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Amber, Ashlee, Dave
Guest Hosts:
Barbara, Dave Carron of Ravencast, Scurvy Dog
04:17
Sociopathy, is it everything that is anti-values?
04:30
Trying to define sociopath
06:45
Norse concepts focusing on the tribe that comes above the outside world. Is that related to what we discussed of sociopaths?
09:02
What about people who say they want to be part of the group, but don’t understand what that actually means?
09:37
Our society isn’t raising people that are understanding community anymore. It’s become your family vs. the community
10:26
Many problems can come from problems laid in the long term thinking of people.
10:55
Has technology impaired our feelings on community by promoting too much independance?
11:38
Way back when, even cavemen had to have social skills to get along with each other. It was life and death for them.
12:49
ADD is the caveman disease, it worked for them back then…but not too much use for the modern day.
13:41
There is research regarding the brain and how abuse and depression is physically changed in the brain to hinder the ability of individuals to interpret their world around them.
15:23
Abuse, if it physically changes DNA…it no longer falls to just your immediate family, but generations down the line.
16:12
The cultural expectations of how a child succeeds in school.
16:49
The majority of our morals, shakily, comes from christian morals.
17:13
How crazy is it that Christians feel comfortable asking God for someone’s death, but if a pagan said they were going to do a spell for someone’s demise…we’d never hear the end of it.
18:23
Joe elaborates more on sociopaths and how they are charming people.
19:40
Should our values include obeying the law? And what ever happened to civil disobedience?
20:30
People of moral compass don’t need laws to tell you what to do.
21:00
Rape is bad…unless we rename it “Surprise Sex”!
21:32
Murder is bad…yes?
21:52
A man just used his wife breaking a blood oath as “valid reason” to murder his wife. Wait…WTF?
23:22
Crazy people using crazy beliefs to validate murder kind of pull the pagan community into action so outsiders don’t start relating with what the murders are doing with what we believe in.
24:37
The catch 22 of saying we do or don’t follow laws.
25:11
When walking at night in Kansas…wear tail-lights
25:27
Can’t we just think instead of having zero tolerance? Have we not noticed it doesn’t work?
25:40
Dave Carron explains several ways to fight laws that we don’t agree with and getting results
28:21
The American way…you want something changed…sue someone!
29:21
Best way to get something changed without going to court…go outside your personal comfort bubble and MAKE FRIENDS!!!
30:16
Friends will help you move, real friends help you move bodies!
30:30
Being blunt and honest, should we have a mask or should we just be ourselves?
30:46
All beating arond the bush ever got you was dizzy and tired
31:06
Small lies can even come back at you, people generally appreciate it more than them finding out later.
32:01
Many things goes back to social skills
32:13
Norse concept regarding the happiness you get from community.
32:41
How Dave’s boss explains how they all need to be blunt and honest and why.
33:03
Are pagan values actively present in the communities we participate in?
33:08
Amber and Barbara’s Powwow and the community involved there…if only we had less that had Cherokee princess grandmothers.
33:42
Yes, Monicans are a group of natives
33:59
The Pagan Community Group on facebook
34:24
Barbara talks about the opportunists that use people’s faith to make money, instead or happening to do something you feel strongly about and love.
35:19
Even in festivals, you have people making things by hand because it’s something they feel deeply, and then you have the people that have a lot of crap from China
35:46
Joe brings up the “Me Generation” and how it relates
36:24
It’s the ones that just kind of want to dance across the surface of the religion instead of living the religion that seem to cause problems when it comes to presenting a face of the community.
37:46
If you’re in it for money rather than religion, congratulations…you have just been dubbed “New Ager”
39:35
People are more likely to act upon someone’s actions rather than their beliefs
40:17
If you’re shopping for your religion at Barns & Nobel…have fun with that
40:48
But don’t we have a responsiblity as a community to kind of spread the word and clean things up?
41:34
Choose your battles. Filtering is good…but let’s not try and picket a book store for having crappy books.
42:52
Should PCP be listing events or vendors that are good and/or bad?
44:11
Many filtering comes down to how should we approach it and choose our battles?
45:40
In the chatroom: Do the organizers of events have a responsibility to filter what’s in their own event?
47:38
In the chatroom: Are you willing to die for your beliefs? The debate ensues…
49:13
The idea between standing in front of a firing squad or pulling the trigger…and living for your beliefs.
50:16
Missing nuances because of it being typed words instead of having vocal inflection
50:41
Jonestown…where they drank the Kool-Aid. You know what guys…it wasn’t all willing
51:30
Jim Jones is a perfec example of sociopath!!
52:01
If you want to earn Joe’s respect, don’t die for your beliefs…live for them
53:08
If you meet someone that asks you “Would you die for your beliefs”, you may want to seriously reconsider your situation…like knowing your exits.
53:51
How everyone is taking a simple statement in the chatroom and everyone is taking it differently.
54:28
The appropriate response to “Would you die for your religion”…it’s obviously “Well it’s more fun to make other people die for theirs”
54:47
PCP…telling people to shoot people during their values episode…classic
55:27
What ethics do we peronsally employ in our own lives.
55:43
Being blunt and honest…when it’s tactful
56:18
Learning as much as possible instead of just kind of going with what sounds good. Personal research and introspection
56:41
Be a productive member of society!
57:41
Make the world a better place!
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