The Bottom Turtle Podcast

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Keywords:
masculinity, femininity, Buddhism, Christianity, subjective, objective, corruption, relationships, politics, ideology

Summary:
In this conversation, Shannon Ray delves into the complexities of masculinity and femininity, exploring how these concepts can become corrupted and the implications of their interplay. He contrasts the approaches of Buddhism and Christianity in guiding individuals towards enlightenment and understanding, emphasizing the relationship dynamics between the masculine and feminine. Additionally, he examines the political landscape, particularly how ideologies can embody both masculine and feminine traits, leading to a nuanced discussion on the nature of freedom and control.

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In this episode, we continue to define the feminine and masculine spirits in terms of the unconscious and the conscious, respectively. We begin with a discussion on the nature of the psyche in terms of the relationship between the conscious and the unconscious.  To do this, we invoke Kant's concept of the scheme and schemata, completion of the identity in quantum mechanics, general covariance and conserved quantities under symmetry transformations.  We also discuss how conscious awareness develops from affective data transferred from the unconscious to the conscious and reflective data transferred from the conscious to the unconscious. 

After this, we enter into a conversation on why the unconscious should be associated with the feminine and conscious should be associated with the masculine.  It is argued that this is justified based off the symbolic work of Karl Jung, the study of comparative religions, and the observed difference on average between men and women of preferences and behavior.  

The conversation really starts to get interesting when we discuss how the feminine and the masculine become corrupted.  In both cases, corruption is defined by the attempt to dominate the other. We discuss how this manifests in the feminine when it becomes animus possessed and in the masculine when it becomes anima possessed.  Again, in both cases, these possessions occur due to suppression of masculine data by the feminine and feminine data by the masculine. We also discuss how this unhealthy unbalanced relationship between the feminine and masculine lead to delusions and a fractured psyche. We also critique and discuss how these distortions manifest in post-modernist thought and how the endeavor attempts to give voice to the feminine but does it in a corrupt way by denying the masculine while still trying to invoke the masculine.

Finally, we end on a positive note by discussing when the feminine and masculine are in harmony. We argue that they come into harmony when both act as servants to each other.  That is, the feminine/unconscious gives loving sincere unfractured data to the conscious, and the conscious acknowledges the data, as opposed to suppressing it, and takes actions to feed good data back to the unconscious.  That is, it adjust the structure that makes up the conscious to loving reflect and address the data coming from the unconscious. The conversation culminates in a discussion on how the practice of Buddhism is indicative of the righteous feminine or mother and Christianity is a reflection of the righteous conscious or masculine. 

So join us if you're remotely interested in these topics.  

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Welcome back everyone.  In this episode, Dr. Ray goes on another ramble where he defines the feminine and masculine spirits in the Bottom Turtle language.  He essentially equates the feminine to subjectivity, entropy, freedom, chaos, lack of constraints, and the liberal spirit, and he equates the masculine with objectivity, information, constraints, order, and the conservative spirit.  He makes his arguments both using meta-level zero data that can be seen in the average differences between women and men's preferences and behaviors, and an appeal to our subjective understanding of the feminine and masculine. He also ties these ideas into the general theme of this season and how they apply wokeness and gender ideology, incompleteness as discussed in the episode "Grappling with Incompleteness and the Nature of Subjectivity", love, and ethics. 

Gender differences in personality across the ten aspects of the Big Five:
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00178/full

Quilette - The Feminization of Academia, Explained by Behavioral Scientists Bo Windward and Cory Clark:
https://youtu.be/4auHntuf65k?si=zV3cIKmAmrG-_PHz

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Welcome back!! In this episode, Dr. Ray recites his poem Revelations of Miracles!  He chose this poem because in his next discussion with Ryan, they will discuss the feminine and masculine spirits. This poem is a great place to start.  So if you're interested in understanding why that is, check out this episode!

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In this episode, Dr. Ray and Ryan break down the spirit of evil. To do this, they use several examples of behavior exhibited by the computer science professor known as Ray in previous episodes.  Specifically, they point out how Ray must be functioning out of a space that subordinates his sense making or rational faculty to an emotional faculty based on his claims in the conversation.  This includes 1. accusing the hosts of asserting that a person is immoral for not agreeing with their definition of words.  This is evidence of functioning out of something other than the logical since that is literally the exact opposite thing that was said.  2. Actually accusing the hosts of being bad for not agreeing to his definition of words which is amazingly ironic.  And 3. trying to use a totally subjective structure to function as an objective structure that manifests objectivity.  

The hosts discuss how the spirit of evil or delusion must deceive to protect its own existence.  How subordinating one's self to such a spirit betrays one's self and separates one's self from themselves.  How it leads to an incapability of making valid judgements.  And finally, how acting out this mode of being imposes tyranny on others with which one is attempting to form a shared identity and how that threatens the life/continued existence of that being. 

So join us if you're curious about the nature of evil and sin.

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Welcome back!  In this episode, Dr. Ray recites the Poem "The Ancestral Code:  The Obvious Answer to the Question What is God?".  This is a holdover episode until the next episode with Ryan is edited and ready to post.  

 The poem was inspired by Dr. Ray's experience realizing he was losing awareness.  Think of the experience of meditating and suddenly realizing you're lost in a thought.  This is that experience explained through poetry.  So sit back and enjoy and as always, stay turtlin' my friends. 

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In this episode, Dr. Ray breaks down why the phrase "a man can get pregnant" has no logical meaning.  The crux of his argument is that the word man as it is used in that phrase has no informational content.  This is because it's entirely based on self-identification which means that any person regardless of their characteristics and behavior can claim to be a man. This means the word must allow for all characteristics and behavior thus validating everything.  And as we pointed out in the episode "It's algebra all the way down", a word that maps to everything equally maps to nothing. This episode is an extension/completion of the argument presented in the previous episode when arguing with Ray the computer science professor.  

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In this episode, Dr. Ray argues with a computer science professor named Ray about our recent claims of objective ethics.  After posting the episode "Making a case for objective ethics" on YouTube, we had some "constructive" criticism in the comment section.  We were accused of many untoward things and Dr. Ray debated those claims with said accuser.  This episode is an AI recitation of that conversation. Dr. Ray then critiques  a particular portion of the conversation in which Ray the computer science professor states "It is a terrible selfish thing to deny someone their identity".  This phrase is discussed in terms of how language works and the fact that to claim an identity while not having the characteristics consistent with the shared understanding of that identity, is to ask for power to change the meaning of words and thus the means of communication.  To demand power over language is not a simple ask, and to accuse someone of bad behavior for not doing so seems obviously unethical.  

So if you're interested in a heated debate between a quantum physicist and a computer scientist over the objective meaning of words, ethics, and gender pronouns, then check out this weeks episode of The Bottom Turtle Podcast!

Link to YouTube video where the discussion took place:
https://youtu.be/6cV1jqTklwY?si=PiPQXhmBTdIuiN5U

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In this episode of The Bottom Turtle Podcast, Dr. Ray recites another poem entitled  "Inspiration from reading your thesis".  As the name suggests, it was a poem inspired by reading the thesis of Reasonable Fideist; A friend of the podcast from reddit dating back to the episode "What Else is There?!".  In the poem, Dr. Ray muses about the nature of the subjective and objective spirits and the relationship between them.  The poem attempts to capture the tension between being in the moment, and stopping to take account of what's happening in the moment.  The flow associated with the moment is characterized by the subjective, and the labeling of the moment is characterized by the objective.  The recitation of this poem is used as an introduction to the main recording of the episode. 

The main recording is an impromptu conversation between Dr. Ray and Ryan Scott.  In it, they discuss the nature of the incompleteness of subjective experience when trying to analyze the objective truth of reality mathematically.  They also discuss how a purely materialistic worldview adopted by the likes of Richard Dawkins or Sam Harris is not sufficient to resolve the inherent incompleteness associated with subjective experience. Essentially, it is the recognition that subjectivity doesn't exist without objectivity and vice versa and that they are essentially not separate spirits. They also discuss this problem in the context of C. S. Lewis' treatise on miracles. 

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If anyone is never at fault in what he says, he is a perfect man, able to keep his whole body in check. -James 3:2

All kinds of animals, birds, reptiles and creatures of the sea are being tamed and have been tamed by man, but no man can tame the tongue. -James 3:7-8

To be conscious is to have the capacity to make choices.  It is the capacity to assert one's will.  To bring into existence that which would not be without the exertion of one's will.  It is to be in relationship with the divine, the true sovereign.  It is to be a creator.  It is to reflect God's image.  It is to be a god.

TO PROGRAM YOURSELF IS TO BE CONSCIOUS

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