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The Breakup Narrative and How I Met Your Mother – a Sociological Perspective
Where the field of psychology has continued to be the main authority on the nature of one’s inner world – thoughts, feelings and anything concerning the subjective inner-psyche, there seems in recent years to be an awakening of a new cultural sociology of emotions. While perhaps not as statistically and empirically rigorous as the psychological…
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Pascal’s Wager – the Best Argument in Favor of Faith
Let us examine this point of view and declare: ‘Either God exists, or He does not.’ To which view shall we incline? Reason cannot decide for us one way or the other: we are separated by an infinite gulf. At the extremity of this infinite distance, a game is in progress, where either heads or…
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The Role of God in the Evolutionary Emergence of Cooperation
“Religions are like different maps whose routes all lead to the collective good of society. Some maps take their followers over rugged terrain. Other maps have easier paths […] The maps were made by the people who went first and didn’t die. The maps that survive are the ones that work.” – Scott Adams, 2004….