https://pinecast.com/feed/a-discourse-about-nothing Above is the new link for our podcast. This website and the old podcast feed will be disappearing shortly so that our show can be hosted on pinecast. Pierce’s own personal blog will still be available at: https://attemptingfaith.wordpress.com/ Below is the actual link to the podcast feed if you have trouble finding it on…
Episode 9: The Culture War is a Lie
Pierce and Matt try to make sense of the current state of the culture war.
Episode 8: How Coronavirus Made Me Realize I’m a Jerk (and that I need a new moral paradigm)
Pierce is back to scold you! Danny is on for the first time! I haven’t been outside in a month! Show-notes Overall Point: Our way of seeing the world and considering our place in it is selfish, naive and disconnected from reality. Details of how we see the world: (1) My assuming that I have…
Lecture: Intrinsic Value, the External POV, and Meaning
Intrinsic Value, the External POV, and Meaning
Episode 7.5: A Response to Very Bad Wizards on Ecclesiastes
In this mini-episode, Pierce solves a murder, and responds to some other dudes on their angsty interpretation of Ecclesiastes. (Picture: Albrecht Durer’s “Knight, Death and the Devil.”) Very Bad Wizards (Podcast)
Episode 7: The Meaning of Life and Intrinsic Value
Pull up a chair, and shut your mouth while Pierce once again lectures you about morality, religion and Jordan Peterson. Listener BEWARE! (Picture: Young William James looking pretty sick.) Sources: Wolf, Susan. “Meaningfulness: A Third Dimension of the Good Life” Scruton, Roger. “Of Beauty and Consolation.” Peterson, Goldstein and Craig on the Meaning of Life…
Episode 6: Thoughts on Jordan Peterson
Pierce and Matt pull themselves up by their bootstraps, get high and tight fades, and talk about the internet’s favorite frog, Jordan Peterson. Sources: Cathy Newman Interview Jordan Peterson on the “Left Wingers Going Too Far” Peterson and Scruton on the Transcendent Peterson, Goldstein and Craig on the Meaning of Life
Episode 5: Serenity and Serenity
Pierce and Matt analyze the character, Malcolm Reynolds, from Firefly and Serenity.
Episode 4: The Witcher Episode Feedback
Pierce goes solo this week to answer some feedback we received in our previous two-part episode.
Episode 3: The Witcher 3, Consolation and Religion (Part 2)
Pierce breaks down how the video game, The Witcher 3, radically influenced his philosophical study and introduces Matt to meta-ethics. Part 2 of 2.
