https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3266521/ I need to make clear that I am not down on religion, and I am not down on CBT etc. Whatever gets...
Suppose I said to you that if you believe in Jesus as your saviour, and showed you with statistics that people who believe in Jesus as their saviour a...
A metacognitive belief is "a belief about the effects, positive or negative, your strategies of thought will have on you." A strategy of thought is "a...
Not really. Good analogies provoke good questions. It seems to me that depression is not so much pain as it is a general lowering of affect, almost a ...
I'm not offended, though there you go again with your mechanical analogy. But let me try you with spinach. Given a moist soil, spinach will grow plent...
I agree with most of what you say, but I wish you would drop the machine analogy, it isn't very helpful or illuminating. how about a flower analogy in...
What is a metacognitive belief? On the face of it, it looks as though it is a belief about the nature of cognition, which is a psychological theory. S...
Other things being equal, more intelligence seems better than less. Unfortunately it is not unusual for folks to be clever dicks; mere intelligence is...
No mockery intended. I'll stick to myself for a minute. I have been posting as 'unenlightened' for ten years or so, and perhaps in that time I have ch...
Three aspects of identification: 1. Separation. Identity always has a negative, that is other. I am human, not animal, English not French, philosopher...
A great deal of the news consists of facts about what has been said. Don't expect this thread to be widely reported, but do expect He-who-must-not-be ...
"narrative" I think is the word you missed. Anticipation happens, but in the absence of narrative thought, which is the sense of self, the music plays...
I think it partakes of and extends the principle of charity - the intention to understand. The extension is that to understand deeply what is being sa...
I don't think it is, but even if it would be impossible as an absolute, one can hold it as an ideal towards which to strive, even without a clear unde...
Well it's somewhat of an intuition, but suppose you face every question afresh, rather than rehearsing a theory that one has adopted. Rather like play...
I'm not a surfer, but a musician, and I assume that riding the wave is similar. And my experience is that when it is going well, one is focused on wha...
We don't have to be enemies, because I'm not disagreeing with you. I'm merely pointing out that good advice that would work if it was taken is not tak...
People generally aren't very serious about their suffering, any more than they are about other people's. I imagine it's because they don't much like t...
Shall we say, then that, there is a kind of thought that creates the thinker, as part of, the centre of, thought - call it identifying thought, and a ...
I keep reading it over and thinking about it, and nothing happens at all. :razz: There used to be a kid's tv program with the theme tune "why don't yo...
It's odd. One thinks of detachment as a goal, and yet your earlier recommendations seem to favour a reattachment to the physical, as if the detachment...
I feel as though there is something to be explored still. Perhaps there is a truth of the matter; that there is that which I am, and that which I have...
Opposition requires a context of agreement - up and down are similarly directions under gravity, and this sameness is what allows their opposition. Fu...
Who is asking? Is depression expressing itself? Is depression curious? Probably not. Probably, depression doesn't give a damn. But there is not an eit...
I wonder what you mean by dis-identify? There is some complexity here I think, because usually folks don't identify as depressed the way they identify...
I can't work out which is supposed to be so obviously the beginning of philosophy, natality or death. I wonder if it would be more acceptable if I wer...
You can say it if you like, the question is whether you believe it yourself or just hope that others will. Personally, I find it difficult to call cru...
It is well known to all that following Jesus gets you crucified. It is a recipe for virtue, not for success. That's why we tend to vote for arseholes,...
I'd say that's arguable. Is there a contract for model train parts, or for a box of junk? Was there a label? It's part of the game to find something t...
Yes, we're all very serious about our identities. They're serious, and so am I, and so are those folk that feel to beat people up and murder them for ...
This is not a deep question. Obviously the decent thing to do is to offer to return the ring. And as far as I know, there is no legal obligation to do...
But gender is a social construct, and that means it isn't set by sexual characteristics or by what they feel, but by what we (society) feel. So an int...
Money, private property, justice, family, what social constructs do you want to challenge? And how does one challenge one construct - slavery for exam...
So the craziness of the trans-gender is perhaps rather a sane response to the craziness of society, and 'we' had best try and accommodate them within ...
Good idea. How you gonna do it? It seems to me that social constructs cannot just be abolished by pointing out that they are 'made-up.' Let's dismantl...
That was an attempt at humour and parody. Of course it is an important distinction to make in others. And even more important to make in oneself. The ...
Her own death is not, but the death of Socrates was an event in Plato's life. As you can see, raging against the dying of the light can be an event. T...
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