(EF44) Truth is in the Hands of the Storyteller
Millennia of history can easily get marginalized in the face of the right story.
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(EF44) Season Two, Episode Four Teaser
Season Two, Episode Five: Society and culture can be shackles locking us in a mental prison cell. Iconoclastic thinking is a sure way to break the chains and reveal the truth, but it is risky. Does this make ‘why this stuff and not some other stuff’ the most dangerous question you can ask?
(EF44) Why this stuff and not some other stuff?
The big question driving Episode EF44 is … why this stuff and not some other stuff?
(EF43) Release
“When someone dies, you can visibly witness the weight and pain of life being lifted from their consciousness.” —The Reaper
(EF43) Mental Relativity
Do we have evil thoughts as a guide to make better decisions? A sort of mental relativity, in the same way you can’t understand happiness without knowing sadness?
(EF43) Emotional Accountability
Facts are more reliable than emotions, but most prefer emotions because they don’t feel accountable.
(EF43) Cleansed By Fire
Fire can cook your food to keep you alive; or, it can burn everything you hold dear to the ground.
(EF43) Necessary Evil
Without ego and evil, would we have made such collective progress as a civilization?
(EF43) Power Hungry
We are prone to evil because it is baked into our evolutionary psychology to compete and dominate over others.
(EF43) Judgmental Pain
Judging something as right or wrong breaks down rapidly in the presence of suffering; pain tends to have that effect on reality.
(EF43) Ethical Inconsistencies
Doesn’t it seem as if many have a sense of morality that is often inconsistent with the way they live their lives?
(EF43) Season Two, Episode Four Teaser
Season Two, Episode Four: The urges of human nature are like fire: they can cook your food or burn your house down. Is evil perceived consistently across people, or should the situation, culture, and individual psychology have a say in its characterization? And does this help define what is evil?