Paul Bloom
And Then It Hit Me with Cory Allen
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Why You Shouldn't Fast for Seven Days a Knon
If you saw a homeless person that was starving, and they said, i'm hungry, if you told them to fast for seven or more days. That's a completely different a type of situation that you've got self into. And so the the intention in the perspective as is crucial for those things. A c s lewis, who wrote a lot about ritual and religion, gives fasting as an example; he's got im down on purposeful fasting. It just makes people feel good about themselves. But yet, it its me choosing not to eat for seven days, verses, you know, we run out of food and there's n earthquake or whatever, are entirely different things psychologically
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