A while ago I argued that I thought "Man created God" was a much better explanation for the origins of divinity than "God created Man" was for ours. But I mostly presented rhetorical, circumstantial evidence. "Doesn't it seem more like" is fine for discussion but it's observational and retrospective which isn't as strong as it could be.

This paper ( Read more... )

Humans are storytelling creatures. For example this journal, where I've written stories for our mutual benefit. Histories and narratives are the medium with which we share information, from idle gossip to lessons of basic survival. Even science and math classes are taught with storytelling elements: Newton's experiments with physics, Linnaeus ( Read more... )

Psych student killingmoon took the Myers-Briggs type indicator test recently and got an INTJ, which was my rating when I took the test a few years ago. Her write-up does not contain much that I can find fault with ( Read more... )

A while ago I read a psychology paper* about why cults are appealing and addictive. (I wish I could find the link again. My google-fu is weak today.) The paper explained that people have an intense need to be social. As Joe Rogan explains "For punishment in prison you get taken away from rapists and child molesters. If being social wasn't such ( Read more... )