Ask A Genius 470 – Buying or Selling Online (3)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 470 - Buying or Selling Online (3) December 11, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: eBay, you can look around and find other places that offer slightly - like Etsy - similar stuff, depending on your category. Etsy is not a bid based app. Everybody sets the price. It is good …

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Ask A Genius 468 – Buying or Selling Online (1)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 468 - Buying or Selling Online (1) December 9, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What do you know about buying or selling online? Rick Rosner: Like we've said, high-IQ types get obsessed online; I have been obsessed. My wife has simple tastes. She shops at thrift stores. I used …

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Ask A Genius 467 – Spirituality as a Political Tool (4)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 467 - Spirituality as a Political Tool (4) December 8, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: It is a rare person who continues to believe that the Earth is flat. But just because no one thinks the Earth is flat anymore, except lunatics, and the flat Earth is a naive belief …

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Ask A Genius 466 – Spirituality as a Political Tool (3)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 466 - Spirituality as a Political Tool (3) December 7, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What about the types of the first discussion? What does continual encroachment of more accurate views of the world mean for religious faith and faith in general? Because the trend over centuries has …

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Ask A Genius 465 – Spirituality as a Political Tool (2)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 465 - Spirituality as a Political Tool (2) December 6, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: Let's talk about the whole deal, the use of Evangelicals in politics. Scott Douglas Jacobsen: The political use of religion. Rosner: There is a better word than "use." The energizing of the base. Jacobsen: The zeal? …

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Ask A Genius 464 – Spirituality as a Political Tool (1)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 464 - Spirituality as a Political Tool (1) December 5, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: Conceptions of the world apart from factual knowledge. We take the scientific knowledge or a theology from the past, then they are applied to describe the real world in some way, either to …

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Ask A Genius 463 – Religion, the Scientific Framework, Physical Models of the World, and Diminishment (5)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 463 - Religion, the Scientific Framework, Physical Models of the World, and Diminishment (5) December 4, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: A functionally unlimited of them, too. It is a "for all intents and purposes" infinite. Rick Rosner: Yes, although, that gets scary. But when you say, "Unlimited," it …

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Ask A Genius 462 – Religion, the Scientific Framework, Physical Models of the World, and Diminishment (4)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 462 - Religion, the Scientific Framework, Physical Models of the World, and Diminishment (4) December 3, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: However, you and I have been talking about IC for years now. IC still proposes a unifying set of principles that account for what goes on; although, those principles …

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Ask A Genius 461 – Religion, the Scientific Framework, Physical Models of the World, and Diminishment (3)

In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 461 - Religion, the Scientific Framework, Physical Models of the World, and Diminishment (3) December 2, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: In the 160 or so years since Darwin, halfway through it, you have Big Bang theory coming up, which postulates a world without any special agency. Nobody had the …

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The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 27 – Oldie Goodies

In-Sight Publishing The Middle-Aged Genius’s Guide to Almost Everything 27 - Oldie Goodies December 1, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What's your advice for taking advantage of the new early getting old? Rick Rosner: In general, just get current. If you’re under 70 or if you’re 60-70, you should be able to …

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