19 January 2014
By StephenTorrence
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Dr. Mark Webb and Sebastian Bentkowski join Stephen to discuss their varying paths into Buddhism, comparing theory / practice and all the MU! in between.
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Austin Zen Center, Buddha, Buddhism, bullet hell shooters, Catholicism, causation, cedar pollen, Charlie Chaplin, Christianity, Dr. Webb, ecstatic dance, Ender's Game, enlightenment, fencing, Flow, Freud, Islam, Judaism, koans, meditation, memes, PBS Idea Channel, philosophy of religion, postmodernism, poststructuralism, reductionism, reincarnation, Sebastian, Shikantaza, Slavoj Zizek, Snapchat, Springer Press, Stephen, Suzuki Roshi, The Great Dictator, utilitarianism, video games, violence, Wu Wei, Zazen, zen, Zoltan Zabo
30 July 2012
By StephenTorrence
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New guest Bryson Rushing joins Kevin, Stephen, and John Elliott to debate the nature of science, the Higgs Boson, and avian progressive rock bands.
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ATLAS, beer, Big Bang, black holes, Brick, Bryson, Buddha, causation, CERN, CMS, correlation, DARPA, Eagle Scout, Einstein, faith, geocentrism, heliocentrism, Higgs Boson, idealism, Inception, induction, internal consistency, John Elliott, Kevin, Large Hadron Collider, LHC, Looper, NeXT, Pascal's Wager, physics, post-structuralism, probability, religion, Russell's Teapot, science, scientific method, Standard Model, statistics, Stephen, structuralism, Texas Tech University, The Internet, The Matrix, Tim Berners-Lee, Tycho Brahe, World Wide Web
24 April 2011
By StephenTorrence
In Podcast
At any given moment thousands of people around the world are praying (and since it’s Easter today you can probably tack a few more zeroes onto that estimate). Whether it’s praying for the destruction of sinful local businesses or just a little tsunami from God to show the world He’s still awake at the control […]
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Aperture Science, ASMR, Buddha, Buddhism, Catholicism, Christianity, consequentialism, deontology, Dr. Webb, Eleanor Stump, existentialism, God, harm, incest, Islam, J. Crew, Jeopardy!, Judaism, Kiki, Leisure Suit Larry, mantra, meditation, memes, nature, nurture, personality, philosophy of religion, placebo effect, prayer, problem of petitionary prayer, religion, Repent Amarillo, Richard Dawkins, science, Socrates, Stephen, synesthesia, Texas Tech University, The Daily Show, worship, Zagzebsky
