“em>I question that.” – Now THERE’S a surprise I didn’t see coming!
While I’ll readily admit that his letter to Ark was a sermonette, his initial approach, when he first appeared here, was as I’ve described. As I was offering Zoe the Cliff Notes version, I saw no need to include the exception, or to discuss the price of rusty razor blades in Russia, which, as I understand it, is way out of line with actual value.
Devout believers who proselytize will use what ever tactic they can to keep their morphine drip dripping. And as Daniel poignantly pointed out, inner turmoil is a direct consequence of their addiction to god-belief, which is in turn caused by their desire to believe in a god, which causes them to lower their standards for what counts as “evidence for god”, which in turn causes them to infuse every random coincidence they witness, every incidence of normal human brain-weirdness with cosmic significance, which then hypnotizes them into believing that your own ego is a god.
That’s what’s so hilarious about Kathy always going on and on about our ego. Hello projection.
Our brains are keen on finding patterns, and it has played an evolutionary role in our survival, e.g.,tracking a pattern like figuring out the telltale signs of a man-eating cat in the area.
The problem is that our brains keep the pattern detection engine on all the time, which makes us susceptible to turning meaningless patterns into monumental events. Believers do this all the time.
NeuroVictoria posted this: anaivethinker says:
April 6, 2014 at :
“So, Victoria what do you worship? And, is it eating you alive? I implore you to search into yourself and give it serious consideration.”
This would make Brandon upset I think but I don’t intend it too. My first thought was “projection.” But my second thought was this . . . it reminds me of the serpent/snake in The Garden. It appears as subtle manipulation. Now I’m not saying it is done with intent. I don’t know him. But I remember the same tactics in my fundamentalist years. It seems condescending. Rather than “build up” it “tears down.” The biggest impact on our emotions was made when we were lowered to the lowest common denominator. When we were shamed. It reminds me of my ex-best friend who told me that I didn’t have Crohn’s disease. That I had “deep-seeded secret sin in my heart and if I would just confess my secret sin I wouldn’t have so-called Crohn’s disease.” A direct quote by the way. And this while she was bouncing a local pastor. 🙄
“Rather than “build up” it “tears down.” The biggest impact on our emotions was made when we were lowered to the lowest common denominator. When we were shamed.”
Zoe, I agree. Based on reading literally hundreds of Brandon’s comments, Brandon sees the world as evil, that humans are evil. I’d love to see an fMRI scan of his right amygdala. I’ll wager he has increased gray matter volume in that area which is the area of the brain responsible disdain, disgust and fear. The pattern I see with Brandon is that he continues to reinforce neural pathways and that reinforcement creates neural networks. In other words, he continues to indoctrinate himself.
I think religious practice, even belief in a god, poses no real harm so long as people have a healthy view of humanity and don’t try to impose their religious views on others at the cost of human rights and dignity. Paul is a clear example of how authoritarian religious indoctrination harms others.
Brandon is a medical doctor yet seems oblivious to the actual biological-neurological-ecological causes of antisocial behavior, and wants to blame it on our “evil” nature, on “sin”, therefore requiring a blood/death sacrifice of a “blemish free” being. That’s sad and scary. This is the 21st century with abundant information (explaining the whys) at our fingertips.
Oh hell, Arch, don’t blame Carmen. She’s only repeating what you’ve already fessed up to.
Now about this “dirty” comment. Don’t you compare me with your own perv mind. I don’t see bouncing around as dirty. I see you still have some Christian ways about you.
Carmen, I’m of the opinion that Arch is all mouth, no action.
“Now about this ‘dirty’ comment.” – You think I don’t know you little lady? Even as I was typing it, I KNEW the first thing you’d come back on me about, was the “dirty” comment, and even had a reply ready, changing it to “sexually explicit.” But even as I typed, I was saying to myself that just because I’m writing TO you, doesn’t necessarily mean that I’m writing exclusively FOR you, and to any average person reading, “dirty minds” is simply funnier than “sexually-explicit minds” – I went for the laugh, as usual, always leave ’em laughing!
As for Skyping, when was that invitation extended? I’m not sure I can Skype both of you, I may need to pop a Viagra first. Oh, wait – that’s the telephone thing, isn’t it –?
There are times – and this is one of them – when “LOL” just isn’t enough –!!
You’re the only woman I know who can always be depended on to get me back – I’ve never cared for that quality in you.
carmen: carmen
October 25, 2014 at 1:17 pm
Now there’s a word, Zoe. Boinking. While it cannot be considered an example of onomatopoeia, it is certainly a ‘spirited’ descriptor!
Love it. 🙂
So, I had to look that word up. Are you sure we can’t use it as an ono… whatever? How’s this for an example. As the bed bounced it went boinka boinka boinka.
I saw that during my literature lesson a few moments ago NeuroVictoria. 🙂 I chuckled.
And yes Arch (almost called you Archie) there’d be bouncing. Well, likely. I wasn’t there. By the way, I knew you’d say something about the bouncing.
But I didn’t write bouncing. The WordPressy thingy wrote it. I have enough of a problem self-editing, now I have to deal with an inanimate something that exists in the ether.
Okay, back to a healthy view of humanity. It is so difficult if not impossible I think (and I’m just me) and I know you’d agree, to stay healthy or balanced with the chronic message that we and they are evil. Living in the fundamentalist world I was in ate away at my non-supernatural soul, if you will. Here I am redeemed in Christ, decked out in my white robes of righteousness, a party to the constant NaCl drip of evilness dripping in my veins. Knowing, no reword that, believing that all will perish in a forever fire that consumes a never ending essence for an eternity. Blood was shed for me but in the end, not all will drink. And the mantra, the preaching, the constant threat of hell’s fire and the reminder that all is evil . . . chronic stress. And we know without balance, without equilibrium, we are not healthy.
Finding Truth 
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“em>I question that.” – Now THERE’S a surprise I didn’t see coming!
While I’ll readily admit that his letter to Ark was a sermonette, his initial approach, when he first appeared here, was as I’ve described. As I was offering Zoe the Cliff Notes version, I saw no need to include the exception, or to discuss the price of rusty razor blades in Russia, which, as I understand it, is way out of line with actual value.
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And yes, I agree that his blatant projection is IMAX quality.
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LOL
Devout believers who proselytize will use what ever tactic they can to keep their morphine drip dripping. And as Daniel poignantly pointed out, inner turmoil is a direct consequence of their addiction to god-belief, which is in turn caused by their desire to believe in a god, which causes them to lower their standards for what counts as “evidence for god”, which in turn causes them to infuse every random coincidence they witness, every incidence of normal human brain-weirdness with cosmic significance, which then hypnotizes them into believing that your own ego is a god.
That’s what’s so hilarious about Kathy always going on and on about our ego. Hello projection.
Our brains are keen on finding patterns, and it has played an evolutionary role in our survival, e.g.,tracking a pattern like figuring out the telltale signs of a man-eating cat in the area.
The problem is that our brains keep the pattern detection engine on all the time, which makes us susceptible to turning meaningless patterns into monumental events. Believers do this all the time.
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NeuroVictoria posted this: anaivethinker says:
April 6, 2014 at :
“So, Victoria what do you worship? And, is it eating you alive? I implore you to search into yourself and give it serious consideration.”
This would make Brandon upset I think but I don’t intend it too. My first thought was “projection.” But my second thought was this . . . it reminds me of the serpent/snake in The Garden. It appears as subtle manipulation. Now I’m not saying it is done with intent. I don’t know him. But I remember the same tactics in my fundamentalist years. It seems condescending. Rather than “build up” it “tears down.” The biggest impact on our emotions was made when we were lowered to the lowest common denominator. When we were shamed. It reminds me of my ex-best friend who told me that I didn’t have Crohn’s disease. That I had “deep-seeded secret sin in my heart and if I would just confess my secret sin I wouldn’t have so-called Crohn’s disease.” A direct quote by the way. And this while she was bouncing a local pastor. 🙄
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“boinking” the pastor. Darn WordPress self-correct.
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Now there’s a word, Zoe. Boinking. While it cannot be considered an example of onomatopoeia, it is certainly a ‘spirited’ descriptor!
Love it. 🙂
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“Rather than “build up” it “tears down.” The biggest impact on our emotions was made when we were lowered to the lowest common denominator. When we were shamed.”
Zoe, I agree. Based on reading literally hundreds of Brandon’s comments, Brandon sees the world as evil, that humans are evil. I’d love to see an fMRI scan of his right amygdala. I’ll wager he has increased gray matter volume in that area which is the area of the brain responsible disdain, disgust and fear. The pattern I see with Brandon is that he continues to reinforce neural pathways and that reinforcement creates neural networks. In other words, he continues to indoctrinate himself.
I think religious practice, even belief in a god, poses no real harm so long as people have a healthy view of humanity and don’t try to impose their religious views on others at the cost of human rights and dignity. Paul is a clear example of how authoritarian religious indoctrination harms others.
Brandon is a medical doctor yet seems oblivious to the actual biological-neurological-ecological causes of antisocial behavior, and wants to blame it on our “evil” nature, on “sin”, therefore requiring a blood/death sacrifice of a “blemish free” being. That’s sad and scary. This is the 21st century with abundant information (explaining the whys) at our fingertips.
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Wouldn’t you suspect, Zoe, that there was also a little bouncing in the boinking process?
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My thoughts exactly, Arch. When she first wrote bouncing, I had quite the visual. lol
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“My thoughts exactly, Arch. When she first wrote bouncing, I had quite the visual. lol” – I’ve always known we had a lot in common – dirty minds!
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Dirty? You just told on yourself. *wink*
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TOLD on myself?! I BRAG about it! I’ve even been accused by one who shall remain nameless, but whose initials are C-a-r-m-e-n, of exaggerating!
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LMAO over here. .. .my sides hurt. .
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Oh hell, Arch, don’t blame Carmen. She’s only repeating what you’ve already fessed up to.
Now about this “dirty” comment. Don’t you compare me with your own perv mind. I don’t see bouncing around as dirty. I see you still have some Christian ways about you.
Carmen, I’m of the opinion that Arch is all mouth, no action.
He’s still avoiding Skyping with us. 😀
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“Now about this ‘dirty’ comment.” – You think I don’t know you little lady? Even as I was typing it, I KNEW the first thing you’d come back on me about, was the “dirty” comment, and even had a reply ready, changing it to “sexually explicit.” But even as I typed, I was saying to myself that just because I’m writing TO you, doesn’t necessarily mean that I’m writing exclusively FOR you, and to any average person reading, “dirty minds” is simply funnier than “sexually-explicit minds” – I went for the laugh, as usual, always leave ’em laughing!
As for Skyping, when was that invitation extended? I’m not sure I can Skype both of you, I may need to pop a Viagra first. Oh, wait – that’s the telephone thing, isn’t it –?
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“I went for the laugh,
And you think I didn’t? Sucker!
Pop a Viagra?
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There are times – and this is one of them – when “LOL” just isn’t enough –!!
You’re the only woman I know who can always be depended on to get me back – I’ve never cared for that quality in you.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a lawn to mow —
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Yeah, do I know how to heat things up, or what? Must be my finely-honed approach – it’s patented, you know. You ARE fanning yourself, right?
Just stepped back in for the rebuttal – back to the lawn!
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No Arch, I was not fanning myself. It was a blah, blah blah emoticon. Is there ever a time when you are not mowing? Maybe you need some motivation.
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carmen: carmen
October 25, 2014 at 1:17 pm
Now there’s a word, Zoe. Boinking. While it cannot be considered an example of onomatopoeia, it is certainly a ‘spirited’ descriptor!
Love it. 🙂
So, I had to look that word up. Are you sure we can’t use it as an ono… whatever? How’s this for an example. As the bed bounced it went boinka boinka boinka.
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Zoe, if you look up ono examples, at the top of the list, example #1 is.. wait for it…
Moan
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I saw that during my literature lesson a few moments ago NeuroVictoria. 🙂 I chuckled.
And yes Arch (almost called you Archie) there’d be bouncing. Well, likely. I wasn’t there. By the way, I knew you’d say something about the bouncing.
But I didn’t write bouncing. The WordPressy thingy wrote it. I have enough of a problem self-editing, now I have to deal with an inanimate something that exists in the ether.
Goddess help me.
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Okay, back to a healthy view of humanity. It is so difficult if not impossible I think (and I’m just me) and I know you’d agree, to stay healthy or balanced with the chronic message that we and they are evil. Living in the fundamentalist world I was in ate away at my non-supernatural soul, if you will. Here I am redeemed in Christ, decked out in my white robes of righteousness, a party to the constant NaCl drip of evilness dripping in my veins. Knowing, no reword that, believing that all will perish in a forever fire that consumes a never ending essence for an eternity. Blood was shed for me but in the end, not all will drink. And the mantra, the preaching, the constant threat of hell’s fire and the reminder that all is evil . . . chronic stress. And we know without balance, without equilibrium, we are not healthy.
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