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WarmUp Podcast - Ogni giorno le news di F1 e MotoGPWarmUp Podcast #13 | La sospensione Ferrari tarda, le regole per Monaco e le altre news di mercoledì 20 maggioIl Governo spinge per il rinnovo di Imola stanziando 40 milioni di euro fino al 2032 per l’Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari ma anche per Monza: è il tentativo di tenere i circuiti italiani ancora nel calendario della Formula 1 – per la felicità di un Max Verstappen che ha espresso parole d’amore incondizionato per il circuito del Santerno – anche se non è detto che sia abbastanza per confermare il doppio GP nel nostro Paese. Si parla poi delle aspettative in vista del weekend di Monte Carlo, della novità sulla doppia sosta e del chiarimento delle nuove regole (a dirla tutto un po’ confu...
2025-05-2114 min
Echo PodcastyČas dluhů. Fiala jede do Bruselu, chystejte se na inflaciCelý podcast sledujte na http://www.Echoprime.czZadlužování kvůli nákladům na zbrojení. Začalo s tím Německo a teď se k tomu nejspíš připojí celá Evropská unie a Petr Fiala nás do tohoto programu jede přihlásit. „Oživení německé ekonomiky je sice žádoucí, ale tyhle peníze rozpoutají inflační tlaky, trhy na to reagují už teď,“ říká Markéta Malá.„Že se musíme najednou hrozně rychle vyzbrojit nám říkají elity, které v posledních patnácti dvaceti letech, na jakékoliv téma sáhly, tak byly mimo,“ dodává Daniel Kais...
2025-03-1932 min
Frasivolanti blog - di Laura RessaAnita Picconi e Daniel Dell'Ariccia ricordano Alberto Paolini e Tommaso Losavio in musica e raccontiAnita Picconi e Daniel Dell'Ariccia sono per me ormai due punti di riferimento. Quello che ci accomuna è l'impegno e la volontà di parlare di salute mentale attraverso le testimonianze e le storie di chi ha vissuto la rivoluzione basagliana e i manicomi e anche di chi, oggi, opera nei servizi, studia, scrive e discute di questi temi. Dopo l'intervista che loro hanno fatto a me e che io ho fatto a loro, il nostro cammino insieme prosegue. In questo episodio Anita e Daniel si sono soffermati in apertura sul ricordo di Alberto Paolini, recentemente scomparso il 31 gennaio 2025 a...
2025-02-0944 min
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2024-10-0837 min
ON AIRDaniel Hůlka ON AIR: "Muzikál jsem původně vůbec dělat nechtěl, zajímala mě jenom opera."Daniel Hůlka si nejprve získal renomé coby operní zpěvák, největší popularity však dosáhl v době, kdy ztvárnil hlavní roli v muzikálu Dracula Karla Svobody (a později i v jeho dalším muzikálu Hrabě Monte Cristo). V té době se ale stal také v podstatě součástí popového středního proudu a vydával i alba, na nichž přezpíval známé melodie od Vladimira Cosmy či Vangelise. O tom všem byla řeč v dalším On Air. Podívejte se na celý rozhovor. ON AIR je talk show hudebního publicisty Pavla...
2024-03-0443 min
Think Shank#4 (VIDEO DEBUT!): Which teams & players won the NBA trade deadline?In Think Shank's debut video podcast, Skyler examines the most impactful trades in lead up to the NBA's 2024 deadline (Feb. 8). His approach uses historical & analytical data to examine said player positions, performance, experience, strategic use cases, and takeaways for their new teams.
Skyler starts by exploring NYK's offensive flexibility with recent adds Bojan Bogdanovic & Alec Burks (4:25), then OKC's size problem once Gordon Hayward & Bismack Biyombo join (31:20), then DAL's huge upgrades of PJ Washington Jr. & Daniel Gafford (plus same-day reactions to their debut vs. OKC) (51:54), and finally MIN's snag of Monte Morris to steady their second unit (1:15:02).
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2024-02-121h 24
Parole alventoGIRONIMO - Tappa 20Primož Roglič si aggiudica la cronometro del Monte Lussari e agguanta la maglia rosa al penultimo respiro. In una giornata all'insegna di gondole e cabinovie, ripercorriamo la storia della tappa e dei suoi protagonisti insieme ad Alessandro Autieri e con le voci di Michel Heßmann, Derek Gee, Ciro Scognamiglio della Gazzetta dello Sport e una comparsata di Daniel Friebe. Infine ci proiettiamo alla tappa di domani insieme al romano Martin Marcellusi e chiudiamo con gli anagrammi e i pensieri di Gino Cervi.00'26" la nostra giornata, dal buffet al traguardo, con incursioni di Ciro Scognamiglio, Daniel Friebe e A...
2023-05-271h 03
CultureCastWhat Is Philosophy? According to KantIn this episode, I provide some thoughts from Kant’s logic about the nature of philosophy. Philosophy is not sophism, which merely seeks to appear clever and win debates. Philosophy is not the picture-thinking we encounter in the mytho-poetic ancient cultures. Philosophy integrates all the other sciences in a purposeful unity.
2022-08-0521 minCultureCastSurrealismIn this episode, I give a brief rundown of the surrealist movement in the art and literature. The surreal is a merger of dream and reality, such that dreams can provide a source of truth and there is no longer a distinction between dreams and reality. The surrealists used Freud to justify their exploration of the unconscious and they challenged the facile order of the conscious mind characteristic of Enlightenment Reason. Automatic writing let ideas flow with moral or aesthetic concern.
2022-07-2516 minCultureCastThe New World Order and Kant’s Idea of Free WillKant tried to balance the strict lawfulness of nature with an absolute idea of human freedom. To accomplish this, Kant established the natural world as ideal, i.e. based on mental mediation in part. In ourselves, independent of any mental mediation, we can exercise an absolute freedom. But a will that is distinct from any causal structure seems free to invent itself without any constraint by the natural law. A will that is independent of any causal structure can make itself good without the grace of God. The independence of the Kantian agent seems to be the basis of the...
2022-07-1024 minCultureCastThe Cultural BattleIn this episode, I discuss the philosophical roots of the cultural battle, after the recent repeal of Roe v. Wade. There are three key issues that have profound implications for how we view the controversial social issues of our time, which include, but are surely not limited to, abortion. These issues involve belief in God, our definition of truth, and our notion of liberty. Please check out this article by Pedro Trevijano to read up on the issue! https://www.religionenlibertad.com/opinion/484706846/batalla-cultural.html
2022-06-3037 minCultureCastThe Extreme Right and the Extreme LeftIn this episode, I discuss an article by the Spanish writer Pedro Trevijano in which he distinguishes between two extreme attitudes in one’s moral philosophy. One is pharisiacal and rigid, judging others and claiming possession of absolute truth. The other has no sense of absolute truth and puts everything up for debate. I think this provides a helpful framework for considering ethical issues. https://www.religionenlibertad.com/opinion/574738836/relativismo-moral-catolico-extremismos.html?eti=5293##STAT_CONTROL_CODE_3_574738836##
2022-06-2327 minCultureCastIs the Soul Incorruptible?In this episode I go over an argument for the immortality of the soul from St. Thomas Aquinas. The idea is that the soul can grasp unchanging principles, while the senses are rooted in a specific time and place. I tie this idea into Plato’s Theory of the Forms, which holds that there are supra-sensible ideas that are abstract patterns for all concrete realities. The mind’s ability to grasp the general formulations of mathematics makes a compelling case for its distinctness from the body.
2022-05-1628 minCultureCastKant on True FreedomIn this episode, I discuss two conceptions of liberty. One is the ability to do what one desires. The other is the a self-mastery in which true autonomy is the following of the moral law. Kant gave us an idea of freedom that is libertarian. We are truly free when we are able to think in universal terms, and not just yield to private self-interest. I consider these ideas in light of a line from an epistle of St. Peter in which he warns us of using liberty as a cloak for malice.
2022-05-0932 minCultureCastHuman Perversity: Why Do We Reject What Is Good?In this episode, I discuss an episode in the Gospel of Matthew in which the people of Nazareth dismiss Christ for his wisdom and miracles. I was wondering how people could be so foolish and perverse? They have a “crabs in the bucket” mentality. I turn to Aquinas to illuminate how we do not directly choose evil, but instead mistakenly choose a certain pleasure that comes with an evil. We do not have a “diabolical will”—one of Kant’s ideas-because we don’t seek to rebel against the law for its own sake. We have mistaken priorities in which we value a sma...
2022-05-0127 minCultureCastRemi Brague: The Attack on Western CultureIn this episode, I discuss a recent interview with Remi Brague, a prominent European thinker. He documents the phenomenon of “cancel culture.” It is common to hear about this, but we must not take it lightly. We need to recognize that political correctness protects certain dogmas from any criticism. Feminism, radical ecologism, and gender ideology, among others, do not permit dissent. These ideas are meant to drive a wedge between ourselves and the past, and we are in danger of losing touch with our moral compass.
2022-03-1732 minCultureCastBen Franklin’s Treatise on Human LibertyIn this episode, I discuss a fascinating and vigorous philosophical treatise by a great American, Benjamin Franklin. It is called “A Dissertation on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain.” Franklin denies human free will. How can we choose something to which the omnipotent God does not consent? Franklin claims that there is no evil, because pain is necessary for the existence of pleasure. There is no need for an afterlife to realize justice, because pleasure always arises in exact proportion to pain.
2022-02-2838 minCultureCastAdorno and the Dialectic of the EnlightenmentIn this episode, I discuss how Adorno views the Enlightenment as sliding inevitably towards totalitarianism. The Enlightenment seeks to reduce reality to numerical rationality. It suffers no exemption to this reductive trend. Eventually it emerges in a totalitarian political system that brings every aspect of human life under its control.
2022-02-2034 minCultureCastAporia, Time, and DeathAporia is a state of speechlessness in which we are unable to articulate a mysterious phenomenon. In this podcast, I explore the precarious existence of time, and how it is an aporia insofar as it is defined by being and non-being. Death is also an aporia, because it is an experience no one can assume for us, but we talk as if it were an impersonal experience that always happens to other people.
2022-02-1334 minCultureCastHegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic and Identity PoliticsIn this episode, I illuminate the modern notion of identity politics through a description of Hegel’s parable of the master and the slave. This parable is about how consciousness views itself as a transparent measure of all things, only to be relativized in the encounter with the “other,” that is, another consciousness. I tie in this encounter with the other with identity politics, which is perpetually seeking outliers to the dominant cultural narrative.
2022-02-0634 minCultureCastPostmodernism, Nietzsche, and TheothanatologyIn this episode, I discuss again the death of God theology. I root this movement in the rational religion of Kant, which sought to remove the doctrines of historical religions and make them subordinate to an ahistorical and universal moral law. I then describe Nietzsche’s character, Zarathustra, and how he sees the “meaning of the earth” in the transcendence of the human in the Ubermensch. I finally discuss Heidegger’s notion of anxiety and how it reveals the contingency of all meaning and the inner emptiness of the world.
2022-01-2942 minCultureCastPostmodernism: The Death of God TheologyIn this podcast, I discuss how postmodernism represents a radicalization of the Enlightenment. Not only is faith abandoned, but human reason’s ability to develop objective knowledge is challenged. Postmodernism entered theology in the death of God theology. This theology seeks to rethink the idea of God to conform to a more secular and worldly culture. Check out the 1966 Time magazine article, “Is God Dead?”, at Time-Is-God-dead.pdf(valleybeitmidrash.org).
2022-01-2345 minCultureCastKant’s AestheticsIn this podcast, I go over Kant’s great work, The Critique of the Power of Judgment. I discuss the difference between the beautiful and the sublime. I discuss what Kant means by free play, in the interaction between the imagination and the understanding. I also discuss how reflecting judgement attempts to find a universal in what is particular.
2022-01-1643 minCultureCastHume and ArtIn this episode, I discuss how Hume deals with the problem of subjectivism in artistic appreciation. If beauty is just a feeling, and not a property of objects, how can anyone be wrong about their judgment of art? Hume provides five characteristics of the true judge of art: delicacy, practice, comparison, freedom from prejudice, and good sense.
2022-01-1024 minCultureCastArt and the EnlightenmentIn this episode, I discuss how the theory of beauty, or aesthetics, developed during the Enlightenment. Aesthetic judgement has to do with how we react to works of art and beauty in nature. I discuss how aesthetics in the Enlightenment tied aesthetic judgement to the rational structure in things. What is beautiful in art is what captures the unity in multiplicity, i.e. the universal rational structure that connects things that appear on the surface to be diverse.
2022-01-0438 minCultureCastReligion and the EnlightenmentIn this episode, I discuss the attitude of Enlightenment thinkers towards religion. I discuss how they sought to purge religion of any unreasonable elements involving miracles and supernaturalism. They wanted a religion based solely on the moral law. I mention deism, which presents God as a Supreme Architect who never intervened in the world, which proceeds like clockwork. I also mention how liberty of conscience was radicalized in the Enlightenment, such that it was divorced from Revelation.
2021-12-2733 minCultureCastEthics in the EnlightenmentIn this episode, I discuss how ethics changed in the Enlightenment. The classical basis in ethics, in the Platonic intelligible domain, and the Aristotelian teleology, was lost in the secular naturalism of the Enlightenment. So too was the faith-based focus on the afterlife. I discuss the threat of subjectivism in ethics, in which it is based on individual desires without any objective standard! Check out the entry in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on the Enlightenment online!
2021-12-2146 minCultureCastPolitical Thought of the EnlightenmentIn this episode, I discuss he transition from a faith-based, mystical view of political authority to a rational and secular order. In the Enlightenment, politics is based on the consent of the governed and rational self-interest. I differentiate between the French and American revolutions, rooting them respectively in Spinoza and Locke. I then raise a question: if the Enlightenment eliminates the transcendent from our understanding of man, where we do get values to inform our political system? Without a religious cosmology, where does value come from?
2021-12-1538 minCultureCastKant’s Reconciliation of the Two ImagesI continue in this podcast to describe how Immanuel Kant reconciles the religious and the mechanistic understanding of humanity. Kant uses transcendental idealism to show that our experience of lawfulness is a mere appearance. As things in themselves, we can have free will, an immortal soul, and God can exist!
2021-12-0811 minCultureCastEnlightenment and Subjectivity Part IIn this episode, I show the dual conceptions of humanity produced in the Enlightenment. On the one hand, the Enlightenment shows a new pride in which humanity claims to know the world through unaided reason. On the other, humanity is swallowed up in the deterministic and mechanistic universe established in Newtonian science. Immanuel Kant enters, trying to reconcile the Newtonian science with the religious image of humanity.
2021-12-0814 minCultureCastThe Metaverse and the Enlightenment Part II, IIIIn this episode, I continue to trace the intellectual roots of the Metaverse and the current “toxic” moment in human history in which intellectual trends of the past have reached a culmination. I discuss the rationalist system of Descartes and Christian Wolff, who tries to form a scientia with reason alone. The age of Reason replaces the age of Faith by using reason alone, without revelation and faith, to gain full deductive cognition of reality. In Part III, I explore how Hume debunks the idea of causality which is central to the Newtonian system. Causality is not something metaphysically robust in t...
2021-11-281h 12CultureCastThe Metaverse and The Enlightenment: Part IThe Metaverse is a virtual internet in which we would interact through digital avatars. The Metaverse involves humanity creating its own world and so it is not a mere creature beholden to its Creator. I argue that the Metaverse has ethical issues and it is the culmination of a metaphysical revolution beginning with the Enlightenment.
2021-11-211h 16CultureCastThe Navarro Report on Election FraudPeter Navarro, who is the trade advisor to President Trump and an economic nationalist, has developed a very sharp report on the massive election fraud that took place in 2020. If this fraud is not corrected immediately, we risk a horrible social collapse. Here is the link to the report: https://bannonswarroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/The-Immaculate-Deception-12.15.20-1.pdf.
2020-12-2043 minCultureCastThe Biden Scam Is A Great OpportunityClearly, Biden stole the 2020 election and the current numbers are completely fraudulent. But, though this is a painful situation, it is a huge opportunity to excise a cancer in our society. Biden and his criminal associates, which include big media and big tech, are now in a vulnerable position. Once fraud is proven, there will be a public mandate for arrests.
2020-11-2300 minCultureCastElection AnalysisIn this episode, I provide just a brief glimpse into the utter fraud of the 2020 presidential election. Democrats used both mail-ballots and electronic manipulation to create an illusory Biden victory, in which he somehow exceeded the vote total of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and overcame Trump, who expanded his base significantly from 2016. A court with any shred of integrity must invalidate these results in order to protect the voting rights of all Americans.
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2020-11-1500 minCultureCastWHAT IS CURRENTLY HAPPENINGIn this podcast, I give you insight into what is currently happening in the world. This is a fascinating but difficult time of transition. We are learning a lot about our world and I suggest you allow yourself to ask questions and reach new conclusions. Asking new questions will allow you to break free from the propagandists who use their media platforms to control the way you think and keep you in subservience. The outcome of this process will be great, but the passage through will be a test of character.
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2020-11-1100 minCultureCastWallace Stevens, "The Snow Man," Meditative ConsciousnessIn this podcast, I continue to explore the meaning of Wallace Stevens' poem, "The Snow Man," and its connection to Eastern traditions depiction of meditative consciousness. "The nothing" at the end of the poem is an ultimate intellect that is undifferentiated into distinct things, and involves a full merger of the self into a larger eternal self. The meditative consciousness enters sacred space and time, in which it is no longer a discrete self occupying a unique point in space and time. I develop a view that distinguishes the idea of pure consciousness of simplicity from a Christian tradition...
2020-11-0130 minCultureCastThe Atheists Claim to Believe in Just One Less God Than the ChristianSome atheists will try to make their worldview appealing to a Christian by claiming that they just believe in one less god than the Christian. The atheist is right that the Christian is an atheist with respect to many other religions that don't respect Jesus Christ as the true God. However, there is a wide gulf between the denial of any supernatural being at all and Christianity. However, the atheist offers a challenge to the Christian by forcing the Christian to justify the position of denying so many so-called pagan cults, and clinging to belief in Jesus Christ. Is...
2020-10-3022 minCultureCastWallace Stevens, "The Snow Man"In this podcast, I discuss Wallace Stevens's haunting and beautiful poem, "The Snow Man," in which someone enters a wintry landscape, savors the extreme bareness and simplicity of it, and enters a state in which his consciousness becomes nothing and reality itself loses its determinacy and becomes nothing. I discuss this experience in the Snow Man as a meditative experience recognizable in the Eastern traditions of spirituality. I raise questions about the desirability of this experience, as it suggests a cruel abstraction from reality and a desire to escape from the pressures of selfhood. I draw from the fascinating...
2020-10-1830 minCultureCastMario Cuomo's View on Abortion: Personally Against it But Does not Seek Its Imposition on OthersIn this episode, I discuss how former governor of New York, Mario Cuomo, son of current governor, Andrew, laid the groundwork for the Democrat Catholic politician to both embrace the abortion wing of the Democrat party and also to present themselves as practicing Catholics. Cuomo defended the view that he was personally opposed to abortion, but that he, out of a sense of respect for the plurality of American society, decided to refrain from making his views into law. This seems in a way humane and consistent with an American emphasis on individual liberty. However, it can also be...
2020-10-1730 minCultureCastCatholic and Protestant Attitudes Towards Prayer to MaryIn this podcast, I discuss differing attitudes towards prayer to Mary in Catholic and Protestant theology. Protestants view the Catholic Church as falsely usurping spiritual authority, and adulterating Christian faith with human traditions. Protestants demand that prayer only go to God, and see prayer to Mary as blasphemous. However, the idea that Mary, in Heaven, is able to be aware of many prayers at once, in the thoughts of believers, is consistent with the idea that Heaven involves a completely different experience of space-time than what we have on earth. It is also not the case that we only...
2020-10-1130 minCultureCastConcerns About Pope Francis's Document, "Fratelli Tutti"In this podcast, I outline some concerns about Pope Francis's new encyclical, Fratelli Tutti. This document reiterates many themes that the Pope has emphasized throughout his pontificate. We know he is concerned with climate change, seeks a more united world at the expense of national boundaries, and is against current "populist" leaders who build walls that prevent "interchange." Pope Franicis's document has some good moments, for instance, when he discusses an anthropological reductionism that reduces man to a mere thing and see him as readily discardable in the name of economic interests. But, the document is too horizontal, insofar...
2020-10-1029 minCultureCastT.S. Elliot: Tradition and the Individual TalentElliot is a great American poet of genius. In this podcast, I discuss his literary theory, specifically his attitude to the relationship between the individual poet and tradition. Elliot puts forth an attitude neither of blind conformity nor personal self-aggrandizement and detachment from tradition. Instead, Elliot calls for a depersonalization, in which the poet loses his own ego in becoming a medium for the current of the historical consciousness. Tradition is not automatically inherited as some rote procedure, but has to be laboriously acquired. Here is a link to the pdf of the brief essay Elliot wrote when still...
2020-09-2029 minCultureCastThe Man Against the Sky, Edwin Arlington RobinsonIn this podcast, I go through the profound, searching imagery in Edwin Arlington Robinson's poem, "The Man Against the Sky." This poems follows a man embarking alone on to a hill where he stands against a terrible conflagration. It is a symbol of an individual on a spiritual quest, facing the fundamental reality of change in the universe and the possibility that immortality is only an empty wish. This poem is an existentialist poem insofar as it explores the separation of the individual from the community and the related withering of significance of the ideologies that bind that community...
2020-09-1329 minCultureCastIs Man Just Another Animal?In this podcast, I start a conversation based on the wonderful blog of Manuel Alfonseca, a Spanish thinker, known as Divulgacion de Ciencia. The piece is on whether man (including both sexes) has a special status in relation to the non-human environment. Certain contemporary biologists are advocating a value-free conception of life, indicating a complete egalitarianism that puts all species on the same level, which is a great rupture fro the tradition of the Judeo-Christian religious view (man is created in the image of God) as well as the Aristotelian view that nature is ordered towards the ends of...
2020-09-1229 minCultureCastCalvin and the Self-Attestation of Scripture: How Do We Know Which Books Belong in the Bible?Catholics and Protestants use different Bibles. Protestants omit what they call the Apocryphal books. Catholics call these books the Deuterocanoncial books: Sirach, Baruch, Wisdom, Tobit, Sussana, and Judith. John Calvin, one of the great Protestant thinkers, thought that the Church usurped the authority to determine canonicity--which books belong in the Bible--which properly belonged to the individual believer relating directly to God. The canonicity of books of the Bible is self-evident, according to Calvin, acting like a divine seal of veracity, and one does not need an institution to validate the veracity of a book. For Catholics, though, determining the...
2020-09-0725 minCultureCastPoetry Wars Between Plato and AristotleEven though Aristotle was a student of Plato, he diverged from his teacher greatly in terms of his attitude towards art (although I challenge the idea that they diverge at the end of this podcast!). Plato thought that art separated us from reality, being at an even lower level than the merely derivative physical reality we see, which is on a lower level of reality than the abstract general Forms that pertain universally to individual things. Aristotle, on the other hand, thought that art is a kind of mimesis, or imitation, that trains to cognize the identity of things...
2020-09-0525 minCultureCastConsciousness As An Inferential ModelIn this podcast, I discuss the nature of consciousness as presented by Karl Friston in his article in Aeon magazine, entitled "The Mathmatics of Mind-Time." Friston is interested in the transition from blind mechanistic causation--i.e. B simply happens to occur as a result of A--to teleological causation in which B follows A as the consciously sought goal of an agent. Friston likens consciousness, in a reductionist manner, to any complex system like evolution, the weather, or even a virus. Complex systems share in common a tendency to maximize evidence about their surroundings in a way that minimizes surprise...
2020-08-3025 minCultureCastThe Spirituality of Emily DickinsonIn this podcast, I discuss the spirituality of the great American poet, Emily Dickinson. Dickinson was not a doctrinaire Christian, and had a deep suspicion of organized religion in general. Nevertheless, she refused to succumb to materialism, in spite of her fears that death might be the end of consciousness. She was aware of the limitations of space and time, and how the spatiotemporal framework need not capture reality in its entirety. I provide certain poems that give examples of this individualistic spirituality that embraces both feelings of transcendence while at the same time recognizing a profound sense of...
2020-08-2828 minCultureCastThe Third Secret of Fatima, Part IIIn this podcast, I finish my discussion of Dr. Maike Hickson's article on the third secret of Fatima: https://www.lifesitenews.com/blogs/what-we-know-of-our-lady-of-fatimas-3rd-secret-appears-to-be-unfolding-in-church-today-priest?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com&utm_campaign=dea289f0da-Catholic_8_18_2020&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_12387f0e3e-dea289f0da-404536973.
I discuss how the book of Revelation shows a final struggle between a red dragon along with two other beasts: a leopard and a lamb with horns that speaks like a dragon. Father Unterhalt, whom Dr. Hickson references, interprets the dragon as representing communism. The leopard in its stealth represents Freemasonry. They present...
2020-08-2122 minCultureCastOur Lady of Fatima's Third Secret (Part I): Is It Happening Now?This is the first part of a two-part series on whether the third secret of Our Lady of Fatima is occurring now. With Pope Francis aligning with secular globalists who want a secular socialist world government and who embraces idol worship within the holiest sites of the Vatican, many are worried that we are now witnessing the apostasy at the top of the Church that the third secret warns us about. In this episode I discuss the centuries of planning by Freemasons and communists to pass themselves off as Catholic to work their up into the hierarchy of the...
2020-08-2130 minCultureCastWalt Whitman, Minor Prophet: Founder of a Post-Christian Religious MythIn this episode, I discuss Walt Whitman's for a post-Christian religion. Whitman was influenced by deism, which sought a rational religion that did not include elements of revelation. Whitman rejected the divinity of Christ as unscientific, and sought a religion based solely on rational views having to do with God as creator and a morality of respect for other people. The Deistic God establishes perfect laws for nature, and does not perform miracles, because this would suggest an imperfection. Whitman tranposed evolutionary theory into his view of reality, which he saw as continually progressing. The individual transcends continually old...
2020-08-1930 minCultureCastThe Endgame of the World Economic Forum For the Coronavirus: UntactIn this episode, I discuss some of the grand ambitions of the World Economic Forum in the post-Covid world. I discuss how they are working to double down on social distancing, reinvent sexuality and marriage, and to reset the global economy with an eye to regulations to protect the climate. While they present themselves as benign, I caution that members of the WEF are asking for a tremendous amount of power that would erode national sovereignty and subject the free exchange of goods to their constant surveillance. Social distancing using robots for baristas and doctors would create a dystopia...
2020-08-1830 minCultureCastWhy is the World So Screwed Up? The Gnomic Will!In this episode, I discuss a controversy in the sixth century Church over the nature of the will (or wills) of Christ. The Monothelite heresy claimed that Jesus, even though he had both a human and a divine person, had just one will. But St. Maximos the Confessor defends the dual-will theory of Christ, and was tortured for it! Maximos argues that the human will has both a natural and a gnomic aspect. The natural aspect is implanted by God and naturally seeks what God intended us to seek. But, our fallenness means that we have a gnomic will...
2020-08-1621 minCultureCastAre Christianity and Socialism Compatible?In this episode, I address the issue of the compatibility of socialism and Christianity. I argue that socialism does not cultivate compassion through forcible seizure of property, and it actually stems from a horrible greed for money and power, not compassion. I refer to an article by Father Michael Orsi on Life Site News entitled “US Priest: Socialism Is Antithetical to the Gospel”.
2020-08-1534 minCultureCastIdeas Behind RussiaGateIn this episode, I analyze the philosophical beliefs of key players in the RussiaGate story. I focus specifically on the ideology of Strobe Talbott who runs the Brookings Institution. Talbott is a firm believer in the future obsolescence of the nation state and the ultimate objective of a global government. Talbott is also a Rhodes scholar, and I discuss Rhodes’s racist and imperialistic ideology. The link to the article is https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2020/08/10/the-brookings-hand-behind-russiagate-points-back-to-rhodes-trust-coup-on-america, by Matt Ehret at Strategic Culture.
2020-08-1238 minCultureCastIs God Living A Solipsistic Nightmare?In this podcast, I consider a bleak article by blogger Benjamin Cain, that can be found at http://the rabbitisin.com/the-nightmare-of-god-152c2cc8694b. In this article, Cain advances the thesis that God is the only substance that ultimately exists, and that He therefore lives in a state of solipsistic hell. His omniscience means He never learns anything new, and we are just avatars in a video game He has created to distract Himself. I think this thesis is interesting, but I counter it by noting Aristotle’s notion of God as well as the Trinitarian conception of God in...
2020-08-1028 minCultureCastThe Phenomenon of the SublimeIn this episode, I discuss the phenomenon of the sublime, a peak experience involving a pleasure because of terror at being overwhelmed. It can occur when overpowered by an experience of the awesomeness of nature, or of a work of art. I draw from an article by Robert Clewis, found in Aeon magazine, “Is the Sublime A Hopelessly Old-Fashioned Euro-Romantic Ideal?” Links to the artwork of Thomas Cole can be found at arthistorynewsreport.blogspot.com/2014/10/thomas-coles-voyage-of-life-at-chrysler.html. Also a video of the work of Caspar David Friedrich can be found at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPLp5wPMIxU.
2020-08-0922 minCultureCastChallenging the UmweltThis is an episode on how to break out the limited presuppositions and perspectives of our place in history. We each have an Umwelt that is an incomplete map of reality. You can find the article on which this talk is based at https://medium.com/personal-growth/the-invisible-strings-how-to-see-the-world-like-nobody-else-1b7ede14bae. The article is “The Invisible Strings: How to See The World Like Nobody Else,” by Zat Rana.
2020-08-0711 minCultureCastBilly Budd and the Irrationality of EvilIn this episode, I analyze the novella Billy Budd, by the Great American writer Herman Melville. I analyze the novella in light of two philosophical issues. One is the question of whether the law of society trumps our own conscience. The other is the phenomenon of an irrational pursuit of evil for the sake of evil, through which we have no personal gain. The opera by Benjamin Britten of Billy Budd can be found here: youtube.com/watch?v=GOdS6cGDRCw.
2020-08-0745 minCultureCastCommunion on the Tongue: Gnostic and Calvinistic?In this episode, I address an article by Dr. Peter Kwasniewski, in Lifesite News, in which he disputes the view of a priest who thinks that communion on the tongue is both Gnostic and Calvinistic. I explore these fascinating heresies, and the possible connection between Vatican II and a severe decline in church membership. The article can be found at lifesitenews.com/blogs/why-priest-is-wrong-in-describing-communion-on-tongue-as-gnostic-and-calvinistic
2020-08-0640 minCultureCastChristians and the Nazis: How We Treat the DisabledIn this episode, I go through a timeline of different approaches to people with disabilities. I chart the evolution from dismissive and ethnocentric ideas of Ancient Greeks and Romans, to the emphasis on individual dignity of Christianity and the Enlightenment. What we see in contemporary society is a struggle between this lingering Enlightenment tradition, and a move to return to the pre-Christian ways. A related website can be found at https://mn.gov/mnddc/parallels/five/5a/10.html.
2020-08-0547 min
Sapori di Viaggio09. Nella Val Sarentino in Alto Adige con Sapori di ViaggioNella nona puntata, Gregor Wenter, titolare di Bad Shorgau e Daniel Verdorfelr, sommelier e conoscitore esperto di vini che gestisce la sala del Ristorante Alpes e de LaFuGa del Bad Schörgau, sono ospiti di Fosca Tortorelli e Raffaele PerrottaFamosa per i suoi boschi e per il pino mugo, dalle proprietà uniche e peculiari, la Val Sarentino si trova a nord di Bolzano, una valle che si snoda e si estende per circa 50 km fino al Passo Pennes a 2.211 di altitudine. Sarentino è un comune attraversato dal fiume Talvera, conta diverse frazioni e, pur essendo scarsamente abitato, ha una...
2020-08-0223 minCultureCastKevorkian’s Utilitarian CreedIn this episode, I discuss the competing world views associated with the euthanasia debate. This debate has to do with the very meaning of life and cosmological questions about the nature and origin of human life. You can find Wesley Smith’s article at https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/jack-kevorkian-legacy-euthanasia-assisted-suicide-normalized/.
2020-07-3133 minCultureCastLingering Doubts Over 9/11In this episode, I analyze a compelling documentary found on YouTube put together by the architects and engineers for 9/11 truth. It compellingly debunks the official narrative from NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology) that fires caused by the planes weakened the buildings and caused the collapse. The video can be found here: https://www.youtube.com!watch?time_continue=2737&v=IYUYya6bPGw&feature=emb_title. Or search for “Architects and Engineers On 9/11! Excellent Must See!” On the page of Richard Bruce.
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2020-07-3020 minCultureCastElizabeth Anscombe: Modern Moral PhilosophyIn this episode, I discuss how Anscombe breaks down modern moral theories, showing their deep deficiencies and their inability to provide guidance effectively. There are quandaries with utilitarianism as well as with law-based conceptions of ethics because of a growing secularism.
2020-04-1230 minCultureCastRobert De Mattei on the Coronavirus; Part IIIIn this episode, I discuss De Mattei’s analysis of the coronavirus. I touch in particular on his idea that collective sins promoted by leadership that is also corrupt merit the greatest punishment from God. We need a stressor to change the status quo. I then deliver breaking news about Pope Francis, who stated that the coronavirus represents nature “having a fit” about pollution. Francis is actively discouraging the idea that the coronavirus is a punishment from God, and he is also covering for the CCP, whose bungling incompetence unleashed this virus on the world.
2020-03-2551 minCultureCastPart II, Episode 3: Robert De Mattei on the CoronavirusIn this episode, I continue to break down De Mattei’s discussion of the coronavirus. I discuss how De Matteo compares the current convulsions, both in terms of public health and the economy, with the convulsions of the 14th century. I discuss the competing impulses of interconnection and nationalism. I also discuss De Mattei’s cynicism about Keynsien approaches to rescue the economy, and the possibility of the replacement of the state by tribes and gangs.
2020-03-2135 minCultureCastEpisode 3, Part I: Roberto De Mattei on the CoronavirusProfessor Roberto de Mattei is a Catholic historian and thinker with an interesting political, historical, and theological perspectives on the coronavirus. In this episode, I discuss the relationship between the coronavirus and globalization. I will explain how De Mattei sees the coronavirus as the end of globalization, even though the so-called masters of chaos will try to use it to create a global government. Find his lecture at “New Scenarios in the Coronavirus era-prof. Roberto de Mattei” on YouTube.
2020-03-2028 minCultureCastTrailer: Roberto De Mattei On the CoronavirusIn this trailer, I introduce a lecture De Mattei gave on the political, historical, and theological significance of the coronavirus. The coronavirus, which originated in Wuhan, China in late 2019, is not merely a biological pathogen. Instead, it connects with profound political, historical, and theological questions. Please listen to go deeper, to the “principle” behind the Wuhan coronavirus.
2020-03-2002 minCultureCastPart II, Existentialism Is A HumanismIn this episode, I complete my discussion of the famous lecture, Existentialism Is A Humanism. I discuss the idea of absolute freedom in relation to Marxism and certain sociological accounts of income inequality and crime. I discuss tensions in Sartre’s rejection of materialist determinism and also his embrace of atheism.
2020-03-1826 minCultureCastPart I, Existentialism Is A HumanismIn this episode, I explain Sartre’s famous lecture, Existentialism Is A Humanism. I identify objections to existentialism from both communists and from Christians. The communists feared that the focus on subjectivity characteristic of existentialism would erode solidarity. The Christians feared that existentialism challenged the idea of absolute value. Sartre promoted nevertheless the idea that existence preceded essence, going against major metaphysical traditions. I also tie the idea that the world is absurd to the materialist philosophy of Darwinism.
2020-03-1825 minCultureCastEpisode 2: Existentialism Is A Humanism, TraileeIn this episode, I will go through the famous lecture Jean Paul-Sartre have in post World War II France just as the Nazi occupation has ended. This celebrity intellectual spoke to a deeply confused world who had seen evil on a horrific scale, in the form of Nazi concentration camps, and who were dealing with their own trauma about the decisions they had to make with respect to the collaborationist Vichy government.
2020-03-1803 minCultureCastIs Darwin’s Theory Dead Part III continue in this episode with David Gelernter’s piece, “Giving Up Darwin,” at https://claremontreviewofbooks.com/giving-up-darwin/. He thinks we need to shift away from the idea that natural selection and molecular biology can explain the origin of human life.
2020-03-1623 min
CultureCastIs Darwin’s Theory Dead? Part I First Episode of CultureCastCultureCast is a podcast devoted to keeping people up to speed on cultural matters. I am a philosopher currently currently completing a doctorate at Temple University. I am also a novelist who has produced one novel so far, “The Realm of Possibility.” In this episode, I introduce an article from the Claremont Review of Books which challenges the Darwinian orthodoxy that new species can be generated through random heritable variation and natural selection. David Gelernter is a Yale computer scientist who wrote this piece. It hints at a possible monumental paradigm shift in the way we understand human life.
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