I'm thinking mostly about focus of study. Looking at the way ppl think culturally & the way they think scientifically is very different.
That's fine too. Its for the pure interest of seeing how differently people perceive things and the connections they make.
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We can tell ppl they shouldn't make these connections & that they don't work but ultimately what's interesting is that they do & why they do
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Sure, but you can only understand that if you formulate the best hyp. It is the growth of knowl. that is interest. Not 1 part of the process
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I don't think you can tell people what they should find interesting. It won't change what they actually do find interesting.
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Its way more important whether people are right or wrong to think what they do but for me the interest is in understanding how they think.
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This is why I focus on how women thought about religion, the connections they made & use they made of it even tho God seems not to exist
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Yes, but you still want to know if what you are thinking about that topic resembles anything real. So, you need to test-reject-accept hypo.
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I do, yes, but even tho I think God is not real, I've still spent 20 years looking at how people think about God because that is interesting
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Ok, but only one possible conclusion right? Different people spin different hypotheses. Fun fact and testament to human ingenuity. No more.
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The conclusion is that different people spin different hypotheses & other ppl found them interesting to consider & agree or disagree with.
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Have a lot of fun trying to pin down John Milton's Christianity. Many hypotheses but we'll never know & the opinions are what's interesting.
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If we cld invent a search engine for people's lives, we could search an idea of his & get hits for when & where he heard it throughout life
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We could draw diagrams of all his most strongly-held beliefs & their origins & divide his Christian premises into percentages.
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There'd be a right answer. We can't & I wouldn't be interested if we could. The 'ooh' moments are making connections whether he did or not.
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