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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Keith Tucker is founder and Executive Director of Hip Hop is Green, a nonprofit organization on a mission to support holistic wellness and transform urban communities environmentally. He has been a visionary and social entrepreneur for over 30 years. He has worked with hundreds of businesses, youth groups and community organizations and many icons in the entertainment business as a creative promoter and an ambassador for the culture of hip hop.
In Sentientist Conversations we talk about the two most important questions: “what’s real?” & “who matters?”
Sentientism is “evidence, reason & compassion for all sentient beings.” The video of our conversation is here on YouTube.
00:00 Clips!
01:19 Welcome
02:44 Keith’s Intro
– Founder and ED of Hip Hop is Green
– “I’m a father, a brother, a friend, a husband and currently I’m a human being living on earth”
03:19 What’s Real?
– Growing up in Seattle, raised by mother, grandmother and grandfather
– Religious grandparents
– Going to #baptist church
– Attending strict #catholic school, taught by nuns “I remember sister Sheila – boy she was mean”
– Catholic high school in California
– “Some rough times.” Drugs (from 13 yrs old), street-life “in with the wrong crowd”
– Grandmother and mother “I’m so blessed and fortunate to have had them in my life… gave me a great foundation of morals and values and patience and determination”
– Lending a bike and having it stolen “I’m a very giving and nice person… I have to beware… trust has its limits”
– 31 years clean & sober now
– “My values who I am today were actually both shaped by good things that happened to me and bad things that happened to me”
– “Just really good people”, not because of their religion…
– “…spiritual as well… my grandmother used to call it motherwit… I still have that today… I just get a feeling… it’s always 100% right every time… everybody has it to… some people listen to their motherwit more than others”
– “Back in the early ’70s it was a different world… in school they could paddle you in class… in front of everyone… there was no such thing as non-bullying”
– Being taught the Bible “I never really questioned anything… absorbed it into who I am… although I wasn’t following most of the Bible to be honest at that point… I was more interested in having fun and partying… not really focusing on why I’m here, who I am and what my purpose is”
– Last time used drugs. Motherwit voice spoke very loud “you may not live through this.” Attending a treatment centre, guided by the motherwit voice “it’s not luck”
– April 7 1992 “I need to change my life… I kept that commitment all the way through to today… the weight had been lifted off me.”
– Finishing treatment, moving to the Texas countryside
– Starting to figure out “who is Keith Tucker… what is my purpose?… Baptism through fire.”
– “I am not Christian or religious today…. but I am very spiritual and I believe in god.”
– “I walk in my purpose and in god’s purpose every single day… helping people and serving people is what my purpose is”
– “The people that were enslaved… were introduced to the Bible… as a system to keep their minds enslaved.”
– “Using religion to chain people’s minds”
29:30 What Matters?
47:30 Who Matters?
01:05:40 A Better World?
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