What Would You Do if We Poked You in the Axiom?

What Would You Do if We Poked You in the Axiom?

To ask questions and engage in dialogue about subjects that we call axioms.

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July 12, 2022 76 mins

The first historic episode of What Would You Do If We Poked You In The Axiom?  Meet your three dialogue partners and hear what we propose to do with these things we call axioms.  This episode we poke "Truth".  Can there be truth that is real and can cross boundaries like age, race, geography, or social standing?  Or are we all doomed to live relativistic lives disconnected from one another and the world around us.  Come with us con...

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Join us as we continue to poke the axiom of Truth. Is society possible without truth? Is truth divisive or unifying? What is our relationship to truth?

 

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This episode was recorded at the Black River Innovation Campus and is sponsored by Indelible Inc.

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July 27, 2022 73 mins

We come to an end, not the end, but an end of our dialogue on truth. Where will we arrive? We pursue this thing called truth because we are compelled to. Real truth compels us to pursue. Listen for episode three on the axiom of truth.

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This episode was recorded at the Black River Innovation Campus and is sponsored by Indelible Inc.

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August 3, 2022 81 mins

We tackle the tricky and timely subject of freedom. Freedom as a necessity for life, freedom bound or unbound we lay it out on the table in our pursuit to poke the axiom of freedom.

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August 10, 2022 78 mins

We try to find some more stable ground on Freedom. Let's start with asking "where does freedom come from?" The ground becomes more stable as we progress on our quest for freedom.

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August 17, 2022 84 mins

Does freedom come from the divine? We return to our third source of freedom and explore the possibility of freedom as a state of being, while we continue to ask what enslaves us. Can we say we have freedom? Listen in to our third episode on the axiom of freedom.

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August 24, 2022 73 mins

Our discussion on freedom leads us to the question of good  & evil. If we are given a free state of being what would we choose to do? Good or evil? What are these two things we call good and evil? Are we able to separate them from one another? Join us for our next axiom.

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August 31, 2022 75 mins
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September 7, 2022 78 mins

Episode 3 on good & evil, in which we pin ourselves to the floor with our definitions. But we're not done yet

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September 14, 2022 84 mins

We take another look at Mike's definition of Good and Evil. We try to find what Good looks like and how we might strive for it. Have we said all that can be said? No. Have we made an honest podcast? We think so.

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September 21, 2022 86 mins

Our discussion of good and evil led us to consider the action of good and evil in our lives. We begin a series of episodes on morality.

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September 27, 2022 84 mins

What is the goal of morality? Is it us or does the goal transcend us? We spend time picking apart goals of morality ancient and modern for episode two of morality on What Would You Do if We Poked You in the Axiom?

 

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What makes an action moral or immoral? Is anything moral? Is everything moral? Join us for our final episode on morality, and the final episode of this season. We'll see you again after the break!

 

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This episode recorded at the Black River Innovation Campus in Springfield Vermont and is sponsored by Indelible Inc. (https://becomeindelible.com)

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