Shawn

Yes, but I am a firm believer in reason. My first experience with psilocybin was truly a terrifying and psychotic experience. Let us not forget the pa...

And yet you fail to mention the positives of induced psychotic episodes as seen by psilocybin and LSD. Many psychologists and psychiatrists are waitin...

I have to say that your previous post about psychosis is highly interesting. What are your thoughts about psychosis long-term effects on the mind? My ...

The plant get's a lot of bad rap for making people docile and bad consumers or at least consumers of the wrong products. But, I've learned not to be a...

Yeah, but let's be realistic, it was a Hollywood movie.

It's interesting that this thread turned to a discussion about love. I have read Harry Frankfurt's The Reasons of Love. He makes a strong case that th...

Well, I would have to disagree with calling Blade Runner 2049 a cash cow. The director, Denis Villeneuve, made it abundantly clear that the movie wasn...

Your welcome. Now, I can wallow some more.

Lol, why not.

Nah, being a skitz put me on disability. The depression isn't terrible these days.

Well, I decided to give up on college. Not my cup of tea or the gods didn't will it to be. I wish I were depressed so that I could wallow in bed or ru...

I fail to see how this Skinnerian analysis of behavior is accurate. One can say, based on these sentiments, that people who are depressed will remain ...

A lot, methinks.

I believe in Godel's Incompleteness Theorems.

Yes, but can it prove its own consistency?

So, consciousness is an emergent phenomena or not?

Happy year of the dog!

Language, please. Think about the children.

Yeah, I hold an attitude of refraining from prejudice on the matter.

Yeah, I don't care to change anyone's mind on the matter. You can lookup Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, the multiple testimonials of loud ex...

I never really bought into the 9/11 official story after I found out office fires brought down building 7. It is a precedent for three skyscrapers to ...

I wouldn't care all that much. I'm not an ego-driven individual. Your post seems to only apply to egotistical and narcissistic personalities. To rephr...

The intro to Blade Runner 2049 is something marvelous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9L0pord5jE&feature

Does philosophy build character?

Actually, it seems to be a plural of a prostitute, meaning prostitute(s). https://www.dailyrepublic.com/wires/second-porn-star-claims-trump-invited-he...

Yeah, this is the very decadent and slippery slope dilemma that America faces. Namely, that we've grown accustomed to having leaders get away with lyi...

Well, wouldn't it bother you if you had a president who persistently lies about, well, very important issues? As a person who likes Plato (I do, to gr...

Have you been reading Machiavelli as of recent?

Yet we quote these people. One envies the social structures that enabled these pieces of wisdom from Asia.

Usually, the manifest form of what you describe as an inability to cope with life is seen in the form of learned helplessness, or more commonly known ...

Gah, help! I'm losing interest in philosophy... Am I getting old or does philosophy get better with time?

All of this leaves me with a rather simple question. Are people inherently irrational? And, if so, doesn't CBT show that people can be less irrational...

Yes, it's sort of a dialectical therapy with one's self. Just that you have to train your inner therapist to identify which feelings are a result of w...

Having read a book on CBT and keeping in mind the list of cognitive distortions mentioned in it, I have seen no mention in most CBT books, that activi...

I have also gone through a decent amount of fear for being labeled as a schizophrenic in the past. What scared me the most was the diagnosis itself an...

I think the deeper and more perplexing question is in regards to what scares the schizophrenic the most. It seems that the diagnosis itself is the gre...

Very persuasive, eloquent, and factual. Couldn't ask for a better book on UBI.

Utopia for Realists: The Case for a Universal Basic Income, Open Borders, and a 15-hour Workweek by Rutger Bregman Just finished it actually.

Now you need to put down the Crack pipe...

I see. The only cases I know of where a person does not have insight into their own pathology or disorder are unmedicated schizophrenics and psychopat...

I don't think it's a matter of insight, as long as the person isn't living on a stranded island in isolation.

I think you're mistaken here. To address a disorder, what comes first is addressing the distorted thoughts and cognitions arising from some set of cir...

But, CBT, is effective as a standalone therapy for depression, anxiety, etc. How do you explain that?

Yet, mental disorders can be treated by addressing thoughts with facts and reality testing against cognitive distortions. However, I agree that more s...

I fail to see what you're trying to express here in regards to 'developing schizophrenia'. I know of no such cases, based on pure belief, that a perso...

I had in mind more like the current president of the US.

Yeah, I don't think I need to point out the hypocrisy in this post and whom you seem to admire so much despite his narcissistic and egotistical person...

I have long held it against the many existentialists to not show courage and determination in the face of the ever-present angst and anxiety with resp...

The line of the year.

Agustino has some strange views about people. I don't disagree with that.