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Loving these "D'var Torah" essays, Bertie! Thanks to your siblings and spouses, kids, dogs for letting share their lives too! LOL! XO!

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Pretty sure Wilson was a volleyball, which doesn't matter much at all. There's another interesting dimension to this, which is that we are prone to teleological thinking, that it may be hardwired into us in the same way anthropomorphism is, and that it may be at least one of the reasons why creationism and conspiracy theories thrive. See https://www.bu.edu/cdl/files/2013/08/2009_KelemenRosset.pdf and https://reader.elsevier.com/reader/sd/pii/S0960982218308637?token=3CF2D3AF1B62BA20C295988E832014C5D4201D9F38C216F0E7CD2C9B4A143431E2A4BBC39FCF91C7D5D5DE922E34818F&originRegion=us-east-1&originCreation=20220208041749

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Perhaps you can’t appreciate the depth and breadth of our dear Dr.’s thought and observation. May you should unsubscribe.

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Wow-that’s a lot of venom spewing. You obviously missed the point!

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This is no place for such vicious attacks! No place for taking anonymous cheap shots at our family physician and his audience (whom you called marxists). Just Unsubscribe this list.

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Cheap shots at Trump with the blanket assumption of your readership being 100% Marxist? It doesn't help your credibility, it's not cute, nor is it remotely fair or mature, just the opposite. Biden's anthropomorphizing his domination of this virus on the campaign trail (for the five minutes he poked his head out from his basement to attend his sparsely attended rally or two) has done nothing to stop the spread of this virus but try to take every liberty, small business, and storefront possible. Yes, act like an educated person, never mind a doctor, and defend masks on children, cloth mask mandates, and every other anti-science nonsense you've probably been selling at the behest of your political masters and in spite of what you were taught in medical school and promptly forgot or ignored for social belonging in the NYC middle-school echo-chamber. I've found some of your writing interesting, but when you take Trump shots as weak as many of those none of us liked on his twitter feed, and when the vast majority of the country is telling you differently in poll after poll that the senile imbecile in the White House is worse, you might want to listen and either learn or at least know enough to leave the topic alone or suffer the obvious accusations of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Physician, heal thyself.

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You seem nice.

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Use your inside voice, brave anonymous commenter. You miss the whole point of the column with your screed. The Dr. uses Trump as an example of how everyone is prone to anthropomorphic blind spots. The Dr. even uses himself as another example of this.

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Mar 7, 2022·edited Mar 7, 2022

Brave anonymous commentator like “boundaries?”

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