{"id":1487,"date":"2010-12-14T01:27:39","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T07:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/?p=1487"},"modified":"2010-12-14T01:27:39","modified_gmt":"2010-12-14T07:27:39","slug":"88-the-nature-of-existence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/?p=1487","title":{"rendered":"88: The Nature of Existence"},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/images\/nygard.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/podcasts\/088_nature.mp3\"><b>In this episode<\/b><\/a> we interview Roger Nygard, director of the newly-released-on-DVD documentary, <a href=\"http:\/\/thenatureofexistence.com\/\"><b>&#8220;The Nature of Existence.&#8221;<\/b><\/a> Roger traveled all over the world in search of answers to such questions as why we exist, what do we do about it, is there a God, is there a Heaven or Hell, why we masturbate, what about gay people, and most importantly, why is Orson Scott Card such a humongous douchebag? We also discuss one of Roger&#8217;s previous efforts, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Trekkies-Denise-Crosby\/dp\/0792158776\"><b>Trekkies,<\/b><\/a> because Leighton is such a huge Star Trek nerd.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode we interview Roger Nygard, director of the newly-released-on-DVD documentary, &#8220;The Nature of Existence.&#8221; Roger traveled all over the world in search of answers to such questions as why we exist, what do we do about it, is there a God, is there a Heaven or Hell, why we masturbate, what about gay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,23,19,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christianity","category-eastern-religions","category-islam","category-podcasts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1487\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.irreligiosophy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}