Posted on 01/19/2024 9:07:39 AM PST by Antoninus
Anecdote. An elderly (even older than I — imagine!) lady in my former congregation lost a grandson to murder. She was ashamed to ask for help. She reproached herself for not being stronger. Reasonable people of good will may differ, but to me the reluctance to seek professional secular help prolongs a lot of illness.
Sorry, was nit-picking ... or very nearly.
Currently wnduring physical therapy ans realising again that “solace” like “comfort” USED to mean something like “strengthening,” and now means something like “soothing.”
There’s a real sample bias here.
Yes I do.
They’re not.
So, noting the sample bias problem ...
You’ll get no fight from me. Teaching is aeak and spiritual practice often misshapen or neglected. The parent in question was so wholeheartedly Pelagian that there was open disagreement with St. Paul.
True. BUT, when does “political disagreement” devolve into sheer delusion??? Take for example, Trump Derangement Syndrome. While you can disagree with Trump, and still be sane, what if that same person goes off into Rob Reiner land, where Trump becomes a racist Nazi-from-Hell homophobe?
I think then you are dealing with actual mental illness.
Count me in the crowd of mentally-ill who doesn't think the obvious and predictable negative consequences of a (not so) moderate amount of socialism will be fixed by going all-out Utopian Socialist.
Maybe we just need a higher-class of technocrat, more lawyers like Penelope here, to make it finally work.
That has become a completely worthless BS term, as utterly meaningless as "racist", "sexist", or "homophobic".
I disagree. I think Trump drives some people off the Sanity Trail, and in a big way. He has become the personification of Evil to them. Way, way beyond the rational.
Yep ... political disagreement == insanity.
A lot of people on this forum see the likes of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton as the personification of Evil. Think about it.
Let’s stay away from Stalinist thinking.
People suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome are already head cases or psychologically fragile. Their pathological hatred of Trump is merely how the disease expresses itself.
Interesting.
Can you identify instances of frothing political hatred against Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton?
BTW, I think Mrs. Clinton should be in federal prison, probably for the rest of her life.
Well, it is certainly anecdotal in the sense that this was Jung’s observation within his practice.
But Jung’s theory was that the perceived lack of neuroses had to do with Catholics availing themselves of Confession and the Mass...not just general religiosity.
In that respect, yes, it is about the religion. If someone has theological presuppositions, they will reflect the way that person lives his life.
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