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Oh, that's not so bad! You made it sound pretty grim in your preceding post.

Civic holidays - they're great! Gotta love Canada!

Same here. I'm also reluctant to stop the medication, as there is no guarantee that the brain is not permanently damaged by prolonged periods of depre...

I'm in a pretty decent place right now, but the road to recovery from depression is full of ups and downs. Just when you think you've got it beat, som...

Well, that was a great week! Back to the grind on Tuesday. Out with the old boss, in with the new! :)

Yeah, just try arguing with Thanatos Sand. You'll find lots of flame there.

The Last Word for today will be... conflagration!

I've been washed clean, and wonder if I should start again.

I look at my stained hands, and wonder if I've done enough...

@"Hanover" What negative effects do people experience with CBT? The experience was an entirely positive one for me. I wasn't immediately cured of depr...

I bet you @"Sapientia" has a special hammer for permanently deleting children right before he throws them off the cliff.

CBT will help with the conscious part of your problem - catching the negative self-talk that keeps popping up, refuting it, and replacing it with rati...

It may be that you haven't found the right therapist. I know I went through a couple of duds before I found one that was helpful. It might also be tha...

Spending an entire week with my girls. Feels great! X-)

For me one attempt was precipitated by a major crisis during an extended period of severe depression. The other occurred after a night of binge drinki...

Similar to @"0 thru 9" there was a lot of breaking down and rebuilding involved in my recovery process. I believe the CBT based therapy really helped ...

It is quite an achievement for me, following a decade of depression. And the world doesn't feel like shit now, at least for the time being.

I think it's like you say - an individual experience. I believe CBT was an important part of my recovery from depression.

I have come up with a new word that means 'the last word'. It is zyzalogue. I win.

Yes, I think everyone has lost interest. I'll start a new thread to let them know the game is over, and I won.

@"apokrisis" I still don't understand how positive adaptation could occur without some kind of conscious intervention. Take my example of the centiped...

Too bad you couldn't think of anything - then you might have had the Last Word.

Only if you provide a valid reason for the identity change, and it is approved by 50% of the PF membership (excluding Rich and Thanatos Sand - their o...

@"apokrisis" So if you replace 'semi-aware consciousness' with 'universe', does this fit with what you were saying about accelerating heat death?

Then I could have a nice conversation with @"Sapientia"'s favourite kids, 68 and 69.

That's where we do our best thinking!

@"Rich" Any ideas on what the overall aim of the big creative intelligence might be?

@"Rich" So what are you referring to when you say "the big creative intelligence"?

Yeah, seems like he knows some stuff. Maybe he can help us out in the 'Implications of Evolution' thread...? @"apokrisis"

@"Thanatos Sand" Well that was entirely unhelpful.

@"Thanatos Sand" Well, now I'm asking for any type of explanation.

@"Thanatos Sand" I'm simply asking for some sound reasoning to make your explanation a plausible one.

@"Thanatos Sand" OK, so please explain how you propose nature 'did it'. Little atoms joined together into little cells that are operating according to...

He probably deserves it - I hear he has a bad stairing problem.

The more I think about it, the more I'm starting to believe that natural selection is only part of evolution, and is only responsible for removing lif...

Even if things were predetermined, no one would know what events were to come, and the future would be just as exciting! Aardvark! (At least the last ...

@"Mongrel" I would say it's composed of remembered words, images, and to some extent feelings/emotions. To that I would probably add the combination o...

@"nixu" Do you care to present the analytic proofs?

@"Question" I'm not following your line of thought... If depression is a distortion of reality - like unsupported negative self-judgments - why wouldn...

The ego I speak of is the sense of identity a person develops throughout life, to which he/she can become desperately attached, affecting them via neg...

@"Karan" Not sure... Can you give examples of how knowledge draws fear and corrupts intelligence, and how instinct complements knowledge?

I'd say it's definitely real, and very potent. (My guess is that it's the main driver of most mental health issues.) You can't possibly hold everythin...

Well, at a minimum, a newborn would require an identification number, tied to a date of birth and linking it to its parents. Pretty neutral impact - j...

How did those two get their heads out of their arses for long enough to find the site?

Hahaha! OK, I'll bring my friend Cliff. We can get high together, and maybe push him down the stairs too.

I've known quite a few Cliffs that were never high. And throwing a child off of one would be no worse than pushing it down the stairs.

Is it really a cliff if it isn't high?

OK, so what if a semi-aware consciousness pervades all living things, and receives input from each entity's experiences, which it then uses to decide ...

One leg sure. But a hundred virtually identical legs at the same time? Unlikely.

And how would you explain counterproductive things like birth defects, cancer, and autism. Are those just caused by environmental interference?