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All this casts representative democracy in a poor light. We continually vote on issues we have no real hope of understanding and synthesising, to supp...

Did Freud say anything to suggest that dreaming has an involuntary regulatory function for the mind analogous to the body sweating to regulate tempera...

I guess what I'm getting at is, are dreams just epiphenomenal clouds that we only consciously see a face or a story in or is there a process / mechani...

So would you call this an involuntary process?

But the dreams and the dream self are from the same source. If it's cathartic, is this providing the same function as your body sweating to regulate y...

Thank you Cavacava.

How are you attaching these photos?

No probably not. But If it were associated with a physical process then it's function would be to in some way help maintain some balance or equilibriu...

Are you all defining dreaming as a purely mental event?

I disagree in a very real sense. If they acted for themselves they could do it alone in the basement. The actor's task is to fulfill the playwright's ...

I don't know if this is helpful, but perhaps when we attempt to convey a thought or feeling we are simply inviting another's interpretation of us and ...

Well that would make some sense of all this wouldn't it? How many ego based impulse buys are you going to get from 100 people in the lucrative pursuit...

So is it worth $20,000 to buy a forum with maybe 100 sets of active eyeballs to advertise to?

From a behaviorist point of view, we act based on our premise at the time. We may be aware, unaware, right, wrong, about what belief, truth, faith, we...

Did you give a ball park definition of "faith" so I can orient myself?

You don't need to. You do it automatically. How else would what you're convinced of be demonstrated? That's who you are.

Yes, exactly.

And I'm saying that it's all an act of putting your money where your mouth might or might not be. And reason and viscera 'believe' are standing in the...

But this is where the rubber meets the road. We cannot determine his decision in advance so whatever he is going to draw from (to make the decision) i...

Can you make a decision with one without the presence of the other? I see this all conflated or subsumed into premise, which is not objective truth, s...

I'm saying that whether it's will, other factors, or both which determines your belief, you actively decide the legitimacy of accepting it so you can ...

If I get drunk and say something inappropriate, Is that me or the liquor talking? The discussion is about what is choosing / determining our beliefs. ...

Suppose your beliefs are altered. Do you accept and own those beliefs as yours or do you pass the responsibility to CBT? Aren't we just looking down t...

Kierkegaard writes: " …..but one may also be deceived by not believing the true…. “ James writes: "….. Better risk loss of truth than chance of error…...

Very few. When I first started following the OPF there were about 48,000 members and most of those who actually posted are here now. Thanks for the We...

By my count 64 people have joined the old PF in the last week.

Well I'm one of the new members you're talking about. I've been following the original PF for about 4 years. (I was unable to join due to a technical ...