Imagine Thought Experiment podcast Andy Balaam

So maybe we can’t understand the idea of hell, and throw it out. What was all
that stuff in the Bible about it for? Why is it so important to behave well?
Why did god put us on the earth at all? Andy sits with the lack of hell for a
bit, and tries to understand what a world like that would be like.








Words: by Andy Balaam, released under CC-BY-SA.


Music: dazed by airtone (c)
copyright 2012 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial
(3.0) license.

What if there were an eternal fire where people you love were tortured forever?
What would that be like, how can we sit with that idea and inhabit it? Andy
has great difficulty, and is compelled to continue sitting with the idea of
god’s goodness.








Words: by Andy Balaam, released under CC-BY-SA.


Music: Toward Isolation by
onlymeith (c) copyright 2012 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0)
license.

If the actual god came to earth and walked around, how do we deal with this
idea? Can it even make sense? How does it feel when we sit with this idea
and try to figure out what it means?








Words: by Andy Balaam, released under CC-BY-SA.


Music: Relaxed Artifacts by
Super_Sigil (c) copyright 2012 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial
(3.0) license.

People often call Jesus a good man - does this make sense? Andy thinks through
what it would be like if Jesus was just a man. Would it make sense to call
yourself a Christian? Sitting with the idea, is there anything left for a
Christian if the magic of Jesus is removed?








Words: by Andy Balaam, released under CC-BY-SA.


Music: Parametaphoriquement by gmz
(c) copyright 2009 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0)
license. Ft: Morusque

If time steps forward like clockwork and everything is determined before it
happens, can we really exist at all? What are we if we are machines? How
does it feel to inhabit that idea and sit with it for a while?








Words: by Andy Balaam, released under CC-BY-SA.


Music: Dark Clouds by
onlymeith (c) copyright 2013 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial
(3.0) license. Ft: FFGreen Mu (FFGreen)

If the horrible things we see in this world are all there is, and there is no
final reckoning, how do we feel? What would we do? Will we look for more
justice in this world, or will we give up on the idea?








Words: by Andy Balaam, released under CC-BY-SA.


Music: Passage of Time (Duet) by
Martijn de Boer (NiGiD) (c) copyright 2016 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial
(3.0) license. Ft: Doxent Zsigmond