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Unregistered 179: Edward Slingerland

Unregistered with Thaddeus Russell

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Is There a Positive Role for Alcohol?

In religious studies and cognitive science, or religion, when we talk about rituals around the world are, historically, we focus on synchrony, singing, dancing, a maybe no pain. Almost no one ever talks about the fact that everyone doing the stuff is wasted. And so i think that or a, we just have this huge blind spot. If you're an organization deciding should alcohol have a roll in our organizational life? Notiont we have alcohol at our office party? Should we let a professors take the grasuants out for beers after the graduate ours overOur decision making process is completely based on just risk and minimizing risk, and not seeing any positive benefit other than fun.

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