Joe Rogan

Alan Watts wrote a book in 1952 about the age of anxiety, and the description of how much the world was changing sounds like 2026. The movement is two steps up and one step back, then three steps up and two steps back.

Pinker's work suggests the long change is generally for the better, while the middle of it feels helpless and scattered. Boomers often picture the 1950s as a time when a man, a woman, a job, and kids all made sense, yet Alan Watts was already calling 1952 the age of anxiety.

The Garma Gospels date to between the fourth and the sixth centuries CE. The Ethiopian Bible probably descends from a Septuagint brought to the kingdom of Aksum in the late third or early fourth century CE, around the Council of Nicaea.

The collection looked similar to Codex Sinaiticus and included First Enoch, Jubilees, and other apocryphal and pseudepigraphical texts. Ethiopia ignored the canon debates in Constantinople and kept transmitting the texts it already had. Rome was part of the same northern argument.

The Epic of Gilgamesh sends a traveler to find Utnapishtim, who survived the flood, so the flood has already happened in that epic. Atrahasis is another version of the flood story. Sumerian king lists predate the introduction of a flood story.

Genesis was circulating in a version that had no flood story until someone put one in, probably around the sixth to fifth century BCE. Noah is a horticulturist in the oldest tales. Genesis four names progenitors of people who live in tents, play the lyre and the harp, and work in metals. The writer does not know the lines are supposed to all die.

Arad, in the southern Negev, is a desert place in the south of Judea. A Bronze Age village sat on a tell there, and the top holds the remains of a fortress from the eighth century BCE with an Israelite temple in the corner.

The temple has a courtyard, a broad room, and a devir, the Holy of Holies, plus a standing stone and inscriptions about the house of Adonai. Israel is the god the standing stone represented. Incense altars stood on the steps. Tests of the burnt residue found three different kinds of cannabis on one altar. Israel included cannabis in worship practices. Another temple was found at Tel Motsah, ten to fifteen years ago, just outside Jerusalem. Deuteronomy is read by many sch

King James Version verses are missing from modern translations of the New Testament, including the New International Version, sometimes joked about as the Not Inspired Version. More than a dozen verses are gone.

Hundreds more manuscripts have been found since the translation, and some passages were added later by someone other than the author. Matthew 17 skips verse 21, with a footnote saying some ancient manuscripts add the verse. About 16 passages in the New Testament have been taken out.

Adam shows up at the start of a big genealogy in Chronicles. Eve does not appear again anywhere in the Hebrew Bible. The New Testament is the next place either name comes up.

Eden is a mountain in one tradition. Ezekiel 28 names the mountain. Genesis 2 and 3 contain no mountain, so the passages come from different traditions. Genesis two and three are not the whole of what the writers knew.

Numerous enormous natural disasters have already hit. The Toba volcano knocked the human population down to a few thousand people, seventy plus thousand years ago, and the same kind of crash has happened a ton of times.

A later disaster could leave zero people, and survivors would have to start from scratch. A crash on the scale of Toba is super possible.

The latest find from China is being called Homo Juluensis, and the brain capacity is larger by twenty plus percent than ours.

Empathy, culture, language, and oral tradition are open questions. Only bones survive, so the remains do not show what the society was like.

Inscriptions in the Sinai from around 1700 to 1900 BCE take signs that look like Egyptian hieroglyphs and make each sign stand for a single sound, the first sound of the word the symbol represents.

A drawing of a house stood for the word bait and for the b sound. An alphabet of 22 to 30 letters is easier to memorize than the hundreds of signs needed for ancient Egyptian, Sumerian, or Akkadian. The script was taken to Phoenicia, and apart from Hangul, the Korean script, virtually every other alphabet is descended from the Phoenician.

The oldest Sumerian lists have no flood story yet, even though several versions of Enuma Elish are known. The lists talk about kings who reigned for ten thousand years at a time.

The older rulers are the ones who live forever and have enormous lifespans. The lists read as political traditions from when writing was just getting started.

Paul did not write every letter later collected under his name. Scholars are in widespread agreement that several of the texts were written decades after his death.

The pastoral epistles are First Timothy and Second Timothy. Titus belongs with them. The letters date toward the end of the first century or the beginning of the second century, maybe thirty years after the death or more. Colossians, Second Thessalonians, and Ephesians are more debated, and a solid core of scholars argue the debated letters were not from the same author.

Jesus was already dead when the Gospels were written. Mark was probably written sixty-nine, seventy, or seventy-one-ish CE. Matthew probably came five or ten years after Mark. Luke probably came five or ten years or more after Matthew. John came a little after the others.

A following was already developing, and the writers wanted the Gospels to speak to the experiences of people who were already followers, as well as to a literary audience.

A large jar called a pithos, dated to about 800 BCE and found down near the Sinai Peninsula, carries an inscription over a drawing of a male deity and a female deity.

The inscription asks for or thanks somebody for blessings by Adonai of Shomron, or Jehovah of Samaria, and his Asherah. Israel's god is the male figure in the drawing, and Asherah is God's wife. Bes supplies the bovine look. Beset is the other Egyptian deity whose motifs the drawing uses.

Allowing data to inform reconstruction prevents reducing everything to ideology or dogma. Data Over Dogma is the podcast focused on ensuring data sets the terms for discussion rather than ideologies or dogmas brought to the subject.

Cognitive science refers to decoupling and rationalization when intuitive cognition conflicts with reflective cognition. Decoupling occurs when reflective cognition overrules the intuitive so a bang at night leads to realizing the furnace is kicking on and going back to bed. Rationalization occurs when reflective cognition defends and rationalizes the intuitive cognition even though it may be entirely wrong.

Intuitive cognition governs perception by altering sensory input. The mind thinks it looks at an object in space. Objects in space look lighter in the sun and darker in the shade after a whole lifetime of experience. The Cornsweet illusion uses the exact same shade of gray for both so the brain changes what one sees to match expectations.

First Enoch contradicts itself because the stories about angels coming down get repeated a couple of different times as it is a collection of five different books. The Book of the Watchers, the Parables of Enoch, and the Animal Apocalypse tell overlapping stories in ways that do not align perfectly so First Enoch is internally inconsistent.

A fingerprint on a tablet at the Bodleian libraries at University of Oxford creates a sense of presence because the fingerprint serves as a clear cue to human involvement from thousands of years ago.

Shanidar 1's skull shows deformities that indicate profound deafness, probable blindness, and other disabilities. The skull aged to pretty old age for a Neanderthal. Survival to old age was only possible with social support group providing care. Sacrificing own efforts, time, resources to care for someone who cannot care for themselves defines humanity. Shanidar 1 is the oldest human because the society took on that burden.

Ancient people were conscious of the ever-present threat of chaos, particularly on the waters. The land was safe but the waters were dangerous. Chaos became personified as a dragon because sea monsters live there. God tames the monster to show power over chaos and bring order to chaos. Order allows civilization to develop.

Nobody speaks ancient Hebrew because ancient Hebrew is not a spoken language. Obviously modern Hebrew is spoken but ancient Hebrew is not a language that anyone would ever grow up learning by speaking with their mother.

Paul suggests even married folks should avoid sex because the higher law is to be celibate. Jesus was coming back so soon having a kid would be a waste of time. Paul says if you cannot hack it then go ahead and have occasional sex with your spouse but it should be basically for keeping down the urges because the risk of sexual immorality is so great you need to have a little valve to keep down the urges.

Scholars go to great lengths to situate the composition of texts in the Hebrew Bible or in the New Testament within whatever historical period makes the most sense. Some texts function as propaganda or to place one person struggling for power over another person. Other texts help people feel better about why bad things happen to good people and good things do not happen to bad people.

Albert Einstein calls gravity the curvature of space and time. You move on that fabric, so there is no need to think of it as an action at a distance. He credits a phrase first uttered by John Archibald Wheeler.

A devout Christian gives the youngest universe at 6000 years. The oldest religious estimate he gives is around 10,000 years, and that is still far away from billions.

Dark matter and dark energy comprise 95% of everything driving the universe. Chemistry, physics, biology, life, planets, and stars are 5%. The gravity share is put at 85%, which leaves the known universe as a small slice.

Radio waves are the lowest form of electromagnetic energy. They are not used to transmit energy. The point is to transmit information, and information became what characterized the modern era.

The interstate was framed as a security problem and a military design. It goes through mountains instead of over them, has long straight stretches so an airplane can land, and is built above surface roads so tanks can travel without decomposing the road.

Air rises at the equator and builds clouds, which is why the Amazon is among the rainiest places. The same circulating cylinders of air descend about 30 degrees north and 30 degrees south, and descending air does not make clouds. That puts the Mojave Desert, the Sahara Desert, and the Gobi Desert near 30 degrees north.

Telescopes today work on the same principle as when they were invented, only bigger. A bigger telescope is a bigger bucket for collecting light. The more light you get, the dimmer the object you can detect and the farther away the object you can see, which is how each new generation of large telescopes has deepened our view of the universe.

You find a body already headed close on a later orbit, then slightly deflect it so it hits Mars or even Earth. A collision big enough to fill lakes would dump energy all at once and change the climate, which is a bad way to add water to a planet you are trying to terraform.

Water on the surface gets cold, shrinks, becomes denser, and falls to the bottom down to about four degrees Celsius. As it goes from 40 toward 20 degrees Celsius, the freezing point, it expands and stays on top. The frozen top insulates the water below, so the fish don't die.

Paul Revere is a household name even though the job was mundane: tell people the enemy was coming. We can mention his name, but we cannot list the generals that all fought in that war, because a poem was written about him.

On the show, a power cut at the Large Hadron Collider occurred when a passing bird dropped a bit of baguette on an electrical substation above the accelerator. A joke claimed a time traveling bird from the past dropped the baguette to sabotage the collider during construction. If one can travel backward a microsecond then one can travel backward a million years from now.

Analysis of kids shows some build things and others stare out windows, predicting future behavior. Staring at stars creates behavior of looking inside. When people look out, people end up looking in and become more in tune with who they are. Imagination opens up. Great ancient writings are the way they are because people were looking inward more.

Negative attitudes prove contagious so people should stay away from unlucky people. Being around individuals who say they never catch a break proves brutal. One must act as a positive influence so others absorb good energy. When negative talk begins challenge it by asking if anything good happened recently and refuse to deal with constant negativity.

People can motivate themselves to continue after five years of not succeeding by imagining what life would be like if they decided not to give up. If five years pass and the goal is not reached, then five more years may be needed. Even if the goal is never accomplished, the soul would evolve and the character would grow, making the person a better person.

Taste matters in music production because taste is the great delineating factor between a lot of things. A person acquires taste by having a point of view and by being a fan instead of by being classically trained.

The internet acts like a script but real life happens on its feet. People living on the internet deal with a script the whole time. Scripts fail to work on feet so people get awkward and can not interact with people in real life. What works behind a keyboard does not necessarily work in person.

Basketball helps athletes succeed in mixed martial arts because athletes must constantly change direction while juking and using misdirection. Basketball involves constant plyometrics, hand-eye coordination similar to punching, and footwork.