Bad Philosophy » apocalypse http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog Ever just sat around and wondered Why? So have we. Bad Philosophy is your one-stop fix for random philosophical musings about pretty much anything. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:12:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 CreativeCommons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ captainvalor@gmail.com (The Bad Philosophers) captainvalor@gmail.com (The Bad Philosophers) Philosophy 1440 http://www.badphilosophy.com/podcast/BF_Logo_144x144_Color.jpg Bad Philosophy http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog 144 144 Upsetting the balance of reality, one rabbit trail at a time Ever just sat around and wondered Why? So have we. Bad Philosophy is your one-stop fix for random musings about everything from the nature of reality to the essence of modern digital society. Every week Stephen Torrence and Kevin Saunders invite guests from greater Texas Tech to chew the cud and make some magic. The more rabbit trails the better... philosophy, random, humor, college, politics, life The Bad Philosophers The Bad Philosophers captainvalor@gmail.com no clean Episode 111: Gingercide http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2012/01/02/episode-111-gingercide/ http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2012/01/02/episode-111-gingercide/#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:13:14 +0000 StephenTorrence http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/?p=303 Every New Year’s on BF, we take a look back and see what the last 365-ish days have actually brought us. This year we’re varying it up a little bit thanks to my laziness. We decided post our 2011 prediction follow-ups as an upcoming blog post and spend the entirety of this AWESOME episode looking forward into 2012 with one of our best panels ever. Kevin Saunders cruised in over Skype, Dr. Mark Webb from Texas Tech signed on just in time, and my good friends Jacie Hood and Simon Ponder (who’s now published!) joined me in person to share our non-apocalypse predictions over some tasty beer. So put on your best day-glo, grab your cup of wine back from Jeff Goldblum, and minimize your instance of Avernum, it’s BF time!

This Week’s Post-Show Song Pimpage: “What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve?” performed by Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt

]]> http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2012/01/02/episode-111-gingercide/feed/ 0 1:05:44 The Bad Philosophers share their (non-apocalyptic) predictions for 2012 and beyond over some delicious beer. The Bad Philosophers share their (non-apocalyptic) predictions for 2012 and beyond over some delicious beer. Podcast The Bad Philosophers clean no Episode 082: Saunders on Saunders http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2011/01/19/episode-082-saunders-on-saunders/ http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2011/01/19/episode-082-saunders-on-saunders/#comments Thu, 20 Jan 2011 05:51:57 +0000 StephenTorrence http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/?p=249 Imagine if falling in love was as easy as taking a pill. Scary? Exciting? Kind of rad? Well, to make up for the distinct lack of anything resembling actual philosophy last week, we decided to delve straight into this and other hardcore questions, courtesy of George Saunders and his recent short story in The New Yorker. Don’t let the sub-par audio or the happy-go-lucky children chuckling in the background of Panera Bread fool you. We got REAL SERIOUS AND STUFF. You can tell by the caps lock. Drip on? Hell yeah!

This Week’s Post-show Song Pimpage: “I Feel Fantastic” by Jonathan Coulton

]]> http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2011/01/19/episode-082-saunders-on-saunders/feed/ 2 0:51:04 Imagine if falling in love was as easy as taking a pill. Scary? Exciting? Kind of rad? Well, to make up for the distinct lack of anything resembling actual philosophy last week, we decided to delve straight into this and other hardcore questions, co[...] Bad Philosophy Episode 082 "Saunders on Saunders" Recorded 01-17-2011 Bad Philosophers: Stephen Torrence, Kevin Saunders Imagine if falling in love was as easy as taking a pill. Scary? Exciting? Kind of rad? Well, to make up for the distinct lack of anything resembling actual philosophy last week, we decided to delve straight into this and other hardcore questions, courtesy of George Saunders and his recent short story in The New Yorker. Don't let the sub-par audio or the happy-go-lucky children chuckling in the background of Panera Bread fool you. We got REAL SERIOUS AND STUFF. You can tell by the caps lock. Drip on? Hell yeah! This Week's Post-show Song Pimpage: "I Feel Fantastic" by Jonathan Coulton Podcast The Bad Philosophers clean no Episode 057: Philocalypse How? http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2010/01/28/episode-057-philocalypse-how/ http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2010/01/28/episode-057-philocalypse-how/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 04:43:02 +0000 StephenTorrence http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/?p=189 Quick! There’s an asteroid barreling toward your corner of the earth and you have no chance of escape. The world as you know it ends in 4 hours. What do you do?! Listen to the latest BF, that’s what! On this show we tackled that ever-present subject of the apocalypse. Kevin Saunders joined me alongside the recently crippled Jediah Cummins. We also had our FIRST EVER “caller” on BF, the lovely and entertaining vlogger Margaret Kammer. So sit down, relax, and enjoy your pending doom the BF way!

This week’s post-show song pimpage: “It’s the End of the World As We Know It” by R.E.M.

]]> http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2010/01/28/episode-057-philocalypse-how/feed/ 5 0:54:10 Quick! There’s an asteroid barreling toward your corner of the earth and you have no chance of escape. The world as you know it ends in 4 hours. What do you do?! Listen to the latest BF, that’s what! On this show we tackled that ever-pre[...] Bad Philosophy Episode 057 "Philocalypse How? Recorded 01-24-10 Quick! There's an asteroid barreling toward your corner of the earth and you have no chance of escape. The world as you know it ends in 4 hours. What do you do?! Listen to the latest BF, that's what! On this show we tackled that ever-present subject of the apocalypse. Kevin Saunders joined me alongside the recently crippled Jediah Cummins. We also had our FIRST EVER "caller" on BF, the lovely and entertaining vlogger Margaret Kammer. So sit down, relax, and enjoy your pending doom the BF way! Podcast The Bad Philosophers clean no Episode 040: Meta-Mathic Smackdown http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2009/07/30/episode-040-meta-mathic-smackdown/ http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2009/07/30/episode-040-meta-mathic-smackdown/#comments Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:36:37 +0000 StephenTorrence http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/?p=160 In a world, divided by history, separate but equal, teetering on the brink of the cosmos, one podcast dares to defy the axioms and go where no podcast has gone bef… well you get the idea. This week we’re talking Anathem!  Neal Stephenson‘s latest work of spec-fic awesomery is ripe with headiness, so we decided to bring on couple of powerhouses in the brain department. Former-KTXT and current Llano Idea DJ Benjamin Brown returns to duke it out in a literary smackdown for the ages with veteran Bad Philosopher and aspiring YouTube reviewer Kevin Saunders. If this were a book, it’d be a genuine page-turner. But you read with your ears, right? Of course you do. So have a listen…

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This week’s post-show song pimpage: “Mandelbrot Set” by Jonathan Coulton

]]> http://www.badphilosophy.com/blog/2009/07/30/episode-040-meta-mathic-smackdown/feed/ 0 0:55:09 In a world, divided by history, separate but equal, teetering on the brink of the cosmos, one podcast dares to defy the axioms and go where no podcast has gone bef... well you get the idea. This week we're talking Anathem! Neal Stephenson's latest [...] Bad Philosophy Episode 040 "Meta-Mathic Smackdown" 07-26-09 In a world, divided by history, separate but equal, teetering on the brink of the cosmos, one podcast dares to defy the axioms and go where no podcast has gone bef... well you get the idea. This week we're talking Anathem! Neal Stephenson's latest work of spec-fic awesomery is ripe with headiness, so we decided to bring on couple of powerhouses in the brain department. Former-KTXT and current Llano Idea DJ Benjamin Brown returns to duke it out in a literary smackdown for the ages with veteran Bad Philosopher and aspiring YouTube reviewer Kevin Saunders. If this were a book, it'd be a genuine page-turner. But you read with your ears, right? Of course you do. So have a listen... Podcast The Bad Philosophers clean no