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Stephen H asked in HealthMental Health · 8 years ago

What makes people think?

... we all have to have fixed beliefs. Take this one for example, have to believe "mentally healthy" or "mentally ill", so mentally healthy can assign beliefs and call them "fixed delusional" and add "lacks insight". And then "mentally healthy" force drugs into people they've assigned "mentally ill" to.

That's just another arbitrary division for the purposes of some people, being implicitly on one side of the contrived divide to assign the other side of the contrived divide and force drugs across it.

It's much nicer not to have any fixed beliefs, and then can see both sides, and not force drugs into either.

When we don't have any fixed beliefs then the only way we can have them is if someone else assigns them, so the mentally healthy people assign mental illness to us and the beliefs they associate with that and the mentally ill people assign mentally healthy to us and assume we have beliefs associated with that.

But we don't have fixed beliefs (unless you count all the beliefs) when we are kind of like what some people call "spiritual" in our approach. So we don't really divide things up at all. It's a more expanding and deepening insight approach instead so that nothing is separate and everything fits continuously.

It doesn't matter what the beliefs are, because there's always at least that one and the opposite as well, and they are fine anyway as long as someone else isn't switching them from one to the other and forcing people to have the opposites of what they have, because both sides can come this way and move beyond the fixed beliefs in terms of the divisive and destructive behaviours that they may engage if people don't respect the opposite ones.

No point writing "fixed delusional belief A,....,Z" and "lacks insight" because that just means that "lacks insight" is covering and asserting a complete contradiction as the superior insight over someone who doesn't have a contradiction at all because they can see both sides of the beliefs in place because they've deepened and expanded their insight, like they always do when people and things bring insight to them. This way isn't competitive at all, so no need for anything remotely like forcing drugs anyway.

So why do people think everyone divides things up, has fixed beliefs, and believes they fall into made up categories?

We do have free will so we don't have to, we can have things the way we like them instead, in a way that's ok for other people as well.

That one "We ll have to do things [and believe things] we don't want to. It's not about world peace." that just simply isn't and can't be true no matter how many times implicitly "mentally healthy" people say it is. That's just saying we all have to force drugs into more and more people, with particular emphasis being placed on forcing them into the most peaceful ones. Peace is ok, for everyone. Everyone can do with more of that.

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    8 years ago
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    I enjoyed reading this so much that I am book marking it. Thank you for sharing this.

    I "think" it is a problem of 'intellectual minds' trying to understand human behaviour(s). So they box us, and put us into categories. All there is are 'labels' and more being found. Psychologists identify 'patterns' in behaviour and just call it a disorder of some sort. Surprisingly most of these 'disorders' come from America!!! American psychologists trying to label the world.

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