From: Robin Faichney (robin@mmmi.org)
Date: Tue 26 Jul 2005 - 18:26:22 GMT
Tuesday, July 26, 2005, 3:38:27 PM, Keith wrote:
> At 05:25 PM 25/07/05 +0100, Robin wrote:
> snip
>>I have no problem with attention-reward being a significant factor in
>>cults, but I see no reason to believe there are no other significant
>>factors with regard either to cults in particular or religions in
>>general. In fact I'd go so far as to say it's obvious that there are
>>many other factors affecting "religious behaviour". And I'd assert
>>that genuine relief from neurotic symptoms is one of them. In no way
>>does this conflict with your analysis unless you're insisting that
>>your truth is The Only Truth.
> I thought about how to reply for the last two days. Finally decided the
> gap was just too big to bridge since in my writing and even this thread I
> mentioned other factors that you missed seeing.
The thing is, when you made these comments:
[me]
>>and (b) whether, in
>>some cases, such people might be genuinely helped and even cured by
>>"religious experiences".
[you]
> "Genuinely helped," as much as any junkie is helped by another shot or a
> psychoanalytic patient is helped by "analysis."
> I don't think you would be asking these sorts of questions if you had read
> the paper you can find through Google:
I thought you were suggesting that your factors excluded mine.
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