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Doug Matheson

Gaza… Israel… Palestinians… and aspects of Inevitability

We have been watching the Gaza/Israel/Palestine tragedy, with degrees of personal angst, targeted or confused anger, and, for many of us…

4 min readNov 11, 2023

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Doug Matheson

Fiddling, or Being Willing to Advocate for Unpopular Positions:

a look at a key root of the fact — alternative fact phenomenon.

21 min readAug 6, 2022

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Doug Matheson

Behind our Polarized Society:

Figuring out Why We Trust Who We Trust Most.

6 min readJan 30, 2022

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Doug Matheson

Bridging the Divide with Honesty Intact

Like most in America, I have friends on both sides of our current political divide. After a brief nod to our varied psychological…

8 min readJan 31, 2021

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Doug Matheson

A Social Anthropology dissertation on the Religion-exiting Experience:

Personal Journeys of Exploration Beyond Early Learned Faith Subcultures

42 min readJan 12, 2021

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Doug Matheson

The Toughest Application of Critical Thinking

Without either falling for another doomsday scenario or assuming that everything will be just fine, it seems hopelessly obvious that we…

17 min readApr 8, 2019

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Doug Matheson

Finding and Using what’s Most Likely True.

Over the last couple decades, I’ve increasingly attempted to engage in discussions on aspects of how we everyday citizens figure out what…

19 min readOct 10, 2018

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Doug Matheson

Struggles with the Why behind Difficult Questions

Familiar words from Frost: “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.”…

14 min readJun 19, 2018

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Doug Matheson

Doug Matheson

A one-time missionary kid in India, trained in Christian schools, but realized that when beliefs and evidence are in contradiction, the evidence Should win out.

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