Hi, this is Fran and it's my first post here, although I recognise quite a few of you from OL :-) Taking a thread from OL - has anybody read the book Therapist...
In his lecture entitled "On Loving One's Life," Dr. Branden said: "the great thing that art can do so much better than non- fiction is to inspire courage."...
Hi Fran, Yours is one of those names that I look forward to seeing next to a new post. On OL I have come to associate your name with interesting information, a...
... I used to spend a fair amount of time and effort hammering the faithful. I was the guest atheist on lots of radio shows and on the occasional late ...
... Sorry for the delay, Mike- I've been on travel. A creed-based religion has a definite set of beliefs, and they are made quite clear (Jesus was the son of...
Mike is certainly right in that most of the high-profile terror and killin' going on by religions seems to be coming out of an Islamic base. But again, it...
Mike is certainly right in that most of the high-profile terror and killin' going on by religions seems to be coming out of an Islamic base. But again, it...
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Hi Basil, It sounds to me like you may need more work on fundamental psychological principles--and No, I'm not talking about they teach you at the average...
I tend to agree in general with you Allie. I would add that religious teachings tend to undercut the ability to reason by forbidding various so called sinful...
... ======================================================================= I think you've hit the nail on the head with these words. I believe the world would...
Why does everyone think religion is uniquely powerful as an institution that does this? Have none of you worked for a corporation? Volunteered in a soup ...
Is it not possible that the ability to reason and develop an independent personal perspective is undercut first by the choices a developing individual makes in...
I have been thinking more and more on what social metaphysics is. I believe it derives from significant fear in a situation where others appear hostile if one...
... Twenty years ago, I would never have admitted this, but there are significant benefits to many of these authoritarian environments, especially when they...
... especially ... scholarship ... Given ... hard for ... Balance is what I have come to respect in an individual or in the raising of an individual. In the...
Defining terms and properly labeling a child's circumstances makes all the difference when deciphering the mysteries of development, or so it seems to me. Take...
... You would think this is the way it is, and I used to think this was the way it is, but as I look around me, it isn't. There are many amazing stories out ...
... There's a lot more to how kids turn out than parenting. I think there's a natural tendency to attribute to parents more dispositve power over how kids turn...
Although he captures an important truth -- people can learn increased personal responsibility despite difficult childhoods -- Mike Lee incorrect in his...
... Let me clarify: I didn't say "negligible." I said recoverable. Overcoming my parents' incompetence and brutality has been a major task for me. But it's not...
I looked up "Forgiveness" in the Ayn Rand Lexicon ... there is no entry. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam?...
Mike Lee writes: "Psychology, in it pyrrhic quest to become a science, wishes that the past would determine or at least correlate strongly with the future, but...
I agree with some, but not all, of Mike Lee's comments in his most recent and very interesting post. In my view, to say difficult childhoods are "recoverable"...
... This gets down to the heart of the matter. I think saying the challenge is "so steep" is what is really misleading. Here's a really cool thing about human...
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