Yes, it ceases to be a delusion for that child. Human nature has some bugs, but psychiatric disorders are just that, things out of the ordinary, that cause abnormal brain function.
Because parent to child is a standard kind of learning, and most religion is learned that way. Learned beliefs are seriously distinct from delusional beliefs in nature.
They haven't actually made a change. It was just a serious problem raised with the diagnostic criteria, because a lot of classically delusional people were finding a social group that shared their beliefs.
Because things you learn by authority actually makes up a lot of what you know. Even if you haven't personally substantiated it. Everyone believes wrong things, and that is not identical to delusions, because delusions are caused by non-normal brain activity.
I'm an atheist myself, but "everyone is wrong about something" is an important mantra to keep in mind. The wrong is more important to human understanding than the right, because it gives you extra lenses with which to examine and expand what you already know. Free speech exists for a reason.
Mass hysteria isn't insanity, but a component of human reaction to peer pressure. If you haven't seen 20 different people echo the same idiotic sentiment that they wouldn't have ever had if it weren't for the other 19 before, you haven't been on the internet long.
Truisms aside, this reminds me of the fact that they're still trying to redefine "delusions" in the DSM, because the Internet invalidated the old criteria, which went something like "Things believed by the individual, not supported by observation, and not shared with their social groups."
The internet made an avenue for crazy people to find similar crazy people, and form social connections with them, in a way that reinforced their own delusions quite directly. I don't think anyone has found a satisfactory conclusion to that problem, because they really don't want something that will classify people's religions as delusions.
North Korea developed their nukes in response to us invading a country that was disarming. Iraq showed the world that being a nuclear power is a better way of preventing invasion than cooperation.
I... what? I was just clarifying a point, one I don't even thing he contradicted, and nothing in the immediate post history I can see implies any sort of unreasonable intransigence.
Yeah, any part of the military industrial complex making claims of unprecedented threats is par for course, and that doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
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Yes, it ceases to be a delusion for that child. Human nature has some bugs, but psychiatric disorders are just that, things out of the ordinary, that cause abnormal brain function.
Could you seriously justify ending another person's life yourself, if you didn't believe in an afterlife for them?
I like how you Capitalize Groups you disagree with, in order to make them seem like a Cohesive Group.
Hmm, a common medication that doesn't work for 95% of the world's population doesn't seem like a very good treatment.
Torture will always be the obvious point to pull out whenever someone says Obama is exactly the same as Bush.
Because parent to child is a standard kind of learning, and most religion is learned that way. Learned beliefs are seriously distinct from delusional beliefs in nature.
That wasn't hard.
They haven't actually made a change. It was just a serious problem raised with the diagnostic criteria, because a lot of classically delusional people were finding a social group that shared their beliefs.
Lumping people together is almost always a mental shortcut that does yourself and others a disservice.
Because things you learn by authority actually makes up a lot of what you know. Even if you haven't personally substantiated it. Everyone believes wrong things, and that is not identical to delusions, because delusions are caused by non-normal brain activity.
I'm an atheist myself, but "everyone is wrong about something" is an important mantra to keep in mind. The wrong is more important to human understanding than the right, because it gives you extra lenses with which to examine and expand what you already know. Free speech exists for a reason.
Mass hysteria isn't insanity, but a component of human reaction to peer pressure. If you haven't seen 20 different people echo the same idiotic sentiment that they wouldn't have ever had if it weren't for the other 19 before, you haven't been on the internet long.
Truisms aside, this reminds me of the fact that they're still trying to redefine "delusions" in the DSM, because the Internet invalidated the old criteria, which went something like "Things believed by the individual, not supported by observation, and not shared with their social groups."
The internet made an avenue for crazy people to find similar crazy people, and form social connections with them, in a way that reinforced their own delusions quite directly. I don't think anyone has found a satisfactory conclusion to that problem, because they really don't want something that will classify people's religions as delusions.
Facebook faces negative publicity for a choice they make == me intentionally destroying them and robbing them.
No, but with nukes, all you need to do is START shit, and the rest can take care of itself.
It's only a minute increase, but anything that increases the likelihood of a nuclear war isn't a good thing.
North Korea developed their nukes in response to us invading a country that was disarming. Iraq showed the world that being a nuclear power is a better way of preventing invasion than cooperation.
Hey, nuclear physics is actually pretty cool, even if this particular instance increases the odds of the end of life as we know it.
To be completely fair, it was highly irresponsible to not do everything you're told to by a corporation. They want what's best for everyone.
Yes, and I don't remember record-breaking filibusters in 2009 at all.
We'll just reprogram the tumors to be extra testicles. Even in women. Problem solved.
I... what? I was just clarifying a point, one I don't even thing he contradicted, and nothing in the immediate post history I can see implies any sort of unreasonable intransigence.
Only a commie-mutant-traitor would know a word like "comerade". What's your clearance citizen?
No, really, if you ignore all the practical problems with hosting data by letting someone else do it, those practical problems disappear. It's magic!
Yeah, any part of the military industrial complex making claims of unprecedented threats is par for course, and that doesn't surprise me in the slightest.
You have to understand, that's fast geologically speaking. It's not a lot but the time span in question is really damn short.