Stop To Think

Episode Description: In this episode of the Stop To Think podcast, we discuss the 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene and how it meshes with or fails to mesh with a biblical world view. Social Media: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/ccrworkscom⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/chandlerriviniusauthor/⁠⁠ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555610575068 Websites: ⁠⁠https://ccrworks.com/⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://assortedweb...

Episode Description: In this episode of the Stop To Think podcast, we discuss the Cult of Safety. You all know who I'm talking about. These are the people who would wield power and authority to make things "safer" for everyone, but usually, they just make everyone miserable by creating a bunch of semi-useless rules that often do more harm than what they're intended to actually pr...

Episode Description: In this episode of the Stop To Think podcast, we discuss immortality. Specifically, how our society would change if everyone were immortal. Under the current regime, death shortens the time horizon of individuals, which has a very pungent impact on behavior. Social Media: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/ccrworkscom⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/chandlerriviniusauthor/⁠⁠ https://www.face...

Episode Description: In this episode of the Stop To Think podcast, we discuss working toward a specific end. When you're in the workforce, it seems like there is a never-ending hamster wheel of work in front of you. When you're in school or when you're working toward a specific goal, then things don't feel like such an insurmountable task. From a company standpoint, the best way to...

Episode Description: In this episode of the Stop To Think podcast, we discuss inheritance. When someone dies, there's always the matter of dealing with their stuff, which usually turns into a messy process. Splitting inheritance can actually ruin what is being passed on. Get a will and get Jesus. That's the best way to handle this. Social Media: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/ccrworkscom⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https:...

Episode Description: In this episode of the Stop To Think podcast, we discuss updates on what I've been working on behind the scenes. At a high level, since the season three update, I've been mostly focused on audiobook production, some app development, and the usual writing tasks. Cheers to another season of the Stop To Think Podcast. Social Media: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/ccrworkscom⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://ww...

Episode Description: In this episode of the Stop To Think podcast, we wrap up season three with a discussion about conflicts between your wife and your parents. As I've said many many many times before, you always want to be on the side of truth and the side of reality. Likewise, in a conflict between your parents and your wife, siding with the party that is incorrect just because of some misguide...

Episode Description: In this episode of the Stop To Think podcast, we discuss the grand narrative. That is to say, when you view the world as a story that's unfolding, a lot of things make sense that don't make sense otherwise. Social Media: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/ccrworkscom⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/chandlerriviniusauthor/⁠⁠ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555610575068 Websites: ⁠⁠h...

Episode Description: In this episode of the Stop To Think podcast, we discuss getting engaged and relationship success. Certain behaviors and habits, along with some common sense, can greatly help you not turn your life into a flaming mess. Social Media: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/ccrworkscom⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/chandlerriviniusauthor/⁠⁠ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555610575068...

Episode Description: In this episode of the Stop To Think podcast, we discuss what it would be like to receive an email containing instructions from God. This has been a long time wish of mine, but recently I gained some insights on why it wouldn't make sense at all for God to do something like this given what he's trying to accomplish. Social Media: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/ccrworkscom⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://w...

Episode Description: In this episode of the Stop To Think podcast, we discuss what it would be like to suffer a complete loss. We discuss what it means to have something in the first place. Social Media: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/ccrworkscom⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/chandlerriviniusauthor/⁠⁠ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555610575068 Websites: ⁠⁠https://ccrworks.com/⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://assor...

Episode Description: In this episode of the Stop To Think podcast, we discuss the selfish wife trope. In a lot of film and media, the wife of the main character is often set up as an adversarial character. She often opposes the heroic journey of the main character, usually for selfish reasons. It's interesting that this theme exists. Social Media: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/ccrworkscom⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www....

Episode Description: In this episode of the Stop To Think podcast, we discuss the Screwtape letters and spiritual warfare. Specifically, how there is a whole world of forces acting behind the scenes in our lives that we mostly do not notice. More importantly, we often don't understand what these forces are up to and what they're trying to accomplish. Social Media: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/ccrworkscom...

Episode Description: In this episode of the Stop To Think podcast, we continue discussing the cost of changing almost everything over the course of a single generation. We also discuss the level of hubris required to think that this would go well and have no negative consequences. Social Media: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/ccrworkscom⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/chandlerriviniusauthor/⁠⁠ https://www.fa...

Episode Description: In this episode of the Stop To Think podcast, we discuss the cost of Feminism. It turns out that any time you completely restructure your society, unexpected consequences can occur. Some good and some very very bad. Social Media: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/ccrworkscom⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/chandlerriviniusauthor/⁠⁠ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555610575068 Webs...

Episode Description: In this episode of the Stop To Think podcast, we talk about the looming reformed hoe problem we have brewing. All of these girls who have been promiscuous during their twenties are going to demand good treatment in their thirties when they think they deserve a loving family and such. Unfortunately, there aren't going to be a ton of men who are interested in that arrangemen...

Episode Description: In this episode of the Stop To Think podcast, we talk about the nature of being a hero. As far as I can tell, it seems to boil down to some degree of self-sacrifice. However, it's more complicated than just that. Social Media: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/ccrworkscom⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/chandlerriviniusauthor/⁠⁠ https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61555610575068 Web...

Episode Description: In this episode of the Stop To Think podcast, we talk about high school mission trips. Or at least that's what I was supposed to talk about but then I went on a massive tangent that had nothing to do with the topic until the last ten minutes of the episode. However, on the topic, my thoughts are that some mission trips seem more trip than mission, and using church funds to...

Episode Description: In this episode of the Stop To Think podcast, we talk about The Case Against the Sexual Revolution by Louise Perry. It's an interesting read overall and it has several good points in it, but I found a reoccurring theme of zero female accountability throughout the book. There was also a fixation on violence which was kind of surprising. Social Media: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/c...

Episode Description: In this episode of the Stop To Think podcast, we talk about the Count of Monte Cristo. Realistically, this episode mostly consists of my stumbling over what I remember of the book but if I recall nothing else, what I remember most is that the book was good and highly worth reading. Social Media: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/ccrworkscom⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/chandlerriviniusau...

Episode Description: In this episode of the Stop To Think podcast, we talk about national monuments and if we should have them. On the one hand, they're pretty darn cool. On the other hand, they are a benefit to a select group of people at the cost of a much larger group of people. Social Media: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/ccrworkscom⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/chandlerriviniusauthor/⁠⁠ https://w...

Episode Description: In this episode of the Stop To Think podcast, we talk about how parents usually cause a lot of their own problems. This statement actually applies at multiple levels of analysis but one of the key areas of focus for this discussion is the matter of over scheduling. Parents will sign their kids up for a bunch of different things and then complain that they never have any free t...

Episode Description: In this episode of the Stop To Think podcast, we talk about just how much control parents should have over their children. The answer seems to be dependent on the amount of support that the children receive from their parents. If children are fully financially dependent on their parents, then their parents should fully control them. If children are fully independent, then cont...

Episode Description: In this episode of the Stop To Think podcast, we talk about solutions to all the problems that we're facing as Americans. This episode was mostly meant as a joke. But it also illustrates just how troublesome these problems are. In a lot of cases, the solutions are simple but they're rather painful and that makes it unlikely that they'll be pursued. Social Media: ⁠⁠https://twit...

Episode Description: In this episode of the Stop To Think podcast, we discuss the Elite Gap. This is the massive gap in perception between how elites perceive reality and how normal people perceive reality. These elites then think they deserve to dictate how life should be for everyone else. Even though they have no understanding of how it is to work for a living or to be under financial pressure....