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Post-semester reading

I spent my day working on my final term paper for class, managing a dismal 2.5 pages of the 15 I have to write. They are a fairly well-formed 2.5 pages, consisting of my core argument and introduction, but nonetheless the bulk of the… Continue Reading “Post-semester reading”

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Reading rooms.

Want a little glimpse of the inside of our home? (Hint: that’s not our home in the photo above). For a real glimpse – I am offering a peek into our personal library on Library Thing  – a project Brian has been working on… Continue Reading “Reading rooms.”

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Book Notes: The Belief Instinct

As we’ve seen throughout this book, our private experiences generated by thinking about our individual purpose, the meaning of life, the afterlife, why bad things happen to good people, and so on, are highly seductive, emotionally appealing, and intuitively convincing — in most cases… Continue Reading “Book Notes: The Belief Instinct”

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Brief notes on God.

(Some disjointed thoughts from reading The Belief Instinct, and Varieties of Religious Experience. Themes I have thought very much about in the past several years of my life and would like to return to in a better essay eventually). It seems to me that… Continue Reading “Brief notes on God.”

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Book Notes: The Case for Books

Whatever the future may be, it will be digital. The present is a time of transition, when printed and digital modes of communication coexist and new technology soon becomes obsolete. Already we are witnessing the disappearance of familiar objects: the typewriter, now consigned to… Continue Reading “Book Notes: The Case for Books”

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