The Two Tongues Podcast

This one is the Thanksgiving plague episode where Chris recounts his vicious bout of flu, but also reviews all the great television he watched while recovering. We touch on Ye, the weird, socially-enforced censorship of history and discuss the advantages of developing community in a way that puts the power, creativity and direction in the hands of its members (and not Papa Government).

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In this episode Chris and Kyle get back together after 2 weeks off. We talk about the possibilities of the 2024 presidential election in the U.S. and about the dark realities of a social credit system. He discuss the value of church, of traditional preaching and of human motivation and manipulation. We ask whether spiritual/psychological "maturity" is a matter of will power or if it boils down to hormone levels. 

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In this episode Chris highlights his beef (so far, anyway) with Alfred North Whitehead's model of reality--Philosophy of Organism. He poses the questions that beg for an answer and highlights where Whitehead fails to be clear. Just what the hell is an "Actual Entity"...or an "Eternal Object" for that matter? Whitehead tells us that experience arises from "primary data" and that "a thing" mediates between Potentiality and Actuality. He then waits pages and pages to clarify, with mixed success. I may be taking issue more with his writing style than with the substance of his metaphysics. Listen and let me know if I'm being naive, if I'm missing something, or if my criticisms are valid.

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In this episode Chris talks about the importance of storytelling and shares the tale of his first successful hunt. Kyle develops several incredible marketing slogans directly off the top of his head. The conversation then turns to a comparison of Kwanza with Wicca. We wrap up with Chris' impressions of Alfred North Whitehead and the integrity of our elections.

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In this episode Chris reconnects with friend of the show--Daniel Torridon--of the Onion Unlimited podcast. We talk "Mind" with a capital "M" and Emanuel Swedenborg's strange and speculative thoughts on the nature of our Sun. The conversation then changes to discussion of our relative accents of the English language. We share our comedic ignorance of each other's homeland, geography and yes, accents.

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In this episode Chris dives deeper into Alfred North Whitehead's "Process and Reality." We walk through Whitehead's metaphysics conceptually and learn all the Whiteheadian vocabulary words: "Creative Advance," "Entities," "Eternal Objects," the "Primordial and Consequent natures of God," "concrescence" and the like. We find out what the "Process" is in "Process Philosophy" and we ask the hounding question: "What the hell is an Actual Entity"?

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In this episode Kyle comes dressed as Slipknot, to Chris' surprise. But, what the hell, it's Halloween. We talk about the embarrassing lack of political, historical and geographic knowledge among your everyday American. Does "Great Britain" mean the same as "United Kingdom"? We talk stereotypes and racisms among Europeans and the interesting double standard in how society views poor minorities versus poor people among the majority. And much, much more.

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In this episode Chris attempts a psychological interpretation of the symbols in the great painting by Salvador Dali entitled: Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man. This was an exercise in the same type of free-association the depth psychologists like Freud and Jung engaged in. In it Chris tries to understanding what meaning is and where it comes from. He begins and ends with the same overarching question: Can there be valid meaning interpreted in symbols/art beyond what the artist intended? If so, what does this say about meaning in general? 

I've provided the link to the Wiki below as a reference to the image:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geopoliticus_Child_Watching_the_Birth_of_the_New_Man

 

In this episode Chris and Kyle discuss the culture war, Tolkien vs. Rowling, and then highlight a series of recent news stories that seem to show the cultural tide turning. Oh, and we added web cams to the Two Tongues studio so you all can see our shining faces. Check us out on YouTube...as soon as we figure out how to get the video feed working.

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YouTube: https://youtu.be/_54DwJWcOjA 

In this episode we begin our exploration of Alfred North Whitehead's magnum opus "Process and Reality." This one serves as an introduction to the novel conceptualization of God and conscious experience that Whitehead introduced to the philosophic world, with emphasis on his speculative technique in generating a new model of reality. Whitehead defends imagination as a valid faculty to exploring the world and achieving knowledge. He also envisions reality as a "Process" generated by interaction between and within the One substance that makes up the cosmos.

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