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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.
Mick Doo May 5, 2013 at 12:17 pm
Actually J.B. it's really you who need the session. Robert seems to understrand
ROBERT E. FISHBACK May 5, 2013 at 10:21 am
Maybe Josh will give a free analysis on this thread. I don't carry any weight..."Casting all…Read More your care on Him for He careth for you" At least your post was measured and not cruel.
Michael Rubino, Ph.D, MFT May 17, 2013 at 01:48 pm
Weed is bad for you, i suggest you research the medical journals?
Michael Rubino, Ph.D, MFT May 17, 2013 at 01:45 pm
Teens under 18 are buying these pens on a regular basis. Also i have teens state they are putting…Read More pot n to the pens. Most teens have researched these issues and have found ways to get around them. For example, you cant buy alcohol until you are 21, but how many teens under 18 are caught drinking alcohol?
Anthony Arias May 16, 2013 at 12:48 pm
okay first off you musty be at least 18 years of age to enter a hookah lounge or be able to buy any…Read More sort of tobacco related product. Second is that yes there are hookah pens but you cannot put marijuana inside of it. it doesn't work like that. Also if the kid is 18 then they should be allowed to do as they please! its a legal product so stop getting so worked up about it. and weed isnt bad for you ;)
Mick Doo May 5, 2013 at 12:22 pm
God created the world. Man wants nothing to do with him, certain men anyway. God does not kill those…Read More children, man does. Man is to blame for everything that has happened and will happen. God sits back and watches. You will answer Jose and so will I. Unless you believe in evolution then you are a fool.
ROBERT E. FISHBACK April 25, 2013 at 03:55 pm
Wow< Chris...complex expression. I had to read and de-cipher. My best reply at the moment…Read More is....."YEP"
Chris Nicholson April 25, 2013 at 03:15 pm
Umm, the above is replete with "without sarcasm, intolerance or evidence of hatred toward those…Read More who would disagree."
I am a firm believer in freedom of religion (unless it harms third parties), but people of faith should use caution when picking (or joining) a fight based on logic and science.
The best strategy is to claim that those tools do not apply to the intangible and unknowable "faith domain." If you don't claim to be able to physically perceive or rationally understand something that exists only beyond the domain of human comprehension, then no one can ever "disprove" the quasi-existence of that in which you believe.
Ian J May 3, 2013 at 05:16 am
Turns out he's not highly trained at all and unlikely to be scientific in his practice. I looked…Read More into his credentials; he has a "PhD" from a dubious "spiritually-oriented" institution that has very little recognition in the academic community, and lost its accreditation. His PhD is laughable.
Camaro on Cinderblocks April 26, 2013 at 01:07 pm
The text from the different religions kind of makes it hard for there not to be a divide....
John…Read More 1:9-11
Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son. If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your house or give him any greeting, for whoever greets him takes part in his wicked works.
Allah is an enemy to unbelievers. - Sura 2:98
ROBERT E. FISHBACK April 26, 2013 at 11:16 am
I would be hard pressed to give a synopsis...a conclusion to all of this. Sin is brought into the…Read More light by God's Word and conscious. We know inside when we do wrong and at first, it bothered us. A child who had no religious training training, still knows when he is doing wrong....the neaking aspect tries to hide the deed done. But, it is possible to sin against the conscious so many times, it becomes burned out and no longer flashes a red light. So, there is an awareness of sin that comes from inside apart from any religious definition. I still do not like the word "religious." It is a like painting trash to give it a better look.....like putting a diamond in a swine's snout. Man's nature is corrupt, and we were born that way. We never had to be taught to do bad things, it came to us naturally. Salvation in Christ gives man a new nature to co-exhist with his corrupt nature. It is like Ali and Frazier in the same ring. "Marvel not that I say unto you: "you must be born again" .
Nicole Mooradian April 22, 2013 at 01:43 am
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Carl Petersen III April 21, 2013 at 11:34 pm
Robert Livesay
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"Herr Carl Petrersen III I have some concerns about your…Read More postings."
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Sounds like someone is a little bit upset over getting proven wrong about his allegations about the cause of our economic crash.
Carl Petersen III April 21, 2013 at 10:03 pm
Carl Petersen III
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'ou folks that voted for Liberals need…Read More some lessons in economics.'
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Is lesson one how the Conservative economic policy of the Bush administration crashed the economy?
Cathy Turney April 23, 2013 at 02:39 pm
I hear you, Lisa. There's a most interesting dynamic going on at the dog park! Thanks for…Read More commenting!
Cathy Turney April 23, 2013 at 02:36 pm
Thank you, Justin! We'll check it out. Point Isabel dog park in Richmond is also a great "water…Read More park" for dogs!
Napoleon Solo April 24, 2013 at 01:24 pm
If youi need help devising these sorts of things, Marbles the Brain Store has lots to offer. For…Read More example, there is a dice game with a large number of dice having different pictures on the sides. You roll the dice, and have to create a story using the first die's picture, and then the next person has to take the next dice picture and continue the story. Its fun to leave off your story at a difficult point to see how the next person can recover. The store is online and there is one in the Westfield mall in SF that is attached to a BART stop, so you can go there and not even have to go up to the street level.
Oppelt April 24, 2013 at 01:08 am
Having no knowledge about the book (which sounds like a good read)...we created a floatable (wine)…Read More cork boat with our 5 yo. Or rather, we competed at which team (mom/son, dad/son) could come up with a way to make it float in a bubble bath. Twine, tape, glue, pennies, small shells, a USA flag, you name it were thought (by our son) to attempt to secure or decorate. It took weeks for us all to devise a way that wouldn't break down, float and use all the saved corks he'd set aside for his (not ours) wish of "I want to make a boat". That boat is much more admired, used and talked about than any other toy boat we have (thank goodness). As a creative professional I am concerned about innovation and the loss thereof with everything so matchy-match and kit based if not shiny, packaged and ready. Thus, SCAMPER sounds like a great read for adults that really have a hard time thinking outside the box. Glad you put it together. Cheers!
Ron April 17, 2013 at 10:26 pm
Jessica's law should be enforced! Keep our schools safe, registered sex offenders should live 2,000…Read More ft from a school. Apparently Northgate High has a high risk sex offender living only 1,500 feet from the school. Many kids have to walk past this house to get to school everyday. Look him up on the Megan's law website and complain to Northgate and WC police dept.
Rich Buckley April 29, 2013 at 12:04 pm
Is It Possible to Predict the Next False ?
How many "Bizarre Coincidences" can our…Read More government fabricate before even the most steadfast stalwarts of big government righteousness realizes there is a secret group in our midst running, planning, directing, and then at vital junctures executing "go Live" terrorism? The answer is 22. That's how many we've participated in at the cost of thousands of lives and Trillions of dollars. Now, when something horrible happens, the first obvious pattern to be seen by the majority of us is our government's own involvement. This suspicion of a rogue element inside the FBI, the CIA, NSA, NASA and our Armed Forces doesn't have to be large, but it does need to be senior enough to have it's imprimatur of authority on the "go live" element of each operation. At some level of operation therefore the evidence can always be traced back to the "when" and the "where" this dark authority is exercised.
Predicting terrorism is making sense out of chaos, "Ordo Ab Chao" making order from chaos. At the very least, law enforcement needs to include in their research, occult symbolism, from numerology to birthdays and high celebration days of even the old WWII Nazi regimes....like Hitler's birthday. "Occult" does not mean evil. It means secret, hidden. There is good occult, referred to often as powers of the light, white magic, in service to others, and bad occult, referred to often as powers of the darkness, black magic, in service to self.
Rich Buckley April 27, 2013 at 10:21 pm
I agree with Judge Napolitano that the FBI's Fake Terror Plot History is not the way we should be…Read More using our law enforcement assets, it is leading us down the most dangerous of roads.
When these operations "go live" people die, sometimes by the thousands.
As evidence continues to mount that the Boston Bombers suspects were being "handled by the FBI" the United States government should be investigated for the role it is suspected in playing in the Boston Bombings.
Rich Buckley April 26, 2013 at 10:28 am
Right on schedule along the hyperbolic curve of increasing human enlightenment : …Read More
http://tinyurl.com/c38dh9h
Global awakening to false-flag terrorism, Copernican revolution
...." my Taurean body just couldn’t stomach such blatant Scorpionic nonsense, hiding secret after secret after secret, a never-ending rabbit-hole of lies our military/industrial government makes up, spouts, and repeats, ad nauseam, over and over, all in the name of “national security.”
"This is a welcome article. I hope Barrett is right, that “at this point, the false-flag meme is just starting to enter the mainstream media.” "....Exopermaculture
ROBERT E. FISHBACK April 22, 2013 at 02:18 pm
My mind is awash ....looking for a home....so many memories fly like a feather...the wind is up now,…Read More and I need a tether. The paths behind ..like a mish mash stew...till a haloed lamp post whispered: I need you. "Listen, he said as he spoke through the fog.....all this belongs.....on the good Doctor's blog. Go to the Galemore...third floor up....a little glass man in west window sits.....I followed his orders and there he sat .....frozen in glass, but pleasure he begat....".I perfume the aIr..that's all I do...but now that you're here.... good to see you." A waft of breeze through window did sneak. A hot spot for sure....a wonderful peak...the magic of childhood returned in a flick.....as I enjoyed my visit with Mr Wizard Wick....I learned a lesson and on that I did think.. .I found my tether and need not a shrink !!!..
ROBERT E. FISHBACK April 22, 2013 at 11:22 am
I am on a collision course with being resented for posting too much, but, my life seems to be a…Read More string of after thoughts. I just read an article on quartx rock and that science has exloded the myth that quartz has any magical powers. Science is the antithesis of spirituality. Nerdish know it alls poking their noses into magic and miracles. The explanation seekers are trying to analyze a bubble. When they touch it, it disappears..pop..just like that. So, they say bubbles do not exhist..in essence. They DO exhist, enjoy them and quit trying to explain them.
ROBERT E. FISHBACK April 22, 2013 at 10:59 am
SPIRITUALITY: My definition is an awareness of influences that are mysterious and subtle. While I…Read More am a Chrustian by choice, yet, as a child I began to sense there were what I called hot spots where I imagined that some thing was there and it was more than met the eye. In retro, I think much of it was imagination, but it added something to life and I ran with it. When I was twelve, I became attracted to candles, incense, succulants !, quartz rock, old marble mantle clocks.....and my bedroom was filled with these and I had a real shrine going. I also had secret places under large bushes. My walls were covered with maps of the Southwest and I poured over those by candle light. Haunting places with names like Old Woman Mountains, Quartzite, Tortilla Flat. I cannot explain this, but as it was not factual ink on paper or anything else that composed the rules of life, I guess that was my "spirituality" and it was somewhat consoling. I might have been the world's first new ager.
Denise April 16, 2013 at 03:22 pm
I'm going to have to find time to call and get some tips in person! Thank you for the details above.…Read More I followed a low carb diet to lose 50 pounds about 8 years ago and it worked VERY well for me. Looking at labels was very enlightening. I've managed to keep the pounds off except for 10 that I go back and forth with since menopause. I started trying to just eat much healthier these days with a LOT more fresh fruit and veggies. I really enjoy this way of eating but it requires a lot of trips to the store for fresh items. What I'd like to do is find a good balance with dairy and protien to go with my fresh produce. I would also like to use grains efficiently in as far as avoiding the bad and using the good in moderation. There is an overabundance of information out there and I find it all confusing sometimes. Another thing I'd like to add is honey. Locally grown. But it's another SUGAR thing....sigh. I'm just gonna have to call you.
Kia April 16, 2013 at 02:54 pm
Hi Denise - great questions! I'll try to be brief.
Splenda is NOT sugar or food. It is a neurotoxin…Read More that also causes damage to the thymus gland. Also, numerous studies have shown that long term use of artificial sweeteners actually causes weight gain over time. (I'm happy to provide documentation on these statements if you like.)
Dairy is a tricky subject and could be the focus of a multi-volume text. Non-fat dairy products are higher in sugar, and are filled with non-nutritive gums and undigestible fibers to create what the industry calls "mouth feel" after the naturally occurring fats are removed. Basically what you end up with is a highly processed "food" full of damaged proteins and sugar. Instead, opt for organic, whole, unflavored, unsweetened REAL yogurt and add your own fresh or frozen fruit.
The Nature's Path Pumpkin Flax Plus granola has 37 grams of carbohydrate per serving. Let's break that down: on the label they claim 5g fiber and 10g sugar, so where is the remaining 22g of carbs? Those 22g are sugars that occur naturally so they don't have to list them as "added" sugars like the 10g on the label. That means you get a whopping 32g of glucose creating carbs per serving. It's also important to note that the serving size is 3/4 cup and most people don't limit themselves to that. For comparison, a Snickers Bar has 33g of carbohydrate and 27g of sugar.
Happy to have a more detailed conversation if you want to contact me directly 415-813-6183
Julie Snyder March 28, 2013 at 12:50 am
OK, once again Mikedue and for that matter Fred, you obviously don't know what's going on. I don't…Read More know what reports you're reading but they are not accurate at all. Most of the distributors don't manufacturer the product. If you think a distributor is going to buy a $400 wheelchair from a high end manufacturer when they can buy it from an FDA china manufacturer for far less then they will. Both chairs are FDA approved so why not buy the cheaper model. Will it hold up as well no probably not but it's approved and Medicare can do nothing about shutting it down. They can't even keep themselves from giving crooks contracts in your precious competitive bidding. We'll see if you get the quality equipment when you need it and heaven forbid you don't like the service you get from the company that has to service you because you won't have a choice so the person on the phone can be as mean and nasty to you as they want to be because patient choice is over. Also if you know so much about reimbursement do you know what it is on a K0823 power wheelchair or a K0001 manual wheelchair because I do. I also know the cost and the profit doesn't even come close to covering overhead, repairs, billing and delivery. Keep in mind these items are 13 month rentals with all repairs, adjustments, phone calls, justification and collections all up to the supplier. Medicare doesn't even educate the MD's on the documentation needed, that is up to the suppliers too.
mikedude March 28, 2013 at 12:03 am
Richard, these are the very same products other insurance companies are paying the very same…Read More suppliers significantly less for. Why are you of the opinion that Medicare *should* be paying up to 3 or 4 times more than retail price or what private insurance pays for the very same product? Again, you clearly have no idea how this program works or are willfully ignorant.
mikedude March 27, 2013 at 11:57 pm
You're delusional, Julie. If a company cannot make a quality product at an affordable price, they…Read More will go out of business and *deserve* to go out of business. If the quality is not up to par, the company will lose their Medicare accreditation. You clearly have no idea how this program even works.
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