Yeah, we’re going there. In one of our mailbag episodes, Chris Hayes joked about doing an hourlong meditation on mortality. Surprisingly, more than a few of you spoke up in favor of the idea, and one of our #WITHpod listeners suggested checking out a book called “This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom” by philosopher Martin Hägglund. In his book, Hägglund takes on some of the most fundamental questions we face if, in fact, this one life is all we have. Say there’s no afterlife – what does it then mean to mourn, to love, and to be a human on this planet? What do we owe each other and what do we owe ourselves? So this week, we look at one of the biggest and scariest and, depending how you look at it, most beautiful questions yet: what if this is it?» Subscribe to MSNBC:
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Chris Hayes Podcast With Martin Hägglund | Why Is This Happening? – Ep 82 | MSNBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5Zyrl2cIsY
awesomely epic
Vote for trump
CommieTalk with Lord Boogerflicker
One Thousand year Reign# / the Messiah???
BIDEN NOW OFFICIALLY UNDER INVESTIGATION IN UKRAINE!!!!
THE FAKE NEWS LIES !!!!
MSDNC JUST DESTROYED YOUR 401K
I think Bernie supporters know he would destroy the USA but they want revenge for Hillary Clinton losing!
Doesn’t anyone police these comments? None of these comments have anything to do with the content of Hayes’ podcast and are probably the product of troll-bots. They should be removed! Come on Youtube! How hard can it be to design a program that compares language for similarity and spots the standard troll-bait??
No. What an inane waste of time “policing” youtube comments. You’re not going to find deep thoughtful discourse here. It’s like trying to sterilize your toilet. A pointless and unrewarding task.
Faith seems to bring out some aspects of our deepest humanity that militant atheism just can’t. A simple example would be faith healing. Sure there is a lot of fakes, but hey – 33% placebo effect is nothing to sneeze at. Faith/hope probably has the advantage of taking the courage of one’s convictions further, maximizing one’s luck in a way that a similar person without faith/hope might give up earlier. The entrainment that individuals experience with one another in religious rituals – just like soldiers marching together in step – builds powerful communal bonds and regulates the excesses of ego; while the emotional sharing, what Durkheim called “effervescence” is the sort of deep emotional structuring that contributes to public trust and moral consistency that is at the core of any functional society. Yes, we can get some of these benefits from aerobics, art, or national service – but the religious ideas, structures, myths, and rituals just seem to deepen and round out the social bonds. Obviously “God” (whatever that is) does not necessarily have to be part of it at all, ideas such as Dharma, or the rule of law, or the sacredness of all living systems, or ancestors could also work.
You can get the placebo effect without believing in magic.
Chris Hayes says that he wishes he had faith, as many sad atheists say – a sort of faith envy that reflects the radical materialism that Occom’s razor leaves us with by default in the wake of the enormously powerful methods of natural science. As many philosophers have pointed out, the assertion that there exists nothing beyond the material is itself a faith commitment as the more honestly scientific position would be agnosticism because science can neither prove nor disprove supernatural anything. But quantum physics blows up materialism, the quantum slit experiments, not to mention the quantum erasure experiments, entanglement, etc. seems to me to make it far MORE likely that consciousness interacts with sub-atomic fields and may even turn out to be a sort of element unto itself. So instead of getting all depressed by an unfortunate artifact of pop philosophy of science, dig deeper into the utter bizarreness of quantum physics…because there really is no such thing as…well…material as such!
Hayes works the 7/11 glory hole in Reston VA
This guy knows because he used to work that spot before they classed up the joint.
Trump wins again