Does a blessing survive the water cycle? Could uplifted animals have souls? Jimmy Akin and Cy Kellett take on tickling, Hitler’s parents, Revelation’s scorpion-tailed locusts and baptism before birth, with Dom Bettinelli.

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Chapters:

• 0:00:00 – Intro
• 0:00:41 – October is Weird Questions Month
• 0:03:26 – The topics Jimmy will cover
• 0:04:23 – Catholic Answers Live: Weird Questions
• 0:05:50 – Jimmy’s Mysterious World plug on Catholic Answers Live
• 0:06:48 – …Arkansan or Arkansawyer?
• 0:07:37 – Does holy water stop being holy? (Justin)
• 0:09:23 – …Water means liquid water
• 0:11:03 – …Blessed steam and blessed ice
• 0:11:30 – Could angels be saints from other universes? (Megan)
• 0:12:16 – …What an angel is
• 0:15:04 – …Angelomorphic Christology
• 0:17:30 – Would uplifted animals need God to give them souls? (Xevoz Fighter)
• 0:19:45 – …Traducianism and creationism
• 0:24:13 – …Which animal Jimmy would uplift
• 0:28:17 – Why do people laugh when tickled? (Bruce)
• 0:28:29 – …Knismesis and gargalesis
• 0:31:14 – …Rats love to be tickled
• 0:35:19 – …Grooming, play and social bonds
• 0:36:03 – Why atheists expect aliens and believers don’t (G Readings)
• 0:41:35 – …Both arguments fail
• 0:43:05 – Could contraception have prevented Hitler? (Gabriel)
• 0:44:10 – …What the Church means by contraception
• 0:47:00 – …Why history is so fragile
• 0:48:52 – …The Boys from Brazil
• 0:49:20 – More than one way to skin a cat (Amanda)
• 0:51:07 – …Did people really skin cats?
• 0:52:38 – Thank you to Patrons
• 0:53:12 – Sponsor: Miss D’s Honeybees
• 0:53:54 – Sponsor: Fr. Dwight Longenecker
• 0:55:02 – Why did humans lose their hair? (Cy Kellett)
• 0:58:07 – …Exhaustion hunting and sweat
• 1:00:25 – …Bipedalism and lifelong marriage
• 1:01:28 – …Skin tone, sunlight and vitamin D
• 1:05:29 – The Jimmy Akin Podcast: anointing and messiahs
• 1:06:41 – …The number of Jesus
• 1:08:08 – Why would a demon choose damnation? (S. Medrano)
• 1:09:28 – …Sin makes you stupid
• 1:11:31 – The scorpion-tailed locusts of Revelation 9 (Titus Constantine)
• 1:12:38 – …Newspaper exegesis
• 1:13:40 – …Hal Lindsey’s attack helicopters
• 1:15:04 – …Charles Manson and the Beatles
• 1:16:22 – …Demons from the abyss
• 1:20:11 – If nuclear war wiped out humanity, what would God do? (Rebecca Lynne)
• 1:23:21 – …Starting over, as after the dinosaurs
• 1:25:41 – Abortion and excommunication (The Gutsy Grape)
• 1:27:14 – …Why politicians aren’t excommunicated
• 1:29:38 – …Who can lift the excommunication
• 1:31:45 – Time travel and a moving Earth (AJ)
• 1:34:04 – …No ultimate frame of reference
• 1:35:51 – …Why the aliens speak English
• 1:39:05 – Baptism before birth? (Dr. Tafazzi)
• 1:40:04 – …The Holy Office on disinfectant in baptismal water
• 1:41:28 – …The amniotic sac and the placenta
• 1:44:07 – Mysterious Feedback: #426 Mark Twain Super-Psychic
• 1:44:22 – …Ashley’s drawing of a vision
• 1:45:37 – …Huck Finn’s moral conflict
• 1:50:08 – …Data’s head and the club dues
• 1:50:55 – Your mysterious feedback
• 1:51:29 – Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
• 1:51:40 – Jimmy’s YouTube channel
• 1:52:08 – Mysterious World Bookstore
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• 1:52:23 – Show notes
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• 1:53:47 – Outro

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