Talking Evil | Alex Tzakiris

Rune Soup

Gordon White

Magic, Occult, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Paranormal, Ufo, Spirituality

4.7 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2020

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

The one and only Alex Tzakiris joins us this week for an extended and challenging discussion on the nature of evil.

Alex is in the process of writing a book on the subject, pulling together the testimony and opinions of multiple guests on his excellent podcast, Skeptiko. What does psi data tell us about the possible existence of evil? What about cross-cultural comparisons? We have a frank and challenging discussion.

This is a firecracker of an episode. Or maybe I just smell brimstone?

Show Notes

Preorder Alex's book, Why Evil Matters: How Science and Religion Fumbled a Big One.
Alex's site and podcast, Skeptiko.

Transcript

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0:00.0	Do you have a favorite? Not meant to, but mostly the unloved ones, the unvisited ones, the cases that get dusty and ignored.
0:12.0	All the broken and shunned creatures.
0:17.0	Someone's got to care for them.
0:19.0	Who shall it be if not us?
0:45.3	Yes. Welcome to Roon soup, a weekly podcast about magic, culture and the very best new and old ideas for living in this world, coming to you from 43 degrees south on a small farm in deepest Tasmania.
0:49.2	My name is Gordon and I shall be your host.
0:51.8	This week we welcome back to the show Alex Securus. As many of you know,
0:55.5	Alex is the host of the podcast Skeptico and he is also writing another book, a book about evil. So Alex joins us today for a discussion on this very challenging,
1:07.2	perhaps I mean almost definititionally the most challenging of topics and we actually recorded this last week on Friday as we were
1:15.6	barreling towards a particularly unlovely eclipse, which actually made me a
1:19.8	little superstitious at first, but then I figured let this be my eclipse diversion drain if you
1:26.8	will and that turned out to be the case but a topic like this does bring up, I guess some unavoidable intensity.
1:39.4	There's a lot going on in the world right now and so I'm actually going to do something I never
1:45.6	thought I'd do or have to do really and that's issue a trigger warning I say
1:52.4	this again later in the episode, but obviously in a
1:56.2	discussion of evil we spend time on the example everyone without fail goes straight to when positing whether or not evil exists which is of course child sexual abuse.
2:10.4	We don't dwell on it but we do spend some time with it. And in the context of a discussion where it isn't actually the topic, but it serves as an example of sorts, it might sound a little callous or something and clearly nothing
2:25.2	could be further from the truth. But if just make sure you're in the right
2:30.0	head space for a show like this. You're welcome to come back. Buckle up. There's a lot in our
2:36.5	chat that I will return in the sort of extended outro to about who owns thoughts and can some thoughts be entities or forms of
2:45.7	possession and other metaphysical questions that are certainly useful to grapple
2:51.5	with at the moment, assuming you're in the head space for what is a really good,
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