Ep 375: Dialogue | Anthony Magnabosco | AZ (3) | Optimistic Nihilism (Muslim Becomes Atheist)

Summary: AZ returns for a third chat to share his journey out of religion and relates his experience being interviewed for Street Epistemology. Watch video of talk here: https://youtu.be/tgNAL2dG2v4 Location: San Antonio, Texas Recorded: 27 February 2020 Released: 5 March 2020 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: -- Prelude: 00:03 Hearing Our Voices: 02:53 Video Comments: 03:36, 32:15 Am I Normal? 04:56 Am I Smarter? 06:37 Skate or Die: 08:45, 11:39, 21:29, 22:01, 43:39 Body Hair: 09:48 AZ Finds My Vids: 10:35 Click-baity Titles: 12:21 Would AZ Do SE? 13:32, 31:02, 43:04 Paradigm Shift: 14:22 Religion Challenge: 16:11 AZ's Big Reveal: 17:17 Confidence Scale: 17:47 Genetically Modified Skeptic: 18:39 (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG1uayRlzz3ahT8ISRdyw7Q) Cosmic Skeptic: 18:45 (https://www.youtube.com/user/alexjoconnor) What Changed? 19:45 Legacy Beliefs: 20:19 Zain Reference: 21:16 Advice for Questioners: 21:39 Optimistic Nihilism: 24:34 Rigidly Dogmatic? 27:14 Puzzle Piece: 31:28 On Openness: 32:57 "I Don't Know": 33:41 Yellow is Correct: 34:33 Interview Impact? 34:43 Title for Video? 38:25 How's Kyle? 41:24 Closing Thoughts: 43:39 -- Note: Add 35 seconds to these timestamps if listening to the podcast version of this talk. Audio correction provided by Philipp Grzemba. Intro Music 'Happy Trails' by Text Me Records / Jorge Hernandez, provided by YouTube. Music provided by Jim Rhodes, with Dan Harris on lap steel. Links to References in Video: Watch full talk w/Zain: https://youtu.be/1QnVcGq3Kow ** Add foreign language captions w/YouTube's community contributions tools ** Mistakes: It was probably a mistake to refer to AZ as a Muslim after he identified as atheist, although it's not clear he has abandoned that identifier. 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.