Addiction in Society

Addiction—the thematic malady for our society—entails every type of psychological and societal problem.

I confess - I do bad things!

Reading about Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich's alleged misdeeds, I searched my own soul and came up with a host of actions I regret. I hope that confessing them here won't make me the object of a federal probe!

Among the many guilty secrets I dug up were the following:

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Spank yourself !!!!

Spank yourself !!!!

again

Again, who chooses which people get to submit posts? A third grader could write this blog post.

"I don’t think they should

"I don’t think they should bail out mortgagees who can’t pay their monthly nut, because I pay mine! (Where is my Christian charity?)"

Sorry to bash on Christians, but this seems to the norm when it comes to politics and those who believe in Christ. Their religions teach them to be compassionate, but they generally are the least compassionate towards people who aren't part of the traditional majority. Gandhi liked Christ, but he didn't like Christians. They are the first ones to say homosexuals aren't entitled to their human and civil rights and cannot marry, and they typically use the term "welfare" instead of "aid" to make sway opinions in their favor against helping those in need. And as far as chauvinism goes, conservatives are pretty narrow-minded and afflicted by belief perserverance, and it shows when it comes to their religion and how they blindly accept persecution of homomsexuals despite its apparent parallels with the civil rights struggle of African Americans and all of the scientific data refuting conservative ideology.

Liberal media, like NPR, fairly portrays all sides of the story without taking a stance, whereas conservative commentators use "liberals" like a cuss word. Isn't Bill O'Reilly pro-life? Isn't he also against aid to the needy (see, I can use framing to sway my argument too)? So, poor mothers who lack education and resources shouldn't be allowed to have abortions and they shouldn't be given access to aid to take care of those children they're not allowed to abort? Look at O'Reilly's history of double standards Dr. Peele. O'Reilly doesn't hold his own feet to the same fire as those he criticizes. He rallies against Islam because of the small percentage of terrorists that are Muslim, but defends Christianity when Anders Breivik, a Norwegian Christian diagnosed with schizophrenia, went on murderous rampage in the name of Christianity.

Where's all the criticism by conservatives against the homophobic conservatives who get caught having sexual relations with someone of the same sex (Roy Ashburn, Bruce Barclay, Ted Haggard, Larry Craig, etc., etc., etc.)? Barney Frank, a wellknown liberal, was excoriated by Larry Craig for having homosexual relations before coming out of the closet. Frank never rallied against homosexuals. Larry Craig was later arrested for soliciting sex from a undercover male police officer in an airport restroom. Those who censure something the loudest are typically harboring conflicted feelings towards that something.

It's not surprising that Peele doesn't have compassion for those who can't pay their mortgages. Shouldn't he know better? How can someone with all that education still think like a religious right-winged, narrow-minded bigot? I think pretty sure he's afflicted by the just-world phenomenon and needs to revisit some of his old textbooks.

Worst post I've read this year

This is awful.
This is similar to when, in a job interview, you are asked to list your negative attributes and you say "caring too much".
You can add to your bad things list "writing self serving blog posts"

Is it worse than

than Rick Perry's ad, "Strong," where he promises to end Obama's "war on religion" and remedy an America "where gays can serve openly in the military, but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas or pray in their schools."

http://mashable.com/2011/12/08/rick-perry-you-tube-facebook/

Only he's one of the contenders for a major party's nomination to run for president of the United States!

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Stanton Peele, Ph.D., J.D., has been researching and treating addiction since he wrote Love and Addiction (1975). He also wrote 7 Tools to Beat Addiction.

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