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I am a 26 year old doctoral candidate, currently finishing my thesis in the field of personality and psychological disorders.

My passion is ...

Science

I know too much about ...

Disorders!

My parents always told me ...

Not to be so intense.

My childhood ambition ...

Academia :)

My favorite memory ...

Many :)

Why I write ...

For self-actualisation.

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

Numerous novels

My first job ...

Academia...

My best moment ...

Getting my degree from Oxford

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My partner

Religion & Spirituality > Atheism & Agnosticism Why the 'man of reason' should be celebrated more than the 'man of faith'

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Faith, by necessity, is to some degree blind. There is a difference between having faith that something will happen and concluding that it is likely based on a reasoned analysis of probabilities. To have faith is to have conviction, belief that something is, was, or will be. Faith is by its very nature dogmatic, because it insists on its own truth without consideration of alternatives; contemplating that other possibilities might be correct is an automatic breach of that faith. The fundamental difference between faith and reason, or science, therefore, is that a scientist seeks always to f...

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