Tag Archives: psychology

Jordan Peterson’s Twelve Rules: #12) Pet a cat when you encounter one on the street

Posted on 8 November, 2019 by lettersquash

This is the last post in my review of a talk by Jordan Peterson on his 12 Rules for Life. The relevant section in the video begins here. The review of this section won’t take long, and I hardly even … Continue reading →

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Me and Jordan Peterson on the Couch

Posted on 2 August, 2019 by lettersquash

Well, this looks like being a lot more fun than I expected. I said a while back that I had been debunking people who were almost unknown, and perhaps ought to take on some high profile disseminators of misinformation. I … Continue reading →

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A Naturalistic Explanation of Suffering

Posted on 17 March, 2018 by lettersquash

Last time, I noted something of a gap in the results of internet searches on the origin of suffering. I didn’t see any naturalistic explanations, at least in the first page, just supernatural ones and the odd bit of anthropocentric … Continue reading →

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Humanity Waking Up: origins of religion

Posted on 14 February, 2014 by lettersquash

For some time I’ve been interested in religion as a natural phenomenon, how it might have developed in early human cultures, what evolutionary processes might be involved, and so on. I wrote a review here of Breaking the Spell, by … Continue reading →

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The Secret: shhhhh, pass it on.

Posted on 29 October, 2008 by lettersquash

I’m having another run-in with believers in the so-called ‘Law of Attraction’ at Steve Pavlina’s Personal Development for Smart People forum (now closed, Dec 2011 – I wonder why that is). Someone posted to share their unease about it, and I (as … Continue reading →

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Hello world!: (by) a useless article

Posted on 24 September, 2008 by lettersquash

Well, not exactly “Hello World!”, since I’ve been here for forty-seven years already. I thought long and hard about this blog’s name and kept trying out different wordpress.com domains to see whether they’d been taken or not. I’m shocked there are so … Continue reading →

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