An individual may also be given homework to practice self - talk or guided imagery to deal
with irrational beliefs or old feelings of shame that are intruding into the relationship.
I think the harmful «moral absolutism» is in fact coming from people
with irrational beliefs that mainstream climate science must be wrong because A) it runs counter to their religious beliefs (the «God wouldn't let us screw things up» camp, who like to say how we're too small and insignificant to actually affect Earth's climate) and / or B) it runs counter to their political beliefs (in that they think environmentalism = liberalism, and that liberalism = the evil commies) and / or C) it runs counter to their fundamentalist belief in the transcendant wisdom of unregulated markets («get government out of industry's way and everything will be allright!
@ > Mr.N... I'm not hung up on attacking, but I DO have my reservations about
those with irrational beliefs.
However, seriously underweight anorexic patients who see themselves as obese are not treated with weight - reducing liposuction by physicians who go along
with their irrational belief.
Not exact matches
But
with regard to their religious
beliefs, I would say they are both
irrational and unreasonable.
In line
with the premise of continuity, if
belief as an operative principle for the achievement of the future appeared in man as a «rational» or human act, it must somehow be already in the past, but in an
irrational form.
You can argue and fight
with people about their particular
beliefs and find them either antiquated or
irrational.
========== Atheists are on this board all day every day
with one basic message: «people that believe in the God of Abraham are stupid» (the nice version is «people that believe in God are engaging in holding rational and
irrational beliefs simultaneously, but we wont call them «stupid»)», and you never see this kind of outpouring of incensed righteous indignation from Christians.
We as humans often cling tightly to
beliefs even
with overwhelming evidence that such
beliefs are completely
irrational.
While it is impossible to prove a negative, the complete lack of empirical evidence to support
belief in any God and the self - professed reliance on
belief (faith) rather than knowledge combined
with a rigid and
irrational unwillingness to apply basic logic
with regards to these particular
beliefs strongly suggests that God does not exist.
For the record, don't believe in any religion and don't attempt to pretend I know the secrets of the universe, but I also try hard to not belittle those
with beliefs, no matter how
irrational I find them.
Belief in something
with no evidence to do so is completely
irrational.
Belief in the paranormal and its association
with irrational thinking controlled for context effects.
In this interview Rauschenberg speaks of his role as a bridge from the Abstract Expressionists to the Pop artists; the relationship of affluence and art; his admiration for de Kooning, Jack Tworkov, and Franz Kline; the support he received from musicians Morton Feldman, John Cage, and Earl Brown; his goal to create work which serves as unbiased documentation of his observations; the
irrational juxtaposition that makes up a city, and the importance of that element in his work; the facsimile quality of painting and consequent limitations; the influence of Albers» teaching and his resulting inability to do work focusing on pain, struggle, or torture; the «lifetime» of painting and the problems of time relative symbolism; his feelings on the possibility of truly simulating chance in his work; his use of intervals, and its possible relation to the influence of Cage; his attempt to show as much drama on the edges of a piece as in the dead center; his
belief in the importance of being stylistically flexible throughout a career; his involvement
with the Stadtlijk Museum; his loss of interest in sculpture; his
belief in the mixing of technology and aesthetics; his interest in moving to the country and the prospect of working
with water, wind, sun, rain, and flowers; Ad Reinhardt's remarks on his Egan Show; his discontinuation of silk screens; his illustrations for Life Magazine; his role as a non-political artist; his struggles
with abstraction; his recent theater work «Map Room Two;» his white paintings; and his disapproval of value hierarchy in art.
The problem we're confronted
with today is that our inventors of consensus do not understand that they can only succeed if their system of
beliefs is
irrational.
There is an
irrational belief in the corruption of the world by big money headed by a shadowy cabal of Jews, or at least some big money bankers
with hooked noses if you can't quite bring yourself to attack Jews.
Rational emotive behaviour therapy focuses on uncovering
irrational beliefs which may lead to unhealthy negative emotions and replacing them
with more productive rational alternatives.
When participants start to reconcile their
irrational beliefs with reality, true emotional healing can begin.
Results showed that high fear of emotions and
beliefs that emotions are uncontrollable,
irrational and damaging are related
withs specific behaviours, such as those involved in avoidant coping (i.e., behavioural disengagement, denial, substance use and mental disengagement).
The tendency to have a negative secondary reaction to distress, measured by the Non-Acceptance scale of DERS, was strongly correlated
with higher negative
beliefs about emotions, in particular,
with the
belief that emotions are
irrational.
Romeo and Juliet was originally written as satire to represent everything that's wrong
with young love and how
irrational romantic
beliefs can make you do stupid shit like drink poison because your parents don't like some girl's parents.
I work
with you in a gently confrontational yet supportive style to identify and eliminate
irrational beliefs and behaviors that are no longer working and solidify those which further you in your life.
J. Ryan Fuller: Really, the beginning, in the mid-50's when he started off
with a much larger number of
irrational beliefs and then changing over time, incorporating more of an emphasis on behavior and things like that.
The need to plan ahead for «difficult» situations where toddlers are likely to misbehave was introduced, along
with alternatives to common parent «
irrational beliefs» that can lead to harsh parenting.
After
irrational beliefs have been identified, the therapist will often work
with the client in challenging the negative thoughts on the basis of evidence from the client's experience by reframing it, meaning to re-interpret it in a more realistic light.
Romeo and Juliet was originally written as satire to represent everything that's wrong
with young love and how
irrational romantic
beliefs can make you do stupid s — like drink poison because your parents don't like some girl's parents.
In a study of 118 male and female college students, people who had either the anxious - ambivalent or avoidant attachment styles also had more
irrational beliefs about their relationship than those
with a secure adult attachment style.