As a self-described " confirmed scientific rationalist ", Tylor believed that this view was " childish " and typical of " cognitive underdevelopment ", and that it was therefore common in " primitive " peoples such as those living in hunter gatherer societies.

Robert Anton Wilson ( born Robert Edward Wilson, January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007 ), known to friends as " Bob ", was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic.

Contemporary ethical debate is often described as " secular ", with the work of Derek Parfit and Peter Singer, and even the whole field of contemporary bioethics, having been described or self-described as explicitly secular or non-religious.

Isaac Asimov, whose specialties included both science fiction and humor and who was a self-described " punster ", wrote a short story called " Shah Guido G .", referring to the story's Atlantean ruler.

The efforts of the self-described " reformers ", who objected to (" protested ") the doctrines, rituals, and ecclesiastical structure of the Roman Catholic Church, led to the creation of new national Protestant churches.

Lewis, a self-described " strong monarchist ", wrote " Civilization is more than an abstraction.

The origin of the word " herpetoculture " is credited to Tom Huff, who devised the word to distinguish what he, as a self-described " herpetoculturist ", was doing -- working to keeping reptiles and amphibians alive and healthy -- from what herpetologists of that era were generally doing, namely, collecting specimens for preservation in museum collections.

A political conservative and self-described " right-winger ", who has publicly protested against what he perceives as immorality and " anti-Catholicism ", Morrissey's long-term collaboration with the low-keyed, apparently apolitical Warhol was viewed by many as " a successful mismatch ", although both men did share some traits, i. e. both were practising Catholics from " ethnic " backgrounds ( Warhol was of Rusyn descent and Morrissey is of Irish descent ).

The film features two men, Johnny B. and Kamal, aka " the Jerky Boys ", two self-described " low-lifes from Queens ", who get into trouble with the Mafia when one of their prank calls leads them into a money laundering business.

Scholz, a self-described " Obama supporter ", sent an open letter to Huckabee in February 2008 stating that the band had never endorsed any candidate, and that he had never authorized the use of " More Than a Feeling " as Huckabee's theme song.

He is a lifelong fan of professional wrestling and self-described " wrestlemaniac ", and appeared at an Extreme Championship Wrestling event wielding an acoustic guitar as a weapon.

A self-described " solitary person ", he finds it somewhat annoying being a television celebrity in Britain, where he is often recognised by members of the public, some of whom request his autograph.

The 5 ' 6 ", self-described " unathletic " writer played in three preseason games and recorded one reception for-2 yards.

A self-described " ladies ' man ", Buono persuaded Bianchi to join him in prostituting two women, holding them as virtual prisoners.

The self-described " Gumbo Capital of the World ", Bridge City, Louisiana, holds an annual Gumbo Festival.

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The name came about because Ivan and his two brothers, following the self-described principle of " style before comfort ", refused to wear hats during Montreal's cold winters, calling themselves " the men without hats.

A self-described " man of the old school " who viewed the Tsar as the " anointed one, the rightful sovereign ", Goremykin was a loyal supporter of Nicholas II as autocrat and accordingly pursued conservative policy.

", expressing his wish to play a doubleheader every day out of his pure love for the game of baseball, especially in his self-described " friendly confines of Wrigley Field.

Her music style is self-described as " violin techno-acoustic fusion ", as several of her albums prominently feature the techno style.

Even his self-described " beginning " at the Art Students League of New York was not whole-hearted commitment ; two months after he returned to Portland to visit his family, he joined a theater group run by Clark Gable ’ s wife, Josephine Dillon.

This data proved troublesome on the AS / 400 when accessing it with revised or new " native " applications and especially when the data was converted to " native " format in internally self-described files without being " cleaned " before or during conversion.

The self-described purpose of Christianity is to provide people with what it holds to be the only valid path to salvation as announced by the apostles of what the Book of Acts describes as, The Way.

Senator Bernie Sanders from Vermont is a self-described democratic socialist, and is the only self-described socialist to ever be elected to the United States Senate.

A member of the Industrial Workers of the World ( IWW ), Chomsky is a self-described Anarcho-Syndicalist, a position which he sees as the appropriate application of classical liberal political theory to contemporary industrial society: " Now a federated, decentralized system of free associations, incorporating economic as well as other social institutions, would be what I refer to as anarcho-syndicalism ; and it seems to me that this is the appropriate form of social organization for an advanced technological society in which human beings do not have to be forced into the position of tools, of cogs in the machine.

It should be noted that classical writers such as Thucydides, Machiavelli, Hobbes and Theodore Roosevelt, are often cited as " founding fathers " of realism by contemporary self-described realists.

In light of the above, many self-described western yogis or certified yoga teachers may in fact be only in the basic stages of development, having an irregular personal practice, along with compulsive discharge of sexual essence.

Academy Award-winning author and self-described women's rights advocate John Irving opined in a New York Times column that on this topic, women's advocates were being " purely vindictive " in insisting that the current OCR interpretation of Title IX be maintained.

His parents hoped he would eventually continue on to study at university, but Daltrey turned out to be a self-described " school rebel " and developed a dedicated interest in the emerging rock and roll music scene instead.

Occasionally, the use of these terms in reference to " alternative " spirituality or in an occult context implies the use of violence to assert these changing religious views – for example, in the book Lords of Chaos a rash of church burnings across Scandinavia has been described as a part of this trend because many of the perpetrators were self-described " pagans " seeking to overthrow what they deemed to be centuries of religious oppression by Christianity.

The two main groups involved in the abortion debate are the self-described " pro-choice " movement ( emphasizing the right of women to choose whether they wish to bring a fetus to term ) and the self-described " pro-life " movement ( emphasizing the right of the unborn child to be born ).

Likewise, self-described " continental philosophers " can be found in philosophy departments in the United Kingdom, North America, and Australia, and some well-known analytic philosophers claim to conduct better scholarship on continental philosophy than self-identified programs in continental philosophy, particularly at the level of graduate education.

Kate Clinton is a self-described " fumerist ," or feminist humorist, who has set out to prove that being lesbian can be, and often is, funny.

A self-described " team of Israelis " who have " hunted down " Nazi war criminals all over the world list him as their second most wanted man, and since the first may have already died, he could very well be their most wanted Nazi war criminal, and if found alive by them, will be brought back to Israel to face charges of crimes against humanity, mass murder and membership of an illegal party.

A similar case is Vasco Graça Moura, who claims to be an economic social democrat but opposes gay people serving in the military and is a self-described " centre-left reactionary ".

A self-described " maverick ", Lutz organizes the book around his " 8 Immutable Laws of Business " which he poses as strawmen to demonstrate that even the best principles can be harmful if taken too far.

Some self-described markets for flash fiction impose caps as low as three hundred words, while others consider stories as long as a thousand words to be flash fiction.

The artist Mr. is a self-described lolicon and views his artwork to be not a cultural commentary but a portrayal of his own personal fantasies.

While " Multiple Occupancy " was basically a cheap housing alternative, there were some self-described spiritual communities that shared particular values, like Bodhi Farm and Darmananda, but they tended to be closer to the neighbouring The Channon and Terania Creek than Nimbin.

The modern paper takes a self-described " liberal cosmopolitan " position in editing, but Die Welt is generally considered to be conservative.

Qutb's precept that Sharia law is essential to Islam and any self-described " Muslim " ruler who ignores it in favor of man-made laws is actually a non-Muslim who should be fought and overthrown come from a fatwa of Ibn Taymiya.

In the holiday special he invoked the name " Jesus " in what turned out to be an awkward moment for the characters and viewers, as Pappy was a self-described agnostic, but not an atheist.