I think you are heading the right direction. لا القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد أو إيذاء الآخرين Do not murder, rape, enslave or harm others.
-----Original Message----- From: RP Singh <[email protected]> To: Minds Eye <[email protected]> Sent: Sun, 16 Nov 2014 8:45 AM Subject: Re: Mind's Eye The fairytale entities It is not a big deal. Sometimes I get carried away. On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 6:46 PM, RP Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. 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