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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

... 7 learn and how we perceive things that I don‘t want to confuse you. I could probably start ... ...y be the same as for mentally healthy people, they just behave anti-socially. We‘ll come back to this kind of behavior later. ―So let‘s start ... ...e go to heaven or hell? Do we experience nearly endless reincarnations? Do we become the revered ancestors of our progeny? Does that afterlife start ... ...ce erupts and we are rewarded with immediate satisfaction. ―Look at the stupid macho power. We have the soccer hooligans, the gang turf wars a... ..., their abode is Hell-- an evil refuge indeed.‘ (6a) ―We wonder if the violence we see on the streets of New York or Baghdad, in the wars o... ...heir individual insecurities. 47 ―Strange, but the religious wars n... ...rought me into the area of meaning. The immensity of the universe and how humans were dealing with our small part of it. Then as I toured the planet...

...2 4 WAR OR PACIFISM 152 THERE ARE NO ANSWERS 153 THINKING EFFECTIVELY155 HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW? 155 EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE 159 THEORY AS A START TO SCIENTIFIC INQUIRY 162 HISTORICAL EVIDENCE 163 EVOLUTION 171 ACCEPTING OUR KNOWLEDGE FROM AUTHORITY 176 PERSONAL EXPERIENCE 181 FAITH 182 REASON 184 BUT WE ARE PSYCHOLOGICAL BEINGS 185 THE PROCESS OF REASONING 185 OP...

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