Matt Christman on Learning to Love One Another

Matt Christman talks love, faith, religion, interpersonal connection, and more on Girls Chat
[Released 3/31/21]

[@RumHam5570]

We miss our boy. Wish him the best

[@frymarioball]

Didn't know i needed to listen to this. There's something special about someone talking about their healthy relationship with God, while Matt is agreeable and explains it in a Materialist way. Much love. 💕

[@Obiwancolenobi]

I hope this man recovers.

[@natemathews3780]

He's recovered, but he's got a big ol scar on his head

[@Obiwancolenobi]

@natemathews3780 Are they still tight lipped on what happened? Stroke, tumor, something? Not that it's my business, just curious.

[@JStack]

@@ObiwancolenobiFelix was on Hasan’s stream and said he was hanging out with Matt and joking with him about some stuff. That was the last “update,” I’ve heard

[@Praisethesunson]

He's tweeting again. Which means he's either recovering or has suffered mass brain damage.

[@totonow6955]

Miss you Matt.

[@juliettedemaso7588]

This world needs the second coming of Christman. Wishing Himself gets all the way well.

[@sgt_viper]

Wonderful listen, I really needed this :’)

[@Jones-pj2jk]

The language of God is silence. All else is poor translantion.

[@Garrett1240]

Who said that again

[@Jones-pj2jk]

@@Garrett1240 Rumi, a 13th century poet

[@samgomez2064]

Thanks for uploading this 👍

[@BaratheonTheory]

This man has helped me so much. Get well Matty

[@ryanshields2195]

I think this was an episode of midnight gospel

[@Inuhater]

Man, I hope he’s able to fully recover. Miss listening to his vlogs so much. ❤

[@hegaliandialectics4289]

The other person sounds like they are off a bar but still anxious. Not hating I love benzos. Also I miss Matt a lot. It feels weird since I don’t know him. But I miss Matt.

[@RumHam5570]

Same. It really is weird.

[@No.0.o.0]

I think she’s just truly monastic not barred out

[@hegaliandialectics4289]

@@No.0.o.0 yeah i’m just being mean. I think they just have a very soft voice. Does remind me of someone on xanax though.

[@TheLetsRead]

Honestly her thread about “I will never do bad things again, only good” or some such read to me as overly hubristic recent convert talk, but idk 🙃

[@dangerousd1312]

haven’t heard of girls chat but i love this conversation

[@Garrett1240]

She deleted all her episodes and no one knows why

[@Swimmaroo]

Was that Amber Rollo's pod? I was looking for it but couldn't find it

[@dickdingus775]

i remember following the host of this on Twitter years ago, she was pretty interesting, probably the only one of these vaguely trad types that took Catholicism seriously as more than an aesthetic trend I think she had a bunch of intense neurological health problems which might be why she went offline

[@danielblatzanich2714]

who’s he talking with that called the priest?

[@joeyrufo]

52:55 yes! Look! The way I talk about this is that there's no God... Yet! But also! The way to fulfill the self is to find THE TRUE SELF! THAT'S HOW YOU FIND TRUE DISCIPLINE! IT'S HOW YOU RECOGNIZE PLANET EARTH AS PANDORA! MATT KNOWS A THING OR TWO ABOUT THAT!

[@joeyrufo]

43:10 I kinda hate this talking about the metaphysical like it requires the supernatural! EVERYONE **CAN** EXPERIENCE IT! THAT'S BECAUSE IT **IS** NATURAL! **NOT** SUPERNATURAL! THE STATISTICAL MIRACLE IS STILL ONLY STATISTICAL! AND YET IT'S "ONLY" A "MIRACLE"! "GOD" IS NOT THE ONLY FKNG WAY TO TALK ABOUT THIS STUFF! IT'S IN **ALL** MYTHOLOGY! CHRISTIANS AREN'T FKNG SPECIAL!

[@joeyrufo]

EVEN CARL SAGAN TALKED ABOUT THIS STUFF!

[@MelvinXVIII]

Religion or faith is fine. Dogmatism is laughable. The person Matt is talking to is insane.

[@lucasmurphy740]

I’m sorry she’s suffering but goddamn the constant dwelling on an and purity is not going to lead her back to health or “grace”

[@IMelkor42]

What I expected: Alan Watts esque discussion of existence and our connection to each other and the universe. What I got: Catholic guilt/sin theological bs Very disappointing really. We'll sell you the problem, and we'll sell you the solution. The good news is the solution is 'free', all it will cost you is everything

[@asdsafasf3]

Love isn't real. I'm just a machine programmed to accumulate wealth.

[@TheLetsRead]

That’s what my psych keeps telling me, but I am steadfastly committed to never stop pissing in my pants. 👖

[@fredarsenault8987]

this was so awkward

[@Jones-pj2jk]

it can't all be yeomen and grill pill

[@fredarsenault8987]

@@Jones-pj2jk do you know what the podcast is?

[@Jones-pj2jk]

​@@fredarsenault8987 the delicious dish

[@gloriacassidy-xl8nk]

I think this woman did a pod called Girltalk, Girlstalk-she’s very unusual, tho I can’t remember her name

[@fredarsenault8987]

@@gloriacassidy-xl8nk thanks, couldnt find it seems like a common podcast bane, I really wanted to see what else she did, I love me some weird pods

[@jackoflava]

Wow, "seeing the light" so to speak sure makes people profoundly uninteresting.

[@mattymc1072]

Since when does Matt believe in God???! This is so concerning...

[@space997]

Idk I really think the left needs to reckon with their atheism. Not in favor of institutions like religion under a theism but spiritual communities doing meaning making, thinking value, and this sort of material grounding of love (or care). Anyway are you really concerned if Matt believes in some sort of god, or faith? I really think that’s weird man

[@mattymc1072]

@@space997 Fundamentally, religion is a coping mechanism to deal with the unexplainable and random. It modifies itself according to the need. It's a story we decide to tell ourselves rather than come to grips with reality.

[@DylanTheVillyn]

​@@space997Does the left need to reckon with its atheism or do people in general need to reckon with their theism? Its interesting your suggestion is that people suspend rational thought on a situational basis. Material conditions cannot be changed by spiritual thought or prayer to a power, the good things you point to spiritual communities do are done equally by non spiritual ones. Spirituality is a distraction and tangent from actually confronting real conditions. It is an extra step that allows people to put a wall of religion between themselves and the world they live in, at its best it encourages acceptance of the status quo, at it's worse there are too many examples to name. God won't save us, even if there was one, so the question of god or spirituality is pure ego and emotional masterbation

[@dickdingus775]

​@@DylanTheVillynreddit is down the hall and to the left

[@space997]

@@DylanTheVillyn Emotional masturbation? That’s unnecessarily condescending when my point is the left doesn’t replace conservative theism with anything that fulfills the people’s psychic needs. I said nothing about a god other than finding it weird that someone would find the idea Matt might be believe in one concerning. Anyway you’re exactly what I find to be a problem on the left. It’s all material except part of our lives with human brains IS emotional when spirituality has fulfilled that function for all of human history. I’m not saying choose a god, not that I’d care if you did, only that the left’s atheism repudiates any possibility of spirituality, whether one chooses to ground it in a theism, some kind of mysticism or animism, or a sense of science or rationality. You’re just throwing away a whole aspect of the human condition from some place of capital-r reason.

[@theperfectmoderate6995]

Ah yes Matt teach us to love

[@TheLetsRead]

(prefacing this ramble by sincerely begging The Higher Power™️ that our big brain son recovers and joins the world as soon as humanly possible 🖤❤️‍🩹) i’d be curious to see what sort of conversation christman would hold with an anti-theist (maybe with this person as part of a panel) on some of the themes he addressed with the girls chat host around halfway through. it’d be cool to see both the metaphysical & structural aspects of religion approached by these two folks, plus an annoying but also accurate critic of christian hegemony. hate to name drop & have it come across as a damn-with-faint-praise, but if he could hold back some of his yappy tendencies, someone like actualjake would probably be the best example of such i personally have been exposed to.

[@TheLetsRead]

addendum to myself - wasn’t aware of some of the lore behind girls chat, hadn’t followed up since when these appearances were fresh. hope ashley (if this is still how this person still goes by?) is also doing well 🖤❤️‍🩹