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Nick Baren
@nickbaren.bsky.social
Co-host of🎙The New Heretics Podcast |
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@thenewheretics?si=UsIKlASLYaSLD5-u
Audio Only: https://thenewheretics.substack.com/

exJW POMO | Bokononist | deconstructing
🎙NEW EPISODE

@Yung_Logo_ and I interviewed mindfulness practitioner Patrick Butler to discuss his Christian deconversion, coping with chronic illness, and the benefits of meditation.

(Specifics about meditation practices start around the 1:48:00 mark)

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Meditations on Mindfulness | ft. Patrick Butler
YouTube video by The New Heretics
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April 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
🎙️NEW EPISODE
Had this one on the backburner, so I'm excited to get it out! @waldenpod joined @Yung_Logo_ and I to steelman Mormonism from an atheist perspective.

Come for the good-faith discussion, stay for the shots at Capturing Christianity's anti-LDS arguments.
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An Atheist Defense of Mormonism | ft. Emerson Green
YouTube video by The New Heretics
youtu.be
March 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
🎙 NEW EPISODE 🎙

Jake Vaughn @altworldly.bsky.social jumped in with us to riff on JW lore, multigenerational trauma, and the complications of apostasy and deconstruction. (New poem, too)

It's fun and raw. Enjoy!
youtu.be/79y9HCZWulQ?...
Unpacking JW Trauma | ft. Altworldly
YouTube video by The New Heretics
youtu.be
February 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
🎙 NEW EPISODE 🎙

Thank you to #exJW author @PimpMyShoggoth for joining @Yung_Logo_
and I to discuss his engrossing new book "Drill."

Topics include the JHVH1 virus, memetic warfare, and the nature of reality.
open.spotify.com/episode/0ho8...
Killing JHVH1 | Scott R. Jones
The New Heretics · Episode
open.spotify.com
December 11, 2024 at 9:19 PM
Reposted by Nick Baren
The New York Times is quietly becoming a puzzle, games and recipe company.
November 28, 2024 at 7:38 PM
So are there less Nazis here?

That's really my only criteria for a social media platform at this point.
November 15, 2024 at 2:05 AM
I've never done heroine, but listening to Stevie Ray Vaughan has to be close.
January 21, 2024 at 7:02 AM
Today made me sad.
October 8, 2023 at 8:24 AM
So my Twitter account was locked today for criticizing Bret Weinstein.

This was the reply that triggered an immediate ban for "threatening violence":
September 25, 2023 at 3:40 AM
I'm sorry but what's a "Yibo"?

I just outed myself as old, didn't I?
September 20, 2023 at 10:08 AM
Reposted by Nick Baren
I think I can speak for all of us when I say that my objections to January 6 are mainly aesthetic
Hahaha libs you say you don’t like people smashing the Capitol, shitting in the corridors, and trying to do a coup, and yet you…wear sweatshirts.

Touché I say! Touché!!!
September 20, 2023 at 1:56 AM
Reposted by Nick Baren
By this I mean that many Americans are raised with no concept of community outside of religious communities and family, and end up recreating not just the white meritocracy belief system but also the belief that all their “sins” can be forgiven with hard work, including of abandoning others.
September 5, 2023 at 6:31 PM
I was never a huge fan of his music, but I'm now a super fan of the person.

RIP Jimmy Buffet
(1/?) A quick story about Jimmy Buffett.

I worked at the New Orleans Margaritaville in college, up until I graduated in 2006. It was a good job. Busy, and with generally good tips, especially on festival weekends - and New Orleans has a lot of those.
September 3, 2023 at 7:34 PM
I always assumed 2001 was better high, but now I know.

Can confirm
September 1, 2023 at 5:53 AM
August 30, 2023 at 11:00 PM
Just got here. What have I missed?
August 30, 2023 at 7:29 PM