Release Date: September 16, 2022

DISCLAIMER: Some hard and difficult topics. If you are easily offended, this may not be for you. There are sometimes some hard topics and hard truths, and if you are not ready for it, i suggest maybe to revisit at a later time when you do feel more prepared.

Are We Alone?

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Where we take difficult topics and try to identify what’s blocking your view. Try to unlearn and rewash and possibly rewire our brains since we don’t seem to be having much luck changing other people’s views. Full Topics List

STREET EPISTEMOLOGY - SOCRATIC QUESTIONING

I got interested in doing these podcasts through Street Epistemology, which is a mode of Socratic questioning. You are asked questions to challenge your views, to see if the method you used to reach that conclusion is a reliable method to arrive at a conclusion.

• How did you come to that stance?

• Are those reasons legitimate enough to continue to hold that stance?

• Is this process a useful and efficient process to figuring out the truth

CONJECTURE

Conjecture - inference or opinion formed based on insufficient evidence.

How often do we form opinions based on insufficient evidence? How do you know when you have enough evidence to form an opinion?

BIASES

Bias - a personal and sometimes unreasoned judgment

We are all citizens, colleagues, professionals, consumers, friends, family-members, teachers, learners, human beings first. How aware are you of your biases when forming opinions? Does a credential or life-experience make a person more or less credible? Can you keep the same level of open-mindedness after learning such a thing?

WHAT’S BLOCKING YOUR VIEW?

So we form an opinion. What would it take for you to change your opinion? If it has changed, what DID it take? Could it change again?

Topic - “Are We Alone”

Scenario - Scale from 1-100.

State your position. At the end we come back and see if the needle moved at all.

1. Do you believe in life outside of Earth? 0 Not at all 100 Absolutely!

   • Sal 95/95

   • Vero 90/95

   • Leasette 85/90

   • Roger 95/95

2. Have we ever been visited by other lifeforms from outside of Earth? 0 not at all 100 absolutely

   • Sal 49/75

   • Vero 75/80

   • Roger 51/75

   • Leasette 51/80

3. Belief in ghosts, higher/other non-physical beings? 0 not at all 100 absolutely

   • Sal 5/5

   • Vero 25/25

   • Roger 25/25

   • Leasette 60/60