Ep 365: Dialogue | Anthony Magnabosco | Zain (2) Comfortableness (Muslim Hates Uncertainty)

Summary: Zain returns roughly three weeks later for another chat to explore what's holding him in the Islamic faith. Watch video of talk here: https://youtu.be/XZuUbdmB7zA Wanna send me to Utah specifically to engage with LDS Church members and help bring Street Epistemology to the Mormon and ex-Mormon communities? Click here to learn how: https://gf.me/u/w7uvi4 Location: San Antonio, Texas Recorded: 18 September 2019 Released: 9 January 2020 Ex-Muslims of North America: https://exmuslims.org/ Recovering from Religion: https://www.recoveringfromreligion.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/magnabosco (follow me) YouTube: https://youtube.com/magnabosco210 (tons of videos) Facebook: https://facebook.com/magnabosco210 (like my page) Website: https://anthonymagnabosco.com (contact me, appearances) SE Resources: https://tinyurl.com/abm-se-resources SE Community: https://tinyurl.com/abm-se-community SE Discord Server: https://discord.gg/sKap3zM Skip ahead to a desired point in the talk: -- Pushback: 03:20 Repeating: 03:49, 04:19, 10:48, 11:48 Skate or Die: 10:20, 23:28 Pausing: 10:48 Mirroring: 11:03 Sentence Finishing: 11:43, 15:08 Morality: 14:13 Weighting: 16:03 Closing: 17:24 Re-Cap: 18:01 Bonus: 21:55 Postlude: 23:10 -- Note: Add 2 minutes to these timestamps if listening to the podcast version of this talk. Noun. 1. comfortableness - a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain; "he is a man who enjoys his comfort"; "she longed for the comfortableness of her armchair" Audio Only: LINK COMING SOON Audio correction provided by Philipp Grzemba. Music provided by Jim Rhodes, with Dan Harris on lap steel. Links to References in Video: My first talk w/Zain: https://youtu.be/1QnVcGq3Kow ** Add foreign language captions w/YouTube's community contributions tools ** Mistakes: Looking back, I wish we discussed the term "anxiety," because it seems to me that stress might be more of a factor than happiness here. I'm also wondering if the term "resistance" was less about refusal, friction, or being disaffected and perhaps more about "managing urges." Definitely worth exploring if we get another chance to speak. Recorded w/Go-Pro. Edited w/PowerDirector. The views addressed here are mine and mine alone, and are not necessarily shared by members of my family and friends.