Andrew Sullivan's Blog, page 2664
August 8, 2010
The Medical Labels Bias
Dan Ariely recently did some research on it:
What I think this means (and we need more research on this) is
giving individuals a disorder-label causes others viewing them to
the blame on the disorder and not on the person. Think for
about a parent who is told that their kid has ADHD – would this
blame themselves less than if they were told that their kid is
active difficult kid?I think the answer is yes, and maybe this is oneof the reasons that we as a society...
What About The Shrimp?
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A Poem For Sunday
"Cancer" by Stanley Plumly.
An excerpt:
Now to see what wasn't seen before:
the old loved landscape fading from the window,
the druid soul within the dying tree,
the depth of blue coloring the cornflower,
the birthday-ribbon river of a road,
and the young man who resembles you
opening a door in the half-built house
you helped your father build,
saying, in your voice, come forth.
The full poem is here.
Cancer - Soul music - Health - Conditions and Diseases - Support...
God And Quantum Physics, Ctd
A reader writes:
Not to defend Deepak Chopra, but Michael Shermer is just plain wrong when he asserts that Quantum Mechanics is not relevant to ordinary life and the notion of a objective, Newtonian reality. I suggest you read this very astute article on the work of Anton Zeilinger, one of the leading quantum physicists of our time. He explains how the old model of QM has been broken by experimental results, and that it really does imply that objective reality can no longer be considered...
The Cordoba Mosque - And Conservatism, Ctd
I have been following the manufactured mosque controversy but not until
night was the depth of its penetration so apparent to me.My wife and I went out to dinner with ten of our neighbors. Eight of ourgroup identify strongly with the current mold of the Republican party. Icannot call them conservatives although that is assuredly how they woulddescribe themselves. But their supple willingness to swallow the dyspepticparanoia fed them by Palin, Gingrich, Cheney and their...
Spiritual But Not Religious [SBNR]
Defining spirituality can be "like shoveling fog" but the Immanent Frame examines a resurgent group: the Spiritual But Not Religious. Is the religious right the cause?
The extent to which eschewing traditional religious teachings
practices has become "cool" in the present era is in part a legacy
the 1960s (when being countercultural became oddly de rigueur
certain circles), as well as a disorganized but palpable
against the moral absolutism of the religious Right...How...
The Cordoba Mosque, Ctd
A reader writes:
Gingrich seems determined to dragSaudi intolerance into the debate over the Cordoba Center. I'll bite. Three years ago, I was studying in Israel and took a trip to Beirut tosee the city for myself. There I encountered the Magen AvrahamSynogogue in Wadi Abu Jamil, a neighborhood that used to be the JewishQuarter in Beirut. The synagogue was dilapidated and decrepit. Plantsgrew through the floor and the building looked as if it were about tofall apart.
Recently, with...
Religion In Science Fiction
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The Evolutionary Case Against Monogamy, Ctd
Mute the power-of-biology stuff ... If our current sexual behavior
is culturally flexible, as you rightly note, it cannot also be
"powerless against our prehistoric predilections." To ask, "If the
nuclear triad is so deeply embedded in our nature, why are fewer and
fewer of us choosing to live that way?" makes as little sense as to ask
why, if meat-eating and hunting marked our past, more and more of us
are choosing to do neither now.
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