Ep 086: Kayla | Everything I Have | Street Epistemology
San Antonio, Texas
2 September 2015
More details about this talk below.
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"I know there's more than just faith, but I'm not really quite sure what more there is."
Kayla was tabling for an on-campus Christian ministry group called Chi Alpha when she agreed to speak with me, and believes Jesus came to her a year ago during a religious event called 'Break Away'.
Rather than discuss the reliability of faith during our initial talk, I instead decided to see if Kayla would commit to lowering her confidence from the 100 percent if that turned out to be the case.
In essence, this was a discussion about a discussion.
Although I searched for Kayla to see if she would like to talk with me again, I unfortunately never spotted her, nor did I receive any messages from her.
I ran into the lead pastor of Kayla's group twenty days after this talk, and Kyle and I ended up having quite a discussion: https://youtu.be/Tkpz5btDdgM
While I don't normally mention non-believing groups like the SSA (Secular Student Alliance) to my interlocutors, it seemed appropriate after Kayla implied that losing faith would "take away everything that I have".
Music provided by Chet Hovatter.
Mistakes:
As usual, I should have spent more time building rapport with the students and Kayla at the start of the encounter.
Please let me know if you notice any mistakes so that I can address them here for self-improvement.
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