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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 09:57 AM Original message |
Anthropologist Lionel Tiger on how churches act as ‘serotonin factories’ |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 10:44 AM Response to Original message |
1. For some of us truth is more important than comfort... |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 12:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Perhaps you get that same biochemical comfort from the truth... |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 12:48 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. If so, so what? |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 12:52 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. My point is that, religion has a real purpose in the human expeirence and evolution. n/t |
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GliderGuider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 01:02 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. It's not "religion" per se that has the purpose. It's explanatory belief in general. |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 01:08 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. *Has had* a function... |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 01:47 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Do you reason your way to sex? |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 03:46 PM Response to Reply #12 |
17. Does religion provide emotional predictablity? |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 04:27 PM Response to Reply #17 |
23. It seems to me that |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 04:09 PM Response to Reply #12 |
20. Religion is good at telling people reasons not to have sex. |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 04:14 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. There is no conflict |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 04:26 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. I didn't say I thought there was a conflict. |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 04:57 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. Well, I'm no Don Juan |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 05:31 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. This parallels to religion how? |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 07:13 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. Religious practice, like human paring, requires emotional attachment. |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 09:55 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. I can't tell if you're disagreeing or just commenting. |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 12:46 AM Response to Reply #32 |
34. I think we're probably in agreement. |
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Silent3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 09:54 AM Response to Reply #34 |
37. I guess we are more or less agreeing... |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 01:57 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. I hear you. |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 03:44 PM Response to Reply #1 |
16. wow... |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 10:56 AM Response to Original message |
2. What he is saying is that Religion exists because it provided a huge benefit... |
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eShirl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:01 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. I have to agree with that. |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:56 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Although I have read the term "wired for" many books, |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 12:38 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. In this case, our brains are designed to reward us with comfort and a sense of well being. |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 03:42 PM Response to Reply #6 |
15. Is there sense of comfort that comes when one believes, they do not have to take responsibility, |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 05:04 PM Response to Reply #15 |
25. Do you think it might be more of |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 05:15 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Religion as addiction. I think that is brilliant. |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 06:13 PM Response to Reply #26 |
28. George Bernard Shaw: |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 06:56 PM Response to Reply #28 |
30. Good one!!! |
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ZombieHorde (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:18 PM Response to Reply #6 |
33. Interesting. I would like to know all of the effects religions have on the brain. nt |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
4. According to Wikipedia |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
13. Thanks for posting this. It is fascinating. |
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nichomachus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 03:38 PM Response to Original message |
14. Another theory which makes a lot of sense |
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BrklynLiberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 03:49 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. Thanks. That is interesting enough to make me go look up Julian Jaynes. |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 06:15 PM Response to Reply #18 |
29. The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 02:01 AM Response to Reply #14 |
35. Jayne's Origin of Consciousness is a great book, but his hypothesis |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Jun-16-10 03:59 PM Response to Original message |
19. All: Tiger? |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Jun-17-10 02:42 AM Response to Original message |
36. I think Tiger misrepresents Catholic beliefs about confession, |
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