In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 472 - Corroding Unifying Institutions (2) December 13, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What would be the downside of this shift? Rick Rosner: It is the constant distractions. I am reminded of another science fiction story from probably 60 years ago by Kurt Vonnegut, where the concept of …
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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 471 - Corroding Unifying Institutions (1) December 12, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What will happen the short-term with these hammer blows to standard institutions like the church? How will society adapt to this? Rick Rosner: I haven’t thought about this much before but the entire 20th century, …
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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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In-Sight Publishing Ask A Genius 469 - Buying or Selling Online (2) December 10, 2018 [Beginning of recorded material] Rick Rosner: eBay, there are about 3,000 items in this category for sale at any given time; this category that my wife likes. It gives you a chance to see how much stuff is really worth by …
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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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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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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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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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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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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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