Institution for
Authority Research
A
dopamine-Driven World
by Dean Gotcher - October 10, 2007
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"This I say then, Walk in the Spirit,
and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. For the
flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the
flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that
ye cannot do the things that ye would." Galatians 5:16-17
Between the surface of the body and the brain
there are neurons (nerves) which detect changes in the
environment and convey these changes to the brain.... Before the
brain receives information via the neurons, the neurons have
already picked up information from the environment, passing this
information to the next neuron, passing it through the synaptic
gap by means of neurotransmitters, chemical transmitters of
information. ...whatever the surroundings we happen to be in at
the time, our neurons are passing this information on to the
brain to help us deal with (give us data on which to make
decisions on whether or how to respond to) the changing
conditions.
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter associated
with pleasure. All habitual drugs such as cocaine,
tobacco, caffeine, etc., which our body craves when it does not
get more (when it runs out of it, or is inhibited from or
incapable of producing or liberating dopamine), are tied to the
dopamine. When we run out of it, we become agitated, get the
shakes, and can become manically depressed.
Dopamine is not only associated with craving
but also with enjoyment or pleasure: when we smell bread, or see
a sunset, or are complimented, or are drawn into activity
associated with procreation (providing we found these to be
enjoyable in the past i.e. in other words they did not produce
pain or were not associated with pain in some way, providing we
don't find pleasure in pain that is—this can all become quite
complicated), dopamine is being secreted in the brain....
Because dopamine is short-lived in the
synaptic gap, while the memory of pleasure may last a lifetime,
the experience itself is fleeting. Thus life is ever changing,
with its swings of up and down, with people perpetually chasing
after its pleasures.
Over time, when the simulated dopamine is
neutralized by the body, the body is not able to produce its own
dopamine. This results in a craving for the drug. Whether
addicted or not, our bodies crave for things in the environment
which stimulate dopamine release.... We by nature are drawn to
pleasure. It is the lust for it (Eros) which gets us into
trouble (sin).
"Love not the world, neither the things
that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love
of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world,
the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the
pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he
that doeth the will of God abideth for ever." 1 John
2:15-18
It is not pleasure itself which is a problem,
it is the love of it, the love of the conditions which stimulate
the body's craving for dopamine. Lovers of pleasure are
"driven" by the environment around them which liberates dopamine
("the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride
of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world"). The
environment can not make you "do it," but it can draw you into
such a state that any thought in its direction can easily
encourage you to "do it." Since the pleasures of this world
have a propensity to draw our bodies toward pleasure, it is evil
to find our purpose in life by the influences (encouragement or
enticement) of the world. In this way we can be easily "driven"
by the things in the world, finding our "purpose" through
relationship with it.
"By faith Moses, when he was come to
years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;
Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God,
than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season; Esteeming
the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in
Egypt: for he had respect unto the recompense of the
reward." Hebrews 11:24
"... and bringing into captivity every
thought to the obedience of Christ;" 2 Corinthians 10:5
What we set our heart's desire upon,
what we treasure as important in our lives, determines a lot of
how we will respond to the situation. Things in the environment
which stimulate dopamine secretion (emancipation, liberation),
explained below, can easily become the treasures of our
lives. "For where your treasure is, there will your heart be
also." Luke 12:34 We store them in our mind, while we attempt
to accumulate them externally for our continued pleasure. It is
not the toy itself which the child wants, it is the pleasure,
the emancipation of dopamine, which the toy stimulates, for
which the child craves (covets).
What can I get out of this relationship for me?
For fallen man, i.e. the liberal mind, the "good life" lies
in the relationship they have with others, others who provide
dopamine emancipation for them. Thus liberals can't hang around
for long with or seek advice or direction from true believers
(those people they see as "fundamental religious extremist"),
and definitely don't allow believers to have any position of
control over society. Void of their understanding of the work of
God in the heart of man (freedom from the power of the flesh and
the joy and peace which can only come from God) liberals can
only see depression as the result of Godly restraint. The
liberal church simply provides an environment which stimulates
dopamine emancipation to keep its members coming back for more,
satisfying their habit of socially shared pleasure, keeping the
liberal ministers dopamine addiction also well supported and
supplied. "Whoever gives me dopamine emancipation, in the name
of Jesus, I will support and I will follow." Liberals can not
truly love man, they love the dopamine emancipation relationship
with man provides them. This is why they despise being
chastened, and hate those who chasten. This is why, just as
Satan, they hate the word of God and diligently reinterpret it
to protect themselves from any sense of condemnation.
“The goal of the pleasure principle is happiness.” “The
replacement of the pleasure principle by the reality
principle [obeying parents or God] is the great traumatic
event in the development of man ... it occurs during the
period of early childhood, and submission to the reality
principle is enforced by the parents and other educators.”
[Id] “... does not aim at self-preservation; all it strives
for is satisfaction of its instinctual needs, in accordance
with the pleasure principle.” “... the basic instincts
strive for the prevalence of pleasure and for the absence of
pain, the pleasure principle is incompatible with reality,
and the instincts have to undergo a repressive
regimentation.” “In terms of the pleasure principles ...
reproduction is merely a ‘by-product.” [This "logic"
justifies homosexuality, pedophilia, bestiality, etc. See
Romans 1]
Norman O. Brown Life Against Death [brackets and
comments added]
The love of pleasure, the "pleasure principle," is the root
of all evil. The mind of the flesh, in love with the things in
the environment which stimulate dopamine emancipation, left to
itself will move our mind to attend to its "needs," "What is
going to happen to me if I don't get or keep it (whatever it is
which stimulated dopamine emancipation) NOW? " "I will just die
if I can't have it NOW." (All the therapist i.e. facilitator,
has to do today is move the I into a group and get it to respond
"We will just die if we can't have it NOW.") Thus in the heat of
impulse, of desire, blinded to extrinsic warnings (warnings
which make no "sense" at the time—Have you ever done something
for which later you hated yourself for doing? Something which
only later you knew you had a choice about doing or not doing,
yet for some reason you knew that you would not have listened to
anyone's warning. You would have simply justified, with
confidence in your action and with contempt toward anyone
repeatedly warning you, that any such warnings were of no
concern to you, that they were not relevant to your situation,
that that anyone delivering them to you were "hateful" towards
you.). We, because it feels good, "Just do it." The mind of
the flesh, this love of dopamine emancipation, is so strong,
that if we do not "hate" ourselves first, we can not overcome
its demand for actualization (necessity of the moment, I,
disguised in the we, will perish if we don't get it now, drives
the dialectical process. The necessity of dopamine emancipation
is the dynamo which actualizes revolution and keeps it moving.
This necessity is the same necessity of the theory of evolution.
Without it the theory would die—the necessity of change would
die with the choice of truth. These guys speak of choice but
only under the conditions of the necessity of the flesh, void of
the choice between a lie and the truth, of right and wrong, of
flesh and spirit).
"From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they
not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? Ye
lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot
obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask
not." James 4: 1, 2
Wars within and the wars without are based upon our love for
the liberation of this tiny neurotransmitter (dopamine) into our
brain. We are not accountable for what the environment (the
world) brings upon us, but we are accountable before God on how
we respond. For example: King David was not where he was
supposed to be, he was at home instead of with his troops in
battle, when he happened to see Bathsheba, "who was very
beautiful to look upon" (a dopamine moment) and upon sending
messengers he "took her" (to get more dopamine emancipation) and
the rest is history, a history of sin, a history of David
chasing dopamine emancipation. (2 Samuel 11)
"Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye
may consume it upon your lusts. Ye adulterers and
adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world
is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of
the world is the enemy of God. Do ye think that the
scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us
lusteth to envy?" James 4:3-5
Throughout the scriptures death, destruction, and lies litter
the pathway of man seeking after pleasure, the emancipation of
dopamine, who carry out vendettas upon those who prevent or
interfere with its pursuit. All the laws of God concern
themselves with this neurotransmitter. Fallen man worships gods
of his own making, god's who help him emancipate dopamine. He
makes graven images and worships them, god's and their "laws"
which emancipate dopamine. He can not stop himself from
continually seeking after dopamine emancipation, working himself
or others into early death to achieve it (the words "Gold rush,"
simply means the rush of dopamine emancipation from the
possibility of "eternal" stimulation, it's not necessarily only
the gold, its beauty in sight and touch which stimulates
dopamine emancipation, it is also the hope for unimaginable
pleasure it promises to provide). He dishonors those who teach
him to restrain, or interfere with his love of dopamine
emancipation. He steals those things from others which
stimulate dopamine emancipation. He seeks those things of his
neighbors which stimulate dopamine emancipation. He bears false
witness against any one who limits his dopamine emancipation or
gains dopamine emancipation through performing such an act. He
seeks dopamine emancipation from someone other than his own wife
when she does not provide it. It is a very long list of verses
a person can compile from the praxis dopamine emancipation
against God's will. God's law is spiritual, man's law, of the
flesh, is temporal. Breaking God's law can be summed up in
"taking that which is not ours." The earth is the Lords and the
fulness thereof, for us to covet any of it, to use it for
dopamine emancipation, against God's will, is sin. Sometimes
Godly chastening (in love) is all which will be "listened" to at
the time by a person blinded by its power—to bring a person (or
child) to the responsibility of gaining control over longing for
or lusting after it, i.e. learning self control, self
discipline.
" I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully
made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth
right well." (Psalms 139:14)
"In_this_way_the_environment_around_us_stimulates">In
this way the environment around us stimulates our brain to
respond to changing conditions (awareness of environmental
change, muscular response to it, and retention of the momentary
event in memory). We did not know we wanted Ice Cream for
example (If you don't want Ice Cream, when it is brought before
you, or when it is on your mind, then put something you do want,
when placed in front of you, in its place) until our brain told
us we wanted it. Whether you like it our not is not the issue,
if dopamine is secreted when your body encounters the object in
the environment then your natural inclination is to want it.
(That is unless someone told you you would not like it, that it
was bad for you, or that it would result in harm coming to you,
or for some reason you predetermined you would not like it. That
can influence your perception or awareness of your future
attraction toward it as well—in this line of thinking, liking
something is of the mind while wanting something is of the body,
human nature, based upon the body and its natural inclination
toward the world would outweigh the liking or disliking of
something shaped by sources outside your human nature).
“"Neurosis:_Every_neurosis">Every neurosis is
an example of dynamic adaptation; it is essentially an
adaptation to such external conditions as are in themselves
irrational and, generally speaking, unfavorable to the
growth of the child." Erich Fromm, Escape from Freedom
"Work done by Horkheimer in the thirties identified
'neurosis as a social product, in which the family was seen
as a primary agent of repressive socialization.'" Erich
Fromm, Marx’s Concept of Man
“Parental discipline, religious denunciation of bodily
pleasure, . . . have all left man overly docile, but
secretly in his unconscious unconvinced, and therefore
neurotic.” “The bondage of all cultures to their cultural
heritage is a neurotic construction.” Norman O. Brown Life
Against Death.
This is of major importance to understand. If this thinking
is embraced (the dialectical paradigm), then when the
environment in the Garden in Eden stimulated the woman's
dopamine emancipation (pleasure, to "touch" the tree), which
would be considered as her discovering her true nature, her true
identity with the world around her (which would be classified as
being good by those who think dialectically), then any
interference of that which was of her nature would be considered
as evil. Thus God's interference with the woman's true nature
(his command to Adam, not to eat of the "tree of the knowledge
of good and evil," and his command for Adam to take dominion
over the environment and also rule over the woman) would be
considered as evil, since it interfered with that which was
good—the woman's discovering of her full potential, her
spontaneity to relate with the environment, only possible apart
from commands blocking her natural desire. Her response to
God's command when confronted by an environment facilitated by
Satan, shows all mankind the pathway (broad pathway) to the
discovering of their full potential through a restored
relationship with the environment—"universal reconciliation."
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If A = B
and If B = C
then A = C
If people naturally seek pleasure,
and If pleasure is dopamine emancipation,
then people naturally seek dopamine emancipation.
then
If facilitators (like Satan) are trained in putting emphasis on
specific items in the environment which emancipate dopamine,
and if the specific items in the environment which emancipate
dopamine can control (manipulating) our lives,
then facilitators (like Satan) are trained in controlling
(manipulating) our lives.
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By Adam's and the woman's (Eve's) rejection of their fleshy
nature, through the act of obedience to commands, commands which
blocked their "self actualization," their natural desire to
relate with the world around them, they would manifest a
behavior known in psychology as "neurosis." They would be
forever neurotic, according to psychology, since the desire to
relate with the creation (uninhibited spontaneous sensuous
relationship), would always exist, residing within them, in the
subconscious mind, waiting for a facilitator, an "angel of
mercy" (Satan) to free them from the repression of the
conscience (the command of God or the parent resident within).
Thus Satan (if you want to know how to facilitate change in man,
to bring him individually and collectively into harmony with his
human nature, study Satan, not God—God demands repentance and
expects obedience to him), again, Satan, the master facilitator,
becomes the messenger of "peace," the liberator of mankind from
his neurosis (a self-environmental dialectical rift—both seeking
unity, the self with the environment and the environment with
the self, but instead alienated by objective truth, non-sensuous
commands), a neurosis caused by God and parents whose commands
of obedience block mankind's interpersonal relationship with the
world, a world which is calling (enticing) all mankind to join
in its pursuit of pleasure, worldly pleasure seeking
emancipation (seeking actualization), but at present
constrained, helplessly squirming within mankind, needing a
collective voice, a chorus of consensus for liberation, a
"democratic" authorization to burst forth and carnage the
restrainers.
“"Neurosis:_Neurotic_symptoms">Neurotic symptoms,
with their fixations on perversions and obscenities,
demonstrate the refusal of the unconscious essence of our
being to acquiesce in the dualism of flesh and spirit,
higher and lower.” Norman O. Brown Life Against Death.
"One of the most difficult patients for me to work with
in groups is the individual who employs fundamentalist
religious views in the service of denial." Irvin Yalom
Theory and Practice and Group Psychotherapy)
When we first tasted Ice Cream (our neurons were triggered,
neurotransmitters were sent across synaptic gaps, and the next
neurons activated), up until this information was received by
the brain, and the brain began the action of processing it, we
did not know for certain whether we wanted it or not. Thus,
according to dialectical reasoning, "felt" needs become the
basis of "sound" reasoning, both in alignment with the
environment. That rational, balanced, reasonable, sensible,
sound reasoning must be founded upon "sense experience, in the
two forms of sense perception and sensuous need, that is, only
when it proceeds from Nature.” Karl Marx Selected Reading
Without both being experienced, sensuous perception
(consciousness of the environment around us, as Satan assisted
the woman in the Garden of Eden—enticed her) and sensuous needs
(consciousness of our internal environmental "felt" needs, the
woman's natural desire, her "felt" need to "touch" the tree of
"the knowledge of good and evil") through sensuous reasoning
(building reality upon how we feel and what we think, she "saw"
...), neurosis can not be overcome (the materialization of man
can not be "actualized").
"1.
"HRCC:_All_human_behavior_is_directed_toward_the_satisfaction_of_needs">
All human behavior is directed toward the satisfaction of
needs, 2. the individual will change his established
ways of behaving for one of two reasons: to gain increased
need satisfaction or to avoid decreased need satisfaction,
and 3. 'augmentation' in the possibilities of needs
satisfaction." Douglas McGregor as quoted in Human
Relations in Curriculum Change ed. by Kenneth Benne
Depending upon the utilization of our nervous system, we
continue to either add to its ability or diminish from its
ability to gather, retain, and respond to information we gather
from the environment which we consider as worthy of attention
(information from the environment which we perceive will benefit
us in some way). This is particularly true of the very young.
In other words we can grow and train the brain. By attending to
(thinking and acting upon) selected things in the environment we
can train our brain to respond more quickly in a particular
direction or way of thinking. By selective attention to the
environment, and play with it, we can develop more brain
capacity in a particular area of interest while possibly
diminishing another area due to its lack of exercise. Our very
way of thinking is based upon how we respond to (or allowed to
respond to) the environment around us and thus our behavior
towards things in the environment reflect the way we think.
Approval from the environment (it does not bite back i.e. it
does not produce pain, "reality principle") or from people in
the environment (they do not threaten us or chasten us),
reinforces our approach toward things we find pleasurable in the
environment and helps in developing the way we think (approach
pleasure i.e. "pleasure principle," and avoid pain i.e. "reality
principle").
""Rogers:_Neither_the_Bible_nor_the_prophets">Neither
the Bible nor the prophets, neither the revelations of
God can take precedence over my own direct experience.”
“Experience is, for me, the highest authority.” "The
individual in such a moment, is coming to be what he is. He
has experienced himself. He has become what he is.”
“Existential living is to say that the self and personality
emerge from experience. It means that one becomes a
participant in and an observer of the ongoing process of
organismic experience.” Carl Rogers On becoming a person
Thus the barriers to our relationship with certain things in
the environment, things in the environment which originally
attracted us, adjusts our mind in the direction of attending to,
having respect for, honoring (at least having obedience toward)
the source of the barrier (the parent, God, etc.) and turn us
away from having relationship with the thing in the environment
which originally attracted us (fear of punishment from the
parent, fear of the unknown, fear that the thing in the
environment might bite back). Our love is then turned from the
things in the environment, things which our fleshly nature
desired to relate with, toward loving the one who blocked our
relationship with the environment. In this way objective truth,
truth which is not learned via self experience finding
commonality with the things in the environment, things in the
environment which naturally draws us to it (subjective truth),
but is truth which must be accepted as truth (commands given)
outside of or above our sense experience ("Because God said
so."), becomes the bases of the way we think (a patriarchal
paradigm). In this way of thinking we learn to contrast between
that which is above (parent, God resulting in obeying commands
from them and learning self control) and what is below (the
fleshly draw of the world resulting in worldly control and
eventual judgment). In fact we can not overcome the draw of the
worldly environment on our own (this is why we have all sinned
and fallen short of the glory of God).
The only way to overcome the power of the flesh and its lusts
for the creation and the Prince of the power of the air, the
enticer, Satan, who plants thoughts in our mind to justify our
desire to be at-one with the world, is by the blood of the Lamb,
Jesus Christ, (his righteousness imputed to all who believe upon
him, repenting of our sin and accepting him as Savior and Lord
of our life), and the power of the Holy Spirit. As a hymn says:
"What can wash away my sin, nothing but the blood of Jesus." All
we can learn otherwise is that objective truth (truth above
sense experience, truth which is certain and unchanging) is more
important than finding what is common between our desires the
the environment, the world we find ourselves within (truth bound
to sense experience, which is uncertain and ever changing).
Prior to our knowledge of the work of Christ (by the
preaching and teaching of others) and believing upon him, all a
person knows its that he lives by bread, a physical need, and
desires direction in his life, which only God can
fulfill—fulfilled only by ever word which proceedeth from God (a
word which carries within it restraint of the "felt" needs),
satisfying a spiritual need. Even those who fight against God
know this to be true, recognizing it with a contemptuous
attitude: ""Yalom:_Freud_referred_to_..._the_group’s_‘need_to_be_governed">Freud
referred to ... the group’s ‘need to be governed by
unrestricted force . . . it’s extreme passion for authority . .
. it’s thirst for obedience.’ Among the strongest of these is
man’s need for an omnipotent, omniscient, omnicaring parent,
which together with his infinite capacity for self-deception
creates a yearning for and a belief in a superbeing." Irvin
Yalom The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy The only
true God can only be known through his revealed word, his word
not environmentally constrained (shaped by men's opinions). The
only god man can "discover" is one he makes in his own image or
the image of the creation, a god who's identity and power
depends upon man's interpretation, his imagination (Romans
1:19-32). Apart from God revealing himself to man, man only has
hope in himself, his wisdom, and the creation. Apart from
repentance before the true and living God, the flesh and its
lusts retains its control over the person, the eyes retain their
lust for the things of this world, and man's pride takes him
captive to his wisdom of this world, all foolishness before God
our creator.
"If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which
are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.
Set your affection on things above, not on things on the
earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in
God. When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall
ye also appear with him in glory." Colossians 3:1-4
"Humanists">Humanists, those who worship the
environment, know that by creating a selective environment (by
"allowing" the introduction of "appropriate information" into
the environment—accentuating the "tolerance of ambiguity," the
open-mindedness of uncertainty, the nonconformity of
speculation, the employment of confusion), an environment which
is filled with those things which originally attracted us prior
to the voice of restraint (an id based environment which in its
first encounter with restraint, resented and if possible
expressed dissatisfaction with restraining commands i.e. "when
the id wants something nothing else is important" (source:
www.allpsych.com ), known
as Freud's "pleasure principle," our natural, carnal,
inclinations), and then in a "safe-zone," through the praxis of
role-playing (circumventing the conscience, the residing voice
of restraint {searing the conscience while realigning the
superego}, until the person's ego, their "I will," "I want," is
able to meet both their own id needs, their "felt" needs, and
other's id needs, their "felt needs, i.e. resulting in
identifying class consciousness {identifying a person or class
of people having something you want, insisting that you can not
have it while also identifying a person or class of people who
want something which they are not allowed to have by the other
person or class of people—it is easier to do it in a group} and
actualizing social "felt" needs, thereby negating the parents
control, control residing in the conscience; this time the ego,
under the influence of a room full of people getting in touch
with their id, their "felt" needs, can be freed from the effects
of parental restraint) "help" us to discover for ourselves that
the environment will not bite back. The participants in the
experiment, the "special opportunities," will, as a result, turn
a deaf ear to the author of barriers, barriers to his desired
relationship with the environment (just like what happened in
Genesis 3:1-6).
It all goes back to Genesis 3:1-6, for man the initial praxis
of the dialectical paradigm.
“If
"Sin_again:_the_guilt_accumulated_in_the_civilized_domination_of_man_by_man">
the guilt accumulated in the civilized domination of man by man
can ever be redeemed by freedom, then the ‘original sin’ must be
committed again: ‘We must again eat from the tree of knowledge
in order to fall back into the state of innocence." Herbert
Marcuse Eros and Civilization emphasis added. The
"understanding" being, if a person is not bound by laws which
are not relevant to him, he is innocent of any crime leveled
against him for breaking such laws. Since mans innocence can
not be found within a traditional top-down environment, it will
only be experienced and realized in a consensuous seeking group,
a group practicing the dialectical process of experimentation
within the environment to find "truth". “"Moreno:_I_told_Freud">I
told Freud he put people on a couch and isolated them, which
was entirely wrong. We don’t live on a couch; we live in groups
from birth to death. Freud took people into the past, I take
them into the present and future. Psychodrama deals with the
Here-and-Now.”
J. L. Moreno quoted in Jane Howard's book Please Touch "To
experience Freud is to partake a second time of the forbidden
fruit;" Norman O. Brown Life Against Death) In this way the
person will be restored to freedom in the environment, finding
commonality with it, liberated from the restrainer and his
barriers against having relationship with the environment,
emancipated from a restraining (limiting) way of thinking.
Collectively, man is able to "explode" contradictions by finding
communality—invalidate identity above the community (which
divides) by finding identity within the community (which
unites). "Purpose," defined by one above or outside the
community (God or traditional parents, initiating and sustaining
the con-science), is terminate by "discovering purpose" within
the community of common experience (con-senses).
"This know also, that in the last days perilous times
shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves,
covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to
parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection,
trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce,
despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady,
highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof:
from such turn away." 2 Timothy 3:1-5
""HRCC:_It_[re-education">It
"It_[re-education">[re-education i.e. therapy, brain
washing, brain washed of respect for and a honoring of a
patriarchal paradigm] changes his cognitive structure, the way
he sees the physical and social worlds, including all his facts,
concepts, beliefs,. and expectations." "It modifies his valences
and values, ... his attractions and aversions to groups and
group standards, his feelings in regard to status differences,
and his reactions to sources of approval or disapproval."
(Kurt Lewin in Human Relations in Curriculum Change ed. by
Kenneth Benne) Our awareness of things above (over) the
environment (the authoritarian voice of restraint) will be
decreased as our awareness of the environment (the voice of
liberation, the law of the flesh) will be increased
(Conscientisation). One area in our mind will decrease in
development as the other increases. Instead of fighting against
the barriers in life, the focus is upon experiencing the desires
of life and thus liberating (justifying) them (being rational,
reasonable). (Don't attack the parents, focus instead upon the
physical, mental, and social health of their children,
consequently, out of their love for their children, they will be
drawn into participation with the takeover of their children's
lives by the community—the partnership, synthesis, of capitalism
with socialism, the individual with the social (a public-private
partnership), democratic capitalism, is global communism.) In
this way the authors of the barriers of life will become
irrelevant ("wither away: to render speechless or incapable of
action." source
www.thefreedictionary.com ). If you are one who speaks with
a voice of restraint, how many people have been listening to you
lately (without that glazed over look, which means your not
worth listening to)?
“"Rogers:_In_psychology,_Freud">In psychology,
Freud and his followers have presented convincing
arguments that the id, man’s basic and unconscious nature,
is primarily made up of instincts which would, if permitted
expression, result in incest, murder, and other crimes. The
whole problem of therapy, as seen by this group, is how to
hold these untamed forces in check in a wholesome and
constructive manner, rather than in the costly fashion of
the neurotic.” Carl Rogers in his book on becoming a person:
A Therapist View of Psychotherapy
We are to flee such conditions when necessary, when they lead
us away from our Creator ("Flee also youthful lusts;" 2 Timothy
2:22). We are not to be lovers of the creation. Those who are
driven (liberated, emancipated) by the environment, are under
the control of the environment and therefore are under the
control of those who manipulate the environment for their
desired ends (supply or accentuate the "appropriate information"
to produce their desired outcome), they are slaves to their
flesh and the environment (real or illusionary) which "drives"
(stimulates) it. Consider this as you look at what is happening
around you, in the world (environment) you live in.
"And Jacob sod pottage: and Esau came from the field, and
he was faint: And Esau said to Jacob, Feed me, I pray thee,
with that same red pottage; for I am faint: therefore was
his name called Edom. And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy
birthright. And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die:
and what profit shall this birthright do to me? And Jacob
said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he
sold his birthright unto Jacob. Then Jacob gave Esau bread
and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose
up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright."
Genesis 25:29-24
Thus when "right" (truth and value) is determined by the
changing environment, the value of your life (yours, the unborn,
the elder, your children, your decedents, etc.) becomes subject
to the environmental "felt" needs of the time, worth is thus
based upon your ability to satisfy the "felt" needs of the
environment (not only with people but also with trees, rocks,
animals, and space itself), and from then on you become a
servant to those who manipulate the environment i.e. your
"quality" of life, and life itself, is uncertain. Thus your
rights above man's control become "rights" under man's control,
rights thus become privileges, established by men's opinions,
your "liberty" becomes constricted (censored) by those who
control the environment i.e. men who manipulate what you must
attend to (focused upon and dialogued about social issues and
crisis) in the immediate environment via the media,
entertainment, group discourse settings in the classroom, the
workplace, government, the church, the home, etc).
"Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as
Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. For ye
know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the
blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of
repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears."
Hebrews 12:16, 17
Any effort on your part to live as an individual, with
private convictions, not influenced by the environment (the
world), to live subject to the will of God, to the creator of
the world, expecting others to recognize, respect, and honour
your inalienable birth-rights (rights given by him, "self
evident," which no man or group of men can put a lien upon,
because they were not given to you by the will of man i.e. as
long a you know and appreciate them and you don't, like Esau,
sell them off for immediate gratifications, i.e. the "felt"
needs the world is willing to "provide" satisfaction of, at a
cost, the value of which is to be realized at a latter time),
any effort on your part to live distant from the manipulation of
others and the temptations of the world (so you will not be
controlled by the environmental press), and any effort on your
part to insist others respect and support your privacy, your way
of thinking (we are to attend to the "directing" of our creator
and not the "drawing and enticing" of the creation), will be
perceived as a threat to a "free" democratic society.
"Democracy ideology" always results in the "tyranny of the
masses," i.e. a people "driven" by the conditions (perceived
threats and rewards, whether real or not real) within the
environment, finding their "purpose" in life based upon the
environmental "felt" needs of the time—an environment under the
control (manipulation, scheme) of facilitators
(social/environmental engineer's), men recognized in the past as
"philosopher kings," the "vanguard party"—midwives of the
dictatorship of the proletariat, and identified today as
mediators, the voice of the "grass roots," guides, coaching all
in the satisfaction of their lust for life in the "moment" (with
group life preeminent), and, like Esau, being cheering on in the
selling of their birthright for some "red pottage" (group
hug—communism with a smile), so they will willingly put their
liberty and freedom on the market (cursing them) and sell them
for the "felt" needs of the moment (the approval of others),
supported by the "here-and-now" environmental press. “To enjoy
the present reconciles us to the actual . . .” Comments by
Joseph O’Malley Ed. of Karl Marx's Critique of Hegel's
'Philosophy of Right'
"The leader has skills in human relations and can manage
the interplay of individual differences so that human energy
may be controlled in pursuit of common goals. . .
Leadership of this type [is] based on liberation rather
than domination." Wilbur Brookover A Sociology of
Education
“"Marx:_The_basic_task_of_re-education">The basic
task of re-education is to change the individual’s social
perception, thereby changing the individual’s social action.”
[Re-education, as Karl Marx believed, teaches that by changing
the environment you can change the person, that a "healthy
social environment" will produce a "healthy" social person. “The
essence of man is not an abstraction inherent in each particular
individual.” “The real nature of man is the totality of social
relations.” Karl Marx Thesis on Feuerbach # 6 “It is not
individualism that fulfills the individual, on the contrary it
destroys him. Society is the necessary framework through which
freedom and individuality are made realities… only in a
socialist society.” Karl Marx “Only within a social context
individual man is able to realize his own potential as a
rational being.” Karl Marx Critique of Hegel's 'Philosophy of
Right' “The individual is emancipated in the social group.”
Norman O. Brown Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical
Meaning of History.] "If the individual complies merely from
fear of punishment [for doing wrong] rather than through the
dictates of his free will and conscience [this combination of
free will, a persons desires—dopamine emancipation, and his
conscience, prier laws of restraint he has learned which impede
dopamine emancipation (this combination of "free will and
conscience" is confusion i.e. the fusing of opposites which
produces instability, uncertainty; “Man is free from all ties
binding him to spiritual authorities [voice of restraint, over
the environment], but this very freedom leaves him alone and
anxious, overwhelms him with a feeling of his own individual
insignificance and powerlessness.” Erick Fromm Escape from
Freedom) is where a person is willing to finding the middle
ground―through negotiation and compromise (dialogue with self
and others)―to maintain relationships with the world for the
purpose of acceptance and advancement in the current
environment; "In the dialogic relation of recognizing oneself in
the other, they experience the common ground of their
existence." Jürgen Habermas Knowledge & Human Interest; in
other words right and wrong become situational to the
environment], the new set of values he is expected to accept
does not assume in him the position of super-ego [the
super-ego―incorporating similar (what we have in common with the
environmental around us)―is not the same thing as the
conscience―based on contrast (objective truth directing us in
knowing and doing right and not wrong despite the influences of
the immediate environment)], and his re-education [paradigm
change, brain washed of patriarchal paradigm of right and
wrong—detachment of the mind from an authority over his
self-environment nature, resulting in individualism detached
from higher authority (anxiety) and thus able to more easily
reattach his mind to his own social nature, his dopamine craving
nature, common to all mankind] therefore remains unrealized."
(Kurt Lewin)
"How can free acceptance of a new system of values be brought
about? The individual accepts the new system of values and
beliefs by accepting belongingness to a group [accepting the
environmental press towards collective pleasure changes the
persons way of thinking]." (Kurt Lewin) brackets and emphasis
added In this way, the desire for group approval re-moves
(physically, emotionally, and mentally) a person from his duty
to obey God or parent. He in effect changes his paradigm from
objective truth to subjective truth. "The new system of values
and beliefs [i.e. the environment, group belongingness ]
dominates the individual's perception." ibid. The eyes are
stronger than the ears (seen any commercials lately). Faith
does not come by sight but by hearing, and hearing by the word
of God; Eve "saw" the environment (perception: looked to the
world, the environment, for the understanding life, by doing so
she made her senses the bases of evaluation for what is good and
what is evil in the environment; approach pleasure, pleasure is
good, avoid pain, pain is evil, thus God's command, not to eat
of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil for fear of pain
since it was evil becomes non-sense since perception confirmed
to her desires it was pleasurable and therefore good and therein
God's command became irrelevant, since by sight the tree was
good and not evil as declared by God), Jesus heard God's written
word and spoke it, "but by every word that proceedeth out of the
mouth of the LORD doth man live." Deuteronomy 8:3
“"HRCC:_If_human_rights_are_to_be_guaranteed">If
human rights are to be guaranteed, they must be
guaranteed by appropriate social, political, and economic
controls of human behavior.” "The methodological correlate
of individualism which democratic ideology leads us to
oppose is the elevation of unchecked private, individual
judgment [read: those commanded and directed by God] as an
ultimate arbiter in the control of human conduct." Kenneth
Benne Human Relations in Curriculum Change (HRCC)
information in brackets added for clarity.
HRCC is a soviet training manual, promoted by the NEA in the
late 40's and early 50's, whose methods are being used today in
literally every facet of the world we live i.e. sensitivity
training, T-groups, encounter groups, consensus, etc. People
who participated in and were learning to apply this material,
school superintendents for example, committed suicide during
training sessions in Bethel, Maine in its earlier years. I don't
know if that continues today, the suicides that is, since they
now bring people down from these sessions through debriefing.
National Training Laboratories, known as NTL's, are busily
putting out these soviet programmed leaders today. Sadly back
in the 20's there were those in position of influence who
recognized the change these program were having upon education
and government and yet were not able to stop its encroachment
upon Americas freedom. “Has authority been banished in these
later days? Has the world reached a point where it will condone
the formation of pupil soviets?" (Will C. Woods, Superintendent
of Public Instruction of the State of California March 1921
responding to movements he saw in California's school system.)
The soviet, a council of public-private partnership (a peoples
council of consentaneous dialogue, dialogue which negates
decisions making with a top-down language), was developed to
neutralize, marginalize, and remove restraints to social
change. In its focus upon relationship building, joined with
social progress, as in the French Directorate, those with
established principles (unchangeable) are exposing as resisters
to change and then either converted or removed. In this way any
social progress is of, by, and for humanists. Thus elected
officials
establish and then funded these departments i.e. soviets
which comprehensively network between all branches of
government, bringing them into consensus for the sake of a
socialist/humanist defined common cause (a Politburo). Human
Relations in Curriculum Change describes how to "design and
construct environmental conditions" to control "the behavior of
men," (Benne) to "guarantee appropriate social, political, and
economic control of human behavior." (Carl Rogers)
“Dr. Skinner says: ‘We must accept the fact that
"Rogers:_some_kind_of_control">some kind of control
of human affairs is inevitable. We cannot use good sense in
human affairs unless someone engages in the design and
construction of environmental conditions which affect the
behavior of men.” "By a careful design, we control not the
final behavior, but the inclination to behavior―the motives,
the desires, the wishes. The curious thing is that in that
case the question of freedom never arises." Carl Rogers On
becoming a person underlined text were italics in original
Why would anyone object to role-playing their "hearts
desires?" The woman in the Garden in Eden didn't, nor did
Adam.
“We can choose to use our growing knowledge to enslave
people in ways never dreamed of before, depersonalizing
them, controlling them by means so carefully selected that
they will perhaps never be aware of their loss of
personhood.” Carl Rogers, as quoted in People Shapers, by
Vance Packard, Bantam Books, 1977, reprint 1979.
Social engineers know the effect the environment has upon us
(our desire to relate with and find approval from the
environment i.e. unconditional approval from others), and are
dedicated in using it to control mankind. "But every man is
tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed."
James 1:14 An example of this wickedness can be found in the
man "Church Growth" is built upon,
Peter Drucker. He believed, quoting Engels "‘that an
indissoluble marriage between one man and one woman for their
entire life times is, of all forms of sexual relationship, the
one that corresponds least to our 'natural inclination.'" He
believed that "In the socialist future monogamy ... would
‘completely disappear’" Peter Drucker ‘More freedom’ or ‘more
harmony’? 2001 Without God's direction, and your willful
participation in it, through self-control and self-discipline
i.e. humbling and denying yourself before Him (and being lead by
his Holy Spirit), you have no hope in overcoming the effects of
this world, i.e. its quest to control the environment,
subsequently to control your mind. Therefore "set your mind on
things above", otherwise you will have no hope in escaping the
ensuing judgment this world faces.
"For the time will come when they will not endure sound
doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to
themselves teachers, having itching ears; And they shall
turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned
unto fables." 2 Timothy 3, 4
When the brain receives the message of pleasure, via dopamine
liberation, several things automatically happen, it becomes
attentive of the environment (awareness of the environment is
heightened), it triggers the body to respond in the direction of
the pleasure (muscles are automatically activated) i.e. the
child reaches his hands out for more candy, and memory is
quickened to store or recall where the pleasure was noticed and
how the pleasure can be attained. In other words, what were the
conditions with which the person received more pleasure than
that which made him aware of its presence. Thus the child thinks
upon the stimulation (environment) which triggered the response
(reaction), with the hope of either continuing in the
environment of pleasure or restoring the environment which
produced the pleasure, if it was removed, or if the source of
the pleasure is absent then thinking, via imagination, how to
find or produce an environment which would provide the
pleasure—"the imagination of the heart." see Genesis 6:5; 8:21
The child, playing with a toy, enjoys the dopamine emancipated
by relationship with the toy in the environment, thus he craves
the dopamine which the toy stimulates through the senses of
touch, taste (lead free of course), sight, smell, and sound. He
can also stimulate dopamine emancipation by simply thinking upon
the toy when it is not present in the environment. In this way,
according to social engineers ("change agents," facilitators who
make "change" easy), learning must become a pleasurable
experience produced by "proper" environment control (to
stimulate dopamine emancipation), an environment easily created
through role-playing, sensitivity training, T-groups, etc.
"Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of
the truth." 2 Timothy 3:7
As Immanuel Kant explained, in his book Critique of Pure
Reason, our hope is to attain happiness, happiness is found in
pleasure, and pleasure is found in the mind, in our awareness of
pleasure in the world and our reasoning to attain or retain it.
This line of "reasoning" (the pursuit of the feeling of
"happiness") is thus materialistic, focusing upon that which is
of the environment, the world. Social-psychology is build upon
this kind of humanistic reasoning. My hope is not found in the
pleasures of this world but rather my hope is found in Christ,
who is my Joy and my Peace (a byproduct of the Holy Spirit,
Christ in me, knowing me), who are not of this world (in it but
not of it). Apart from hope in him all hope is vain, all other
hope depends upon this world and its influences, "What can I get
out relationship with it for me," a hope which is not lasting.
"Dendrite">Dendrite: "any of the usually
branching (tree like) protoplasmic processes that conduct
impulses toward the body of a neuron." Merriam-Webster
Dictionary
The ten billion or more neurons which make up the vast
portion of the brain contain a trillion dendrites or more, some
neurons containing upwards of 10,000 dendrites each. Dendrites
connect neurons to other neurons in the brain via synaptic
gaps. It is in these dendrites, or the area thereof, where the
experience of life, of pleasure in this case, is recorded or
stored, in many cases all across the brain, like a holograph.
Upon first imprinting there is a sense of pleasure experienced,
some so strongly imprinted i.e. first love, you may never forget
it or get over it. But once this information is experienced, a
repeating of the experience, a reinforcing of the imprint within
the brain, going over the same pathway, produces less
satisfaction or pleasure. Thus an experience which was
pleasurable to begin with can become boring (unexciting), the
more it is repeated. We thus look for new things in the
environment to restore the "rush." It is in this way we learn
about the world around us. We by nature, by God's design,
approach pleasure as well as avoid pain. Our interest in knowing
about the world around us is tied to this pleasure derived from
new information being stored in the brain, whether stimulated
from the environment around us or from our own environment,
created within our mind, from our own imagination or our own
reasoning abilities.
"O Timothy, keep [keep watch over, to observe so you can
escape] that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding
profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science
falsely so called: Which some professing [voluntarily
engaged in] have erred [deviated from the truth] concerning
the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen." 1 Timothy 6:20, 21
information in brackets inserted for definition of Greek
words, φυλάσσω, επαγγέλλω, and, αστοχέω respectively.
When we have to memorize information (having to experience
and accept "status quo," "this is the way it is," accept
obedience to the person or persons mandating acceptance of
established conditions i.e. non-changing laws and rules), which
might be pleasurable to begin with (due to their attention), we
often lose interest, it becomes a difficult task to keep our
mind on the subject. This is because our mind, in love with,
and ever pursuing (looking for), a dopamine stimulating
environment, in an ever changing world, in an effort to
stimulate dopamine "emancipation," easily begins looking outside
the limited, obedience mandated environment (our text book,
etc.) to find something around us, within the surrounding
environment, to stimulation its release, or when that is not
possible i.e. the teacher is watching us, we create an imaginary
world of our own for the stimulation of dopamine.
"Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel
of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor
sitteth in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in
the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and
night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of
water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf
also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall
prosper."
"The ungodly are not so: but are like the chaff which
the wind driveth away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand
in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the
righteous. For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous:
but the way of the ungodly shall perish." Psalms 1:1-6
When we meditate upon the word of God (muse over it,
evaluating our life and our surrounding environment from if) we
must accept it as is and learn (memorize) it as is, not changing
it, not letting the environmental pressure of our desires
(approval from others), our feelings and thoughts, our sensual
quest for dopamine stimulation, change it (change it to make it
fit within the environment and our temporal, dopamine based
desires—making it "contemporary," changing it to keep it up with
the fleeting moments of the changing times), making it a
dopamine stimulating bible (making it an interpretation of man's
making; beware of this deception for the prophecies of scripture
are God breathed and are not the result of private
interpretation. 2 Peter 1:20). Humanists, with their quest of
negating the spread of Christianity around the world, market the
development of the imagination ("How did you feel," "What did
you think?") at the expense of memorization ("What did God
say?"), i.e. "less is more." For example: “"Glasser:_Memory_is_not_education">Memory
is not education, answers are not knowledge. Certainty and
memory are the enemies of thinking, the destroyer of creativity
and originality.” (William Glasser, Schools Without
Failure) "Any time we teach a child something, we keep him
from discovering it himself," (Piaget)
Man, made in God's image, making god in his image.
In other words, they are saying "We don't have any
disagreement with the scriptures as long as they don't interfere
with our relationship with the world. As long as the meaning of
the scriptures can be changed, to keep them current (not
interfering) with the changing times, we can fit (twist) them
into our world view." This can be "justified" (falsely) in an
effort to minister the "love" of God to the next generation.
This way of thinking would be in line with Karl Marx, who wrote:
""Marx:_Laws_must_not_fetter_human_life">Laws must not
fetter human life; but yield to it; they must change as the
needs and capacities of the people change." Karl Marx Critique
of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
"For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the
flesh: (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but
mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)
Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that
exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing
into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And
having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your
obedience is fulfilled." 2 Corinthians 10:3-6
"O LORD, I know that the way of man is not in himself: it
is not in man that walketh to direct his steps." Jeremiah
10:23b
It is up to the parent to guide the child in which
environment or things in the environment to approach and which
environment or things in the environment to avoid, what things
in the environment to attend to and what things to turn away
from, what things in the environment to think upon (meditate
upon) and what things to refuse to think upon, even to
repudiate. It is up to the parent to instruct the child in not
letting the environment control their behavior. " Not that I
speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever
state I am, therewith to be content. I know both how to be
abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things
I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound
and to suffer need. I can do all things through Christ which
strengtheneth me." Philippians 4:11
"Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous,
but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the
peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are
exercised thereby." Hebrews 12:11
If the item of attention, an item which attracts the child,
is forbidden by the parent, it is up to the parent to instruct
the child in the practice of not attending to it (learning
self-control and self-discipline). This is done by verbally
warning the child and if necessary using physical force. The
child must learn, sometimes through chastening, the difference
between what is right (the prefix of righteousness is the word
right) in the environment and what is wrong.
"And ye have done worse than your fathers; for, behold,
ye walk every one after the imagination of his evil heart,
that they may not hearken unto me:" Jeremiah 16:12
The rebellious child will see the parent as a negative force
field—in his imagination, in his inner eyes (fixated upon the
world of his own making, i.e. a world the way it "ought" to be,
a world where he can actualize within himself, in agreement with
his temporal desires), the rebellious child is still in love
with himself and the things of this world, he does not meditate
upon the parents commands, their "Is" and "Not's" (This is right
and that is not) but continues to dialogue within himself,
continues to murmur (like the 10 unfaithful spies. Numbers
14:36), continues to sulk (like Cain Genesis 4:6), continues to
dream about his own heart's desires (in the imagination of his
unrighteous heart), continues to think upon his own "ought's,"
as in "I ought to be able to go out." i.e. "I ought to be able
to go out to get dopamine from the environment which is calling
me to play with it."
"Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man
are never satisfied." Proverbs 27:20
As the Marxist-Freudian (social-psychologist) Kurt Lewin put
it: “"Lewin:_The_negative_valence">The negative valence
of a forbidden object which in itself attracts the child thus
usually derives from an induced field of force of an adult."
(Kurt Lewin; A Dynamic Theory of Personality, 1935) The
"negative valance" is a tension, anxiety (angst) or dread,
causing a person to withdraw (alienate himself) from an "object
which in itself attracts" him, and is the result of the parent
or "adult" inducing a "field of force," i.e. threat of
chastening the child, "chastened us after their own pleasure"
Hebrews 12:10. When parents instructs their children
(indoctrinate or inculcate them, which means to repeat over and
over or "beat" it into them, until they get it) to avoid what
the parent establishes as "a forbidden object" in the
environment, the office of the parent is reified in the mind of
the child, i.e. the parent is accepted as the definer of
reality, determining for the child what is good and what is evil
in the environment, thus his commands are greater than the call
of the worldly environment (the temptations of the world). This
action (praxis) of the traditional home (patriarchal paradigm)
prepares the child to accept the authority and wisdom of God and
his chastening "but he for our profit, that we might be
partakers of his holiness." Hebrews 12:10
"Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth
to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may
be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with
God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own
craftiness. And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the
wise, that they are vain. Therefore let no man glory in
men." 1 Corinthians 3:18-21
Lewin then explained how to negate the effect of the
"negative valance" (the controlling voice of the parent in the
mind—restraint), the fear of judgment, and thus overcoming the
"negative force field" (the authority of the parent), respect
for the office of authority—this negation is known as the praxis
of "negation of negation" (the synthesis of the dialectical
process) or patricide (death to God, the negative voice, the
restrainer, the father—you don't kill them, you just justify to
yourself they are irrelevant; "Often this is too challenging a
goal for the individual to achieve on his own [he needs the help
of a facilitated group meeting], and the net effect is either
maladjustment or the embracing of a philosophy of life developed
by others.” Krathwohl and Bloom Taxonomy of Educational
Objectives Book 2: Affective Domain). Lewin wrote: "If this
field of force loses its psychological existence for the child
(e.g., if the adult goes away or loses his authority [in the
child's mind that is i.e. the feelings and thoughts of the child
or adult]) the negative valence also disappears (the fear of
judgment disappears).” (Kurt Lewin; ibid.) This is powerful
stuff and has major effect upon the people who participate.
"See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and
death and evil; In that I command thee this day to love the
LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his
commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou
mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless
thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. But if
thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt
be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; I
denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and
that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land, whither
thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. I call heaven
and earth to record this day against you, that I have set
before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore
choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live: That thou
mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his
voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy
life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in
the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham,
to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them." Deuteronomy 30:15-20
If the environment stimulates dopamine emancipation and if
restraint inhibits dopamine emancipation (repression/depression)
and if dopamine emancipation for all mankind is the desired
outcome and environment control is the key to a common
(collective) dopamine emancipation (consensus) then an
environment free of restraint (pro-spontaneity, only possible
through the "negation of negation," the removal of negative
thoughts—"I can not"—and negative minded people—"Thou shalt
not," "fundamental religious extremists" i.e. a uncompromising,
nonconformist person) is essential for social emancipation.
Hate of sin, which separates man from God, is replaced with hate
of restraint (hate, disguised as "concern" for resistors of
change), which separates man from man (alienates him from his
own nature and the environment around him). Thus by moving our
focus from sin to restraint we move our focus from God to man.
Man becomes the basis of "right and wrong" thinking and
behavior, since it is now "scientifically" measurable, becomes
materialistic. The spirit of mankind, in harmony with himself
(in agreement; consensus—a moment of collective dopamine
emancipation), replaces the individual guided by the Holy Spirit
of God, able to stand alone—against his own nature, against the
collective will—when necessary, according to God's will.
“"Rogers:_Religion">Religion, especially the
Protestant Christian tradition, has permeated our culture
with the concept that man is basically sinful, and only by
something approaching a miracle can his sinful nature be
negated.” “I have little sympathy with the rather prevalent
concept that man is basically irrational, and that his
impulses, if not controlled, will lead to destruction of
others and self.” Carl Rogers On becoming a person
If the parent looses his control over the environment in
which the child lives, if the community or someone in it either
removes the parent's control over the child's environment, i.e.
the parents power to chasten is forbidden, or the child is
placed in an environment where the parent's control is limited
(no longer based upon the standards of the parent but now based
upon the desires of the community in harmony with the desires of
the child), or the parent, willfully for some reason (out of
fear of rejection by others, or lose of property or person),
participates in the environment of permissiveness, the parent
looses control over the child's dopamine craving desires,
desires for that which is in the environment which liberates
dopamine in the child, the parent loses control over the child's
behavior and thus the parent looses his child to the world, to
those who want to control, to possess him, within its
influence. Men who think like Theodor Adorno now influence
almost every issue of our social environment, men who hold the
traditional family in contempt, with its restraint upon man's
fallen nature i.e. restraining his love for pleasure—inhibiting
his socially approved stimulation of dopamine.
“"Adorno:_An_attitude_of_complete_submissiveness">An
attitude of complete submissiveness toward ‘supernatural
forces’ and a readiness to accept the essential
incomprehensibility of ‘many important things’ strongly
suggest the persistence in the individual of infantile
attitudes toward the parents, that is to say, of
authoritarian submission in a very pure form.”
“Authoritarian submission was conceived of as a very general
attitude that would be evoked in relation to a variety of
authority figures‑‑parents, older people, leaders,
supernatural power, and so forth.” “Family relationships
are characterized by fearful subservience to the demands of
the parents and by an early suppression of impulses not
acceptable to them.” “The conception of the ideal family
situation for the child: uncritical obedience to the father
and elders, pressures directed unilaterally from above to
below, inhibition of spontaneity and emphasis on conformity
to externally imposed values.” “God is conceived more
directly after a parental image and thus as a source of
support and as a guiding and sometimes punishing authority.”
“The power‑relationship between the parents, the domination
of the subject's family by the father or by the mother, and
their relative dominance in specific areas of life also
seemed of importance for our problem.” Theodor Adorno The
Authoritarian Personality
When the parents' hedge of protection is removed from the
child, and the child willingly participates in his liberation
from the parents' hedge of protection, the child becomes
absorbed (consumed) by the environment, an environment which is
infatuated in the possession of his soul. Thus gestalt, "The
whole is different than the sum of the parts" (equality has
swallowed of discrimination, unity has swallowed up alienation,
the feeling of community, or oneness with the environment has
swallowed up individuals who once looked up to authority and
lived for authority superior to the environment), is actualized.
This blueprint (general systems analysis) also applies to all
men in all institutions: in the home, in the country, in the
city, in the county, in the state, in the nation, in the
world—in government, in the workplace, in education, in the
church, etc. This is exactly what Kurt Lewin, and
social-psychologists like him, wanted. As Warren Bennis wrote:
""HRCC:_Any_non-family-based_collectivity">Any
non-family-based collectivity [the community, through
discourse, seeking equality in "justified" stimulation of
dopamine emancipation—if it is common to human nature (the
pursuit of homeostasis with the environment i.e. pleasure,
holism i.e. nature drawing us to unity with it or wholism, God
in nature, in the "planetary society," drawing us to unity with
him/it, known as pantheism,
general systems, etc., thus finding peace, nirvana,
shambhala, etc.), and is good for the "purpose" of uniting
humanity (does not lead to social cacophony, the "exploding" of
civilization), it is thus justifiable to negate or weaken any
institution which interferes with natures evolutionary
progression toward unity and equality; ""Coleman:_for_equality_to_take_place">for
equality to take place the family as a unite must be
weakened" James Coleman] that intervenes between parent and
child and attempts to regulate and modify the parent-child
relationship will have a democratizing [injurious to a top-down,
patriarchal paradigm] impact on that relationship." "...any
intervention between parent and child tend to produce familial
democracy regardless of its intent. The consequences of family
democratization take a long time to make themselves felt—but it
would be difficult to reverse the process once begun. … once the
parent can in any way imagine his own orientation to be a
possible liability to the child in the world approaching … once
uncertainty is created in the parent how best to prepare the
child for the future, the authoritarian family is moribund,
regardless of whatever countermeasures may be taken. The state,
by its very interference in the life of its citizens, must
necessarily undermine a parental authority which it attempts to
restore." Warren Bennis The Temporary Society The public voice
annihilates the private voice when they go into partnership. To
dialogue your belief (theoretically discoursing categorical
imperatives), for the purpose of achieving consensus, negates
belief, negates faith, negates religion, turning your belief
into an opinion. "For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom
of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the
prudent. Where is the wise? where is the scribe? where is the
disputer of this world? hath not God made foolish the wisdom of
this world? For after that in the wisdom of God the world by
wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of
preaching to save them that believe." 1 Corinthians 1:19-21
"... the concept of the world as the totality of facts is
connected with a correspondence notion of truth and a
semantic conception of justification. The social world, as
the totality of legitimately ordered interpersonal
relations, is accessible only from the participant’s
perspective; in the pragmatic presuppositions of rational
discourse or deliberation the normative content of the
implicit assumptions of communicative action is generalized,
abstracted, and freed from all limits [freed from above
nature restraints] — the practice of deliberation is
extended to an inclusive community that does not in
principle exclude any subject capable of speech and action
who can make relevant contributions." Jürgen Habermas 1998
Communicative Ethics The inclusion of the Other. Studies in
Political Theory.
Lewin knew that within all of us there is a desire for
relationship with others (achieved through communication or
discourse—even between parents and their children), the desire
for camaraderie (an informal feeling of trust, oneness, and
acceptance, laden with the prospective continued stimulation of
dopamine), which he called "play behavior." He also knew that
there were commands, and the ensuing fear of judgment, we had
learned from our parents, and others in authority (people in the
past), a "negative valence" toward "forbidden objects" which
blocked our participation within the environment in the present
(thus producing behavior antithetical to dopamine liberation for
ourselves as well as for others), which he called "barrier
behavior." He also knew that by creating an environment where
both "play and barrier behavior" (our desire to be
accepted—loved—by the world around us and our desire to be love
by those in authority over us) would be brought into a
dialectical juxtaposition—into a manipulated or controlled
environment of conflict between play and barrier i.e.
tension—the environment would usually forces the participants to
chose (re-chose) the "play behavior" (dopamine—approval by the
world) over the "barrier behavior" (dopamine
renunciation—fidelity to principles). By producing an internal
pressure, known as "cognitive_dissonance">cognitive
dissonance, (“The lack of harmony between what one does and
what one believes.” “The pressure to change either one’s
behavior or ones belief.” Ernest R. Hilgard, Introduction to
Psychology Realize that our behavior may be one thing while our
internal desire, our "natural" inclination to behave may be
another, while externally we may be avoiding or rejecting
something, internally, via dopamine emancipation, we may
actually be wanting it, thus given liberty—uninhibited freedom
to respond in a dopamine emancipating environment—our behavior
can be emancipated from belief.) the participants would be
caught between acceptance by the group (camaraderie, a dopamine
moment) or rejection by the group (not a dopamine moment). By
holding to their hard held beliefs they would face the pain of
estrangement from those who they wanted relationship with, in
the community (by the removal of relationship via disapproval
from others, in a selective environment, participants in a
project can be moved away from openly declaring and defending
their belief and thus begin the praxis of tolerating and
embracing the opinions of others to restore and build
interpersonal relationships—dopamine emancipation restores a
person to those things in the environment which originally
attracted him, helping him to "overcome" a self-environmental
dialectical rift, a rift caused by commands enforced by an
authoritarian voiced outside of and above the laws of nature,
repressing the laws of the flesh).
"…
"Yalom:_few_individuals,_as_Asch_has_shown,_can_maintain_their_objectivity">
few individuals, as Asch has shown, can maintain their
objectivity [their belief] in the face of apparent group
unanimity; and the individual rejects critical feelings
toward the group at this time to avoid a state of cognitive
dissonance. To question the value or activities of the
group, would be to thrust himself into a state of
dissonance. Long cherished but self-defeating beliefs and
attitudes may waver and decompose in the face of a
dissenting majority. Irvin Yalom Theory and Practice and
Group Therapy bracketed information added
Alienation is the most painful experience in life (a
non-dopamine moment i.e. resulting in depression if the person
can not find outside restoration of "purpose"). When our
relationship with others become our escape from depression
(depression, due to the lack of dopamine emancipation,
emancipation stimulated by the environment, their presence
liberating dopamine, this is why it is painful when we lose
loved ones, they die or move away) then we are subject to those
who control the environment Social-psychologists know that, and
purposely use that knowledge to move people away from their
belief. This is why we must continue always to trust in our
Savior and Lord, not laying down our shield of faith ("Faith
comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God," Romans
10:17
"Faith is the victory which overcometh the world" 1 John
5:4), we must overcome the accuser and his accusations by
enduring in Christ (suffering rejection by others because they
love not the truth) to the end. "And I heard a loud voice saying
in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom
of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our
brethren is cast down, which accused them before our God day and
night. And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by
the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives unto
the death." Revelation 12:11
""Yalom:_Once_a_member_realizes_that_others_accept_him">Once
a member realizes that others accept him and are trying
to understand him, then he finds it less necessary to hold
rigidly to his own beliefs;" ibid (Yalom)
“Judges problems in terms of situation, issues,
purposes, and consequences involved rather than in terms of
fixed, dogmatic precepts ….” Benjamin S. Bloom Taxonomy of
Education Objectives Book I Cognitive Domain 1956
The key to success for the social-psychologist, is to create
an environment in favor with the group environment craving the
pleasures of dopamine (group approval), a group environment
unreceptive toward (contemptuous of, if not hostile toward) the
parental authority figure (seen as an uninvited
"process-commentator") with his paradigmatic fixation upon
restraint—a patriarchal paradigm (the source neurosis, the
source of disconnection from the environment—self-environmental
dialectical rift, alienation from the people who we love and
want love from, alienation caused by our belief). Thus the work
of deception, known as 'group dynamics,' for which Lewin is
famous, has become the foundation for achieving social harmony
around the world (used even in the "Church" today, the
enlightened church that is).
"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so
great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight,
and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run
with patience the race that is set before us, Looking unto
Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy
that was set before him endured the cross, despising the
shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of
God. For consider him that endured such contradiction of
sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in
your minds. Ye have not yet resisted unto blood, striving
against sin." Hebrews 12:1-4
For this process to be successful it is essential that
participants reveal their restrained desires, their secret life
of rebellion towards authority, their "ought's," their "secret"
dreams i.e. dreams of liberation from the commands which turned
them against things in the environment, things which stimulated
the liberation of dopamine, things which must now be resisted,
their pleasures denied, for the sake of approval by God, by
parent, or some other higher authority. ""Adorno:_The_individual_may_have_‘secret’_thoughts">The
individual may have ‘secret’ thoughts which he will under no
circumstances reveal to anyone else if he can help it. To gain
access is particularly important, for here may lie the
individual’s potential.” Theodor Adorno The Authoritarian
Personality
“"Maslow:_In_a_democratic_society">In a
democratic society a patriarchal culture should make us
depressed instead of glad; it is an argument against the
higher possibilities of human nature, of self
actualization.” Abraham Maslow Maslow on Management
According to Kurt Lewin, it was one thing to recognize the
source of neurosis (high regard for parental authority), it was
another to overcome its domination over society (civil
disobedience towards authority works best since individual
disobedience is perceptually not strong enough to make change)
and its "victims" (the social engineer who can not initiate and
sustain control over the environment; the physical, mental, and
social environment that is. This is the reason why those
programmed in social-psychology are so vicious towards the
traditional home when they do eventually gain control of the
community, under the banners of "tolerance" and "change").
Lewin wrote about how the social engineer is able to destabilize
and then desensitize people of the honoring of the office of
their father and mother (sear the conscience): “...
"Lewin:_change_in_organization">change in organization
can be derived from the overlapping between play and barrier
behavior. To be governed by two strong goals is equivalent to
the existence of two conflicting controlling heads within the
organism. This should lead to a decrease in degree of
hierarchical organization. Also, a certain disorganization
should result from the fact that the cognitive-motor system
loses to some degree its character of a good medium because of
these conflicting heads. It ceases to be in a state of near
equilibrium; the forces under the control of one head have to
counteract the forces of the other before they are effective.”
(Barker, Dembo, & Lewin, “frustration and regression: an
experiment with young children” found in Child Behavior and
Development, p. 457.)
unity built upon "felt" needs
uniting the world by way of a collective emancipation of
dopamine
Out of diversity (deviancy), one (unity). That is, out of
many brought into the environment of confusion (fussing play and
barrier behavior—fussing public which is informal, "Can't we all
get along." and private, which is formal, "This is mine and not
yours."), a new world order can be created, an order where
anyone who blocks or inhibits social harmony, is perceived as
being injurious to others (including children) experiencing a
socially stimulated dopamine moment (tolerant of and in love
with an every moving, ever changing world) is excluded from
playing with the world, blocked from experiencing respect and
support from the community (not a dopamine moment), and
prevented from having any voice of persuasion within the
community (since the community can no longer be persuaded with
sound reason but only influenced by its identity with the
environmental draw—its common quest for peace and pleasure i.e.
dopamine emancipation, it can only glaze over when presented
with truth, glaze over out of fear of what others might say if
they agree with the truth, others now being their "supplier" of
dopamine).
"...
"Marx:_consciousness_must_develop_a_dialectical_contradiction">
consciousness must develop a dialectical contradiction
between its immediate interests [dopamine for self] and its
long-term objectives [dopamine for all], …Only when the
immediate interests are integrated into a total view [the
world united upon the senses—consensus] and related to the
final goal of the process [deliberation in praxis—don't just
feel and think it, do it, in a group i.e. facilitators, like
witches, do it in a circle] do they become revolutionary,"
"Marx sees … consciousness as ‘practical critical activity’
with the task of ‘changing the world’." Georg Lukacs
History & Class Consciousness Class Consciousness March,
1920 [brackets added]
By the praxis of this heresiarchal paradigm (a way of
thinking fixated upon change), participants (clients) move their
focus from the one who brings restraint ("barriers") into their
lives, teaching them self-restraint, to those who open unto them
a life of "possibilities," reachable from the environment before
them. "For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and
blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth. The wicked,
through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God:
God is not in all his thoughts." Psalms 10:3, 4
"And he said to them all, If any man will come after me,
let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and
follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it:
but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall
save it. For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole
world, and lose himself, or be cast away? For whosoever
shall be ashamed of me and of my words, of him shall the Son
of man be ashamed, when he shall come in his own glory, and
in his Father’s, and of the holy angels." Luke 9:23-26
If the child persists in attending to the forbidden item
(chasing after dopamine), chastening by the parent will become
necessary. For those who love this world and the pleasure of
it, this very act of parental chastening of children (chastening
their child over those things which by nature attracted the
child to the world and its pleasures, things which are seen by
those of the world as being "harmless" to the child) is
perceived as abusive to the child, abusive to the child's
health, his cognitive, affective, and, psychomotor development,
his discovering of his own person i.e. his becoming one with the
world—holistic. Child abuse (the parent "deforming" the child's
physical, mental, and social health, by refusing to allow the
child to become one with his environment, causing
a self-environmental dialectical rift. This obstruction of
the child's desires to experience the environment of his world,
according to social-psychologist, produces a neurolinguistic
stagnation in the developing child—produces a lasting neurosis)
is consequent through this line of "reasoning," its "logical
outgrowth."
"My son, despise not the chastening of the LORD; neither
be weary of his correction: For whom the LORD loveth he
correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he
delighteth." Proverbs 3:8
Thus, two year olds are simply drug seekers, seeking the drug
of dopamine, which the environment around them stimulates.
These druggies will become addicted to the things of this world
(self-seeking, self-willed) if they do not learn to gain control
over their own natural, carnal, worldly inclinations. Those who
are addicted to the seeking after dopamine liberation, through
their child's addiction to seeking after dopamine liberation
i.e. pleasure ("Oh! Isn't that cute. Boys will be boys."), are
nothing short of drug pushers themselves (facilitators are in
fact drug pushers, controlling the environment so they can shape
it in such a way so they can produce a group hug, Dionysian,
orgiastic, Eros, collective, togetherness, dopamine driven
moment for all within the environment, including
themselves—striving for universal reconciliation). In this case
they do not directly produce the drug, they instead create,
through manipulate, an environment with which the drug is loosed
within the child or adult. In this way the child becomes an
addict to pleasure, never experiencing total withdrawal, until
he commits a crime (committed to attain more pleasure, more
release of dopamine) and then punished, maybe punished—it all
depends upon his social worth at the time.
"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is
old, he will not depart from it." Proverbs 22:6
"And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath:
but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the
Lord." Ephesians 6:4
(Provoke as in poking something with a stick to aggravate it.
"Nurture" means chastisement in Greek. Admonition means a
gentile reproof or warning against oversight according to
Merriam-Webster dictionary). When parents chasten their
children for seeking pleasure from forbidden objects, they are
in effect training them on how to get themselves under control,
to train themselves to control their own flesh, to help them
realize that they too have an office of authority, an office of
authority over their own selves—over a self which loves
pleasure, which wants dopamine forever. Thus chastened children,
by parents or God, have experienced withdrawal from the
intoxicating pleasures of this life, making it harder for the
world to seduce them. (Read Revelation 17 for a clear picture of
worldly intoxication.) Social engineers know that when dopamine
withdrawal is learned by the child, i.e. that children have
learned self-control, it makes their job of controlling the
environment more difficult, for their job is to control the next
generation of children for the sake of a one world dopamine
party i.e. a future world of "peace." By introducing something
into the environment, something which draws the person's
attention, something which gives them a dopamine rush, something
which they secretly have been desiring to have or to relate
with—something they were not to have or to relate with according
to their parent or God—by then giving them hope in attaining
their secret hearts desire, by gaining their trust and disarming
their fear of danger or judgment (the warnings of parent or
God), by creating a safe zone, while feeding their rising
expectation, a facilitator, like a charlatan, like a pedophile,
like the serpent in the Garden of Eden, can seduce a child or an
adult (under the control of their influence) and use them for
their own "purpose" (DUI: Driving, or in this case Deliberating
while Under the Influence of a dopamine stimulating environment
results in the person crashing into and burning with the worldly
environment).
"But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we
brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can
carry nothing out. And having food and raiment let us be
therewith content. But they that will be rich fall into
temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful
lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the
love of money is the root of all evil: which while some
coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced
themselves through with many sorrows. But thou, O man of
God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness,
godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness. Fight the good
fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art
also called, and hast professed a good profession before
many witnesses." 1 Titus,6:6-11
When your money is not the Lord's money, it is drug money.
You put it in the bank, or store it up (money is stored up
potential pleasure with which you can, according to your
desires, control or pick an environment to stimulate dopamine
discharge), or invest it, for your present or future pleasure
(creating or placing yourself in an environment which triggers
the release of dopamine)—you hope you can live long enough to
enjoy it (get your fill of dopamine, which is never lasting, via
good food, messages—if you are into that—etc., viewing beautiful
sunsets, mountains, etc., receiving the admiration and
respect—love—of men, etc.), or you hope the courts will honour
your last will and testimony so that those you love can live in
or create an environment which stimulates its release.
"For as in the days that were before the flood they were
eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until
the day that Noah entered into the ark, And knew not until
the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the
coming of the Son of man be." Matthew 24:38, 39
It is not money which is the problem, it is the love of it,
over and against God's will for you. It is not pleasure which
is the problem, it is the love of it, over and against God's
will for you—the praxis of addiction. God gave us all dopamine,
God is not against money or pleasure. Without it you would be
depressed and you would be depressing to all those around you.
Yet there are many times in your life you must put pleasure to
the side, you must practice withdrawal—alienation from the world
of pleasure. Changing diapers is not a dopamine moment, you do
it because of your love for your child, or elderly parent.
Obeying your parents is not always a dopamine moment, you do it
because it is the right thing to do, in the Lord.
If we follow the pattern of the syllogism "If A = B and
if B = C then A = C" and apply "control of the environment"
to A, and "control of dopamine" to B, and "control of man"
to C then we can present the formula for the control of man
according to the dialectical pattern applied by social
engineers/humanists: "If whoever controls the environment
controls the liberation of or withdrawal from dopamine and
if the liberation of or withdrawal from dopamine controls
man then whoever controls the environment controls man." It
is easy to understand the liberation of dopamine is positive
and the withdrawal from dopamine (self-control,
self-restraint) is usually taught by force or threat of
force (judgment) and is negative. The outcomes are
diabolically opposed to one another, as explained in
Walden Two.
For the parents today, with youth who are hooked on the
environment which stimulates dopamine emancipation, it has
become a nightmare to find any ground for communication.
Satisfaction of their habits supersedes any recognition of their
addiction. Self worth outweighs any sense of personal
obligation and responsibility, unless it adds to their
self-worth. The worth of the parents becomes the financial
benefit they provide to the child's habits. The same can be
said for governments run by departments bleeding the citizens to
support their habits of socially controlled dopamine
emancipation. Take their source of pleasure away (tax dollars),
and they accuse the citizens of being extremists, spying on them
(distrustful), hateful of the "general publics welfare," all the
time concerned about their own hide, their paycheck (Abraham
Maslow wrote of his own hypocrisy, his desire for financial
gain, in his journals. Hypocrisy like Judas Iscariot). "Then
saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, which
should betray him, Why was not this ointment sold for three
hundred pence, and given to the poor? This he said, not that he
cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag,
and bare what was put therein." John 12:4-6 "…the therapist
embarks on a many-layered effort to transform a sense of
personal dissatisfaction [having to obey parents' orders against
one's desires since the parents have the bag of money] into a
decision to change, and then into the act of change [take the
bag of money away from the parents via taxes for social programs
i.e. the funds to enforce them—who can speak against the caring
for children and the disadvantaged]. The true purpose of
humanists controlling the finances of the general public is to
undue the effects of early childhood in a patriarchal structured
homes—the effects the home was having upon the next generation
and the effect they were having upon government. "Among the
strongest of these is
"Yalom:_man’s_need_for_an_omnipotent">man’s need for an
omnipotent, omniscient, omnicaring parent, which together
with his infinite capacity for self-deception creates a yearning
for and a belief in a superbeing." "Freud referred to as the
group’s ‘need to be governed by unrestricted force . . . it’s
extreme passion for authority . . . it’s thirst for
obedience.’" Irvin Yalom Theory and Practice and Group
Psychotherapy
"humanization">humanization: " a philosophy
that usually rejects supernaturalism and stresses an
individual's dignity and worth and capacity for
self-realization through reason." Merriam-Webster's
dictionary
Impulse or "mimesis" are socio-psychological words for our
bodies automatic response to stimulation from the surrounding
environment. Approaching pleasure, according to humanism, is
the essence, is the ether, the influence of life, the calling of
nature, of the creation, for man to become again one with it.
Any standards, above nature standards i.e. revelation, which can
not be shared in common with mankind, which blocks the common
human pursuit of happiness (dopamine emancipation), which can
not be recognized as common to humanity, which can not be
exposed and comprehended through discourse, which inhibit the
liberation of human experiences (experience being the
emancipation of dopamine in harmony with the environment, the
materialistic pathway to the discovery of peace—consensus,
reasoning in harmony with the senses), is, according to the
precepts of humanism, an "opiate."
“In Gramsci’s view, it was only through the creation of
organisms capable of uniting the masses and channeling their
spontaneity, that the revolution could command majority
assent and hence overcome definitively the power of the
capitalist State. [the father figure in praxis]” Antonio
Gramsci Selections from the PRISON NOTEBOOKS
""Adorno:_The_conception_of_the_ideal_family_situation">The
conception of the ideal family situation for the child:
(1) uncritical obedience to the father and elders, (2)
pressures directed unilaterally from above to below, (3)
inhibition of spontaneity, and (4) emphasis on conformity to
externally imposed values." Theodor Adorno, The
Authoritarian Personality
""Adorno:_God_is_conceived_more_directly_after_a_parental_image">God
is conceived more directly after a parental image and
thus as a source of support and as a guiding and sometimes
punishing authority." Ibid.
The Gospel According to Karl Marx.
“"Marx:_Religion_is_the_sigh_of_the_oppressed_creature">Religion
is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of
a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It
is the opium of the people.” Karl Marx Selected writings in
Sociology and Social Philosophy, translated by T. B.
Bottomore
The "opiate" (the parent, or God who demands obedience and
expects love from those under their authority) is a substitute,
according to Marx, for the earthy thing, our true nature which
can only be actualized through an open, non-restrained
(rational) relationship with nature. The "opiate" is our love
for an object (objective truth), our parent or God, a proxy, who
alienates us from the love of the "actual" object, our true
nature (dopamine-environment actualization), which the parent or
God forbids relationship with. The "opiate" is our obedience to
a voice above the earthly things which draw us, obedience to a
stand-in (an understudy), keeping us from relationship with the
earthly things which attract, which draw us to them, for the
"purpose" of actualizing our wholeness. The "opiate" is an
internalized, external voice (our conscience, “The guilty
conscience is formed in childhood by the incorporation of the
parents and the wish to be father of oneself.” Norman O. Brown
Life Against Death), a "negative valance," which blocks or
obstructs our "sense perception" of the creation, which takes
the place of our love of the creation (our "sensuous need"—the
lust of the flesh), the love of the environment, the love of
humanity in its earthy nature, in its natural environment.
Without conscious awareness and praxis of the aesthetic
dimension—the actualizing of sensuous thought, by way of
sensuous experience with the earthy environment ("Marx:_sense_experience">sense
experience, in the two forms of sense perception and
sensuous need, that is, only when it proceeds from Nature.”
Karl Marx ) the "opiate" can not be overcome, that is, according
to Marx. "'It is true we do not like to admit,' the reverend
gentleman argues, 'the power of sensuality; but it has such
tremendous power over us only because we cast it out of us and
will not recognize it as our own nature, which we should then be
in a position to dominate if it tried to assert itself at the
expense of reason, of true love and of will-power.'" Marx The
Holy Family Marx believed that religion was the result of man's
effort to find identity, but in the wrong place and in the wrong
way (obedience to higher authority). That mans true identity
can only be found in his own nature, within nature—in humanism,
in socialism, in "the village," in consensus.
Therefore to achieve sensuous experience (the collectively
eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, a collective
dopamine moment), a persons sensuous need to touch it, to relate
with it sensuously, a sensuous need triggered subconsciously by
the fleshes exposure to the environment which stimulates
dopamine emancipation (fleshly desires which in the past were
suppressed by commands or restraints), must be discovered
(discovered by finding ones opinions regarding their own
desires, their "felt" needs, and their own thoughts on the good
life, the "good" life of pleasure, with questions which require
no right or wrong answers i.e. questions void of extrinsic
impute, impute restraining or hindering the thinking upon ones
desires—parental or Godly commands). The questioning process
actually has an effect upon the person responding. By renewing
their awareness (consciousness) of latent desire for parentally
forbidden objects in the environment they are given renewed
"hope" in happiness, which is pleasure, which is in the mind,
which is dopamine emancipation uninhibited by extrinsic commands
and restraint. Then a "friendly" environment, an environment
which provides a sense perception, an environment which
reactivates the sensuous need must be created. Therein by
providing freedom to experiment in a "safe environment," (void
of parental or Godly threat of restraint) a person is able to,
willingly, through the praxis of sensuous experience,
re-discover their true human identity with the world around
them. All that the apostate church has to do is identify a
persons sensuous need, their need for love, their desire for
human approval, for example, and then create an environment
where such love can be sense perceived, without limitation or
restraint (material—acceptance of the the person by the group,
despite the persons deviant "lifestyle"), the person and the
group can then feel free to collectively praxis sensuous
experience in dialogue and in practice, in theory and in
practice. In this way any information or commands which hinders
or blocks the collective sensuous experience is perceived as
immaterial, irrational, and therefore irrelevant. (Common
negates contrast. Our love for one another, our love for
approval, negates God's love in us. God loves you but he hates
sin.) To mingle the desire for love from man with the love of
God is the praxis of confusion, required by Marx and Satan to
bring "the religious" into the praxis of a sensuous agreement
based, cunningly, on the extrapolated "word of God" (hedonistic
Christianity). Thereby man is able to build the "church," not
upon Christ, but rather upon the dialectical praxis of world
unity, upon the antichrist.
Pride is simply your ability to control the environment by
evaluating what in the environment is not initiating or
sustaining pleasure (DE) and re-arranging it to either restore,
maintain or create the conditions which provide pleasure for
yourself. In this way you are able to use the "uneducated,"
(you must get the public dumbed down, hooked on dopamine
emancipation first) by providing an environment where the
general public can "pursue" happiness (place their hope in
happiness, which is pleasure, which is in the mind, which is
dopamine emancipation, which is stimulated by the environment of
the imagination—give them an illusion of future happiness to
work towards), where you can be seen as their benefactor, so
they are willing to sustain your supply of happiness (DE) since
you provide them hope in the "pursuit" of theirs. Actually, you
don't want them to see you as an object of pleasure, but as one
they need to attain their pleasure. Thus without you they can
do nothing.
When one thinks about it, the pride of life is simply the
ability one has, to evaluate (rational use of sense perception)
acquired experiential knowledge of life's sensuous experiences
(specific moments of dopamine emancipation) desired again
(sensuous "need") along with the ability to justify them
(through imagination or reasoning), to create future
environmental conditions for themselves and others, i.e. to
control the lives of others. The stimulation of the
neurotransmitter dopamine, the same chemical the child seeks
after when it plays with a toy (controls the environment which
stimulates the emancipation of dopamine) is the same
neurotransmitter the head of the World Bank seeks after as he
attempts to control the world, control the environment which
stimulates the emancipation of dopamine. As the child tries to
get the parent to find pleasure (dopamine emancipation) in the
child's enjoyment with a toy (so he can play with it longer—get
more dopamine emancipation), the banker tries to get the citizen
to find pleasure (dopamine emancipation) in their enjoyment of
bigger toys (so they can play with it—get more dopamine
emancipation). In this way the child is able to control the
parent (through their desire to keep the child's love) and the
banker is able to control the citizens. As long as the one in
debt can satisfy his loan, even at the cost of his own pleasure,
the banker is happy (he is getting his supply of dopamine
emancipation). Unlike the child however, whose parents can end
the child's attempt to control his world of pleasure, the
debtor, if he does not satisfy the bankers supply of dopamine,
can not stop the banker from taking his pleasure away.
Money is just stored up pleasure, stored up dopamine
emancipation. The person, able to evaluate the environment, able
to find what "turns people on," what triggers their dopamine
emancipation, can skillfully control people. By marketing to
their "felt" needs, getting people to depend upon them for their
daily supply of dopamine emancipation, their daily fix, they are
able to control their own future supply. In this way knowledge
puffs up a person ego, he is able to guarantee an environment
which stimulates his personal lust for dopamine emancipation. He
is able to fill his toy box of treasures, his hearts desire,
with items (things or people) which guarantee the stimulation of
dopamine emancipation for himself forever. The person skilled in
the process can thus keep the supply coming, by giving their
"little workers" their supply as well. The only difference
being the skilled person in the process gains control over the
workers gold and the "happy little worker" gets only the rush
with no gold in the end since they considered the pleasure of
the moment of more value than the gold. This is not only true
for the world it is also true for the worldly church and its
worldly ministers. Thus, with the accumulation of knowledge and
the ability to evaluate the world, for the sake of dopamine
emancipation for themselves and others, man is able to direct
his own steps, looking down upon those who are "not educated" in
the process, viewing them with contempt and arrogance, only as
items to be bought and sold.
"For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many
wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble,
are called: But God hath chosen the foolish things of the
world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak
things of the world to confound the things which are
mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are
despised, hath God chosen, yea, and things which are not, to
bring to nought things that are: That no flesh should glory
in his presence." 1 Corinthians 1: 26-29
Only those who are guided by the spirit of God and not the
dopamine craving of the flesh can endure such temptations. This
is why "not many mighty or noble are called." Our collages,
seminaries, even our grade schools and high schools, secular and
religious, are now turning out a people skilled in the ways of
the world, all seeking after the satisfaction of their "felt"
needs, holding in derision those who walk in the knowledge of
the truth, those who believe in the simplicity of the gospel,
those laying aside the things of this world, daily dying to
themselves, looking for a kingdom which is not made with human
hands but one which is eternal, of God's own making.
" How can ye believe, which receive honour one of
another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only?"
John 5:44
Lovers of the creator, the creator who judges and condemns
man for following and justifying his own impulses, impulses
seeking harmony with the creation (leading men to desire the
approval of men, to "receive honour one of another" instead of
desiring the approval of God "the honour that cometh from God
only"), is, according to humanism, the source of alienation
(Marx ""Marx:_The_more_of_himself_man_attributes_to_God">The
more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left
in himself." "The life which he has given to the object sets
itself against him as an alien and hostile force.” Karl Marx
MEGA I/3, pp. 83-84 According to Marx, the attention man gives
to recognizing the commands of parents and God and the honoring
and obeying them alienates himself from his own fleshly
(worldly) identity and gives authority to the author of laws
which restrain those natural, common to all mankind, fleshly
desires. “"Alienation:_Personal_relations">Personal
relations between men have this character of alienation.
Hegel and Marx have laid the foundations for the understanding
of the problem of alienation.” Erick Fromm Escape from Freedom
“Alienation is the experience of ‘estrangement’ (Verfremdung)
from others, . . .” “Alienation has a long history. Its most
radical sense already appears in the biblical expulsion from
Eden.” “Alienation, according to Feuerbach, derives from the
externalization (Entausserung) of human powers and possibilities
upon a non-existent entity: God. . .” “God is thus the
anthropological source of alienation . . .” “Alienation will
continue so long as the subject engages in an externalization (Entausserung)
of his or her subjectivity.” Bronner Of Critical Theory and its
Theorists “The immediate task is to unmask human alienation in
its secular form, now that it has been unmasked in the sacred
form.” Karl Marx Selected writing in Sociology and Social
Philosophy trans. by T. B. Bottormore. "Revolutionary violence
reconciles the disunited parties by abolishing the alienation of
class antagonism that set in with the repression of initial
morality. … the revolution that must occur is the reaction of
suppressed life, which will visit the causality of fate upon the
rulers. It is those who establish such domination and defend
positions of power of this sort who set in motion the causality
of fate, divide society into social classes, suppress justified
interests, call forth the reactions of suppressed life, and
finally experience their just fate in revolution. " Jürgen
Habermas Knowledge & Human Interest, 1968, publ. Polity Press,
1987. Chapter Three: The Idea of the Theory of Knowledge as
Social Theory), the cause of neurosis (Freud “Freud ...
stressed the role of religion in the historical deflection of
energy from the real improvement of the human condition to an
imaginary world of eternal salvation...." Marcuse Eros and
Civilization “Both the sadistic and the masochistic trends are
caused by the inability of the isolated individual to stand
alone and his need for a symbiotic relationship to overcome this
aloneness.” [Fromm believed that man could] "not take the last
logical step, to give up 'God' and to establish a concept of man
as a being who is alone in the world, but who can feel at home
in it if he achieves union with his fellow man and with
nature." Erick Fromm Escape from Freedom ""Sin_again:_To_experience_Freud">To
experience Freud is to partake a second time of the
forbidden fruit" Norman O. Brown "But Brown believed that the
payoff was worth the price of sin--namely, that alienation would
be overcome, and the return of the repressed completed,
rendering problems of sin permanently moot." Mike Connor “"Brown:_Parental_discipline">Parental
discipline, religious denunciation of bodily pleasure, . . .
have all left man overly docile, but secretly in his unconscious
unconvinced, and therefore neurotic.” “The bondage of all
cultures to their cultural heritage is a neurotic construction.”
“Neurotic symptoms, with their fixations on perversions and
obscenities, demonstrate the refusal of the unconscious essence
of our being to acquiesce in the dualism of flesh and spirit,
higher and lower.” “Freud speaks of religion as a
‘substitute-gratification’ – the Freudian analogue to the
Marxian formula, ‘opiate of the people.’” “Psychoanalysis must
treat religion as a neurosis.” Norman O. Brown Life Against
Death)—caused by a persons obedience to standards which stand
against his own human nature, his own human urges, his own human
spontaneity, his own human impulses, his own human inclinations,
alienating himself from his actual nature. And by insisting
that others accept the same standards, above human nature
standards, he not only alienates himself from others, he
alienates them from him—by their rational abilities, their
refusing to live according to anything alienating them from
their own human nature (sinful nature). “A new emphasis on
civic participation and social interaction alone seemed capable
of confronting the crisis. And, that is precisely what Fromm
provided in his notion of ‘communitarian socialism.’” Bronner Of
Critical Theory and its Theorists
“Emancipation lies in fantasy and the language of
experience irreducible to linguistic rules:
"Bronner_Habermas_Dewey:_mimesis">mimesis....
Marcuse thus could write that ‘the realm of freedom lies
beyond mimesis.’”
Stephen Erik Bronner Of Critical Theory and its Theorists
“Universal Reconciliation relies on a reason that is
before reason-mimesis or ‘impulse.’” Jürgen Habermas The
Theory of Communicative Action
“Impulse, the primary fact, back of which, psychically we
cannot go.” John Dewey, “Social Psychology,” Psychological
Review, I (July, 1894), p. 404
"We must ultimately assume at the highest theoretical
levels of enlightenment management theory, a preference or a
tendency." "To identify with more and more of the world,
moving toward the ultimate of mysticism, a fusion with the
world, or peak experience, cosmic consciousness, etc."
"Enlightenment management and humanistic supervision can be
a brotherhood situation. Partnership is the same as
synergy." "The more enlightened the religious institutions
get, that is to say, the more liberal they get, the greater
will be the advantage for an enterprise run in an
enlightened way." Abraham Maslow Maslow on Management
"It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by
every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God."
Matthew 4:4
Jesus did not say man does not live by bread (or the pleasure
you can receive by eating it—which, when enjoyed, can stimulate
dopamine in the brain), he said that man does not live by bread
ALONE, but that man MUST live by every word which proceedeth out
of the mouth of God. "I am that bread of life. Your fathers
did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread
which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and
not die." John 6:48-50
"For I delight in the law of God after the inward man:
But I see another law in my members, warring against the law
of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin
which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall
deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through
Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve
the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin." Romans
7:22-25
God's word is not dopamine, although we can experience the
release of dopamine from reading, hearing, or speaking it. If
the experience of pleasure is that which you are seek in reading
the word of God, you can learn a lot about the Bible (as far as
human reasoning can take you), but you will never know the Lord,
and he will never know you. Repentance is not a dopamine moment
(it is not temporal;
Romans 8), although it is a moment resulting in lasting Joy
and Peace (Spiritual). God's word is Spiritual. God's word, and
his will worked out in you, to his good pleasure, result in the
control of the love of dopamine—it is the praxis of withdrawal
(extraction, departure, renunciation, denial, alienation,
etc.). "He must increase, but I must decrease." John 3:30 It
is not that the spiritual life can not have pleasure via.
dopamine emancipation, it can, it is, dopamine emancipation is
not spiritual. We can walk in the spirit and be blessed with
the temporal (have dopamine liberation), but we can lust for the
temporal and walk in the spirit. One is of God, the other is of
the earth, we can only love one or the other, we can not love
both, we can only serve one of the other.
"Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants
to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin
unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?" Romans
6:16
"Thou shalt have none other gods before me. Thou shalt
not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing
that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or
that is in the waters beneath the earth: Thou shalt not bow
down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy
God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of
them that hate me, And shewing mercy unto thousands of them
that love me and keep my commandments." Deuteronomy 5:7-10
"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the
one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and
despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon." Matthew
6:24 Sin does not rule over man, man rules over sin, by setting
your mind on things of the earth, upon mammon, you rule to
change the world (remove it of Godly restraint) to satisfy your
earthly desires. This is the essence of change, to live the
life of Cain. "And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth?
and why is thy countenance fallen [sulking]? If thou doest
well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well,
sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and
thou shalt rule over him." Genesis4:6, 7 The world, with its
desire for dopamine emancipation, desires your participation.
If you are recognized as one who can satisfy its "felt" needs,
the world will desire you to rule over it, it will follow you
into the abyss. The Devil can not make you do a thing but he
can entice you to become a ruler over your own fleshly desires,
not to restrain your fleshly desires but to liberate them, so
you can manipulate the environment (ruling over it) so you can
receive pleasure from it. If not externally (in practice,
praxis), at least internally (theory, imagination), until the
enticer (facilitator, who's job is to make change easy) comes
along and convinces you that you "can" do it externally—"Just do
it."
"And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim
liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants
thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return
every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man
unto his family. A jubile shall that fiftieth year be unto
you: ye shall not sow, neither reap that which groweth of
itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thy vine
undressed." Leviticus 25: 10, 11
The world is cheering you on to "do it," for its good
pleasure, in theory and in practice—so the world can experience
"celebration," its sabbath rest—from Godly restraint that is.
The Marxist Erick Fromm defined sabbath as "stopping
interference with nature" Erick Fromm The Forgotten Language. In
truth the sabbath rest is not for nature, it is for man. "And he
said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for
the sabbath: Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the
sabbath." Mark 2:28 The only mention of the lands sabbath is
when God brings judgment upon man for not obeying him, not
obeying his laws and practicing restraint, and man is driven off
the land, giving the land a rest from his presence (Leviticus
26:14-33 and 34-43). The seventh year rest of the land is for
the sake of the poor and the beasts Exodus 3:10-12. True
celebration is thanking and praising God for his restraint, for
his law which reveals our wickedness, and for his mercy and
grace, through Christ Jesus, who redeemed us from his wrath upon
us, for breaking his law, and thus not receiving that which we
deserve, judgment—eternal damnation, and receiving that which we
do not deserve, eternal life through him. "But as it is written,
Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the
heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that
love him." 1 Corinthians 2:9
The neurotic, those who filter the scriptures of their
spiritual truths through the use of dialectical reasoning (a
"scientific" method of thinking through their feelings 1 Timothy
6:20, 21), can only see the world through a "neo-Marxist lens"
(sensuous: “Science is only genuine science when it proceeds
from sense experience, in the two forms of sense perception and
sensuous need, that is, only when it proceeds from Nature.” Karl
Marx Selected Reading "Science" when applied to man,
materializes him, making him one with the world), and always
move the focus of those they speak to, "their" church, those
they "care for," from that which is above to that which is
below.
"Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the
knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the
measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ: That we
henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and
carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of
men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to
deceive;" "This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord,
that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the
vanity of their mind, Having the understanding darkened,
being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance
that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto
lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness."
Ephesians 4:13, 14, 17-19
The moment a minister takes a pole or survey, an
analysis/evaluation of the environment for the sake of unity, he
is in control of his life and has rejected God's control over
his life. By focusing upon the environment with his passion,
with his heart's desire, as the woman did in the Garden in Eden,
he is drawn to it. By his reasoning, he justify his selfish
desire, by practicing his reasoning (praxis), he sins. He in
fact has become ruler over his own life, ruling over the
environment, to control it for his own sinful nature, even for
the "good" of others (vanity). In the praxis of negating the
judgment of God (God's judgment is his holiness exposing and
consuming wickedness), supplanting it with the "love" of God for
all things in the creation (God's "love" is in all things, in
the creation—wholeness), man becomes free from the fear of
judgment and is liberated, emancipated from Godly restraint
(Read
Romans 1-16 to correct this false way of thinking). In this
way he, the minister, can place his followers in an environment
which stimulates dopamine (pleasure), and adding God's name to
it, call it worshiping God in unity, in Eros—tolerance, in this
way, supplants the patience of God, and a loving God (agape),
waiting for us to repent of our sin before him, to be at one
with Him, is supplanted with a loving God (Eros), waiting for us
to repent of our "sins" to the environment, to be at one with
it. In this way liberty from the control of the flesh, by the
leading of God, His Word, and his Holy Spirit (liberty in law
which is spiritual) is supplanted with liberty of the flesh,
through the spirit of unity (group hug—liberated from the law,
anti-Matthew 5:17).
"When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are
whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick:
I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to
repentance." Mark 2:17
The "righteous" becomes anxious in the discussion of judgment
[a static environment of right and wrong and certain judgment
for doing wrong] but finds liberty in the environment of
spontaneity (a dynamic environment, an environment of tolerance,
of uncertainty), the sinner becomes anxious in the discussion of
judgment, but if he repents of his sins (the righteousness of
Christ is imputed to him Romans 4:23-5:5, he accepts a static,
"It is finished," God, a God of certainty above the environment
of uncertainty), he becomes, no longer anxious in the
environment of spontaneity, but rather non-influenced
(principled, having conviction). By placing the redeemed and
the "righteous" in an environment of spontaneity, you can
scientifically "discover" who is for unity (Eros that is) and
who is a barrier to unity. The redeemed will cry out to God for
help, turning to his Word (certainty), and be classified
(labeled) as being judgmental, divisive, causing disunity (being
intolerant) by those in love with the environment of
spontaneity. The one who feels liberated in spontaneity will at
first tolerate the inhibitor of unity (tolerance neutralizes
differences), and then question his sanity (marginalize him from
others, fear of guilt by association), and finally will "panic,"
i.e. attempt to attack and remove the inhibitor of unity for the
sake of environmental unity, for the sake of peace and harmony.
When people "glaze" over, while you present truth (certainty),
they are panicking, they do not know how to bring you into their
world of spontaneity, they are closing down on you, seeing no
hope in you "understanding." What is missing it the world's
"scientific" formula is that God has called us to stand, in Him,
for he is sufficient, and not chase after spontaneity or be
anxious (The Authorized King James Bible uses the word "careful"
for the Greek word also meaning anxious—concerning the things of
this world]. "Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by
prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be
made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all
understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ
Jesus." Philippians 4:6, 7
"Thinking through the process
"Moreno:_it_is_dialectically_faulty_to_start_with_the_negative">
it is dialectically faulty to start with the negative,
with anxiety [judgment, death]. The problem is to name the
dynamic factor provoking anxiety to emerge [the "intrusive"
command (and thus threat of judgment; "you will die") of the
father who restrains us from our desire to experience the
pleasures the environment naturally stimulates]. Anxiety is
a function of spontaneity. Spontaneity can be defined as
the adequate response to a new situation, or the novel
response to an old situation. With decrease of spontaneity
anxiety increases. With entire lose of spontaneity anxiety
reaches its maximum, the point of panic." J. L. Moreno Who
Shall Survive
Liberation of socially unifying dopamine means an environment
emancipated from parental authority, an environment of
spontaneity. ""Marx:_Once_the_earthly_family_is_discovered_to_be_the_secret">Once
the earthly family is discovered to be the secret of the
heavenly family, the former must be annihilated, both in theory
and in practice." Karl Marx, Feuerbach Thesis #4. This is
leadership training. As it is today, "leaders" are marinated in
sensitivity training. "If it feels good, just do it."
Herbert Marcuse Eros and Civilization This liberation is
deceptive and leads to death, as so many in America have
"discovered," in overdoses, etc. ("Death can be a learning
experience" Brown Life Against Death) and practiced with
abortions and euthanasia to mention a few. But death is more
than physical, it is spiritual, and it is eternal for those who
reject the mercy and grace of God—"through the obedience of
Christ." "And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord
shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy
with the brightness of his coming: Even him, whose coming is
after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying
wonders, And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them
that perish; because they received not the love of the truth,
that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them
strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: That they all
might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in
unrighteousness." 2 Thessalonians 2:8-12
"And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb, and by
the word of their testimony; and they loved not their lives
unto the death." Revelation 12:11 "him" being: 'the accuser
of the brethren'—'the old Serpent, called the Devil, and
Satan' who 'savourest not the things that be of God, but the
things that be of men' Revelation 12:9 and Mark 8:33
"Now the brother shall betray the brother to death, and
the father the son; and children shall rise up against their
parents, and shall cause them to be put to death. And ye
shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that
shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved."
Matthew 13:12
Withdrawal from the pleasures of this life (refusing to be
at-one with the world and its lusts) and enduring to the end,
are not dopamine moments. Suffering for your faith is not a
dopamine moment. Being tempted is not a dopamine moment,
although you can "count it all joy," James 1:2. Despising the
shaming, the mocking, the rejection and persecution of men
(because they accuse you of being against them) is not a
dopamine moment. If you do not know the Lord (rather he does
not know you)—you can not have the Joy and the Peace of the
Spirit, Joy which is unspeakable (you can't find words with
which others will understand what you are describing, because
their words are all tied to the temporal, tied to dopamine), nor
will they be able to understand the peace of the Lord, which
transcends understanding, "And the peace of God, which passeth
all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through
Christ Jesus." Philippians 4:7—you will not be able to overcome
the environment around you, the environment which stimulates
your dopamine into action, which encourages you to join with it
in the pleasures of this life. "While we look not at the things
which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the
things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not
seen are eternal." 2 Corinthians 4:18
"For the kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but
righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost." "Now
the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in
believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of
the Holy Ghost." "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give
unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not
your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid." Romans
14:17, 15:13, 14:27
Flesh and blood (lovers of dopamine) will not inherit the
kingdom of God. "Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood
cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption
inherit incorruption." 1 Corinthians 15:50 Yet while still
present in the world, in flesh and blood, we are not to be of it
(living for the pleasures it tempts us with): "But ye have not
so learned Christ; If so be that ye have heard him, and have
been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: That ye put off
concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt
according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit
of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is
created in righteousness and true holiness." Ephesians 4:20-24
Your soul, if you have been redeemed, if your sins are covered
by the blood of the lamb, if the Lord knows you, you will have a
new body in heaven, a spiritual body, a body not controlled by
the whims and urges of the flesh (tossed to and fro by every
wind of doctrine which for the moment satisfies your dopamine
craving), a body which will not be tied to the whims and urges
(changes) of this fallen world, tied to the neurotransmitter
dopamine triggered by the quest for an ever changing
environment. In the meantime it is up to us to live holy in a
wicked (dopamine driven) world, recognizing that that wickedness
still resides within us. As Paul the apostle stated "O wretched
man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this
death?" His answer "I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord.
So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with
the flesh the law of sin." Romans 7:24, 25 Without God
directing our lives, directing us by his Word and his Spirit
(along with his chastening), overcoming the world and its lusts
is not possible. It is in the Lord, and him alone, that we can
endure to the end, overcoming the prince of the power of the
air, the enticer, overcoming this world and the desire of our
flesh to be at-one with it, overcoming its lusts, our lust of
the eyes ("give me, give me, give me, if only ..."), and our
pride of life (our ability to justify ourselves before men),
"And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves
before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is
highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God."
Luke 16:15
"Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for
what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and
what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord
hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth
with an infidel? And what agreement hath the temple of God
with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God
hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I
will be their God, and they shall be my people. Wherefore
come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the
Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive
you, And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons
and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty." 2 Corinthians
6:14-18
Adam and the woman, while in the Garden in Eden, desired the
pleasures of this world (set their mind on things below,
determining right and wrong based upon how they felt and what
they thought—through human perception, dopamine emancipating
justification, "the aesthetic dimension," "Social action no less
than physical action is steered by perception," Kurt Lewin “The
words ‘seem to’ are significant; it is the perception which
functions in guiding behavior." Carl Rogers "There is a way
which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways
of death." Proverbs 14:12—guided by the stimulation of the
surrounding environment), Jesus has instead called us to trust
in him with all our heart (set our mind on things above, that
which is certain, unchanging). The one mind (set upon the
pleasures of this life, desiring the respect of men, which is
uncertain, changing) leads to eternal damnation, the other mind
("set upon suffering with Christ") leads to eternal life. Choose
today who you will serve. It will determine where you will
spend eternity.
"For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to
please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the
servant of Christ." Galatians 1:10
"For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I
have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as
a chaste virgin to Christ. But I fear, lest by any means, as
the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds
should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.
For if he that cometh preacheth another Jesus, whom we have
not preached, or if ye receive another spirit, which ye have
not received, or another gospel, which ye have not accepted,
ye might well bear with him." 2 Corinthians 11:2-4
It is sad that in the church today there are those
(facilitators or change agents, who call themselves ministers)
who desire to build the church upon the environmentally
stimulating (inspiring) drug dopamine—a "purpose driven" church,
which uses polls and surveys (feedback loops) to find out what
turns people on (their dopamineability, their "felt" needs of
the moment, uniting them upon a "feeling" of oneness), so that
all participants can find social pleasure in "doing the work of
God," a church hooked on the drug of this world, lovers of
pleasure (albeit done in the name of Jesus), a church seeking a
non offensive, readily adaptable to change, user friendly,
dopamine driven (feel good) Jesus. By re-structuring the church
upon a dopamine liberating Jesus (temporal, seeking and finding
approval in the eyes of the world), who conflicts with the
Christ of obedience (spiritual, rejecting the way of the world
and rejected of the world) is following the pathway of Hegel and
the dialectical process.
Hegel wrote: ""Hegel:_It_may_be_said_that_Philosophy">It
may be said that Philosophy [thinking about our way of
thinking or other peoples way of thinking] first commences when
... a gulf has arisen between inward strivings and external
reality, and the old forms of Religion, &c., are no longer
satisfying [satisfying to the flesh's desire for change]; when
Mind manifests indifference to its living existence or rests
unsatisfied therein, and moral life becomes dissolved."
"Philosophy is a free and not self-seeking activity, … This
activity contains the essential element of a negation, because
to produce is also to destroy; … as Mind passes on from its
natural form, it also proceeds from its exact code of morals and
the robustness of life to reflection and conception. The result
of this is that it lays hold of and troubles this real,
substantial kind of existence, this morality and faith, and thus
the period of destruction commences [destruction of ones faith
begins that is]." Hegel’s Lectures on the History of Philosophy
Introduction B. Relation of Philosophy to Other Departments of
Knowledge. To more clearly understand where Hegel was coming
from, he wrote: “Man knows about God only in so far as God knows
about himself in man;” “What truly is always true is that all is
in flux, the truth-seeker ought properly to address himself to
the study of this life process of truth seeking itself.” G. W.
F. Hegel In other words the one seeking truth is not to seek
Christ, who is truth, but rather to seek "a life process of
truth seeking itself." Hegel revealed his hermitic, Gnostic,
cabalist religious view in this way: “Spirit, in so far as it is
the Spirit of God, is not a spirit beyond the stars, beyond the
world. On the contrary, God is present, omnipresent, and exists
as spirit in all spirits.” (Hegel Philosophy of Religion)
During the 40's and 50's the church took the youth out of the
service and put them in the back room hoping to keep them in the
church via an environment which stimulated dopamine liberation.
There was no other reason. Thus the next generations demanded an
environment which stimulated dopamine liberation in the Church.
Ministers soon learned this was the only means to "growing" the
church. These are ministers today who trust in their tools of
evaluation, tools they can use to create and sustain an
environment of hopefulness—building upon a feeling of
hope—creating a church from "feasibility studies," with
pre-determined, observable outcomes (vision statements, mission
statements, and goals), putting their trust in projections with
tangible hypothesis i.e. in quest of measurable results of
"continuous improvement" and "sustainable development." With
speeches of "unity," and "synergy" they think to themselves
"What can I get out these relationships for me?" With speeches
of "love" and "sacrifice," they build their kingdom of God upon
"interpersonal relationships."
"Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall
suffer persecution." 2 Timothy 3:12
Suffering persecution is not a dopamine moment unless you
take delight in suffering itself—masochist; some religious
people seek pleasure from persecution, if you do it as a group
project it makes it a lot easier. Since materialists,
humanists, see only temporal things as real (spiritual things as
phenomena), all who are willing to suffer persecution for Christ
are considered masochists. “"Fromm:_In_Escape_from_Freedom">In
Escape from Freedom, Fromm offered the sado-masochistic
character as the core of the authoritarian personality.” Martin
Jay The Dialectical Imagination “. . . Definition of religious
experience as experience of absolute dependence is the
definition of the masochistic experience in general.” Erich
Fromm, Escape from Freedom According to
dialectical—Satanic—reasoning, man's freedom is to be actualized
through the praxis of restoring his identity and purpose within
the creation (harmony), and anything which seeks to block that
harmony is sado-masochistic in nature, i.e. God. “In the process
of history man gives birth to himself. He becomes what he
potentially is, and he attains what the serpent—the symbol of
wisdom and rebellion—promised, and what the patriarchal, jealous
God of Adam did not wish: that man would become like God
himself.” Erick Fromm You Shall Be As Gods p. 123
"His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are
all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down,
loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never
have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand:
they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from
his quarter. Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we
will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall
be as this day, and much more abundant." Isaiah 56:10-12
These are ministers who serve another Christ, a false Christ,
a Christ of man's making, a Christ "driving" his sheep i.e.
manipulating his sheep, by manipulating the environment.
Through the utilization of "positive
and negative force field analysis," the are able to create
the "right" or healthy (synergistic) environment of
consensus—the uniting of all participants in a common dopamine
discharge, a collective sensuous experience of oneness—changing
the environment which changes us, which changes the environment,
which changes us, which changes the environment, which changes
us...... ad infinitum. Creating an ever changing environment
whereby all are freely chasing the dopamine rush, that is, until
the day of judgment comes upon their dialectical neurosis, their
love of pleasure, their love of the creation. These are
ministers simply in love with the power they have in creating
environments which release pleasure—possessed with the
liberation of dopamine they experience from the respect of men
they receive since they know how to create environmental
conditions which liberate dopamine for all mankind, "in Jesus
name." For all who desire to participate in their theology of
universal dopamine liberation and their belief in a universal
Christ seeking harmony with the world through collective
dopamine emancipation "Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this
world:" John 18:36.
"And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion,
that they should believe a lie: That they all might be
damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in
unrighteousness." 2 Thessalonians 2:11, 12
It is for God's good pleasure (spiritual) and not ours
(temporal) for which we were created. The temporal can not
comprehend this. Children of the world cannot comprehend the
light of the Glory of God, as the darkness cannot comprehend the
light. When Christians "rediscover" their "child within,"
through the "artcraft" of psychology, sociology, anthropology,
etc, they return to the darkness of the fallen world, guided
again by their carnal feelings and their carnal thoughts.
"Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and
power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy
pleasure they are and were created." Revelation 4:11
These ministers, basing their ministries upon the creation of
dopamine stimulating environments, will be so successful, in the
eyes of men, that no one will dare speak against them (expose
their heresy), without suffering persecution or death. Who can
argue against "success," particularly if it can be experienced
by all participating in it. But the true Savior and Lord, Christ
Jesus, will have the last word concerning these men (and
usurping women, appropriating an office which is not theirs) who
call themselves ministers of God. "And then will I profess unto
them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity."
Matthew 7:23 After all is said and done, it is what God
commands, not our thinking about how we feel or what we think
about him (even in Jesus name) that matters (thinking about our
thinking about Jesus is not the same as setting our mind upon
him). Read Revelation, Chapter 18 for a full picture of God's
judgment upon those who worship the effects of dopamine, the
"passion juice" of the flesh. "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy
God and him only shalt thou serve." Matthew 4:10b "But the hour
cometh, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the
Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to
worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must
worship him in spirit and in truth." John 4:23, 24
Revelation 13:11-18
"And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;
and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.
And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before
him, and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to
worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed. And
he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down
from heaven on the earth in the sight of men, And deceiveth
them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles
which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying
to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an
image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did
live. And he had power to give life unto the image of the
beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and
cause that as many as would not worship the image of the
beast should be killed. And he causeth all, both small and
great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in
their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man
might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of
the beast, or the number of his name. Here is wisdom. Let
him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:
for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred
threescore and six."
Revelation 14:9-11
"And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud
voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and
receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand, The same
shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured
out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he
shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence
of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb: And the
smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and
they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and
his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name."
Revelation 15:2-4
"And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire:
and them that had gotten the victory over the beast, and
over his image, and over his mark, and over the number of
his name, stand on the sea of glass, having the harps of
God. And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and
the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy
works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou
King of saints. Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify
thy name? for thou only art holy: for all nations shall come
and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made
manifest."
© Institution for Authority Research, Dean Gotcher 2008
"This I say then, Walk in
the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of
the flesh. For the flesh lusteth against the
Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and
these are contrary the one to the other: so that
ye cannot do the things that ye would. But if
ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the
law.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest,
which are these; Adultery, fornication,
uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry,
witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath,
strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders,
drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the
which I tell you before, as I have also told you
in time past, that they which do such things
shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness,
faith, Meekness, temperance: against such there
is no law.
And they that are Christ’s have crucified
the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we
live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the
Spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory,
provoking one another, envying one another.''
Galatians 5:16-26