Doc, you didn't just give away the first two chapters of your upcoming book did you? ; )
"Doc, you didn't just give away the first two chapters of your upcoming book did you? ; )"
White Ringer
Required reading for all incoming Freshmen?
Nope. The book is about something different. I have about 10 books in me...
"The capacity to use social supports involves the ability to metabolize, as it were, other people once they are found. This capacity is inextricably bound to potential for psychosocial maturation...."
"It has been established that the single most important factor/predictor in who will develop PTSD long term is the ability to derive comfort from another human being."
(I don't have the source of that quotation. I got it from one of several books I was reading on trauma. It struck me so that I wrote it down.)
This indicates that long-term PTSD sufferers, and probably those with Complex PTSD, got their start when they were babies. Very sad.
This is why I asked on the other thread if the ego could wear out. In a child there is no basis for 'truth' - not as the adult knows it. What then does the ego have to work with?
When I moved to Israel in 1980, I thought that the Palestinians would be the ones to lead the entire Arab world into a better future. They were better educated, women had more opportunity to do important things, and there was a LOT of interaction between Israelis and Palestinians, especially in the workplace. But tragically, one of the primary goals of the Palestinian radicals was precisely to break any positive relationships between Israelis and Palestinians -- whenever there were attacks, the roadblocks would go up, and finally, with the 2nd intifada, everything has gotten closed off almost entirely (there are still many employers who hide their Arab workers, and many Palestinians still cross into Israel to work in the construction industry, e.g., at the city of Modiin near where I live).
So where did all those intelligent, hopeful Palestinians from the 1980s go? My guess is that anyone with money to leave and relatives to go to, have picked up and left (especially the Christians, who were so active in the protests of the first intifada). And we can see who's left --- those who have nowhere to turn except to the radicals and their lies.
"That side has repeatedly and earnestly tried to make peace by giving the other side what it says it wants. That side is Israel, who has given the Palestinians everything they need to create their own state and to make a life for themselves and their people."
Now who is deluding themselves? Have you read the historical record? It sounds like a lot of psycho babble to back up a very biased Zionist viewpoint.
I had tried to paste this quote from your blog at the beginning of my previous comment. This is what I was specifically referring to:
"That side has repeatedly and earnestly tried to make peace by giving the other side what it says it wants. That side is Israel, who has given the Palestinians everything they need to create their own state and to make a life for themselves and their people"
Have you heard of Jerusalem? And that the entire International community refuses to recognize it as Israel's capitol. Why has the United Nations passed more
"It is a most ingenious paradox of life that most civilized societies and cultures encourage and support the individual in the pursuit of his or her own life, happiness and psychological growth. These societies do not lay claim to an individual's life for the glory of the state; and in turn all members of the society benefit as the culture's productivity, wealth and benevolence all increase." -- Dr. Sanity
So true. The pathetic Palestinians reduce the individual to a mere prop to uphold the "honor" of Arab/Islamic culture. Since the individual has no intrinsic value in Islamic culture, the whole society remains hopelessly dysfunctional. Even if some enlightened leader began reform today, it will take at least two generations (decades) to overcome the toxic environment the Palestinians have created for themselves. Right now, any four-year-old Palestinian child will tell you that Jews and Christians are apes and pigs, and that Allah wishes them all to be killed. These teachings are part of the official school curriculum, by the way, and not just a couple of isolated mosques.
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