Dr. Phil blew it this week. The repressed gay guy who created the fake girlfriend for his football hero...Dr. Phil outed him on live TV. Worse, he conducted a psychological counseling session on live TV. Are not psychologists and psychiatrists bound by professional ethics that including maintaining privacy? Sure, he probably got the guy's permission, but was his patient in a sound enough state to be making such decisions? Considering the ensuing media storm?
Look at what happened to the nurse in England who committed suicide over being tricked by radio shock jocks. She wasn't the primary person--she was only an attending nurse--yet she was crushed by the media storm.
Just saying.......probing this guy's mind and soul in front of the world.....really?
Look at what happened to the nurse in England who committed suicide over being tricked by radio shock jocks. She wasn't the primary person--she was only an attending nurse--yet she was crushed by the media storm.
Just saying.......probing this guy's mind and soul in front of the world.....really?
"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape--the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show." Andrew Wyeth
"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape--the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show."
Andrew Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth
working on my memoirs......just finished the chapter on religion......a single sentence:
"A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension." Oliver Wendell Holmes
yet, the sad thing to think about is all those who are exposed to a broader horizon, but take a pass on the stretching necessary to go there.....why do so many choose the comfort of old ideas instead?
religion: the sand in the engine of humanity........
"A mind that is stretched to a new idea never returns to its original dimension." Oliver Wendell Holmes
yet, the sad thing to think about is all those who are exposed to a broader horizon, but take a pass on the stretching necessary to go there.....why do so many choose the comfort of old ideas instead?
religion: the sand in the engine of humanity........
It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish useful ideas from the worthless ones. If all ideas have equal validity then you are lost, because then, it seems to me, no ideas have any validity at all.
Carl Sagan
Carl Sagan
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