Rocky

Of course, the videos of Professor Irwin Corey were facetious. But THIS is NOT. That Mike self-aggrandizes counters any and all credibility he might think he has.

Mike is the world's foremost authority, successor to Professor Irwin Corey. Corey lived to be more than 100 years old.

Btw, I did an internet search for "Darwinian construct." The results were clear as mud. https://duckduckgo.com/?hps=1&q=darwinian+construct&atb=v353-1&ia=web

But Mike's the world's foremost authority, succeeding Professor Irwin Corey.

Why would it even matter now?

sorta...

Really? SMH. I can't believe ANYONE who still follows TWI and wierwilleism reads Mike's gibberish (in English). And if they do, I can't believe they do anything but shake their own heads over the mental masturbation taking place on threads like this.

Did you mean to say YOUR INTENTION was to calm the discussion down somewhat? Your intention appears not to have translated into a message which could accomplish such an objective. Do you REALLY think how you were actually viewing your statements matters at all to anyone? Not just here, but anywhere? Let me see, I'll try it for you, see if this makes any sense to you, Honestly Mike, WTF? More than two decades of doing the same thing and you expect different results?

He said pen is!

Unless you had removed yourself already. For me, the removal was in 1986, 37 years ago. I started THAT journey in the early 1990s. My employer incentivized taking the bus to work. I started reading and exploring during said commutes by bus. I'm quite thankful. Similar to the firehose of falsehoods. Because how can someone encountering such a firehose cope well enough to figure out what's truth or consistent? Propaganda is communication that is primarily used to influence or persuade an audience to further an agenda, which may not be objective and may be selectively presenting facts to encourage a particular synthesis or perception, or using loaded language to produce an emotional rather than a rational response to the information that is being presented.[1] Propaganda can be found in a wide variety of different contexts.[2] IOW, we were inundated with propaganda and had no chance, in the moment, to sort it out or critically analyze any of it.

An insightful reflection indeed. To me, it's clear this particular cult is locked into a social framework based on fear of having its cash-flow severely diminished. When its followers break the chains in their minds... well, I envision stories (fiction) to provide encouragement to break those chains.

Intriguing and salient points in both cases.

According to this creation myth (story), God made Eve to be Adam's help mate. Husband/wife snuck into the text later. Very clever!

Indeed, I just looked it up and in reference to the first two humans in Genesis, it does refer to Adam as Eve's husband. It still strikes me as peculiar to do so when there was nobody around to officiate a wedding ceremony.

I suppose I have. My mistake for not qualifying my question as related to Eve and Adam.

Have you SEEN the word "husband" in the bible?

Adam officiated the wedding ceremony? The way I see it is Genesis is a story (myth) of creation of humanity. Is it literally true? I doubt it. Is it true in the way (creation) myths of other cultures are true, which is in providing humans in such cultures to understand the foundational concepts at issue at the time? I think so. I am not a-theistic. I'm not challenging the existence of God. Does Genesis or any other book use the word "husband?" How does one become a husband? This is a question of cultural anthropology.

Her husband? Who officiated the wedding ceremony? Oh, it's just a creation myth.

Twinky, I am thrilled that we, who survived our time in twi and examine it backward, can share for those willing to live forward with our insight. This seems to be the entire purpose of studying history, and long-dead philosophers. Therefore, I am SOOOOOOO thankful for wisdom like from writings of Kierkegaard, having too recently learned this:

T-Bone might be on to something. Btw, that expression sounds what, when I was growing up, my mother called "double talk."

I'm not sure finding a website to confirm the opposite is possible is really going to be helpful, even if you find it. What you might rather be better off with is reading books about social and psychological issues to get a broader perspective. Finding a single data point to prove what you might already believe or how you might currently understand something isn't necessarily productive. I'd point you to Proverbs 2: 1-5 for related biblical insight.