We must keep on trying to improve our nature because it is through it that we act. We must use all means and methods that we can devise and , Neil , one day , if God be willing , we will succeed. So it is with that hope and resolve we should strive for the betterment of the generations to come.
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 6:18 AM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > Freud is full of fairytales RP. I believe in conscious redirection too, > though 'personality', 'consciousness', 'the unconscious' and so on are > strictly fairytale. With wolves and silver foxes one finds a one percent > sample that lack aggression that let's us breed it out - leading to cutipie > dogs - the genetics have much more to do with this than human nurture. I > know of a paedophile cured once his brain tumour was removed. Remember > symbolic interactionism? I guess we need a coherent understanding of the > individual, habitus and habit-over-mind, culture and rationality - plus the > ways these are feigned, produced and reproduced. It might be easier to > view the Bible as a diagramme of some sort (whatever) in order to evade the > complexity. > > On Friday, 14 November 2014 11:29:58 UTC, RP Singh wrote: >> >> Neil, admitted that heredity and environment play a big role in the >> making of our feelings and thought processes , yet conscious effort made >> with the correct understanding can change the way of our habitual actions >> and reactions. Freud, with his psycho-analysis successfully treated many >> neurotics and I think that we can get out of our habitual emotions, and >> thinking if we make conscious effort in the right direction. >> >> >> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 3:11 PM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Much sympathy with the view RP, though genetics-epigenetics plays a big >>> role in such as aggression. I think Tony gets to a lot of the art issues. >>> Habit has chronic effects. >>> >>> >>> On Friday, November 14, 2014 4:19:50 AM UTC, RP Singh wrote: >>>> >>>> We are prone to keep certain feelings in our heart as a response to >>>> others' behavior , it is habitual to us and if we change this habit >>>> gradually by removing such reactions , our behavior will change. The way we >>>> feel and think governs the way we act , our temperament will change if we >>>> change this habitual thinking and emotions. >>>> >>>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:10 PM, RP Singh <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Mostly temperament is made up of habits , Neil, you change them and >>>>> the personality changes. >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:48 PM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Biology has changing temperament as very difficult RP. I've never >>>>>> thought much of shifting heavy stones about for science or religion. The >>>>>> point of anthropology for me is to work out just how stone age we remain. >>>>>> Science wins hands down for me against religion of any kind, but only up >>>>>> to >>>>>> a point. There's a lot of stuff that isn't science that has fairytales - >>>>>> sort of basic fictions aimed more at ways if living rather than the >>>>>> empirical adequacy of science. Freud's 'depressive' rather than >>>>>> 'paranoid-schizoid' position to view the world is one example - and >>>>>> rather >>>>>> like RP's. >>>>>> >>>>>> The problem that arises for me in most religion is lack of critical >>>>>> fellowship and the presence of gooey nodding donkey agreement as proof. >>>>>> I >>>>>> regularly meet people who have read even less of the Bible than me saying >>>>>> it is wonderful. I am not sure the real fairytales of religion are made >>>>>> clear at all in the way they are examined in science. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wednesday, November 12, 2014 6:33:31 PM UTC, facilitator wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Good point RP. So we'll just leave it at that, criticism. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>> >>>>>> --- >>>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>>>>> Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. >>>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >>>>>> send an email to [email protected]. >>>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>> >>> --- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> >> -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > ""Minds Eye"" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
