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19: Stop Blaming the Brain
Just including all my notes here...
Wednesday,
February 19, 2020
I was
listening to the car parts episode. That was a good one. I think we need to
take more seriously the duty or whatever to be able to explain how something
works, like depression and anxiety. We take time, and I’m thinking of a
textbook, going through each individual theory and explaining how it accounts
for why something or other happens, but we don’t take enough time synthesizing
the insights of those theories to explain in a real, substantive, helpful way
how they help to explain how something happens actually. I remember in
undergraduate school studying psychology, and after having read this entire
textbook which had the above approach meaning that of treating each theory kind
of separately, somewhere at the end as if in a little footnote, it was stated
that the authors believe that all of the theories help to explain a different
aspect of what’s happening. Well if that’s the case, don’t you think you should
synthesize them and use them to explain what’s actually happening??? What are
you trying to do anyway? Aren’t we trying to understand these things? A lot of
good you do telling students about all these different theories as if they
individually can explain everything, and then move onto the next theory that
thinks it can explain everything too. They obviously contradict each other. At
least if you try to do it that way. They can’t all be right.
And
don’t theorists need to be a little more responsible and a little less dumb and
realize that one insight will not explain every phenomenon in psychology?
Surely we can be better. And surely we can have more discussions about how the
different theories work together and what might be missing and surely other
things. Lots on the spiritual side for sure. Which psychology wants to shun
since it’s not scientific. You’re right it’s not scientific. It has to do with
things of the Spirit, which is the part of matter science doesn’t see. It
doesn’t deal with it. Science deals with things you can see.
Wednesday,
Feb 19, 2020
Every
thing that has knowledge has the ability to act according to that knowledge. A
gnat has knowledge, and is free to act thereon. Beasts don’t have a knowledge
of good and evil, so they can’t act on that, but we can. Beasts can act upon
other things, including us. Just not per good or evil. We can act upon
them for good or evil. A rock doesn’t have knowledge, and so can’t act. Only be
acted upon.
So
that is how we get our ability to act, by our knowledge.
We
were given a knowledge of good and evil in the garden of eden. Before that Adam
and Eve didn’t have it, and were therefore like children. Can I say like
beasts? No, they could speak and stuff, right? That I don’t
know.
But
they were at least like children. Power isn’t given unto children to sin
because they don’t know sin from righteousness. They don’t know good and evil
yet. That’s how the power isn’t given unto them.
Thursday,
Feb 20
A lot
of good it does to go through the more famous theories of psychology as they
try to explain everything all by themselves in turn. Do you have students think about these things
themselves?
Adam
and Eve must not have had self-reflection before the fall, before they partook
of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. They didn't know they were naked before, and
then all of a sudden they knew they were naked.
They could see themselves from another person's point of view. They could see themselves from outside of
themselves. They could imagine what they
looked like from another person's perspective.
They became self-reflective. And
it all happened when they gained a knowledge of good and evil. How did that happen? We have the time correlation, but not the
link between knowledge of good and evil, and self-awareness or whatever.
It had
been given unto them to choose, before they transgressed. They had the commandment not to eat of the
tree (it was forbidden), while they were yet child-like and innocent. Only after they made the choice to transgress
the commandment did they gain a knowledge of good and evil, right? Only then did they become self-reflective,
and see that they were naked, and were ashamed.
Saturday,
Feb 22, 2020
Just
read something online that put brain chemicals at the top of the list of
possible causes for mental illness.
You're trying to be nice. But
you're not helpful. You're the coach who
tells the basketball player it's not their fault they keep missing. You're trying to make them feel better by
telling them it's out of their control.
Big help. Thanks a lot.
Brain
chemicals. Same website linked to
another website that said brain chemicals as a cause is a weak argument often
meant to make it feel less personal and easier to talk about and get treatment
for. Well which website it right?? I say the latter. The latter cited a number of different
factors, called it a complex combination of factors, but it didn't put brain
chemicals and head trauma at the top of the list. My goodness!
Friday,
Feb 28
It's
an addiction. It is an addiction. Surely it is an addiction. Depression and anxiety are addictions, the
same as alcoholism or drugs or pornography are addictions. They're a trap. They come in grades - or it runs on a
continuum from none to mild to serious.
The more serious it is means the harder it is to escape. It's a trap of Satan. And yes, Satan is involved in
depression. Sorry everybody. But it's a disease, you say, and it comes on
at no fault of the person involved. Well
diseases sometimes do and sometimes don't, right? Lifestyle and other things that happen can be
factors in diseases forming. But you're
right - it is a disease, and it can come regardless of the actions of the
person involved. Still involves
Satan. I'm sure you think diseases don't
involve Satan either - then how does Jesus rebuke them at his word? Why does it say Jesus rebuked the fever?
------
Stop
blaming it on the brain, guys! Stop
blaming it on the brain!
The
brain is like gravitons. It's an
unnecessary postulation for explaining stuff.
Nobody understands it anyway. We
push it off to something we can't understand, phenomena that nobody's observed,
to explain what self-deception can explain just fine. Like the theory of relativity. Genetics is like gravitons. Genetics isn't understood, and while all
these people think it's going to soon explain everything, let's face it, it's
not. But why wait? We can see how people learn from the modeling
and so forth of their parents and others how to behave and cope and think and
feel and everything else, for one, and genetics isn't needed. You people!
Why push off the explanation to something that nobody understands, which
nobody can see? The Jews sought for
things they couldn't understand, and so the Lord gave it to them. They didn't like plain things. They didn't want the simple explanations, the
things right before their eyes. They
wanted to look beyond the mark. Isn't
that what we do when we push the explanation off to the brain, the mysterious
brain, and to genetics? Who understands
genetics? Very very little is understood
of genetics. A few physical traits, may
be understood. But people give it way
too much responsibility. Stop blaming
everything on genetics, guys!
Stop
blaming everything on the brain. Let's
face it, you don't know that the explanation lies with the brain, you're just
postulating that! You haven't seen it in
the brain!
Q: Do we have a sixth sense?
A: Whatever you want to call it, we definitely
have the ability to sense things spiritually, just like we do physically. We are half spirit, you might say. We're spirits housed in a physical body. And just as we have sight, hearing, touch,
taste, and smell, do we not have similar senses on the spiritual side?
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By Clayton PixtonJust including all my notes here...
Wednesday,
February 19, 2020
I was
listening to the car parts episode. That was a good one. I think we need to
take more seriously the duty or whatever to be able to explain how something
works, like depression and anxiety. We take time, and I’m thinking of a
textbook, going through each individual theory and explaining how it accounts
for why something or other happens, but we don’t take enough time synthesizing
the insights of those theories to explain in a real, substantive, helpful way
how they help to explain how something happens actually. I remember in
undergraduate school studying psychology, and after having read this entire
textbook which had the above approach meaning that of treating each theory kind
of separately, somewhere at the end as if in a little footnote, it was stated
that the authors believe that all of the theories help to explain a different
aspect of what’s happening. Well if that’s the case, don’t you think you should
synthesize them and use them to explain what’s actually happening??? What are
you trying to do anyway? Aren’t we trying to understand these things? A lot of
good you do telling students about all these different theories as if they
individually can explain everything, and then move onto the next theory that
thinks it can explain everything too. They obviously contradict each other. At
least if you try to do it that way. They can’t all be right.
And
don’t theorists need to be a little more responsible and a little less dumb and
realize that one insight will not explain every phenomenon in psychology?
Surely we can be better. And surely we can have more discussions about how the
different theories work together and what might be missing and surely other
things. Lots on the spiritual side for sure. Which psychology wants to shun
since it’s not scientific. You’re right it’s not scientific. It has to do with
things of the Spirit, which is the part of matter science doesn’t see. It
doesn’t deal with it. Science deals with things you can see.
Wednesday,
Feb 19, 2020
Every
thing that has knowledge has the ability to act according to that knowledge. A
gnat has knowledge, and is free to act thereon. Beasts don’t have a knowledge
of good and evil, so they can’t act on that, but we can. Beasts can act upon
other things, including us. Just not per good or evil. We can act upon
them for good or evil. A rock doesn’t have knowledge, and so can’t act. Only be
acted upon.
So
that is how we get our ability to act, by our knowledge.
We
were given a knowledge of good and evil in the garden of eden. Before that Adam
and Eve didn’t have it, and were therefore like children. Can I say like
beasts? No, they could speak and stuff, right? That I don’t
know.
But
they were at least like children. Power isn’t given unto children to sin
because they don’t know sin from righteousness. They don’t know good and evil
yet. That’s how the power isn’t given unto them.
Thursday,
Feb 20
A lot
of good it does to go through the more famous theories of psychology as they
try to explain everything all by themselves in turn. Do you have students think about these things
themselves?
Adam
and Eve must not have had self-reflection before the fall, before they partook
of the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. They didn't know they were naked before, and
then all of a sudden they knew they were naked.
They could see themselves from another person's point of view. They could see themselves from outside of
themselves. They could imagine what they
looked like from another person's perspective.
They became self-reflective. And
it all happened when they gained a knowledge of good and evil. How did that happen? We have the time correlation, but not the
link between knowledge of good and evil, and self-awareness or whatever.
It had
been given unto them to choose, before they transgressed. They had the commandment not to eat of the
tree (it was forbidden), while they were yet child-like and innocent. Only after they made the choice to transgress
the commandment did they gain a knowledge of good and evil, right? Only then did they become self-reflective,
and see that they were naked, and were ashamed.
Saturday,
Feb 22, 2020
Just
read something online that put brain chemicals at the top of the list of
possible causes for mental illness.
You're trying to be nice. But
you're not helpful. You're the coach who
tells the basketball player it's not their fault they keep missing. You're trying to make them feel better by
telling them it's out of their control.
Big help. Thanks a lot.
Brain
chemicals. Same website linked to
another website that said brain chemicals as a cause is a weak argument often
meant to make it feel less personal and easier to talk about and get treatment
for. Well which website it right?? I say the latter. The latter cited a number of different
factors, called it a complex combination of factors, but it didn't put brain
chemicals and head trauma at the top of the list. My goodness!
Friday,
Feb 28
It's
an addiction. It is an addiction. Surely it is an addiction. Depression and anxiety are addictions, the
same as alcoholism or drugs or pornography are addictions. They're a trap. They come in grades - or it runs on a
continuum from none to mild to serious.
The more serious it is means the harder it is to escape. It's a trap of Satan. And yes, Satan is involved in
depression. Sorry everybody. But it's a disease, you say, and it comes on
at no fault of the person involved. Well
diseases sometimes do and sometimes don't, right? Lifestyle and other things that happen can be
factors in diseases forming. But you're
right - it is a disease, and it can come regardless of the actions of the
person involved. Still involves
Satan. I'm sure you think diseases don't
involve Satan either - then how does Jesus rebuke them at his word? Why does it say Jesus rebuked the fever?
------
Stop
blaming it on the brain, guys! Stop
blaming it on the brain!
The
brain is like gravitons. It's an
unnecessary postulation for explaining stuff.
Nobody understands it anyway. We
push it off to something we can't understand, phenomena that nobody's observed,
to explain what self-deception can explain just fine. Like the theory of relativity. Genetics is like gravitons. Genetics isn't understood, and while all
these people think it's going to soon explain everything, let's face it, it's
not. But why wait? We can see how people learn from the modeling
and so forth of their parents and others how to behave and cope and think and
feel and everything else, for one, and genetics isn't needed. You people!
Why push off the explanation to something that nobody understands, which
nobody can see? The Jews sought for
things they couldn't understand, and so the Lord gave it to them. They didn't like plain things. They didn't want the simple explanations, the
things right before their eyes. They
wanted to look beyond the mark. Isn't
that what we do when we push the explanation off to the brain, the mysterious
brain, and to genetics? Who understands
genetics? Very very little is understood
of genetics. A few physical traits, may
be understood. But people give it way
too much responsibility. Stop blaming
everything on genetics, guys!
Stop
blaming everything on the brain. Let's
face it, you don't know that the explanation lies with the brain, you're just
postulating that! You haven't seen it in
the brain!
Q: Do we have a sixth sense?
A: Whatever you want to call it, we definitely
have the ability to sense things spiritually, just like we do physically. We are half spirit, you might say. We're spirits housed in a physical body. And just as we have sight, hearing, touch,
taste, and smell, do we not have similar senses on the spiritual side?