Waiting 4 Wrath - Episode 253 - The One Where We Flim Flam A Yee-Olde Femme Fatale!

In This Week’s Show, episode 253, we summon minions of the occult with our esoteric knowledge of yee-olde brew pubbes.

Now, grab a beer and help us test the god hypothesis — because, while The Infinite Intelligence hasn’t struck us down yet, we are trying its patience!

Shea’s Life Lesson

This week I learned that Alexander the Great and Winnie the Pooh have more in common than you think. Their middle names 

Jenn’s Actual Lesson

Did you know that adherents to spiritualism worship a single deity that they compare to the Christian god but it’s really nothing like that. Anyway, they refer to it as the Infinite Intelligence and never gave Douglas Adams the slightest bit of credit.

But before we get to all that, let’s have a beer!

This Week’s Beer

Necessary Evil from Manhattan Project Beer Company

Donated By: Aaron 

BA Link: https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/47850/386663/

BA Rating: 3.8

Style: Pilsner

ABV: 5.3% 

Aaron: 4

Jenn: 5

Shea: 6

Steve: 4

This Week’s Show

Round Table Discussion

Eternal Confidence

The series centers around 6 subjects answering specific questions about their faith. Some of the subjects are active and believing Christians and some of the subjects have deconverted from Christianity. 

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You can find the first episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-5kD193s90&t;=266s 

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Friend of the show Dustin of Atheist Nomads:

"Ye" was the plural second person pronoun for the subjective case. It was merged with "you" when English merged the subjective and objective cases.

The word "the" used to be spelled with the letter thorn which was pronounced as a th, but over time it began to resemble the letter "y". Most thorn was replaced with "th", but "ye" was kept much longer as an abbreviation of the word "the", but everyone knew to pronounce it as "the".

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The Fox Sisters 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_sisters

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Spiritualism

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-fox-sisters-rochester-new-york

https://catholicherald.co.uk/magazine/heretics-of-the-week-the-fox-sisters/

Unfortunately, this isn't about "foxy" sisters, or Megan Fox's elusive, might-not-even-exist (don't know, don't care enough to Google) sister. The Fox sisters are one of the first people you're likely to hear about if you look into Spiritualism, mediums, or psychics. However, until most of their contemporaries the Fox sisters didn't shag people at seances. So, without any weird sex stuff to joke about, I'm well outside my usual wheelhouse.

And yes, female mysticism at the time was inexorably tied to the kind of freaky sex only available from the possessed. Because that's how you know she's a mystic! Contemporary spiritualists like Eva Carriere and Eusapia Palladino were famous for shagging clients and inspectors to main...