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Should Be Known episodes

June 14, 2020 23: It’s All The Same Stuff
(Full Notes) Thursday, April 23, 2020 So apparently we can sin ignorantly (see the angel’s words to King Benjamin and… Read more 23: It’s All The Same Stuff
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June 04, 2020 22: The Status on Anxiety
Full Notes:
Tuesday,
April 7, 2020
What
I’m talking about, self-deception, is not a contributing factor to mental
illness. If it were a contributing factor you could take it away and still have
mental illness. No, it is common to all cases. It’s common to us all. Again,
it’s like internal combustion in gasoline engines, or lift for something that
flies. There all the time.
Therapy is probably great, I guess, but isn’t therapy really hard to do for some people, and maybe less effective for some people? Wouldn’t some people sooner self-medicate before they go make an appointment to talk to somebody and spill their guts out to a stranger? Not saying they shouldn’t do therapy, just saying some people find it harder, for one reason or another, and that’s why many people don’t. Even if they “need it.” Maybe some of those people would listen to a podcast, though, or read a book. Or watch YouTube. Maybe some people would rather do it in private than do it with a therapist. Just a thought.
Thursday,
April 9, 2020
Again,
not that more people maybe shouldn’t do therapy. But you might reach more
people that way. Plus not everybody has an issue at a “clinical level”. Many
people might struggle with depression or anxiety or whatever, but it might be
“sub-clinical”.
Surely this is a spiritual thing. Surely depression is a spiritual sickness. And same with anxiety. May have physical factors, I guess. But surely it’s a spiritual thing. Why do I say that? I guess for me there is an attitude issue. There is a lack of faith. There’s a gratitude issue. There’s a lack of forgiveness. There’s a lack of hope, which is despair. The lack of faith is doubt. The lack of confidence is fear. Doubt not, fear not. Look into me in every thought. I’m sure I don’t look into the Lord in every thought when I’m struggling with depression and anxiety. What does LDS social services say about this all? How do they handle it? (What are they called now, by the way?)
Monday,
April 13, 2020
Find a
way to illustrate how sometimes you can't do much in the moment of great alarm,
but you can in other moments. It's true,
right? How do you illustrate that?
Tuesday,
April 14, 2020
How
about tending to a plant? Allegory of
the Lord's olive trees.
Should
I edit the Spirit episode to nix the unenlightening discussion on Christ and
the legion of spirits, and put in instead how in ways we don't understand we
are influenced by both good and evil spirits.
I have to imagine that's how we are tempted/influenced to do bad things,
and that's how we get stuck in traps of bad behaviors, etc. Evil spirits don't just help us in that
process, they are integral to that process.
And also good spirits have their part to play in our protection and who
knows what else. We are surrounded. Both by the good and the evil spirits. And our choices make us subject to the evil
spirits, who have the power to captivate as we subject ourselves to them. This is how I imagine it.
Friday,
April 17, 2020
Peace
and happiness. Happiness and peace. Don’t those correspond to depression and
anxiety? Those are the two things we
want, right - peace and happiness? And
the absence of peace is anxiety, and the absence of happiness is depression?
The
opposite of hope is despair (and despair cometh because of iniquity…). The
opposite of faith is fear. What am I getting at, here? I don’t know. But we all want peace and
happiness. And instead we get anxiety and depression. Depression is misery.
It’s not just the absence of feeling. I’ve been wondering if depression doesn’t
describe more than one thing. Because there’s absence of feeling, and there’s
misery. There’s being out of touch with yourself, and there’s acute misery,
right? I don’t know. All I know is I
need to have more fun in my life. What was that elder describing on my
mission? It was basically depression,
I’d say, but it was more about being out of touch with myself. What was
that? What is that? I’ve been calling it depression. But then
what’s the more acute misery?
Tuesday,
April 21, 2020
Ok,
what is anxiety? If you read any
psychology book on the matter we’re on the subject, it will tell you that
anxiety that troubles us is no different than the normal healthy kind that we
experience that keeps us out of danger and keeps us being smart. I just don’t
know that I think it’s really the same thing. Seems to me like this bad,
damaging, maladaptive kind of anxiety is different. It’s born of a lie. That
things are going to be bad and we can’t take it and it will be the end of the
world. There’s a lie behind this stuff. There’s not a lie behind driving
safely. It’s distorted. It’s maladaptive. That means it’s not helping us, and
we’re going in the opposite direction of what we should. So I guess to me it seems
like there’s a qualitative difference to this kind of anxiety. I could be
wrong. But it seems like there’s just a qualitative difference. What do you
guys think? If we figured out the depression is in essence the lie that you are
not worth anything, and anxiety is the lie that your world is going to end, and
depression is a rejection of the self, or a failure to forgive yourself, Then
what is anxiety? There’s got to be an answer.
There’s got to be a way to understand this.
No anxiety is definitely fear, right. Man, I don’t know why this is so hard for me to wrap my head around. But I will celebrate when we figure this out. Anxiety is fear, or giving into your fear, and chronic anxiety, or the pattern of anxiety that we see, is an inset, established, biological practically or really actually form of the shorter term thing. Just like the shorter term depression is dissing yourself, and the longer-term is all the results of that, anxiety in the short term is fearing, and then the long term is all the yuckiness that goes along with that. Seems like these spiritual principles have a little lag time or something.
To
what can we liken that? We will keep working on this question. It’s an
important one – the relation between the immediate action and the long-term
condition.
I wish I had the answers to these questions
right now, for your sake, but I don’t. And that’s what this podcast is. Maybe
one day I’ll have a podcast where I disseminate information without asking any
questions, but it’s not now.
22 min
June 04, 2020 22: The Status on Anxiety
Full Notes: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 What I’m talking about, self-deception, is not a contributing factor to mental illness. If… Read more 22: The Status on Anxiety
22 min
May 22, 2020 21: Fun More Seriously
Monday, Mar 23, 2020
They
were talking about the brain today, on my psychology podcast. People. More
research is needed, he said. More research is always needed. When are we going
to understand the brain, I ask you? Does
the brain really cause our behaviors like you’re thinking? Or doesn’t it reflect our behaviors? Don’t we cause our behaviors? I think we do, more than “the brain”. Just a
personal opinion.
What
does it mean to look beyond the mark?
It’s the same as seeking for things we can’t understand, is it not? Surely. And why do we do that? The answer is right before us, if we’ll have
it, isn’t it. It’s easier than we’re thinking. We over-complicate things.
That’s what we do, isn’t it. Some of us, at least.
This
is it. We have the answers not that far from us sometimes, but we don’t want
them. Is that what I do?
Friday,
Mar 27, 2020
But is
it possible that as a society we could all be missing the mark together on a
subject as big as this? Well we do with
religion, right? We can all miss it
together. But not everybody.
Necessarily. Some people might
know the truth, and it's just the general population that's missing it. But with depression and anxiety, seems like
there's no group of people that get it, even an enlightened group. It would be on the internet, right? Somewhere.
Surely somebody can figure it out and the word can spread, even if to a
small number who are willing to hear it and understand it.
Here's
the thing. Satan is involved, and
self-deception is involved, but the person isn't necessarily condemned before
the Lord. We can't judge, right? You go against the light, you self-deceive,
and your path is darkened. We're all
fallen. We all fall short. We are all in need of the atonement. Why do we need to judge each other? We can say in our hearts that another has
caused his own difficulties. Well that
may be true, right, but isn't it the same with our own difficulties? Surely it's possible for us all to cause some
of our own difficulties. And some
not. We want to say officially that
nobody causes their own difficulties, but that's not true. Sometimes we do. But that's no reason not to have compassion
on one another. Right? Because don't we all do the same, in one way
or another? We all do it, from the least
to the greatest. Just not Jesus Christ.
We
talked about "What can we do?"
What do you think we can do?
What's the answer to that question?
Or the answers? Is it many
possible things, and they may be different for each situation? Surely that's it. But surely we can also find some commonality
in our answers and give suggestions to each other. Which we do.
Saturday,
Mar 28, 2020
I want
this podcast to be more fun. I imagine
more laughing. Do I need Skye? Or do I need to be more relaxed when I do it?
Tues,
Mar 31, 2020
Isn’t
anxiety just a big excuse? Think about
addiction. There is something appealing
about anxiety and depression. There’s a reward, make no mistake about it.
Addiction needs a reward. Well anxiety and depression have rewards. The excuse
is the reward. Excuse for what? In the
case of anxiety, for not doing what you need to do that’s hard and requires
ignoring your fear.
In the
case of depression the reward is the excuse for being happy. That’s why it’s
expressly miserable. That’s the definition of depression - misery, the opposite
of happiness. Misery gives us our excuse for…not being happy. It can be hard to
be happy. It requires giving up our pride sometimes. Giving up our misery can
be hard, it can take a hard swallow of pride. We can humble ourselves by being
happy, by being grateful, by realizing how blessed we are.
Surely
this is it.
This
mechanism of self-justification and self-deception is hard to pinpoint - what
the excuse is and what the deception is. It’s a little hard to think
about. Can I make some headway that way? Find the pattern, the universal description?
But
depression is a big excuse. And anxiety is a big excuse. Not like we think
maybe, but it is. Excuse for what? For not being happy, and for not being
peaceful, respectively. It can be hard to be peaceful. You don’t get to have
the excuse of being nerve-wracked. You have to face whatever it is alone, with
just you and your laziness. “I was lazy, and a little bit rebellious.” Look that up.
This
is good. (Is not this real?). Thinking about it from the outside though this
sounds terrible. How do I say this? With
love.
It is
a trap. It gets worse the more you indulge.
I say
anxiety is a big excuse, and depression.
But remember we are not necessarily condemned by God (right?) There are many reasons we can be in that
pattern. But oh, it's there. You can't throw that away just because it's
hard. And none of this is an excuse to
stop loving anybody. That's always
there, too. You can have issues and
still deserve love. Everyone deserves
our love. Surely the two are true at the
same time. That we are excusing
ourselves from going against the light in one way or another, and that we
deserve love and are loved by our Heavenly Father. It's just the mechanics of this fallen
world. Yea, this is going to go over
great in the world.
And
there's a chemical aspect of depression and anxiety, like a bunch of things,
and whatever else goes along with it.
But I tell you that these things with self-deception are going on too,
in every case. Oh yes, every case. Does that mean it's the
"cause"? We've gone over
this. No, not necessarily. This is a principle, like internal
combustion, that is necessary but goes without saying, as long as you
understand it. But understand it. Understand it. You would want to know about internal
combustion to understand your car, and you might as well understand this to
understand psychology. Understand
self-deception. Understand there is a
light we either conform to or self-deceive.
Take it or perish. You never win
going against it. But we do all the
time, and that's part of life and frankly, it's ok as long as we're trying and
if we believe in Jesus Christ and do works meet for repentance then we'll be
saved, we'll be ok.
But
you can't do evil to yourself or anybody else, with impunity. Depression is doing evil to yourself.
So
since self-deception, self-justification are part of depression and anxiety,
how do you combat them? Exercise. Sleep.
Eat better. Work on your
relationships. All those things they say
to do. But just don't expect that you
can do them and hold on to your grudge against yourself, or give in to the lie
of anxiety. Those things have to be
done, too.
This
is an imperfect podcast… I try to be as
right as I can, while treading on some ground that is new. I hope you'll forgive me if I lead you astray
in any way. I think, I hope, you
understand the nature of this podcast.
It's theoretical, it's not meant to take the place of therapy. I'm not saying all the things you need to
hear, necessarily. It's imperfect and
I'm acknowledging that. Most of all I
hope you don't think that since you're doing these things that there's something
wrong with you. Believe me, you're very
normal. And I can tell you your Father
in Heaven loves you, more than you can imagine.
Maybe with His help you can deal with this thing. Maybe you'll get a lot better, maybe you will
continue to struggle with it for the rest of your life to some extent. I pray you'll be able to get to a point where
it will be at least tolerable and you'll be able to perform whatever mission
your Father in Heaven has for you on this earth, despite your
difficulties. None of us are perfect and
many of us have to deal with very hard things, perhaps our whole lives to some
extent. Hang in there. Don't stop trying. Maybe pray that we'll get a better
understanding of these things. Try to do
the things you can do. Your Heavenly
Father loves you.
Thursday,
April 2, 2020
Satan
is involved. He sure is. No question about it. Hate to say it, I know it's unpopular, but he
is. He's involved. These things are traps. His traps.
And his lies. And his power. All darkness is of him. All captivity is of him. You better believe it. Don't have to, but if you want to understand
psychology and life then you do. No
other way, sorry. (The brain.)
None
of this means God doesn't love you - He does, and though you may be in a trap,
He's there for you, He's with you and wants you to be happy.
20 min
May 22, 2020 21: Fun More Seriously
Monday, Mar 23, 2020 They were talking about the brain today, on my psychology podcast. People. More research is needed,… Read more 21: Fun More Seriously
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May 04, 2020 20: Killin Me
Tuesday,
March 3, 2020
YouTube. Some will say since every case of depression
is different it's no use to try to help people in any broad way with their own
depression. It has to be only
individual, only by a professional. And
professionals are great, when you can afford one and have time for one and when
they know what they're doing. But to say
that there shouldn't be any broad knowledge about psychology, to say there
shouldn't be any DIY psychology, would be like saying there shouldn't be a
YouTube for fixing cars. YouTube is
great for fixing your own car. Sometimes
that's the best option, and it's good for people to be able to do their own
stuff if they can and want to. I say
it's the same with psychology. Give the
power to the people. Don't have to take
away professionals, but why feel like the power has to be consolidated in paid
professionals when there are so many things a lay person can do him or
herself? That's what I say. Just like people can fix their own cars if
they want to, let people do their own psychology if they want to. We can do a lot. I'm not saying all of it, all the time, just
don't take away our ability to do that.
Let knowledge flow freely. ($170
for a DSM book!)
Was reading in [a book]. He says since we’re actively producing our emotional problems, we can eliminate them at their source. (Through the means discussed in this book.) a few things. You’re saying the source is our self betrayal. Is that the source, or is it just an aspect, a necessary ingredient, an essential part of the mechanism, like I’m saying? Then you’d be saying everybody’s emotional problems is caused by self-betrayal. You focus on that thing, like it is the sole cause and therefore the sole solution. Don’t do that. Then you’re stuck, which you are, saying the only thing to do is to stop self-betraying, which is not directly possible) and everything else is futile to do, which is not true. Surely self-betrayal, or to me self-deception and all, is only an essential ingredient, helpful to understand but not necessarily the thing to focus on, or to try to directly do.
What
can we do? Read the talk Beware of Pride
and go through the ways we can humble ourselves. Notice that none of the ways
he says are “will yourself to be humble” or “stop being prideful”. We don’t do
it directly, we do it kind of indirectly. Even Terry Warner says on p 299, “we
cannot get ourselves emotionally unstuck no matter how we might try. We cannot
do it by denying or repressing our feelings or by willing ourselves to feel
differently—feelings are subject to our indirect but not our direct
control.”
Also,
if you say our emotional problems are caused by self betrayal, don’t you have
to say depression and anxiety are caused by self-betrayal? How can you separate the emotional problems
that are higher in degree than others?
Thirdly,
there are no means discussed in the book, except the two I've said before - the
writing exercise and asking forgiveness for failing to forgive. But those two things can be done in the wrong
way too, so you're left with nothing.
It’s
tempting to see these insights about self-deception involved in depression and
anxiety and think that self deception is the root cause of depression. I would
caution against that, and say that it is a necessary part of it, but not the
root cause. If you say it is the root cause, what can you do about your
emotional problems, except somehow stop self-deceiving? You might not be able to act on that
directly, right? The thing you need to
focus on may be completely different - forgive the person, pray for the power
to forgive (the person or yourself), prepare more, organize better, get more
sleep, change your job, do something fun once in a while, enjoy the people
you’re with, go to the temple more, pray, read the scriptures, go to church,
fast, whatever it might be for you. See a therapist, take medication, whatever.
Can’t all those things help you not be stressed and depressed and therefore
stop self-deceiving and self-betraying in that way? (Well medication might be more a treating of
the symptoms?)
Saturday,
Mar 7, 2020
Hmm.
When you see how self deception and pride are at the heart of emotional
troubles it is natural to think that they are the cause and the solution,
right? But something doesn’t smell right
about that. Like I’ve said before, those things are just part of the mechanism.
Internal combustion. But the reason your car isn’t going, while it is true that
internal combustion isn’t happening correctly, may be something electrical, or
gas related, or whatever. You don’t do a compression check every time your car
stalls. Yes, compression has to be there, but you troubleshoot smarter than
that.
I hope
that analogy is somewhat helpful. I’m just trying to say that while pride,
while self-deception, while going against the light (or self-betrayal), while
self-justification may be a part of all mental illness and depression and
anxiety, surely it is not the proper thing to focus on. Maybe don’t lose focus
on it, or remember that it’s part of it, maybe keep it in mind, but don’t
necessarily make that the primary cause.
A
discussion of causality is in order. If you think about it, isn’t there no such
thing as a single cause for anything?
Isn’t everything caused, so to speak, by multiple factors? And when we say that something causes another
thing we are really saying it is the primary causing factor? The one that stands out, the one we need to
pay the most attention to?
What
caused the airplane to crash? Well a
lack of lift, right? Well of course,
that goes without saying! But the
primary cause, or the one that stands out, the one we should pay attention to,
is going to be something different, right?
Ice on the wings. A mechanical failure of any number of types. Pilot
error of any number of types. An electrical error of any number of types.
Analyzing the black box is a whole science (if it has one). Surely so is
psychology. It’s not just always self-betrayal, or pride, or self-deception.
Those things go without saying.
Monday,
Mar 9, 2020
It’s an interesting question, and one worth considering, whether there’s a concrete action that can be taken to address the issue, or whether there isn’t. Some say that since any concrete action, basically, can be done insincerely, it’s basically no use trying. The only action to do is to stop self-betraying. But that’s not right, is it! Though it’s true that any particular action can basically be done two ways, it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do it, if that’s what’s right for you. The Light of Christ can be your guide, surely! There must be SOMETHING each person can do in each situation to address whatever issue it is, maybe even if the answer sometimes includes being patient. That’s what I have to think.
Even
you say to ask forgiveness for withholding forgiveness. As if that couldn’t be
done insincerely! Of course it can! And that one other thing you say to do (in
the whole book!) - some writing exercise. You have to admit EVERYTHING can be
done in 2 ways. Including those 2 things you suggested. So what can we do? Surely the Spirit knows. Surely it is
different for each person, and surely there are multiple things a person could
possibly do in at least many situations, if not all. A writing exercise.
Prayer. Fasting. Address the person.
Internally let something go. Exercise. Sleep better. Eat better. Ignore
something. Pay attention to something. Remember something. Forget something.
SOMETHING. Surely!
This
deserves some more discussion. And examples. Read your scriptures, go to
church, go to the temple, something. Maybe more than one thing.
And is
it not true that somewhere deep down, we know what to do? Hmm. Might need some help from the Holy Ghost
or somebody or reading something to know what that is. But surely we know it
somewhere all along.
I keep
using the term self betrayal, to be compatible with other ideas I’m jumping off
from. But I don’t love the term. I don’t think it’s really accurate. It makes
the self be the thing that is betrayed, it makes the truth that we go against
come from the self. But the truth comes from God. So God betrayal would be more
accurate, Or light of Christ betrayal. But then you have the word betrayal too.
To betray someone is to do a Judas Iscariot did to Jesus Christ. You are
friends with somebody and you turn them over to evil, or something. Anyway it’s
not the most helpful idea for what we do when we go against the truth.
Wednesday,
Mar 11, 2020
You
gotta admit guys, this is fun!
Tuesday,
Mar 17, 2020
This
question of "what can we do??" is big. Big, big.
Turns out we're always talking about that. We're always wondering about it. I know I am, especially. We may not always like the answer. And I think of how people say "just
don't worry about it," and how that's not always possible for everybody,
or whatever. The answer might be that
you can't always escape your problems right away. The thing you can do, or things, might be more
indirect and choices made at off-times.
Times outside the moment of alarm.
We may not like that. I know I
don't. Hmm.
Again,
I think of President Benson's talk "Beware of Pride". Many things we can do, to humble
ourselves. Most of them are in the
off-moment, if you know what I mean.
Outside the moment of great alarm.
Wednesday
And he
doesn’t list them as things to do to escape or prevent depression
26 min
May 04, 2020 20: Killin Me
Tuesday, March 3, 2020 YouTube. Some will say since every case of depression is different it’s no use to try… Read more 20: Killin Me
26 min
April 26, 2020 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?
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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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April 26, 2020 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… Read more 19: Stop Blaming the Brain
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April 13, 2020 18: The Essence of Depression
Major breakthrough. For me, at least. Depression is not forgiving yourself, just as you get spiritually sick (and maybe physically) if you fail to forgive another. That's the big insight. Terry Warner already did the work of explaining how when we don't forgive another we get spiritually sick. Apparently we can do the same exact thing, only with ourselves, and that's depression. We are self-reflective beings, which makes that possible.
Forgiveness, whether of another or ourselves, is only possible through the atonement of Jesus Christ. And that whether you realize it or not - works the same.
Have we wrestled depression to the ground?? We'll talk about this more.
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