Unemployedidealist
The varied musings of a soul attempting to do important things first and the absolutely necessary when (or if) I find time.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 284
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
189 Emotional Optimization
Logical people (like me) are often tempted to tell emotional people (like my wife) “stop feeling that way!” Which isn’t helpful. In this podcast I suggest a hypothesis which might help me understand …
00:41:44 |
Sun 18 Feb 2024
188 Worship, Participation, and Performance.
This advice on how to prioritize participation in worship, comes from 25 years of singing with inmates in jail
00:42:06 |
Sat 17 Feb 2024
187 Narcissistic Pathologies related to Conspiracy Theories
I believe there is a specific point where adopting conspiracy theories becomes a problem. I also believe there are some simple guards against crossing that line.
00:37:04 |
Fri 16 Feb 2024
186 A Repentance Narrative
What would repentance look like if you believed in a God who wanted you to succeed, not a god who wanted to prove you are a hopeless failure.
00:42:29 |
Tue 13 Feb 2024
185 Understanding Activism part 2 of 2. A Hopeful Alternative
An experience I once had as a guitar teacher gave me a perspective which could transform Activism into something less polarizing and more beneficial to those struggling with confusion about some very…
01:03:06 |
Sat 03 Feb 2024
184 An attempt to Understand Activism part 1 of 2
Growing up possessed by Christian Ideology, I found it easy to believe that people who disagreed with my position did so because they liked being wrong. I am trying to change my approach. I try to be…
00:54:52 |
Fri 02 Feb 2024
183 Three Motivations
I think it is possible to make a meaningful differentiation between the positive motivation when you pursue a goal you expect to reach and when you pursue a meaningful goal that you may never reach. …
00:45:24 |
Wed 24 Jan 2024
182 The Dragon and the Snake
If the snake is the incarnation of a dragon which the walls of the garden cannot keep out, what’s a hero to do? A hero can feel helpless when his fair maiden is confronting a snake of addiction or wo…
00:20:31 |
Mon 22 Jan 2024
179 The Christ and Organized Religion part 3 of 3 the anti Christ and Church.
Could the organizing of Christianity been motivated as an attack on the central message of the Christ. I’m not sure I like my conclusions.
00:33:17 |
Fri 19 Jan 2024
181 Descriptive Identity
A young man stumbles on the difference between descriptive identity and the ambition to identity.
00:31:28 |
Wed 17 Jan 2024
178 The Christ and Organized Religion part 2 of 3. The mind of Satan.
This set of podcasts follows on from “Evidence Needed”. Understanding how the spirit of the Christ might be under attack requires drawing some conclusions about whether Satan has a conscious existenc…
00:36:46 |
Mon 15 Jan 2024
180 A Non-Catholic Eucharistic Allegorical Puzzle
My continuing conversation with a Catholic friend. This isn’t meant as an argument or criticism of the spiritual construct of the Eucharist. I’m just trying to describe my puzzlement in a lighthearte…
00:19:02 |
Fri 12 Jan 2024
177 The Christ and Organized Religion part 1 of 3. The mind of God
This set of podcasts follows on from “Evidence Needed”. Understanding how the spirit of the Christ might be under attack requires drawing some conclusions about whether Satan has a conscious existenc…
00:36:15 |
Fri 12 Jan 2024
176 Aiming Low and the Courage to Whine
Doesn’t sound very inspiring but maybe it’s a useful strategy to avoid the pitfalls of isolation and resentment.
00:31:47 |
Fri 05 Jan 2024
175 A Useful Definition
Join me as I try to figure out why all the attention given to bullying seems to have only made the problem worse.
00:27:17 |
Thu 04 Jan 2024
174 Amoral and Immoral political thought. Part 2 of 2. The Prequel
Personality traits applied to political thought forced me to optimize my approach to people who weren’t as “infallible” as I used to think I was.
00:24:28 |
Tue 02 Jan 2024
173 Amoral and immoral political thought. Part 1 of 2 the Monkey House.
I share a story, talk to a neighbor, and surprise five ruffed grouse. Comments are welcome at [email protected]
00:28:42 |
Mon 01 Jan 2024
172 Seeds
A story from Lakeside Imagination vol. 1 for you to enjoy. Comments are welcome at [email protected]
00:24:32 |
Wed 20 Dec 2023
171 A Reverse Engineered God
How do you separate the value of believing from the object of faith? Would there be a need to draw such a distinction if faith were personal? Is it possible to participate in an organized religion wi…
00:25:11 |
Sat 09 Dec 2023
170 Convoluteder and Convoluteder: a Differentiated Miraculous
I discovered that when you are considering the miraculous nature of the Eucharist it might be helpful to differentiate two different perspectives of the Miraculous. It suggests the idea that we don’t…
00:30:34 |
Wed 06 Dec 2023
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