You are the second person in a week or so who has mentioned that book. I'm familiar with the title and it covers. Wish I would have bought it back then instead of now at $40.00 for hardcover copy
Dennett’s attitude towards religion
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Define many.
2. Jewish identity and belief
Religion is not central to the lives of most U.S. Jews. Even Jews by religion are much less likely than Christian adults to consider religion to be very
www.pewresearch.org
Three-quarters of U.S. Jews say they believe in God or some spiritual force in the universe, including 26% who say they believe in “God as described in the Bible” and about twice as many (50%) who believe in some other spiritual force.
If you’re God then, could you please fix one thing that has bugged me for years? Could you reinstate the original formula for Dr. Pepper?
Oh, and get rid of the Designated Hitter.
Yes, but he let me make my own mind up. I am the only one in my family (immediate-wife, kids), who is not a believer. Everybody ought to be able to make their own mind up. I still sing Christmas carols because that is what my kids want--even now. Still put on Christmas music and all that because my belief shouldn't ruin their enjoyment. No skin off my back.
I agree everyone should freely get to choose to believe in a religion or not. Interestingly, my Dad is also the only one who isn’t a Christian in my family. That sucks you still have to sing Christmas carols. It’s one of the best selling points for atheism in my opinion.
"Happy Wife, happy life."
and when my kids are really little, they wanted me join in. And they loved Bing, Rosemary Clooney, etc carols.
I have probably read the new testament cover to cover 4 to 5 times. It didn't make sense to me when I was 12, it makes less sense now, for many different reasons-nothing particularly relevant to this conversation.
Since it sort of ties in with church as a way of bringing people together, David Brooks wrote a column about the nuclear family being a mistake. The story is behind a paywall, somehow I read it a month ago.
The general idea is that large extended families are better. Having grandparents, cousins, aunts, and uncles nearby is great. We have sold the nuclear family as the solution and it isn't.
I think there might be something to it. I remember reading about Roseto, PA. It was an Italian community with huge extended families. And there was zero heart disease. The studies concluded it was the closeness of the people.
I don't know how to put the genie back in the bottle, but I think it would be a good idea.
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The general idea is that large extended families are better. Having grandparents, cousins, aunts, and uncles nearby is great. We have sold the nuclear family as the solution and it isn't.
I think there might be something to it. I remember reading about Roseto, PA. It was an Italian community with huge extended families. And there was zero heart disease. The studies concluded it was the closeness of the people.
I don't know how to put the genie back in the bottle, but I think it would be a good idea.
The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake
The family structure we’ve held up as the cultural ideal for the past half century has been a catastrophe for many. It’s time to figure out better ways to live together.
The general idea is that large extended families are better. Having grandparents, cousins, aunts, and uncles nearby is great. We have sold the nuclear family as the solution and it isn't.
I think there might be something to it. I remember reading about Roseto, PA. It was an Italian community with huge extended families. And there was zero heart disease. The studies concluded it was the closeness of the people.
I don't know how to put the genie back in the bottle, but I think it would be a good idea.
The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake
The family structure we’ve held up as the cultural ideal for the past half century has been a catastrophe for many. It’s time to figure out better ways to live together.
You know Kody Brown hates all of his sister wives. All of em. And guess what. They hate him.Since it sort of ties in with church as a way of bringing people together, David Brooks wrote a column about the nuclear family being a mistake. The story is behind a paywall, somehow I read it a month ago.
The general idea is that large extended families are better. Having grandparents, cousins, aunts, and uncles nearby is great. We have sold the nuclear family as the solution and it isn't.
I think there might be something to it. I remember reading about Roseto, PA. It was an Italian community with huge extended families. And there was zero heart disease. The studies concluded it was the closeness of the people.
I don't know how to put the genie back in the bottle, but I think it would be a good idea.
The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake
The family structure we’ve held up as the cultural ideal for the past half century has been a catastrophe for many. It’s time to figure out better ways to live together.
Interesting article. And you’re probably right re extended families but if you see one now gathered for anything other than a holiday it almost looks anachronistic.
Times have changed. We value other stuff. As the author notes. And as you write the genie can’t go back. I think of my own daughter. I tell her all the time you’re going away to school. You have no choice. And stay away. Stl sucks. Live in Florida. New York. La. Whatever.
And life is expensive. Crazy expensive at the moment. Families need two incomes. So people are busier. Mom ain’t home making cupcakes for aunt martha. And that doesn’t even speak to kids. Academy kids now play in leagues that encompass multiple states. Practice all the time. Not pickup. Organized shit. There’s just no free time
We devalued extended family time for nuclear family time and needs.
And none of the foregoing speaks to individuals. They too have changed. Don’t want to feel bound/stuck
Interesting read
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Bitcoin will fix it. Have her start dollar cost averaging into it. I’m starting my kids at 13. The future is bright.
Yes, but if grandparents lived near kids they can help out, maybe babysitting, maybe running kids to practice, etc.
My paternal grandparents lived with us, I only rarely had a babysitter. But I had no paternal cousins and maternal cousins were no where close. I was jealous of friends who had those instant friends.
But today we move for jobs. Smaller farming based communities may well have extended families, but the big cities are more mercenary based.
I agree with that.Since it sort of ties in with church as a way of bringing people together, David Brooks wrote a column about the nuclear family being a mistake. The story is behind a paywall, somehow I read it a month ago.
The general idea is that large extended families are better. Having grandparents, cousins, aunts, and uncles nearby is great. We have sold the nuclear family as the solution and it isn't.
I think there might be something to it. I remember reading about Roseto, PA. It was an Italian community with huge extended families. And there was zero heart disease. The studies concluded it was the closeness of the people.
I don't know how to put the genie back in the bottle, but I think it would be a good idea.
The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake
The family structure we’ve held up as the cultural ideal for the past half century has been a catastrophe for many. It’s time to figure out better ways to live together.
I wanna get back to this after a day’s random thoughts. I understand naturalism to be that all of reality can be explained by science and human knowledge. Stated another way, that means the human mind is capable of understanding everything. I have never believed that. I think reality, in all its complexities is a human construct built around what we can comprehend. I think there is more.
For example, the notion that the universe had a beginning and the beginning was with the Big Bang is such a construct. I don’t think so. There is too many unanswerable and in my view questions beyond our understanding about that. We keep posing various ideas and theories to deal with that, but they are just various attempts at naturalism.
If Bonds, McGwire, Sosa, Palmeiro, jones get in before Rose that’s bullshit.
Also, David Ortiz is in and he was suspected as well. Farce at this point. Rose bet on the Reds to win.
No one ever played harder. Not in any sport. Not even Roy keane
I’ll predict that within 10-15 years, with older HOF voters being replaced, and with pressure from “others,” there will be enough of a push to at least get Bonds in the Hall.
It will suck, but it’s inevitable.
So I guess we’ve just figured out another movie classic you haven’t seen: Rudy.
That man bet on his own team. No one in sport ever cared more about sport than Pete rose. When you wear your hair like this sport is all you care about. That’s a toddler bowl cut
I think he did more than that. That’s why Giammatti banned him for life.That man bet on his own team. No one in sport ever cared more about sport than Pete rose. When you wear your hair like this sport is all you care about. That’s a toddler bowl cut
I thought he just bet on the reds to win while he was playing. He basically bet on himself. And it is sooooo different than fixing to lose
hey, Bonds was a HOFer even before he found the cranium machine at the gym
She loved it when I took out the Reaper...... Don't fear it, baby!
I am a born Hoosier and had lived in Indiana for 65 years, except for my military service. I love Indiana and never thought about moving. My 94 year old mother and my 3 sisters and most of my still living cousins live there.Since it sort of ties in with church as a way of bringing people together, David Brooks wrote a column about the nuclear family being a mistake. The story is behind a paywall, somehow I read it a month ago.
The general idea is that large extended families are better. Having grandparents, cousins, aunts, and uncles nearby is great. We have sold the nuclear family as the solution and it isn't.
I think there might be something to it. I remember reading about Roseto, PA. It was an Italian community with huge extended families. And there was zero heart disease. The studies concluded it was the closeness of the people.
I don't know how to put the genie back in the bottle, but I think it would be a good idea.
The Nuclear Family Was a Mistake
The family structure we’ve held up as the cultural ideal for the past half century has been a catastrophe for many. It’s time to figure out better ways to live together.
We picked up and moved to Charlotte, NC, (a lot more expensive place to live, by the way) when we had our first grandchild. There was no way I was going to let her grow up without knowing her grandparents. I will always consider Indiana to be home and I'll always be a Hoosier, but I believe raising children around grandparents and family is more important.
I get why kids want to move away from their parents, but I think they have no idea what they're getting into when they start a family and relatives are far away.
Lot to love here.
Some move away from their parents for a reason, though. Not everyone has fond memories of their upbringing.
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