Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "Searching for God within Oxford and Cambridge | James Orr \u0026 Nigel Biggar | EP 194" video.

  1. You get culture as "the cynical use of power over others" when you allow sociopaths to propose definitions. They don't see people as anything other than tools. This limitation follows through to their philosophical capacity.
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  2. "If everything is archetypes, why not tell the same story over and over?" (Well, there is "re-watch potential") It's useful to apply the old stories to novel problems.
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  3. "Why are the humanities so bad at making the case for our own usefulness?" Materialism -- I have both a History degree and an Engineering degree, and I would love to make a living as a history professor, but a) I'm the wrong color / gender / etc, and b) it doesn't pay very well.
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  4. "All truths are reducible to scientific truths" There are some things we cannot observe, per the Uncertainty Principle, making science helpless after a certain point.
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  5. "How do you get them beyond the idea that they'd be the camp guard?" You let them play at being the hero instead. You have stories where a solution is presented. You show them that dragons can be slain.
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  6. "Why in this time and place?" Because prior to that point, conditions were not right for emergence of the Church.
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  7. "When God disappears, we're left with dead matter" No, we're left with nothing at all -- God being the Foundation and Source of all creation. Bishop Barron is the guy to ask about this.
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  8. Major Strasser: What is your nationality? Rick: I'm a drunkard. Captain Renault: That makes Rick a citizen of the world. - Casablanca, most quotable movie ever produced
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