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  1. J

    Can we say organized religion is a positive force in the world with headlines like this?

    That seems a little unfair, IMO. Perhaps, from my path's POV, this was what he was supposed to experience and learn from in this life. We all learn from what we live through. Some lessons are harder than others. Just my two cents....
  2. J

    Can we say organized religion is a positive force in the world with headlines like this?

    Of course not, it was blatant racism, IMO. I had an opposite experience in my youth. My parents tried to expose me to any faith they could find, teaching me to find my own path, which included atheist, which was the way my father saw things.
  3. J

    Can we say organized religion is a positive force in the world with headlines like this?

    While not exactly on point, there are also tons of studies from a nursing POV that prove that the use of spirituality can and does assist in the health of a patient. Nursing has actually now included the concept of spirituality as one piece of our nursing paradigm. People like Dr. B. Dossey and...
  4. J

    Can we say organized religion is a positive force in the world with headlines like this?

    Some people may do that but it would not likely be something that a Buddhist would do and certainly not I. When we have a party on my street, and that is just a few homes, all are invited and that includes mostly Christians. Why would someone exclude others because of a difference in faith is...
  5. J

    Can we say organized religion is a positive force in the world with headlines like this?

    I agree with all of your listed items here save one, at least from a patient use POV. I disagree that praying does not help people. This is not to say that praying is something that will get one a million dollars from God, or whatever name for the powers that be one wishes to use, but that...
  6. J

    Can we say organized religion is a positive force in the world with headlines like this?

    That is more correct than you know but very often, it is the family members that increase the anxiety and anger, etc, that makes it all the worse. And having been in too many ICUs to have seen this, it is more often the Abrahamic faiths that suffer in this way.
  7. J

    Can we say organized religion is a positive force in the world with headlines like this?

    my answer would be yes and no. Yes, it can be for those that it provides solace and comfort. No, in the case, such as above, where one is forced to follow a faith that does not resonant with the person. A person should be able to follow and practice a faith that resonates and that would...
  8. J

    Are Blood Transfusions Really Life Saving?

    While I do agree with you that blood does save lives, your first comments are unfair, IMO. Faith is a thing believed in in the absence of proof and while I strongly disagree with that faith's ideals regarding blood, I don't think saying they are 'off their rocker' is fair either.
  9. J

    Are Blood Transfusions Really Life Saving?

    I am not sure where this came from but I will say this...at least in this country, most IV's are placed by RNs and most blood is also given by RNs with the exception of in the OR and even there, it is often given by RNs. We, too, are trained and trained well.
  10. J

    What is Happening in Our Schools?

    Anytime I read a sentence like the above, I know that whomever has said it is homophobic. Its like someone saying...but I have 3 Black friends...how can I be a racist? If someone really did have gay friends with whom they worked and it truly didn't matter, the fact that they are gay would not...
  11. J

    Religious Fundamentalism Could Soon be Treated as a Mental Illness

    Mea Culpa. I had no idea there were degrees to the faith of Scientology. My apologies to any and all Scientologists.
  12. J

    Religious Fundamentalism Could Soon be Treated as a Mental Illness

    when you use a broad all-encompassing term like fundamentalism, you run the risk of including too many or too few in your 'category'. Its much like The Joker...I mean D. Trump stating he will send all Muslims out of this country on the off chance that 3 are terrorists. Who gets to define this...
  13. J

    What is Happening in Our Schools?

    Wow. Just wow. You really need to calm down here. And for the record, I have never in my life tried to force who I am and what I am on anyone. Your post is an insult.
  14. J

    What is Happening in Our Schools?

    ' Which is fine that you use both methods but my problem and opinion remains. I have done studies as have many others about how patients perceive patients and how doctors and nurses spend their time staring at a PC screen. Its rude, IMO. And if the PC's were all to crash, nurses younger than...
  15. J

    What is Happening in Our Schools?

    I agree the Torah has some good points, having studied it myself for quite some time. However, there are also some points that are totally illogical, which I assume you know. The fact is that the earth is far older the 6 thousand years. One need only visit the Grand Canyon to see evidence of...
  16. J

    Religious Fundamentalism Could Soon be Treated as a Mental Illness

    I don't think you can categorically call all fundamentalists pathological. There are degrees to fundamentalism. If someone is using religion as a board sword to enact violence or harming themselves or others, sure. But if someone is merely adhering to their sacred text vehemently, holding...
  17. J

    Religious Fundamentalism Could Soon be Treated as a Mental Illness

    A very bad thing. In perusing the article, the first thing I noted was the heavy emphasis on Islam. That smacks of bias to me. And second, seems to me this woman read 1984 way too many times. Thought police? What exact beliefs do they target? Beliefs of children in santa claus? Do they...
  18. J

    Religious Fundamentalism Could Soon be Treated as a Mental Illness

    A very bad thing. In perusing the article, the first thing I noted was the heavy emphasis on Islam. That smacks of bias to me. And second, seems to me this woman read 1984 way too many times. Thought police? What exact beliefs do they target? Beliefs of children in santa claus? Do they...
  19. J

    Why does it seem that God never intervenes in Human Suffering

    I have to respectfully disagree with you about prayer. Some years ago, I had what I thought was a PE...pulmonary emboli. I was rushed to the ER and had a scan, etc, and instead of a PE was told I had a mass on my right upper lung lobe. I was subsequently bronched and had a biopsy which showed...
  20. J

    What is Happening in Our Schools?

    And whose fault is the problem of children being promoted without actually learning? And whose idea was this debacle of a mess? G. W. Bush...the Shrub. One wonders if he proposed this ridiculous legislation because of his own stupidity or that of his children. Makes me think of the mess...
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