PZ's Podcast

"Disputed Passage" (Lloyd C. Douglas) is what this podcast is not. There are any number of issues to talk about, yet so many are so particuar, and rally around themselves all kinds of differing opinions. I'd rather do -- that is, try to do in a small way -- something of what Claude Berri actually did in "Jean de Florette/Manon of the Spring" (1986), which was, in his own words, to scrape down to the universal: our human nature and suffering, in common -- the tie that binds. After this cast, I am taking a short break. But it's really just "pre-production" time, for the next season of, "Fireball XL 5".

Language changes, changes, changes. "Elle coule, coule, coule." Like a simple but undeviating "conversation" at the drive -through window of the bank. Or like the use of the word "program". "Program" doesn't mean a Lenten series anymore. It doesn't mean what it used to mean. It means something else now. So I need your help, to devise a more robust program than just another pot luck.

Language changes, changes, changes. "Elle coule, coule, coule." Like a simple but undeviating "conversation" at the drive -through window of the bank. Or like the use of the word "program". "Program" doesn't mean a Lenten series anymore. It doesn't mean what it used to mean. It means something else now. So I need your help, to devise a more robust program than just another pot luck.

"Falsification" is another word for compartmentalization. When we falsify reality -- as in "being untrue", either to a person or to convictions that we (otherwise) hold sincerely -- we get, well, what we deserve. The New Testament gets falsified all the time; and the obloquy which falsification, when found out, gets us, clouds everything -- not to mention the very goods we actually could give. Those goods are Reality and Mercy. This podcast goes from Cozzens (don't worry) to Christians to lawyers to "Perfidia" to "Band of Gold". But mainly, it goes out to ... me and you.

"Falsification" is another word for compartmentalization. When we falsify reality -- as in "being untrue", either to a person or to convictions that we (otherwise) hold sincerely -- we get, well, what we deserve. The New Testament gets falsified all the time; and the obloquy which falsification, when found out, gets us, clouds everything -- not to mention the very goods we actually could give. Those goods are Reality and Mercy. This podcast goes from Cozzens (don't worry) to Christians to lawyers to "Perfidia" to "Band of Gold". But mainly, it goes out to ... me and you.

"Kuh-hay-tchuh-pek". It means 'God', or rather G-d, in Martian. You can find out all about "Kuh-hay-tchuh-pek" in the now Criterioned 1964 movie "Robinson Crusoe on Mars". "Kuh-hay-tchuh-pek" is God, and a very right and proper God, too. He is Divine Order, but He is also a Nice Guy. This podcast is about G-d. I hope you'll like Him.

"Kuh-hay-tchuh-pek". It means 'God', or rather G-d, in Martian. You can find out all about "Kuh-hay-tchuh-pek" in the now Criterioned 1964 movie "Robinson Crusoe on Mars". "Kuh-hay-tchuh-pek" is God, and a very right and proper God, too. He is Divine Order, but He is also a Nice Guy. This podcast is about G-d. I hope you'll like Him.

Sequels are strange: sometimes they're better than the original, most of the time they're worse. What makes a good sequel? "The Empire Strikes Back", for example; or "The Invisible Man Returns"; or "The Ghost of Frankenstein". Well, preaching -- I mean preaching in the formal sense, i.e., preaching in churches -- is a study in sequels. When you preach a sermon, you're in a long succession. It goes all the way back to the Sermon on the Mount. That was a good one. Most of its sequels, however, don't seem to have the same power. They tend to be soon forgotten. I want to learn from "The Invisible Man's Revenge", and "Ghost", and "Hand" (you know what I mean) in order to know what makes a good sequel. This is a podcast on the art and science of preaching.

Sequels are strange: sometimes they're better than the original, most of the time they're worse. What makes a good sequel? "The Empire Strikes Back", for example; or "The Invisible Man Returns"; or "The Ghost of Frankenstein". Well, preaching -- I mean preaching in the formal sense, i.e., preaching in churches -- is a study in sequels. When you preach a sermon, you're in a long succession. It goes all the way back to the Sermon on the Mount. That was a good one. Most of its sequels, however, don't seem to have the same power. They tend to be soon forgotten. I want to learn from "The Invisible Man's Revenge", and "Ghost", and "Hand" (you know what I mean) in order to know what makes a good sequel. This is a podcast on the art and science of preaching.

I don't believe in "reality", or rather, I believe what looks like reality is seldom reality. This can be easily proved by a quick viewing of ... "The Mummy Ghost" (1944). Once look at that wonderful movie is able to confer an accurate understanding of reality. This is because "The Mummy's Ghost" 's reality IS reality. Podcast 88 concerns Kharis, Tana Leaves, and the Arab Spring. P.S. From Kerouac: " 'Facts' are sophistries."

I don't believe in "reality", or rather, I believe what looks like reality is seldom reality. This can be easily proved by a quick viewing of ... "The Mummy Ghost" (1944). Once look at that wonderful movie is able to confer an accurate understanding of reality. This is because "The Mummy's Ghost" 's reality IS reality. Podcast 88 concerns Kharis, Tana Leaves, and the Arab Spring. P.S. From Kerouac: " 'Facts' are sophistries."

They are all, like Ray Milland, "The Man with the X-Ray Eyes" -- these Huguenot heroes: Marot, Duplessis-Mornay, de Beze, de Coligny, de Rohan, d'Aubigne. That includes their English co-religionists, such as Whitgift and Abbott and Grindal. These are eyes of defeat, eyes that convey an end to self-reference, eyes of a markedly ego-less state. You simply have to undergo defeat, have to, in order to, well, become a little child. Old ancient wisdom.

They are all, like Ray Milland, "The Man with the X-Ray Eyes" -- these Huguenot heroes: Marot, Duplessis-Mornay, de Beze, de Coligny, de Rohan, d'Aubigne. That includes their English co-religionists, such as Whitgift and Abbott and Grindal. These are eyes of defeat, eyes that convey an end to self-reference, eyes of a markedly ego-less state. You simply have to undergo defeat, have to, in order to, well, become a little child. Old ancient wisdom.

This podcast tries to go a little deeper with Supermarionation. It is really about social class, and the kind of alliance that inevitably imperils a religion whose goal is emancipating the human race. We start with "It Happened One Night", then chart our way north, to an old surprising hymn.

This podcast tries to go a little deeper with Supermarionation. It is really about social class, and the kind of alliance that inevitably imperils a religion whose goal is emancipating the human race. We start with "It Happened One Night", then chart our way north, to an old surprising hymn.