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Psychology of religious belief
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RE: Psychology of religious belief
February 10, 2011 at 11:03 am (This post was last modified: February 10, 2011 at 3:05 pm by OnlyNatural.)
KichigaiNeko Wrote:Certainly has peaked MY interest 'O-Natural' keep posting the excerpts until the tome gets out here to OZ!

Will do! Here's today's excerpt (I'll add the links to the first post too):

http://www.nationalpost.com/dead+people/...story.html

The theory of mind idea is pretty compelling, this ability we have to infer the mental states and emotions of others. Maybe it's why we tend to anthropomorphize other animals, the weather, the Sun and moon, the constellations, the universe. We may have assumed these things to have minds and motivations similar to our own. And even today it's hard to escape the illusion of an intentional agent out there running the world. When shit happens, even I find myself momentarily demanding 'why,' as if the universe is conspiring to screw with me. Rolleyes
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Psychology of religious belief - by OnlyNatural - February 9, 2011 at 12:50 pm
RE: Psychology of religious belief - by Minimalist - February 9, 2011 at 1:08 pm
RE: Psychology of religious belief - by OnlyNatural - February 9, 2011 at 1:50 pm
RE: Psychology of religious belief - by Justtristo - February 9, 2011 at 5:39 pm
RE: Psychology of religious belief - by padraic - February 9, 2011 at 8:07 pm
RE: Psychology of religious belief - by OnlyNatural - February 9, 2011 at 11:32 pm
RE: Psychology of religious belief - by theVOID - February 9, 2011 at 11:36 pm
RE: Psychology of religious belief - by KichigaiNeko - February 10, 2011 at 3:42 am
RE: Psychology of religious belief - by OnlyNatural - February 10, 2011 at 11:03 am
RE: Psychology of religious belief - by OnlyNatural - February 11, 2011 at 11:42 am
RE: Psychology of religious belief - by cheesychoad - April 24, 2011 at 11:10 pm
RE: Psychology of religious belief - by Justtristo - April 25, 2011 at 2:23 am

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