Community help for Non-Cognitive?

[Angrboda]

Such as?

Lots of examples, probably the best is the resiliency and persistence of religion here in America; particularly the rise of the evangelicals and the 'apparent' rise of fundamentalists. There are specific reasons for it's origins and also good reasons why I'm not troubled (where the cogs tend to be alternately angry about it and threatened by it).

But that would take a blog to explain... Don't know if I want to make you feel that much safer yet... :-).

Your choice. You hinted you had an alternative framework, with alternative conclusions. If you can't explain it, or won't, I'm tempted to take a non-cognitive approach to your ideas and dismiss them as not being tangibly meaningful. My thoughts on things like ethics and the Buddhist doctrine of Anatta would require that I bring in a lot of background to explain them. Yet you suggest your ideas illuminate the American religious situation. I find it hard to believe it would take that much, given a mutual familiarity with American religion. There are non-specific theories of religion relating to social systems or cognitive science and so forth, and then there are America specific theories having to do with historical, political or other factors of the American landscape. That you think that communicating your ideas about American religion would be too inordinately difficult to pursue is both disappointing, and suspicious. But so be it.


I'm short a power cable for my file server. That's a cognitively determinate task I can pursue instead.

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