We Are Not Saved
We Are Not Saved discusses religion (from a Christian/LDS perspective), politics, the end of the world, science fiction, artificial intelligence, and above all the limits of technology and progress.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 421
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
The Greatest Three Nephites Story Ever Told
Transcript: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatchesendofworld/2023/09/the-greatest-three-nephites-story-ever-told/
It is believed that, during his mortal ministry, Jesus granted immortality to thr…
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[Patheos] - Faith, UFOs, the Supernatural, and Transistor Radios
Why are many people so willing to believe evidence of UFOs and Aliens, and …
Speculative Attempts to Complicate Throughout History - 2023
Transcript: https://www.wearenotsaved.com/p/speculative-attempts-to-complicate
When things aren't going well, those in power will sometimes introduce some speculative chaos in the hopes that what e…
The Thickness of Faith
Transcript: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatchesendofworld/2023/09/the-thickness-of-the-world/
In the book Till We Have Faces by CS Lewis there is a scene where the King is arguing with a pries…
The 11 Books I Finished in August
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The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction by: Matthew B. Crawford
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Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by: Oliver Burkeman
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Generations: The R…
The Apocalypse Will Not Be as Cool or as Deadly as You Hope - 2023
Transcript: https://www.wearenotsaved.com/p/the-apocalypse-will-not-be-as-cool
There are many potential apocalypses, and when people imagine them they imagine that everyone will die. On the contrar…
Does Technology Encourage Virtue?
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 …
The Nation Debt in Three Lists of Six Items - 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.
The Temptations of Technology
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…
The 9 Books I Finished in July and the One I Didn’t
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End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration by: Peter Turchin
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Minds Make Societies: How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create by: Pascal Boyer
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How We Got to…
(Patheos) - And There Was Silence in Heaven...
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 …
Is Pornography a Supernormal Stimuli? - 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,…
(Patheos) - Technological Salvation
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 …
Tribe by Sebastian Junger and the Strange Diseases of Progress - 2023
Transcript: https://www.wearenotsaved.com/p/tribe-by-sebastian-junger-and-the
The Siege of Sarajevo killed 20% of the population, a horror most of us can scarcely grasp, yet those who survived it l…
Chesterton's Fence and Technology
Transcript: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatchesendofworld/2023/07/chestertons-fence-and-technology/
G. K. Chesterton noted that one shouldn't remove a fence until you understand why it was ther…
The Vulnerable World Hypothesis as Map to the Future
Expanding on Nick Bostrom's metaphor for technological development — it's like drawing balls of various shades from an urn, and if you ever draw a pure black ball, the world ends...
Separating the Beneficial From the Barbarous
Transcript: https://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatchesendofworld/2023/07/separating-the-beneficial-from-the-barbarous/
Clearly there are some traditions which should be abandoned. And just as clearly …
Traditions Separating the Important from the Inconsequential - 2023
There's significant evidence that traditional practices were beneficial and adaptive. But many reject traditions as relics of a barbarous past. How do we make that determination?
The Technology of Religion vs. The Technology of Progress
Religion is a very old technology, and the wisdom contains is often h…
