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Tag Archives: Kylie’s Heel
Whose Afterlife Matters?
Try this thought experiment:
Suppose you knew that, although you yourself would live a normal life span, the earth would be completely destroyed thirty days after your death in a collision with a giant asteroid. How would this knowledge affect your attitudes during the remainder of your life?
That’s what the author of a new book suggests we do. Death and the Afterlife (Oxford) by … Read more
Posted in A Rational Woman
Tagged afterlife, apocalypse, atheism, book review, death, Death and the Afterlife, Kylie's Heel, philosophy, Samuel Scheffler
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When Religion Probably Doesn’t Help
“A Rational Woman” is trying something a little different today for the blog. Here are two questions (that I made up to get us started).
Dear Rational Woman:
Q: I read a study some time back that young people who are religious wear seat belts more often than the non-religious, smoke and drink less, eat better, and don’t commit as many crimes. The conclusion of … Read more
Posted in A Rational Woman
Tagged a rational woman, atheism, human development, Kylie's Heel, prayer, Q&A, religion, susan k. perry
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3 Curmudgeonly Insights into the Good Life
I’ve experienced the pull of positive psychology since it was called humanistic psychology, back in the 1970s or before. Newly re-packaged, with a lot of recent research backing up what to me seems, by now, like common sense, this field aims to turn self-help into a science.
You want to be happy, or happier, or live a better life? Fine, here’s what you need to … Read more
Posted in A Rational Woman
Tagged bucket list, happiness, humanism, Kylie's Heel, meaningfulness, positive psychology, reality, small talk
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