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People often use contradictory logic to excuse immoral acts.75

Making excuses for infidelity

When people are bound and determined to engage in an affair some interesting phenomena occur. In cases where they see nothing wrong with adultery, the act is seen ‘normal’. In cases where they know...

2 comments    love life family
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Dr. Larry P. Arnn, Nominalism, and Contemporary Cognitive Dissonance

This is a discussion of how academic intellectualism, in a modern democracy, can fail to come to grips with a more profound realty.  Ironically or otherwise, the highly educated or, supposedly, the...

2 comments    obama government democracy
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The Law Of Attraction Is Really A Cover For Cognitive Dissonance?

First let’s begin by describing what is a cognitive dissonance? A cognitive dissonance is the feeling of uncomfortable tension which comes from holding two conflicting thoughts in the mind at the same...

0 comments    law of attraction alyse williams
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OBE: Outcome Based Education, Cult of Death of New Age and the Columbine High School massacre

Outcome Based Education (OBE) is under attack both in the U.S. and Europe for promoting illiteracy and other scholastic deficiencies. William Spady, a sociologist, is the self-proclaimed father of OBE. He...

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Hard Problems, Binding Problems, and the Perceiving Brain

Hard Problems, Binding Problems, and the Perceiving Brain       “We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.”...

0 comments    science reality consciousness
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If You Love Your Abuser, You May Have Stockholm Syndrome

Have you ever wondered why someone stays in a bad relationship? Have you ever wondered why a victim that has been kidnapped stays with the perpetrator long after the victim had many opportunities to leave? ...

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the primitive functions: we are all robots

i am a robot. you are a robot. we are all robots. imagine. a species of auto driven, doubtless, hesitantless, nonjudgmental beings wired purely by physical demands. imagine the ease in tasks and requirements....

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