The Hub Radio Prep Vault - Assumptions and Limitations: Self-Mutilation Is Good For Your Health
Originally discussed on May 25, 2005
What if everything you held dear were just a creature comfort construct with no reality behind it? What if multiple hit-and-run sexual liaisons DO make you more aware of your compatibility and set you up for more success in love? What if working the company for extra hours with casual web surfdom is a good way to stay relaxed and does translate into a more productive long-term associate? What if alcohol is the best social lubricant, smoking actually helps you live longer because stress reduction outweighs any negative effects and kicking the dog actually improves your punting game? Everyone assumes something. "They" always seem to know. But against "common sense", Rupert Murdoch had a ratings hunch, Martin Luther had a laundry list of thesis and DaVinci had a code...or Brown did. Hell, one of'em did! What if the truth lies on the other side of the beating and we're only fooling ourselves by watching it from the safety of Pay-Per-View? What if it falls somewhere between the sacred and the secular?
Do you believe we’re in love with cynicism today or is the exact opposite true?
Do we believe in things and/or people too easily? Do we trust too easily? Why or why not?
Case Study 101:
Intelligent Design Gets A Reverse Monkey Trial—Return to 1925
The Day Judge Jones III Became A Scientist
Wired Magazine – June 2006
Who do you trust the most? The least? Why?
How much do we trust ourselves?
Do you think we are really independent thinkers or are we playing more follow the leader than we even understand or acknowledge?
The Choose Your Own Adventure Series Makes A Comeback – Remember those old stories back in the 70’s that let you choose alternate endings? Publishers are looking to pattern several series of new books after those originals and they don’t even require ecstasy to garner reader appreciation.
Do you think these series will succeed or fail today?
What are some of the things we’re made to believe or are convinced to believe about ourselves? In the world of relationships? Religion? Reality?
Case Study 101
Donald Powell – Czar of the Bayou
U.S. News and World Report – May 22nd, pp. 12
How much of our belief comes from close friends? Culture at large?
Do you feel like your beliefs are constantly being manipulated without you knowing it? Does that bother you? Is it unavoidable?
SOUND OFF—Part 1– Healthy Approach (H) Unhealthy Approach (U) To Relationships
1. I need someone that understands me? H or U
2. You just gotta understand, he’s just not that into you. H or U
3. I need someone who can keep up in order to be compatible with them. H or U
Now Boarding. And They’re Off!
Wired, June 2006, pp. 32
How much of life is about balance and seeing both sides of the coin?
When does…
Caring become Obsession
Honesty become Hurtful
New Precedent become Revisionist History—a la Bill Bennett, America: The Last, Best Hope
Love become Ownership
Disagreement become Hatred
Free Speech become Hate Speech
SOUND OFF—Part 2 True or False
Reality is what you make it. Build your world.
The St. Francis Dam Massacre—Shouldn’t Have Slept Through Geology Class
The Story of the dam that broke and killed dozens destroying entire towns after architects ignored some warning signs.
You can do anything you set your mind to.
Good educations are the building blocks of success.
How often do we examine the motives behind the messenger? What might we find there?
Case Study 101:
“The Court Gets It Right”—NY Times article
(But if you turn this page over and read it @ a 95 degree angle, “NY Times Says Bravo to Reduced Sentences for Violent Criminals”)—Ann Coulter, pp. 266-267
Why don’t we examine the messenger? Is it because we want something to believe in, we WANT rest? How often do we then exercise bad judgement and rest on something/someone that betrays us? What’s our typical response when that happens?
Join the Conversation—Sony Pictures has upped a film discussion forum at davincidialogue.com SoCal megachurches are jumping in too.
daVinci’s Code Takes Home More @ Box Office Than Mona Lisa at Silent Auction—What Can Dan Brown Do For You?
Movie Premise: Religion is responsible for much of the violence and intolerance in the world. It’s a human construct to maintain control of others, especially women. It’s economic. Blind faith has led to many of the world’s worst genocides. Beg to differ? Buy a ticket.
Begging the Question: The movie does make one wonder, “Can one author hit on something that 3,000 years and some of the greatest minds in human history, some of whom dedicated their entire life to it, had just flat out missed?” Maybe.
1. The Enviroment Where the Whole Movement Started—Professor Craig Blomberg
The 5 Year Trace back and political incentives
2. Council of Nicaea, 325AD—The Cover-up Council or the Real Reason for the Get-Together
3. The Bible is the Errant Word of God—So Give Me Some Back-up—pp. 260
Flavius Josephus, pp. 77-78 Tacitus, pp. 81-82 Pliny the Younger, pp. 83 Phlegon, pp. 85
All excerpts from The Case for Christ—By Lee Strobel
CHEW ON THIS:
How many of our beliefs in life are based on fact? How many are based on our unwillingness to “self-mutilate” and ask tough questions from both sides? The truth sets free because it cuts deep. Some mysteries never seem to die out and just keep drawing the rebel searcher back with a call to “break the code”! Some codes would never fit on any canvas. Some would never fit in Google. Some are too big for the search engine. Some require a little more…
What if everything you held dear were just a creature comfort construct with no reality behind it? What if multiple hit-and-run sexual liaisons DO make you more aware of your compatibility and set you up for more success in love? What if working the company for extra hours with casual web surfdom is a good way to stay relaxed and does translate into a more productive long-term associate? What if alcohol is the best social lubricant, smoking actually helps you live longer because stress reduction outweighs any negative effects and kicking the dog actually improves your punting game? Everyone assumes something. "They" always seem to know. But against "common sense", Rupert Murdoch had a ratings hunch, Martin Luther had a laundry list of thesis and DaVinci had a code...or Brown did. Hell, one of'em did! What if the truth lies on the other side of the beating and we're only fooling ourselves by watching it from the safety of Pay-Per-View? What if it falls somewhere between the sacred and the secular?
Do you believe we’re in love with cynicism today or is the exact opposite true?
Do we believe in things and/or people too easily? Do we trust too easily? Why or why not?
Case Study 101:
Intelligent Design Gets A Reverse Monkey Trial—Return to 1925
The Day Judge Jones III Became A Scientist
Wired Magazine – June 2006
Who do you trust the most? The least? Why?
How much do we trust ourselves?
Do you think we are really independent thinkers or are we playing more follow the leader than we even understand or acknowledge?
The Choose Your Own Adventure Series Makes A Comeback – Remember those old stories back in the 70’s that let you choose alternate endings? Publishers are looking to pattern several series of new books after those originals and they don’t even require ecstasy to garner reader appreciation.
Do you think these series will succeed or fail today?
What are some of the things we’re made to believe or are convinced to believe about ourselves? In the world of relationships? Religion? Reality?
Case Study 101
Donald Powell – Czar of the Bayou
U.S. News and World Report – May 22nd, pp. 12
How much of our belief comes from close friends? Culture at large?
Do you feel like your beliefs are constantly being manipulated without you knowing it? Does that bother you? Is it unavoidable?
SOUND OFF—Part 1– Healthy Approach (H) Unhealthy Approach (U) To Relationships
1. I need someone that understands me? H or U
2. You just gotta understand, he’s just not that into you. H or U
3. I need someone who can keep up in order to be compatible with them. H or U
Now Boarding. And They’re Off!
Wired, June 2006, pp. 32
How much of life is about balance and seeing both sides of the coin?
When does…
Caring become Obsession
Honesty become Hurtful
New Precedent become Revisionist History—a la Bill Bennett, America: The Last, Best Hope
Love become Ownership
Disagreement become Hatred
Free Speech become Hate Speech
SOUND OFF—Part 2 True or False
Reality is what you make it. Build your world.
The St. Francis Dam Massacre—Shouldn’t Have Slept Through Geology Class
The Story of the dam that broke and killed dozens destroying entire towns after architects ignored some warning signs.
You can do anything you set your mind to.
Good educations are the building blocks of success.
How often do we examine the motives behind the messenger? What might we find there?
Case Study 101:
“The Court Gets It Right”—NY Times article
(But if you turn this page over and read it @ a 95 degree angle, “NY Times Says Bravo to Reduced Sentences for Violent Criminals”)—Ann Coulter, pp. 266-267
Why don’t we examine the messenger? Is it because we want something to believe in, we WANT rest? How often do we then exercise bad judgement and rest on something/someone that betrays us? What’s our typical response when that happens?
Join the Conversation—Sony Pictures has upped a film discussion forum at davincidialogue.com SoCal megachurches are jumping in too.
daVinci’s Code Takes Home More @ Box Office Than Mona Lisa at Silent Auction—What Can Dan Brown Do For You?
Movie Premise: Religion is responsible for much of the violence and intolerance in the world. It’s a human construct to maintain control of others, especially women. It’s economic. Blind faith has led to many of the world’s worst genocides. Beg to differ? Buy a ticket.
Begging the Question: The movie does make one wonder, “Can one author hit on something that 3,000 years and some of the greatest minds in human history, some of whom dedicated their entire life to it, had just flat out missed?” Maybe.
1. The Enviroment Where the Whole Movement Started—Professor Craig Blomberg
The 5 Year Trace back and political incentives
2. Council of Nicaea, 325AD—The Cover-up Council or the Real Reason for the Get-Together
3. The Bible is the Errant Word of God—So Give Me Some Back-up—pp. 260
Flavius Josephus, pp. 77-78 Tacitus, pp. 81-82 Pliny the Younger, pp. 83 Phlegon, pp. 85
All excerpts from The Case for Christ—By Lee Strobel
CHEW ON THIS:
How many of our beliefs in life are based on fact? How many are based on our unwillingness to “self-mutilate” and ask tough questions from both sides? The truth sets free because it cuts deep. Some mysteries never seem to die out and just keep drawing the rebel searcher back with a call to “break the code”! Some codes would never fit on any canvas. Some would never fit in Google. Some are too big for the search engine. Some require a little more…
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