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44: “There is suffering – end it!” – Actress Victoria Lynn – Sentientist Conversation

Sentientism 7 April 2021


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We discuss the biggest questions: "what's real?", "who matters?" and "how to make a better world?" with scientists, celebrities, activists, writers and philosophers. The Sentientism worldview is "evidence, reason and compassion for all sentient beings." It's a simple, yet radical, philosophy that's grounded in reality (naturalistic epistemology) and has compassion for all sentient beings (mostly human and non-human animals). Naturalism & sentiocentrism combined.

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Victoria (https://www.victorialynn.me/ & https://twitter.com/incertaspecie) is an actress, film producer, writer, voiceover artist and animal activist. She has appeared in Netflix’s “Haunted”, the Comedy Central show “Nathan for You”, in various theatre productions & in the video game “Kingdom Come: Delieverance”. Victoria is an animal rights activist. She co-founded the production company Quantum Kitten. Look out for Victoria’s new Cosmic Creature app (https://www.victoria-hogan.com/cosmic-creature.

In these Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “what matters?” Sentientism is “evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” The video of our conversation is here on YouTube (subscribe!) https://youtu.be/VKhii84yh5E.

We discuss:

– Victoria’s life in the performing arts & animal activism

– Holding the concept of reality lightly

– Our own experience as central to our reality

– We’re not fully conscious of much that we do

– Growing up Christian. Believing in god, praying

– Ditching religion at 10-11 yrs

– Being an angry, anti-Christian atheist in early teens

– Rejecting the homophobia & freedom restrictions of Christianity

– Exploring spirituality, Wicca, Buddhism, Hinduism and holding them all as loosely true or real

– Re-visiting some Christian concepts and finding it less troubling, while still rejecting where it conflicts with equality

– The risks of solipsism. Giving up on knowing

– Being sceptical even of our own perceptions and rationality

– Can people have separate personal “truths” and still understand each other and collaborate?

– The path from formal religion to “angry atheism” to a broader spirituality or a more humble naturalism

– Is there “A divine source we are working our way towards”?

– Does a broader spirituality warp compassionate ethics less than the idea of god as a being?

– The role of intuition

– “Most people I encounter are kind”

– The bizarre admission of: “Without religion – what’s stopping us from looting and murdering?”

– “Is religion really all that keeps you from murdering?”

– How much wrong comes from ignorance rather than intention (e.g. animal farming)

– Most religious people are more compassionate than their gods or religious books. Which is why most don’t follow the books

– Maybe religion doesn’t influence ethics that much for good or ill

– Grounding morality in the experiences of others (or something else)?

– Having a very intense, ineffable psychedelic experience using DMT: The universe is relatively indifferent. Nature is sometimes cruel and sometimes kind. The universe values creation (e.g. having a child). The universe wants to exist. Suffering leads to destruction. Nurturing leads to life, flourishing and new creation

– And more (see Sentientism.info for full show notes)

Sentientism is “Evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” More at https://sentientism.info/.

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Thanks, Graham for the post-production: https://twitter.com/cgbessellieu.

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