i've always found it so hard, so difficult to reconcile the experiences that i've both read about from people who seem normal. My dad a who isan intelligent and man, i respect completely. He swears that he heard like ghosts, you know, moaning all night when he was a kid. I wish i could, i'm like, you like, i want to be raped dson. A friend of mine in college, had a philosophy professor who was an atheist. And my friend was less more like you. It made me just more interested in taking this kind of stuff seriously. In fact, i was ju listening to something the other day, and some mun just casually mentioned
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.
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Links:
- The Common Consent Argument for the Existence of Nature Spirits by Tiddy Smith
- Peoples, H. C., Duda, P., & Marlowe, F. W. (2016). Hunter-gatherers and the origins of religion. Human Nature, 27(3), 261-282.
- Ingold, T. (2006). Rethinking the animate, re-animating thought. Ethnos, 71(1), 9-20.