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  • Ep 10 Ancient Miracles with Tim O'Neill

    Ep 10 Ancient Miracles with Tim O'Neill of History for Atheists. Click here to visiti History for Atheists website

    Articles by Tim O'Neill:

    • Jesus, History and Miracles 
    • Progression of Jesus’ Resurrection Stories (with visual/table referenced)
    • Reza Aslan

    Further Investigation

    • Was Jesus a Magician?
    • John the Baptist's Resurrection (Mark 6:14-16)
    • Celsus
    • When Prophecy Fails

    Tim referenced Our Fake History Podcast. I listened to a few episodes that caught my attention, and I really enjoyed them. I'll probably listen to more of his episodes. I especially liked Ep #37- Did Robert Johnson Sell His Soul to the Devil.

    Music by EvgenyBardyuzha from Pixabay

    More from Jimbo at the following

    • JimboRants (Blog)
    • Goodreads Profile
    • Twitter @jimbostank
    • Poetry Blog
    • Pilots and Petards Podcast (inactive)
    1 hr 4 min
  • Ep 9 Introduction to Nietzsche

    Terms Used

    • Tautology
    • Hedonism

    Suggested Readings and Listenings

    • On the Use and Abuse of History for Life (essay)
    • Beyond Good and Evil (epigrams)
    • Thus Spoke Zarathustra (“God is dead”)
    • The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (ebooks)
    • The Gay Science (ebook and audio)
    • Ecce Homo (autobiography)
    • The Sipo Matodor (podcast episode)
    • The Nietzsche Podcast (Podcast)
    • Maximes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld (book)
    • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (ebook and audio)

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    More from Jimbo at the following

    • JimboRants (Blog)
    • Goodreads Profile
    • Twitter @jimbostank
    • Poetry Blog
    • Pilots and Petards Podcast (inactive)
    53 min
  • Ep 8 a Self or not a Self? with Nate Sheff

    Music by EvgenyBardyuzha from Pixabay

    For more from Jimbo visit his blog Jimbo Rants.

    Jimbo is joined by Professor of Philosophy Nate Sheff to discuss the self. The conversation assumes a physicalist worldview. We gloss over dualism, but we do not explain, defend, or debate its merit. Click here for a great visual to help grasp dualism vs physicalism.

    What would happen if you took a person's mind and put it into another person’s body? Listen to find out.

    Freaky Friday Thought Experiment:

    Take Person 1 (mind 1 and body 1) and swap them with Person 2 (mind 2 and body 2) and create Person 3 (mind 1 and body 2). Who is Person 3?

    • Person 1- mind 1 and body 1
    • Person 2- mind 2 and body 2
    • Person 3- mind 1 and body 2

    Terms Used in Podcast:

    • Mind- the stuff producing mental phenomena, the brain and neurons.
    • Body- what a 3 year old thinks minus the mind.
    • Person- the mind and body.
    • Self- something somewhere between deep and illusionary. Listen and let us know!
    • Self consciousness
    • Empiricism
    • Physicalism
    • Dualism

    Recommended Reading:

    • David Eagleman
    • Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit
    • The Man Who Wasn't There: Investigations into the Strange New Science of the Self by Anil Ananthaswamy

    More from Jimbo at the following

    • JimboRants (Blog)
    • Goodreads Profile
    • Twitter @jimbostank
    • Poetry Blog
    • Pilots and Petards Podcast (inactive)
    55 min
  • Ep 7 Alcoholics Unanonymous with Ryan

    Jimbo and Ryan talk alcoholism. Mostly, Ryan shares his story and experience with addiction.

    A.A. says, ”Membership is open to anyone who wants to do something about their drinking problem.”

    More from Eric Thomas. Music by EvgenyBardyuzha from Pixabay

    I added a clip of Jordan Peterson making a correction of religion and addiction: Peterson is misleading and or mistaken. Spirituality is promising, but not proven. Below is a excerpt from "A focus-group study on spirituality and substance-abuse treatment:"

    "Spirituality has been shown to be a significant and independent  predictor of recovery and/or improvement in indices of treatment outcome. Levels of spirituality increase between treatment entry and subsequent recovery, and levels of spirituality may be greater in individuals whose recovery is successful compared to those who have relapsed. Length of sobriety has also been positively associated with spirituality, while commitment to a higher power may lessen the severity of relapse episodes. In retrospective studies, recovering addicts frequently reported spirituality as an important component of their recovery efforts and to  be helpful in maintaining changes made during treatment. Additionally, spiritually oriented lay programs such as Narcotics  Anonymous (NA) and Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) are widely popular,  especially in the United States, and although it has been notoriously diffcult to assess the effectiveness of such programs in their  naturalistic incarnations, there is some evidence that they are  effective."

    More from Jimbo at the following

    • JimboRants (Blog)
    • Goodreads Profile
    • Twitter @jimbostank
    • Poetry Blog
    • Pilots and Petards Podcast (inactive)

    • 44 min
    • Ep 6 The Case for Sowell

      Here is a fact checking of the episode by GPT-5.

      There are some minor audio mistakes that cut the end of sentences off, but they shouldn't affect any comprehension.

      My script and notes

      About Sowell

      • Shorter- Wiki page
      • Longer- Maverick by Jason Riley (biography)

      Top 4 Sowell Books (in order)

      1. Knowledge and Decisions
      2. Economic Facts and Fallacies
      3. Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
      4. The Quest for Cosmic Justice

      Music by EvgenyBardyuzha from Pixabay

      More from Jimbo at the following

      • JimboRants (Blog)
      • Goodreads Profile
      • Twitter @jimbostank
      • Poetry Blog
      18 min
    • Ep 5 Spoil the Child, Beat it with a Stick

      Music by EvgenyBardyuzha from Pixabay

      Proverbs 13:24: Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.

      The new proverb presented: "spoil your child, beat them with a stick." Spoiling children is bad hmm kay.

      Check out Kier's movie remake at Kier at the Movies or his magic at Kier Gomes

      Check out more from Jake Drew at Billy's Breakup Party or Jake Drew

      More from Jimbo at the following

      • JimboRants (Blog)
      • Goodreads Profile
      • Twitter @jimbostank
      • Poetry Blog
      • Pilots and Petards Podcast (inactive)
      • 32 min
      • Ep 4 Intro to Crypto: the follow up

        Welcome back. I brought on Forrest to take over the interviewer role. Forrest is someone who know crypto better than I do, but no where near as much as Tzuo. For the last Crypo episode click here. 

        Topics:

        • Why 21 million bitcoin doesn't matter
        • Proof of Work vs Proof of Stake
        • Music by EvgenyBardyuzha from Pixabay

          More from Jimbo at the following

          • JimboRants (Blog)
          • Goodreads Profile
          • Twitter @jimbostank
          • Poetry Blog
          • Pilots and Petards Podcast (inactive)
          • 1 hr 7 min
          • Ep 3 The Act of Creating: Yay or Nay?

            Chances are, most of what we create will barely be heard, read, and or remembered as time goes on. In a 100 years from now, we’ll be lucky if more than a handful of people even think about us. In 200 years, it’s almost certain that we will be entirely forgotten.

            Why use our scare time and energy creating something that will be so easily forgotten? Why not spend that time somewhere else? Does creating something provides more growth and positives than negatives?

            “God created the world for His glory in that He created the world for the sole purpose that humanity knows and loves Him.”

            Check out Kier's movie remake at Kier at the Movies or his magic at Kier Gomes

            Check out more from Jake Drew at Billy's Breakup Party or Jake Drew

            More from Jimbo at the following

            • Bad poetry challenge
            • JimboRants (Blog)
            • Goodreads Profile
            • Twitter @jimbostank
            • Poetry Blog
            • Pilots and Petards Podcast (inactive)
            • 21 min
            • Ep 2 Intro to Crypto: the Alternative to Big Sticks and Aircrafts

              Music by EvgenyBardyuzha from Pixabay


              Tzuo teaches Jimbo crypto over a podcast discussion. The conversation centers around crypto currencies, especially bitcoin, as an alternative solution to centralized institutions arbitrating, settling, or enforcing contracts. We discuss why mining is a feature of that solution.

              How did they do? Any and all feedback is welcomed and appreciated.

              More from Jimbo at the following

              • JimboRants (Blog)
              • Goodreads Profile
              • Twitter @jimbostank
              • Poetry Blog
              • Pilots and Petards Podcast (inactive)
              • 52 min
              • Ep 1 Smart or Hot? The Reincarnation Thought

                Music by EvgenyBardyuzha from Pixabay

                Here is a short write up by Jimbo that describes the thought experiment.


                Ideas mentioned worth exploring more:

                • Scalability
                • Assortative Mating
                • More from Jimbo at the following

                  • JimboRants (Blog)
                  • Goodreads Profile
                  • Twitter @jimbostank
                  • Poetry Blog
                  • Pilots and Petards Podcast (inactive)
                  • 39 min

                  About Jimbo Radio

                  From the publisher's feed

                  I'm James Gomes. I go by Jimbo, and these are random topics of interest. My area of most expertise is in education, with majors in exercise sports science and literature. Most topics flow from my personal conversations, reading, listening, and or media consumption. My interests vary from running, sports, writing, economics, science, philosophy, and learning new things. My blog, https://stankrants.blogspot.com/, is more active than the podcast.