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No.23 - Is It Possible To Own Nothing and Be Happy?
What do you think happens when you attempt to build a civilization or community based on a social structure that penalizes individuals when they act according to their true nature? Think that social structure will be stable? Durable? Do you think it possi
No.22 - In Pursuit of Happiness
If it can be proven that it is at all times beneficial to pursue moral action over immoral action, the individual will always choose moral action. Why? Because the individual lives in the pursuit of his own happiness and it is profitable to do so. Convinc
No.21 - Blueprint for a Moral Society
In order to structure a moral society and do it properly without force or violence in its construction or process, we must make it a scientific endeavor and base our structure on observable and corroborable reality. We’ll need to base our science on postu
No.20 - Threading the Simplification Needle
Galileo had a choice between two prevailing theories that described the structure of our solar system. It was possible to make accurate predictions about the movement of the planets and other celestial bodies, with acceptable precision, using both the Pto
No.19 - Arm the Children
This week's topic is of particular importance to those of us who have kids, specifically of school age and younger. But don’t let that cause you to tune out or skip this episode. Even if you don’t have kids or your kids are grown and out of the house, you
No.18 - Rationality and Morality Are Binaries (Updated)
**I mistakenly uploaded the incorrect file and the original episode had to be deleted. This is the correct version of episode 18.** Morality does not imply universal goodness and neither does it imply rightness. Just because your actions are moral, that d
No. 17 - The Universal Can Opener
Knowing the concept of absolute good gives us an unprecedented advantage in that we are able to determine, with precision, whether a process, action, event, or condition is a relative good or an absolute good. Find out how to use the simplest, the most bl
No. 16 - Addressing The Elephant
In physics, you can’t build anything based on false premises or invalid logic, so it should be of little surprise then that you can’t do it in volition either. Our 6000 year, unbroken historical record of mass murder, torture of innocents, seizure and des
No. 15 - Aristotle's Blunder
I’m not here to disparage Aristotle—I can only hope to achieve 1/100th of what Aristotle achieved, and I have all of the modern conveniences. So, how is it that a brilliant mind such as Aristotle’s could have made such a blunder; how is that possible? The
No. 14 - The Oxymoron of Settled Science
This is the story of how the term “settled science,” is not only oxymoronic but a demonstration of the complete misunderstanding of the workings of the scientific method. The story started long ago, but it continues today with something that has been in t