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Loneliness and Belief

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01-21-2008 2:33 PM 		Reply to: Message 15 by Archer Opteryx
01-21-2008 2:15 PM

Re: Anything but God
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I don't see any denial, NJ. I see neutrality. The researchers take no stand on the likelihood of supernatural beings existing, just as they take no stand on whether our pets are like us or not like us.
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Quite right, you just beat me to it. And while the article says that loneliness is bad for our health, it doesn't say or imply that the things that lonely people do to cope with it, whether anthropomorphising their pets or talking more often to their Gods, are bad for them.
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