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Vicki at #11:   I think it’s more a combination of celestial bootlicking and humblebragging. Even in mundane contexts, psychological studies of the past century have shown humans tend to gravitate towards […]

Michael 100 #9 Why anyone clings to such antiquated ideas is beyond me. My neighbor is a “born again Christian.” His license plate reads “IAAMOG” which stands for “I Am A Man Of God.” I always get a creepy […]

Michael 100 at #9:   I think Pinker – via Haidt, Shweder, and especially Fiske – made the case once (codified in The Better Angels of Our Nature, though he might have described the evolutionarily psychological […]

Offg #70 I am picking up blueprint at my local library today Although I refer to Blueprint frequently and quote from it, it’s been a while since I read it from cover to cover.  So, when I started reading it a f […]

Zeug # 7   I’ve never had much patience with the subject of salvation.   It’s no surprise that I’m with you on this question.  It seems to me that salvation is another thread to be pulled out of the fray […]

offg, at #70:   Whoa, I just sent off a comment in the Open Discussion May 2024 thread on that interview. What fortuitous timing!

michael 100 am picking up blueprint at my local library today and will be getting kolbert’s h is for hope soon glad to see blah blah blah is in there but just now finally got around to reading this guardian […]

‘You’re going to call me a Holocaust denier now, are you?’: George Monbiot comes face to face with his local conspiracy theorist   An extremely sharp lesson on why being well-intentioned and an activist is no sub […]