Cult or Just Weird

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord!   --- The future is there… looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become. -William Gibson   Chris & Kayla finally land the plane on this whole TESCREAL situation. --- *Search Categories* anthropological; internet culture; science/pseudoscience --- *Topic Spoiler* TESCREAL "is it a cult or just we...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord!   --- POV: the Serenity Prayer, but with shoulds instead of cans.   Chris & Kayla attempt to tie the knot between Transhumanism and Eugenics. --- *Search Categories* Science / Pseudoscience; Anthropological; Destructive   --- *Topic Spoiler* Eugenics   --- Further Reading https://www.britannica.com/science/eugenics-genetics h...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord!   --- No idiot knows that he is an idiot. As a rule, those of small intellectual equipment are so sure of themselves that they are eager to make the race over in their own image. -Clarence Darrow   Chris & Kayla enjoy dunking on one of history's worst ideas. --- *Search Categories* Science / Pseudoscience; Anthropological; De...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord!   --- I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others.  -Nelson Mandela   Last week was context... this week we get juicy. --- *Search Categories* Business; Society & Culture; Common Interest/Fandom   --- *Topic Spoiler* Effective Altruism & Longtermism  ...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord!   --- The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. - Nelson Henderson   We tackle the final three letters of the TESCREAL acronym, and fight about the future. --- *Search Categories* Business; Society & Culture; Common Interest/Fandom   --- *Topic Spoiler* Effective Altruism & Longte...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord!   --- We're not earthly beings any more... we're cosmic beings. - Eden Ahbez   Two episodes in one to grapple with the origins of a cosmic concept, and its future among the stars. --- *Search Categories* Science / Pseudoscience   --- *Topic Spoiler* Russian Cosmism and modern Cosmism   --- Further Reading https://en.wikipedia...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord!   --- Time isn't the only thing the FDA is killing. - ACT UP slogan   Chris & Kayla grapple with the intense nuance presented by the Church of Perpetual Life and the Life Extension Foundation. --- *Search Categories* Anthropological;   Science / Pseudoscience;  Common interest / Fandom   --- *Topic Spoiler* Bill Faloon, The C...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord!   --- How could I enjoy a yacht if I know we're all going to die and disappear? - Bill Faloon   Chris & Kayla head back to Church to learn more about the man behind the curtain. --- *Search Categories* Anthropological;   Science / Pseudoscience;  Common interest / Fandom   --- *Topic Spoiler* Bill Faloon & The Church of Perpe...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord!   --- Aging and Death can be Optional...We Choose Life & Health.   Chris & Kayla head to church to learn how the Creator wants us to live forever. --- *Search Categories* Anthropological;   Science / Pseudoscience;  Common interest / Fandom   --- *Topic Spoiler* The Church of Perpetual Life   --- Further Reading https://www.c...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord!   --- > Jenny Lamb, Matthew Walden, Rebecca Kirsch, Pam Westergard, Ryan Quinn, Paul Sweeney, Erin Bratu, Liz T, Lianne Cole, Samantha Bayliff, Katie Larimer, Fio H, Jessica Senk, Proper Gander, Nancy Carlson, Carly Westergard-Dobson, banana, Megan Blackburn, Instantly Joy, Athena of CaveSystem, John Grelish, Rose Kerchinske,...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord!   --- Making predictions is tough, especially about the future. -Niels Bohr   Chris & Kayla put the L in TESCREAL. --- *Search Categories* Anthropological;   Science / Pseudoscience;  Common interest / Fandom; Internet Culture   --- *Topic Spoiler* TESCREAL & interview with Dr. Émile P. Torres   --- Further Reading Dr. Émile...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord!   --- AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies. - Sam Altman   Chris & Kayla talk about the future of humanity, in the long term. --- *Search Categories* Anthropological;   Science / Pseudoscience;  Common interest / Fandom; Internet Culture   --- *Topic Spoil...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord!   --- This podcast is Bayesd.   Chris & Kayla update all of their priors about LessWrong and decide if it's a cult, or just weird.   --- *Search Categories* Anthropological;   Science / Pseudoscience;  Common interest / Fandom; Internet Culture   --- *Topic Spoiler* LessWrong   --- *Further Reading* https://www.lesswrong.com/...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord!   --- The Territory is not The Map.   Chris & Kayla fall out of a coconut tree and continue their discussion of LessWrong.   --- *Search Categories* Anthropological;   Science / Pseudoscience;  Common interest / Fandom; Internet Culture   --- *Topic Spoiler* LessWrong   --- *Further Reading* https://www.lesswrong.com/ https:/...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord!   --- Have not you read The Sequences?   Chris & Kayla do their first ever CoJW topic revisit and discuss an online community dedicated to Rationalism.   --- *Search Categories* Anthropological;   Science / Pseudoscience;  Common interest / Fandom; Internet Culture   --- *Topic Spoiler* LessWrong   --- *Further Reading* https...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord!   --- What would you say you... do ... here?   Chris dunks on a doofy website for 40 minutes straight; it is also possible we learn some things about Transhumanism along the way.   --- *Search Categories* Anthropological; Science / Pseudoscience; Common interest / Fandom; New Religious Movement   --- *Topic Spoiler* Humanity+...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord!   --- To be what you want to be: isn't this the essence of being human? - David Zindell   Chris and Kayla take the next steps on the path of the unfolding season...and the unfolding of humanity's future.   --- *Search Categories* Science / Pseudoscience; Common interest / Fandom   --- *Topic Spoiler* Transhumanism   --- Furth...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord!   --- Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level. - Ernest Becker,  The Denial of Death   Chris and Kayla talk about a theory that underpins everything we'll cover this season.   --- *Search Categories* Anthropological; Science / Pseudoscience   --- *Topic...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord!   --- The act of freezing a dead body and storing it indefinitely on the chance that some future generation may restore it to life is an act of faith, not science. - The Society for Cryobiology, official statement   The chilling conclusion to CoJW's series on cryonics... but is it a cult, or just weird?   --- *Search Categori...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord!   --- Being cryopreserved after death is the second-worst thing that could happen. The worst thing is dying without being cryopreserved. - Ben Best    Kayla dives deeper into the world of cryonics by talking to an actual cryonaut.   --- *Search Categories* Science / Pseudoscience; Common interest / Fandom   --- *Topic Spoiler...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord!   --- You're not dead til you're warm and dead.   Chris & Kayla finish their cryonics facility visit with the help of a VIP "tour guide."   --- *Search Categories* Science / Pseudoscience; Common interest / Fandom   --- *Topic Spoiler* Cryonics   --- Further Reading https://www.alcor.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonic...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord!   --- I am the mediocre architect of my afterlife. - Glen Nesbitt   Chris & Kayla take a tour of the very cool place they were headed to last episode.   --- *Search Categories* Science / Pseudoscience; Common interest / Fandom   --- *Topic Spoiler* Cryonics   --- Further Reading https://www.alcor.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord!   --- If a man die, shall he live again? - Book of Job 14:14   Chris and Kayla hotfoot it to a cold storage facility.   --- *Search Categories* Science / Pseudoscience; Common interest / Fandom   --- *Topic Spoiler* Cryonics   --- Further Reading https://www.alcor.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryonics https://www.reddit...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord!   --- Chris & Kayla recap the experience of experiencing things for Season 5 of Cult or Just Weird.   (previously published on CoJW's patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/season-5-bonus-95443966 )   --- *Patreon Credits* Michaela Evans, Heather Aunspach, Alyssa Ottum, David Whiteside, Jade A, amy sarah marshall, Martina Dob...

Wanna chat about the episode? Or just hang out? Come join us on discord!   --- There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. -Albert Camus   Chris and Kayla contemplate that one thing that joins us all.   --- *Search Categories* Common interest / Fandom   --- *Topic Spoiler* Death Cafes   --- *Further Reading*   https://deathcafe.com/ https://www.tal...