Podcasts about Digression

Guest Nathaniel "Hub" Hubbard (Titan up the Defense, Champions of Digression) joins Dan to talk about Excalibur #118-119, in which the bamfs are a bunch of pervy little gremlins and Nightmare has very specific rules about who he can and cannot torment. Plus: Garfield! Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue! Krang's secret son! Marvel's Mike Mignola's Gymkata Omnibus! And a bunch of other stuff that has nothing to do with the comic but sure was fun to talk about!

We're thrilled to be joined by Natalie Ng, a huge Edward Yang fan and friend of the podcast, to dive into Yang's feature debut, That Day, On The Beach! Natalie, who works at the Asian Film Archive, tells us about AFA's recent Edward Yang retrospective (complete with a physical exhibition) and shares her deep love for Yang's work.Together, we explore the film's place in Yang's filmography, its inventive narrative structure, and how it set the stage for his later masterpieces. Natalie highlights the agency of female characters in the film, while Ben argues that De-wei should have been hotter. Wilson leads us in discussing Christopher Doyle's first feature work as a cinematographer and the stylistic choices of the film, and we very importantly discuss Sylvia Chang's iconic perm, and whether girlbossing is an ideal ending for Yang's female characters.Links:Natalie's Letterboxd review on That Day, On The BeachFollow Natalie on X (@schatzepages), Letterboxd (@wednesdaydreams), and read her writing on filmedinether.com.That Day, On Our FREE patreon, discord server, and our socials @ www.deepcutpod.comTimestamps:(00:00) Intro(11:17) General Reactions(25:18) Natalie's personal reaction to the film(29:47) Melodrama and female agency(34:35) Edward Yang's “Women without men” + Digression into other Yang films(41:49) Ending of That Day(45:47) Qing-qing and Jia-sen's roles in the story(50:52) Jia-li's love interests(54:40) Tone and filmic style(01:02:55) Other films That Day relates to(01:07:15) Babies(01:10:32) The Perm and costumes(01:15:04) Yang's early fascination with women's stories(01:21:36) Wrap-up

Ce soir c'est Fabien qui anime La Matinale !  Dans le grand entretien, Hélène se penche sur le sujet de la fin de vie, et plus particulièrement sur la scission du texte législatif sur la fin de vie, qui le divise en deux propositions, une sur les soins palliatifs et l'autre sur l'aide à mourir. Pour en parler elle reçoit Bastien André, membre de de l'ADMD (Association pour le Droit de Mourir dans la Dignité), membre du Pacte progressiste sur la fin de vie. Dans le ZOOM, Céline échange avec Xavier Belin et Baptiste Poulin, compositeurs de jazz qui ont sorti leur premier album en duo, Digression, le 25 janvier dernier !  Enfin Fabien fait le tour de l'actualité, Francesca parle de la santé mentale des salariés, et Pascadog vous raconte son activité peinture ! Animation : Fabien // Interview : Hélène // Zoom : Céline // Flash info : Fabien // Chroniques :  Francesca & Pascadog // Réalisation : Simon // Coordination : Maïwenn Filiol & Alice Marmond 

Now ya'll know on these solo episodes ya girl can be a little all over the place, but that's my business! On this week's episode, we are jumping back into, Power Moves, by Sarah Jakes Roberts, chapters 2-3. Go ahead and get the book so you can follow along.

Paul discusses why he was so depressed leaving Ephesus: A riot just happened that nearly killed his friends, the Corinthian church was going off the deep end, Paul had to write a difficult letter, and Titus was nowhere to be found. God freely gives His knowledge out to His followers - knowledge of many subjects.  Paul explains why it's important to have sincerity when preaching the Gospel, rather than just "peddling" God's Word.   Hey! Look at this other P40 content!  YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnh-aqfg8rw Ko-Fi - https://ko-fi.com/p40ministries  Website - https://www.p40ministries.com Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/p40ministries  Contact - jenn@p40ministries.com  Rumble - https://rumble.com/c/c-6493869  Books - https://www.amazon.com/Jenn-Kokal/e/B095JCRNHY/ref=aufs_dp_fta_dsk  Merch - https://www.p40ministries.com/shop  YouVersion - https://www.bible.com/reading-plans/38267-out-of-the-mire-trusting-god-in-the-middle    Support babies and get quality coffee with Seven Weeks Coffee  https://sevenweekscoffee.com/?ref=P40   This ministry is only made possible due to your generous support https://ko-fi.com/p40ministries

Salut salut salut salutations, Aujourd'hui le thème du jour : la justice ! Autant vous dire qu'on s'est bien pas marrés à trouver des sujets feel good et léger sur ça ! Donc pour autant, on a : un jeu musical, une histoire et pas mal de petits snacks d'informations pour pouvoir vous péter à la machine à café. Et bien évidemment, on se retrouve sur tous les réseaux où vous penserez à liker, commenter, partager, tout en vous abonnant

Hello and welcome to "Digression session" a conversational podcast. This podcast is where a group of friends sit down together and talk about certain topics. Today's topic is Christmas! we talk about Christmas movies, music and our personal Christmas stories! We hope you enjoy it and if you don't forget to subscribe to this podcast feed for future episodes. 

Hello and welcome to "Digression session" a conversational podcast. This podcast is where a group of friends sit down together and talk about certain topics. Today's topic is our TOP 5 Revenge, action and comedy films of all time. Now this is our opinion but you might agree with a few of our picks. We hope you enjoy it and if you don't forget to subscribe to this podcast feed for future episodes. 

Readings: 2 Samuel 11:1-17, 26, 27, 2 Samuel 12:1-23, HH 526:4, Spiritual Experiences (SD) 2621. By Rev. Louis B. King Recorded on September 12, 1976 at Bryn Athyn Cathedral. See www.newchurchaudio.org for more recordings.    

Christoph Martin Wieland  – 1733-1813 Teil 1, Buch 3, Kapitel 11 Die Andromeda des Euripides wird endlich, trotz aller Hindernisse, von seiner eignen Truppe aufgeführt Außerordentliche Empfindsamkeit der Abderiten, mit einer Digression, welche unter die lehrreichsten in diesem ganzen Werke gehört, und daher auch von gar keinem Nutzen sein wird (Hördauer 11 Minuten) Das Projekt Wir haben ein besonderes Projekt gestartet, das uns in diesem Jahr begleiten wird. Gemeinsam mit vielen unserer talentierten Sprecherinnen und Sprecher haben wir das Buch "Geschichte der Abderiten" von Christoph Martin Wieland vertont. Wir sind begeistert, euch diese altgriechischen Schildbürgergeschichten in zahlreichen Folgen präsentieren zu können. Lasst euch von den faszinierenden, amüsanten Erzählungen aus vergangenen Zeiten verzaubern und taucht ein in die Welt der Abderiten die unseren Schildbürgern in nichts nachstehen; im Gegenteil. Wir wünschen euch viel Spaß beim Zuhören Staunen über den gesammelten Unsinn, den Wieland uns präsentiert! Übrigens, man kann auch jederzeit einsteigen und jede Folge verstehen, ohne die vorherigen gehört zu haben.  Das Buch Die "Geschichte der Abderiten" von Christoph Martin Wieland ist ein satirischer Roman, der schon zu Lebzeiten des Autors als Abbild seiner Heimatstadt Biberach an der Riß betrachtet wurde. Möglicherweise hatte Wieland einige Charaktere aus seiner Reichsstadt vor Augen, doch in dieser Schrift werden auch menschliche Verhaltensweisen dargestellt, die zu allen Zeiten und an jedem Ort anzutreffen sind. Der formale Aufbau des Romans orientiert sich an antiken Komödienautoren und Satirikern, welche Geschichten aus dem verschrienen Abdera im klassischen Hellas verbreiteten. Christoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813) war ein deutscher Dichter, Übersetzer und Herausgeber zur Zeit der Aufklärung. In dem Buch wird das Altertum einer Stadt namens Abdera in Thrakien behandelt, welches bis in die fabelhafte Heldenzeit zurückreicht. Ob sie ihren Namen von verschiedenen möglichen Quellen empfing oder nicht - das spielt uns keine große Rolle. Immerhin fiel die Stadt nach ihrer ersten Gründung aufgrund ihres hohen Alters zusammen. Erst Timesius von Klazomene unternahm um die Zeit der 31. Olympiade den Versuch sie wieder aufzubauen - jedoch wurden seine Früchte durch feindlich gesinnte wilde Thracier zunichte gemacht. Christoph Martin Wieland war ein bedeutender deutscher Schriftsteller und Übersetzer des 18. Jahrhunderts. Er gilt als einer der wichtigsten Vertreter der deutschen Aufklärung und hat mit seinen Werken maßgeblich zur Entwicklung der deutschen Literatur beigetragen.Wieland war ein äußerst vielseitiger Autor, der in verschiedenen Genres wie Roman, Drama, Essay und Lyrik tätig war. Seine Werke zeichnen sich durch eine klare Sprache und eine tiefe Humanität aus, die bis heute faszinieren.Besonders bekannt ist Wieland für seinen Roman "Agathon", der als eines der ersten Werke der deutschen Literaturgeschichte gilt, das den Begriff des "Bildungsromans" prägte. Auch seine Übersetzungen von Werken antiker Autoren wie Homer oder Vergil sind bis heute von großer Bedeutung.Insgesamt war Ch. M. Wieland ein herausragender Vertreter seiner Zeit, dessen Werk bis heute einen wichtigen Platz in der deutschen Literaturgeschichte einnimmt. Wenn Ihnen dieser Beitrag gefallen hat, dann mögen Sie vielleicht auch diesen.   Hörbahn on Stage - live im Pixel – Autor*innen im Gespräch - besuchen Sie uns! Sprecher und Realisation Uwe Kullnick

This week we talk about the films of Ralph Fiennes. We haven't seen all his movies, but we have seen a goodly number. If you're afraid of the sneaky and nefarious SPOILER, you probably ought to be cautious since we fear it not. 00:10 Intro and the topic 02:40 Fiennes and the theater (theatre?) 06:11 Bob attempts to categorize Fiennes' films 07:05 Bob's very wrong about Macbeth being on streaming 08:00 The bulk of Fiennes' movies 13:37 Fiennes as villain 16:03 The Avengers (1998) Bob will be wrong a few seconds later about Fiennes being the villain (it's Sean Connery); not only that, Fiennes plays the hero, which would have been a good thing to have looked up before having the rest of this conversation. Do your homework, kids! 16:51 Our discussion of The English Patient 19:18 "Never" the hero? Didn't you guys just say he was the hero of The King's Man? Tells you how forgettable that film was. 20:13 Fiennes is an actor not a star? 26:31 Work in children's films 31:46 Odds and ends 37:19 Getting off topic and talking about physical media 43:27 Favorite Ralph Fiennes film 47:25 Digression about commentaries, food, other nonsense 51:24 Least favorite Ralph Fiennes film 54:51 Winding down; upcoming episode 56:45 Quick mention of two upcoming films Intro and Outro music excerpted without alteration other than length and volume from AcidJazz by Kevin McLeod under a Creative Commons (CC BY 3.0) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode

Every Sunday, Tunnel Talk triumphantly publishes an episode we're proud of and worked hard on. This week, we decided to do something a little different. This episode is not good. The girls incoherently discussed the developments in the BCC, tried valiantly to make any sense at all while covering Mariah and Mina, absolutely misremembered half of the Elite storylines, and I think somehow lurched through vague thoughts on Ricochet, Hangman, and OC. Look, we're allowed to have bad weeks. Just skip this one.(00:00) Chit Chat Time(11:30) BCC(28:23) Digression about gas station(36:24) Mariah May(43:59) Digression about gas station(48:45) The Elite(1:01:24) Ricochet/Ospreay(1:07:53) Digression about gas station(1:08:49) Bryan Danielson's faults for some reason(1:11:56) Hangman/Jeff Jarrett(1:15:42) Learning Tree/OC/another digression/FTRSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/social-suplex-podcast-network/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Every Sunday, Tunnel Talk triumphantly publishes an episode we're proud of and worked hard on. This week, we decided to do something a little different. This episode is not good. The girls incoherently discussed the developments in the BCC, tried valiantly to make any sense at all while covering Mariah and Mina, absolutely misremembered half of the Elite storylines, and I think somehow lurched through vague thoughts on Ricochet, Hangman, and OC. Look, we're allowed to have bad weeks. Just skip this one. (00:00) Chit Chat Time (11:30) BCC (28:23) Digression about gas station (36:24) Mariah May (43:59) Digression about gas station (48:45) The Elite (1:01:24) Ricochet/Ospreay (1:07:53) Digression about gas station (1:08:49) Bryan Danielson's faults for some reason (1:11:56) Hangman/Jeff Jarrett (1:15:42) Learning Tree/OC/another digression/FTR

Hello and welcome to "Digression session" a conversational podcast. This podcast is where a group of friends sit down together and talk about certain topics. Today's topic is our TOP 5 Revenge, action and comedy films of all time. Now this is our opinion but you might agree with a few of our picks. We hope you enjoy it and if you don't forget to subscribe to this podcast feed for future episodes. 

⁠⁠⁠⁠Support this show!⁠⁠⁠⁠ Aaron Voigt is a writer, game designer, podcaster and critic. You can find his video essays about tabletop games like They Took Our War, Heart, & Spire on his YouTube channel AA Voigt. He has two podcasts: one discussing Christian media called Bible Boys and one discussing sometimes-bad media called Mortified: The Friendship Quest. He's a first reader for Khoreo Magazine, an ignyte winning and Hugo nominated magazine for speculative fiction from immigrant and disapora authors. Today we'll be talking about his game Detente for the Ravenous which is based on a to-be self-published fantasy novel of the same name. You can check out the game and the novel here Show Notes: 02:27 - All about the novel 12:27 - Adapting the novel into a game 16:29 - Digression into history of Christianity in India 20:00 - Religious and monstrous themes in the novel 28:34 - Infectious Enthusiasm: Subway Runners 29:56 - Tyranny of Numbers 31:44 - RePlay 33:02 - All advice is advice for myself ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠The Indie RPG Newsletter

ASL After Midnight! Finally an Advanced Squad Leader parody song that is about the victorious side of the game, rather than all of our wargaming foibles and faults. Donovan's game must have improved over the years. We finish off our coverage of the rules in section A with rule 26: Victory Conditions. Now you will be able to go back to all those games you  have on hold and tally up the winner of each one.  That only took us 16 years. Picture of Vincent Maresca's Dice TowerSHOW LINKSNone todaySHOW TIMES00:01 "ASL After Midnight" Song7:00 Rules VC 30:00 Dave's Digression34:00 Rules VC Part 246:28 Total Running TimeASL After MidnightLyrics by Dennis DonovanPerformed by The 2 Half Squad SingersASL after midnight, rolling dice till the dawnAFVs all burning wreckage, they're gone, they're goneI took the building 'bout 1 A.M. Rolling, rolling.Close Combat phase skills showing again, rolling, rolling.My squads lit up in his IR lightIts time to assault move to the right.ASL after midnight, rolling dice till the dawnAFVs all burning wreckage, they're gone, they're goneGot T-34's, 1.8 inch thick steel, rolling, rollingReady to target a German Stug, rolling, rollingThe dice are heavy, the games at stakeCan't roll boxcars and see the MA breakASL after midnight, rolling dice till the dawnAFV's all burning wreckage, they're gone, they're goneThe air's electric, with Armored power, rolling, rollingMy dice are hotter, by the hour, rolling, rollingThe VC Buildings, are mine for the winThe buildings rockin' as my squads advance inASL after midnight, rolling dice till the dawnAFV's all burning wreckage, they're gone, they're gone The 2 Half-Squads is brought to you by Bounding Fire Productions, and kind donations from listeners like you.The views and opinions expressed on The 2 Half-Squads are not necessarily those of the hosts. You can also watch the show on our Youtube channel.Download this episode (right-click and Save)

Link to Part 1: https://youtu.be/fW2iIsVSMAc00:00 - The Situation 04:30 - The Evidence 07:00 - The Digression 10:18 - The Range 18:15 - The Operational Environment 22:10 - The Theory 27:10 - The History 31:26 - The Threat 

Diligent Teacher with Lisa Earl A Bible podcast for ladies Ep252 - The Digression of Solomon

Christoph Martin Wieland  – 1733-1813 Teil 1, Buch 3, Kapitel 4 Merkwürdiges Beispiel von der guten Staatswirtschaft der AbderitenBeschluß der Digression über ihr Theaterwesen (Hördauer 10 Minuten) Das Projekt Wir haben ein besonderes Projekt gestartet, das uns in diesem Jahr begleiten wird. Gemeinsam mit vielen unserer talentierten Sprecherinnen und Sprecher haben wir das Buch "Geschichte der Abderiten" von Christoph Martin Wieland vertont. Wir sind begeistert, euch diese altgriechischen Schildbürgergeschichten in zahlreichen Folgen präsentieren zu können. Lasst euch von den faszinierenden, amüsanten Erzählungen aus vergangenen Zeiten verzaubern und taucht ein in die Welt der Abderiten die unseren Schildbürgern in nichts nachstehen; im Gegenteil. Wir wünschen euch viel Spaß beim Zuhören Staunen über den gesammelten Unsinn, den Wieland uns präsentiert! Übrigens, man kann auch jederzeit einsteigen und jede Folge verstehen, ohne die vorherigen gehört zu haben. Das Buch Die "Geschichte der Abderiten" von Christoph Martin Wieland ist ein satirischer Roman, der schon zu Lebzeiten des Autors als Abbild seiner Heimatstadt Biberach an der Riß betrachtet wurde. Möglicherweise hatte Wieland einige Charaktere aus seiner Reichsstadt vor Augen, doch in dieser Schrift werden auch menschliche Verhaltensweisen dargestellt, die zu allen Zeiten und an jedem Ort anzutreffen sind. Der formale Aufbau des Romans orientiert sich an antiken Komödienautoren und Satirikern, welche Geschichten aus dem verschrienen Abdera im klassischen Hellas verbreiteten. Christoph Martin Wieland (1733-1813) war ein deutscher Dichter, Übersetzer und Herausgeber zur Zeit der Aufklärung. In dem Buch wird das Altertum einer Stadt namens Abdera in Thrakien behandelt, welches bis in die fabelhafte Heldenzeit zurückreicht. Ob sie ihren Namen von verschiedenen möglichen Quellen empfing oder nicht - das spielt uns keine große Rolle. Immerhin fiel die Stadt nach ihrer ersten Gründung aufgrund ihres hohen Alters zusammen. Erst Timesius von Klazomene unternahm um die Zeit der 31. Olympiade den Versuch sie wieder aufzubauen - jedoch wurden seine Früchte durch feindlich gesinnte wilde Thracier zunichte gemacht. Christoph Martin Wieland war ein bedeutender deutscher Schriftsteller und Übersetzer des 18. Jahrhunderts. Er gilt als einer der wichtigsten Vertreter der deutschen Aufklärung und hat mit seinen Werken maßgeblich zur Entwicklung der deutschen Literatur beigetragen. Wieland war ein äußerst vielseitiger Autor, der in verschiedenen Genres wie Roman, Drama, Essay und Lyrik tätig war. Seine Werke zeichnen sich durch eine klare Sprache und eine tiefe Humanität aus, die bis heute faszinieren. Besonders bekannt ist Wieland für seinen Roman "Agathon", der als eines der ersten Werke der deutschen Literaturgeschichte gilt, das den Begriff des "Bildungsromans" prägte. Auch seine Übersetzungen von Werken antiker Autoren wie Homer oder Vergil sind bis heute von großer Bedeutung. Insgesamt war Ch. M. Wieland ein herausragender Vertreter seiner Zeit, dessen Werk bis heute einen wichtigen Platz in der deutschen Literaturgeschichte einnimmt. Teil 1 Buch 1 Kapitel 1Teil 1 Buch 1 Kapitel 2Tei l1 Buch 1 Kapitel 3Teil 1 Buch 1 Kapitel 4Teil 1 Buch 1 Kapitel 5Teil 1 Buch 1 Kapitel 6Teil 1 Buch 1 Kapitel 7Teil 1 Buch 1 Kapitel 8Teil 1 Buch 1 Kapitel 9Teil 1 Buch 1 Kapitel 10Teil 1 Buch 1 Kapitel 11Teil 1 Buch 1 Kapitel 12 ⁠Wenn Ihnen dieser Beitrag gefallen hat, dann mögen Sie vielleicht auch diesen. ⁠ ⁠Hörbahn on Stage - live im Pixel – Autor*innen im Gespräch - besuchen Sie uns!⁠ Sprecher und Realisation Uwe Kullnick

Dans Podcast +, Alexia Diels reçoit Alba et Amélie, venues parler de leur émission 'Digressions Maitrisées', qu'elles réalisent avec Isabelle et Margaux. Le concept est simple : trois sous-thèmes sont abordés durant l'émission, et elles doivent découvrir quel thème général en ressort. Lien d'écoute : https://radiovacarme.com/disgressionmaitrisee/

Hello and welcome to "Digression session" a conversational podcast. This podcast is where a group of friends sit down together and talk about certain topics. Today's topic is the man of action films ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER! We talk about our first time watching his films, his filmography and reminisce our experiences with his films and how much they have impacted our lives. We hope you enjoy it and if you don't forget to subscribe to this podcast feed for future episodes. 

Welcome to the fifth episode of Best Issue Ever! This episode's issue is Superman's Girlfriend Lois Lane #72, and it was chosen by my guest, Nathaniel Hubbard! Hub is the host of the podcast/s Titan Up the Defense and Champions of Digression alongside his brother Cory, as well as a few other pods via the channel's Patreon. He's one of the writers and voice actors for Garden Plots With Skeletor, which I LOVE. Also, because we bring it up in the episode, he's also the creator of Tales From the Haunted Disco Barn, which is another podcast from Hub that I love. This podcast is recorded in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It is edited by Sara Century. The theme music is provided by Earth Control Pill, whose work is on Bandcamp. I do not want to deal with ads AT ALL, so if you also don't want to deal with ads, please consider supporting the podcast by rating and reviewing and/or signing up at the Ko-fi, ko-fi.com/saracenturypodcasts. Finally, you could support my other ventures, including the narrative horror podcast Medusa Mask, as well as my work through QueerSpec, including the Bitches On Comics Podcast and the Decoded Horror Channel. Visit my website to sign up for my newsletter for updates. Oh, and I'm a horror writer, so pick up my short story anthology, A Small Light and Other Stories, through Weirdpunk Books, or pretty much wherever else you get books.

In this, the second episode of their new show, Cory and Hub digress from their coverage of Champions and discuss the absolutely bonkers Silver Age gofers that is Action Comics #243. Digressions include: Super Lion's surprising pathos, burying scary media in your yard, 18th century fashion, and a bunch of other nonsense!

Hello and welcome to "Digression session" a conversational podcast. This podcast is where a group of friends sit down together and talk about certain topics. Today's topic is THE SIMPSONS! We talk about the television show at length including our favourite clips, favourite episodes, favourite characters and other Simpson knowledge. We hope you enjoy it and if you don't forget to subscribe to this podcast feed for future episodes. 

Returning to the work of Toyble (aka Toyataro) to discuss the Dope AF Chapter 2 of Dragonball AF! The fellas discuss: - Fan Mangas - Character Development (and lack thereof) - PYCON!! - A Digression re: The Jersey Shore and Reality TV - Toyataro's Inspiration, and Speculation on Future Chapters -...And More! Tune in for our new series chronicling Dragon Ball AF as a new segment of our podcast focusing on the fandom: Fans 4 Life Check out our Linktree and other podcasts: ⁠https://linktr.ee/db4l⁠  Subscribe on Apple Podcasts: ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dragon-ball-4-life/id1645000686⁠  Subscribe on Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/0WTmVFsC3z7sdl0UEZiP2X⁠  Subscribe on Google Podcasts: ⁠https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy84MGY3MDEwNC9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw⁠  Follow us on Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/db4l_pod/⁠  Follow us on Twitter: ⁠https://twitter.com/DB4L_POD⁠ --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/db4lpod/support

4:50 Eradication of Black Monday 8:10 Digression Disclaimer 10:00 Who was let go today 10:30 Bryan Mullins 15:30 Dana Ford 17:40 Loyola MD 22:06 Digression 73 23:10 Phenomena 26:46 How does this work? 32:00 Carousel get going 36:00 WVU

Hello and welcome to "Digression session" a conversational podcast. This podcast is where a group of friends sit down together and talk about certain topics. Todays topic is music and bands we like and also some obscure bands you might not of heard of. As you can tell by the title we will be revisiting this topic as music is a topic we all love to talk about and share on our podcast. We hope you enjoy it and if you don't forget to subscribe to this podcast feed for future episodes. 

Our intrepid hosts, Hub and Cory, embark on a bold new adventure. They discuss The Champions #1 and indulge themselves in many digressions along the way. 

Introducing Digressions, a virtual reading group organized by the Dig and Haymarket Books. This first session took place on August 3, 2023. Every session of Digressions will take place three to four weeks after its guest appears on the Dig, and will be broadcast live. A list of suggested readings—including a discount code for any recommended book(s)— will be made available by both Haymarket and the Dig, and participants will also be given a chance to ask their own questions of Digression guests. Click here to learn more about Digressions. Our first session will be on The Communist Manifesto and its enduring relevance, featuring China Miéville, author of A Spectre Haunting: On The Communist Manifesto. •Read along by ordering a copy of A Spectre Haunting from Haymarket Books for 40% off the cover price: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/... •If you have questions you'd like to ask China, or Dan, about The Communist Manifesto , A Spectre, Haunting, or their conversation on the Dig, you can submit them in advance using the following form: https://forms.gle/rwQHxyhyrjy7ttdu8 ———————————— More about A Spectre, Haunting: Few written works can so confidently claim to have shaped the course of history as Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels's Manifesto of the Communist Party. Since first rattling the gates of the ruling order in 1848, this incendiary pamphlet has never ceased providing fuel for the fire in the hearts of those who dream of a better world. Nor has it stopped haunting the nightmares of those who sit atop the vastly unequal social system it condemns. In A Spectre, Haunting, award-winning author China Miéville provides readers with a guide to understanding the Manifesto and the many specters it has conjured. Through his unique and unorthodox reading, Miéville offers a critical appraisal and a spirited defense of the modern world's most influential political document. ———————————— China Miéville is the multi-award-winning author of many works of fiction and non-fiction. His fiction includes The City and the City, Embassytown and This Census-Taker. He has won the Hugo, World Fantasy, and Arthur C. Clarke awards. His non-fiction includes the photo-illustrated essay London's Overthrow. He has written for various publications, including the New York Times, the Guardian, Conjunctions and Granta, and he is a founding editor of the quarterly Salvage. Daniel Denvir is the author of All-American Nativism and the host of The Dig on Jacobin Radio. ———————————— Digressions is sponsored by Haymarket Books and The Dig. While all of our events are freely available, we ask that those who are able make a solidarity donation in support of our important publishing and programming work. Watch the live event recording: https://youtube.com/live/CN9JJmO2mYY Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Hello and welcome to "Digression session" a conversational podcast. This podcast is where a group of friends sit down together and talk about certain topics. Todays topic is music and bands we like and also some obscure bands you might not of heard of. As you can tell by the title we will be revisiting this topic as music is a topic we all love to talk about and share on our podcast. We hope you enjoy it and if you don't forget to subscribe to this podcast feed for future episodes. 

A Beautiful Digression (2 Timothy 1:6-12, Dec 10th 2023) by Sovereign Grace Church

Hello and welcome to "Digression session" a conversational podcast. This podcast is where a group of friends sit down together and talk about certain topics. Todays topic is the 90's tv vol 1 , the show talks about some of our childhood shows we love and it's volume 1 because we will revisit this topic because we don't talk about everything we love. We hope you enjoy it and if you don't forget to subscribe to this podcast feed for future episodes. 

Hello and welcome to "Digression session" a conversational podcast. This podcast is where a group of friends sit down together and talk about certain topics. Todays topic is the 90's tv show "Gladiators". We hope you enjoy it and if you don't forget to subscribe to this podcast feed for future episodes. 

Remember when Kim Kardashian invented butts? Paper Magazine sure would like us to. When they released their scintillating cover issue of Kim K in a sequinned dress, balancing a champagne glass on her formidable silicone buttocks, Paper Mag declared: “Break the Internet Kim Kardashian” And break it she did. In this episode, Hannah and Maia trace Kim Kardashian's transformation from trashy reality star to fashionista de jour. Since the Paper cover, and with the help of Kanye West, Kim's body has become the subject of a twisted performance art. But it's also generated controversy - creating unhealthy trends, grifting from the natural features of Black women, and now disappearing into what we everyone has deemed a “skinny renaissance”. Digression includes: Maia getting riled up about Timothée and Kylie's fabled romantic union.  Support the Patreon and get juicy bonus content!: https://www.patreon.com/rehashpodcast Intro and outro song by our talent friend Ian Mills: ⁠https://linktr.ee/ianmillsmusic SOURCES Joe Zee, “In Defense of Kim Kardashian and the Editors of Paper Magazine and Why This Cover Makes Sense” (12/11/14), Yahoo Jake Hall, “exploring the complicated relationship between jean-paul goude and grace jones”, (21/04/16) i-D David Hershkovits, “How Kim KArdashian broke the Internet with her butt” (17/12/14), The Guardian Blue Telusma “Kim Kardashian doesn't realize she's the butt of an old racial joke” (12/11/14), the grio Justin Parkinson, “The Significance of Sarah Baartman” (07/01/16), BBC Janell Hobson, “Remnants of Venus: Signifying Black Beauty and Sexuality” (2018), Women's studies Quarterly, The Feminist Press Nolan Feeney, “Anna Wintour Implies Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are not ‘Deeply Tasteful'”. (19/11/14) Cleo Gould, “From silicone implants and fat transfers to bubble butts and a high mortality rate, we investigate whether the BBL is the most dangerous cosmetic surgery of all” (2019), Dazed Rachel Tashjian, “How Jennifer Lopez's Versace Dress Created Google Images” (2019), GQ.  John Ortved, “Paper Magazine, The Oral History: ‘They Were Wide Open' (2023), The New York Times Eric Wilson, “Kim Kardashian Inc.” (17/11/2010), The New York Times. Natasha Singer, “The democratization of plastic surgery” (2007), The New York Times, Harper Franklin “1810-1819” (18/08/2020) Fashion History Timeline, Fashion Institute of Technology. Grace O'Neill, “How Kimye Changed Fashion Forever”, Grazia Magazine. Rebecca Jennings, “The $5,000 quest for the perfect butt”, 2021, Vox. Cady Lang, “Keeping Up with the Kardashians Is Ending. But Their Exploitation of Black Women's Aesthetics Continues”, (10/06/21), Time. Kylie Gilbert, “Backing Away from BBLs” (11/08/22), InStyle

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The second limb of yoga is the niyamas, which is often translated to "positive observances." Basically, the 5 yamas are practices to stay away from and the 5 niyamas are the practices to stay with when it comes to keeping your  mind, body, and spirit healthy. Join Joyce and Mary Beth as they dive in to the niyamas starting with purity (saucha). The personal discipline of purity can bring up ideas of perfection, but it's really the idea of letting go of what's unnecessary, eliminating bad habits, and becoming free from material attachments. Think about what makes you feel truly free and what brings you that sense of peace. Joyce's mom disrupts her peace by making a surprise visit. Don't miss out on that special moment. Thank you for listening!Learn More about Modern Yoga.Like us on Facebook.Follow us on InstagramOr Twitter.

Richard Kimberly Heck has been a professor of philosophy at Brown University since 2005, at which time they left their post at Harvard, where they had taught for over a decade. On the way to receiving their PhD in philosophy and linguistics at MIT, they studied at Duke and Oxford. Riki has also been a guest on three prior episodes of Robinson's Podcast—5, 17, and 41—that covered the philosophy of sex, pornography, and gender. In this episode, however, Robinson and Riki turn to the philosophy of language, and more particularly the reference relation. They pick up with Frege and travel up through Russell, Carnap, Strawson, Kripke, and Lewis, up to the present, covering a range of topics including Fregean senses, the descriptive theory of names, ordinary language philosophy, natural kinds, possible worlds, externalism, and more. Check out http://robinsonerhardt.com and stay up to date! OUTLINE 00:00 In This Episode… 00:37 The Importance of Names 9:59 Recent Shifts in Philosophy of Language 12:44 Riki's Interest in Frege 17:35 Who Was Frege? 30:05 Uber Sinn und Bedeutung 48:33 Knowledge by Description and Acquaintance 55:06: The True and The False 1:00:41 Bertrand Russell On Denoting 1:17:50 Distinguishing Representations 1:20:54 P.F. Strawson and Ordinary Language Philosophy 1:31:43 Carnap on Meaning and Necessity 1:34:52 Kripke and Lewis on Naming and Possible Worlds 1:55:19 Current Work on Naming 2:02:15 Experimental Philosophy of Language 2:12:20 On Twin Earth 2:19:31 A Digression on Philosophical Practice 2:25:14 Ty Burge and Natural Kinds 2:27:55 Referential Vagueness 2:33:08 Internalism and Externalism 2:38:40 Sense, Reference, and Sex 2:41:16 Sense, Reference, and The Begriffsschrift Robinson Erhardt researches symbolic logic and the foundations of mathematics at Stanford University. Join him in conversations with philosophers, scientists, weightlifters, artists, and everyone in-between. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/robinson-erhardt/support

Join MB and Joyce as they try to talk about yoga mats and gear but digress into many other topics like usual. ;)Learn More about Modern Yoga.Like us on Facebook.Follow us on InstagramOr Twitter.

On last week's podcast, Dr. Griffin revealed “The Components of The Kingdom.” In this podcast, Dr. Griffin gives admonitions for meditations upon these Kingdom truths.

Summary  In this episode, Dr. Peter reviews the limitations of current Catholic resources on anger, and then reviews secular resources, including interpersonal neurobiology and the structural theory of dissociation.  We examine the role of the body in anger responses, and discuss more wholistic ways of working constructive with parts that experience anger, rather than trying to dismiss anger, suppress it or distract from it.   Lead-in William Blake, A Poison Tree: I was angry with my friends; I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.  We've all experienced anger and we've all experienced angry people  We know it's a problem.  And global data suggest that it's getting worse.   Gallup world poll from 2021: 140 countries  Did you experience the following feelings during a lot of the day yesterday? How about anger?  17% of US respondents agreed 26% of women worldwide up from 20% from 10 years ago  20% of men -- flat from 10 years ago.   Harm can come from anger Mark Twain “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”  CCC 2302  By recalling the commandment, "You shall not kill," our Lord asked for peace of heart and denounced murderous anger and hatred as immoral. Anger is a desire for revenge. "To desire vengeance in order to do evil to someone who should be punished is illicit," but it is praiseworthy to impose restitution "to correct vices and maintain justice." If anger reaches the point of a deliberate desire to kill or seriously wound a neighbor, it is gravely against charity; it is a mortal sin. The Lord says, "Everyone who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment."   "Everyone who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment."  And who hasn't been angry -- including Jesus himself?.  We have got to unpack this There is so much misunderstanding about anger in the Catholic world, so much of the way that Catholics have approached anger has been limited, misinformed, and misguided When I think about why the Catholic Church in the US, in Canada, in Europe and Australia, in the entire Western World, there are many factors.   Brandon Vogt  New Stats on Why Young People Leave the Church  based on his book Return:  How to Draw Your Child Back to the Church One critical factor is that cradle Catholics, especially young Catholics do not believe that the Church can help them with their problems.  Diocese of Springfield Exit Surveys (2014)  68% – Spiritual needs not met67% – Lost interest over time Only 7% of Millennials raised Catholic still actively practice their faith today (weekly Mass, pray a few times each week, say their faith is “extremely” or “very” important) 6.5 people leave the Catholic Church for every one that joins 66% of “nones” agree that “religion causes more problems than it solves” That's why so many fall away from the Faith.  The Church doesn't seem relevant to them because she doesn't seem like she has the answers to the real issues they face. 10% of American adults are former Catholics Nearly half of those who fall away from the Church become "nones"  And another quarter become Evangelical Christians.   79% of former Catholics leave the Church before age 23.   50% of Millennials raised Catholic no longer identify as Catholic today  And it's about topics like anger -- we are not doing a good job meeting the needs that Catholics have today, human formation needs.   Intro I am Dr. Peter Malinoski, a.k.a. Dr. Peter, clinical psychologist, trauma therapist, podcaster, blogger, cofounder and president of Souls and Hearts -- but most of all I am a beloved little son of God, a passionate Catholic who wants to help you to taste and see the height and depth and breadth and warmth and the light of the love of God, especially God the Father and  Mary our Mother, our spiritual parents, our primary parents.  To really absorb your identity as a little child of God and Mary.   I want you to enter much more deeply into an intimate, personal, loving relationship with the three Persons of the Trinity and with our Lady. That is what this Interior Integration for Catholics podcast is all about, that is what Souls and Hearts is all about – all about shoring up the natural foundation for the spiritual life of intimacy with God, all about overcoming the natural human formation deficits and obstacles to contemplative union with God our Father and our Lady, our Mother  We are on an adventure of love together. And one thing, one major, big, huge thing that gets in the way of being loved by God and Mary and loving in return is anger.  Anger.   This is Episode 103 of Interior Integration for Catholics.  Interior Integration for Catholics is part of Souls and Hearts, our online outreach, check us out at soulsandhearts.com.   Anger: one of the seven deadly sins, one the lethal vices that can kill your soul.  Anger.   So much confusion about anger.  The Burden of Anger:  June 10, 2021 Catholic-daily-reflections.com The first level of sin is simply to be “angry” interiorly. The sin of anger is an interior attitude of disgust toward another. Jesus says that the consequence of having anger toward another is that you will be “liable to judgment.” Humility.  I could be wrong.    The offerings from Five Catholic writers on anger are a case in point.   The most popular book Fr. T.G. Morrow, Overcoming Sinful Anger  303 Amazon Review, mostly positive, #16  on the list of bestsellers in Catholic Theology, put out by Sophia Press in 2015 And it's not very good.  I can't recommend it.   First off, Fr. Morrow admits that he doesn't understand why people get angry We've all encountered people who explode when they feel angry. It baffles me how often the sort of anger rears its ugly head in marriages – even in allegedly Christian marriages. (p. 9).   I am often surprised to discover Christians who pray ardently, receive the sacraments regularly, we've and attend Mass daily, and yet have an anger problem. (p. 10) Presumes a homogeneous, single personality.   Easy to explain with part.   Why do people explode in anger? There are many reasons, but I think the top three are power and control, a refusal to take responsibility, and habit. (p. 13). Very simplistic view of psychology, and no consideration of neurology, traumatology,  Confusion about the causal chain in anger.  Where anger fits in a sequence of events  Little genuine interest in anger.  Anger is something to essentially get rid of.   Not much consideration of the unconscious and unconscious anger.  Acknowledges that suppressing anger is problematic, but there still is an assumption that if I'm not feeling anger, it's not there.  Disconnect.   "Irrational anger"   Very focused on the will and will training -- naïve assumptions about sympathetic arousal. Nike Spirituality -- Just do it.   Romans 7:15:  I do not understand my own actions. For I do not do what I want, but I do the very thing I hate.   Spiritual Bypassing  Definitions John Welwood: American clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, teacher, and author, known for integrating psychological and spiritual concepts  Using “spiritual ideas, words and practices to sidestep or avoid personal, emotional ‘unfinished business,' to shore up a shaky sense of self, or to belittle basic needs, feelings, psychological wounds and developmental tasks.”  Blogger Rose Hahn:  Spiritual Bypassing: What It Is & How To Avoid It  Bypassing occurs when spiritual ideals get elevated to the realm of absolute truth in such a way that our real, lived experience is somehow denied. Rather than doing the work of healing deep wounds, we may use these ideals to deny, devalue, or avoid meeting our more human needs – such as emotional bonding, love, and esteem. In other words, rather than risk opening ourselves to real human connection, and possibly get hurt, we adopt a more enlightened, spiritual way of relating to the world that doesn't rely on human relationship.  Not a lot from a specifically Catholic perspective, but this is from Katharina, who styles herself "The Bohemian Catholic" We are supposed to uplift each other, and treat each other with love and respect - like icons of Christ, as God's creation… BUT if you find yourself trying to tell someone that their faith should keep them "happy" all the time, then you aren't helping them.  Using spiritual words, spiritual means, spiritual concepts -- all to whitewash or put a Band-Aid on significant psychological or emotional problems in the natural realm  Bypassing the natural realm and going to the spiritual realm.   Essentially saying -- You should not feel this way.  Which is what Fr. Morrow is saying.  He promises to "I will offer some ideas, which I consider quite novel, on how to avoid angry explosions." (p.4) Tips So, as a first step in overcoming passive-aggressive anger keep reminding yourself that you want to be a Christian, and therefore you can't take revenge anymore. (p. 9).  First, take the time to calm down and figure out why you're angry…. One of the tactics often recommended is to count to ten before deciding what to do. (p. 20).  Better still, say a short prayer before acting. The next step is to ask yourself if your angry feeling is been caused by something significant. Most angry fights in marriage are caused by trifling things. (p. 20).  Or perhaps use humor to make your point.(p. 20).  Offering your angry feeling as a sacrifice is not suppressing it but doing something with it. It is making a bad situation into a beneficial one. That is what it means to embrace the cross. (p. 23-24).  If we can forgive others, we can pull the rug out from beneath our anger most of the time. Unforgiveness is the main culprit behind anger. (p. 25).  … Refocus your thoughts away from the things that made you angry to some very positive thoughts. For example, thank God for the beautiful weather for the ability to read or buy things you need. (p. 30).  I often encourage people with an anger problem to daily for humility. It works. (p. 36).  Chapter 7: Thanking God, praising God  Consider your future. One key way to change her behaviors to work on in your mind just what your life will be like if you don't change your angry behavior. (pp. 72-73)  If you struggle with an anger problem write on an index card all the negatives of continuing your anger and read that list several times a day. (p. 74).   Fr. Joseph Esper, Saintly Solutions to Life's Common Problems  99 reviews on amazon.  #138 in Roman Catholicism.  2001 Book -- First Chapter is on anger.   St. Thomas of Villanova: "Dismiss all anger and look into yourself a little." (p. 7) "St. Francis de Sales advises that, to avoid the sin of anger, you must quickly ask God to give peace to your heart when you're angered and then turn your thoughts to something else. Don't discuss the matter at hand or make decisions or correct other person while you're angry. When a person angers you, St. Francis advises, consider the person's good qualities rather than the words or actions you find objectionable." (p. 7) When we have to speak to someone with whom we are angry, we should first pray for the Lord's guidance and help. It's often more effective to speak in terms of asking favors, rather than making demands or giving orders…" (p. 5-6) ...rehearse possible responses and evaluate which ones which might help you. (p. 7) Tommy Tighe St. Dymphna's Playbook: A Catholic Guide to Finding Mental and Emotional Well-Being 2021 book,  #57 in Christian Pastoral Counseling, 66 reviews, mostly positive.   Doesn't discuss anger.  Discusses irritability as a symptom of depression and resentment as a problem in relationships "However, the more I have experienced depression in my own life and in my work as a clinician, the more I have seen the symptoms of irritability and anger is predominant features of depression." (p. 13).  That's one way, not the only way.   So often depression results from  Recommendations "…go for a walk, take some time to meditate, watch or read something that lightens our mood. (p. 13)  "Keeping a diary of our emotions and reactions to those emotions is a great place to start… Look back on a situation, slow it down, and examine what exactly happened….We might ask ourselves: What is it that has led to my irritability? Is it because I'm depressed and trying to stuff that feeling down rather than address it? What am I thinking in that situation? (p. 15).  "We draw this all out on paper, examine what was really behind our emotional response, and then explore ways of thinking that will restructure our reactions and response. And we write these down! Simply thinking about these things isn't going to help. The whole point is to get them out of our head and onto paper so that we can work them out. Consider it an emotional "show your work" kind of exercise." (p. 15).  Then, after a really brief introspective process, we can catch that the real reason for our irritability is our depressed mood, and we can interject coping skills for depression to stave off our irritability. (p. 16).  Changing the focus of our thinking is key when we try to battle against depression and irritability that inevitably rears its ugly head. You've probably heard people suggest keeping a gratitude list to help you feel more positive, much along the same lines as St. Paul's advice. It works. (p. 18).   Steps in the process Visualize yourself from the perspective of compassionate observer.  Notice from the outside whole feelings xare upsetting you and how they are reflected in your appearance.  Try to let the warm feeling of compassion and desire to help arise within you.  Say to yourself: "It is understandable that you feel that way. You are experiencing a natural response to depressing thoughts. But I'm going to help you."  Visualize putting your hand on your shoulder or hugging yourself to soothe and comfort yourself. Give yourself a friendly smile.  Think about if there are other things you want to tell yourself that would energize and encourage you to cheer up.  Taking time to say those things. When you feel it is appropriate, begin saying goodbye to yourself and remind yourself that you come back anytime you want. (p. 16-17). For resentment: Active listening  Tommy Tighe: to fend off resentment, we have to communicate with things are important to us and why. We can't expect our partner to read her mind. We have to tell them the things we value, what things we have grown to expect in relationships because of our past experiences and we have to tell them why. (p 113)   Rhonda Chevrin Taming the Lion Within: 5 Steps from Anger to Peace 2017  16 ratings  is a Catholic author, international speaker and Professor of Philosophy. She is the author of over 60 books concerning the matters of Catholic thought, practice and spirituality,  Take a secure thought -- use your imagination to think of ways out of annoying or enraging situations   Avoid exceptionality.  Accept the averageMove your musclesHumor is your best friendF.I.S.T.  Feelings, Impulses, Sensations, Thoughts:  What it signifies is that we can control our immediate impulses and sensations when hurt or frustrated, but if we control our thoughts we can control her impulses.Put your mental health firstPeace over power:  Many times you can't win, and it doesn't matter if you lose.  It's not worth the effort to put up a fight.  They are not doing it to you; they're just doing it! – Much is not done on purposeNot a 911  Not everything is an emergency,.Be Group minded Anger at GodForgiveness  Fr. Spitzer Angry with God? Here's Fr. Spitzer's Advice on How to Overcome Anger God understands your anger.  Don't dwell on it.  Don't go there.   Choose instead to: Three step process in the YouTube clip Angry with God:   Stop comparing to the way you once were.   Stop comparing yourself to others.   Stop having expectations for your suffering.   Offer it up.  Stop the questioning.   Saints' behaviors  Meg Hunter-Kilmer - published on 09/28/17Aleteia September 28, 2017, What We Probably Don't Know about St. Jerome Is Just What We Need to Know St. Jerome was known to carry around a stone that he would hit himself with every time he lost his temper.     If these are helpful to you, great.  I don't want to put up roadblocks.  Might be helpful to many people.   As a Catholic psychologist, I am not comfortable recommending any of these Catholic sources Very simplistic view of psychology, and no consideration of neurology, traumatology,  Confusion about the causal chain in anger.  Where anger fits in a sequence of events  Little genuine interest in anger.  Anger is something to essentially get rid of.   Very focused on the will and will training -- naïve assumptions about sympathetic arousal.  And they don't get that anger has a protective function -- to protect us against shame.  Not one of those sources connects anger to shame.  And that's the primary connection we need to understand if we want to resolve anger, not just try to shoo it away.   What are we talking about when we discuss anger -- let's get into definitions of Anger Focused on vengeance secondary to a desire -- more than an emotion.   Written discussions of anger in the western canon go back as far as fourth-century BC in Greece when the philosopher Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) argued that anger is a rational and natural reaction to being offended and thus is closely associated with reason. In the Rhetoric (1991, p. 1380) he defined anger as “a belief that we, or our friends, have been unfairly slighted, which causes in us both painful feelings and a desire or impulse for revenge.” 1907 Catholic Encyclopedia:  Anger:  The desire of vengeance. Its ethical rating depends upon the quality of the vengeance and the quantity of the passion. When these are in conformity with the prescriptions of balanced reason, anger is not a sin. It is rather a praiseworthy thing and justifiable with a proper zeal. It becomes sinful when it is sought to wreak vengeance upon one who has not deserved it, or to a greater extent than it has been deserved, or in conflict with the dispositions of law, or from an improper motive. The sin is then in a general sense mortal as being opposed to justice and charity. It may, however, be venial because the punishment aimed at is but a trifling one or because of lack of full deliberation.  Likewise, anger is sinful when there is an undue vehemence in the passion itself, whether inwardly or outwardly. Ordinarily it is then accounted a venial sin unless the excess be so great as to go counter seriously to the love of God or of one's neighbor.   CCC 2302  By recalling the commandment, "You shall not kill," our Lord asked for peace of heart and denounced murderous anger and hatred as immoral. Anger is a desire for revenge. "To desire vengeance in order to do evil to someone who should be punished is illicit," but it is praiseworthy to impose restitution "to correct vices and maintain justice." If anger reaches the point of a deliberate desire to kill or seriously wound a neighbor, it is gravely against charity; it is a mortal sin. The Lord says, "Everyone who is angry with his brother shall be liable to judgment."  Contradiction that aggression (or vengeance) and anger have to go together  Lot of research to tease about anger and aggression: Ephesians 4:26:  Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger   APA Dictionary of Psychology: an emotion characterized by tension and hostility arising from frustration, real or imagined injury by another, or perceived injustice. It can manifest itself in behaviors designed to remove the object of the anger (e.g., determined action) or behaviors designed merely to express the emotion (e.g., swearing). Anger is distinct from, but a significant activator of, aggression, which is behavior intended to harm someone or something. Despite their mutually influential relationship, anger is neither necessary nor sufficient for aggression to occur.  Psychologist Paul Ekman. (1999). Basic emotions. In T. Dalgleish & M. J. Power (Eds.), Handbook of cognition and emotion (pp. 45–60). John Wiley & Sons Ltd  Due to its distinct and widely recognizable pattern of face expression, anger has always been included in the repertoire of basic emotions.   Benefits of Anger  Farzaneh Pahlavan Multiple Facets of Anger: Getting Mad or Restoring Justice?  Chapter 3:  The Neurobiology of RAGE and Anger & Psychiatric Implications with a Focus on Depression Daniel J. Guerra1, Valentina Colonnello and Jaak Panksepp As a basic emotion, anger emerges early in life and has a unique adaptive function in motivating, organizing, and regulating behavior. No other emotion can match the consistency and vigor of anger in mobilizing high-level energy and sustaining goal-directed activity. Anger serves a variety of regulatory functions in physiological and psychological processes related to self-defense as well as to interpersonal and societal behaviors. Through socialization processes, it plays an important role in the development of personality and individual differences in responding to environmental challenges, which can be more or less adaptive.  (p. v).   Aristotle:  Aristotle: Nichomachean Ethics: It is easy to fly into a passion – anybody can do that – but to be angry with the right person into the right extent and at the right time and with the right object in the right way – that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it  In themselves passions are neither good nor evil. They are morally qualified only to the extent that they effectively engage reason and will….It belongs to the perfection of the moral or human good that the passions be governed by reason. CCC 1767  CCMMP: Catholic-Christian Meta-Model of the Person  DMU Paul Vitz, William Nordling, Paul Craig Titus.    p. (294)  to remain in the virtuous middle ground requires being disposed to a righteous anger that will stand up to injustice, and use a good measure of anger in ways that are corrective of the evil, preventive of further injustice, and indicative of a balance to mean between extremes. Emotions are good when, as reactions antecedent to reasoning, they make us conscious of reality and prepare us for a more complete reaction and moral action. Emotion and choice then serve moral flourishing (e.g., when we have an appropriate spontaneous reaction of anger at injustice). Second, emotions are good as felt reactions that also follow the intellectual evaluation of the situation. Emotions can be expressive of rational decisions. Emotions can thus participate in our life of reason and will (Gondreau, 2013). For example, when we choose to rectify and injustice, a balanced expression of anger can help us to act decisively will being restrained enough that we do not overreact. Through a righteous or just expression of anger, we entered rectify injustice, will finding a just and rational mean between excessively weak or exceedingly strong emotional displays. (p. 650). Emotions are viewed as informing people about their cares and concerns. To prepare the body for action, directing our thoughts to ways that will appropriately address the issues at hand. They can signal and manipulate other people in ways that suit the person's emotional needs (Parrott, 2001). Being disconnected from emotional experience, therefore, means being cut off from adaptive information (Pos et al., 2003). (pp. 650-651). Digression into justification of secular sources Question may arise, "OK, Dr. Peter, as you already noted, anger has been recognized for a long time, going all the way back to Aristotle and way before that in Sacred Scripture.  You emphasize that you are a Catholic psychologist, so why are you even looking at these secular sources like the American Psychological Association? There is a lot about anger in Scripture, in the Church Fathers and the saints about anger in the spiritual life.   Discalced Carmelite Abbott Marc Foley in his excellent book The Context of Holiness: Psychological and Spiritual Reflections on the Life of St. Therese of Lisieux "One…misconception is that the spiritual life is an encapsulated sphere, cloistered from the realities of daily living….we have only one life composed of various dimensions.  Our emotional life, intellectual life, social life, work life, sex life, spiritual life are simple ways of speaking of the different facets of our one life.  (p. 1).  We have one life.  One life.  We don't have a spiritual life that is separate from our emotional life.  We have one life.  If we are angry, that affects our whole life.   The Church herself encourages us to look to all branches of knowledge and glean what is best from them in order to live our one life better.  From the CCC, paragraph 159  "Though faith is above reason, there can never be any real discrepancy between faith and reason. Since the same God who reveals mysteries and infuses faith has bestowed the light of reason on the human mind, God cannot deny himself, nor can truth ever contradict truth." "Consequently, methodical research in all branches of knowledge, provided it is carried out in a truly scientific manner and does not override moral laws, can never conflict with the faith, because the things of the world and the things of faith derive from the same God. The humble and persevering investigator of the secrets of nature is being led, as it were, by the hand of God in spite of himself, for it is God, the conserver of all things, who made them what they are." And from the Vatican II document, the Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World, paragraph 62 reads:  In pastoral care, sufficient use must be made not only of theological principles, but also of the findings of the secular sciences, especially of psychology and sociology, so that the faithful may be brought to a more adequate and mature life of faith. Remember that we are embodied beings -- we are composites of a soul and a body. The 17th Century Philosopher Rene Descartes' popularized what is called mind-body dualism.  Mind-body dualism is the idea that the body and the mind operate in separate spheres, and neither can be assimilated into the other.  And that is false.  Demonstrably false in a lot of ways, be we so often assume it to be true.  We have one life.   In the last several years we are realizing just how much of our mental life and our psychological well-being is linked in various ways to our neurobiology -- the ways that our nervous systems function.  And the relationship between our embodied brain and our minds is reciprocal -- each affects the other in complex ways that we are just beginning to understand.  In other words, brain chemistry affects our emotional states.  And our emotional states and our behaviors affect brain chemistry.  It's not just our minds and it's not just our bodies and it's not just our souls -- it's all of those, all of what makes me who I am, body, mind, soul, spirit, all of it.   And since Scripture, the Early Church Fathers, the Catechism and so on are silent on neurobiology, neurochemistry, neurophysiology and so many other areas that impact our minds and our well-being, as a Catholic psychologist I am going to look elsewhere, I'm going to look into secular sources.  I just don't think it's reasonable to expect the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops or the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in the Vatican to be experts in these areas -- it's not their calling, it's not their expertise.  St. John of the Cross in his  Prologue of Ascent of Mt. Carmel: "I will not rely on experience or science…[but] I will not neglect whatever possible use I can make of them.  Fr. Marc Foley, OCD : The Context of Holiness:  As St. Thomas wrote of St. Augustine's use of Platonic philosophy in the Summa: "whenever Augustine, who was imbued with the doctrines of the Platonists, found in their teaching anything consistent with the faith, he adopted it and those things which he found contrary to the faith he amended." (ST I, q. 84,a. 5) p.4 And St. Thomas himself drew on so much of Aristotle's thought in his writings, bringing it into his body of work.   Abbot Marc Foley.  In short, we should never swallow the school of thought whole; we should sift the wheat from the chaff, separate truth from falsehood. p.4 We want the best from all sources.   Emphasis on biological processes:   From Heidi Crockett Anger Management with Interpersonal Neurobiology  Discussed Interpersonal Neurobiology at length in  Episode 92 of this podcast Understanding and Healing your Mind through IPNB In interpersonal neurobiology, anger as an emotion is viewed from the perspective of cognitive neuroscience. And cognitive neuroscience states that cognition and emotion are dynamically combined with physical arousal. When anger is induced as an emotion in humans, it can unconsciously affect physiological and neural resources. Affective states of anger are subsequently expressed in the brain as well as the body, and these neural and physiological changes can influence the cognitive processes. Many studies and resources have been expended on studying the emotions of happiness, sadness, and fear, which align with psychopathological states of hypomania, depression, and anxiety. Kathy Steele, Suzette Boon, Onno van der Hart:  Treating Trauma-Related Dissociation: A Practical, Integrative Approach:  Anger is an affect to derived from activation of the sympathetic nervous system, geared to energize the body for maximum effort to fend off perceived danger. Psychologically, it protects from awareness of vulnerability and lack of control, and therefore from shame. And fight mode, we are all primed to perceive cues of danger rather than cues of safety and relational connection. In such a heightened state of arousal, it is easy to misunderstand the intentions of others. (p.332). Polyvagal theory and anger  A critical period for experience-dependent development of the feelings of safety during early infancy: A polyvagal perspective on anger and psychometric tools to assess perceived safety  Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience July 2022 article   Andrea Poli, Angelo Gemignani, Carlo Chiorri and Mario Miccoli Brief primer here on some neurology.  Don't worry.  I will keep it simple.   Neurons are specialized cells that receive and send signals to other cells through fragile and thin cellular extensions called axons. Myelination:   a membrane or a sheath around the axons on neurons.   Myelinated axons often have a larger diameter Myelinated axons are insulated Myelination allows for much faster transmission of electric impulses Presence of safety during the critical period (first year of life).   Decreased unmyelinated/myelinated cardioinhibitory fibers ratio in adulthood Ventral Vagal complex is able to have a greater impact on reducing the Sympathetic Nervous System arousal -- decreasing anger  VVC is able to have a greater impact on reducing Dorsal Vagal Complex fear and shutdown responses -- the freeze response.   Greater capacity for self-regulation.   Absence of safety during the critical period  Increased unmyelinated/myelinated cardioinhibitory fibers ratio in adulthood Ventral Vagal complex has a lesser impact on reducing the Sympathetic Nervous System arousal -- less able to decrease sympathetic arousal, including anger  VVC has a lesser impact on reducing Dorsal Vagal Complex fear and shutdown responses -- less able to reduce the freeze response.   Less capacity for self-regulation.   Dampened VVC activity reduces the capacity of adaptive inhibition of SNS and DVC (Dorsal Vagal Complex), and emotional self-regulation. Hence, environmental detection of unsafety cues may preferentially trigger SNS-mediated anger in order to avoid DVC-mediated immobilization with fear. Young children exposed to five or more significant adverse experiences in the first three years of childhood face a 76% likelihood of having one or more delays in their language, emotional or brain development. (6) As the number of traumatic events experienced during childhood increases, the risk for the following health problems in adulthood increases: depression; alcoholism; drug abuse; suicide attempts; heart and liver diseases; pregnancy problems; high stress; uncontrollable anger; and family, financial, and job problems. (6) 7 ways childhood adversity changes a child's brain Donna Jackson Nakazawa Acestoohigh.com website September 8, 2016 Epigenetic Shifts  gene methylation, in which small chemical markers, or methyl groups, adhere to the genes involved in regulating our stress response, and prevent these genes from doing their jobs.  Size and Shape of the Brain stress releases a hormone that actually shrinks the size of the hippocampus, an area of our brain responsible for processing emotion and memory and managing stress.  Chronic neuroinflammation can lead to changes that reset the tone of the brain for life   Brain connectivity:  Dr. Ryan Herringa, neuropsychiatrist and assistant professor of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Wisconsin, found that children and teens who'd experienced chronic childhood adversity showed weaker neural connections between the prefrontal cortex and the hippocampus. Girls also displayed weaker connections between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala. The prefrontal-cortex-amygdala relationship plays an essential role in determining how emotionally reactive we're likely to be to the things that happen to us in our day-to-day life, and how likely we are to perceive these events as stressful or dangerous. Including anger.   Wiring of the brain and nervous system matter -- they matter a lot Brain activation in anger  Distinct Brain Areas involved in Anger versus Punishment during Social Interactions  Olga M. Klimecki, David Sander & Patrik Vuilleumier Scientific Reports 2018. 25 men fMRI study anger induced in an in inequality game designed to be unfair.   In the present study, we found that the intensity of experienced anger when seeing the face of the unfair other was parametrically related to activations in amygdala, STS (superior temporal sulcus), and fusiform gyrus (related to facial recognition). The STS has been shown to produce strong responses when subjects perceive stimuli in research areas that facial recognition   Farzaneh Pahlavan Multiple Facets of Anger: Getting Mad or Restoring Justice?  Chapter 3:  The Neurobiology of RAGE and Anger & Psychiatric Implications with a Focus on Depression Daniel J. Guerra1, Valentina Colonnello and Jaak Panksepp Rage emerges when specific environmental stimuli arouse the neural circuitry of the RAGE system. Even if the anger-thoughts and the related expression are modulated and regulated by higher cortico-cognitive areas, the human basic circuitry of anger is still subcortical. Since the early description of rage in decorticated cats (Dusser De Barenne, 1920) and dogs (Rothmann, 1923) and their responses to inoffensive stimuli, it was clear that the rage expression is i) dependent on subcortical areas, i.e. the ancient regions play a crucial role more than the higher neocortical regions; ii) independent of an intact cortex. p. 11  Among the higher limbic regions of this network, the medial nucleus, the basal complex, and central and lateral nuclei of the amygdala play a key role in the modulation of RAGE.  p. 1   All this happens far away from the frontal cortex in the limbic system of your brain.   Kathy Steele, Suzette Boon, Onno van der Hart:  Treating Trauma-Related Dissociation: A Practical, Integrative Approach   Why of Chronic anger.   Anger is the primary emotion of the "fight" defense.  When (parts of) the patient become stuck in this defense, anger becomes chronic.  Thus, the first intervention is safety.  332 As long as a fight reaction remains unresolved, anger will remain chronic. (p.332).  Almost no one seems to understands that anger is a defense against fear and shame.  It's a way of trying to protect oneself.   There are several reasons that anger and hostility become chronic in dissociative patients. First, patients typically have been severely invalidated, ignored, heard, betrayed, and sometimes even tortured over extended periods of time, while helpless to stop it. In itself, this is enough to generate enormous rage in anyone as part of the naturally occurring fight defense. Second, as children, patients often had little to no help in learning how to regulate and appropriately express normal anger, much less how to cope with it. Often it was unacceptable for many patients to express any kind of anger as children, while the adults around them were uncontained and highly destructive with their anger. Others had no limit set on their angry behaviors. (p. 330). Angry dissociative parts are feared and avoided internally by most other parts, particularly those that function in daily life. After all, angry behaviors toward self and others may interfere with functioning in a variety of personal and social ways. An ongoing vicious cycle of rage and shame ensues internally: the more patients avoid their angry and destructive dissociative parts, the angry these parts become, and the more they shame other parts and are shamed by them. (p. 331). … Angry parts have a deep shame and are highly defended against the strong belief that they are very bad. Their defense is reinforced by the shame of patients that such parts of themselves even exist. These parts of the patient are terrified of attachment to the therapist and you the relationship is dangerous, mainly because they are afraid that the therapist will never accept them. (p. 331-332). Whether the anger is part of a fight response or not, it is often a secondary emotion that protects the patient from feelings of sadness, extreme powerlessness, shame, guilt, and loss. (p. 333).  (add grief) Parts of the patient that developed  controlling-punitive strategies will be angry with others to get what they need,  while those that have controlling-caregiving strategies will punish themselves for being angry or having needs. (p. 333).  This is often the case in hostile parts such as those of self-injure or encourage other parts to self-harm, prostitute themselves, abuse drugs or alcohol, or engage in other self-destructive behaviors. They are often stuck in destructive and harmful behaviors that are an "attack self" defense against shame. (p.333). Finally, the rage of the perpetrator is often an embodied experience from which patients cannot yet escape without sufficient realization and further integration. Some dissociative parts imitate perpetrators internally, repeating the family dynamics from the past with other parts in a rather literal way. (p.333). "Getting the anger out" is not really useful, as the problem is that the patient needs to learn how to effectively express anger verbally rather than physically, and in socially appropriate and contained ways, so the patient can be heard by others. It is less the fact that patients express anger, but how they do so and whether that expression allows him to remain grounded in the present, to retain important relationships, and to avoid being self-destructive. (p. 334). Expression of anger is not necessarily therapeutic in itself. It is how (parts of) the patient experience and express it that is important; whether it is within a window of tolerancex in a socially appropriate and safe. Therapist must learn when expression of anger is therapeutic and when containment of anger is more helpful. (p. 334). Working with anger an angry parts (p.335). Take the time to educate the patient as a whole about the functions of anger and angry parts. Although they may seem like "troublemakers," they can be understood as attempting to solve problems with ineffective or insufficient tools.  Encourage all parts of the patient understand, accept, and listen to angry parts, instead of avoiding them.  Make efforts to understand what provokes angry parts. There are many potential triggers.   Not direct quotes Do all parts feel the same way as the angry part?  If not, can those parts listen to and accept angry parts perspective?  Would the angry part be willing to listen to the other internal perspectives?  Invite other parts to watch and listen if possible.  Can set limits with the angry part  the angry part and all parts need to learn that healthy relationships do not include punishment, humiliation, or force  Use titration, helping the person experienced as a small amount of anger will remain grounded in the present   Parts and imitate a perpetrator often literally experience themselves in our experienced by other parts as the actual perpetrator. Thus they understandably induce fear and shame within a patient as a whole, and sometimes fearing the therapist. (p. 345). The functions of perpetrator-imitating parts are (1) protect the patient against threats of the perpetrator, which continue to be experienced as real in the present; (2) defend the patient against unbearable realizations of being helpless and powerless as a child, (3) re-enact traumatic memories from the perspective of the perpetrator, as mentalize by the child; (4) serve as a defense against shame through attacking the patient and avoiding inner experiences of shame; (5) provide an outlet for the patient's disowned sadistic and punitive tendencies; and (6) hold unbearable traumatic memories. (p. 346). Suzette Boon, Kathy Steele, Onno van der Hart 2011 book  Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists Destructive expressions of anger include persistent revenge fantasies or actions, hurting self or others, "taking it out" on innocent people (or animals), or destruction of property. (p. 265).  Dissociative parts of a person that are stuck in anger may experience this feeling as vehement and overwhelming, often without words. They may have irresistible urges to act aggressively and have great difficulty thinking and reflecting on their feelings before acting. Angry parts have not learned how to experience or express anger and helpful ways. There are two types of anger dissociative parts. The first are parts that are stuck in a defensive fight mode, ready to protect you. Their anger at original injustices may be legitimate and naturally accompanies a tendency to strike out and fight, which is an essential survival strategy. However, such parts have become stuck in anger, unable to experience much else. They rigidly perceived threat and ill-will everywhere and they react with anger and aggression as their only option of response. Although these parts of you may not yet realize it, anger is often a protection against vulnerable feelings of shame, fear, hurt, despair, powerlessness, and loss. The second type of angry part may seem very much like the original perpetrator. They imitate those who hurt them in the past, and they can be experienced internally as the actual perpetrator. This experience can be particularly frightening, disorienting, and shameful. But be assured this is a very common way of dealing with being traumatized. In fact, although these parts may have some similarities to those who hurt you, they also significant differences: they are parts of you as a whole person, who is trying to cope with unresolved traumatic experiences. (p. 267)   Tips for coping with anger (p, 269 to 271) recognize how to make distinctions among the many gradations of anger, from mild irritation to rage, so that you can intervene more rapidly.  Understand your tells around anger, which may include a tight or tense feeling in your body, clenched jaw's or fists, feeling flushed or shaky, breathing heavily, heart racing, a feeling of heat, a surge of energy.  Empathize with her angry parts, recognizing they have very limited coping skills, and very limited vision. They've been shunned by other parts, left alone with their hurt, fear, shame, in isolation. This does not mean you have to accept their impulses toward inappropriate behavior  Once you start feeling some compassion toward these parts you can begin to communicate with them, listening with an intention, with curiosity to understand what lies underneath the anger  Angry parts have a strength, that they could transferred to use and more positive ways  Become more curious about why anger is happening.  Try creative and healthy nonverbal ways of expressing your anger, such as writing, drawing, painting, making a collage  Physical exercise may help as an outlet for the physical energy generated by the physiology of anger  Work on understanding your anger, by reflecting on it, rather than just experiencing it, being immersed in it. You might imagine observing yourself from a distance, and getting curious about why you feel the way you do.  Give yourself a time-out, that is, walk away from the situation if you're getting too angry. Counseling to 10, or even 200 before you say or do something you might regret later.  Calm breathing may help  Listen to each part of you, about what might help that part with anger. You can have in her conversations with parts of yourself about anger and how to express it. Small and safe ways to express anger can be negotiated that are agreeable to all parts of you  Watch safe people in your life and seal they handle their own anger. Do they accept being angry? Are they are respectful and appropriate with her anger? Are there particular strategies that they use that you could practice for yourself?  Healthy anger can get positive strength and energy. It can help you be appropriately assertive, set clear boundaries, and confront wrongs in the world. Anger can pave the way to other emotions, leading to the resolution relational conflicts.  We learn the most common triggers of your anger. Once you learn these triggers, you can be more aware when they occur and more able to prevent an automatic reaction of anger. Establish intercommunication among parts of yourself to recognize triggers and negotiate possible helpful strategies to cope with them rather than just reacting.  You can try allowing yourself to experience just a small amount of anger from another part of yourself: a drop, a teaspoon, 1% or 2%. In exchange you can share with angry parts feelings of calm and safety.  Inner safe spaces can be very helpful for childlike parts that feel terrified   My parts Feisty Part-- defends against shame -- Melancholio.   Good Boy  Challenger  Creative-distracting me.   Closing Mark your calendars.  Next Live Experience of the IIC podcast will be on Friday, January 13, 2023 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM Eastern time on Zoom (repeat) -- All about Anger -- dealing with your anger.  Going beyond what books can do.  Experiential exercise.  Links to register have gone out in our emailed Wednesday Reflections.  Can get the link on the IIC landing page as well, SoulsandHearts.com/iic  December 28, 2022  Reflection at soulsandhearts.com/blog  From Rejecting to Embracing Aging Reach out to me Crisis@soulsandhearts.com  Conversation hours:  cell is 317.567.9594 conversation hours 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM Eastern Time Every Tuesday and Thursday.   Resilient Catholic Community -- you do not have to be alone.   Why a deep intimate personal relationship with God our Father, Mary our Mother -- spiritual parents   By claiming our identity as beloved daughters and sons of God the Father and Mary our Mother. Identity is freely given.   How By dealing with the natural level issues we have, the human formation issues we have that have spiritual consequences.  Grace perfects nature  So many spiritual problems have their roots in the natural realm, in human formation.   If this kind of exercise is helpful to you, we have nearly 100 of them in the Resilient Catholics Community.   120 Catholics like you already on board, already on the pilgrimage -- just had 47 apply for the December 2022 cohort, excited to get to know our new applicants.   Closed December 31 -- wait list should be up soon for the June 2023 Cohort.   Get to know your own parts Get to love your own parts If interested, contact me.   Crisis@soulsandhearts.com 317.567.9594 conversation hours 4:30 PM to 5:30 PM Eastern Time Every Tuesday and Thursday.    

Support us! https://www.patreon.com/mlst Professor Murray Shanahan is a renowned researcher on sophisticated cognition and its implications for artificial intelligence. His 2016 article ‘Conscious Exotica' explores the Space of Possible Minds, a concept first proposed by philosopher Aaron Sloman in 1984, which includes all the different forms of minds from those of other animals to those of artificial intelligence. Shanahan rejects the idea of an impenetrable realm of subjective experience and argues that the majority of the space of possible minds may be occupied by non-natural variants, such as the ‘conscious exotica' of which he speaks. In his paper ‘Talking About Large Language Models', Shanahan discusses the capabilities and limitations of large language models (LLMs). He argues that prompt engineering is a key element for advanced AI systems, as it involves exploiting prompt prefixes to adjust LLMs to various tasks. However, Shanahan cautions against ascribing human-like characteristics to these systems, as they are fundamentally different and lack a shared comprehension with humans. Even though LLMs can be integrated into embodied systems, it does not mean that they possess human-like language abilities. Ultimately, Shanahan concludes that although LLMs are formidable and versatile, we must be wary of over-simplifying their capacities and limitations. YT version: https://youtu.be/BqkWpP3uMMU Full references on the YT description. [00:00:00] Introduction [00:08:51] Consciousness and Consciousness Exotica [00:34:59] Slightly Consciousness LLMs [00:38:05] Embodiment [00:51:32] Symbol Grounding [00:54:13] Emergence [00:57:09] Reasoning [01:03:16] Intentional Stance [01:07:06] Digression on Chomsky show and Andrew Lampinen [01:10:31] Prompt Engineering Find Murray online: https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mpsha/ https://twitter.com/mpshanahan?lang=en https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=00bnGpAAAAAJ&hl=en MLST Discord: https://discord.gg/aNPkGUQtc5

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The hero in American Westerns (and Samurai tales and post-apocalyptic movies like "Mad Max") is the Warrior Archetype personified, at least in its latter-day configuration of the solitary man of violence, who lives by his own code and operates as a law unto himself. In this episode, we'll attempt to tie this figure in to the world we've been describing through our prior 45 episodes.New episodes every Monday. SUBSCRIBE and REVIEW.The War of Art - https://amzn.to/38vTIDdGates of Fire - https://amzn.to/3kjpFAX