MSS - Dublin, 5 June - Part 8 - the psychology of religion and prayer

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[SinnFein4ever]

9:30-9:50

That's actually a very good hypothesis.

It would explain children's suseptability to peer-pressure about making even the most trival of choices (what kind of clothing to wear, what kind of music to listen to...ect).

As well as why even as adults, most people never question the religous/political beliefs which they were raised with.

[bogdan78pop]

J. Anderson Thomson Jr., M.D. Why We Believe In God(s): A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith

[rictusgate]

This tendency to worship or honor everything that a certain person we respect does or says is the foundation of religion. As a musician I've had people tell me that the band I was in could record a fart and he'd still love it - I was insulted, and I told them they should be ashamed and fell stupid for insulting their own and my intelligence. This tendency needs tempering - in a great and drastic way, I might add. It is no better than handing your brain off to a pastor on Sunday morning.

[Domzdream]

-psychology there. When I read Dawkin's 'The Selfish Gene', it really opened my mind to all these questions.

Anyone who hasn't read this book should read it! It answers a ridiculous amount of questions in all sorts of aspects.

[Domzdream]

Speaking of the pack mentality and hero worship- there is certainly the advantage of that. Firstly. Generally people lazy. None of us want the responsibility of having to lead. Because when something goes wrong, the leader is usually responsible for the blunder and is blamed for bad leader ship. The advantage of that is an easier life style, with money and women (or men). A better assurance of survival and spreading of the gene in a better environment.

There is definitely an interesting psy-

[luccaskunk]

what did Laurie Brown say her YouTube channel was?

[TAz69x]

When you were recording with those cameras, did you also write to their HD's, dpr?

Either of their memories would suffice for a Part 9 if you did.

[warriorchristian1994]

@emancoy

Yes, I'm getting a lot of this sort of response on the term telepathic. But would you find it as outrageous if I talked about feeling the presence of God and Jesus in your heart? Somehow just phrasing it with that word is taken as being more ridiculous, even by other Christians! So, I will stick by my guns on this.

[emancoy]

@warriorchristian1994 you walked into the MSS thinking your prepared, what you should have done is examined what the Kalam argument was closer, that you might actually realize that it was a flawed argument and if you knew that you would have not use it at all.

But why do you have to say TELEPATHIC? that part is shockingly funny

[Numinous123]

@warriorchristian1994

Nope. You were laughed off because you were being ridiculous.