{"id":4553,"date":"2015-03-12T17:26:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T21:26:17","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=4553"},"modified":"2016-10-02T19:09:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-02T23:09:43","slug":"391-the-allure-of-the-irrational-contradiction-superstition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/4553","title":{"rendered":"391 &#8211; The allure of the irrational \/ Contradiction \/ Superstition"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_411\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4553-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/BROADCASTS\/20150312-justRIGHT-391-ALLUREofTheIRRATIONAL.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/BROADCASTS\/20150312-justRIGHT-391-ALLUREofTheIRRATIONAL.mp3\">\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/BROADCASTS\/20150312-justRIGHT-391-ALLUREofTheIRRATIONAL.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/BROADCASTS\/20150312-justRIGHT-391-ALLUREofTheIRRATIONAL.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=4553-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/BROADCASTS\/20150312-justRIGHT-391-ALLUREofTheIRRATIONAL.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20150312-justRIGHT-391-ALLUREofTheIRRATIONAL.mp3\">Download<\/a> (65.1MB) | <a href=\"#\" class=\"powerpress_link_e\" title=\"Embed\" onclick=\"return powerpress_show_embed('4553-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_embed_box\" id=\"powerpress_embed_4553-podcast\" style=\"display: none;\"><input id=\"powerpress_embed_4553-podcast_t\" type=\"text\" value=\"&lt;iframe width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;30&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?powerpress_embed=4553-podcast&amp;amp;powerpress_player=mediaelement-audio&quot; title=&quot;Blubrry Podcast Player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot;&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\" onclick=\"javascript: this.select();\" onfocus=\"javascript: this.select();\" style=\"width: 70%;\" readOnly><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4554\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/391_Triune_168x100.jpg\" alt=\"Triune\" width=\"168\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Topics:<\/strong> <strong>00:07 Out of focus &#8211; the allure of the irrational:<\/strong> thinking about thinking, paradoxes, focus on the meaning, contradiction means a nothing, meaninglessness, stands to reason, logic and reason, thinking requires effort and focus, being out of focus, laziness, immorality, rationality is morality, faith vs trust, concept formation<br \/>\n<strong>12:50 Ill logic:<\/strong> contradiction, irrationality in theoretical physics, irrational politics, irrational climate change theories, from the innocent to the criminal, processes of reason, scientific process, ele-mental logic<br \/>\n<strong>27:00 Contradiction&#8217;s contradictions:<\/strong> contradictions in fiction, real contradictions, Star Trek&#8217;s Odo and changelings, the impossibility of rock-ness, feedback from Doug, Star Trek contradictions<br \/>\n<strong>41:55 Very superstitious:<\/strong> Green Acres &#8211; contradiction as humour, H.L. Mencken&#8217;s rational superstitions, fabricating meanings to avoid understanding, contradictory capitalisms, concepts and civilizations, H.L. Mencken&#8217;s guardians of civilization <strong>56:45 END<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/BROADCASTS\/20150312-justRIGHT-391-ALLUREofTheIRRATIONAL.mp3\"><\/a> <a href=\"\n\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/391-clips-credits\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/images\/buttons\/clips_and_credits.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_413\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-4553-3\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/BROADCASTS\/20150312-justRIGHT-391-ALLUREofTheIRRATIONAL.mp3?_=3\" \/><a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/BROADCASTS\/20150312-justRIGHT-391-ALLUREofTheIRRATIONAL.mp3\">\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/BROADCASTS\/20150312-justRIGHT-391-ALLUREofTheIRRATIONAL.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/BROADCASTS\/20150312-justRIGHT-391-ALLUREofTheIRRATIONAL.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=4553-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/BROADCASTS\/20150312-justRIGHT-391-ALLUREofTheIRRATIONAL.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20150312-justRIGHT-391-ALLUREofTheIRRATIONAL.mp3\">Download<\/a> (65.1MB) | <a href=\"#\" class=\"powerpress_link_e\" title=\"Embed\" onclick=\"return powerpress_show_embed('4553-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Embed<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_embed_box\" id=\"powerpress_embed_4553-podcast\" style=\"display: none;\"><input id=\"powerpress_embed_4553-podcast_t\" type=\"text\" value=\"&lt;iframe width=&quot;320&quot; height=&quot;30&quot; src=&quot;https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?powerpress_embed=4553-podcast&amp;amp;powerpress_player=mediaelement-audio&quot; title=&quot;Blubrry Podcast Player&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; scrolling=&quot;no&quot;&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\" onclick=\"javascript: this.select();\" onfocus=\"javascript: this.select();\" style=\"width: 70%;\" readOnly><\/p><p>\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/BROADCASTS\/20150312-justRIGHT-391-ALLUREofTheIRRATIONAL.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (65.1MB) | Embed &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Topics: 00:07 Out of focus &#8211; the allure of the irrational: thinking about thinking, paradoxes, focus on the meaning, contradiction means a nothing, meaninglessness, stands to reason, logic and reason, thinking requires effort and focus, being out of focus, laziness, immorality, <a href='https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/4553' class='excerpt-more'>[Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,596,28,4,146,598],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-ideas","category-latest","category-reason","category-religion","category-society","issues-contradiction","issues-logic","issues-reason","issues-strange-loops","issues-superstition","issues-thinking","issues-trinity","issues-triune","category-12-id","category-596-id","category-28-id","category-4-id","category-146-id","category-598-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4553"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6576,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4553\/revisions\/6576"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}