Embrace The Void
Embrace The Void
Welcome friends, to a podcast for a darker timeline. Maybe the darkest of all timelines. Definitely not one of the good timelines. Maybe it’s always been a dark timeline, maybe the Hadron collider screwed us over. Science may never know. What we do know is that we live in the void. The void, a place where a chittering mass of void crabs can infest a person suit and win the presidency. The void, a place where we're just clever enough to know that climate change is happening, but not quite clever enough to do anything about it. The void seems terrible and cruel, but it loves you, in its own ironic way.
Episodes
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Sep 28, 2018 • 58min
EV - 062 Innocence in the Void
Presumption of innocence in the law vs. society. He said, she said, but apparently only "he" is telling the truth?In this episode we go to where the rubber of philosophy meets the road of our daily lives. We discuss the Judge Kavanaugh hearings from a philosophical angle, and of course, more about octopi.Opening Invocation:AaronHero of the Week:Octopuses on MDMA
Sep 20, 2018 • 57min
EV - 061 This Is Where The Suffering Begins
We are once again fortunate enough to bring on Jesse Rabinowitz for this discussion on Mind Body Dualism. This time we jump right into the weeds so think you can't see the tails from the Velociraptors.Opening Invocation: Jesse
Sep 13, 2018 • 40min
EV - 060 Better Know Angela Davis
For this months segment of Better Know A Philosopher, we talk about Angela Davis. A highly dynamic figure who's still making speeches and continuing her activist path from the Black Panthers, to Occupy Wall Street.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrSIm2RXN4oOpening Invocation:"The Book of Disquiet" by PessoaHero of the Week:This thing: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/bnpv85/the-emerging-fetish-of-laying-alien-eggs-inside-yourself
Sep 6, 2018 • 1h 1min
EV - 059 A Philosopher Named Desire
For this weeks episode we welcome on Alonzo Fyfe, a philosopher and proponent of Desirism. We discuss this ethical model and how it relates to morality.References: Desirism Facebook Atheist Ethicist DesirismOpening Invocation: Ben ThompsonHero of the Week: John McCain
Aug 30, 2018 • 58min
EV - 058 Can Art Go Too Far?
This episode could also be named, "Aaron and GW try to pronounce peoples names". We dive into this question about art going too far. Getting into the weeds of what constitutes too far objectively, and how that relates to our subjective opinions of too far.Reference Material: https://www.therichest.com/shocking/15-performance-artists-who-took-their-art-way-too-far/Opening Invocation: Grosse Pointe BlankHero of the Week: Another Octopus
Aug 23, 2018 • 1h 1min
EV - 057 Delightful Bitchcraft
Today we're joined by the lovely ladies from Delightful Bitchcraft and Secular Soup Podcast. We talk about everything from kids and bullying, the mormon church, and how the womb is your first apartment.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/opinion/climate-change-parenting.htmlOpening Invocation:Natural History MuseumHero of the Week:Joe RadinovichAnonymous
Aug 16, 2018 • 1h 4min
EV - 056 Better Know David Hume
Another installment of Better Know A Philosopher. This time we're diving into David Hume. During out conversation we even go into the weeds of some ways philosophers talk and argue, and why slave owners suck.Opening Invocation:The AnimatrixHero of the Week:Susan Unterberg
Aug 10, 2018 • 1h 1min
EV - 055 Vaccines Make You A Muppet
Today we're joined with Eran Segev, the president of Australian Skeptics. We talk about what the organization does, their convention coming up in October, and the lovely anti-vaccination movement.Opening InvocationMuppets (Thanks to @Ghostwoods @MichaelToole @camgarrity)Hero of the Week:Anonymous
Aug 2, 2018 • 1h 6min
EV - 054 Steel vs. Straw Arguments
What is a Staw-man (or as we call it Staw-bot) fallacy? What about a Steel-bot? We dive into both of these types or arguments and dig into the importance of Steel-boting and why we do it.Opening Invocation: Jesse Rabinowitz from Zen BuddhismHero of the Week:Bo Burnham (film Eighth Grade)
Jul 26, 2018 • 1h 1min
EV - 053 Embrace The Reckoning
Today we're joined by fellow podcaster Stephanie Lepp of Reckonings podcast. This wonderful podcast interviews people who've had a major life changing moment or moments that altered their ideology or belief of something. Opening InvocationJesse Rabinowitz Source: Zen BuddhismHero of the WeekAnonymous
