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Humanists Take on the World Dustin Williams, Lauren Studley

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Information, news, and interviews of interest to Humanists, Atheists, Skeptics, and Freethinkers

    29 Elections

    29 Elections

    We talk about elections: Voting rights, popular vote, jungle primaries, and more
    Intro
    The feedback form is at htotw.com/contactLeave us voice message at +1 (208) 996-8667 or htotw.com/speakpipeSupport the show on a monthly basis with Patreon or just once with PayPal, credit or debit card, Apple Pay, or Google Pay links are at htotw.com/donateSubscribe at htotw.com/subscribeJoin our Discord server at htotw.com/discordThe United States has what’s effectively a beta version of Democracy with a fair number of bug fixes. While other countries, especially New Zealand have moved on to Democracy 4.0.
    New Zealand system:
    - You vote for party, not person. Each party has candidate lists
    - Each district is has more than one person in parliament
    - It’s ranked choice voting
    - Everyone who wins a seat, gets their seats
    - Parties who don’t win enough seats to be represented get extra seats
    Voting Rights
    Presidential elections
    - Electoral College
    - National Popular Votes Interstate Compact
    Jungle Primaries
    - Open Primaries
    - Top 2
    - Top 4 with Ranked Choice
    Sources:
    https://ballotpedia.org/Top-two_primary
    https://openprimariesid.org/
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact
    https://www.axios.com/2023/09/26/supreme-court-alabama-gop-congressional-map
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    28 Buckets

    28 Buckets

    We talk about buckets, a metaphor for physical, emotional, and mental energy.
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    27 What is an Evangelical?

    27 What is an Evangelical?

    This week we talk about Evangelicals, before that we have the worst defense in a lawsuit, and feedback about grief.
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    Moscow, ID Murders, TicTok, and lawsuitsTopic - What’s an Evangelical
    Pew Religious Landscape SurveyWikipedia: EvangelicalismPRRI 2020 Census of US ReligionFeedback
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    26 Rest in Peace Mom

    26 Rest in Peace Mom

    This week we talk about Dustin’s mom’s passing, grieving, and what she believed about the afterlife.
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    Taking a Break

    Taking a Break

    I've talked before about health issues in the family, things have progressed and I need to take a few months off from the show.
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    25 Quakers

    25 Quakers

    We start with a brief interview with Kylie and then I finally take a stab at talking about the Quakers.
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    (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quakers)
    (https://www.georgefox.edu/about/history/quakers.html)
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Love this podcast. Like the people who get invited to come on ( mostly Mikey). Even being an atheist I still like learning about other religions and how its practiced. And honestly I’m glad that Wesley is gone. He was just a bump on a log kind of guy.

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