Freud said most neuroses were a matter of conscience. That you've violated it in some way, and therefore your mind becomes filled with them. And there's no getting back from that, once you did. You just have to know God saves you, and through His guidance, work to better yourself.
Things like ADHD and Autism need not be diagnosed. They're just human beings. We have to let people be what they are, and not try to label everything, otherwise the person feels crippled their entire life, and never actually accomplishes anything.
Well, I'd just say a lot of diseases aren't physical, but rather subconscious. Most of it comes from deep rooted distrust in oneself, or one's actions. The best way to address mental illness, is confession, forgiveness, and then restoration. As that's how I've dealt with mine. And it seemed to work.
Most of your diseases are caused by guilt. They're rooted in that. So, the best thing is to deal with the guilt--assuming you don't have a bad therapist who just lays it on you and gaslights you--is restore the bushels you can restore, and live at peace because you can never make full restitution. That's Who Christ is.
Just remember, the LORD is very real, and most psychological issues are generational curses or something that one incepts in themselves. I've seen a lot of things in my life, saying people are "Biologically" disposed toward these illnesses, while true to a certain extent, don't discount the LORD's autonomy in the healing process, or His Law as a means of restoring one's conscience, which the illness is kind of like a sear in conscience. We have to be responsible for ourselves, and take accountability for our own actions.
You wonder how people made it before all this stuff? They seemed to have a handle on it, until the very field of Psychology made everything so backward, that now nobody can function.
I don't take any antidepressants. Just 5 milligrams of Risperidone, because that's one of the medicines that actually do work. Antipsychotics are a necessity. One of my fears is losing my insurance, and then not being able to get them. Which Trump's trying to make it harder to be on Medicaid, which is something I absolutely need. And [...] Not taking advantage of anyone, it's just something I need. That's a whole other issue... I get stressed when I'm around lots of people, and don't deal with workplace politics well. And I start having delusions, which interfere with my work.
I'd say the stuff for Bi Polar and Psychosis are the only real drugs out there that have true effects. Everything else is best managed through therapy and self discipline. Or finding careers that suit you, like Mozart had ADHD and was a brilliant composer. It's just when people have ADHD or Autism there's careers they do better at, and the psychology field is trying to medicate it to fit a square peg into a round hole.
Also, a lot of our great poets and Philosophers had Schizophrenia. Some of the best Rock Songs are written by schizophrenic people. The Romantics about 60% of them had schizophrenia, the others psychopathy or borderline personality disorder or drug addiction. Our great Sci Fi and Horror writers like Philip K. Dick and H. P. Lovecraft both had schizophrenia--that's why you half believe it, which is good for the soul, I think, as it rests the subconscious when a Schizophrenic tells those dark substances, and purges it with literature. Tolkien had PTSD from fighting in the trenches, and had disorganized thinking; I think he actually believed in elves, some evidence would suggest. C. S. Lewis may have had Schizophrenia, based on a hallucination he describes in That Hideous Strength. William Blake was schizophrenic, but lived a wildly interesting life. He was happily married, but ABSOLUTELY INSANE. Lol. I imagine him without writing, that was his medication back then. Lol. Lots of writers who had mental illness. Mark Twain half believed in magic, and used Materialism as a way to ease his mind--that's why he didn't like the 19th century's trend of calling stories "True", and also hated Caxton. Earnest Hemingway had Schizophrenia, probably onset by moral injuries in the Spanish Civil War.
Category: Analysis
My Study Habits
1. Start with a question.
a. When you're doing a project for school even, starting with a question can be the best beginning. You want to know something, learn that one thing in your class.
2. Find numerous sources with a credible ethos expounding upon your question, trying to answer it.
a. Find dozens if not hundreds of people to give you an answer. Listen to all of them, and derive from all of it a meaning.
b. There was once a treasure that was found, by simply asking millions of people where it was, and then taking the bulk data, and finding a location through analyzing it. Studying is like that, where you'll find many different views, to find the location.
3. Synthesize an answer. Find the truth, using all the data you collected, and synthesize an answer.
a. By using all the information--even information you disagree with is helpful, as it can find avenues for new areas of learning, and even your opponents can have hidden gems wrapped up in their disagreements--you can find a good answer.
4. Test your answer.
a. Don't just be happy with your answer, ask people in every day about your answer. Discuss with people the answer. Talk to people. Have dialogues. Get opinions from people who are more advanced than you are, and people who know nothing of the topic.
5. Revise your answer based on the testing.
a. Revising your answer, gives you more correct analysis. Always be asking people, and actively listening. Don't assume your knowledge is complete, but rather get knowledge from every source.
6. Write down your entire process.
a. From start to finish, document your entire process. Get the wrong answers, and then find when they've reached the nuance to where they're correct, and don't stop revising your answer, just because you think you know it.
7. Be humble. And have good faith.
a. No one has complete knowledge. So listening to many people, and gathering insights from many people, all having studied and come to answers too, you build upon it to a correct solution.
8. Making connections.
a. Make connections with everything else you've learned, and don't just isolate the knowledge into one context. Connect it to everything else you know, and learn through making webs of contexts.
The Most Influential Man in History
It's Jesus Christ. 2.4 billion people follow Him: He saved our souls; He was witnessed to have resurrected and people died believing they saw Him raised; He influenced both Judaism and Islam, has been heard by probably 6 to 7 billion people currently living, created the most stable, prosperous and powerful world empire that ever existed through His teachings, conquered barbaric world powers through His teachings and the Empires who colonized in His name; His ethics created the idea of Humanism; His ethics inspired the Enlightenment; His ethics inspired Communism (not saying it's all good); His ethics were the inspiration of the Constitution and Human rights charter; His ethics were the inspiration to end Slavery--you can say all the good in the world came through Him and His teachings. He cleared the way for the prosperity the world enjoys today. Modernism destroyed it.
On Culture and IQ
I do think IQ tests have a cultural bias, but I also think an education can help you find the means of getting more intelligent. There’s a concrete reality, and intelligence is your ability to grasp it. If you can or can’t. Most people don’t connect those two dots. Less intelligent people, have less to say on the real world. More intelligent people, almost can without fail find answers nobody even knew they were looking for.
Response to Questions on Orwell’s Review of That Hideous Strength
1. The book was not one of C. S. Lewis' better books, so I actually agree with Orwell. If you're going to be explicitly Christian, be Christian. But, he sort of got into the Space Occult. Like, it was too ambiguous... I think that's what Orwell was trying to say, is he didn't come off as Christian--which is ]h]is prevailing ethos--and it disappointed it, when it ended without a discussion, as I was expecting Merlin and the Head to dialogue, rather than just end in a Deux Ex Machina.
2. I think working from the framework, if your story incorporates miracles, you have to be cognizant of the ethos you're working through. Which, Orwell probably wanted a Christian moral, and when he didn't get it, the book was confused, and it began to be kind of schizophrenic. I'd say that was my problem with the book, was it didn't work from a Christian framework, but rather was a sort of unbelievable space occult thing, which Narnia is leaps and bounds better, and so are Lewis' essay works. The Space Trilogy was always low on the totem pole for me, on Lewis' corpus, and I never really did like it. But, miracles don't depreciate the stories value, but I think the invention of a Mythology and mixing the Occult with Science, that's kind of disturbing--and may be the actual strength of the novel, I haven't figured that out. But, I found it kind of eerie, and I didn't get the respite of a Christian message. Which I think might be Orwell's problem with it, all around, is it didn't stick to Lewis' ethos, but rather diverted off of it, into occult magic and stuff like that.
3. I'd say the answer is not different. It's just you got to choose your ethos. And Lewis' ethos is Christianity. And this was a particularly early work, but he was also writing Mere Christianity at this time, he should have known better. I felt kind of alienated from it, as I couldn't implant Christianity into it, but rather it devolved into its own mythology. Which is something people do today--so it's probably more readily accepted today, with the culture's general malaise toward Christianity, you have mythologies like DBZ and Japanese Anime making Gods and stuff, where DBZ kind of lost my interest when it transitioned from an Atheistic world to a Theistic world, and I think the problem here is the same. Putting Gods and Goddesses in your work kind of warps it. Which, you can say Aslan is sort of like that, but he's more of a symbol rather than a literal. Where I think the problem with The Space Trilogy was it was literal... and that's not God's name, so it sort of offended Orwell, who's, although unwillingly, in that Christian society that wants real Christianity, or none at all. Like is said to Laodicea.
https://apilgriminnarnia.com/2020/09/10/george-orwells-review-of-c-s-lewis-that-hideous-strength-throwback-thursday/
Syntax and spelling errors can be a sign of extremely high IQ as well. Some people process language different, and understand things through their relations. A really smart person might not care to bother with syntax that much, and might just understand things through their universal grammar. Or might build from context clues to the meaning, and not regard syntax that much at all.
Another Reason P Cannot Always Equal NP
I had just understood, that the area of a circle formula is like Length times Width. But, hold on... a Radius is not the same thing as length. So, you do the same math expression for a rectangle, it will not work, but you do it for a square, it will. Because half the parameter of a square times its radius would equal the area. So this math works for a square, because it is equal, the same that it works for a circle, because it is equal. However, said area formula will not work for a rectangle. Because a rectangle's side lengths are not equal.
It is because of this, and is also the same that Quintic Roots cannot always be solved, that the P versus NP cannot always have a solution, and only some Quintic Roots can be solved. Because solving it would generalize a universal formula for all shapes, which is impossible.
However, many are not unsolvable. One can take known principles of geometry, and combine them like a Geometric Proof, and solve many NP difficult equations, if one graphs the shape and breaks it down into its composite parts. Like in a Geometric Proof.
On Grading a Math Paper on Rounding to The Decimal Place, and Adding a Zero to the Decimal to Hold the Place to Account for Minute Differences of Number
After looking at it, the teacher's right. I didn't see the whole instructions. She's just teaching her pupil about where the tenths and hundredths and thousandths are.{}
Not wrong at all. After looking at the directions. She's just teaching about where the tenths, hundredths and thousandths are.
I mean, would anyone do that in real life? No... the kid's correct in all but one of his answers, too. So, probably for habit, it's best he didn't follow through with the activity. As sometimes these kinds of things can confuse students. It's mostly all mathematically correct, but with the narrow instructions the Teacher's grade is correct... but why would you do that? That's a question in itself. So... a little interpretive power, the student didn't follow directions. Though, he got almost all the answers right.
I mean, should you have such directions? Eh... you know... that's a trippy one. I just think the student grasps the concept of rounding, so it should possibly be an A [instead of a C].
You learn something new every day. But, do Middle Schoolers need that kind of information [placeholding the Zero to account for minute differences of number it would determine in calculations]? I'd say, it's just the teacher trying to teach them where the tenths, hundredths and thousandths are. What you're talking about is Junior in College Math. Or AP placement. This isn't something you'd learn in Middle or Elementary School. And isn't something you'd use in pure Mathematics. I watch people do Geometric Proofs--a good channel--and he doesn't even do that. Not that I see. That's kind of nitpicky in its own right, and probably something you'd only need to learn in engineering. Especially since most measurements are irrational, I can see how this'd be too much and a little too narrow.
I mean... I see it from both perspectives. It's hard to say what the right answer is, but if she's just teaching him about where the tenths, hundredths and thousandths are, I can see why she's doing it. But, you know... what you're talking about is good for me--as a 35 year old man interested in math--but for a Middle or Elementary Schooler, it might be a little too advanced for them to truly understand. But, she's right in the sense that she's teaching them where the decimal is. You have to learn your ABCs before you learn how to read Chaucer. It's simple as that. She's teaching ABCs. And I'd say after looking at it, she did nothing wrong. It's just teaching where the decimals are, which the child needs to know.
I mean... I just think it may be a little too harsh, though. As if she's expecting the student to know what you're saying--that's something you shouldn't learn until you're in college and taking Engineering. And even then, almost all measurements are irrational, so it shouldn't even be an issue, as you're just nitpicking at that point. It's not wrong for the reason you're saying, is what I'm saying. You're doing Advanced Engineering, when this child is just learning ABCs and spelling. That's way too advanced for a fifth grader, and possibly for even a Freshman in College.
Karmelo Anthony
He needs help. I was just praying for him to find Jesus, but you're right. He does need a life sentence. Maybe even the death penalty. I mean, Moses murdered an Egyptian, and David Bathsheba's Husband, and Paul murdered a lot of saints before he met Christ on the road to Damascus. There is redemption for a murderer. But, there needs to be consequences. What he did was beyond the scope of reasonable. I think he's a perfectly sane individual, too, and there needs to be some manner of consequence for this heinous crime. If in a State with no death penalty, then life without parole.
Moses' consequence was he had to wander with the Israelites, and never entered into Canaan.
David's consequence was constant war and strife at his borders.
Paul's consequence was imprisonment by the Roman emporium.
There's no need to feel a weight of guilt on you, for having sinned--as that Christ lifts off our shoulders--but there do need to be consequences for actions. Mercy shown where mercy needs to be shown, but he showed no such mercy to his victim, and doesn't seem to be that much bothered by it. Should he be bothered by it, and his conscience overwhelmed by the guilt, God will endear his heart toward salvation, and that is about all that can be done here.
Snow White Controversy
[It[ kind of reminds me of when I wrote my Philosophy Paper in 101. I went to the professor five or six times, asking him about my thoughts on Existentialism--which was a decent enough essay, and we had a good rapport--and then I scrapped it for the easy question [because he didn't like it]. Which [the easier] was one of those dumb prompts they give you for a College Admission. And... the original would have been a lot better. But, I feared my philosophy professor's opinion so much, I turned in the essay I wrote in half an hour, rather than the essay I was writing for 2 weeks. You understand? Because if you have an unappeasable audience, you're going to turn out crap. So, if you're going to turn out something audiences are already prejudiced toward, it's best to just do the best job you can and be as authentic as possible. As I may have actually gotten an A in that class and not a B if I had just turned in the essay I was working on for the term.
B. K. Neifert 