Conditioned Responses - things that secretly control our mind, body, and behaviors called RESPONSES that we consciously or unconsciously know but still control our life
Problems start from MIND, MINDSET.

Part IV: Conditioned Responses
13. Beliefs, religions, taboos and conditioned responses
The more we read and visit other countries and other people the more we know that we have different perceptions about taboos, customs, and religious rituals. If there is an object that you and a group of people see as taboos, by searching on the internet, we may find that this object is the ritual object of other people. Why do human beings have so much different in the concepts of taboos, religious customs, and festivals? The only right answer for this is thinking. No matter what you do in your festivals or taboos, if you strongly believe it will bring luck, health, and happiness, you will feel good with the joining in festivals.
Trainers and therapists use all the techniques to bring back good thoughts and right beliefs for their participants.
Religious customs has the strongest influences to its disciples. Following or violating religious custom will create the strongest feeling in people’s mind as the conditioned responses.
Let answer the following questions to have a better understanding of religions.
Where were you born?
- Which religion are you? Why do you have that religion? Why do you love your religion? Why do you follow your religious rituals?
- Why do you think your belief about your religions is different than your friend’s belief?
- Are you a Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Protestant, Catholic, Jewish or Atheist?
- Where do you usually go to church, mosque, synagogue, pagoda or temple?
- Do you believe in God? Do you believe in life after death? Do you believe in reincarnation? And why do you believe that?
- Do you think that your religious belief is the belief you chose? Or have you been conditioned with your religious belief?
- What happened with your religious belief if you were born in China, Vietnam, United State, Israel, Australia, Korea, or Singapore?
- Would you still have the same religious belief as the major people in the community of these countries or still have the same religion as the present?
I usually wonder about these kinds of questions. The fact is I were born in the north of Vietnam, I am an Atheist. I have adopted the ancestor worship custom from my parents and my relatives since my childhood. In my traditional custom, there is the mixing Ancestor worship, Buddhism, Chinese religion, Taoism, and Confucianism. We do all of these traditional customs in New Year Eve, Mid-Autumn festival, region festival, town festival, worship in pagoda and worship in temple; and the spirit of traditional custom available in many other important events, and important places like: giving birth, welcoming new baby, worship ancestors, commencement ceremony of building or projects, wedding ceremony, working, departures, and in funeral. All of us do all these traditional custom without any concerning or hesitating. We have our set of own taboos and set of acting to fit with traditional custom - which is quite strange with the foreigners- like:
Here are some of our taboos in Vietnam that foreigners with the nickname Travellingkid and other foreigners discussed in the https://www.lonelyplanet.com. As a Vietnamese, I confirm that these sayings are the taboos in Vietnam.
The more we read and visit other countries and other people the more we know that we have different perceptions about taboos, customs, and religious rituals. If there is an object that you and a group of people see as taboos, by searching on the internet, we may find that this object is the ritual object of other people. Why do human beings have so much different in the concepts of taboos, religious customs, and festivals? The only right answer for this is thinking. No matter what you do in your festivals or taboos, if you strongly believe it will bring luck, health, and happiness, you will feel good with the joining in festivals.
Trainers and therapists use all the techniques to bring back good thoughts and right beliefs for their participants.
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Let answer the following questions to have a better understanding of religions.
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Source: https://www.lonelyplanet.com
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Table 10: food, animals, religions and conditioned responses
Meat
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Religious, belief, regions
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Responses
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Pork
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Buddhism
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Beef
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Hinduism
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Lamb
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Islam
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Dog meat
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Taoism
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Spider
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Christianity
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Kangaroos
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Hinduism
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Crocodile
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Westerner: American, French, Italian, Australian
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Shark Fin
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Easterner: Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, India
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The weird traditions and strange customs
Unusual death rituals
Some unusual death rituals retrieved from “25 Unusual Death Rituals from Around the World” from http://cloudmind.info make me afraid of what other people believe about death and afterlife. I dare not to see some pictures in the article. I just rewrite some rituals that do not cause fear for the readers. Reading these funeral rituals and reviewing Vietnamese funeral rituals, I know that people around the world have different belief and perception about death. So that they practice the funeral ritual based on the belief of the right thing to do. I wonder if a Vietnamese man, a Chinese man or you die, how about if the relatives use one of these funeral rituals. What will the relatives think? What is their emotion during and after experiencing one of these rituals applied to his relatives?
Sky Burials
Tibetan Buddhist Celestial Burials “Sky Burials” — the tradition of chopping up the dead into small pieces and giving the remains to animals, particularly birds. Sometimes the body is left intact. In Buddhism, a dead body is seen as an empty vessel and is not commemorated.
Sati
Sati was a funerary practice among some Hindu communities in which recently widowed women immolated themselves on their husband’s funeral pyre. The custom was seen as a voluntary act, but there were many instances in which women were forced to commit Sati. Although the practice is outlawed and illegal in today’s India, yet it occurs up to the present day and is still regarded by some Hindus as the ultimate form of womanly devotion and sacrifice. Interestingly, India was not the first and only culture to adopt the tradition. Other ancient societies that practiced something similar to Sati included the Egyptians, Greeks, Goths, and Scythians.
Self-Mummification
Self-Mummification practiced seemingly exclusively by Japanese Sokushinbutsu Buddhist monks, the rite of self-mummification was intended as a means of demonstrating dedication and spirituality
Endocannibalism
The Yanomamo community in South America still eats the ash and ground bones of the deceased after cremation. The Yanomamo tribes of Venezuela and Brazil practiced endocannibalism by mixing the ashes of the deceased with a plantain soup and then drinking it.
The chief tribesman of the West-African Junkun tribe eats the hearts of his predecessors, as a way of placing himself away from the normal society where he administers. Thus, many uncivilized tribes were known to practice this act within their communities. Today it has ceased in most places, but may continue in certain remote parts.
LifeGem - a dazzling death!
People can now wear their loved ones on their fingers. To create the shiny crystal, this American company called LifeGem takes a person’s cremated remains, turns them into graphite then places it into a diamond press.
The Viking Funeral
You should not know this inhuman funeral ritual. According to the historical account of Ahmad ibn Fadlan, a 10th-century Arab Muslim writer, the ritual following the death of a chieftain was exceptionally brutal.
Ritual Finger Amputation
In West Papua, New Guinea, when a loved one passed on, the Dani people used to cut off their own fingers. This ritual is now banned but was allegedly practiced to drive away spirits as well as to use physical pain as a form of expression.
Funeral Strippers
Taiwan showgirls are known to strip for the dead during religious events in order to “appease the wandering spirits.”
In China’s Donghai region, funerals are actually status symbols. A dead man’s reputation and honor are considered to be directly proportional to the number of people who attend his funeral. So, the relatives hire strippers to pull the crowds. The Chinese authorities have started cracking down on the practice of incessant media glare.
Famadihana - Turning of the Bones
The celebration is often held once every five or seven years and is a time of joyous family reunions. The Malagasy people of Madagascar have a celebration for the dead by exhuming the bodies and dressing them in new clothes or cloth. The spirit of the deceased joins the ancestors after the body has decomposed. Then, the Malagasy dance with the corpses around the tomb to live music.
Tana Toraja in Eastern Indonesia
Funerals in Tana Toraja, in eastern Indonesia, are epic affairs that involve an entire village and can last anywhere from a couple days to weeks. The burial ceremony has music, dance, and a feast for a number of guests. Understandably, death here is an extravagant occasion with a huge price tag. The relatives of the deceased are given a reprieve. Sacrificial water buffalo are slaughtered to carry the soul of the deceased into the afterlife. But that moment could take years. In the meantime, they are considered one “who is asleep” or a “sick man” and are placed in special rooms within the home and symbolically fed, included in the daily routines and conversations, cared for and taken out-remaining a part of their relative’s lives. An actual burial takes place when the family is prepared for it and the coffin is placed in a grave, a cave, or hanging on a cliff. The Torajans do not consider physical death at the end of the line. Instead, death is considered only part of the gradual process toward “Puya,” or the Land of Souls.
Torajan death ritual -“tomb sweeping,”- is taken to a morbid extreme. Depending on the village, every one to five years, families reunite to exhume the bodies of their deceased relatives, clean up the inside of their coffins, and, if the mummified bodies are in solid enough condition, give their ancestors a fresh change of clothes. Some parts of this ritual are the same as the ritual in Vietnam.
Santhara or Fasting to Death
India, Santhara begins after a person decides their life has served its purpose and they are ready for spiritual purification. This practice is often seen as a form of suicide or euthanasia.
Fantasy Coffins
In Ghana, the death of a loved one is a time to mourn for them as well as a time to celebrate their life. Instead of being buried in a traditional coffin, carpenters fashion out caskets symbolizing the deceased person’s life, including their character traits or status in society. Some are quite creative and made into fish, coke bottles, animals, or beer cans.
What happens if each group of people interchanges their funeral rituals with other groups? Will they feel fine, at ease by switching to the funeral ritual for their relative?
Time for contemplation: mixing pictures to find out the cause and cure
14. A brief history of humankind
“I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men”
“We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.”
“We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of the universe, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.”
Charles Darwin
Sometimes I wonder when seeing some discussions or forums discuss God is real or not. Many modern people are still arguing about the existence of God, the ideas of God and the creation of God. Many people still believe the story of “Seven Days of Creation” to explain creation on earth. Their religious belief is so strong that they ignore all the scientific experiments proved the evolution of the world. The “Theory of evolution by Darwin” gives the human a thorough understanding of the origin of creatures and the origin of human beings. All of the applications of human beings on agriculture, medicine, biology and many other sciences based on the theory of evolution. Recently, I have met a man with bachelor degree try to convince me to believe the teaching of God in the Bible. He totally agrees with the concept of the world has been created in seven days. Moreover, he still insisted on the theory of evolution by Darwin is wrong. He is so stubborn to try to convince me what he believes. It is quite difficult for people who have two set of beliefs one for daily life and scientific life and one for religious life. The conflicting between these two beliefs sometimes make them getting stuck in problems, denying new ideas, or even creating pain for themselves and other people; bearing the conflicting is like bearing a heavy burden preventing from development. It would be great if people can combine these two beliefs into one. Science and religion are the two important parts that complement each other to create a good life. As an Atheist, perhaps I accept the theory proved by science easier than the people who obsess with the religious belief.
We live in the seamless web of phenomena so that we never find a concrete or constant thing. We use the words, symbols, or definitions to make us the process of consciousness easier. The process of consciousness like thinking, imagination, and many functions of the brain that process countless phenomena become easier with words, definition, symbols, and emotion. Words, symbols, definitions are the products of cognitive thinking, they make the mind easier to understand the situation by relating to the known things and the process of thinking is easier and much more effective. Even the words, symbols, and definitions change gradually by the raising awareness of human beings. To understand the process of thinking, let see some definitions from Wikipedia.
The thought is a mental act that allows humans to make sense of things in the world, and to represent and interpret them in ways that are significant, or which accord with their needs, attachments, goals, commitments, plans, ends, desires, etc.
Thinking involves the symbolic or semiotic mediation of ideas or data, as when we form concepts, engage in problem-solving, reasoning, and making decisions. Thinking is also deeply connected with our capacity to make and use tools; to understand cause and effect; to recognize patterns of significance; to comprehend and disclose unique contexts of experience or activity, and to respond to the world in a meaningful way.
Words that refer to similar concepts and processes include deliberation, cognition, ideation, discourse, and imagination.
Memory is the ability to preserve, retain, and subsequently recall, knowledge, information, or experience.
Imagination is the activity of generating or evoking novel situations, images, ideas or other qualia in the mind. It is a characteristically subjective activity, rather than direct or indirect experience. The term is used in psychology for the process of reviving in the mind percepts of objects formerly given in sense perception.
Consciousness comprises qualities such as subjectivity, sentience, and the ability to perceive the relationship between oneself and one's environment. Some philosophers divide consciousness into phenomenal consciousness, which is the subjective experience itself, and access consciousness, which refers to the global availability of information to processing systems in the brain.
From some simple phenomena, these phenomena freely interact with each other create many more phenomena in the way of interacting. Compound over time, the interaction of some simple phenomena can immense phenomena. These phenomena interconnect into the seamless web. The interaction of phenomena is the best explanation for the forming of the universe and the best explanation for the creating of living on earth from some simple materials. The earth only had some inorganic elements described in Mendeleev's periodic table around four billion years ago. The names of these inorganic elements are the perceptions of the human mind to concrete the characters or a combination of specific phenomena inside the inorganic elements. The free interactions of these inorganic elements created organic elements. Over billions of years, some simple form of life created from the chemical reactions that produced many of the simpler organic compounds, including nucleobases and amino acids. Immense phenomena created over billions of years.
How did human beings appear? The first animals classified in the genus Homo had appeared from the evolution of small African ape ten million years ago. The process of evolution was still slowly for millions of years. Throughout more than 90% of human timeline, Homo sapiens lived in small bands as nomadic hunter-gatherers. As language became more complex, the ability to remember and communicate information resulted. Ideas could be exchanged quickly and passed down through the generations. Cultural evolution quickly outpaced biological evolution, and history proper began.
Cosmic calendar
Looking at the cosmic calendar zoomed in one year of human beings for easier understanding the formation of life and human beings; we will know how special human beings are. All the concepts and the name of spices, cells in the cosmic calendar are taught in high school in the subject of history and biology.
· 1st January to 6th September or the Big Bag to the 4.4 billion years ago is the forming of the Universe. The oldest rocks known on Earth are 4.4 billion years old.
Evolution of life on Earth
· Then from 14th September or 4.1 billion years ago, the evolution of life on earth began from “biotic life” found in 4.1 billion-year-old rocks in Western Australia, to first life of Prokaryotes.
· 30th September: photosynthesis began
· 29th October or 2.4 billion years ago is the oxygenation of the atmosphere, creatures can live on the surface of the earth.
· 5th December or 0.8 billion years ago started the first multicellular life.
· 7th December started the simple animals.
·14th December: started Arthropods (ancestors of insects, arachnids)
· 17th December started to fish and Proto-amphibians
· 20th December started land plants
· 21st December started insects and seeds
· 22nd December started amphibians
· 23rd December started reptiles
· 24 December: big events: Permian-Triassic extinction event, 90% of species die out.
· 25 December or 230 million years ago started dinosaurs
· 26 December started mammals
· 27 December started birds
· 28 December started flowers
· 30 Dec, 06:24 am or 65 million years ago Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event, Non-avian Dinosaurs Died Out
The start of human evolution is on the last day of the year of the Cosmic calendar:
· 30th December or 65 million years ago started primates
· 31 December, 6:05 am started apes
· 31 December, 2:24 pm or 12.3 million years ago, started hominids
· 31 December 10:24 pm or 2.5 million years ago started primitive humans and stone stools
·31 December 11:44 pm or 0.4 million years ago started domestication of fire
·31 December, 23:52 pm or 0.2 million years ago started anatomically modern humans
· 31 December, 23:55 pm 0.11 million years ago: the beginning of the most recent glacial period
· 31 Dec, 23:58 pm or 35000 years ago: started first sculpture and painting
· 31 Dec, 23:59:32 pm 12000 years ago started agriculture
Begin with human history is the last second in the New Year’s Eve of the Cosmic calendar.
· 31 Dec, 23:59:33 pm or 12000 years ago: End of the Ice Age
·31 Dec, 23:59:41 pm or 8300 years ago: the flooding of Doggerland - an area now beneath the southern North Sea that connected Great Britain to continental Europe during and after the last glacial period.
· 31 Dec, 23:59:46 pm or 6000 years ago: Chalcolithic
· 31 Dec, 23:59:47 pm or 5500 years ago: Early Bronze Age; Proto-writing; Building of Stonehenge Cursus
· 31 Dec, 23:59:48 pm or 5000 years ago: First Dynasty of Egypt, the early dynastic period in Sumer, Beginning of Indus Valley civilization
· 31 Dec, 23:59:49 pm or 4500 years ago Alphabet, Akkadian Empire, Wheel
· 31 Dec, 23:59:51 pm or 4000 years ago: Code of Hammurabi, Middle Kingdom of Egypt
· 31 Dec, 23:59:52 pm or 3500 years ago Late Bronze Age to Early Iron Age; Minoan eruption
· 31 Dec, 23:59:53 pm or 3000 years ago Iron Age; Beginning of Classical Antiquity
· 31 Dec, 23:59:54 pm or 2500 years ago: Buddha, Mahavira, Zoroaster, Confucius, Qin Dynasty, Classical Greece, Ashokan Empire, Vedas Completed, Euclidean geometry, Archimedean Physics, Roman Republic
· 31 Dec, 23:59:55 pm or 2000 years ago Ptolemaic astronomy, Roman Empire, Christ, Invention of Numeral 0, Gupta Empire
· From 2500 years ago to 2000 years ago is the time of flourishing of philosophers, religious leaders of human beings.
· 31 Dec, 23:59:56 pm 1500 years ago Muhammad, Maya civilization, Song Dynasty, Rise of Byzantine Empire
· 31 Dec, 23:59:58 pm 1000 years ago Mongol Empire, Maratha Empire, Crusades, Christopher Columbus Voyages to the Americas, Renaissance in Europe, Classical Music to the Time of Johann Sebastian Bach
The current second of the cosmic calendar
· 31 Dec, 23:59:59 pm Modern history; the last 437.5 years before present, is the time of major inventions and creation and development of human beings.
Facts of human history reveal mysterious of humankind:
Between 8500 and 7000 BC, humans in the Fertile Crescent in the Middle East began the systematic husbandry of plants and animals: agriculture. Adopting agriculture increased productivity provided by farming allowed the population to expand. Agriculture had a major impact; humans began to affect the environment as never before. Surplus food allowed a priestly or governing class to arise, followed by an increasing division of labor. This led to Earth's first civilization at Sumer in the Middle East, between 4000 and 3000 BC. Additional civilizations quickly arose in ancient Egypt, at the Indus River valley, and in China. The invention of writing enabled complex societies to arise. Record, keeping, and libraries served as a storehouse of knowledge and increased the cultural transmission of information. Humans no longer had to spend all their time working for survival, enabling the first specialized occupations like craftsmen, merchants, priests, etc… Curiosity and education drove the pursuit of knowledge and wisdom, and various disciplines, including primitive science, arose. This, in turn, led to the emergence of increasingly larger and more complex civilizations, such as the first empires, which at times traded with one another, or fought for territory and resources.
By around 500 BC, there were advanced civilizations in the Middle East, Iran, India, China, and Greece, at times expanding, at times entering into decline. In 221 BC, China became a single polity that would grow to spread its culture throughout East Asia. The religious, philosophical, and customs of China and India have been mixing to create the religious, philosophy and customs in Eastern Asia. These mixing of religious customs and philosophy have remained in some countries in Eastern Asia. In the feudal system in Vietnam and China, if the feudal mandarins had made the big contribution to the development of the feudal system, after dying they might become the Holy Spirits just by a decree of the King. The King of feudal system decreed that the people of the community built a temple as a worship place for the loyal mandarin. After that, the people in the community have held a ceremony or regional festival every year on the date that the loyal mandarin died. Some of the regional festivals are still held by the people of the community to the present time. There are many regional festivals held every year in Vietnam, Korea, China, and Japan. These festivals are the occasions for the people to worship their Holy Spirit and their ancestors. One tradition in Asia is any death individuals, after dying their pictures will be put on the altar of the family for the family members make worship. The pictures of dead people may be put next to the pictures of Buddha and many other Holy Spirits.
The Kings in the feudal system use the religious as a tool to rule their peoples. Many myths created to make people think that the kings were the representative of God. The words of kings, the decisions, or the decrees were the imperial edicts. These imperial edicts were like the orders of God. People had to kneel to listen to the imperial edicts of kings. In Vietnamese history, a king who had made one serious wrong imperial edict to exterminate Nguyen Trai, an illustrious Vietnamese Confucian scholar, a noted poet, a skilled politician and a master strategist, along with their entire extended families, approximately one hundred people. Kings in the feudal system were as powerful as God; they could make the punishment of nine familial exterminations or nine kinship exterminations; the punishment could make one hundred innocent people with little resistance. Twenty years later after the extermination of Nguyen Trai, the king Lê Thanh Tong officially pardoned Nguyen Trai, saying that he was wholly innocent in the death of King Le Thai Tong. Then Nguyen Trai was divinized; people started to build tempers to make worship Nguyen Trai as a Holy Spirit. Relating to the death of one hundred people of Nguyen’s family because of the feudal governors’ injustice, there was a rumor about the revenge of poisonous snake spread among the common people. Many people believed this rumor. They were so afraid of this rumor, afraid that poisonous may revenge them so that they dared not to talk about this event. Even many people in Vietnam recently still believe if the disaster happened to someone, it is maybe the revenge of the poisonous snake.
The punishment by nine exterminations was popular in ancient China, Korea, and Vietnam. The punishment by nine exterminations is usually associated with the tyrannical rulers throughout Chinese history who were prone to use inhumane methods of asserting control compare with slow slicing, or "death by ten thousand cuts". The first written account of the concept is in the Classic of History, officers would threaten their subordinates that they would exterminate their families if they refused to obey orders. Kings and yellow emperors considered God, with severe punishments or sentence punishments, the myths, belief, and philosophy, the governors had created the conditioned obey without any resistance. If people disobeyed any decisions of the yellow emperors, they would be frightening or became panicking. No one, even the richest man, the strongest man could have enough the courage to resist the orders of the kings if they wanted to have a good life.
The fundamentals of Western civilization were largely shaped in Ancient Greece with the world's first democratic government and major advances in philosophy, science, and mathematics. In Ancient Rome shaped major advances in law, government, and engineering.
The Roman Empire was Christianized by Emperor Constantine in the early fourth century and declined by the end of the fifth century.
Beginning with the seventh century, Christianization of Europe began. The teaching of different religions makes differences in the organization of pagodas and churches. In pagoda in eastern Asia, there are many statues of the holy spirits that people do not know, and the statue of Buddha, sometimes I even see the picture of a monk who has just gone, sometimes the pagodas are much more chaos than churches. There is no image of any dead people on the altars or churches. Looking for the answer, I find the commandments of God “You shall have no other gods before Me. And you shall not make idols”. The fact is there is no teaching of Buddha-like this. This finding leads to the conclusion that we are the product of the things we believe.
In 610, Islam founded and quickly became the dominant religion in Western Asia. The House of Wisdom established in Abbasid-era Baghdad, Iraq. It considered having been a major intellectual center during the Islamic Golden Age, where Muslim scholars in Baghdad and Cairo flourished from the ninth to the thirteenth centuries until the Mongol sack of Baghdad in 1258 AD.
In 1054, the Great Schism between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church led to the prominent cultural differences between Western and Eastern Europe. In the 14th century, the Renaissance began in Italy with advances in religion, art, and science. At that time, the Christian Church as a political entity lost much of its power.
In 1492, Christopher Columbus reached the Americas, initiating great changes to the new world. European civilization began to change beginning in 1500, leading to the scientific and industrial revolutions. That continent began to exert political and cultural dominance over human societies around the world.
From 1914 to 1918 the nations around the world were embroiled World War I, and from 1939 to 1945 the nations around the world were embroiled in World War II. Established following World War I, the League of Nations was a first step in establishing international institutions to settle disputes peacefully. After failing to prevent World War II, the bloodiest conflict of humankind, the League of Nations was replaced by the United Nations. After the war, many new states were formed, declaring or being granted independence in a period of decolonization. The United States and the Soviet Union became the world's dominant superpowers for a time.
The big question was Adolf Hitler the man created World War II? Would World War II have happened if Adolf Hitler had drowned when he was a child? Or was the War the product of disputes and conflicts of the beliefs, philosophies, and opinions among human kind of that time?
Reading the brief of human history, we may see that human beings are the creators and receivers of phenomena relating to human life. We are the servants of our own belief, customs, religion, rituals, and taboos, which are the products or opinions of previous philosophers. Each stage of human history has its own characters with the events, people and the dominating philosophy. Millions of people died in these events are just the small dots in the chapter of dominating philosophy in human history. Human beings have been conditioned so silently and sophisticatedly that we may think that our beliefs, opinions, actions, behaviors, customs, religions, rituals, and taboos are parts of their constant identities or Egos. We sometimes obsess about our beliefs, opinions, religions, rituals, and taboos so much that we may beat, threaten, or kill others if they violate one of the thoughts.
Talking about the definition of religions, I love the teaching of Muhammad Ali:
“Rivers, ponds, lakes, and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.”
In my understanding, religions are the powerful belief, the belief comes from the thinking of protecting, caring, loving and giving from their Holy Spirits. All people will become equal under the caring of their Holy Spirit. With the protecting, caring, giving and loving from their God, people will feel safe to dare to work more, dream more, risk more, sacrifice more and take more action. All customs, rituals, and behavior like praying, asking, worshipping will reinforce the belief of people. Believing will make people feel safe in danger; they will more open to others, and more generous than in a stressed state. Believing will activate the happy state of mind to make people take more good behaviors.
In the human world, religions that are the most powerful invisible forces control the behaviors of human beings. From the table some religions in the world, Can you imagine how well for you if you adopt one of these religions, or do the ideas contrasted to your religious rituals?
Can you have a clear answer what is your religion, what is your cousin’s religion, what is your friend religion, what is your spouse religion? And Why do you, your friend and your spouse have that religion?
Table 11: Some religions in the world
Religious
Description
God(s)?
Afterlife?
Holy Texts?
Ancestor worship
A belief that good relations need to be kept with tribal ancestor spirits.
Not defined
Yes
None
Buddhism
The belief that meditation and good living can break the cycle of reincarnation and result in enlightenment
Atheist
Reincarnation until escape
Multifaceted
Atheism
Either the active and extrinsic disbelief that God exists or not
Atheist
Not defined
None
Hinduism
Cultural religion of India which was historically decentralized and disparate, and not a single belief system.
Polytheist
Reincarnation until escape
Multifaceted
Islam
Strict monotheism taught by Muhammad
Monotheist
Heaven or hell
Qur'an and Hadiths
Taoism
A relaxed and peaceful religion based on following and accepting the flow of life
Atheist
None
Tao Te Ching
Christianity
Belief that a single creator god had a son, Jesus Christ, born to a human mother, and that Jesus' crucifixion by the Romans brings salvation
Monotheist
Heaven or hell
The Bible
Confucianism
A collection of ethical and moral teachings
Atheist
None
Chinese religion
A varied cultural religion practiced traditionally on a town-by-town and region-by-region basis
Atheist
Reincarnation until escape
None
Heaven's Gate
Apocalyptic suicide cult who combined Biblical eschatology with New Age and ideas about UFOs. All 39 members committed suicide in San Diego, the USA in 1997
Theist
Yes
Christian Apostolic Church in Zion
Fundamentalist Anti-science flat-earth Christian cult, who also predicted the End of the World would occur 4 different times
Theist
Heaven or hell
The Bible
Raja Yoga
An astika school of Hindu philosophy based on mastering and quieting the mind, involving meditation
Polytheist
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Order of the Solar Temple
Apocalyptic suicide cult, with mass suicides in Switzerland, France, and Quebec, in preparation for Jesus' second coming
Theist
Yes
The Bible and other
People's Temple
Apocalyptic suicide cult that imploded, resulting in the deaths of over 600 adults and 276 children
Theist
Heaven or hell
The Bible
Source: http://www.humanreligions.info/religions.html
Religious |
Description
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God(s)?
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Afterlife?
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Holy Texts?
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Ancestor worship
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A belief that good relations need to be kept with tribal ancestor spirits.
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Not defined
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Yes
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None
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Buddhism
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The belief that meditation and good living can break the cycle of reincarnation and result in enlightenment
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Atheist
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Reincarnation until escape
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Multifaceted
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Atheism
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Either the active and extrinsic disbelief that God exists or not
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Atheist
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Not defined
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None
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Hinduism
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Cultural religion of India which was historically decentralized and disparate, and not a single belief system.
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Polytheist
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Reincarnation until escape
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Multifaceted
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Islam
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Strict monotheism taught by Muhammad
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Monotheist
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Heaven or hell
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Qur'an and Hadiths
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Taoism
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A relaxed and peaceful religion based on following and accepting the flow of life
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Atheist
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None
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Tao Te Ching
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Christianity
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Monotheist
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Heaven or hell
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The Bible
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Confucianism
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A collection of ethical and moral teachings
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Atheist
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None
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Chinese religion
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A varied cultural religion practiced traditionally on a town-by-town and region-by-region basis
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Atheist
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Reincarnation until escape
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None
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Heaven's Gate
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Apocalyptic suicide cult who combined Biblical eschatology with New Age and ideas about UFOs. All 39 members committed suicide in San Diego, the USA in 1997
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Theist
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Yes
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Christian Apostolic Church in Zion
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Fundamentalist Anti-science flat-earth Christian cult, who also predicted the End of the World would occur 4 different times
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Theist
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Heaven or hell
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The Bible
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Raja Yoga
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An astika school of Hindu philosophy based on mastering and quieting the mind, involving meditation
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Polytheist
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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
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Order of the Solar Temple
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Apocalyptic suicide cult, with mass suicides in Switzerland, France, and Quebec, in preparation for Jesus' second coming
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Theist
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Yes
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The Bible and other
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People's Temple
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Apocalyptic suicide cult that imploded, resulting in the deaths of over 600 adults and 276 children
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Theist
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Heaven or hell
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The Bible
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IT IS THE MIND – THE STATE OF MIND
Meditation, alternative therapies, NLP, Affirmation, love-hug-kindness can help to control and master the mind.
Science reaches to the fail of finding a single cause of the diseases from the mind: mental illness, thinking, and poor abilities.
Because the mind is not like the body. The body will give away all you put in just in several hours or days according to its half-life: food, vegetable, medicines, chemical, additives, mercury, gold, nutrition. Even the body can heal the small abnormal cause by X-ray.
But the mind keeps all in the conscious mind and subconscious mind. Millions of events, phenomena called Negative thinking, negative events, negative emotions, and negative experiences compound into the disease in mind, brain, body, abilities, genes, and health. It covers all terminologies in medical books. They are interdependent factors. How can Scientist figure out a single CAUSE?
5 minutes of rapping can affect the whole life.
5 minutes of abusing can make victims fear whole life
1 minute of bombing, earthquake, the killing can affect their whole life.
It creates the conditioned of Fight and Flight that they can not consciously control.
WAIT: but all successful people have experienced this. How? Do only medication?
Nop: medication can help to control and relieve but cannot cure.
Some Examples: Abraham Lincoln, Oprah Winfrey, their friends, and their heroes, teachers.
Who teaches this? Jame Allen, Abraham Maslow, Napoleon Hill, Benjamin Franklin, John Maxwell, Norman Vincent Peal, Buddha, God, hundreds of Self Help authors, leaders and religious leaders.
They teach:
Causes and Effects
Sowing and reaping
Compound effects of millions of interdependent causes/effects.
Try to find a single cause: we will fail.
And SCIENTISTS HIT THE PARADOXES
This makes Autistic Robot with extremely high IQ cannot catch the abilities of human beings.
Overstress may make depression and poor learning in adults so what does stress make on kids and infants. What pills for all?
I see many victims.
How, what pills for irrational hysterical coded Stress mind/ World???
Pavlov has taught about Conditioned Reflex.
NLP take advantages of this with the science of mind and achievement.
All art of communicating is using the knowledge of mind to talk, discuss and persuade people based on the need of people.
THINGS ALL SHOULD KNOW IS PEOPLE ARE CONTROLLED BY HUMAN DRIVE: certainty, uncertainty, love and connection, significance, Growth, and contribution.
Anger, anxiety, behavior, depressed, name, lack of mindfulness, lack of concentration, taboo, fear, happiness are Conditioned Responses; the are unconsciously coded and silently control us.
It can explain why Alternative therapies help. So best of all is an effective combination of the advantages of all therapist.
Do you think the pills that pharmacy sell, therapist recommend, and Ph.D. created work for you? It is good for acute, know the causes.
But
IT JUST MAKE TEMPORARY and short-term. FOR LONG TERM, forget medication, start to find meditation.
REDEFINE OF STRESS
The right definition of stress: human beings have basic human needs described by Abraham Maslow. Anything threatens of satisfying these needs will lead to Fight and Flight responses. IF people cannot change the situation, threaten, they will be the victims of STRESS AND STRESS HORMONES.
Felt signs caught by the Religious leader, artist, Educator, better than Ph.D., Scientist & Autistic machine. So NLP, affirmation, meditation is better than medicine, punishment
How can we heal, prevent, treat the things we do not know? A lot of resources put in researching and carrying out but the trend of Suicide, Autism, ADHD, Gunfire are Soaring???
Autism, Depression, ADHD: need to read 3 signals: 1. Indifference: low energy/activities 2. Fight: overreact to things. 3. Fight: to the crowd has fear, anxiety, withdraw
Every day, approximately 121 Americans take their own life. Ninety percent of all people who die by suicide have a diagnosable psychiatric disorder at the time of their death.
PARADOXES OF HARVARD
PARADOXES OF SCIENCE
PARADOXES OF THE MORE.
SORRY, With Coded hysterical angry stressed MIND/men, any tools: bottles, cars, trucks, airplanes, GUNS, protective tools, gas, protective weapons can become the tools to cheat, harm, make hurt or kill others.
But with Coded grateful, happy, kind, peaceful MIND/men, any tools: bottles, cars, trucks, airplanes, GUNS, protective tools, gas, protective weapons can become the tools to help, make peace or heal others.
It is not controlling the gun, but the most important is control the things that make the head use the gun
It is not gun-control but most important is control what makes the mind want to use the gun to fire.
SLEEPNESS COME FROM WORRY OF THE DISEASES OF YOUR CHILD, THE ANGER OF THE WORKPLACE, THE FEAR OF YOUR FAULT MAY BE REVEALED. What's
Pressure from Work, School, Study, Family. Ability smaller than PRESSURE leads to Fear, Anxiety, Depression, Insomnia, Headache, Distraction, Upset Stomach, and Blood pressure, blood glucose always raises for FIGHT & FLIGHT Mechanism.
Problems start from MIND, MINDSET.
They may suffer the minor or severe effect of STRESS.
Problems come from Mindset, Symptomatic medication is useless, that is why patients have to take medication for weeks, months, years or the lifetime to calm the symptoms of Chronic diseases down.
WHEN WILL WE INTERPRET STATE or QUALITY of the HUMAN MIND into EVENTS, DISEASES, and DISASTERS.
EVENTS: gunfire, homicide;
DISEASES: autism, ADHD, Depression, Suicide, Chronic diseases, and DISASTERS: flood, Tsunami, Earthquake...
and its increasing TREND is interdependent phenomena?
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Thank you all,
This answer is part of my book: "Yes to can autism, ADHD, depression is predicted, prevented, and healed". These are quick brief of my works
As you see, they lack social skills, they cannot talk: language is the product of living environment - as your native language and my native language, we speak it naturally without thinking at all. We are not born with our native language, so I doubt their connection with their living environment and/or the state of mind that they can not/don't want to learn. You can test them with Aesop fables(they do not understand), pretending game - they do not understand, interacting, communicating or persuading. They are at a low level of this. For official test: you can test them with EQ test. All these low-level vital skills make them never feel safe, connection to the environment: it makes them stress. Over time, it makes the downward spiral that make them more and more lack of social skills and suffer more stress that we do not know.
Poor in EQ answer why do autistic kids not understand fable and Aesop stories? Which philosophy can explain how genes make them poor in EQ, and cognitive thinking? We know too little about genes but as a trainer, I know that any skill can be learned with just simple basic supports.
We are working with the MIND: things we should remember about the mind: irrational mind, the giant brain evolved for millions of years, illogical mind and Placebo effects, Neuro-plasticity, Mirror neurons, self-affirmation, self-talk, compound effects, CONDITIONED RESPONSES, and ILLUSIVE MIND, IRRATIONAL THINKING: what if all of these lead to negativity or positivity? Maybe Outliers or Failures!
They rarely joy
It is said by genes
So they accept it as gifts
Or nobles term, not diseases
Even they take more expensive medication than other illness.
Challenging ideas to think out of the box have written.
How I know they are under stress: read their behaviors, read the body language. In the stress state, stress chemicals: adrenalin, noradrenalin, and cortisol will dominate the body. The effect of these stress chemicals listed in any medical book and look closer we can see all these effects are available in kids, to some extents, the effects caused by stress chemicals are the best answer for the autistic rainbow.
Sorry, they are not happy with the label GIFT.
Yes: all in one, one in all.
Do you think they are stress because of lacking social skills so the suffer stress during interaction: even in families, school, and society? So they do not have a chance to learn, to grow and gain vital skills. We are not alone the victims. Even millions of people and the therapist has cheated also. And to some extent, one not only the victims but also the creators.
REDEFINE OF STRESS
The right definition of stress: human beings have basic human needs described by Abraham Maslow. Anything threatens of satisfying these needs will lead to Fight and Flight responses. IF people cannot change the situation, threaten, they will be the victims of STRESS AND STRESS HORMONES.
We hunger for this: Real needs of human being and real lack of modern people: we make the statistics or studies to see the effects of these four factors:
1. Unconditional love: love with greed, anger, ignorance is not real love. Right love should be with UNDERSTANDING: the self, other, and situation.
2. Connection: people, animal, diversified nature, understanding with parents: technology cut all chance of connection and make poor of any connection people have.
3. Chances or suitable problems to build muscle, ability to help them deal with the fact of life. (The way of self-made millionaires raise their kids)
4. Unstressed environment: happy, warm, cheering; then make them have the feeling of safety, certainty to work, try, play, do and fail... they have more skill and abilities to deal with the needed problems, the challenge in life.
Understand the characters of problems: we will have a better view of the Causes: We are an interdependent world: no single cause create all thing, but all things are in the interdependent web. So how can we blame for food, genes, chemicals, guns, drugs for our problems? They interact in the hidden web, to some extent, just a Blink (Malcolm Gladwell) of the sages, leaders will give the Gut Feelings about the situation, and our world.
EARLY DETECTION AND INTERVENTION CAN BE DONE SINCE 2,3 OR 4 MONTHS OLD: READ ALL THE THINGS WE SEE
With normal development, 2-3 months old children have the responses, interested, pay attention to the talking and smile back, shaking hands and body when parents talk directly to them. Do this regularly, you if you see the signs of not paying attention or indifference: the early signs of stress, over time children, may get more severe problems in the brain and mental problems. Observe the pattern of sleeping, eating, crying, and emotion to realize early signs since 1-2-3 months old to have
ALL IN ONE, ONE IN ALL,
it is time to combine all.
Dear, Neurologist, psychiatrist, sociologist, gastroenterologist, urologist, educators, sleep therapists, cardiologist, language therapists: there is no separation in the health of heart, stomach, muscle, cognitive thinking, sleeping, hormone system: all are interdependent and under the state of mind. IT IS THE ADVANTAGES OF EASTERN PHILOSOPHY AND THE BASIC OF EASTERN TRADITIONAL MEDICINE. It is time to combine all we help to heal effectively.
Do you have gut feelings that we all of the problems we treat depend on the state of mind? The fluctuation of the state of mind may determine the quality of treating some chronic diseases. The compound of state of mind, emotions. The symptoms may reduce when patients feel better, in a good state of peace of mind (Zen masters, happy men maybe use the least medicine in our communities)
The highest teaching of Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Jesu teaches about love, kindness, and golden rules. Yin - Yang, Buddhism, Lao Tzu teach about the emptiness, egoless, nothingness of the interdependent world, so the best way of living in that society is to treat well with others. Go against that, or living with three poisons: Greed, Anger, and Ignorance: we will suffer? So Who suffer first in the angry, greedy communities, and how is the mechanism require the join hands of all people?
Language is a vital skill: with connect variation of sound to specific meaning, it is not easy at all, but it takes times and supports to gain it; it is skilled as others skills that they lack: it is not because of genes cause learning. RIGHT?
SUFFERING WORLD!
When do we realize the Effects of stressed mind on the brain, body, world? In mind, the brain we called mental problems, insomnia, headache, suicide problems, social problems.
Effects of stress on the stomach, intestine we called the stomach problems, gastrointestinal problems; on heart, vein, we call cardiovascular diseases.
Stress on the school: school problems
Stress on the world we called human problems, which may lead to World War.
Stress start from the state of mind. It is in the cluster: suicide, autism, ADHD, depression have the same hidden cause. We still cheat yourself that the soaring number of autism, ADHD, and depression come from diagnosing... no, we are wrong. These problems have relation and the number of suicide goes with other numbers. And death from suicide does not come from DIAGNOSING!
ASKING THE SAGE: " HOW THERE ARE SO VARIOUS PEOPLE? HE SAID: "ONLY BABIES ARE BORN!" and he smiles: " We are living on heavenly earth."
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