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Charles Peck Jr deposited Dawkin’s Selfish Gene Fallacy-False Premise -a “limited form of altruism” vs studies of compassion = Oxford Handbook of Compassion, Sprecher and Fehr: spirituality correlated with compassion, Battle of Somme 50,000 casualties, esprit de corps Chosin Res. in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoDawkins Fallacy – False Premise
The statement, “However, as we shall see, there are special circumstances in which a gene can achieve its own selfish goals best by fostering a limited form of altruism at the level of individual animals.” Is a fallacy/false premise Historically, compassion and self-less behaviors are not a “limited form of alt…[Read more] -
Charles Peck Jr deposited Dawkin’s Selfish Gene Fallacy-False Premise -a “limited form of altruism” vs studies of compassion = Oxford Handbook of Compassion, Sprecher and Fehr: spirituality correlated with compassion, Battle of Somme 50,000 casualties, esprit de corps Chosin Res. in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoDawkins Fallacy – False Premise
The statement, “However, as we shall see, there are special circumstances in which a gene can achieve its own selfish goals best by fostering a limited form of altruism at the level of individual animals.” Is a fallacy/false premise Historically, compassion and self-less behaviors are not a “limited form of alt…[Read more] -
Naomi Lawson Jacobs deposited Speaking With Us, Not For Us: Neurodiversity, Theology and Justice in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoTo belong in the Christian tradition, we must be able to contribute to it. Yet neurodivergent Christians have rarely been enabled to tell our own stories about ourselves as a vital part of God’s (neuro)diverse creation. In common with other autism research, academic theology is framed by pathologizing clinical paradigms of autism; neurodivergent p…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Sketch of Belonging, Belongingness, Groups and Identity – Baumeister, Tania Singer-empathy, Solomon Asch’s famous authority experiment, Hogg and Abrams, theory of subjective uncertainty reduction and meaning in group formation & Ideology of Enlightenment in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoAs the prominent social psychologists, Baumeister and Leary, point out, “Groups can share food, provide mates, and help care for offspring (including orphans). Some survival tasks such as hunting large animals or maintaining defensive vigilance against predatory enemies, are best accomplished by group cooperation…. Competition for limited res…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Sketch of Belonging, Belongingness, Groups and Identity – Baumeister, Tania Singer-empathy, Solomon Asch’s famous authority experiment, Hogg and Abrams, theory of subjective uncertainty reduction and meaning in group formation & Ideology of Enlightenment in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoAs the prominent social psychologists, Baumeister and Leary, point out, “Groups can share food, provide mates, and help care for offspring (including orphans). Some survival tasks such as hunting large animals or maintaining defensive vigilance against predatory enemies, are best accomplished by group cooperation…. Competition for limited res…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited La muerte es un producto de su imaginación: la anatomía de la falacia definitiva como un estereotipo desadaptativo, – Argumento materialista de que “la espiritualidad es irreal” – está más allá de la medida [Miller y Thompson] – Crítica respaldada por el in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoEl escapismo extremo de los psicólogos materialistas impulsado por el materialismo académico y la Precisa “Profecía de Mar” de Jung – tan Recientemente Probada como Verdadera. Pregunta de un periodista a Carl Jung: ¿Cree que, dentro de veinte años, a alguien le importará el espíritu de los símbolos, de lleno en la era de los viajes interpl…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Thunder Gods, – nearly fifty storm gods including: Zeus, Thor, Indra, story of Zeus + Greek goddess Hera harass Heracles + Jane Goodall’s Apes’ response w/ Challenge Displays to a Violent Thunder Storm! – What We Can Learn From Myths about Human Mind in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoHammering, loud peals of thunder had startled me into consciousness. As a young child of six, the storm had roused me from the comfortable oblivion of my deep sleep. The booming rolls of thunder had woken my father as well. His head peered from behind the door. Finding me awake, we went onto the porch of our summer cottage, which was perched high…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Different Theories on Various Functions of Religions: Predisposition to Religious Beliefs – 1. Fear of the Unknown (and death). 2. Anthropomorphism – Theory of MInd – Xenophanes to Hume, 3. Social Functionalism -meaning system for/of social relationshiips in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoFunctions of Religion
1. Fear of the unknown Fear of the unknown is a popular theory. The philosopher David Hume, the anthropologist Malinowski, and Einstein all emphasize the role of anxiety – or fear.
2. Anthropomorphism, the attribution of human characteristics or behavior to a god, animal, or object, is another favorite theory. Xenophanes (…[Read more] -
Charles Peck Jr deposited धर्म, कन्फ्यूशीवाद, कपवा मानसिकता बनाम भौतिकवाद विचारधारा के रूप में “समूहों (या समुदायों) का कोई मनोविज्ञान नहीं है” (ऑलपोर्ट 1927) गीर्ट्ज़ की धर्म की परिभाषा में कोई समुदाय/सामाजिक चेतना नहीं है + अधूरा सामाजिक संज्ञानात्मक सिद्धांत (उद्देश्यों को दरकि in the group
Religious Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoलगभग एक सौ वर्षों से, भौतिकवादियों ने तर्क दिया है कि मानव चेतना मस्तिष्क में न्यूरॉन्स की सक्रियता तक ही सीमित है और इसलिए कोई सामाजिक चेतना नहीं हो सकती है। यह एक बेतुका तर्क है. इस तथ्य से कि मस्तिष्क में न्यूरॉन्स सक्रिय होते हैं, इसका मतलब यह नहीं है कि कोई सामाजिक चेतना नहीं है।
आदेश के बिंदु के रूप में मैं इस बात पर प्र…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Body-Mind-Spirit Paradigm – Genetic Emotion-Charged Unconscious Spiritual Symbols!: Tukudika Native Americans, Hawaiian Ho’omana religion, Filipino Kapwa (shared-identity)-Ginhawa, Modern Medicine – Dr. Koenig + Prism Paradigm Symbolic Energy-Filter model in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoAs a theoretical paradigm is a very natural and common-sense, idea-model – an idea or paradigm of a human being that is easily grasped model-idea. It is not surprisingly, then, that the Body-Mind-Spirit Paradigm appeared very early in human history.
The Ho’omana religion actually recognizes three different types or levels of “spirit,” which…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited Edgar Cayce “Sleeping Prophet” 1877 – 1945 – Famous Documented Psychic & Spiritual Healer-Leader! “The spirit is life. The mind is the builder. The physical is the result.” – w/ preamble “Spirituality is a natural human predisposition. K Adams & Hyde in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoPerhaps the most incredible case Edgar Cayce ever encountered was the case of the Dietrich child. In fact, because newspapers did publish the remarkable story of the Dietrich child, Edgar Cayce immediately became a sensation. In 1902, Cayce had just begun to gain a reputation as a healer. Aimee Dietrich was a six-year-old child who had become…[Read more]
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Charles Peck Jr deposited The Deeper Dimension of Einstein, Pargament, Wong – Awareness, Orientation + Attention – Klinger and neuroscience ” Albert Einstein: “t would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense!” in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoKenneth Pargament vigorously argues that, “There is a deeper dimension to our problems. Illness, accident, interpersonal conflicts, divorce, layoffs, and death are more than “significant life events.” They raise profound and disturbing questions about our place and purpose in the world, they point to the limits of and underscore our finitude.” (p.…[Read more]
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fengjun started the topic Submit your Proposal to The 6 th International Conference on Cognitive Poetics in the discussion
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoThe 6 th International Conference on Cognitive Poetics
As we enter the third decade of the 21st century, tremendous changes have been found in both cognitive science and the study of literature. To explore the potential effects of cognitive science on the study of literature, Cognitive Poetics Association Affiliated to CCLA (Chinese Comparative…[Read more] - Load More