The Fallacy of Faith I, as an atheist, change the word ‘faith’ to ‘hope’. As an atheist I accept that the world is the way it is, and I would highly prefer it be different in some cases, so I seek satisfaction, my life’s purpose, in trying to effect change in some way. What the hell is intuition? ‘Intuition relies on evolutionary older, automatic, unconscious, and fast mental processing, primarily to save our brains time or energy. It also is prone to make mistakes, such as cognitive biases.’ — ( psychology today ) To say that I intuitively know something to be true is to fail to ask for the evidence for my beliefs. — ( rebt network ) Religion programs our intuition to assume we are not good enough and only religion will save us. Atheism deprograms our intuition and says the situation is not optimum so I had better work at dealing with it which includes ignoring it, such as a lifetime disability for instance. I hope my stroke affected arm gets better so I will do my prescrib...
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Bankruptcy and Inappropriate Guilt All guilt is inappropriate. The definition of guilt according to Dr. David Burns in his cure for depression book ‘Feeling Good’, is feeling responsible for something you are not responsible for. Therefore I have had a love hate relationship with having declared bankruptcy twice, and due to a medical emergency that put me into long term care, for a long time, recently I walked away from most of my debt. In 1992 I was a career taxi dispatcher and I had decided to upgrade my education for interest sake primarily but also to increase my wage earning power by joining the middle class through education. After 6 years of full time university I qualified as a professional artist with a teaching certificate and 60 grand in debt, $500.00 a month in payments for years and years and years, a government sponsored slave to the bank, one of the richest oligarchs on the planet. Artists, with no trust fund or rich family who have a debt to service,...
Response to The Conversation
Response to The Conversation It's like I said to my aging and overweight depressed friend, "Being fit has nothing to do with age it has to do with being fit." I was regurgitating the excellent book by Dr. Burns, ' Intimate Connections '. Burn's teacher, Dr. Albert Ellis , taught me that the purpose of life, if you need one, is satisfaction. "If you lose an arm, do everything you can to deal with it, then ignore it and focus on strategies for satisfaction; you may not have as many choices but you still have some." Recently, I was rejected again for my age, which happens at all ages, so I have great skills at handling rejection as well as rejecting others not to my taste. Practice Practice Practice I stopped watching Sex and the City mostly for its ageism and I have never seen the sequel. I imagined it to be, 'how to be immature at any age'. The author explains it "contributes to discourse on aging and the right of women to b...