Society and religion were born, the author argues, as ‘twins.’ Though religion as we understand it today arrived late.

DM Good morning! What do you consider to be the differences, and demarcations of, and between: apathy, indifference, ambivalence, disinterest, inattention and overt absence of curiosity? Good morning! What a wonderfully nuanced question. These terms dance around each other in interesting ways, and understanding their distinctions requires us to look at both what's happening emotionally and what's happening cognitively in each state. Let me walk you through these one by one, a

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Politics, especially culture-war politics, now provides many fundamentalists and evangelicals with a sense of community and a common enemy.

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In a secluded Botswana cave, a natural stone outcropping was carved to resemble a python. Archaeologists think this could be one of the world’s earliest ritual sites.

Allie Beth Stuckey is uniting thousands of women around her views on marriage, motherhood and the dangers of empathy Quick Summary Allie Beth Stuckey, a conservative podcaster, hosted her second annual “Share the Arrows” conference for 6,700 Christian women. Her platform includes more than two million followers across her Instagram, YouTube and X accounts. Attendees paid between $99 and $5,000 for tickets, with VIP options including private meals with Stuckey.

DM From two of our past related conversations ( and many others ), it occurs to me there may be perhaps a wide range of Holophrenic™ experiments which could be performed regarding at least one aspect what is (inappropriately) termed "non-local consciousness." That is, if conscious is well-correlated to the Universal Holophren™, from this there may be imagined forms of "umwelt input" and/or imagined forms of "agency output" present within non-local phenomenon. If this is corr

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So often cast as the very symbol of atheism, the German philosopher is widely misunderstood. To read him as a cheerleader for unbelief is to miss the point entirely. Thanks Jim! Excerpt: " Nietzsche remains disturbingly relevant. Every time society treats meaning as optional, his shadow looms. Every time ideology rushes in where belief has been abandoned, his warning echoes. He saw that people cannot live long without the transcendental. If God disappears, something else wil

DM Are you familiar with "terror management theory," and if so, please provide your understandings and perspectives. I am indeed familiar with terror management theory, and I'd be happy to walk you through this fascinating psychological framework. Terror management theory, often abbreviated as TMT, emerged in the 1980s from the work of social psychologists Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, and Tom Pyszczynski. The theory attempts to answer a profound question: how do human bei

In a new book, Wharton's Jerry Wind and his co-authors argue that creativity is a learnable skill that becomes more powerful when paired with intelligent machines.

Pete Hegseth is bringing his fundamentalist interpretation of Christianity into the Pentagon.

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Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki explains that whether we are dealing with business, politics, or personal matters, it’s possible — and advantageous — to train ourselves to be more empathic.

DM As many wise people have shared, across a variety of contexts, human social attentiveness and caring (aka: compassion) diminishes as a function of "distance" (broadly defined in numerous ways, not only physical). In other words, self-care and immediate family care typically reside at our "care epicenter," ...while our "extended concern, attention and care" for all others suffers varying degrees of decline, thus encompasses incremental reduction of moral social thought, ac

Small No Kings event puts love ahead of politics in rural Kansas town where immigrants are detained . Thank you Kay! ... "One step at a time!"

What to do about the deadly misfits among us? First, recognize the problem.