Truth Island

I am joined by Tarot Card reader Fedra Ekres, who gives me a brief introduction to the umbrella term 'Paganism' as we discuss the term's origin and it's practice throughout Europe and into modern day America.

Topics Covered:

It started with the Greeks!

Pagans...early doctors?

Coming to America...in disguise.

More of a women thing.

Fortune teller...please make me rich.

Yoga becomes Yoga and into the 2000s

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Through the lens of the Robert Frost poem The Road Not Taken Katen and I examine how we can evaluate the life choices we've made and how exactly these decisions influence who we are.

Topics Covered

Not living with regret.

Evaluating which roads in life have served us best and reexamining those pathways.

You're never too old to start embarking down a new path or rediscovering a trail you abandoned long ago.

We are no longer living in a world of just two roads....

I am joined by Patrick as we discuss whether or not it is healthy to take life too seriously and when exactly we may wish to turn up or down our seriousness meter.

Topics Addressed:

The power of laughing at yourself.

Giving yourself a degree of wiggle room in casual conversations.

Must leaders always be serious for us to respect them?

Situations where you have choice versus no choice.

Teachers and actors.....do the serious really win at the end?

Joe and I try to figure out why we always assume the worst in people ranging from things such as small compliments to just how trustful we ought to be in life.

Topics Covered:

Assumptions about people versus reality.

How personal traumas keep us jaded.

Times in life we shouldn't be too trusting.

How to integrate new people into our lives with little risk.

When to push the eject button.

Basic trust in humanity.

Alexander and I, discuss whether other people can impart wisdom and life lessons onto others who through a lack of experience or maturity have not gone through those same formative experiences.

Topics Explored:

Telling people about life before they have reached a critical threshold in life.

The effects of traumatic events early in life in bringing about maturity.

If we could go back in time and warn ourselves would it make any difference?

Perhaps trying out new personas and having different experiences is the only way we can learn.

This episode is the second part of a larger series in which I am joined by Roman Empire expert Brett Davidoff, as we discuss some of the parallels of ancient Rome to the United States and other historical instances of democratic decay. In this episode we focus on the rise and fall of Julius Caesar and the strategies he employs in consolidating power and the turmoil this causes among the other senators living in Rome.

In the final installment of our series Gabby and I discuss why people exclude others from events, starting in childhood and lasting all the way into adulthood.

Topics:

Excluding others because of discomfort.

Omitting people to feel superior and hog the spotlight.

When your friends don't get along and someone has to go.

Creating the perfect ambience in deciding who to invite.

When friends are genuinely looking out for you versus leaving you out.

Summary of what we learned over the series.

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Kenny and I discuss what it means to be a philosopher and how we view the world....and how the world sometimes views us.

Topics:

What makes someone into a philosopher?

Aloof and detached or deep in thought?

The difference between comedians and philosophers.

Philosophers need better public relations.

Be a philosopher....but be something else as well.

Through the story of Kind David, Sam and I try and dissect the details of why it's important to apologize and how one should make amends to a person that they have wronged.

Topics Covered:

Don't just be nice.....

King David did it.....why not you?

When two people wrong one another.

Is their a statue of limitations when it comes to apologies?

Dallas and I pickup from where we last left off in the case of a woman who leaves her dying husband.

Topics Discussed:

Marriage....To Death Do Us Part?

Divorce as a sometimes merciful act.

Seeing the 'soul' in soulmate.

Maintaining integrity in relationships.

Prior service record when evaluating friendships.