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We Are Not Saved

We Are Not Saved is a podcast covering Eschatology. While this concept has traditionally been a religious one, and concerned with the end of creation, in this podcast that study has been broadened to include secular ways the world could end (so called x-risks) and also deepened to cover the potential end of nations, cultures and civilizations. The title is taken from the book of Jeremiah, Chapter 8, verse 20: The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.
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Now displaying: August, 2023
Aug 30, 2023

Transcript: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatchesendofworld/2023/08/does-technology-encourage-virtue/ 

Last week we looked at how technology appears to multiple our temptations, but what does it do to our better impulses. If we move from considering the Deadly Sins to the Capital Virtues does technology undermine our efforts or assist us?

Aug 23, 2023

Apparently even the "smart" people are finally ready to admit that we should start reducing our annual deficit. In 2017 I was unclear on what the endgame was. I'm still unclear.

Aug 23, 2023

Transcript: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatchesendofworld/2023/08/the-temptations-of-technology/

What effect does technology have on the temptations we experience? If we examine the seven deadly sins it would appear that in all cases technology makes these sins more tempting and more accessible. Why would that be?

Aug 12, 2023
  1. End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by: Peter Turchin

  2. Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create by: Pascal Boyer

  3. How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by: Steven Johnson

  4. Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by: Peter Attia MD

  5. Jump Gate Twist by: Mark L. Van Name

  6. Send Us Your Armies (Pilgrim's Path Book 1) by: Vic Davis

  7. Lonesome Dove by: Larry McMurtry

  8. Science Fiction Short Stories compiled by: Guy d'Andigne 

  9. Adventures of Tom Stranger, Interdimensional Insurance Agent by: Larry Correia 

  10. The Myth of Sisyphus by: Albert Camus

Aug 9, 2023

Transcript: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatchesendofworld/2023/08/and-there-was-silence-in-heaven/ 

In the Book of Revelation we read that when the seventh seal was opened there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour. In this post I'm going to engage in some spurious scriptural speculation about what that might mean. 

Aug 2, 2023

Transcript: https://www.wearenotsaved.com/p/is-pornography-a-supernormal-stimuli-15a?sd=pf 

Supernormal stimuli are those things which encourage us to do something that was historically very useful, but in an artificial and supercharged way. Think of the way junk food hacks our appetite.

Aug 2, 2023

Somehow I got the two audio files mixed up. So I published my substack thinking it was my Patheos piece, so now I'm publishing that Patheos piece. I will go through and try and fix some links, but I don't think I can fix it entirely... In any case here's the Patheos Audio:

Transcript: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatchesendofworld/2023/07/technological-salvation/ 

Two groups have a narrative of human potential — a sense of humanity’s ultimate destiny: the Actively Religious and the Radical Humanists. The former our ultimate salvation will occur in partnership with the divine (e.g. God). For the latter we are destined to be saved by our own efforts. These similarities invite us to consider both as paths to salvation, albeit very different ones.

 

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