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đŸ‘¯ s01e07: Intermission 1: downsides of religious community â˜Ēī¸â˜Žī¸đŸ•‰ī¸âœĄī¸â„šī¸â˜¯ī¸âœī¸

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This is the first intermission of đŸ‘¯, listed as season 1 episode 7 for filing purposes. In this episode, TracingWoodgrains, MasterThief, The Sultan Of Swing, XantosCell, and Unsaying discuss religious community.

This discussion was originally slated to be released as an episode of the The Bailey podcast, but eventually it was decided that it should be published elsewhere instead, and so it finds its home here, at đŸ‘¯.

The image used in the video is Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld's Pentecost woodcut for "Die Bibel in Bildern", 1860:

https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern_1860_226.png

Show notes:

36:00 Unsaying's superintelligence of deity post: https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/a54d99/the_compression_problem/

39:47 Despite instructions made in the moment, this tangent was not cut out, as it turned out to be relevant. Normally, any requests to cut something out would be honored, but everyone involved assented to this edit of the episode.

47:03 Xantos's snake-handling video: https://youtube.com/watch?v=2dlnqRDmmds

Extended show notes:

(Discussing unsuitability for marriage and the path of monasticism) https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/hkesjh/comment/fwy8ofv/

https://www.americamagazine.org/content/all-things/watching-spotlight-young-priest

https://babylonbee.com/news/dozens-of-bible-verses-come-forward-to-accuse-joel-osteen-of-abuse

(If people want more BG on heresies, i dunno) https://old.reddit.com/r/Catholicism/comments/4ihgog/extra_history_on_early_christian_schisms_pt_2/

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josh weed

It's funny to watch de-converts from traditional religions enthusiastically adopt american culture, see his twitter https://twitter.com/The_Weed . He has ADHD now!

it's not bad to not have children ... people do not die from a lack of sex

Well, if the goodness of a life is its experience / impact / being alive, and the problem with death is that it halts one, something quite similar happens if you don't have sex! Which might be the point of the command to have children - it's societally useful and, in a deeply similar sense, useful for the person born.

later claims that "greek conceptions of sex were more about lust than love" aren't true afaik.