of natives burning ancient texts here.

Timeline and Evolution of the Story

1948 (institutional notices): Early reports emphasize that new Coptic codices have been acquired / secured for study in Cairo—no legends attached. (For a museum overview, see the Coptic Museum’s summary.) coptic-cairo.com

1958/60 — Jean Doresse, The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics:

First book-length account by a field scholar who saw the material early. He describes a peasant digging for fertilizer, a jar buried near the cliff at Jabal al-Ṭārif, the manuscripts going to Cairo—but no jinn, no blood-feud, no page-burning, and no oversized jar. Sober, minimalist. (English ed. 1960.) Internet Archive

1977 — James M. Robinson (editor), The Nag Hammadi Library in English:

In prefaces and later essays Robinson popularizes a vivid discovery vignette: a ~60 cm jar, the finder hesitating lest a jinn be inside, breaking it in hope of gold, and his mother burning some leaves. This is the version that “sticks” in popular accounts. avalonlibrary.net

1979 — Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels:
Adds dramatic local color: seven men, a blood vendetta with limb-cutting and heart-eating, and a 1-meter jar. This retelling helped propel the story into the cultural mainstream. Squarespace

1981–84 — Further embellishments & pushback:
Some later versions mention eight camel riders, torn codices during division, and a six-foot jar; then leading Coptologists Rodolphe Kasser and Martin Krause publicly question these field tales (1984). SAGE Journals

1987 — Channel 4 (UK) documentary The Gnostics:
On-camera Muhammad ʿAlī al-Sammān (the finder) tells a different sequence: he found and smashed the pot alone, called others after the break, still mentions fear of a jinn and his mother burning leaves—but key details contradict Robinson’s popular version. Variant Readings+2NT Weblog+2

2013–present — Scholarly reassessment:
Mark Goodacre collects contradictions across tellings, notes a lack of field documentation for the 1970s interviews, and urges caution; Brent Nongbri critiques the recurring motif of “locals burning papyri” as a self-serving trope in manuscript trade narratives. markgoodacre.org+2JSTOR+2