Pinboard: bookmarks for banjaloupe tagged 'religion'

a huge erudite essay on "seven ways of avoiding autonomy", including "religion, drifting, allegiance to a movement, allegiance to a school of thought, exegetical thinking, Manichaeism, moral rationalism", plus extras such as "the faith that one is riding the wave of the future", never standing alone, and marriage (it also appears to be the first part of an even longer book?)

philosophy history autonomy morality religion rationality existentialism life article book
august 2009 by banjaloupe

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The Enormous Absurdity of Nature

fantastic fantastic essay on what it means to be life

amazing philosophy science religion life culture stories
july 2009 by banjaloupe

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Marco Brambilla: Civilization

dante's inferno-- how many levels can you name??

awesome hell heaven religion video
june 2009 by banjaloupe

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Sapolsky on Religion

90 minutes of the anthropology of metamagical schizotypicalism! wow! makes me wanna take an anthro course (i know, right?!)

awesome college video education social psychology religion health history rationality development
june 2009 by banjaloupe

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A.J. Jacobs' year of living biblically

moral: pick and choose, but only the good stuff (unstated: that there's a clear outside metric for what to pick and choose)

ted video bible religion funny
may 2009 by banjaloupe

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Why People Believe Invisible Agents Control the World

a short summation of pareidolia and overuse of the intentional stance (here dubbed "patternicity" and "agenticity", respectively)

social psychology cogsci religion article
may 2009 by banjaloupe

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Go gentle into that good night

well isn't mr ebert just the most beautiful author? its hard to handle his greatness

awesome amazing ebert article religion science death life quotes
may 2009 by banjaloupe

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Jonathan Haidt on the moral roots of liberals and conservatives

<3 emotion based morality

ted video morality emotion politics culture religion philosophy
april 2009 by banjaloupe

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Are You a Solar Deity?

the case of max muller and why we should trust in popper

rationality science article philosophy religion history
march 2009 by banjaloupe

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Battlestar Galactica Haggadah

out there in the fleet, battlestar moishe settles down for a seder meal

funny bsg passover religion judaism
march 2009 by banjaloupe

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Theos: Rescuing Darwin

an interesting (british) report on reconciling religion & evolution-- altho i doubt this would apply to the US as well, since the opposition is either liars (ID & wedge document) or would entirely resist the theological changes (YECs)

science religion evolution article research via:peterparslow
february 2009 by banjaloupe

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Lessons of Atheist Dictatorships

when someone trots out that old argument again (whose ideas killed more! as if it were a competition)

religion atheism politics war history reference article
january 2009 by banjaloupe

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Seeing and Believing

"Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là" (Laplace) -- coyne writes a long (but valuable article) on reconciling religion and science

science religion evolution creationism philosophy reviews article
january 2009 by banjaloupe

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How to Stump Anti-Abortionists With One Question

muahahaha...their reactions are priceless!