Jimbo Radio: Recent Episodes
James Gomes
Whatever Jimbo and or his guests find engaging. There are a few ideas in progress for different segments of the podcast.
Jimbo's area of most expertise is in education and English as a language arts. Jimbo's interests vary from reading, economics, science, philosophy, exercise, chess, and learning new things.
If Jimbo could attract big name guests, this podcast would be a critical examination/interview podcast with intellectuals. Until that day comes, Jimbo will try to find guests with similar interests to discuss random topics of intrigue.
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Stand by for better show notes. Jimbo's pre recording notes and outline can be viewed here.
Links to References in the Episode
Read The Legendary Muhammad Ali” here.
Read the critical analysis of the Nag Hammadi story, "How Reliable is the Story of the Nag Hammadi Discovery?" by Mark Goodacre.
For more about the Nag Hammadi discovery click here, including a list of the texts discovered.
Read the review related to the tales of natives burning ancient texts here.
Timeline and Evolution of the Story
1948 (institutional notices): Early reports emphasize that new Coptic codices have been acquired / secured for study in Cairo—no legends attached. (For a museum overview, see the Coptic Museum’s summary.) coptic-cairo.com
1958/60 — Jean Doresse, The Secret Books of the Egyptian Gnostics:
First book-length account by a field scholar who saw the material early. He describes a peasant digging for fertilizer, a jar buried near the cliff at Jabal al-Ṭārif, the manuscripts going to Cairo—but no jinn, no blood-feud, no page-burning, and no oversized jar. Sober, minimalist. (English ed. 1960.) Internet Archive
1977 — James M. Robinson (editor), The Nag Hammadi Library in English:
In prefaces and later essays Robinson popularizes a vivid discovery vignette: a ~60 cm jar, the finder hesitating lest a jinn be inside, breaking it in hope of gold, and his mother burning some leaves. This is the version that “sticks” in popular accounts. avalonlibrary.net
1979 — Elaine Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels:
Adds dramatic local color: seven men, a blood vendetta with limb-cutting and heart-eating, and a 1-meter jar. This retelling helped propel the story into the cultural mainstream. Squarespace
1981–84 — Further embellishments & pushback:
Some later versions mention eight camel riders, torn codices during division, and a six-foot jar; then leading Coptologists Rodolphe Kasser and Martin Krause publicly question these field tales (1984). SAGE Journals
1987 — Channel 4 (UK) documentary The Gnostics:
On-camera Muhammad ʿAlī al-Sammān (the finder) tells a different sequence: he found and smashed the pot alone, called others after the break, still mentions fear of a jinn and his mother burning leaves—but key details contradict Robinson’s popular version. Variant Readings+2NT Weblog+2
2013–present — Scholarly reassessment:
Mark Goodacre collects contradictions across tellings, notes a lack of field documentation for the 1970s interviews, and urges caution; Brent Nongbri critiques the recurring motif of “locals burning papyri” as a self-serving trope in manuscript trade narratives. markgoodacre.org+2JSTOR+2
Click here for out pre-recording notes.
Listen to Brendan's discussion with Dr. Kyra Bobinet about her book Unstoppable Brain.
Here is a transcript of the episode. Here is a fact checking of the episode.
For more from Brendan click here.
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Find more from Jimbo at his blog, Jimbo Rants
"These results suggest that the self's capacity for active volition is limited and that a range of seemingly different, unrelated acts share a common resource."
Baumeister, R. F., Bratslavsky, E., Muraven, M., & Tice, D. M. (1998). Ego depletion: Is the active self a limited resource? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74(5), 1252–1265. https:/doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.74.5.1252
For a fact checking of our episode click here.
Here is a full transcript with some minor spelling errors.
Here are Mike's 12 uses of plural Gods in the Old Testament.
Here is the article Mike mentioned: New Research: Belief in Jesus Rises, Fueled by Younger Adults
The book is Zen in the Martial Arts by Joe Hyams.
Read a fact check by ChatGPT 5 here.
Listen to Brendan's discussion with Dr. Kyra Bobinet about her book Unstoppable Brain.
Here are Brendan and Jimbo's pre-recording notes. The episode doesn't not cover most of the notes.
Next Episode: Brendan and Jimbo will discuss the psychology term willpower depletion. Message Jimbo with any questions or ideas about willpower depletion.
For more from Brendan Howard visit his link tree here, https://linktr.ee/brendanhoward
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Find more from Jimbo at his blog, Jimbo Rants
The last dive into epistemology and knowing for now. And an expansion of a previous comment about evolutionary psychology.
Here is a full transcript of the episode.
Here is a fact check of the episode.
For more from Brendan Howard visit his link tree here, https://linktr.ee/brendanhoward
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Find more from Jimbo at his blog, Jimbo Rants
In this episode of Jimbo Radio, host Jimbo dives deep into the nostalgia, economics, and cultural significance of one legendary baseball card: the 1980 Topps #482 Rickey Henderson rookie card. From his personal connection with Rickey Henderson to a detailed breakdown of grading trends and card valuation, this solo episode is part memoir, part market analysis, and part baseball history.
(Times below are off. I will fix later)
[00:00] - Intro and Personal Background
- Jimbo shares his connection to Rickey Henderson and growing up watching A's games in the Bay Area.
- How childhood memories led to rekindling a passion for card collecting.
[03:50] - The Allure of Rickey Henderson
- MVP, stolen bases, cultural icon.
- Rickey's statistical dominance and personality quirks.
[07:30] - 1980 Topps #482: Historical Context
- Last year Topps had a monopoly on baseball cards.
- Entry point into the junk wax era.
[10:10] - The Origins of Topps and Baseball Cards
- The Topps chewing gum company and C.Y. Berger’s iconic card design.
- The famous Mickey Mantle 1952 Topps card: Wikipedia
[13:20] - The Condition Problem: 1980 Card Stock
- Poor centering, cheap cardboard, and a lack of protective supplies in 1980.
- Why gem mint condition cards are so rare.
[16:45] - Grading: PSA and the Numbers
- Only 25 PSA 10s known; one sold for $180,000 (source).
- The rise of PSA and SGC grading and their impact on online card sales.
[21:00] - Print Runs & Survival Estimates
- Estimated 500,000 cards printed in 1980.
- 70–90% likely destroyed or damaged.
[25:10] - Economics of Grading and Investment Risk
- Cost of grading vs. card value.
- Why low-grade cards may be overpriced.
- Potential flood of graded cards if grading prices drop.
[32:30] - Value Ladder: PSA 10 vs. 9 vs. 8 and Below
- PSA 9: ~$2,000
- PSA 8: ~$200–250
- Raw low-grade: ~$20–100
[36:40] - Collector Behavior & eBay Trends
- Steady stream of listings: 10–20 cards per day.
- Most newly graded cards are PSA 6–8.
[39:00] - Comparison to Ken Griffey Jr.'s Rookie Card
- Overproduction of the 1989 Upper Deck Griffey card.
- Why Rickey Henderson's card holds stronger long-term value.
[41:30] - Closing Thoughts
- The card's unique position in baseball history.
- Jimbo's future plans as a collector.
Resources & Links * PSA Population Report - Rickey Henderson #482 * Wikipedia - Rickey Henderson * PSA Grading Standards
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Round two of childhood with Jon and I. This time we focus on a lot more positive aspects.
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In the episode, Brendan Howard and I discussed more about epistemology. Our conversation was based on a survey about epistemology I created with the assistance of GPT. We also listened and discussed an episode of Theories of Everything with Professor Jennifer Nagel.
Human Memory
In the episode, I slightly misremembered a study on memory related to the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Below are the main ideas related to my episode reference brought to you by GPT:
- Memory decay slows after one year: Flashbulb memories (the personal context: where you were, who told you, etc.) and event memories (facts about the attack itself) both show a forgetting curve that flattens significantly after the first year.
- Emotional details fade more than factual ones: Emotional responses associated with flashbulb memories (e.g., how shocked or upset you felt) are remembered less accurately over time than non-emotional details like location or the person who told you.
- Subjective confidence remains high despite inaccuracies: By multiple follow‑up points (1 week, 11 months, 35 months), many participants recalled different details from their original reports—and yet they continued to express high confidence in their recollections.
After the initial decay, both flashbulb and event memories tend to become more stable—though not necessarily more accurate—over time.
Cumulative Selection
Cumulative selection can explain how a small advantage can build over time through natural selection. Ronald Fisher, a relatively unknown genius and polymath, developed mathematics that explain how small mutations that increase fitness, even with a very small advantage, can survive over time.
Using population genetics, a gene with a 0.1% selective advantage can dominate a population of 10,000 within 20,000 generation. For humans, hat would be about 500,000 years.
In the podcast episode, I generally explained why babies should look like their fathers. In theory, if babies, who looked like their fathers, had even a very small advantage, like 0.1%, that advantage would dominate human populations after 20,000 generation, or 500,000 years. If the advantage was larger, it would dominate faster.
Links
- https://stankrants.blogspot.com/2025/07/notes-from-episode-41-knowing-about.html
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1mrMGHtNcRD3LMFhVeiMdlrqoEv-XXe-2XHwu4VIVVwA/edit?usp=sharing
- https://open.substack.com/pub/curtjaimungal/p/why-universal-skepticism-is-philosophys?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
- https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2925254/
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My brother Jon and I discuss our childhood. I really enjoyed this conversation and hope to do more.
If you're interested, please reach out to suggest topics or question you have for Jon or Jimbo. Leave a comment or text Jimbo.
See blog post for more on top companies over time, https://stankrants.blogspot.com/2025/06/top-500-companies-with-time.html
It looks like Trump may have been booed a couple times for recommending vaccines. Either way, he stopped mentioning it pretty quick. Link here, https://youtu.be/eA306aNtvmk?si=zOT5In8-46G_4gmZ
Trump's Tesla White House Commercial seems to have increased Tesla sales among conservatives. The state of Texas provides decent evidence.
This was supposed to be a thinking out loud episode. Instead it is more of a summary of what I learned when I couldn't sleep.
Here is a fact check by ChatGPT-5.
Show Notes
🏃♂️ Episode Introduction
In this late-night recording (past 3 a.m. thanks to a caffeine-fueled 5K race), Jimbo explores one of philosophy’s most profound questions: Can we ever be certain of anything?
This episode blends personal reflections on running in 94° heat with a deep dive into epistemology — the study of knowledge — featuring thinkers like Descartes, Hume, Kant, and Voltaire.
- Evening 5K race in high heat and wind.
- Pacing strong for two miles, with a slowdown in the third mile due to fatigue and conditions.
- Reflections on how environmental factors (heat, wind, time of day) can shape performance.
- Special shout-out: Jamie’s first fun run mile — and she crushed it!
- We don’t perceive the world directly; we perceive mental representations shaped by senses.
- Related to but not the same as Plato’s Allegory of the Cave.
- Limits of perception proven by things outside our sensory range (infrared, microscopic life, etc.).
🔗 Learn more:
- Plato’s Allegory of the Cave – Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- The Veil of Perception – Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Deduction: From premises to guaranteed conclusions (e.g., All humans are mortal. Socrates is human. Therefore, Socrates is mortal.).
- Induction: From past observations to probable conclusions (e.g., The sun has always risen → it will rise tomorrow.).
- Deduction = certainty (if premises are true).
- Induction = probability only.
🔗 Learn more:
- Deductive and Inductive Reasoning
- Hume on Induction – Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Hume pointed out we have no logical guarantee that the future will resemble the past.
- Example: Just because the sun has always risen doesn’t mean it must tomorrow.
- Conclusion: All empirical knowledge is probabilistic, not certain.
🔗 Learn more:
- David Hume’s Problem of Induction – SEP
- Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) introduced methodic doubt: doubt everything until reaching a foundation of certainty.
- His famous line: Cogito, ergo sum (“I think, therefore I am”).
- Only certainty: his own existence as a thinking being.
🔗 Read: Descartes’ Meditations (Full Text)
- Kant accepted Hume’s challenge but argued we can know how things must appear to us through human cognition.
- Certainty exists only within the structures of our perception and reason (phenomena), not about reality itself (noumena).
🔗 Learn more:
- Kant’s Epistemology – SEP
- Famous quote: “Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one.”
- Reaction to Baron d’Holbach’s System of Nature (1770), which argued for atheistic materialism.
- Voltaire criticized both dogmatic atheism and dogmatic theism, favoring deism and intellectual humility.
- His message: embrace doubt and modesty in belief, avoid absolute certainty.
🔗 Learn more:
- Voltaire’s Philosophy – SEP
- Baron d’Holbach – System of Nature (Full Text)
- Most of what we “know” in science, history, and daily life is inductive, not deductive — therefore probabilistic.
- Certainty is rare, and often only available in definitions, math, and logic.
- Hume showed the limits of induction, Kant reframed knowledge within cognition, and Voltaire warned us that claiming certainty itself is folly.
- Podcast mentioned: Philosophize This! – esp. episodes 39–41.
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (SEP – free, scholarly reference).
- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (accessible summaries).
Here is a visual referenced in the discussion, https://stankrants.blogspot.com/2025/05/knowledge-epistemology-step-1.html
The article we read and discussed is Enhancing Our Truth Orientation by Robin Hanson.
John Lucas is a former Oregon Duck cross country and track and field runner. He competed in the 2007 and 2012 U.S. Olympic Team Trials for the men's marathon.
This is the second discussion/interview with John Lucas. John shares the psychology of being a runner and competing among the highest levels.
Jimbo interviews former Oregon cross country and track runner John Lucas. John ran two US trials for the marathon.
John and Jimbo are both Eagle Point High School alumni.
For more about Jimbo's motivation to write a running book clink on the following:
- The Running Fiction Challenge
- It's about the Dope
- Running and Compound Interest
- Ep 22 Running Book Reviews with Alan and Liz
Check out more from Maureen at her website, https://www.maureenmcgranaghan.com/
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Jimbo's Blog
Toni's Podcast is Romance Read Along. She would love to hear from you at romancereadalong@gmail.com.
Here is my blog post on the controversy over Chapter 71 and a possible claim that Enoch was the elected one by God.
For more from Greg and Cosmos University follow any of the links below.
- Website: https://cosmos.university
- Book: https://www.amazon.com/Book-Enoch-Annotated-Antediluvian-Technologies/dp/B0DHHK799N?maas=maas_adg_82427E46932150AB2E8189351DC33751_afap_abs&ref_=aa_maas&tag=maas
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cosmos.university.official
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For more from Brendan Howard visit his link tree here, https://linktr.ee/brendanhoward
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Eminem fans discuss The Death of Slim Shady. I'll take any and all feedback.
Follow Jake Drew on Instagram at @jakedrewtattoos
If you want the structure of the Pilots and Petards Podcast, click here.
Cheat Sheet:
- Petard = bomb
- Hoist a pilot = bad
- Not to hoist a pilot = good enough
Petardar
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (Novel)
- Napoleon (Ridley Scott 2023 Film)
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Short Story)
Click the following link to read the final draft of "Another Bet."
Other "Another Bet" episodes:
- Listen to Ep 22 Another "Another Bet" Discussion for a conversation about the story.
- Listen to Ep 17 Writer Workshop Turned Philosphical Inquiry for a conversation during the drafting process.
Jimbo's writing related to "Another Bet"
- Read "Obsessed with 'The Bet' blog post for a reflection during the early writing process.
For more on the original story read:
- The Bet by Anton Chekhov (short story)
- The Bet (Wiki page)
Read "Another Bet" here.
Listen to "Another Bet" here.
"Obsessed with 'The Bet' blog post.
Running Book Reviews with Alan and Liz
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/runningbookreviews/
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/reviews_running
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/runningbookreviews/ - Podcast webpage: https://runningbookreviews.buzzsprout.com
- By Me a Coffee site! https://www.buymeacoffee.com/runningbookreviews
- Or send them a Text Message.
Books
- A list of the books mentioned in the episode
- The Most Popular Running Fiction
Inspiration
- Saint Ralph (A Great Canadian Movie)
- Chasing Pounamu (Tarawera 100 mile ultra marathon documentary)
Click here for the previous media fasting episode.
More From Jimbo
- Jimbo Radio
- Read Good Poetry Blog
- Goodreads
- Peace Corps Blog (poorly written)
- Europe Blog (terribly written)
If you want the structure of the Pilots and Petards Podcast, click here.
Cheat Sheet:
- Petard = bomb
- Hoist a pilot = bad
- Not to hoist a pilot = good enough
Petardar (Recommendations)
- The Matrix (film)
- The Clone Wars Ahsoka’s Exit S05E17-E20 (animated series arc)- Ahsoka is set up, and leaves the Jedi, leading Anakin to cast further doubts on the Jedi Order.
- Knights of the old republic II (video game)
- Dead Ringers (film)
"Question: what was the longest solo activity you have done recently without any earbuds or other forms of media? Phone included"
This text sparked my little activity and episode.
I've been on a death penalty kick. I read and obsessed over The Bet by Anton Chekov months ago. That story led me to looking into solitary confinement and attempting to rewrite my own version of the story. I ended up reading and really liking The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer. Researching ideas from Mailer's book led me to Dale Brumfield.
Click here to learn more about Dale M. Brumfield, Journalist, Author, Cultural Archaeologist, Criminal Justice Reform Advocate. Check out his website for his books and articles. Dale recommends reading Closing the Slaughterhouse: The Inside Story of Death Penalty Abolition in Virginia for a history of the death penalty in Virgin.
Click here to see a visual of capital punishment in the US by state from 1970-2021
More from Jimbo at the following
- JimboRants (Blog)
- Goodreads Profile
- Twitter @jimbostank
- Poetry Blog
- Pilots and Petards Podcast (inactive)
Content Specific to the Episode
- The Bet by Anton Chekhov (short story)
- The Bet (Wiki page)
- Obsessed with "The Bet" (blog post)
- Experience vs Wisdom (article)
- Why Do Anything? (article)
More from Brendan Howard
- Brendan's Link Tree
- What People Do (podcast)
- Reading University Library and Pocket University (substack)
- Experience vs Wisdom (article)
- Why Do Anything? (article)
More from Jimbo
- Obsessed with "The Bet"
- JimboRants (Blog)
- Goodreads Profile
- Twitter @jimbostank
- Poetry Blog
- Pilots and Petards Podcast (inactive)
Is Bryce a right wing nut job or a stressed sideliner? Jimbo vets Bryce using the Pew Political Typology Quiz, click here to take it.
More from Jimbo at
- JimboRants (Blog)
- Goodreads Profile
- Twitter @jimbostank
- Poetry Blog
- Pilots and Petards Podcast (inactive)
Discord Link- https://discord.gg/fHJTZhVHaS
Ep 15 The Prestige Trap with Billy Trout, author of Disassembling and Packaging. Read The Prestige Trap, part of Billy's Employee Factory series, or check out his short story The Greatest Good (short story). Music by EvgenyBardyuzha from Pixabay
More from Jimbo at
- JimboRants (Blog)
- Goodreads Profile
- Twitter @jimbostank
- Poetry Blog
- Pilots and Petards Podcast (inactive)
The first sentence of the novel Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. Click here for complete show notes and script. Click here for an Siddhartha pre-reading essentials episode. Music by EvgenyBardyuzha from Pixabay
Further Investigation
- Plato's Allegory of the Cave
- Hesse: The Wanderer and His Shadow
- Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche
-
HesseTogether
- Siddhartha on the Hedonic Treadmill
- Original Reddit Post
More from Jimbo at the following
- JimboRants (Blog)
- Goodreads Profile
- Twitter @jimbostank
- Poetry Blog
- Pilots and Petards Podcast (inactive)
Original German
Im Schatten des Hauses, in der Sonne des Flußufers bei den Booten, im Schatten des Salwaldes, im Schatten des Feigenbaumes wuchs Siddhartha auf, der schöne Sohn des Brahmanen, der junge Falke, zusammen mit Govinda, seinem Freunde, dem Brahmanensohn. (audio)
English Translation
"In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest, in the shade of the fig tree is where Siddhartha grew up, the handsome son of the Brahmin, the young falcon, together with his friend Govinda, son of a Brahmin." by Gunther Olesch, Anke Dreher, Amy Coulter, Stefan Langer, and Semyon Chaichenets
"In the shade of the house, in the sunshine on the river bank by the boats, in the shade of the sallow wood and the fig tree, Siddhartha, the handsome Brahmin’s son, grew up with his friend Govinda." by Hilda Rosner
"In the shadow of the house, in the sun on the riverbank by the boats, in the shadow of the sal-tree forest, in the shadow of the fig tree, Siddhartha, the beautiful brahmin's son, the young falcon, grew up with his friend, the brahmin's son Govinda." by Sherab Chodzin Kohn
"In the shade of the house, in the sun on the river bank by the boats, in the shade of the sal forest, in the shade of the fig tree grew up Siddhartha, the beautiful son of the Brahmin, the young falcon, together with Govinda, his friend, the son of the Brahmin." by Google"
In the shade of the house, in the sunlight on the riverbank where the boats were moored, in the shade of the sal wood and the shade of the fig tree, Siddhartha grew up, the Brahmin’s handsome son, the young falcon, together with his friend Govinda, the son of a Brahmin." Translated by Joachim Neugroschel
Click here for the visuala referenced. Read Brief History of Equality by Thomas Piketty for a comprehensive understanding of the visuals.
Free to Choose Documentary with Milton Friedman. It's a 10 part series, I really enjoyed it. They republished a few more in the 90s. The discussion with Steve Cohen was the best stand alone discussion.
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More from Jimbo at the following
- JimboRants (Blog)
- Goodreads Profile
- Twitter @jimbostank
- Poetry Blog
- Pilots and Petards Podcast (inactive)
Terms Used
- Tautology
- Hedonism
Suggested Readings and Listenings
- On the Use and Abuse of History for Life (essay)
- Beyond Good and Evil (epigrams)
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra (“God is dead”)
- The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (ebooks)
- The Gay Science (ebook and audio)
- Ecce Homo (autobiography)
- The Sipo Matodor (podcast episode)
- The Nietzsche Podcast (Podcast)
- Maximes by Francois de La Rochefoucauld (book)
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (ebook and audio)
Music by EvgenyBardyuzha from Pixabay
More from Jimbo at the following
- JimboRants (Blog)
- Goodreads Profile
- Twitter @jimbostank
- Poetry Blog
- Pilots and Petards Podcast (inactive)
I strongly recommend this resource as a cheat sheet for Eastern terms in the novel Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse. https://hesse.projects.gss.ucsb.edu/works/SiddGlos.html
Follow #HesseTogether on Twitter, we're currently reading it a chapter a day (December 2022)
Public Domain Ebook and Audiobook
- Siddhartha at Standard Ebooks
- Siddhartha in German and English translation from Project Gutenberg
- Siddhartha public domain audiobook at LibriVox
Other Pre-Reading Resources
- Eastern Terms
- Intro in Buddhism
- Intro to Hinduism
- Hesse's Wiki Bio
- Penguin Random House Reading Guide
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More from Jimbo at the following
- JimboRants (Blog)
- Goodreads Profile
- Twitter @jimbostank
- Poetry Blog
- Pilots and Petards Podcast (inactive)
History for Atheists website
Articles by Tim O'Neill:
- Jesus, History and Miracles
- Progression of Jesus’ Resurrection Stories (with visual/table referenced)
- Reza Aslan
Further Investigation
- Was Jesus a Magician?
- John the Baptist's Resurrection (Mark 6:14-16)
- Celsus
- When Prophecy Fails
Tim referenced Our Fake History Podcast. I listened to a few episodes that caught my attention, and I really enjoyed them. I'll probably listen to more of his episodes. I especially liked Ep #37- Did Robert Johnson Sell His Soul to the Devil.
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Join the hashtag #HesseTogether on twitter to follow a 2022 reading of the novel Siddhartha by Herman Hesse here.
Find more from Anthony David Vernon here.
Essential Terms:
- Atman
- Anatta
Public Domain Ebook and Audiobook
- Siddhartha at Standard Ebooks
- Siddhartha in German and English translation from Project Gutenberg
- Siddhartha public domain audiobook at LibriVox
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Jimbo is joined by Professor of Philosophy Nate Sheff to discuss the self. The conversation assumes a physicalist worldview. We gloss over dualism, but we do not defend or debate its merit. What would happen if you took a person's mind and put it into another person’s body? Listen to find out. Music by EvgenyBardyuzha from Pixabay
Click here for a great visual to help grasp dualism vs physicalism.
For more from Jimbo visit his blog Jimbo Rants.
Freaky Friday Thought Experiment:
Take Person 1 (mind 1 and body 1) and swap them with Person 2 (mind 2 and body 2) and create Person 3 (mind 1 and body 2). Who is Person 3?
- Person 1- mind 1 and body 1
- Person 2- mind 2 and body 2
- Person 3- mind 1 and body 2
Terms Used in Podcast:
- Mind- the stuff producing mental phenomena, the brain and neurons.
- Body- what a 3 year old thinks minus the mind.
- Person- the mind and body.
- Self- something somewhere between deep and illusionary. Listen and let us know!
- Self consciousness
- Empiricism
- Physicalism
- Dualism
Recommended Reading:
- David Eagleman
- Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit
- The Man Who Wasn't There: Investigations into the Strange New Science of the Self by Anil Ananthaswamy
Jimbo and Ryan talk alcoholism. Mostly, Ryan shares his story and experience with addiction.
A.A. says, ”Membership is open to anyone who wants to do something about their drinking problem.”
More from Eric Thomas. Music by EvgenyBardyuzha from Pixabay
Correction of religion and addiction: Peterson is misleading. Spirituality is promising, but not proven. From "A focus-group study on spirituality and substance-abuse treatment:"
"Spirituality has been shown to be a significant and independent predictor of recovery and/or improvement in indices of treatment outcome (Avants, Warburton, and Margolin, 2001; Carter, 1998; Heinz, Epstein, and Preston, in press; Kendler, Gardner, and Prescott, 1997; Piedmont, 2004). Levels of spirituality increase between treatment entry and subsequent recovery (Borman and Dixon, 1998; Mathew, Georgi, Wilson, and Mathew, 1996; Pardini, Plante, Sherman, and Stump, 2000), and levels of spirituality may be greater in individuals whose recovery is successful compared to those who have relapsed (Jarusiewicz, 2000). Length of sobriety has also been positively associated with spirituality (Carter, 1998; Poage, Ketzenberger, and Olson, 2004), while commitment to a higher power may lessen the severity of relapse episodes (Morgenstern, Frey, McCrady, Labouvie, and Neighbors, 1996). In retrospective studies, recovering addicts frequently reported spirituality as an important component of their recovery efforts and to be helpful in maintaining changes made during treatment (Flynn, Joe, Broome, Simpson, and Brown, 2003a, 2003b; Koski-Jannes and Turner, 1999). Additionally, spiritually oriented lay programs such as Narcotics Anonymous (NA) and Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) are widely popular, especially in the United States, and although it has been notoriously diffcult to assess the effectiveness of such programs in their naturalistic incarnations, there is some evidence that they are effective (Fiorentine, 1999; Fiorentine and Hillhouse, 2000; Giffen, 1997; Weiss et al., 1996)."
Why Thomas Sowell? I will post and share my script when I finish it. Until then, these are great next stops if you're interested.
- https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/55277906
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_and_Decisions
- http://tsowell.com/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Use_of_Knowledge_in_Societythom
- Dispersed knowledge
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Proverbs 13:24: Whoever spares the rod hates their children, but the one who loves their children is careful to discipline them.
The new proverb presented: "spoil your child, beat them with a stick." Spoiling children is bad hmm kay.
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Welcome back. I brought on Forrest to take over the interviewer role. Forrest is someone who know crypto better than I do, but no where near as much as Tzuo. For the last Crypo episode click here.
Topics:
- Why 21 million bitcoin doesn't matter
- Proof of Work vs Proof of Stake
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Chances are, most of what we create will barely be heard, read, and or remembered as time goes on. In a 100 years from now, we’ll be lucky if more than a handful of people even think about us. In 200 years, it’s almost certain that we will be entirely forgotten.
Why use our scare time and energy creating something that will be so easily forgotten? Why not spend that time somewhere else? Does creating something provides more growth and positives than negatives?
“God created the world for His glory in that He created the world for the sole purpose that humanity knows and loves Him.”
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Tzuo teaches Jimbo crypto over a podcast discussion. The conversation centers around crypto currencies, especially bitcoin, as an alternative solution to centralized institutions arbitrating, settling, or enforcing contracts. We discuss why mining is a feature of that solution.
How did they do? Any and all feedback is welcomed and appreciated.
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Here is a short write up by Jimbo that describes the thought experiment.
Ideas mentioned worth exploring more:
- Scalability
- Assortative Mating