Is There a Good Reason to Believe in a Non Enchanted World?

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i feel like what you just read to me as bordering on jordan peterson and i have this deep fear that you actually like, i fow if you ever bothered to listen to georgan petersons lectures, like, you might come out really liking them. Ri likethat there is no good reason to believe in any of these things. The belief in the personal a, you know, judao christian deity that that i was told existed falls apart upon scrutiny. Were just, we're rebelling against different ways of thinking.

Panpsychism didn't give us river spirits or mischievous sootballs, so this time we go straight to the source - a defense of animism, and in a top 10 analytic philosophy journal. Could a failed argument for the existence of God establish the existence of trees and mountains with “interiority” and “social characteristics”? Tamler wants to believe, but is the argument that'll push him over the edge?

Plus – speaking of top journals, a doozy of social psych article: Is forgiveness better than revenge at rehumanizing the self? Let's check the voodoo dolls to find out. Tamler is delighted by David’s reaction to this one.