Moments & Magnets: Recent Episodes
Moments and Magnets
Moments and Magnets is a new podcast created to examine the delicate balance between the universe and humanity’s place in it. Episodes are broken down by different topics, and they offer a healthy skepticism of what is known combined with questions on issues that still elude us. Join us as we battle the forces ripping at our communal bond, and help us as we try to restore what is broken!
Ch 1: Intro – Every journey must have a start, and this is ours! Walk with us as we examine our current state of ideas, and join us as we voyage into what is still unknown. Who we are and what we want to accomplish?
Ch2: The Universe – This chapter provides the setting for our operation. The entire universe gives us the time and space we need to have these conversations. We will ask: what are the components of human nature, what are the drives that motivate humans, and what governs human action and interaction?
Ch3: Freedom – This chapter introduces a debate on freedom. We look at freedom through the lenses of control and we ask: how much control anything has, how much control humans have and why you feel it isn’t enough?
Ch4: Reality – This chapter is focused on questioning everything we think, know and see. How do you perceive the world around you, and how do you qualify these perceptions?
Ch5: Religion - Throughout the history of our humanity, we have always believed in something greater. When have these beliefs been valuable tools used to unite us? When have they been dangerous weapons used to divide us? In this chapter we start a conversation on how to best handle this divide.
Ch6: Love – Love gets credit for being the strongest component keeping our society together, so you bet we’ll discuss it! We will discuss how this bond is manifested internally, and how we express it to others. More importantly, we ask: when are the moments that love is strong enough to defeat all opposition, and when is it ineffective and needs your help?
Ch7: Race – In this chapter we finally decide which one of us is the fastest! No, we’re kidding, the topics included here are: why do humans place labels on each other? What values we have assigned to these labels? And why this has been, at times, grossly insufficient.
Ch8: Violence – This chapter begins a conversation of the virus that is violence. We ask: how do we prepare for the things we cannot change, and in what ways may our defenses be strengthened?
Ch9: State of the Union – This chapter aims to achieve a balance between our form of government and our economic structure. This is the chapter dedicated to Democracy and Capitalism. We ask: where are the faults in either, and how has money hindered our more perfect union?
Ch10: Energy – This chapter marks the end of Season 1! We finish this ten-part series with an introduction into the concept of Energy. We wonder: how it is manifested within the individual, how is it manifested in the universe around you, and is there anything you can do about it?