Podcast appearances and mentions of robert green ingersoll

Standardized tests, on OEA GROW Today's labor history: Johnson signs Title VII of the Civil Rights Act Today's labor quote: Robert Green Ingersoll @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Standardized tests, on OEA GROW Today's labor history: Johnson signs Title VII of the Civil Rights Act Today's labor quote: Robert Green Ingersoll @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Investing Skepticallybonds!  Index v Individual bondsPublic v non traded reitsRobert Green Ingersollcruise to Iceland,Ireland and Scotland

Why European elections matter to labor, on the LabourStart podcast Today's labor history: General strike in Rochester Today's labor quote: Robert Green Ingersoll @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

Why European elections matter to labor, on the LabourStart podcast Today's labor history: General strike in Rochester Today's labor quote: Robert Green Ingersoll @wpfwdc @AFLCIO #1u #UnionStrong #LaborRadioPod Proud founding member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network

In today's episode, you'll learn about a new program to increase diversity among realtors and how it could play in Peoria. And the Washington Historical Society has launched a unique fundraiser that offers a chance to own a piece of the city's history. Plus, on Postmark Peoria, hear more of Steve Tarter's recent conversation about famed 19th century orator Robert Green Ingersoll.

A podcast where we share sixty seconds of inspiration to help you create a kinder, gentler world faster than the speed of heartbreak. We believe that kindness needs to be the number one cherished idea in the world today. So, we created a show that adds one sweet droplet of goodness into the ocean of your life - every day.    Yesterday by John Hobart - Music Design by Jason Inc. https://brucewaynemclellan.com/  

Common sense is a ‘common' phrase that is in reality far from common.  To add insult to injury, common sense also seems to weigh in a trite bit light on ‘sense' as well.  It might be proper to say that common sense is neither common nor does it make much sense anymore.  Today, common sense commonly lacks sense and we are the poorer for it. It seems rather apparent that some things in life should simply ‘be' without any thought about whether they should ‘be.'  We would define those as the common things.  If we tinker with the idea of “common” for a moment, it would imply something that just ‘is' because it has a place in life that's uncontested, blatantly obvious, globally useful, intrinsically beneficial and it's as cleanly natural as sunshine and rose petals.  ‘Common' defines those things whose existence we simply presume without questioning what they are or what role they play.  They just ‘are' because they're supposed to be and we accept them as such.    Common Sense It seems that common sense should be common as well, or at least we would like it to be common.  After all, when we apply common sense things usually come out pretty good.  Even if we can't rightly define it, the phrase “common sense” has a nice ring to it.  There's something soothing about the idea of “common sense” as it seems to have some reliable guiding quality to it that's much more likely to insure a good outcome.  Common sense seems to bring a sure and steady compass to situations that are short on compasses.  It seems to be the thing that will not fail us when all the craftiness, shrewdness, cunning and presumed brilliance of men who presume themselves as brilliant fails.  Common sense is the spotless and orderly notion that we smile at with a kind of soothing and pleasantly simplistic agreement. Common sense implies a cup of wisdom, a dash of discernment and a dollop of intellectual acumen that's blended clean and translucent.  It's clarity in chaos and focus when all else is frantic.  It suggests the direct application of life experience, gently hemmed in by intuition and held fast by reason.  Common sense is the best of our senses refusing to react to the worst of our fears.  It appears to be a culmination and consolidation of the best of our experiences that in combination are sufficiently adequate to overcome the worst of who we are.     The Absence of Common Sense The absence of common sense seems in large part to be related to the fact that we tack so much stuff on to it, or cut so much stuff out of it, or painfully contort it to the point that we're not certain what we're left with other than it's probably nothing even remotely close to common sense.  We're prone to nip, tuck, tinker and toy with it until it's a whole lot less to common sense and a whole lot more something else.  Common sense then gets unrecognizably blurred or worse yet it gets entirely lost in our tinkering. What's problematic is that once we've done all of that stuff to common sense, we think that what's left over is still common sense.  If fact, we often think that we've refined it to the point that it's tight, clean and logically invincible.  In reality, common sense is lost to the point that we don't even recognize that whatever we've got left over after messing with common sense, it's probably anything but common sense.  We've got our own derivative of something that maybe started out as common sense but is only common in the fact that it no longer makes any sense. But we go ahead and treat it like common sense anyway.  The obvious and natural progression is that we act on it thinking all the while that its common sense that we're acting on.  The repercussions are that we end up acting on something that's likely distorted by our agendas or shaped by whatever the cultural bias is.  The result is that we do incredibly stupid things while applauding ourselves for how smart we think we are. Ralph Waldo Emerson said it well when he wrote, “Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.” George Bernard Shaw put it another way when he said, “Common sense is instinct.  Enough of it is genius.”  Common sense is the stuff of simple man's uncluttered instinct simply applied to whatever we're facing.  Instinct is all of our life experiences pooled together that gives us a sense that something's right or wrong, good or bad, constructive or destructive, wise or not.  Common sense then is simply using that instinct; refusing to convolute it by engaging in tangled complexities, and doing nothing more than directly applying it to our situation as our instinct tells us to apply it. If that's the case, then why is common sense so incredibly uncommon?  Common sense would suggest that common sense itself is contaminated and distorted by things that dramatically diminish or altogether destroy common sense.  We bias it and distort it through a number of means that undercut it and render it largely anemic.  In doing that we rob it of its simplicity, we sully its purity and then we strip it of its effectiveness.  We make decisions based on whatever we're left with and the end product is typically something reeking with the rancid stench of stupidity.   Authentic Common Sense is Free of Prejudice and Bias Common sense is a frankness that's not convoluted by prejudice, bias, special interests, personal demands, self-centered motivations, self-seeking agendas or any of a thousand things that twist it to something rank and spoiled.  Those things cloud common sense to the point that it's so mucked up that we can't see in it, or through it, or even around it.  In reality, common sense is a blend of truth and fact untainted by any agenda that would dilute or skew it.  It's clean and transparent, entirely uncluttered by all of the muck and mire that we rigorously pump into it. What makes common sense so uncommon is that we contaminate it with all that stuff.  We have a difficult time setting our agendas cleanly apart and maintaining some disciplined degree of objectivity.  We don't get that common sense has a voice of its own and that voice is not our voice.  What we adamantly listen for is our voice, our opinions, our sense of what should be.  What do we think about this, that or the next thing?  What are the pro's and con's that we can weigh out to weigh in our favor?  We tend to like to hear ourselves talk anyway, so when we hear our own voices we typically like what we hear.  Because we like what we hear, we assume it to be common sense and we act on it as such.  Common sense is not our voice.  It's the voice of life experience.  It's the voice of uncompromised truth and hard fact.  It's the voice of a guiding conscious that whispers or sometimes screams in the back of all of our heads.  It's the voice of something that's far greater than who and what we are that speaks simple truths that are so clean that we can't even apprehend them in the sludge of our own minds.  Whatever commons sense is, it's not our voice.  So, if we're listening to hear what we're saying, we're not listening for common sense.   Authentic Common Sense Uses Knowledge as Wisdom Despite the fact that it's pretty clean and simple, we somehow have the need to analyze, decipher, scrutinize, probe, inspect, dissect and then review it all in retrospect.  If we don't go through this gargantuan process, we feel that we're not being entirely responsible and thorough.  In this cumbersome process the intellectual acumen takes it all in a thousand different directions which are then further skewed by our own biases.  In the end common sense is altogether killed and swapped out with something that's certainly intellectually shiny and pretty impressive, but probably entirely irrelevant and likely utterly off-base.  Once we get to this place it's all so messed up that we typically can't even backtrack sufficiently well enough to find the place where we left common sense buried and dead. Robert Green Ingersoll said that “it is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.”  Common sense is not something that's learned in academia.  Rather, it's something gained by raw, hands-on, day-in and day-out experience where we get slapped and slugged.  Common sense is gained in the rough and tumble of life, where we get beat, bruised, belittled, betrayed and battered.  It's standing up after we've been pummeled, shaking ourselves back to some level of consciousness and asking “what did I learn from whatever it was that just happened?”  Whatever we learned, we add it to our base of preexisting knowledge.  It's the pooling of all those experiences and bringing them to bear on our situation that's the raw fiber of common sense.   The Value of Common Sense   Common sense is a whole lot more valuable than we might think.  There is something inherently grounded in common sense, something that resonates with the facts and the realities of whatever we're facing.  It keeps things on track, focused and balanced.  It directs correctly and in a manner that brings relevant solutions that are effective even in seemingly implausible and impossible situations.  Common sense takes the confusion that we tend to create and develops a clarity that sometimes seems too simplistic to be worth anything of real value.  Yet, common sense can have tremendous value.  Re-evaluate your thought processes.  Reconsider the impact of both your own mind and all the sordid messages impressed upon you by the culture.  Get back to the basics and you'll find that life often has a stunning clarity that was stunningly missed.

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Interview with Staks Rosch "Disproving God and 5 Adequate Reasons To Be an Atheist".Investing Skeptically: IUL - Indexed Universal LifeBonus audio: Jim JefferiesClosing audio: "Robert Green Ingersoll"

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8. Wendell discusses winter holidays as humanist and atheist while reading pieces by famous 19th century orator Robert Ingersoll."Middle America" is a podcast using history, storytelling, and music to talk about all of the issues and feelings brought on by the world around us. "Middle America" is an access point to everything under the sun.Music in this episode:Jared Grabb “Christmas Bars (‘Prison Bars’ Xmas Version)”Jared Grabb “Untitled (Folk Song Starts 1)”Jared Grabb “The Straying Atheist (Middle America Version)”Jared Grabb “You Are Home”Sadface Killer “’03 Hoopin”Jared Grabb “Middle America Ad Music”Jared Grabb “Christmas Bars (‘Prison Bars’ Instrumental Xmas Version)”The featured music for this episode was “’03 Hoopin” by Sadface Killer. Everything else was created by Jared Grabb.All of Jared Grabb's and Scouts Honor's music is published by Roots In Gasoline (ASCAP). Editing assistance was provided by Becca Taylor.patreon.com/midamericapodfacebook.com/midamericapodinstagram.com/midamericapodtwitter.com/midamericapodmidamericapod.bandcamp.commiddleamericapod@gmail.comSupport the show (http://www.patreon.com/midamericapod)

Donald B. Ardell is an outspoken freethinker who promotes a philosophy of REAL wellness. REAL is an acronym for Reason, Exuberance, Athleticism and Liberty – the four dimensions of a lifestyle conducive to well being and happiness. Don is a devotee of Robert Green Ingersoll and often performs a variety of the speeches, poems and quotations from the works of Royal Bob, The Great Agnostic of America's Gilded Age. Don is an All-American triathlete and duathlete and has won over a dozen national titles and seven world championships, including in London, Edmonton, Budapest, the Gold Coast of Australia, Montreal and Tasmania. He has produced nearly a thousand editions of the Ardell Wellness Report beginning in 1984. His expertise is in providing entertaining lectures on REAL wellness (with an emphasis on secular humanist values) and assisting organizations transition into effective, rational cultures that support the common decencies. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/thedoctorwhisperer/message

This week we hit our secular groove and break open The Complete Works of Robert Green Ingersoll, The Dresden Edition. We start at the beginning with his lecture on The Gods    

We have another public school state/church victory to report in Indiana, and a school prayer complaint in Mississippi. We celebrate the birthday of the famous 19th-century agnostic orator Robert Green Ingersoll. Then we talk with Adam Chodorow, professor at the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, about the powerful friend-of-the-court brief he wrote (signed by 22 law professors) for the federal appeal of FFRF's challenge to the IRS Clergy Housing Allowance that gives a huge tax break to ministers.

We listen to some of Vice President Mike Pence's religious pandering as he spoke (at his own invitation) to the Southern Baptist Convention this week, promising believers that he and Trump "will always stand with you." After covering positive freethought news from around the world, we hear the words of American patriot Thomas Paine in the song "The World is My Country." Then we talk with well-known "Wellness" advocate and multiple triathlon world champion Donald Ardell (79), who, in addition to promoting private and public health, is a champion of the words of the 19th-century agnostic orator Robert Green Ingersoll. [Photo by James A. Randell]

One of my favorite, but now largely unknown speakers in American history was Robert Green Ingersoll. Redwater, Texas was originally named Ingersoll – after him. He was a philosopher and a popular intellectual, the most sought after orator of his time. He left us many fine proverbs. One of my favorites is this: “The greatest […]

One of my favorite, but now largely unknown speakers in American history was Robert Green Ingersoll. Redwater, Texas was originally named Ingersoll – after him. He was a philosopher and a popular intellectual, the most sought after orator of his time. He left us many fine proverbs. One of my favorites is this: “The greatest...

One of my favorite, but now largely unknown speakers in American history was Robert Green Ingersoll. Redwater, Texas was originally named Ingersoll – after him. He was a philosopher and a popular intellectual, the most sought after orator of his time. He left us many fine proverbs. One of my favorites is this: “The greatest...

FFRF lead staff attorney Rebecca Market reports a victory stopping a Mississippi school district from participating in a day of prayer for students, and tells us about more unconstitutional Christian crosses on public property. We celebrate the life of Robert Green Ingersoll, the 19th-century Great Agnostic, by listening to his actual recorded voice, hearing some of his words (some set to music) and by speaking with his relative Jeff Ingersoll, chair of the Robert Ingersoll Memorial Committee, who will speak at the dedication of the refurbished Ingersoll statue in Peoria, Illinois on Ingersoll’s August 11 birthday.

Creationist Ray Comfort criticizes Cosmos, an audio recording from the 19th Century of Robert Green Ingersoll is gaining heavier Internet circulation, and a man in Halifax was put in a mental hospital for giving people money?

Point of Inquiry is on a short hiatus right now as we transition to a new podcast team. In the meantime, enjoy these classic episodes from the POI archives, featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, Susan Jacoby, and other luminaries in the science and secularism movement. Susan Jacoby is the author of Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, now in its tenth hardcover printing and recently published in paperback. Freethinkers was hailed in the New York Times as an “ardent and insightful work” that “seeks to rescue a proud tradition from the indifference of posterity.” Named a notable nonfiction book of 2004 by The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, Freethinkers was cited in England as one of the outstanding international books of 2004 by the Times Literary Supplement and The Guardian.   In this interview with DJ Grothe, Jacoby talks about the role that freethinkers played in American social justice movements, and discusses the forgotten history of Robert Green Ingersoll.   Also in this episode, Tom Flynn asks Did You Know?, detailing facts about Robert Green Ingersoll and new data about nonbelievers from University of Akron, and Lauren Becker shares some thoughts on Darwin and Oliver Sacks and what these scientists teach us about ourselves.

Today most Americans have never heard of Robert Green Ingersoll but in the 19th century he was considered one of the greatest orators of his age. Known as "the Great Agnostic", Ingersoll criticized religion and championed progressive political causes with great ferocity, wit and humor. Though his writings are controversial even by today's standards his personal charm was so disarming that people would travel miles for a chance to hear him speak. Susan Jacoby, author of Freethinkers and the Age of American Unreason joins us to talk about her new biography of Ingersoll and to illuminate how his courage and integrity continues to inspire to this day. Also on this episode: Unlike Ingersoll, Pope Francis seems to have more charm than courage and the doubtcasters enjoy a hearty "I told you so" moment thanks to a new study on the impact of free will/ determinism belief on ones larger worldview.

Tom Flynn is editor of Free Inquiry Magazine and director of the Robert Green Ingersoll Birthplace Museum. He also directs traditional video operations at the Center for Inquiry. He is editor of The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief and author of three books: the science-fiction novels Galactic Rapture and Nothing Sacred and the polemic The Trouble With Christmas. In this conversation with D.J. Grothe, Tom Flynn talks about the life of Robert Green Ingersoll, the 19th Century orator and freethinker. He explains Ingersoll's views on religion, and his secular progressive outlook that he advanced as an alternative. He details Ingersoll's role in GOP politics of the day, and explores his popularity on the national stage. He also discusses about the Council for Secular Humanism's museum dedicated to the life of Robert Ingersoll. Also in this episode, Ron Lindsay, the director of the Council for Secular Humanism's First Amendment Task Force, responds to various issues related to comments made recently by Rep. Monique Davis (Democrat, Chicago) against the atheist activist Rob Sherman, and reiterates his recent call for her to resign.

Features a special look at the growing religion-based assault against gay rights around the country. Interviewed: former FFRF staff member Ellen Masters, a lesbian mom in a committed relationship who talks about what it's like to be denied equal rights under the law. Her interview is a sneak preview of Ellen's article, "The Churches Have Legalized Discrimination in America," appearing in the upcoming September issue of Freethought Today. Dan Barker's Pagan Pulpit looks at the biblical roots of homophobia. Kristin Lems' timely song, "How Nice!" continues the theme. Robert Green Ingersoll (born on August 11) is profiled in Freethinkers Almanac. Accompanying music: "The Time to Be Happy Is Now," words by Robert G. Ingersoll, music by Dan Barker (with backup children's choir). (MP3, 47 min, 21.4 MB)

Susan Jacoby is the author of Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, now in its tenth hardcover printing and recently published in paperback. Freethinkers was hailed in the New York Times as an "ardent and insightful work that seeks to rescue a proud tradition from the indifference of posterity." Named a notable nonfiction book of 2004 by The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times, Freethinkers was cited in England as one of the outstanding international books of 2004 by the Times Literary Supplement and The Guardian. In this interview with DJ Grothe, she discusses America's freethought heritage, and talks about Robert Green Ingersoll, and the role of freethinkers in various social justice movements. Also in this episode, Tom Flynn asks Did You Know?, detailing facts about Robert Green Ingersoll and new data about nonbelievers from University of Akron, and Lauren Becker shares some thoughts on Darwin and Olver Sacks and what these scientists teach us about ourselves.