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Belief in God is a clinic
#31
RE: Belief in God is a clinic
Well, ish.  If you get really sad for a few days when your cat dies, you're not depressive.  If you're still really sad about your cat dying and it makes it hard to get out of bed and work, a year later, you're disordered.

If you consume human flesh in a society of cannibals, you're not disordered. If you consume human flesh in our society, you're a catholic.
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#32
RE: Belief in God is a clinic
(March 27, 2019 at 9:35 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: It isn't, at least not with respect to diagnosis as a disorder.  Being super religious in a religious community won't qualify someone.  As MA pointed out, typical beliefs...whatever those beliefs happen to be, evade the categorization.  It takes atypical beliefs to get a person into the running.  Doesn't matter much if the typical and atypical beliefs are equally loony or if they produce nearly identical consequences.

The atypicality of the one set is what causes difficulty in their lives, particularly with respect to interaction and relationships with the typical set.  That a person isn't disordered doesn't mean that they aren't balls to the wall crazy, it just means that they're balls to the wall crazy in the usual way, lol.  In an important sense, being disordered can be contextualized as the effect of external societal pressure and expectation.

Beliefs about beliefs.

Do you know why I am so above the level of reasoning here?
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#33
RE: Belief in God is a clinic
(March 27, 2019 at 5:38 pm)Catharsis Wrote:
(March 27, 2019 at 9:35 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: It isn't, at least not with respect to diagnosis as a disorder.  Being super religious in a religious community won't qualify someone.  As MA pointed out, typical beliefs...whatever those beliefs happen to be, evade the categorization.  It takes atypical beliefs to get a person into the running.  Doesn't matter much if the typical and atypical beliefs are equally loony or if they produce nearly identical consequences.

The atypicality of the one set is what causes difficulty in their lives, particularly with respect to interaction and relationships with the typical set.  That a person isn't disordered doesn't mean that they aren't balls to the wall crazy, it just means that they're balls to the wall crazy in the usual way, lol.  In an important sense, being disordered can be contextualized as the effect of external societal pressure and expectation.

Beliefs about beliefs.

Do you know why I am so above the level of reasoning here?

Arrogance is not an attractive quality, even when justified. In your case it's just sad.  Violin
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#34
RE: Belief in God is a clinic
(March 27, 2019 at 5:38 pm)Catharsis Wrote:
(March 27, 2019 at 9:35 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: It isn't, at least not with respect to diagnosis as a disorder.  Being super religious in a religious community won't qualify someone.  As MA pointed out, typical beliefs...whatever those beliefs happen to be, evade the categorization.  It takes atypical beliefs to get a person into the running.  Doesn't matter much if the typical and atypical beliefs are equally loony or if they produce nearly identical consequences.

The atypicality of the one set is what causes difficulty in their lives, particularly with respect to interaction and relationships with the typical set.  That a person isn't disordered doesn't mean that they aren't balls to the wall crazy, it just means that they're balls to the wall crazy in the usual way, lol.  In an important sense, being disordered can be contextualized as the effect of external societal pressure and expectation.

Beliefs about beliefs.

Do you know why I am so above the level of reasoning here?

Idk, because you seem to know whatever you're talking about even when no one else does?  You're obviously next level something.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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#35
RE: Belief in God is a clinic
(March 27, 2019 at 8:39 pm)fredd bear Wrote:
(March 27, 2019 at 5:38 pm)Catharsis Wrote: Beliefs about beliefs.

Do you know why I am so above the level of reasoning here?

Arrogance is not an attractive quality, even when justified. In your case it's just sad.  Violin

No, it's because the level is quite low here.
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#36
RE: Belief in God is a clinic
(March 27, 2019 at 10:19 pm)Catharsis Wrote:
(March 27, 2019 at 8:39 pm)fredd bear Wrote: Arrogance is not an attractive quality, even when justified. In your case it's just sad.  Violin

No, it's because the level is quite low here.

You seem so upset and full of contempt all the time.  You're in my prayers tonight tiny angry person.

Bless. RAmen.
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#37
RE: Belief in God is a clinic
(March 27, 2019 at 5:38 pm)Catharsis Wrote:
(March 27, 2019 at 9:35 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: It isn't, at least not with respect to diagnosis as a disorder.  Being super religious in a religious community won't qualify someone.  As MA pointed out, typical beliefs...whatever those beliefs happen to be, evade the categorization.  It takes atypical beliefs to get a person into the running.  Doesn't matter much if the typical and atypical beliefs are equally loony or if they produce nearly identical consequences.

The atypicality of the one set is what causes difficulty in their lives, particularly with respect to interaction and relationships with the typical set.  That a person isn't disordered doesn't mean that they aren't balls to the wall crazy, it just means that they're balls to the wall crazy in the usual way, lol.  In an important sense, being disordered can be contextualized as the effect of external societal pressure and expectation.

Beliefs about beliefs.

Do you know why I am so above the level of reasoning here?

Because you suffer from delusions of adequacy and need to come to an atheist site to prove to yourself that your delusion is real and to reinforce your delicate ego?
Dying to live, living to die.
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#38
RE: Belief in God is a clinic
Looking at the forum I'd say y'all seriously lack belief in God but that would be just an illusion.
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#39
RE: Belief in God is a clinic
Yawn.
Dying to live, living to die.
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#40
RE: Belief in God is a clinic
At work.

(March 28, 2019 at 1:59 am)Catharsis Wrote: Looking at the forum I'd say y'all seriously lack belief in God but that would be just an illusion.

Well, for myself personally, your first sentence has quoited that peg exactly.

As for the second bit.... uhm..... grok?
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