by VorJack
… to these books about self-help. Self-help is a multi billion dollar industry in America, selling millions of books. Here are a few that take a look at the movement from the outside.
Legacy of the Occult
Pullquote: ”The leaders in [New Thought] have had an intuitive belief in the all-saving power of healthy-minded [...]
It’s said that we make our own luck. I believe that, at least most of the time. We can’t always control our circumstances, but we don’t have to have our circumstances control us. (Do you like that? Just call me Pastor Florien.)
Richard Wiseman did a study on “lucky” & “unlucky” people. I found his analysis [...]
by Jesse Galef –
Overcoming personal bias can be one of the most difficult tasks in searching for the truth. The particular experiences and influences in our lives are – to a large degree – out of our control and yet they play a huge role in shaping our beliefs. And it’s not [...]
by Jesse Galef
Why are dirty underwear, mutant clover, and amputated mammal appendages associated with good fortune? How did humans develop our “lucky” rituals? And why are they usually gross when you think about them? I hope to address two of these three questions, read on to find out which.
A lucky charm I made [...]
by Jesse Galef
I’m always astounded at how poor data-gathering devices we humans are. Forget all the hallucinations and misinterpretations, we simply don’t notice or retain most of what happens around us. Here’s a great demonstration (via Richard Wiseman’s blog)
I was pretty pathetic. How did you all do?
This is one of the reasons we developed [...]
by Jesse Galef
Can you tell the difference between Aliens and Demons? If you were visited in the night by an intelligent, non-human entity, could you really distinguish between them? (In a sidenote I’m not addressing right now, how would you know the voice in your head is God and not a tricky demon? How do [...]
Guest Post by Vincent Skolny
It sort of hit my wife and me suddenly late in our process of deconverting. Every Christian rejects something (or a lot of things) in the Bible. Particular things. Things about which the Bible is very clear. It turns out, there’s no other choice.
The Bible contains a lot of paradoxical statements, conflicting [...]
Here’s the fraudulent, unfaithful Todd Bentley using painfully obvious cold-reading techniques:
It’s sad that people fall for that — they think God is telling him things when he’s just using the same old tricks that have been used by frauds and magicians for centuries.
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Brian: Not quite sure what you’re getting at here. Rebuking religion sounds good though. Fooling Ourselves
John C: No such thing as a ’sky God’, Christ didn’t model that actually quite the opposite. And... Fooling Ourselves
Olaf: Yes we will eventually cure cancer, but it might take another few... Humans Could Regenerate Tissue Like Newts By Switching Off a Single Gene Brian: I would say it’s a similar error but not of the same magnitude. Putting your faith in science isn’t the same... Fooling Ourselves
vern: What changed your mind. Former Christian Apologizes for Being Such a Huge Shit Head for all Those Years
Elemenope: You’re missing my point. I’m not saying it is important for the functioning of science for people to... Fooling Ourselves Brian: Whether a layperson understands the scientific process or not is irrelevant. It would be nice but it’s beside the... Fooling Ourselves Elemenope: While I agree that they are distinct when one pays attention, I somehow doubt that most people who are non-scientists... Fooling Ourselves
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