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Projecting our beliefs

December 3, 2009

Came across an interesting article about our projecting our beliefs to a deity. I’ve always presuming this to be true, now here’s the test study to prove it. Some excerpts: They asked subjects a series of questions about controversial moral issues, such as the death penalty and abortion, and also asked them about beliefs on [...]

Propaganda and controlling the masses

September 22, 2009

A while back I came across a documentary about Edward Bernays, the late cousin of Sigmund Freud. From wikipedia: Edward Louis Bernays was a US pioneer in the field of public relations along with Ivy Lee. Combining the ideas of Gustave Le Bon and Wilfred Trotter on crowd psychology with the psychoanalytical ideas of his [...]