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I wouldn't say I'm bent on mixing the two, but am curious about the perspectives of others.

The religious understandings of reality, goals, and how to attain those goals between the two have nothing in common. The societal lessons necessary for a coherent civilization (don't kill, don't...

So we've got the low-hanging fruit out of the way and done our rain dance on Christianity.

So how about their similarities?

And are they fundamentally different, or just dissimilar?

Also many applications listed in the Wikipedia page.

IMO, we're in a transitional phase with media right now. Previously, local media was viable as it was the only source in it's respective community. Now with an abundance of information coming from...

Reminds me of the good old days of my heart swelling at the miracle of the universe. Now I'm just waiting for the universe to do something interesting.[/QUOTE]

It's doing the same amount of...

Conforming is the obvious, immediate response - takes less effort with low odds of repercussions.

But if someone is good at metacognition and abstraction they'll second guess the immediate...

Goodness, you outpace even me on the reading. Let me know if Anthropology of the Indigenous is any good.[/QUOTE]

In fairness, I very rarely come close to finishing any of these titles.

A topic...

I was reading the Wikipedia article on the phrase Perfect is the Enemy of Good today, and interestingly enough I had always misinterpreted the meaning. What I thought was meant to dissuade someone...

Reminds me of the good old days of my heart swelling at the miracle of the universe. Now I'm just waiting for the universe to do something interesting.

I thought there was going to be a follow-up post. Can you repeat the question in thirty words or less?

The Harmless People - Elizabeth Marshall Thomas. Fascinating, narrative driven work of anthropology on hunter-gatherers in the Kalahari desert in the 50s.

And because it's winter and the library...

Anymore I'm of the opinion that good critical thinking skills take abstraction and the ability to meta-cognate - being able to observe and analyze our own behavior and thought patterns. But then,...

I disagree--these days the biggest threat is malicious ads being served up by mainstream sites.

That's also why your best defense is an ad blocker.[/QUOTE]I've been without any type of anti-virus...

Having studied different religions over the past number of years I'm noticing their similarities more so than I am their differences. That is I'm of the opinion that human nature comes first, various...

If you and your wife are smart browsers you'd likely do fine going without. For most typical browsing - Google searching, social media, forums, news media, you're very rarely going to come across...

Guilty as charged. Truthfully anthropology as a field has tended to struggle with the mystical elements of society. Imesn, we're interested, but our methods hsve generslly skewed toward the...

I'd also add that I'm not using a different term to describe an emotional experience, that hasn't been my argument at all.



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This is along the lines of what I'm arguing. Spiritual is an...

I mostly agree, but I think this line falls slightly shy of the mark of the meaning of the word. A spiritual experience, imo, has a very specific meaning, mainly connotating the perception of a...

I agree. I wasn't suggesting that these two things are mutually exclusive.[/QUOTE]


Chill out...we arejust having an easy exchange.[/QUOTE]

Sorry, didn't mean to come across that way.. it was...

Gotta agree with you.

I would say that an emotional response would be a natural internal response to some stimulus. Some could have the same natural internal emotional response but call it...

The way that I see it is that spiritual is just a word made up by people who believe in religious experiences and don't want to admit or don't realize that these experiences are just emotional ones....

I would say that we are all emotional, not spiritual. You can't differentiate emotional from spiritual because there is no difference.

And, in fact, I don't think we are unique among the...

Physics. Any system can't grow infinitely large or small, and must eventually regress to the mean. In the past few centuries we've seen a system of competing states. It's impossible for any of these...

Turmeric Spice - Cardamom, ginger, coriander, cinnamon, turmeric, pepper, cloves.

It's meant to be added in with other teas, but a whole experience on it's own.