Thoughts on Mental Illness and Teen Girls

Mental illness is rising, but teen girls have taken the worst of it. My take is different than most people’s: Mixed messages about their worth as human beings. Innate worth or no is the soul's inner ear. You have to navigate the world with it one way or the other, you...
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Christianity and Mental Illness Revisited

As my powers of articulation wane I leave more thoughts about why those who are mentally ill often don't stick with the faith. Psychotic breaks often involve what the sufferer perceives to be direct revelation from God and/or experiences of demons/the devil. After...
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Reasons Millennials and Zoomers are Leaving the Church

Hot on the heels of an article showing only 36% of millennials belong to a place of worship I give you some reasons I think the younger generation are leaving in droves: We don't "experience God"Let's face it, for the younger generation mental illness is rampant, some...
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Religion and Mental Illness

Most of Christianity promises positive experiences of God for adherents and converts. The experience of mental illness is exactly the opposite of this. So if Christianity could cure or even do a serviceable job of treating mental illness we would expect the zoomers to...
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Cut the Cocoon

One of the things God really hates is Twitter. He hates it because it's ugly and nasty. What do you expect the true voices of the marginalized to sound like, puppies and rainbows? The whole thrust of Judeo-Christian religion involved telling those on the bottom the...
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No Goodness, No Hope

It seems that society has shifted where you used to have to give an answer for the hope that was in you (1 Peter 3:15) where now it's expected of you that you give an answer for the hope you don't have. For me there is a real good reason for this because I have a...
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Is Man Basically Good?

I've gotten a lot of flack from liberals for not believing man is basically good. My experience has shown that a good portion of people are shitty when you need them most. Of course with all my pathologies I'm not one that generally attracts good people in the first...
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The Opposite of a Christian

The opposite of a Christian is not an atheist, it is someone with mental illness. Christianity posits that you can trust your inner voice, mental illness demonstrates that you can't. People say "God" tells you things that are outside the scope of what you could come...
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Imperative to Virtue and Hope

Religion has an imperative to virtue so when it tells you to hope it presupposes that there will be a supportive community rallying behind you. Modern psychology tells you not to lose hope but for different reasons. When there is no hope that means there needs to be...
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Advice for Christians Evangelizing Millennials

If you are trying to get people to be Christian the first thing I would say is do a gut check. How much are you willing to be inconvenienced in order to reach people? This is because none of the easy things people do to evangelize (like going on TV) work any more. You...
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They Lie, You Die

Sep 4, 2021 |

As you may well know over 1,000 people are dying of COVID per day as of today September 4, 2021. About 95% of COVID deaths are of unvaccinated individuals. That means if everybody were vaccinated we'd contend with around 50 deaths per day instead of 1,000. Basically a...

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On Insecurity

May 5, 2021 | ,

People tend to gaslight you calling you "insecure" when society thinks you're a piece of shit and you internalize it. What they fail to realize is value merits a quantitative assessment, not a qualitative one. If you are of low value then yeah you are going to feel...

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Religion and Mental Illness

Apr 5, 2021 | ,

Most of Christianity promises positive experiences of God for adherents and converts. The experience of mental illness is exactly the opposite of this. So if Christianity could cure or even do a serviceable job of treating mental illness we would expect the zoomers to...

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Mindfulness

Philosopher argues that mindfulness rests on dubious philosophical foundations
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Climate Anxiety

Great article on heat and how it affects mental health: People often turn to cognitive behavioral therapy, medications or other strategies to cope with difficult emotions. But “when it comes to the climate crisis, those interventions fall apart, because the threat is...
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Thoughts on Mental Illness and Teen Girls

Mental illness is rising, but teen girls have taken the worst of it. My take is different than most people’s: Mixed messages about their worth as human beings. Innate worth or no is the soul's inner ear. You have to navigate the world with it one way or the other, you...
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Therapy Speak

Great article on individualism and modern psychology. Yet it is precisely that rejection of our communal lives that makes therapy culture — at least the version of it on social media and in wellness advertisements — such an imperfect substitute. The idea that we are...
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Bipolar Bingo

Too hot for Facebook because it uses the S word (not that S word, the S word that involves the rope).
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Psychology is a Science and its Scope is Narrow

What psychology fails to understand is that if you want all the privileges of a being a science you also have to shoulder all the responsibilities of it. That includes the admission that while what you prognosticate is based on science it only applies to the subjects...
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A Couple Things That Feed Depression in the Modern World

The fact that you have to perform security. Psychologists and people cutting you off will slap the "insecure" label on you. That's all well and good but what the insecure label really means is you aren't performing security. Let's face it, interactions in modern life...
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On Insecurity

People tend to gaslight you calling you "insecure" when society thinks you're a piece of shit and you internalize it. What they fail to realize is value merits a quantitative assessment, not a qualitative one. If you are of low value then yeah you are going to feel...
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Modern Psychology and Suicide

Modern psychology is framed as the last defense against a suicidal person's impulses but this is framing it too charitably. Modern psychology is all about the atomized individual. It is wrong to need people as it is wrong to have people to need you. This weakens...
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Time to Confess my Psyns

I confess that I have psynned in thought, word, and deed. I confess that I have said and done things that modern psychology deems "unhealthy". I confess that I have not lived life as an atomized individual and have been less productive, less successful, and less whole...
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