I really understand your hesitation in explaining how you gathered your knowledge. Many finds even discussing the qualities of water incomprehensible and soon you find yourself with a stamp on the forehead like "old hippie" dreamstuff ???
I sometimes see science as a class sitting with an ABC. Trying to make up a language of their own using their own expressions. Starting from the beginning with the first letters. They do it because there already exists a fluent brilliant language which explains a lot, almost all the things which has puzzled the mind of mankind since the beginning.
All this knowledge has been discovered empirically or through visions. It has been lived and taught for thousands of years, but some of it got lost along the timeline. Probably because it was forbidden or taken away for control purposes.
And now instead of accepting fact, it has to be proven - the problem is only that some of the issues are so large and complicated that it is impossible to force it down in a small mathematical box! It is like describing a beautiful long chinese poem, written with chinese signs - and all you can use to explain it with is an A a B and C.
I would love to know some of your sources Ginger - please mail me..
What a brave and interesting thread!! Unfortunately a taboo theme for many and that doesn`t make it easier. But I guess we all know someone close who has one of these diagnoses.
I have a close relative, and I was shocked to see what she had to through in her worst period - the medication changed her completely. When I read the note with her pills I was even more shocked and swore that if I ever came in such a situation (depression) I would never take those pills. Luckily she is now back on her feet again.
I think our nutrition (or lack of) plays a huge role in how people develop psychiatric diagnoses. The huge amount of chemicals, artificial flavours, sweeteners, hormones, preservatives, colouring not to mention the treatment of all our raw materials. In fact it would be a sensation if that did not have a massive influence.
That combined with the stress of the modern life, bad conscience towards our children, broken marriages, mortgage and heavy media manipulation creating fear and lack of selfesteem through painting horror and dreampictures which should be our measurement in our daily life.
I am not sure if that is meant for the human life??
Keeping a positive attitude can be an endless struggle for many, just think of all those who lost their jobs during the past years. Especially depression, anxiety and stress is booming in the western world - and more investigations points out that our lifestyle ruins more than it gains.
I found this article the other day:
Two cross-temporal meta-analyses find large generational increases in psychopathology among American college students (N=63,706) between 1938 and 2007 on the MMPI and MMPI-2 and high school students (N=13,870) between 1951 and 2002 on the MMPI-A. The current generation of young people scores about a standard deviation higher (average d=1.05) on the clinical scales, including Pd (Psychopathic Deviation), Pa (Paranoia), Ma (Hypomania), and D (Depression). Five times as many now score above common cutoffs for psychopathology, including up to 40% on Ma. The birth cohort effects are still large and significant after controlling for the L and K validity scales, suggesting that the changes are not caused by response bias. The results best fit a model citing cultural shifts toward extrinsic goals, such as materialism and status and away from intrinsic goals, such as community, meaning in life, and affiliation.
Good idea: Get an invitation to the house!! And when entering the diningroom, you should show particular interest for that photo!!
1) Who is that on the photo? (Oh.. Isn`t that xxx) 2) But I thought you were divorced?? 3) Then why do you still keep this photo??? hahaha 4) My thoughts are: the past belong in the past.. 5) (And then to your GF) It must be hard for you being watched by her everytime you are here??? hahaha
Would probably give him something to think about??
I think a world without religion is hard to imagine.
As we would also have to discuss what is religion?? If we put it to be an idea - the same would go for politics - philosophy and some science (also seen as a religion for some).
After all we would still be distinguised in different views on life - some of those views would not take ethics and moral in. (Like the idea of capitalism) Where the different religions focus merely on those subjects.
I do not think that religion itself has caused wars - only the (maybe wrong) interpretations of it, especially used as a threatening tool.
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