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Responsibility is one area in life where philosophy and psychology leave us with the message: do not trust your feelings.[…]
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Heathen’s Progress 15: You don’t have to be religious to pray … but it helps
Prayer, like many rituals, is something that the religious get some real benefits from that are just lost to us[…]
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To condense the history of western thought to around 50,000 words is the literary equivalent of trying to reproduce the[…]
ReadThe Shrink & The Sage: Is blood thicker than water?
Take simmering tensions about duties and obligations, add the same old disagreements about how family members should treat each other[…]
ReadHeathen’s Progress 14: Can it be rational for the religious to be non-rational?
In practice there is no neat distinction between the logical and the psychological. Those who attempt to use pure reason[…]
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