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Hey huckelberry, I think you may find this interesting when it comes to the subject of language relativism: https://neurosciencenews.com/color-perception-language-21650/ Hi honorentheos, when I a made the comment above about language being invented to fit new ideas styles or awareness it did cross ...

Gadianton' some years ago I read a book called Montaillou.It is a social description of life in a early 14th century village in southern France. It is based upon detailed records of interviews made by the inquisition which was hunting Catharism. I found striking the comments of a shepherd there who...

Gadianton, some years ago I read a book called Montaillou. It is a social description of life in an early 14th century village in southern France. It is based upon detailed records made by the inquisition which was hunting Catharism. I found striking the comments of a shepherd there who clearly was ...

Looking at some notes I need to follow up on but haven't: not too long ago I believe I discovered that the concept of "God" in the abstract, as a placeholder by which to say things like (as you mention in your OP) "most people believe in God (or a supreme being)" didn't exist until the 17th century...

I'm sure people from long ago would have been able to express sufficiently what they wanted to express. Why wouldn't they have been able to? It's just that what they want to express is all determined by the boundaries of the language at that time. You can't want to express something that isn't thin...

Most people feel this way about the god they worship, possibly to the same degree they, themselves, feel misunderstood. By virtue of being a social animal, it is in our best interest survival-wise to nurture life by loving and respecting our neighbors, etc. Many species besides humans exhibit this ...

The reason I've been thinking about this is because of how much fan fiction seems to be underwriting the various "holy" books and religious ideas generally. The moment in your life when you first encounter the idea of "god" you are immediately required to fill in a crap ton of missing details if yo...

If missions don't break us, having lots of babies really fast and young does. I've been looking at my teenage journals, and wow was I strong! I was assertive, insightful. I was shrewd about the church and had a very nuanced view of it and the gospel. What happened to me between then and my thirties...

Yeah, and I think this is why we've often heard, "The book is better than the movie" or why people are so often disappointed by a movie not being faithful to the source material. Maybe it is faithful, just not interpreted the same way you did. If you're making up half the story in your imagination,...

This is what happens when people are brainwashed into a strong persecution complex. You get white men saying the uncensored N-word to back up their “prophet’s” personal vendetta against the word Mormon: https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/1bq3r5n/allegations_have_come_out_of_hill_afb_in_utah...