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		<title>Why People Believe Weird Things (book review)</title>
		<link>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2008/08/17/why-people-believe-weird-things/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Aug 2008 06:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of our Time (2nd ed. 2002) by Michael Shermer Cryptohedonological book rating: A “Science, measured against reality,” as Einstein remarked, “is primitive and childlike &#8212; and yet it is the most precious thing we have.” Science is the tool we, as humans, use to test [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Paradox of Rationally Defending Irrationality</title>
		<link>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2008/06/02/the-paradox-of-rationally-defending-irrationality/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 01:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an essay I wrote, which has been published in the 2008 edition of Moebius, the Cal Poly Liberal Arts literary journal. The theme of the issue is &#8220;the dumbing down of America,&#8221; a continuation of 2007s theme: &#8220;controversy.&#8221; The journal will soon be available online, but here is my essay close to as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mistakingly insulting SLO students</title>
		<link>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2008/01/14/mistakingly-insulting-slo-students/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:05:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cryptohedonologist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I were a mean-spirited atheist (I&#8217;m not, although I am an atheist) with a passive aggressive streak AND lived in San Luis Obispo (aka â€œSLOâ€) AND wanted to spite the student body at the local university, I might create a parody religious website called www.everyslostudent.com (get it, â€œevery SLO studentâ€ &#8212; ha ha, chortles [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bottled water is a fraud</title>
		<link>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2007/08/02/bottled-water-is-a-fraud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Aug 2007 01:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cryptohedonologist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a recent episode of the show Democracy Now, they reported Pepsi bowed to the demands of activists and made a rather embarrassing admission: the source for their Aquafina bottled water is city tap water! Now WHO&#8217;S tap water is a different question &#8212; probably local to the individual bottling plants, but this is still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teleology (long post warning)</title>
		<link>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2007/07/27/teleology-long-post-warning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 05:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cryptohedonologist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teleological arguments for the existence of god are my favorite theological debates. Not because I agree with them in how they are typically applied. And not because they are good logical arguments as usually outlined. Rather, amongst all the approaches to â€œproveâ€ or explain godâ€™s existence, teleological arguments 1) have a hint of evidence-based thinking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free will update</title>
		<link>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2007/07/17/free-will-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jul 2007 13:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cryptohedonologist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would like to thank Thomas Clark of the Center for Naturalism and author of Encountering Naturalism: A Worldview and Its Uses for the email below regarding my (naive and physics-centeric)]]></description>
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		<title>Free will</title>
		<link>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2007/07/14/free-will/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jul 2007 18:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cryptohedonologist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was an interesting interaction that occurred recently on a podcast called Faith and Freethought (FF). The host, Richard Spencer was discussing the book The God Part of the Brain with author Matthew Alper, when around 40 minutes into the show I found myself very suddenly challenged intellectually by an exchange they had. FF is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pascal&#8217;s Wager; Blaise should have known better</title>
		<link>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2007/06/27/pascals-wager-blaise-should-have-known-better/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jun 2007 02:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cryptohedonologist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pascal&#8217;s Wager is usually stated something like this (from http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/theism/wager.html): If you erroneously believe in God, you lose nothing (assuming that death is the absolute end), whereas if you correctly believe in God, you gain everything (eternal bliss). But if you correctly disbelieve in God, you gain nothing (death ends all), whereas if you erroneously [...]]]></description>
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		<title>god is not Great (book review)</title>
		<link>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2007/06/02/god-is-not-great-review/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2007/06/02/god-is-not-great-review/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cryptohedonologist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cryptohedonological book rating: A- However, christopher hitchens is Great (at being thought provoking in all the right ways). Of the so-called &#8220;three musketeers&#8221; of the neo-atheist movement, Hitchens challenges me the most. Richard Dawkins speaks directly to me. I understand his position perfectly and, while I find myself disagreeing with the occasional opinion or aside, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McGrath v. Dawkins</title>
		<link>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2007/06/01/mcgrath-v-dawkins/</link>
		<comments>http://www.cryptohedonology.com/2007/06/01/mcgrath-v-dawkins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2007 04:07:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cryptohedonologist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A wonderful debate between Richard Dawkins and Alister McGrath (Google video, 1 hr 10 min), which is an outtake from Dawkins&#8217; The Root of All Evil. Each side (Christianity vs. atheism) is presented essentially as intelligently as humanly possible &#8212; and makes for some epic, yet civilized verbal battles. I come down firmly in the [...]]]></description>
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