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Believe it or not, I actually am a professional philosopher. Occasionally, I give public talks on the subject. This one was at the Nammour Symposium at Sacramento State. In it, I argue that (1) reason and emotion are interconnected faculties, not antithetical as is often assumed, and (2) using an 'emotional thought experiment' I try to show that YOU do not believe in heaven. (This second half I previewed here on YouTube a few months ago.) Sadly, the last three minutes were cut off, due to the camera running out of hard drive space.
Believe it or not, I actually am a professional philosopher. Occasionally, I give public talks on the subject. This one was at the Nammour Symposium at Sacramento State. In it, I argue that (1) reason and emotion are interconnected faculties, not antithetical as is often assumed, and (2) using an 'emotional thought experiment' I try to show that YOU do not believe in heaven. (This second half I previewed here on YouTube a few months ago.) Sadly, the last three minutes were cut off, due to the camera running out of hard drive space.







![Badasses in the History of Science: Archimedes
hy·per·bo·le [hahy-pur-buh-lee] noun Rhetoric
1. obvious and intentional exaggeration.
2. an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as to wait an eternity. Badasses in the History of Science: Archimedes](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UzzaSWyIhHM/mqdefault.jpg)


