Society and faith

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Society and faith

Robert Strommen

8 episodes

4 months ago

Click here to write us a note . Humanity are made up with this instrument of knowing, and by that also knowing right from wrong. This instrument varies amongst us all, but it is within us all. This instrument can be trained to get better, and it can be fogged by not focusing on this area of life experience. This is the sense of logic that knows the colors blue from red and by seeing objects, and gives it tags. George Herbert Mead (Mead, 1985) focused on this area in the developing of his wo...

Social Sciences

Religion & Spirituality,

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Religion & Spirituality,

Episodes (8/8)

Society and faith

Instrument for knowing

6 months ago

12 minutes

Society and faith

The commonality of human experince

Click here to write us a note . This episode will go into what I want to call the commonality of our human experience. History has collected past encounters and today we have close access to the field of this phenomenon called life. The human experience is our common meeting or encounter with life and pursuit of meaning. The collection of our common stories and what we have met as humanity gives us the ability to check the validity to claims of truths that have been made, and we have the cha...

9 months ago

13 minutes

Society and faith

Imprints

Click here to write us a note . Every season in history has had its own pressure on it. The times shift and they create change and movement on society. In our own space we become blinded by the forces we can’t see, cause they are new and shifting to us. We have never been here, and we do not know how to handle what we meet. We must take a step back and process what we are experiencing, and hopefully we can ht some elements of truth and reconciliation with our time.When the future comes ...

9 months ago

17 minutes

Society and faith

Encounters vs experience

Click here to write us a note . This episode has focus on differenciating our experiences with the actual encounters we have in life. Our approach to thought is built on past encounters. The language and terms we use in our thinking is built from the culture and environment we grow up in (Mead, 1985) but the instrument we use is our own. I use the word encounters because our experiences are controlled by more than our encounters. By experiences we implement our thoughts, our emotions, our pa...

10 months ago

22 minutes

Society and faith

Transparency in methods

Click here to write us a note . How have we come to know, and how we can affirm it with validation? A clear and visual approach to a claim will let you confide in your own understanding of things, but it is ourselves that are the testing instruments. It must be a trustworthy method that humanity can relate to, and the method must have the ability to be checked for flaws. Approach the steps with caution and be aware of the influence of self, culture and prejudice. To test a truth-statement th...

10 months ago

16 minutes

Society and faith

Ability to reason

Click here to write us a note . In this episode I talk about abstract thinking and with our ability for reasoning. Aristotle (Cleary, 1985) said that abstract thinking is a sign of intelligence and a virtue in humanity. But where does this virtue agree with our collective common sense, where lies the acceptable rationality? How can we accept it without pressure, without mediums, without relying on others? How can we accept it when no one is allowed to influence us? Through educating ourselve...

10 months ago

19 minutes

Society and faith

What is truth?

Click here to write us a note . This episode goes into the topic of what is truth, who can own the truth and who can really say they have objective truth? How far can we go in our pursuit and still maintain our objectivity? Truth must be a reality in itself no matter our personal opinions. It does not change because we change. Truth needs to be drawn to the purest and perhaps simplest levels of knowledge. To areas where common sense lay, but not to be misunderstood as common knowledge. ...

11 months ago

16 minutes

Society and faith

Introduction

Click here to write us a note . This is an introduction for what this podcast series will be about. I share my purpose and the aim for the project and here I go through the different topics i will go into. The different topics will be: What is truth?, Our ability to reason, Transparency in our methods, Encounters vs experience, Historical imprints, The commonality of our human experience, Our instruments for knowing, Subject of faith. My hope is that this series will inspire you.If you like ...

11 months ago

14 minutes