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MeaningofLife.tv videos — June 2020
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Jun 22, 2020 —
Nikita Petrov & Tony Ortega
- A Scientology ship commander calls the pandemic “suppressive and anti-social”
- Turning to L. Ron Hubbard during the pandemic: radiation as a state of mind
- The appeal of groups like Scientology in a crisis
- The pandemic is the rare mainstream event that got Scientologists’ attention
- Hubbard and Trump, Scientology and post-truth
- Nikita’s experience with an exercise similar to “past lives auditing”
- We thought the Internet was a threat to Scientology. Were we wrong?
Jun 14, 2020 —
Daniel Kaufman & Massimo Pigliucci
- Are we really as social as the Stoics believed?
- Distinguishing between the “objective” and the “real”…
- …and between the “real” and representations of the “real”
- Dan: It makes no difference whether or not values are objective
- Massimo’s solution to the omnivore’s dilemma
- Massimo: “Values are never separate from facts”
Jun 5, 2020 —
Daniel Kaufman & Milton Lawson
- Spoiler alert! Critiquing Star Trek: Discovery and Picard
- Serial vs. episodic storytelling
- Why Dan hated Discovery‘s main character
- Is the show too woke?
- Debating the big twist in Picard
- Dan: Two things screw up Picard as a Star Trek show
- Throwing science out the window
- Milton: Audiences don’t know what they want
- Have younger viewers turned away from science fiction?
Jun 2, 2020 —
Robert Wright & Paul Bloom
- Paul describes the view from Toronto
- Zero- and non-zero-sum aspects of the pandemic
- Paul: Canada’s multiparty system helps defuse polarization
- A disaster without solidarity
- How our emotions caused us to underreact to the pandemic
- Masks and mobs
- Trump’s fragile feelings
- Why has the external threat of the disease not united humanity?
- A deep dive into the meaning of statistical significance
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