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Chris Nicholson May 14, 2013 at 10:18 pm
@Josh: I wonder if you find irony in your choice of examples. You pathologize people who have…Read More "...a severe distortion in how they view the world and God" as defined as people who view God as "...an all powerful source of punishment"--- but your diagnosis seems to require a causal link to having a crappy parent. What if people come to the conclusion/belief that you find to be an illness via means other than child abuse? Can the healthiness (or not) of a state of depend on the path taken?
Wouldn't the DSM (an interpreted by a fundamentalist shrink) require a diagnosis of "delusion" for a patient who had concluded (for whatever reason) than God was NOT "an all powerful source of punishment?" He who transcends time and sees, knows and controls everything everywhere surely also is in charge of punishment, no?
ROBERT E. FISHBACK May 14, 2013 at 09:07 pm
After reading this latest installment. I say: This kind of psychology as well as all kinds of…Read More psychology, is nothing more than a local anesthetic which comforts for awhile. The main comfort comes from knowing the therapist is trained and, therefore, trustworthy,,,impressive, in a way....and also, he or she listens to you and seems to care., Religious words, most words are like rain drops that fall on parched soil. Soon. the soil needs another rain..a constant rain..a constant local anesthetic. An awareness of right and wrong is a tormentor. We realize we do wrong....conscious at work. Most seek another person of great credentials to try to convince them that some sort of relitive thinking will work. No one can know for sure, so any idea is as good as any other idea. This is a release from the narrow thinking mentioned above. Strange...Jesus said: :Straight is the gate and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. I make a challenge to you: Read the Gospel of John in one sitting..Be in a quiet place and give your best to doing this.....Be prepared to find what you are looking for....and, it is free. b
Regular Guy May 14, 2013 at 03:24 pm
"We talk about “hard science” or “hard data” vs. “soft” or…Read More “fuzzy”. One is clearly good; one is usually looked at with some kind of scorn. There is an implicit misogyny in this – the male is hard and reliable, the female soft and unreliable. "
Somebody has sex on the brain. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
Hard vs. soft science is an analogy to hard vs. soft building materials with which one constructs an edifice of scientific theory. If your building is made of Jello it won't hold the weight of any future theory you want to layer on top of it.
ROBERT E. FISHBACK May 14, 2013 at 11:36 am
My info comes from a number of History Books plus internet on the subject. So, the Pope granted…Read More sainthood, eh. God calls all of His children Saints...look up saints in the concordance of the Bible. Saint, Holy, and Sanctified all come from the same root word which means "Set apart from the others: Even Mt Sinaii is called a "Holy Mount " because it was there that God came down to give the Mosaic Law to Moses.
Jose May 14, 2013 at 03:45 am
Quoting Dr. Gressel: "And even further: let’s say the worst of Ian’s suspicions…Read More are true and my school focuses only on how to help people develop their spirituality and not on the “science” of psychology: do we know for certain that would be a bad thing? Who would you want to confide your worst fears to? Someone who can read statistical analyses or someone who can read the human heart?"
Answer: I would like to think that the school my psychologist attended was accredited by the American Psychological Association, at the very least. As you explained, the warm and fuzzy California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco is no longer accredited. Sometimes you get what you pay for. It's a private school after all. They will take your money.
Phil Dominic May 21, 2013 at 01:46 pm
Let's hope that this Monster holds to his word and testifies against his crime partner MARY NOLAN ,…Read More The Attorney from San Ramon Ca. who was setting up those Dirty DUI's ... These dirty cops and Attorneys need to go to PRISON forever...
Ken Housfeld May 21, 2013 at 06:29 am
This is the fourth Relay in Pleasant Hill. Each year there have been more people attending. Come see…Read More what you have been missing.
Emily Henry (Editor) May 20, 2013 at 04:29 pm
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