Why do Intelligent People Still Believe in Religion? Part 34. Positive Connotations and Belief

Finishing up the explanations for learning and conditioning.
My brainwashing video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA-IVaIvB5Q
Interview By Richard Dawkins on Religious abuse.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXA7GA9yntc

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Education

Tags:

• atheism
• Operant
• conditioning
• vicarious
• spanking
• reinforcement
• religion
• liberal

[mrscooter711]

Are you trying to teach us something you seem to be going the long way around things trying to prove your intellect. As you said you have no expertise in this field.I respect your view and I expect the same in return. Tell me something I don't know and I may watch more of your stuff. Tell it from your own heart not some useless books we can read them ourself. Just a thought from my heart.

[anubis2814]

@mrscooter711 I am not an expert in counseling, however psychology is a field I have studied to death on my own. I could easily be an academic on it.  If you think books are useless I pity you. Books are life and the backbone of our thinking regardless of your faith. This part of the series 32-25 is specifically for people who are trying to overcome their fear of hell because they were raised by extremists who implanted the irrational fear as children.

[ShadowPa1adin]

I partially disagree with you. The way I see it, fundamentalist churches use both a combination of positive and negative reinforcement.

[anubis2814]

@ShadowPa1adin I would have to agree

[De4sher]

yeah... if bread were illegal, bread would be a gateway drug....

if marijuana was legal, it wouldn't be a gateway drug anymore.

i know you're not arguing about drugs here, but clearly there's something wrong with the gateway argument.

[anubis2814]

@nycwiseguy91 According to my 2009 psychology textbook, positive reinforcement is defined as: the reinforcement of a response by the addition of experiencing of pleasurable stimuli.

[MisterTutor2010]

Cats rule

[ReligiousFiction]

I love what you have to say in this video.

Leaving religion was hard for me because my experience had been so positive. It took seeing the hardship of others in religion to shake me out of my Polyanna view.

Congrats on improving your reaction toward non-heterosexuals!

[mrscooter711]

@anubis2814 I am understanding things a bit better these day's. Sorry for my comment , I don't even remember making it I must have been a bit cranky Sorry again :O)

[mrscooter711]

@devex12345 Thank you I have learnt a lot in 3 week's I have learnt I should shut up if I don't really understand or just ask questions .Thank's again :O)

[devex12345]

@De4sher ...No, it is simply as you put it.

[devex12345]

@mrscooter711 Cognitive dissenence textbook. You are entitled to your own opinions. You are entitled to your own mechanisms. You are not, however, and I am sorry, but you are NOT entitled to your own facts. Anything out of your heart is opinion. If you don't like it, then don't believe it. Anything out of factual observations is not up for debate. Like it or not, you have to accept it is true.

[ReligionlessFAITH]

if you sit for long periods of time with your knees crossed, do you get vicarious veins?

[TheFacelessHeathen]

@mrscooter711

Lol troll harder

[mrscooter711]

@anubis2814 Thank you my friend this is the response I was hoping for, now you are on my planet. I hope you have taken something away from this very short conversation. We are not all well educated talk honestly and from the heart and I may believe you.