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Cults, Religions and Governments

On the 9th episode of the Up Your Dialogue podcast we explore the issue of Cults. As we do so we also get into Religion and how governments have interacted with both through various times in history. We start off as normal talking about current events which happen to be the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as well as the retreat from Syria. Just after the 20 minute mark we begin to talk about cults in general by giving a definition and some categories then J.Scott begins with the Agnostic view. Just after the 44.30 mark we discuss specific cults from an infamous list that J.Scott brings to the table. Of that list we move into more general Christian and non-Christian cults that some consider Religions such as Mormonism by the 1 hour mark.By the 1 hour and 20 minute mark we are talking about the spiritual fate or Mitt Romney and the rest of the time we go into history and talk about Christianity from it’s early days as a “Superstition” as stated by Pliney the Younger to Constantine and all the way to the founding fathers. We hope you enjoy the podcast.

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Open Dialogue

In the seventh episode we introduce our open dialogue format where there is no specific topic. We have an open dialogue where anything goes. We ended up giving updates on our new twitter account that is already closing in on 300 followers and our new “Up Your Diablog” where we will be putting our thoughts in written form. The new website is still at upyourdialog.com. We also talked about the crazy world of #Twitter until about the 37 minute mark. After that we discussed the new book by Peter Boghossian @peterboghossian and James Lindsay @ConceptualJames called How to have impossible conversations until around the 55 minute mark. We gave the book an endorsement just as Richard Dawkins has which shows how the book transcends lenses. The rest of the podcast focused on the Democratic Primary and a closer look at the insanity that most of the lower tier candidates have become. Our focus was on them since we will not be seeing much of them soon.

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A tale of two cities – Detroit and Portland

In Season 1 episode 3 we talk a little about the latest mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton and then about violence and inner city problems in general. The cities chosen are our respective hometowns and cities that we can learn from in terms of how problems like violence and poverty become problems and,…

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