Mary Holland (Winner of The Long Shot Guest Contest!) joins the The Long Shot apparitions to discuss Dolly Parton, haunted lakes, Eckhart Tolle, and how Hollywood works.
Episode #322: Ghosts featuring Mary Holland
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Hey, Dolly Parton has certainly had it tough at various times, and is comparable to the likes of Loretta Lynn and Willie Nelson among the country music folks…good work, not all of it to my taste, but some of it absolutely brilliant.
Meanwhile, scientists have never been universally divorced from religion…Isaac Newton was probably still the most impressive scientific mind we’ve had so far, and was utterly devout, and (for that matter) was a real prick. But while cosmologists and particle physicists (the big and the small foci) can sound mystical even they aren’t, particularly, there’s not now nor has there ever been (Senator McCarthy) a legitimate beef between religion and science (stress legit, as opposed to, say, the suppression of Galileo Galilei’s work)…they are different approaches to reality/the universe, with religion dependent on faith in absolute truth, science a continually self-challenging process to strive for, but knowing it will never completely achieve, objective truth. Religion is about final answers; science by its nature can never have a final answer, just the best available model, the thing that seems to be the most true and explain the most at the moment.
And Mary Holland has a good audio/podcast/radio voice. Barbara Hershey was most of the reason THE CHANGELING is interesting, at least to me…but I’m an utter skeptic when it comes to ghosts (and gods and other supernatural creatures) who has loved good horror fiction and drama all my life.
I hope the finances are on an uptick now…the whole ?week or so since this was recorded…so many of the podcasts seem to be Ganging Up these days, through mutual platforms (well, some established podcasts seem to be spinning off podcasts)…time to unite with other stubborn independents to make a sort of IGA of ‘casting.
“there’s not now nor has there ever been (Senator McCarthy) a legitimate beef between religion and science”
Of course there is a legitimate difference between the two, one is evidence based the other isn’t. The idea that the earth is 6000 years old and was created by the hand of a supreme being doesn’t conflict with science? Ridiculous. And although one great scientist from 450 years ago was religious, the majority of scientists are not and are becoming less so the more we learn ().
Oh and Mary was a good guest.
I about fell out of my chair when I realized this was the contest winner. You guys are on top of things! I was prepared to wait at least a year!
I thought Mary was a great guest. She stated that she was nervous but clearly her acting/UCB experience helped her get into the flow of it quickly.
There did seem to be a Girls vs. Boys vibe going on towards the end with Mary and Amber teaming up to defend themselves against the Eddie and Sean onslaught.
Very funny and entertaining show.
Thanks
Yes, Germ, but most people don’t insist that every word of their religion’s core texts is absolutely and literally true, and most people who do insist haven’t bothered to read their texts or to take into account the variations available , or so I suspect Very strongly (of course, some of them who might’ve will simply insist that any translation is god-driven). I think I made it clear that science is based on continually self-challenging, albeit that hasn’t let it down the right paths for long periods. But even the notion of a 6000 year 0ld (or comparably short time) Earth is hardly one most Jewish and Jewish-offshoot (such as Xian and Muslim…and Unitarian and Baha’i and…) folks are going to claim.
And, as you well know, there have been A Lot of religious scientists, and if more of them these days are open atheists (a lot healthier than it used to be, which as an atheist I appreciate), that doesn’t lose us any number of supernaturalist/mystical scientists today…leaving aside the ones most beloved of the reactionaries (who often, as William Shockley did in his sociobiological babbling, attempt to make definitive statements in scientific disciplines where they had no real rigorous training), there are those such as Steven Weinberg. They simply, when doing their jobs correctly, don’t let their religious beliefs interfere with their scientific work.
Come on Jamie… Passing off one of your mom’s flows as your poem?
Dog shoes rules!
Why is it that people always have ghost stories in situations in which their senses are dulled?
It’s just such a ridiculous conclusion to jump to. You hear a noise, so your conclusion is that the explanation must be that we all have souls and those souls can stay on Earth and interact with other people? How in the world do you make that leap of logic?
“Check out the Ghost” A Jamie Flam Poem – The Longshot Podcast #322 EXCERPT – VIDEO:
I WANT a direct download link. I need to download these without my parents knowing. *shifty eyes*