Reasoned Refrain

0:00 - logical fallacy: Genetic Fallacy; Drink of the Day: Balcones Baby Blue Bourbon on the rocks with a splash of triplesec

1:56 - Meat Segment: Two main topics. (1) Theonomy - How far is too far? Isn't some necessary? I don't see a way around it, but I don't want to institute a thought police.... so what's the logically consistent option that is left?  (2) Personal Eschatology, aka. "What's going to happen to me when I die?" I have a slightly heterodox view, I'd still say I'm a christian, but hey, you decide. Am I a heretic for the view I take? 

56:03 - Twitface: First person fictional phrases from actual biblical characters bug me, particularly when they make humans look oh so nice. And then, a Tullian Tchividjian quote that is a bit ironic and a bit untrue. 

1:06:00 - 3 Favorite News Stories from the last week (more or less) (1) Student loan forgiveness... it's not christian and it's not constitutional. (2) Zuckerberg just admitted that the FBI is calling the shots, meaning Facebook's not a private institution... and nobody's talking about it. (3) The IRS gets $80billion... what could go wrong? 

1:29:43 - I'm a Good Person - Fauci literally claims to be a symbol of truth and goodness. I have thoughts.

1:32:52.- Covid Minute - The CDC has adjusted the guidance to the Vaccinated and non-vaccinated, thus vindicating pretty much everything the vax-hesitant people have been saying for 1.5 years and they want you to just forget about it. 

1:39:01 - Hymn Hype - "Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee" by Henry Van Dyke and Beethoven

0:00 - Logical Fallacy: Circular Argument or "Begging the Question"; Drink of the day: Temana sipping Tequila

2:28 - Meat Segment: Picking up where we left off last week, if the Holy Spirit doesn't do a lot of talking to individuals, what is all of this stuff about "hearing from the Holy Spirit" today? I'd say it's the conscience, and the Holy Spirit and the conscience are two different things, my friend! This meat segment is mostly walking through scriptures to show that the conscience is a biblical idea. 

28:30 - Three Favorite News Stories (More or Less): First, Britney Griner got sentenced to 9 years in a Russian prison and I have some thoughts. Second, Eric Adams (NYC mayor) is being racist in the name of ending racism (which is always how the left answers racism). Third, Demi Lovato is readopting She/Her pronouns and the way she describes it is fascinating.  More or less third, the Biden whitehouse is trying to redefine a recession which is what we're in, and it's two consecutive quarters of negative GDP, cause that's what it is. 

1:01:01 - Let's Count all the Logical Fallacies: a video of a guy trying to explain why it's important to use incorrect pronouns. He supports his argument with one bad inductive argument, and a bunch of fallacies surrounding it. 

1:31:42 - Covid Minute: Fauci is a liar. That is all. 

1:34:54 - Hymn Hype: "My Redeemer" by Philip Bliss and James McGranahan

0:00 - Logical Fallacy: Appeal to Complexity; Drink of the Day: Cirtus Green Tea

2:58 - Meat Segment: What is the role of the Holy Spirit? What is Stephen's Funky Pneumatology? Does he interact with us primarily on the individual level or on the corporate level? It seems that much of what we like to think is individualized our experience of the Holy Spirit is actually corporate in nature. Your body is not a temple of the Spirit... YALL'S bodY is. And what about the Conscience? 

39:11 - Logical Fallacies: Mary Gay Scanlon attempts to dismantle the anti-abortion movement by assuming that the anti-abortion movement is already dismantled. Hilarity would ensue if it weren't for the fact that this person is literally a representative in Congress. 

1:14:53 - Old Man Joe: America is evidently a nation that can be defined in a single word, and if you can understand what that one word is, then I doth my cap to you. 

1:16:31 - Three Favorite News Stories: First on the docket, BMW releases features via a subscription service, and I'm not really mad about it. Second, ISOM passes $3,000,000 raised and I give Eric July mad props for it. He's actually doing something about the problem he sees. Third, HBO is releasing a documentary about VR Chat, and it's thought provoking and a bit disheartening to see the generalized lust in our VR society.   

1:40:38 - Covid Minute: Covid sniffing dogs. What could go wrong? Mr. Burns would be proud. 

1:46:28 - Hymn Hype: "At Calvary" by William Newell and Daniel Towner

0:00 - Logical Fallacy: Tu Quoque; Drink of the day: Guinness (with a little incorrect history. It's Arthur, not Alex!) 

4:10 - Meat Segment: Listener Question on the James Webb space telescope and whether these photos are problematic from a young earth creationist point of view. We talk through thoughts and arguments of all kinds on the age of the earth. 

41:44 - Three Favorite News Stories (More or Less). First the dutch farmers are revolting, and I am here for it. Second, annual inflation is at 9.1%... so that's terrible. And finally, Old Man Joe said, "I'm a good person" by issuing an executive order in response to the Dobbs decision. We discuss. 

1:03:33 - Covid Minute: It turns out that the Fauci ouchie has some side effects in women, according to a Left leaning study (found here https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.10.11.21264863v2.full) Who could've guessed that without longitudinal studies there would be unforeseen side effects? Everybody who wasn't operating according to an agenda... but that was certainly the minority. 

1:09:30 - Twitface: A guy gets a vasectomy for all the right reasons, but somehow also entirely for the wrong reason. It's really quite extraordinary. 

1:13:09 - Twit Ace: The absolute height of irony... The official "My Body My Choice" protests had vaccination requirements. 

1:14:47 - Hymn Hype: "My Jesus I Love Thee" by William Featherston and Adoniram Gordon

Wondering what the supreme court decision "outlawing" abortion actually said? I'll break it down for you.

0:00 - Logical Fallacy: Loaded Question; Drink of the day: Monkey Shoulder, blended scotch

2:27 - Meat Segment: First I raise the question of primary, secondary, and tertiary doctrine, and what measures we use to distinguish them all. After that we look at a clip from comedian Michael Jr. discussing "black dogs" and "white dogs"... I had some thoughts relating to racism and zoology.

29:03 - Three Favorite News Stories (More or Less): (1) The Rash of food processing plant fires is worth looking into. (2) Lightyear bombs and can you guess why? It's the alphabet crowd., though nobody will say so. (3) Joe Biden's energy secretary seems ignorant of both energy and ALL human history. 

44:14 - I'm a Good Person! - Why Juneteenth is kinda silly. 

51:04 - Are You For Real? *NEW SEGMENT!* - is iqfy a real website unironically committed to its mission statement, or is it satire? I honestly can't tell.

58:45 - Old Man Joe: Joe has a cheat sheet telling him to do things like "sit down" and "stand up" and "say thank you" and no I'm not joking. 

1:02:40 - Hymn Hype: "Fairest Lord Jesus" Author Unknown

0:00 - Logical Fallacy: Burden of Proof; DotD: Rob Roy

2:10 - Meat Segment - As promised, this week is all about guns and gun control. You'll hear all the common arguments against guns, and responses to them, and you'll learn the 4 things we must agree on if we're going to make any progress on the issue:

Guns are amoral, not immoral.

Guns will always be around and you CANNOT get rid of all of them.

The 2nd amendment exists so that regular people can defend against a tyrannical government.

Any Law you pass restricting gun access will ONLY restrict the gun access of those who obey laws.

52:47 - Old Man Joe: Joe Biden's recent address concerning gun control and his call to congress on specific actions he wants them to take. 

1:09:37 - Twitface: A post equating guns and rocks and kids with adults... causse that makes a bunch of sense. 

1:20:35 - Hymn Hype: "Not What These Hands Have Done" by Horatius Bonar

0:00 - No True Scotsman Fallacy; D.o.t.D.: Dalmore 12 yr.

1:43 - Meat Segment - Reviewing a blog post by Dr. Sandra Glahn, (found here: http://aspire2.com/2021/02/the-bible-women-are-more-present-than-we-might-think/) in which she makes the true claim that anthropos doesn't always mean "male" but then makes the wrong application mostly because she is blinded by her agenda and bias. Aren't we all? 

 44:04 - Three Favorite news stories: (1) Recent shooting in uvalde; (2) A methodist church prays to mother god and sings "Good, Good Mother" (3) Chip Roy rant about $40 Billion dollars sent to Ukraine.

57:02 - Twitface: Somebody asked for a secular church recommendation and I have some thoughts.

1:04:15 - Old Man Joe: "The number one threat is our strength, and that strength that we built is inflation" 

1:05:27 - Hymn Hype: "Hiding In Thee" By William Cushings

0:00 - logical fallacy of the day: Strawman; Drink of the day: Bourbon Godfather made with Balcones Baby Blue

2:07 - Meat Segment: A continuation of the discussion about the physical nature of men and women. Part of the physical nature of women is their ability to conceive and give birth. Related to this is the topic du jour: Abortion. In this meat segment I break down an abortion debate and review the logical chops of each side, highlighting the best logical argument in favor of abortion. 

54:25 - 3 Favorite News Stories: 1) A review of the Megan Fox interview with Glamour; 2) Alito's leaked decision on Roe v Wade. 3) Eric Swalwell's Tweet which summarizes all the democrat responses to the leaked decision

1:23:48 - Twitface: A new weight loss program called "Found" claiming that "Obesity is a Disease, Not a Decision." Fact check... not quite. 

1:31:04 - Old Man Joe: He accidentally said the true thing "Abort a Child" 

1:34:16 - Hymn Hype: The hymn we're hyping today is "O Come O Come Emmanuel" author unknown. 

 

 

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