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Teleology of the Universe - Philip Goff, Galileo's Error
The DemystifySci Podcast
The Rationality of Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica
The human sacrifice in Mesoamerica appears to have run along two parallel and contradictory paths. People who were sacrificed every year were elected as a position of honour to be sacrificed. They would occupy this position of of great respect and renown in the culture. So they had an attraction towards being ripped apart by knives because it meant that they were doing something meaningful in the act of sacrificing themselves.
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