When a young Eva Kollisch arrives as a refugee in New York in 1940, she finds a community among socialists who share her values and idealism. She soon discovers ‘the cause’ isn’t as idyllic as it seems. Little does she know this is the beginning of a lifelong commitment to activism and her determination to create radical change in ways that include belonging, love and one's full self. In addition to Eva Kollisch’s memoirs Girl in Movement (2000) and The Ground Under My Feet (2014), LBI’s collections include an oral history interview with Eva conducted in 2014 and the papers of Eva’s mother, poet Margarete Kolllisch, which document Eva’s childhood experience on the Kindertransport. Learn more at www.lbi.org/kollisch . Exile is a production of the Leo Baeck Institute , New York | Berlin and Antica Productions . It’s narrated by Mandy Patinkin. Executive Producers include Katrina Onstad, Stuart Coxe, and Bernie Blum. Senior Producer is Debbie Pacheco. Associate Producers are Hailey Choi and Emily Morantz. Research and translation by Isabella Kempf. Sound design and audio mix by Philip Wilson, with help from Cameron McIver. Theme music by Oliver Wickham. Voice acting by Natalia Bushnik. Special thanks to the Kollisch family for the use of Eva’s two memoirs, “Girl in Movement” and “The Ground Under My Feet”, the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College and their “Voices of Feminism Oral History Project”, and Soundtrack New York.…
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Contenido proporcionado por Jamie Woodhouse. Todo el contenido del podcast, incluidos episodios, gráficos y descripciones de podcast, lo carga y proporciona directamente Jamie Woodhouse o su socio de plataforma de podcast. Si cree que alguien está utilizando su trabajo protegido por derechos de autor sin su permiso, puede seguir el proceso descrito aquí https://es.player.fm/legal.
Noella Williams is a Brooklyn-based freelance culture writer whose writing has appeared in Marie Claire, Teen Vogue, the Washington Post, Vox and elsewhere. Noella’s reporting ranges from Black culture to queer identity to intersectional veganism, internet culture, and more. She describes herself as a "journalist, vegan foodie, pokemon trainer, dj, and abolitionist." One of her most recent pieces, for Vox, was "I'm a Black vegan. Why don't you see more of us?"
In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the most important questions: “what’s real?”, “who matters?” and "how can we make a better world?"
Sentientism answers those questions with "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube.
00:00 Clips!
00:57 Welcome
- Marina Bolotnikova episode
- Sentientism merch & mug :)
03:40 Noella's Intro
- Florida to New York
- 5 year vegan "a big part of my life... a huge lifestyle change... how veganism has changed me... also been reflected in my writing"
- Writing on Black / Queer culture, music, politics, food, home & lifestyle, video games, veganism "whatever interests me"
- Birdwatching and catching Pokemon :)
06:10 What's Real?
- Growing up in the Florida Bible Belt
- Black Baptist Church on Sundays and Wednesdays
- Christian school from kindergarten to 8th grade
- "Huge involvement in church... school... choir... everything had it's basis in Christianity"
- Both parents religious "they're both Caribbeans"
- "I am not religious any more"
- Agnostic since a year after graduating high school "that also coincided with me going vegan and realising I was queer"
- Christianity: "It was what I knew and breathed and slept with... that was everything I knew as a kid"
- "I started questioning things more at high school... perhaps middle school"
- Being asked to sign a very strict pledge at school: "No secular music... drugs... alcohol... this is kind of wild"
- "The misogyny in biblical texts was on my mind a lot... religious figures like a pastor... use the bible as a text to justify... a wife submitting to a husband"
- "The homophobia eventually came along... a lot of biblical stuff is very 'man and woman'"
- "Things were written by different prophets and... I can't generalise the Bible as a whole but... there's a little bit of irony here... how different these things being said are..."
- "Maybe this isn't something I should use to guide my life let alone my moral compass"
- "My father has a rule that... as long as I was in his house I have to go to church Wednesdays/Sundays"
24:00 What Matters?
31:40 Who Matters?
50:49 A Better Future?
01:18:05 Follow Noella
- Noella’s Links on Campsite
And more... full show notes at Sentientism.info.
Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info. Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form.
Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups. The biggest so far is here on FaceBook. Come join us there!
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Contenido proporcionado por Jamie Woodhouse. Todo el contenido del podcast, incluidos episodios, gráficos y descripciones de podcast, lo carga y proporciona directamente Jamie Woodhouse o su socio de plataforma de podcast. Si cree que alguien está utilizando su trabajo protegido por derechos de autor sin su permiso, puede seguir el proceso descrito aquí https://es.player.fm/legal.
Noella Williams is a Brooklyn-based freelance culture writer whose writing has appeared in Marie Claire, Teen Vogue, the Washington Post, Vox and elsewhere. Noella’s reporting ranges from Black culture to queer identity to intersectional veganism, internet culture, and more. She describes herself as a "journalist, vegan foodie, pokemon trainer, dj, and abolitionist." One of her most recent pieces, for Vox, was "I'm a Black vegan. Why don't you see more of us?"
In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the most important questions: “what’s real?”, “who matters?” and "how can we make a better world?"
Sentientism answers those questions with "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube.
00:00 Clips!
00:57 Welcome
- Marina Bolotnikova episode
- Sentientism merch & mug :)
03:40 Noella's Intro
- Florida to New York
- 5 year vegan "a big part of my life... a huge lifestyle change... how veganism has changed me... also been reflected in my writing"
- Writing on Black / Queer culture, music, politics, food, home & lifestyle, video games, veganism "whatever interests me"
- Birdwatching and catching Pokemon :)
06:10 What's Real?
- Growing up in the Florida Bible Belt
- Black Baptist Church on Sundays and Wednesdays
- Christian school from kindergarten to 8th grade
- "Huge involvement in church... school... choir... everything had it's basis in Christianity"
- Both parents religious "they're both Caribbeans"
- "I am not religious any more"
- Agnostic since a year after graduating high school "that also coincided with me going vegan and realising I was queer"
- Christianity: "It was what I knew and breathed and slept with... that was everything I knew as a kid"
- "I started questioning things more at high school... perhaps middle school"
- Being asked to sign a very strict pledge at school: "No secular music... drugs... alcohol... this is kind of wild"
- "The misogyny in biblical texts was on my mind a lot... religious figures like a pastor... use the bible as a text to justify... a wife submitting to a husband"
- "The homophobia eventually came along... a lot of biblical stuff is very 'man and woman'"
- "Things were written by different prophets and... I can't generalise the Bible as a whole but... there's a little bit of irony here... how different these things being said are..."
- "Maybe this isn't something I should use to guide my life let alone my moral compass"
- "My father has a rule that... as long as I was in his house I have to go to church Wednesdays/Sundays"
24:00 What Matters?
31:40 Who Matters?
50:49 A Better Future?
01:18:05 Follow Noella
- Noella’s Links on Campsite
And more... full show notes at Sentientism.info.
Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info. Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form.
Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups. The biggest so far is here on FaceBook. Come join us there!
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1 What Are Zoos For? - Heather Browning and Walter Veit - Sentientism 223 1:15:14
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Reproducir más Tarde Reproducir más Tarde Listas Me gusta Me gustaHeather Browning is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Southampton. Her primary research interests are animal welfare, ethics, and consciousness. Walter Veit is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Reading and an external member of the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at the Ludwig MaximilianUniversity of Munich. Much of Walter’s recent writing has been on animal minds, welfare and ethics, as well as evolution. As we've already covered our standard Sentientism "what's real?", "who matters?" and "how to make a better world?" questions in our previous conversations in episodes 48, 54 and 158, here we focus on Heather and Walter's new book " What Are Zoos For? " In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the most important questions: “what’s real?”, “who matters?” and "how can we make a better world?" Sentientism answers those questions with "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube . Find our previous conversations with Walter and Heather here , here and here . 00:00 Clips 01:12 Welcome - Heather's episode 54, Walter's episodes 48 & 158 02:15 Intros (see bios above) - Heather "How do we study what's happening inside theminds of animals... what the world is like for them... the ethical implications" - Walter "I study the diversity of minds... in animals... neurodiversity... in humans... in AI systems" - "Our zoo book... how should zoos run... take a non-anthropocentric perspective" 03:40 What Are Zoos For ? And Who Are They For? - The range of human views about zoos: entertainment /conservation / fascination vs. exploitation - Heather's background as a zookeeper and a zoo animalwelfare officer - Combining an understanding of zoos from the inside plusphilosophy - Instead of the zoo industry vs. total animal liberation"a more balanced perspective... from the point of view of the animals and not just human ethics" 06:44 Pillars of Human Zoo Justification - Entertainment, conservation, education and research - "There's definitely been a shift over time" - "In the beginning they were very much places of entertainment. The original proto-zoos were owned by rich and powerful people... to demonstrate their power" - "This history... entertainment... domination of animals... leads people to be very concerned about what zoos do" - Monica Murphy & Bill Wasik episode 08:35 Types of Zoo Today - "There's a great diversity of zoos... we're not just defending all zoos as they currently exist" - Best practices, improving welfare standards "they should increase" 16:15 Challenges to the idea of “good zoos” 25:52 Zoos, the wild, agriculture, companions, sanctuaries 35:50 Parallels with human situations? 44:25 The life histories of zoo animals 59:55 Should human animals just leave other animals alone? 01:10:12 What can we do? 01:11:44 Follow - What Are Zoos For? - Heather Browning - Walter Veit And more... full show notes at Sentientism.info . Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info . Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form . Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups . The biggest so far is here on FaceBook . Come join us there!…
1 Baroness Natalie Bennett "You'll have less stuff in your life but you'll have far more life!" - Sentientism 222 1:16:56
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Reproducir más Tarde Reproducir más Tarde Listas Me gusta Me gustaNatalie Bennett is a politician and journalist who was the leader of the Green Party of England and Wales from 2012 to 2016. She was given a peerage (Baroness in the UK House of Lords) in 2019 and is working to abolish her own post bycreating an elected upper legislative chamber. Her journalism in Australia, Thailand and the UK has been published in the Bangkok Post, The Guardian, TheIndependent, The Times and many other newspapers. Her latest book is " Change Everything: How We Can Rethink, Repair and Rebuild Society ". In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the most important questions: “what’s real?”, “who matters?” and "how can we make a better world?" Sentientism answers those questions with "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube . 00:00 Clips 01:09 Welcome 03:03 Natalie's Intro - "Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle for really formal occasions - this is not a formal occasion" - Leading @GreenPartyofEnglandWales & the "Green Surge" - "If we had a democratic electoral system... a fair electoral system... we would have got 40 MPs... democracy would be a good idea" - Journalism @guardiannews @BangkokPostOfficial - "My first politics is #feminism ... I became a feminist at age 5 because I was told 'because you're a girl you're not allowed to have a bicycle'" - "...consistently being told not only could I not do something because I was a girl... I shouldn't even want to do it because I was a girl." - "I swerved close to a PhD several times and then runscreaming in the other direction"... a broad academic background... agricultural science then Asian studies degrees then a masters in mass communications (Donna Haraway, AI - "What we have now, so called generative AI, is notintelligence it is actually big data... we almost had intelligence 20 years ago and we're still at the point of almost having intelligence... I'm very much an AI sceptic" - The environmental impact of AI - Politicians lacking scientific background is "a huge problem" 06:59 What's Real? - "I'm very fundamentally... essentially a materialist... but what life generates is very complex" - Attending a church school & then Sunday School"the polite thing to do... the same grandmother... who didn't think I should ride a bicycle because it wasn't ladylike" - Sunday School at 8-9 yrs: "It was really boring... Isaid to my parents I didn't want to go any more and so that was the end of that" 20:10 What Matters 31:05 Who Matters 54:13 A Better World? 01:12:58 FollowNatalie: - NatalieBennett.org - @NatalieGreenPeer “I’m absolutely hyperactive on socialmedia“ - Natalie’s Change Everything Substack – including a recent article on how the UK government are teaming up with Saudia Arabia on historical preservation as Saudi are working to erase much of their own history - Natalie on Wikipedia And more... full show notes at Sentientism.info . Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info . Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form . Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups . The biggest so far is here on FaceBook . Come join us there!…
1 "We don't have to wait until the 24th century for a Star Trek future" - Christopher Sebastian - Sentientism 55 - REMASTERED 1:08:02
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Reproducir más Tarde Reproducir más Tarde Listas Me gusta Me gustaMatthew Halteman is professor of philosophy at Calvin University and a fellow in the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. He wrote Compassionate Eating as Care of Creation and co-edited Philosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments about the Ethics of Eating (with Andrew Chignell and Terence Cuneo ). His latest book, Hungry Beautiful Animals: The Joyful Case for Going Vegan , was published in November 2024. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the most important questions: “what’s real?”, “who matters?” and "how can we make a better world?" Sentientism answers those questions with "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube . 00:00 Clips 01:12 Welcome - Our Sentientism guest mutuals: Jasmin Singer, Mariann Sullivan, Christof Koch, Elan Abrell, Christopher Sebastian, John Sanbonmatsu... 04:19 Matt's Intro - "A kid from the mid-west - my people are agriculture people" 04:30 What's Real - "A Mennonite boy... anabaptist tradition of the Christian faith" - "A group... who focuses much more on... the ethics than the meta-physics" - "I remember being really surprised... to realise that other kids had different versions of the Christian faith..." - "The tradition I grew up in was really focused on... god is love and Jesus said... love god with all your heart... love your neighbour as yourself" - "The question in my tradition... was 'are you loving people'... unconditional love, unconditional grace... are you being the hands and feet of Jesus Christ on the ground" - "My family... the group of Mennonite scholars that gets tapped to write the book about Mennonites... my dad was the Mennonite economist... my aunt was the Mennonite feminist theologian..." - "My uncle... wrote a systematic theology...the Catholics and the Protestants had been doing this for centuries and the Mennonites were always focused on what happens on the ground... being the hands and feet of Jesus showing unconditional love to a suffering world." - "I've always thought that arguments about what is real tend to distract us from the real question... how do we show love to our neighbour... lifts up the people who are suffering... brings the people on the margins to the centre" - "Culture wars... debates over worldviews... have not shown a very impressive track record of success in this regard" - "We spend so much time fighting over what is real that we miss the fact that in a lived experiential way we have way more in common than we disagree about" - "For finite, error-prone creatures like us the really interesting conversations are on the ground where we're grieving, where we're suffering, where we're celebrating..." And more... full show notes at Sentientism.info . Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info . Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form . Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups . The biggest so far is here on FaceBook . Come join us there!…
1 "There is no 'us and them' " - Yasmine Mohammed - Ex-muslim activist - Sentientism 51 - REMASTERED 1:30:12
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Reproducir más Tarde Reproducir más Tarde Listas Me gusta Me gustaYasmine ( https://twitter.com/YasMohammedxx & https://www.yasminemohammed.com/ ) is a rights activist, advocating for the rights of women living within Islamic majority countries. Yasmine founded Free Hearts Free Minds ( https://www.freeheartsfreeminds.com/ ). Her book, Unveiled, recalls her experiences growing up in a fundamentalist Islamic household & her arranged marriage to a member of Al-Qaeda. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “what matters?” Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube . We discuss: - Growing up in a fundamentalist Muslim household in Canada, attending Islamic school, being dressed in hijab & niqab - Being forced into marriage with an Al Qaeda member (now in prison in Egypt), considered "strong enough to control me" - Questioning things from a young age - The isolation of some religious communities even in secular states - Having a daughter & that being a catalyst for change - Escaping from husband & family - Going to university & learning about religions. The intoxication of being allowed to question - "I've been wasting my whole life terrified of a figment of the imagination of some ancient man" - "You spend so much of your life ruled by a fairy tale" - What's real? Believing in Islam - "It's embarrassing to admit I really did believe these things" - "You're indoctrinated from birth... & punished for questioning" - "You believe or you burn in hell" - "Every aspect of your life is laid out... Questioning is challenging god himself. So you must submit" - The life of Mohammed. The Quran as the word of god - "You don't think 'is this a good thing to do?' you think 'is this the correct thing to do?'" - What's real? Leaving Islam - Taking off the hijab & being told "you need to be killed before you leave Islam" by her mother, "I will be punished for eternity for having a daughter who is an infidel" - How a Jehovah's Witness mother might allow their child to die rather than allow a blood transfusion - Abraham's willingness to kill his own son - "Honour killings" (murders) - Religious compliance as above "ordinary morality" - Studying religion, seeing 9/11 happen & being horrified - Seeing a BBC reporter find Bin-Laden documents mentioning Yas' ex-husband's firm - "I needed to get my daughter out of that world before she started to think that was OK" - Hints of fundamentalism in the atheist movement - Appearing in Jay Shapiro's film "Islam & the future of tolerance" w/Sam Harris & Maajid Nawaz - "Meditation saved my life" - Humility & open-mindedness at the heart of naturalism - And more... (see YouTube for full notes) Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at https://sentientism.info/ . Join our "wall" https://sentientism.info/wall/ w/this form: https://sentientism.info/im-a-sentientist . Everyone interested, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups. Main one: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sentientism . Thanks Graham https://twitter.com/cgbessellieu .…
1 The Wood-wide Web and Do Plants Feel Pain? - forest ecologist Justine Karst - Sentientism 220 1:32:52
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Reproducir más Tarde Reproducir más Tarde Listas Me gusta Me gustaJustine Karst is Associate Professor at the University of Alberta in Canada. As an ecologist she studies the mycorrhizal ecology of forests. She is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Ecology and President of the International Mycorrhiza Society. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the most important questions: “what’s real?”, “who matters?” and "how can we make a better world?" Sentientism answers those questions with "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube . 00:00 Clips 01:13 Welcome - Justine on the Many Minds podcast - The #woodwideweb 03:45 Justine's Intro - "I'm pretty into mycorrhizas" 04:30 What's Real? - #catholic parents "they both left the church when they got married" - Raised in a non-religious home - Summers with grand-parents who felt "we need to get a healthy dose of religion because we were missing it from all the other months of the year" - "I was and I still am a very curious, curious kid... I was really fascinated by a lot of the [church] stories and the rituals... but there was no time for asking questions." - Bible stories "some of them are extraordinary - they don't always make sense to a kids mind or an adult mind" - Dad "the Spock in the family", mum an artist - Cousins mostly religious. An argument at ~10 yrs old about evolution and whether He Man has more muscles than Justine :) "No - he has the same number of muscles as me - they're just more developed" - Getting in trouble with grandma for telling cousins we evolved "from something ape-like" - "I'm not somebody that ever talks somebody out of their faith... not anti-religion... I deeply respect people's values and beliefs and faith even though it's different... I find it very easy to co-exist with people who do have a faith." - Enjoying good faith conversations with religious people about nature "I really appreciated how he would give me space to ask questions" - "I'm not religious, I don't believe there's a god, but I am totally open to being wrong about that." - "I practice science with a small 's'... I am someone who loves an elegant experiment tied to field observations - that's what I'm here for." - "Some people could say that I'm a reductionist... reduction is kind of a dirty word... but I can kind of live with it." - "There's definitely been some events in my life that do make me pause... is there something else going on here?"... coincidences vs. something else? 52:30 What and Who Matters? 01:19:15 How to Make a Better World? 01:28:40 Follow Justine: - Justine’s Karst Lab - Justine on BlueSky - Justine on Twitter “I kind of abandoned that account… I just got tired of the ads and the crappy algorithm”. JW: “That platform almost now seems to be an attempt to destroy public epistemology and ethics – almost the antithesis of what we’re trying to do with this [Sentientism] worldview.” And more... full show notes at Sentientism.info . Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info . Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form . Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups . The biggest so far is here on FaceBook . Come join us there!…
1 “How do you find meaning in a universe that’s doomed?” - Astrophysicst Dr. Katie Mack @AstroKatie - Sentientism 144 - REMASTERED 1:27:25
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Reproducir más Tarde Reproducir más Tarde Listas Me gusta Me gusta 1 "A dual indoctrination of farm culture... and religion" - Jim Mason - Sentientism 219 1:24:38
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Reproducir más Tarde Reproducir más Tarde Listas Me gusta Me gustaJim Mason is a lawyer, journalist and animal rights activist. He was introduced to philosopher Peter Singer , guest on Sentientism episodes 156 and 218, in 1974. Their book Animal Factories was first published in 1980 and revised in 1990. It provides a critical review and photographic documentation of factory farming practices in North America. Jim's book, An Unnatural Order: The Roots of Our Destruction of Nature looks at the historical and cultural roots of the Western belief in God-given dominion over the living world. Jim was elected to the U.S. Animal Rights Hall of Fame in 2001. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the most important questions: “what’s real?”, “who matters?” and "how can we make a better world?" Sentientism answers those questions with "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube . 00:00 Clips! 01:15 Welcome 02:47 Jim's Intro - Raised on an animal farm, milking cows, killing chickens - Vegetarian since 1955 and more recently vegan - Born during WWII, growing up in 1940-50s rural America - Religious indoctrination "a family of Bible thumpers... I had to be in church every time the door was open" - Methodist Christianity - "A dual indoctrination of farm culture... and religion... the most intense Christian indoctrination" - "I was brought up on human supremacy and using animals and animal exploitation as a way of life" - Until early 30's "I never really departed from that agrarian mentality" - "I became an atheist at Sunday School" - Mourning the loss of dog Butch "my main companion... a brother to me" - "I asked the preacher... 'Will I see Butch in heaven?'... he finally droned on... 'No we don't see animals in heaven - animals don't have souls'... By the time the service was over I began to consciously think 'I am an atheist - I don't believe this stuff'" - "I have since graduated from atheism to anti-theism... I don't like any form of theism... it's anti-science... we'll find a better kind of based for our spirituality other than superstition." 06:41 What's Real? - "It's human supremacy. We're made in the image of god. And since I've become an atheist I've realised that we've made god in the image of ourselves... We created a god that looked like us to give us power over the world." - Old Testament upbringing... "[not] Christian Nationalist or fundamentalist... good old mainstream Protestants" - Era of segregation and "women's oppression had not occurred to us yet"... Trad Wives "church, children, kitchen" - God, bible, Jesus "we were sinful and we had to come to church to purge ourselves... a whole system to train us to behave..." 26:56 What Matters? 42:20 Who Matters? 01:02:34 A Better World? Follow Jim - JimMason.website - @JimMasonAUO (“reluctantly – I think it’s [Twitter] in it’s death throes”) - Jim on Wikipedia And more... full show notes at Sentientism.info . Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info . Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form . Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups . The biggest so far is here on FaceBook . Come join us there!…
Peter Singer is a professor of bioethics with a background in philosophy. He works mostly in practical ethics and is best known for his books "Animal Liberation Now" and "Why Vegan?" and for his writings about global poverty. You can find our first Sentientist conversation on episode 156 . His new book, Consider the Turkey , is available now from Princeton University Press. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the most important questions: “what’s real?”, “who matters?” and "how can we make a better world?" Sentientism answers those questions with "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube . 00:00 Clips! 01:12 Welcome - Sentientism merch :) - Sentientism in the classroom 03:45 Touring China - "If those of us in the animal movement can't have some influence on China... what we're doing in the West is a sideshow" - "China has more farmed animals than any other country in the world and it has really no national animal welfare laws..." - "China's meat consumption has been growing enormously since the country became more prosperous... That's something I felt I wanted to try and have an influence on" - The difficulty of influencing China from an outside perspective - "Try to plant some seeds there... animal ethics... raise some questions about what we're eating..." - "Encourage some of the professors... to teach more courses... practical ethics... animal ethics..." - Boycotting vs. engaging with autocratic states? - "I don't think that [boycotting] is going to lead to any progress... harden attitudes... 'If these westerners don't want to speak to us... we can manage perfectly well on our own'... and they can... It's really important to engage with them." - "It's still possible to make a difference by influencing individuals... a lot has happened because some people have moved away from eating animals... helping to put some pressure on the meat industry and on supermarkets" - "Professors who have quite a lot of autonomy in what they teach... not complete... but... to put on courses in practical ethics and animal ethics" - How are epistemology and ethics different in Chinese culture? - "I don't think anybody made a statement that I would regard as faith-based... referring to god or some divine purpose" although Buddhism / daoism - "Certainly open to the facts... science of animal sentience... nobody questioned that... nobody questioned evolution..." - "Very much like talking to an audience in the west that was university educated where also you don't get very many challenges to a science-based view" - Religion and autocracy/authoritarianism as two different sources of dogmatism? 25:52 Consider the Turkey Follow Peter - PeterSinger.info (and you can chat to PeterSinger.AI there) - Peter’s Bold Reasoning Substack - Peter on BlueSky - Peter's Lives Well Lived podcast with Kasia de Lazari Radek And more... full show notes at Sentientism.info . Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info . Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form . Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups . The biggest so far is here on FaceBook . Come join us there!…
1 "Collective liberation for all!" - Noella Williams - Writer - Sentientism 217 1:21:18
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Reproducir más Tarde Reproducir más Tarde Listas Me gusta Me gustaNoella Williams is a Brooklyn-based freelance culture writer whose writing has appeared in Marie Claire, Teen Vogue, the Washington Post, Vox and elsewhere. Noella’s reporting ranges from Black culture to queer identity to intersectional veganism, internet culture, and more. She describes herself as a "journalist, vegan foodie, pokemon trainer, dj, and abolitionist." One of her most recent pieces, for Vox, was " I'm a Black vegan. Why don't you see more of us? " In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the most important questions: “what’s real?”, “who matters?” and "how can we make a better world?" Sentientism answers those questions with "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube . 00:00 Clips! 00:57 Welcome - Noella’s Vox article - Marina Bolotnikova episode - Sentientism merch & mug :) 03:40 Noella's Intro - Florida to New York - 5 year vegan "a big part of my life... a huge lifestyle change... how veganism has changed me... also been reflected in my writing" - Writing on Black / Queer culture, music, politics, food, home & lifestyle, video games, veganism "whatever interests me" - Birdwatching and catching Pokemon :) 06:10 What's Real? - Growing up in the Florida Bible Belt - Black Baptist Church on Sundays and Wednesdays - Christian school from kindergarten to 8th grade - "Huge involvement in church... school... choir... everything had it's basis in Christianity" - Both parents religious "they're both Caribbeans" - "I am not religious any more" - Agnostic since a year after graduating high school "that also coincided with me going vegan and realising I was queer" - Christianity: "It was what I knew and breathed and slept with... that was everything I knew as a kid" - "I started questioning things more at high school... perhaps middle school" - Being asked to sign a very strict pledge at school: "No secular music... drugs... alcohol... this is kind of wild" - "The misogyny in biblical texts was on my mind a lot... religious figures like a pastor... use the bible as a text to justify... a wife submitting to a husband" - "The homophobia eventually came along... a lot of biblical stuff is very 'man and woman'" - "Things were written by different prophets and... I can't generalise the Bible as a whole but... there's a little bit of irony here... how different these things being said are..." - "Maybe this isn't something I should use to guide my life let alone my moral compass" - "My father has a rule that... as long as I was in his house I have to go to church Wednesdays/Sundays" 24:00 What Matters? 31:40 Who Matters? 50:49 A Better Future? 01:18:05 Follow Noella - NoellaWilliams.com - Noella’s Vox Article - Noella’s Links on Campsite - @yonoella - Noella on Insta And more... full show notes at Sentientism.info . Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info . Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form . Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups . The biggest so far is here on FaceBook . Come join us there!…
1 "Factory farming... is impermissible in Islam" - Altamush Saeed - Sentientism 216 1:08:39
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Reproducir más Tarde Reproducir más Tarde Listas Me gusta Me gustaAltamush Saeed is an animal and environmental law professor. He teaches Pakistan’s 1st Animal Law Advocacy Course and is Founding Managing Partner At Environmental and Animal Rights Consultants, Pakistan’s 1st dedicated Animal and Environmental law and policy firm. Altamush is known for his non-profit work on Interspecies Justice for which he has won multiple awards. He also co-founded the Charity Doings Foundation, a non-profit that aims to save all life, be it human, animal, or the environment in Pakistan. Amongst many other advisory roles he serves as a strategic academic advisor and advocate for Muslim Veganism and Environmentalism at Green Islam. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the most important questions: “what’s real?”, “who matters?” and "how can we make a better world?" Sentientism answers those questions with "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube . 00:00 Clips! 01:11 Welcome - Islam and non-human animals - Animals as survivors/victims of natural disasters 03:00 Altamush's Intro - 3 masters degrees: animal, environmental and human rights law "I always see the three disciplines as together" - Teaching law - Founding and running a non-profit and a law firm - Becoming a documentary film-maker 05:00 What's Real? - "I've had multiple identities" - Growing up in Pakistan - Doctor parents... a good education... privileges - "Animals are kind of invisible" - "this anthropocentric mindset... fuelled by the idea that you're unable to see beyond your own needs... until they're met at a proper scale... it's hard for people to see beyond human beings... that's the lived reality in Pakistan." - Pakistan as an Islamic nation "part of our constitution... we have laws on Islam... laws on animal rights in Islam... codified, however not implemented properly." - "Initially I didn't see animals... that's how I started my non-profit" - "A cat came into my life... even though I physically rescued her she was the one who mentally rescued me... that's the day when I started seeing animals for who they really are..." - JW: Religious belief based on faith/revelation/authority or on evidence and reason? - "It's actually both of them... I do believe in the text... the Quran... taught about that from a very young age... we pray... community... good human rights stuff" - "All Muslims are khalifa which is basically a ruler. But the actual word is steward... a sovereign who has responsibility for everything..." - "That's not normally how it's read... you are the most superior being... everything has been made for you... you have divine permission to do anything including eating animals." - "I used reason... the most driving reasoning for me was the mercy of Allah... there are constant references that his mercy overpowers his anger" 13:05 What and Who Matters? 17:00 Who Matters? 41:52 A Better World? 01:04:48 Follow Altamush - Altamush on LinkedIn - Altamush on Instagram - @earcpakistan - Charitydoings.org And more... full show notes at Sentientism.info . Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info . Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form . Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups . The biggest so far is here on FaceBook . Come join us there!…
1 "A whole new relationship with non human animals that will blow people’s minds!" - Jonina Turzi - Sentientism 28 - REMASTERED 1:13:15
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Reproducir más Tarde Reproducir más Tarde Listas Me gusta Me gustaJonina ( @JoninaTurzi ) is cofounder of Lancaster Farm Sanctuary , a volunteer district leader for HSUS, & a doctor of physical therapy & yoga educator. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “what matters?” Sentientism is "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube . We discuss: 0:00 Welcome 1:24 Jonina's Intro - Lancaster Farm Sanctuary, physical therapy, yoga teaching, sobriety, queerness 2:33 What's Real? - Hippie parents, social justice, civil rights - Catholic father & schooling, more cultural than doctrinal - Brethren Church family history - Parents with a spiritual appreciation without buying into religious doctrine - Feeling the freedom to explore "I just want you to be happy" - "It felt like a human construct" - Identifying as an atheist as a teenager - Finding a beauty in the human body (& a sense of spiritual meaning) through an anatomy class - Being bullied, as a "young queer kid", by members of "Youth for Christ" - "I have no idea what's real" - The lower & upper case "Self" in some Yoga practice - Some things might always be unknowable - Reverence, wonder & awe... openness 17:10 What (& who) Matters? - Oneness & interconnectedness - Unnecessary harm to sentient others - Might plants have a kind of sentience? "I'm OK with saying we shouldn't harm plants unnecessarily" - Seeing the similiarities between human and non-human animals through physiology - "The idea that non-human animals aren't sentient is so bizarre to me" - Movement & intent as indicators of sentience - Are Roomba's sentient? - Evolution, behaviour/comms, information processing as inferential evidence for sentience - Intrinsic & instrumental value - The ethical dangers of holistic/ecocentric thinking - "Spirtual Bypassing"... rushing to find a purpose/meaning/spiritual goal while bypassing compassion & understanding - Knowing very spiritual people who also own factory farms - A local factory farm with a Bible verse written on it - "The foundation of a spiritual practice is caring for others" - Stages of moral development: Ego, ethno, anthropocentric... 37:30 Vegetarian to vegan - Rebelling against Jonina's mother's vegetarianism as a teenager - Being vegetarian. Not understanding dairy - Seeing slaughterhouse footage & going vegan together with Jonina's partner - Social indoctrination re: animal ethics & the supernatural - Climate change - The relationship between scarcity & morality. Is it harder to be moral under scarcity? ...and much more. Full show notes at Sentientism.info and on YouTube . Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info . Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form . Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups. The biggest so far is here on FaceBook . Thanks for the post-prod Graham .…
1 "That system will be history... Our job is just to speed that up" - Thom Norman of FarmKind.giving - Sentientism 215 1:12:04
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Reproducir más Tarde Reproducir más Tarde Listas Me gusta Me gustaThom Norman is the co-founder of FarmKind , a new non-profit focused on raising money for some of the best farmed animal charities. FarmKind is designed to help donors both have a big impact for animals and donate to the organisations they care about most. It allows users to split donations between an expert-recommended super-effective charity and their favourite charity, then provides a bonus on both. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the most important questions: “what’s real?”, “who matters?” and "how can we make a better world?" Sentientism answers those questions with "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube . 00:00 Clips! 00:56 Welcome - Cameron King episode 02:30 Thom's Intro - Co-founding @farmkind - "What's the thing I can do best... to tackle the issue of factory farming?"... "We believe the single biggest thing... is to donate to the right charities... we help people to do that" - Finding charities that do great work and making donating to those charities super-easy 03:44 What's Real? - A very, very religious family "church is an integral part... of their worldview... also social structures" - "Broadly a positive thing" - Anglican, Church of England Christian - Asking philosophical questions that "hit up against some bible verse or god - and that's the end of the conversation" - Conversations with some Christians about animals: "Humans are made in the image of god... we are above other animals... that is kind of the end of the conversation" - "As someone who increasingly... took the suffering of animals very seriously... I don't think that's where the conversation should end... and for many Christians that's not where it ends" - "You can think that humans matter more than animals and still think that animals do matter" - "We can still agree on basic things like 'suffering is bad'... 'animals suffer'... 'if there are things we can do to prevent suffering'... 'then it seems obvious that that's a good thing'" - The people working within religious communities to emphasise more universal sentiocentric compassion... #ahimsa, #stewardship, care and compassion, mercy - Reading religious apologetics and secular points of view - "I don't know what I think... a pragmatic pragmatism?... what version of the world do I see that allows me to operate... to move through it... even if epistemically or ethically that's not 100% perfectly logically sound" - Humility... "We need to be clear that we're not sure that we're right" - Donating to the most effective charities "is not the only thing people care about"... so FarmKind allows donation splitting... head and heart donations - The tension between different values... more rational and more intuitive / personal - "It's very important we don't disregard those emotional reasons" 15:03 What Matters? 26:00 Who Matters? 38:24 A Better World? 01:08:37 Follow Thom and FarmKind - Farmkind.giving (sign up to the newsletter!) - @FarmKindThom - Thom on LinkedIn And more... full show notes at Sentientism.info . Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info . Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form . Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups . The biggest so far is here on FaceBook . Come join us there!…
1 "This great unresolved tension of modern life" - Monica Murphy & Bill Wasik - Sentientism 214 1:15:20
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Reproducir más Tarde Reproducir más Tarde Listas Me gusta Me gustaBill Wasik is the editorial director of The New York Times Magazine. Monica Murphy is a veterinarian and a writer. Their previous book, Rabid: A Cultural History of the World’s Most Diabolical Virus, was a Los Angeles Times best seller and a finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. Their latest book, "Our Kindred Creatures" makes a case for seeing the fight against animal cruelty as a crucial thread in America's history. Readers are introduced to the activists, scientists, andmoguls who helped create our modern views on animals, with our intense compassion for certain species and ignorant disregard for others. In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the most important questions: “what’s real?”, “who matters?” and "how can we make a better world?" Sentientism answers those questions with "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube . 00:00 Clips! 01:09 Welcome - "Our Kindred Creatures" as an example of Sentientist History? 03:30 Monica and Bill's Intros - Writing two books together: Rabid and Our Kindred Creatures - "...Monica's interest in animals [as a veterinarian] that I think got me interested" - Telling the story of how the animal welfare movement came to the USA in the decades after the civil war - The emergence of the modern way of thinking about animals "some of them are like members of the family... others of them in huge numbers are excluded..." - "Everyday people in cities... were living among all kinds of animals in a way that feels very foreign to us today" 07:18 What's Real? - Meeting in a church youth group, Bill's family more devout than Monica’s - "It was not a creationist church... there was a sense that we weren't going to doubt what science was telling us just because we were part of a religious tradition that had a different story" - "'In a world in which there's no god why should we care at all about human suffering?'... runs implicitly through the book - many of the people we write about are religious" - Links between religion, the abolition of slavery and animal ethics "though of course the slavers themselves had various bible verses that they waved around" - "Today we're Unitarian Universalists... go to church on Sundays and Bill sings in the choir" - "Our Unitarian church is a very humanist church... animals don’t' come up much... some other Unitarian churches have animal affinity groups" - "There are also a lot of atheistic Unitarians... our church leans atheistic... the younger people even more so" - "Whatever concept of god that I have wouldn't conform with traditional ones - it's more notional" - "We came back to religion because of our son... he was a very loud atheist... a disrespectful atheist... we wanted him to expand his thinking" - "Even though we occupy three different spots in our family on the atheistic side of the spectrum we're very at home in this church" 25:27 What and Who Matters? 52:43 A Better World? 01:12:27 Follow Bill and Monica - @murphydvm - @billwasik - Our Kindred Creatures And more... full show notes at Sentientism.info . Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info . Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form . Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups . The biggest so far is here on FaceBook . Come join us there!…
1 "Spirituality is a great way in which capitalism commodifies people's belief" - Richard Twine of Edge Hill University - Sentientism 213 1:24:21
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Reproducir más Tarde Reproducir más Tarde Listas Me gusta Me gustaRichard Twine is Reader in Sociology at Edge Hill University in the UK, working at the nexus of critical animal studies, environmental sociology, the sociology of climate change and gender studies. He is co-director of The Centre for Human Animal Studies, an interdisciplinary forum for research and activities that engage with the complex material, ethical and symbolic relationships between humans, other animals, and their environments. Richard is the author of many articles, papers and books for both academic audiences and the wider public, including " The Climate Crisis and Other Animals ". In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the most important questions: “what’s real?”, “who matters?” and "how can we make a better world?" Sentientism answers those questions with "evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings." The video of our conversation is here on YouTube . 00:00 Clips! 00:43 Welcome 02:34 Richard's Intro - Philosophy, psychology, history, natural sciences, bio-technology and sociology - Ecofeminism (Carol Adams, Val Plumwood), Regan, Singer, then Critical Animal Studies - The "flawed awakenings" of climate change awareness and non-human animal ethics 05:28 What's Real? - Non-religious, implicitly atheist, socialist parents and household - Attending Sunday School with a Christian friend "It didn't have any effect - it was just another space to play" - A religious teacher who "made us recite the Lord's Prayer at the start of every day... that was odd... that kind of drove me away from religion" - Asking for an exemption from religious education at secondary school "Probably sociologically limited because it's actually good to learn about religion... but I already knew that wasn't something that I wanted to spend my time doing" - A materialist outlook "when we die, we die... decompose and feed the rest of nature... a kind of beautiful thing... I don't believe in an afterlife" - Avoiding dogmatism about materialism. Interested in near-death experiences - "I'm on board with that aspect of Sentientism - reason and evidence... but I would also add that my atheism isn't simplistically rationalistic... elements of romanticism in it... Shelley... beauty and wonder of nature giving us some kind of meaningfulness in our lives... that's enough." - "There's a poor track record with religiosity and conservative ideology... distanced me from it... used to justify patriarchy, anthropocentrism, colonialism, capitalism etc." - A hobbyist interest in UFOs and UAPs "stems from my childhood... subscribed to a magazine called 'The Unexplained'... I've always had that interest but ultimately - give me some evidence." - Conspiracy theories and cover-ups "I'm sceptical but I'm fascinated" - Richard's "'Alien' Disclosure and Critical Animal Studies" blog post 26:48 What Matters? 32:59 Who Matters? 58:29 A Better World? 01:21:12 Follow Richard - RichardTwine.com - @RichardTwine - The Centre for Human Animal Studies at Edge Hill University - @CfHAS - The Climate Crisis and Other Animals And more... full show notes at Sentientism.info . Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at Sentientism.info . Join our "I'm a Sentientist" wall via this simple form . Everyone, Sentientist or not, is welcome in our groups . The biggest so far is here on FaceBook . Come join us there!…
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