@sapinker I'd love it if there was actually a deity/prophet called Greek Phil. That would be perfect.
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@sapinker Aristotle himself said that affluence was an essential precursor to the luxury of philosophical thinking.@GodFreeWorldThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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a new volume fleshes out aspects of this ques
@sapinker . it includes an insightful essay by Charles Taylor.pic.twitter.com/dHRcdRbj3f
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@sapinker Maybe the caloric intake hypothesis explains the current correlation between obesity and atheism.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I am skeptical. But take a look.... "Wealth may have driven the rise of today’s religions" http://news.sciencemag.org/biology/2014/12/wealth-may-have-driven-rise-today-s-religions … Via
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@sapinker interesting.Yet i suspect a hen-and-egg problem here:does religion transform the way ppl are thinking,or is it just a reflection?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker@RajNambisan But when the Vedas were written? Or is this predetermined conclusion reached thru' clever narrative?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker The perfect hypothesis: highly media-worthy and completely untestable.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker This is essentially the Jared Diamonds theory, more cow more ability. I see a lot of straw men being created by this ongoing crapThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker 20000 kcal/person/day = threshold for modern religions to rise. But how much energy do we need to store for them to disappear?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker@puzzlevardy interesting for RE and Sociology of Religion.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Interesting idea. It sure was nice of the gods to evolve right when people were ready for the change.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker a passing thought on the time scale offered - perhaps a correlation with the first dispersion of the israelites.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker a distinction should be made between philosophy (western or eastern) and the hebrew prophets - servants of the living God;exodus.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker The contemporaneity here is a little suspect. Next, someone will suggest a climate connection.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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