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Week 1 discussion

Happiness in itself means “to be in a state of happy”, however, the definition differs between scientists and spiritualists. According to the dictionary definition, Happiness is that feeling that comes over you when you know life is good and you can't help but smile. It's the opposite of sadness. Happiness is a sense of well-being, joy, or contentment. When people are successful, or safe, or lucky, they feel happiness. A spiritualist see happiness to be able to live a life of virtue that not only determines the events that occur in the physical life but the afterlife as well. To a scientist, their belief is that happiness is determined by genes and neurotransmissions. You may as yourself who is wrong or right?

And how does advertising can affect people's happiness, according to campaign live.com, advertising can make you happy, pensive, sad, frightened, and even apprehensive. Good advertising should seek to change behavior in a brand's favor and, possibly ramping up the emotion dial is a powerful way of doing so. They also explained that advertising can stimulate your brain to happiness, for a good and inspire people to lead more fulfilling lives.

https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/does-advertising-people-happy/1169637

Week 3 discussion 2 posted

The parietal cortex is an area of the brain involved in awareness of self and others as well as attention processing, according to a study published online May 29 in the journal Cerebral Cortex. It also gives the impression to be a common element among individuals who have experienced a variety of spiritual experiences. Spiritually and scientifically the word of wonder may both have the same meaning, but they may do their approach differently. The “big picture” comes from us by having a bigger meaning of how our curiosity helps us to approach or see things. It’s always nice to have a sense of a bigger being and to know you are not alone and you can be without restrictions and speak to a higher being and know you are heard but we can still continue to wonder what if. ...

Sharpe mentioned that science builds knowledge and that can bring the light of wonder to the table. Since science can alone make that wonder to become to live which will allow us to know what it could be or can be, then, I believe if science and religion team up together the result "of what it could be" can be a better outcome.

References

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120419091223.htm#:~:text=Scientists%20have%20speculated%20that%20the,many%20aspects%20of%20spiritual%20experiences.

Week 4 discussion1

Dr. Sharpe, in his book, concludes that the world should be viewed as a whole as a spiritual entity and science as a way of coming to know the entity better. According to Dr. Sharpe, there is no conflict between the two subjects of Spirituality and Science. I agree with Dr. Sharpe's conclusion. Science and Spirituality conflict in many ways. The first conflict comes in regarding the issue of creation; miracles in the bible are at odds with science. Another conflict between spirituality and science is on the issue of the beginning of life and abortion. To remove this conflict, we should see the world as a whole as a spiritual entity and science as a way of coming to know that entity better.

Scientific and spiritual traditions connect with contemporary secular views about the world. Scientific and spiritual traditions shape individual attitudes and views on contemporary secular views about the world. The religion-scientific shape on secular issues where scientific and religious traditions diverge in secular issues such as abortion rights and stem cell research. Thus scientific and spiritual traditions connect with contemporary secular views about the world.

I think Dr. Sharpe's view of the Universe as a whole spiritual entity successfully bridges the gap between scientific and spiritual thinking. First, the conflict between religion and science is limited on particular issues that are related to life. People from religious traditions accept some facets of science and reject others. This suggests that although faith traditions are related to religion-scientific perspectives, they are not constitutive of them (Sharpe and Bryant 2005). For instance, post-seculars favor science and reject evolution theories that show that science and religion coexist. In this case, viewing Universe as a whole spiritual entity successfully bridges the gap between spiritual and scientific thinking.

References

Sharpe, K. J., & Bryant, R. (2005). Has science displaced the soul?: debating love and happiness. Rowman & Littlefield.