Golden Compass Ch 18-20

Caitlin, Anya, and Alan cover Chapters 18-20 which is all about
Sinful Chicken Stew, Iorek Bear-Jesus, and teleology (of course).
What is Mrs. Coulter’s endgame? Why will only Anya stand up for
Avocados? Listen and find out!


Mortal Kombat was a thing in the 90s.


Jamestown was initially a failure as a colony, but Carolina was
more successful. Both of these were founded for commercial and
political reasons rather than religious.


Jabme-Akka is the underworld spirit of the Sami people. She tends
to the dead in the afterlife.


The Vasconic language family includes Basque and is believed by
some linguists to indicate a people-group more ancient than the
current Indo-European groups that invaded the continent in waves.
The Inuit-Yuptik-Unangan language family stretches into Siberia
and could have had ancient contact with the Finno-Ugric language
family of the Sami.


Some people still eat seal meat in modern times.


What is the Helium Reserve?


What is the Hindenburg?


Physicalism is the philosophical stance that there is only
physical matter in the universe, which requires that everything
is controlled by determinism.


Free Will may or may not be a thing, but if it is- it requires
options.


Christianity is the only Abrahamic Religion to believe in
Original Sin.


Acquired Freedom is the idea that you can become a moral actor
through knowledge of and faith in God.


In The Gospel of John 3:3 Jesus says, “Verily, verily, I say unto
thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of
God.”


Human women in Narnia are called ‘Daughters of Eve’.


The Power of the Powerless was written by Vaclav Havel and is a
modern parable of post-modern complicity and victimhood.


Elon Musk made a submarine that no one ordered.


The current British Constitutional Crisis is part of a wider
cultural problem of isolation and consolidation of power with
small groups.


A defense of Choice Feminism


Who is Laura from American Gods?


Read Chapters 21-23 for next time!


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