nendale

What a life!! Thanks for taking the time to answer :)

I became a born-again christian in my early teens and became an atheist a few years ago in my early 20s.

I have a few questions I hope you can answer about your missionary work and spritual journey:

1. How was the experience of becoming an atheist for you?
2. Do you think missionary work was beneficial to the communities you encountered?
3. Did those communities already have a concept of hell or eternal suffering after death?

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I was listening to the book How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett, and for my understading of it, your native language heavily influences the way we see and feel our experiences. I guess my questions on that would be:

1. What were the most meaningful differences you saw between western societies and Amazonian villages when it comes to language and expresing emotions?
2. Did you learn of any new emotions that you were not aware of or that are not easy to communicate in English?
   

I just bought your book on kindle, very excited to read it!

Thanks!