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Recent content by Truthtraveler

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    Many Taoists Seem To Distort The Tao Te Ching's Philosophy

    hello, has this thread been deleted? i couldn't find it on the taoism section
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    End of Oil: Civilization or Barbarity?

    a brilliant artice, thanks for posting it makes perfect sense to me
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    Most parents are addicted to their children

    A good question. Certainly it has to be some combination of nature and nurture, though as you might guess I lean far more toward the nurture spectrum than nature – though I fully grant that nature has its place, much as it’s easy to overestimate because (I believe) it lets parents off the hook...
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    Most parents are addicted to their children

    I don’t agree with you here – not in its entirety at least. I believe children are created perfect at their cores, and if we provide them with what they need we don’t have to teach them “how to behave” at all. In fact, we’d do far better to learn from them – if we could really listen to what...
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    Most parents are addicted to their children

    You’ve made the point several times that you believe that someone who has no children cannot possibly critique parenting with any sort of validity. I don’t think I addressed that one clearly enough. I did write the following, however, back some pages: “The primary way to attain a good barometer...
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    Most parents are addicted to their children

    NetDoc, it is becoming more and more clear that you are not my intended audience, and are not at all open to what I have to say. But that does not mean everyone on this site is like you. Perhaps there are others who just have not yet found value in my writing.
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    Most parents are addicted to their children

    Hi all. I came back to visit this site and saw that this topic had completely disappeared into oblivion. Figured I'd try to revive it, as I feel it has great value. Hope others out there agree. Any takers? -TT
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    A question

    I see the Valley Spirit as the depth of ourselves, the root of our truth and our emotions, the basic essence of who we are - and you could call it our soul. I view it as the flip side of our AWARENESS, of our consciousness, of our intellect. This part of the Tao Te Ching inspired a short...
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    Many Depressed People are Healthier Than The Non-Depressed

    Sciences and theories with humans are always imprecise. Although I use some scientific-like language to frame my point of view, I am really driven much more by spiritual truths. I feel them in my soul. Once upon a time I got a degree in biology, and I learned from being in that system just how...
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    Many Depressed People are Healthier Than The Non-Depressed

    Ouch! But that said, which is worse, making a three-hour tale out of a limerick or a person living his or her whole adult life in miserable denial? Yes, though there are some physicians that do better than others. But most physicians, from what I’ve seen, are terribly in denial and lost in...
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    Many Depressed People are Healthier Than The Non-Depressed

    The wound = unmet childhood needs. The road to heaven leads straight through hell. I wrote a few in the earlier reply on this thread to Michel, but even these books do not entirely support my point of view, but they’re the closest out there of anything, and I’ll add a few more: “Drama...
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    Many Depressed People are Healthier Than The Non-Depressed

    Hi EnhancedSpirit: Lovely post. At first I thought it was your own personal writing…then I realized it was someone else’s. Alas! Regardless, I find it largely overlaps with my point of view. I particularly like this segment: This brings up a key point for me. Yes, depression has a...
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    Many Depressed People are Healthier Than The Non-Depressed

    What you have pointed out here does not add up to what I and many others have witnessed firsthand as clinicians. Now granted there are many clinicians who will side with you, but in my experience – and I know many firsthand and have witnessed them at work and in their personal lives and know...
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    Many Depressed People are Healthier Than The Non-Depressed

    If you heal the wound (you could call it a psychological or an emotional or a spiritual wound) the chemical imbalance automatically heals itself. The underlying wound is what is causing the chemical imbalance.
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    Many Depressed People are Healthier Than The Non-Depressed

    I have developed this theory myself over a period of time. It has come from a variety of sources: primarily from my own self-exploration, from my clinical work with patients as a psychotherapist, from my observation of children and parents as an educator, and from my reading of various...
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