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Imagine Thought Experiment podcast

A Religion and Spirituality podcast
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So maybe we can’t understand the idea of hell, and throw it out. What was allthat stuff in the Bible about it for? Why is it so important to behave well?Why did god put us on the earth at all? Andy sits with the lack of hell for abit, and
What if there were an eternal fire where people you love were tortured forever?What would that be like, how can we sit with that idea and inhabit it? Andyhas great difficulty, and is compelled to continue sitting with the idea ofgod’s goodn
If the actual god came to earth and walked around, how do we deal with thisidea? Can it even make sense? How does it feel when we sit with this ideaand try to figure out what it means?Words: by Andy Balaam, released unde
People often call Jesus a good man - does this make sense? Andy thinks throughwhat it would be like if Jesus was just a man. Would it make sense to callyourself a Christian? Sitting with the idea, is there anything left for aChristian if
If time steps forward like clockwork and everything is determined before ithappens, can we really exist at all? What are we if we are machines? Howdoes it feel to inhabit that idea and sit with it for a while?Words: by A
If the horrible things we see in this world are all there is, and there is nofinal reckoning, how do we feel? What would we do? Will we look for morejustice in this world, or will we give up on the idea?Words: by Andy Ba
If every wrong was going to be punished, and the people who had been hurt wouldbe looked after, and given justice, what would that be like? Would we reallylike everything about us to be known? How would we act?Words: by
Doesn’t it feel like sometimes some things matter? What do we mean when we saylife has meaning? Does the idea fall apart when we look too closely at it?What would it feel like if something mattered? What would it feel like?
We’re exploring worlds where some of the things we normally pin our hopes onare gone, so it’s natural to look at the fundamental question: what if nothingmatters? Andy spends some time trying to feel that, and work out what we woulddo or th
Having tried to inhabit the idea of there being no god in the last episode,this time Andy tries to feel what it would be like if someone was there: ifshe were listening; if he spoke. We spend some time sitting with the idea,and trying to ex
What are the implications if there really is no god? No personality guiding,judging, interfering with the world as we experience it? Andy tries to takeon board what it really means if no-one is listening.Words: by Andy B
Andy continues his exploration of life and death by thinking out loud aboutwhat it could really mean for there to be a soul - if death did not exist.Would we continue moving forward through time? How would we act and feelif we really believ
Andy begins exploring and trying to inhabit different worldviews by askinghimself what it would be like if death really existed - in other words if thereis no such thing as a soul that lives on after death, or anything like it.
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