Autism is my super blessing! I'm a high-school valedictorian, college graduate, world traveler, disability advocate. I'm a Unitarian Universalist. I'm a Progressive Liberal. I'm about equal rights, human rights, civil & political rights, & economic, social, &cultural rights. I do servant leadership, boundless optimism, & Oneness/Wholeness. I'm good naked & unashamed! I love positive personhood, love your neighbor as yourself, and do no harm! I'm also appropriately inappropriate! My self-ratings: NC-17, XXX, X, X18+ & TV-MA means empathy! I publish shows at 11am! Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/antonio-myers4/support
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 85 days 19 hours 15 minutes
episode 75: The fourth and final part of rape culture
"1. You Put Yourself in Dangerous Situations
Let’s start with one of the most obvious signs of a problematic relationship with sex: not being safe. Sex comes with lots of risks, including pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections. If you want to have a healthy and happy sex life, you have to educate yourself about the risk levels of your preferred sexual activities. You have to use protection and insist that your partners use protection...
episode 76: Do You Feel Emotionally Safe During Sex? How sexual intimacy extends beyond consent and condoms.
"Questions To Ask Yourself To Determine Your Emotional Safety:
episode 77: My soul is 100% staying at rest
A big reason why I am secular:
"The biggest difference between belief and knowledge is – it is the tendency of most people to test their beliefs and not their knowledge. When we are sure we know something, we do not really go back and try to verify it. We tend to accept our knowledge more readily than our beliefs. Our beliefs, however, are constantly put to test; by us, by people around, by situations, experiences among many other things."
"Knowledge is indispensable, yes...
episode 78: I love being a complete, mature person!
I overcame Religious Trauma Syndrome!"Possible Strengths:Intelligence, Special Interest, Memory
episode 79: Women and girls are queens, princesses, pharaohs, monarchs, empresses, and Presidents
"Hey men, what are you planning to do better? Because you need to do better. Here are ideas on how you should treat women better.
- Talk to your friend who is “kind of a creep” at work.
- Don’t talk over women.
- If you are asked to be on a panel/team and see that it’s all men, say something. Maybe even refuse the spot!
- When you see another guy talk over a woman, say: “Hey, she was saying something.”
- Learn to read a fucking room...
episode 80: The twelve precious stages of my precious life
"Since each stage of life has its own unique gift to give to humanity, we need to do whatever we can to support each stage, and to protect each stage from attempts to suppress its individual contribution to the human life cycle. Thus, we need to be wary, for example, of attempts to thwart a young child’s need to play through the establishment high-pressure formal academic preschools. We should protect the wisdom of aged from elder abuse...
episode 81: My freedoms does not interfere with the freedoms of others
- "We reclaim our intrinsic dignity and reject the notion of a fallen nature.
- We reclaim our right to think for ourselves and reject authoritarianism.
- We reclaim ownership of our feelings and our intuition.
- We reclaim our respect for our bodies and our sexuality.
- We reclaim our compassion for other beings and reject judgment of the Other.
- We reclaim our love for the Earth and the desire to care for her...
episode 82: Abuse Keeps Flourishing in the Church. Here are Four (and more) Reasons Why.
"Most churches in the United States have an average church attendance of around 500 adults, 125 children. Most congregations are dominated by married adults, so in this “average church,” there are 200 married couples, 275 women and 225 men, 64 girls and 61 boys. This means that in this church:
- At least 40 marriages are abusive. Studies show that anywhere from 20%-35% of all intimate relationships are abusive, and many are physically violent...
episode 83: Heaven And Hell Are 'Not What Jesus Preached,' Religion Scholar Says
"EHRMAN: I think one of the hardest things for people to get their minds around is that ancient Israelites and then Jews and then Jesus himself and his followers have a very different understanding of what the relationship between what we call body and soul. Our view is that we - you've got two things going on in the human parts...
episode 84: Should Churches Ban Pastors Who Engage in Abuse? Most Pastors Say Yes. The black church enabled R. Kelly's abuses of girls and women
"Langberg thinks the 83 percent from this latest survey may be surprisingly high for the public—but most significantly, she points out that the ‘numbers on the ground’ are probably lower than the survey reveals.
Survey respondents often answer surveys—especially those on sensitive topics—in a way that they think will be most presentable to the interviewer. The field of psychology even has a name for this phenomenon: the social desirability bias...