Two Minutes Of Wisdom With Krista Tippett (VIDEO)

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[gutteringdawn]

02:06 PM on 10/01/2011

In the times I've listened to Tippett, who recently changed the name of her show from "Speaking of Faith" to the gratuitously eponymous and grandiose "Krista Tippett On Being," she doesn't seem to be doing a lot of listening. She seems to be doing a lot of talking.

After all it's "Krista Tippett On Being" not "Today's Guest On Being".

[AntithiChrist]

02:10 PM on 08/09/2011

Trying to figure out how this qualifies as content for a page entitled "religion."

I appreciate the bit about wanting to be surprised by the speaker, the wanting the speaker to "put words around something" in a way that they never had (how you know this has happened I have no idea, but it's a nice thought)

- but other than the last 5 seconds or so, when she says that good listening is a "core spiritual value" - which can mean absolutely anything, or nothing, - it's just a nice piece of well-put advice.

[ThinkCreeps]

04:58 AM on 08/09/2011

Surely at some point the producers of this series are going to make a mistake and book someone who is actually wise.

[BurtonDesque]

01:37 AM on 08/09/2011

Why is this woman's head on crooked?

[AntithiChrist]

02:07 PM on 08/09/2011

Mars Attacks! ACK!

[David Weidner]

12:22 AM on 08/09/2011

I must misunderstand the definition of "wisdom". This series definitely goes for the fluff factor. It baffles me as to what so many people consider to be wisdom. "Others' otherness" does not always consist of wisdom. Sometimes it does. But she makes it sound like you always have something to learn from others' opinions. Well, sometimes you are way better off forgetting everything someone has said, and move on.

[RedDogBear]

05:16 PM on 08/12/2011

"I must misunderst­and the definition of "wisdom"

I felt exactly the same way. It reminds me of one of my favorite scenes in The Princess Bride: "You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think."

[BurtonDesque]

11:02 PM on 08/08/2011

Another two minutes, but still no wisdom. Maybe you should have Richard Dawkins do the next one.

[researcher]

03:01 AM on 08/09/2011

those selfish genes of richard's are in no mood for huff post wisdom experiences.

they are too busy making robots out of atheists and trying to spread their gene pool.

that being said oh well enough of that I dont need to listen I already know everything. :-)

[BurtonDesque]

03:14 AM on 08/09/2011

LOL - "robots out of atheists". Project much?

[RedDogBear]

05:23 PM on 08/12/2011

You should take some time and actually read a bit of Richard Dawkins. You may not agree with everything he says but one thing you would quickly learn is that the last thing he is trying to produce are robots.

One of his favorite stories is about a well established professor who had made his reputation by supporting a particular scientific point of view. But when that professor was presented with evidence that he was wrong he said so in front of a group of students and peers and was applauded for doing so.

That's Dawkins' ideal, having the integrity to constantly re-evaluate your ideas based on new evidence and to change them when the evidence dictates. Doesn't make for good robots.

[4everGG]

10:11 PM on 08/08/2011

I like her thought that listening involves a "willingness to be surprised." I find that real listening carries me into a posture of "I know what I think, but let me hear this person out to see if where they're coming from is different from where I think they're coming from."

Sometimes, initial thoughts are supported. Sometimes, they're supported but complicated. Sometimes, they're destroyed.

This is why real listening requires maturity. When one's first thoughts are exposed as flawed, it takes honesty and maturity to make peace with the new reality and deal fairly from the new perspective.

[ThinkCreeps]

06:51 PM on 08/08/2011

No wiser, but mercifully shorter than `speaking of faith'.

Although, looking on the bright side, it's good to have to retune the radio at least once a week.

[buggeroffyou666]

05:18 PM on 08/08/2011

Any chance we will ever get to hear two minutes of wisdom from some who actually has some wisdom? Hint...feel good spirit/higher power/Woo BS is not wisdom.

[researcher]

03:05 AM on 08/09/2011

they have ears but hear not.

they have eyes but see not.

they have genes that have turned them into materialistic robots. :-)

the genes rule, that higher power wisdom upsets the gene pool.

[buggeroffyou666]

03:10 PM on 08/09/2011

You never really SAY anything do you. And no you're not over any ones head so don't flatter yourself. Vapid is jus vapid.

[SDLee]

02:29 PM on 08/08/2011

Do I have to cock my neck like a chicken to be a good listener?

[Dragosurfer]

01:17 PM on 08/08/2011

I would be amazed if Krista Tippett could produce even one minute of wisdom; but two, now that is a stretch.

[ThinkCreeps]

07:23 PM on 08/08/2011

She did better than Chopra, who didn't even score on his slot.

[nycpaladin]

09:39 PM on 08/08/2011

I would take 10 seconds of Krista's wisdom over the thousands of hours of comments (i.e., drivel) that you see here every day.

[researcher]

03:06 AM on 08/09/2011

but you read it every day, do you not find that interesting. ie that doubt thing working overtime? :-)

[Dragosurfer]

09:12 AM on 08/09/2011

Yep, it's just a bunch of comments from unidentified people.

So you call her discussions about myths and superstitions (religion) wisdom? She basicaly says the same thing all of these religious people say when you give them a microphone. After listing to her for 10 years, I have yet to here anything original or what I consider "wisdom", but if you do, well good luck with that.

[Dragosurfer]

01:15 PM on 08/08/2011

I've been listing to this woman on & off for 10+ years; and a while back I realized she lives in a suger-coated, isolated, little world where the skies are always sunny. I'm sure her world is nice to live in, but I perfer the real world.

[Dan Jighter]

02:51 PM on 08/08/2011

Yea, I think you described Krista Tippett perfectly. She vapidly "listens" and entertains woo woo as part of her sunny little wonderland.

She is wrong about listening. Listening is not about going into a conversation hoping to be surprised. It is going into the conversation with a critical mind and realistic expectations for being surprised. Who is the better listener, some nice "open-minded" person who finds everything you say interesting and wonderful (or at least worthy of being entertained) or the stern skeptic who will say "I carefully listened to what you said, you said this and this. That is completely wrong for this reason and that. And you said this thing, where is your justification for this?". Listening entails understanding the other view to comprehension, not being pleasantly open-minded to whatever one might say and failing to comprehend.

Of course, Krista Tippett doesn't quite listen to people like Richard Dawkins who doesn't pander to her rose colored view of a world of candy and sweets and everything nice.

[buggeroffyou666]

05:23 PM on 08/08/2011

We need ten minutes of REAL wisdom on this page from him.

[american-dolt]

10:26 AM on 08/08/2011

I'm sorry did you say something?

[BookKeepersSon]

10:36 AM on 08/08/2011

Apparently, nothing you'd understand. Go back to playing with your thumbs.

And learn how to punctuate.

[SDLee]

02:30 PM on 08/08/2011

Criticizing spelling and punctuation in a world of thumb pads and keyboards is plain ignorant, and a loser's argument.

[buggeroffyou666]

05:20 PM on 08/08/2011

You mean nothing important or of worth was said.