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Skeptics, Science Advocates, and Good People Everywhere, Should Avoid Shaming
Not Just Any Emotion: Shame in Behavioral Science CrosshairsPsychologist Karen Horney viewed it with the intensity needed to call it a Tyranny. The father of therapy through teaching rational...
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Science in the Public and the Science Fan
A while back, I had a conversation with some online friends about science communication. And in that conversation, a friend brought up a problem there was with using “science communicator” as a broad...
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It is one thing to be a rational thinker when it comes to science. But rational thinkers should also not be experiencing unnecessary interpersonal conflict, being too hard on themselves, feeling a...
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Four Steps to Handle Your Feelings When It Seems Like You Can’t
There Are a Lot of Different Situations Where We Feel We Just Can’t Handle It There are times when something’s really difficult, or when we see a belief that seems so wrong, or when someone does...
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Avoiding Absolutes: How It Can Change How You Feel About Your Situation
In the previous post(1), I shared four steps based on REBT(2), to quickly help lower your distress or frustration about something. Here is a slightly improved version of the steps: Why replace the...
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How Understanding That All Concepts Are Lenses, Helps Us Both Justify and...
In this post, we will look how concepts are actually lenses, and how this helps us better understand morality. Part of the case will include how concepts are specific sets of criteria that narrow...
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RtAVM Seems to Have Both Violated Their Own Page Rule and Been Irrational in...
RtAVM looks to have violated one of their own rules (5), with their handling of the sexy swearing Jesus meme. I’m not a theist, so I’m desensitized from being personally offended by it. My first...
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A Crash Course on The Science of Open Systems
Systems science covers how basic working elements of systems enable open systems to operate and survive in a universe that would otherwise rip them apart. This is a universal discipline that is...
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Systems Science on Social Systems
*Since social systems are open systems, they follow the unseen rules governing systems. They aren’t exceptions to those rules! That’s important since these unseen rules create unseen factors....
View ArticleBig Mistakes to Avoid When Fighting for Social Change
Costly mistakes in a fight for social change hurt the amount of difference we can make. Now that we have covered what systems are like in the last few posts, we can get to making our case that:...
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