Attentional Bias & Prayer

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At painting class today, I listened to *a lot of* Bob Dylan.

In his famous song, "With God on our Side," he reflects on juxtaposition of religion and wars.

The First World War, boys
It came and it went
The reason for fighting
I never did get
But I learned to accept it
Accept it with pride
For you don't count the dead
When God's on your side.

When the Second World War
Came to an end
We forgave the Germans
And then we were friends
Though they murdered six million
In the ovens they fried
The Germans now too

Have God on their side.  

I'm not writing tonight to debate religion.  

Instead, I'd like to describe "attention bias" (the father of "cognitive biases") through the example of a religious person.

When did "play" change?

I have a bit of a pipe dream.  I want to be a toy maker.  professionally.

Why?
Well, I like things that are fun.  
I'm also pretty critical of the toys available in Toys R' Us (who decided to throw-up pink all over the girls' aisle?)

This being said -- I've got "toy making" on my to-do list (along with a million other things like correctly pronouncing items on a French menu, so everyone can say "wow, look at that sophisticated lady" or being able to name more than 5 African countries without going to Wikipedia).

We'll see when that happens.  In the meantime, I've been fascinated by articles on toys & play, like this one my college friend, Allison, shared with me, which I'll discuss now.