Episode Five: New Realities

01/02/21 • 25 min

Truth is a game, and the stakes are high. Reality is on the move. In this hyper-connected world, anyone can say anything, and there's someone somewhere who will believe it.
It is no longer sufficient to believe something. We need to be careful and thorough and patient, and we need to understand why we believe, and to be able to justify that with evidence and clear thinking.
Understand that you are a creature of magic. You have the ability to speak reality into existence. Every word you speak moves some part of the rudder of truth. Whether you speak with kindness or out of anger, you are choosing one reality over all others that could have been, a reality where you were mean, or lying, or were kind, or patient, or well-informed.

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Episode Four: Religious Realities

It should be a simple question. Do you believe in god, or are you an atheist? A lot of people all over the world say they believe in god, but do they all believe the same way? Does believing in god mean one thing, or is not believing as varied as believing?
The problem with an atheism versus religion approach is that locks us into a false choice. Faith versus evidence. The seen versus the unseen. To divide the world like this, you have to cut your soul in two and throw half of it away. We can do better than that.

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Episode Six: The Reality of History

History moves through us as waves move through water. We are the medium of history and the keepers of our collective memories.
What does it mean to refer to the Civil War as The War of Northern Aggression? If we choose to honor men who fought against our nation so that they could own other people as property, then this is who we are.
It is not an unreasonable question to ask today, why do we allow gun ownership to be sanctioned by the Second Amendment, but at the same time ignore the original intent of that amendment? We must learn and understand our history, but we are not living in our history. History is living through us.