{"id":943,"date":"2013-12-14T00:43:11","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T00:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/?p=943"},"modified":"2013-12-14T00:43:11","modified_gmt":"2013-12-14T00:43:11","slug":"mind-brain-physicalism-and-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/2013\/12\/14\/mind-brain-physicalism-and-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind-Brain Physicalism and Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hector Avalos has recently written an amusing article <a href=\"http:\/\/amestrib.com\/opinion\/hector-avalos-puritan-war-christmas\">&#8216;The Puritan War on Christmas&#8217;<\/a> correctly pointing out that Christmas was originally illegal in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Self-Control <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2013\/12\/131213094949.htm\">can be improved through brain stimulation<\/a>. Maybe these are the baby steps on the road to erasing criminal behavior altogether?<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/adversusapologetica.wordpress.com\/\">Matthew Ferguson&#8217;s blog<\/a>. He&#8217;s a doctoral student of Classics who blogs about the many false claims about ancient history made by Christians in support of their faith. He blogs about this stuff in a style that is easy to understand and exciting, just like listening to Carl Sagan talk about science. In particular, I recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/adversusapologetica.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/29\/outside-corroboration-and-the-eruption-of-mount-vesuvius\/\">Outside Corroboration and the Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/adversusapologetica.wordpress.com\/2013\/10\/11\/griffin-beak-mermaid-fin-and-dragon-blood-soup\/\">Griffin Beak, Mermaid Fin, and Dragon blood soup<\/a>. Ferugon has also placed my books (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0557070465\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=0557070465&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=ansingenbus-20\">Atheism and Naturalism<\/a><\/em> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1478224789\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1478224789&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=ansingenbus-20\"><em>Extraordinary Claims, Extraordinary Evidence<\/em><\/a>) on his <a href=\"http:\/\/adversusapologetica.wordpress.com\/recommended-readings\/\">Recommended Reading List.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hector Avalos has recently written an amusing article &#8216;The Puritan War on Christmas&#8217; correctly pointing out that Christmas was originally&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/humesapprentice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}