• Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Instagram
  • google +
  • Itunes
  • email
  • Youtube

Cognitive Dissonance the Podcast

Doubt Even This

  • About Us
    • The Skeptic’s Creed
    • Charitable Efforts
    • What To Do In Chicago
  • Appearances
  • Patron Only Content
  • Events
  • Sponsors
  • Live Shows

Episode 92: Michael Marshall

17 March 25, 2013 by diss0713

Special thanks to Marsh for joining us. Visit his projects:

http://bad-pr.tumblr.com/

http://www.merseysideskeptics.org.uk/podcasts/

News:


  • ‘I have sex with aliens who sneak into my room at night’: Psychic appears on live TV claiming to have ‘out-of-this-world orgasms with octopus men and cat people’

  • Pastor Starved His Daughter (9) Over Homework

  • Bachmann: It’s my Christian ‘duty’ to repeal Obamacare before it ‘literally kills’ kids

  •  Egyptian trend: Matchmakers offer veiled, ‘devout’ wives

  • Gay Somali Teen Stoned to Death, Village Forced to Watch

  • Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier Suggests Pedophilia Not A Crime, But An Illness
Play

Podcast: Play in new window | Download

Subscribe: Android | RSS

Thanks so much for listening. If you would like to support the show click on the link below and support us on a per episode basis!
If you like this post, please share it along:

Previous Post


Episode 91: Father, Werewolf, Holy Eagle

Next Post


Episode 93: God’s Bass Boat

17 Comments (click here to leave a comment)

  1. Matthew McGuigan

    March 25, 2013 at 8:34 pm

    Raised by a parent without anyone knowing about you. There’s a great movie about that called “Bad Boy Bubby”. Great movie for any budding young atheists against home schooling.

    Reply
  2. Mike.K.

    March 26, 2013 at 2:23 am

    As for Octopus Man…

    I am shocked and appalled, appalled!, that the hosts are so culturally insensitive and such artistic louts that the hosts would not be familiar with traditional Japanese ukiyo-e paintings from the early 1800’s. In particular, “Tako no ama”, or “Dream of the Fisherman’s Wife”.

    WARNING:
    !!!NOT!!!
    !!!WORK!!!
    !!!SAFE!!!

    Google it, but at home. With no children around. And, yes, it is a painting from the early 1800’s. So, apparently horny octopus men have been trying to get the “little fisherman in the boat” for quite some time.

    Reply
  3. Mike.K.

    March 26, 2013 at 2:34 am

    And on Cardinal Wilfrid, I’m going to try to extend a sliver of generosity here. The *predisposition* of pedophilia is a mental illness, and not “thought crime”. Acting upon it as an adult is a crime, as it is exploitative for sexual reasons.

    Part of the problem, touched upon here previously, is that the celibacy has allowed the priesthood to be a place where people with non-normative sexuality can try to hide from their impulses. Another part of the problem is that all non-“make babies ONLY for Jesus and pray for forgiveness when you do it” sexuality is equalized and demonized. So, gay men go in to “hide” and end up messed up. Pedophiles go in and don’t get the treatment they need. (And no, I am not equating them, I am saying they are equated.)

    Lastly, as you said, the issue comes back do, “If it’s an illness, then why are you not treating them?” That only changes their culpability, not reduces it.

    Reply
  4. Johan Lahtinen

    March 26, 2013 at 7:15 am

    Awesome skeptics’ creed. Maybe I should make one in Finnish…

    Reply
  5. pekka korte

    March 26, 2013 at 7:43 am

    Johan, I was just thinking the same but it should be done with the same intonations (like “giant worms”-part) as the original, so the guys can have ANY idea what’s going on. BTW what was the show you mentioned near the end? Skaving atheist? Great show _again_ guys. MM was excellent too. Really pleasent sounding guy. I just wish I had as much time and energy to do stuff outside work as he does. Thanks again for making my Tuesday commuting much more pleasant.

    Reply
  6. Mark

    March 26, 2013 at 9:10 am

    Did anyone else get a hard on listening to the Norwegian Skeptic’s Creed?

    Reply
    • CamillaE

      April 1, 2013 at 10:25 am

      I’ll take that as a compliment 😉

      Glad you liked it!

      Reply
      • Mark

        April 3, 2013 at 6:20 am

        “Truther” never sounded so sexy.

        Reply
        • CamillaE

          April 10, 2013 at 12:42 am

          There is no word for that sort of ludicracy in Norwegian, so ¨Thuthere¨ and ¨Birthere¨ just har to get Norwegian endings to fit with the theam.

          But thank you 🙂

          Reply
  7. She Fights Like A Girl

    March 26, 2013 at 11:10 pm

    For the feller looking for movie review podcasts, I recommend Comedy Film Nerds:
    http://www.comedyfilmnerds.com/

    For some deeper movie nerdness, I recommend The Projection Booth:
    http://projection-booth.blogspot.com/

    Cheers!

    Reply
  8. Murff

    March 27, 2013 at 2:01 am

    Hey, I’m not “over there”, I live in Oregon! I’m just attending QED because not only will Richard Dawkins be there and I get to see Inkredulous live…but the trip and Con are actually cheaper than TAM….

    I’ll just buy Marsh a pint for you guys.

    Reply
    • She Fights Like A Girl

      March 27, 2013 at 3:19 am

      WHAT! Cheaper? Shit, I’m going next year then.

      Reply
  9. Rick K.

    March 27, 2013 at 4:22 am

    Speaking as one of the people who has friends on Social Security and Medicare, as well as being close to starting on both myself, I definitely don’t want those gone. I’d like to see how the Affordable Healthcare Act actually does or doesn’t work, before repealing it. Bachmann’s promise to repeal it won’t get anywhere. Nowhere near enough votes to override a presidential veto. She’s just playing it up for her voting base. So sadly obvious that she’s being cynical, or she qualifies as a Poe.

    Reply
  10. Steven Doyle

    March 28, 2013 at 7:44 pm

    It’s typical of astronomically ignorant people (like the lady who enjoys sex with space-octopus men) that, when they make up stuff about aliens, they think a constellation (in her case, Canis Major) is a place.

    In fact, a constellation of stars is just a visual pattern as perceived from our position in space. Because stars come in a wide range of visual magnitudes, what looks to our eyes like a group of stars of similar brightness may actually include stars at many different distances. Canis Major, for instance, inclues Sirius, at a distance of 8.6 light years from us, and Mirzam, at a distance of over 500 light years. Seeing them as grouped together is just an optical illusion.

    Reply
    • Mike.K.

      March 29, 2013 at 2:03 am

      No, no, no! That’s what “Big Science” wants you to believe so that you don’t believe in the octopus aliens! That’s how the scientists keep all the tentacle-alien-sexy-time to themselves!

      (And so that you know that I’m joking, from memory of my college “stellar astronomy and cosmology” class 20 years ago: Oh Be A Fine Guy Kiss Me!)

      Reply
  11. Svend

    March 29, 2013 at 3:30 pm

    As a Muslim, I am not at all a fan of veiling for a host of reasons, but I was a bit surprised by the quip about the Egyptian matrimonial catering to veiled women existing to “buy women.” Egypt, like most if not all majority-Muslim countries, is complex and not some hyper-religious, hyper-conservative monolithic. Egyptian women generally do not veil. Egypt is more liberal in its mores than many Arab societies–a case in point: last time I was there I and my friend were invited by two women we’d met in an elevator to join them at a nightclub; both of us being married, we declined–so it’s hardly a given that a highly conservative Muslim man would be able to easily find a like-minded wife). Outside a few arch-conservative places like Saudi Arabia or isolated areas in otherwise more liberal countries, to wear a veil often goes against the grain of local culture and is highly impractical during one’s daily life. So, while I sure there are subscribers who’d fit that crude stereotype–all conservative-leaning religious matrimonial sites have a subset of knuckle-dragging misogynists–most are probably simply highly conservative men looking to find a wife already committed to the lifestyle they believe in. Since veiling is, again, atypical and since most Muslim scholars don’t believe it is mandatory, this is definitely something they’d definitely want to screen based on to avoid wasting time or, worse, huge conflicts after getting married. I don’t subscribe to their values and have concerns about the impact of insistence of veiling, but they need to find compatible partners just like everybody else.
    I was as revolted as you were by that horrible story out of Somalia and think you’d be hard pressed for find credible Muslim scholars who’d justify that.

    Otherwise, I enjoyed the show.

    Reply
    • Svend

      March 29, 2013 at 3:39 pm

      Ugh, there were a lot of errors in that hastily edited comment. I’m a native speaker, honest.

      Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply




Related Posts

  • Episode 65: We’re gonna need more fairy dust
  • Episode 205: Helen Keller School of Haircuttery
  • Episode 152: Humpty Dumpty Makes an OmeletEpisode 152: Humpty Dumpty Makes an Omelet
  • Episode 268: General Portability of Hats

News From The Gloryhole…



Click the Patreon logo to donate to the show on a per-episode basis! Patrons get extras :)


Or support the show via a PayPal donation:

Past Episodes

The Welcome Mat is Back!

HTML tutorial
HTML tutorial

Connect With Cecil & Tom


Call us at: (740) 74D-OUBT

Tweets by @dissonance_pod

Buy Our App & New Swag!


FAQs       Everyone's a Critic

Starting Your Own Podcast

Authors and Book Recommendations

Copyright © 2018 · Maron Podcast Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in