[MD] Reifying carrots

[118]

Yes, there are happy drugs of course.  But this whole notion of
creating a structure for how we think and behave I find ridiculous.
How can one person tell another how they are thinking?  It is all
projection.  It is also a spiritual dead end.  It cannot survive the
inner nature of man.  It completely blocks growth of any kind.

Certainly the aspect of confessionals at a psychiatrists office
followed by advice are useful, but this massive academic explanation
of the way things are in our heads is nonsense.  This was already done
thousands of years ago.  Now we claim it is science therefore we must
abide by it.  Baloney.

Mark

On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 10:46 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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> Mostly pill pushers, but not all.
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> On Dec 5, 2010, at 1:44 PM, 118 wrote:
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>> Hi Marsha,
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>> Yes, open in a way, but very directed by the concept of psychology.
>> This is a construct that is used to control and confuse.  In today's
>> world it is very prevalent, and our saviors are now psychologists.
>> What a racket!
>>
>> Mark
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>> On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 12:46 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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>>> Mark,
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>>> I'm not sure what you mean.  My point was the influence of Eastern
>>> thought.  James seems to have been open to new ideas and quite
>>> dynamic.
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>>> Marsha
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>>> On Dec 4, 2010, at 11:53 PM, 118 wrote:
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>>>> Hi Marsha,
>>>> Yeah, James was pretty smart until he got into psychology.  Then he
>>>> just became another hack.  What a waste.
>>>>
>>>> Mark
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>>>> On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 7:21 AM, MarshaV <valkyr at att.net> wrote:
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>>>>> Buddhism planted the seeds in James:
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>>>>> James's biography clearly states he had read and reread
>>>>> Upanishad and Buddhist texts, texts that belonged to his
>>>>> father.  This would have been around 1870.
>>>>>
>>>>> Here's a list of some of the books:
>>>>>
>>>>>    Modern Buddhist - Alabaster
>>>>>    Religion des Buddha (Vol.1) - Koeppen
>>>>>    Le Buddhisme - Taine
>>>>>    Weltauffas der Buddhisten - Bastian
>>>>>    Brahma Somej: Four Lectures - Sen
>>>>>
>>>>>    (William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism
>>>>>        by Robert D. Richardson)
>>>>>
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