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To: HiTech RedNeck

Again, please explain how mind is empirically observable, measurable and testable.

Do you somehow make a living in the field of psychology? If so, your defensiveness is understandable.


123 posted on 11/19/2012 8:01:35 AM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: fwdude

Man, you both assume and project much. I do not make any living out of anything even slightly psychologically related.

You are however glaringly unaware that prior to the appearance of Sigmund Freud there was an older line of, yes, Christian psychology. Dr. Freud literally hijacked that and secularized it, which is the basis of the travesty we see all too often today. There was also a respected line of medicine called “alienism” — not the study of space aliens, silly, but of understanding the mentally ill, with the purpose of counseling them towards better normalcy or at least better coping. It’s now known as “abnormal psychology.” And to have an abnormal, you need to have a normal. From which the following applies.

As with navigating geography, one does not need a perfect map in order to be useful. And yes, personalities and minds both normal and abnormal have been mapped, to useful purpose.

If it were up to you we’d still be chaining the insane.


127 posted on 11/19/2012 11:37:36 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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