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From: aeq@pucc-h (Jeff Sargent)
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Subject: Re: Sargent's theory of neurosis
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Date: Tue, 27-Nov-84 04:09:37 EST
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>> = Jeff Sargent
>  = Ken Perlow (ihuxq!ken)

>> neurosis is a result of sin -- holding to false beliefs about
>> oneself and one's environment.

> "neurosis is a result of sin"--what an intriguing hypothesis.
> Don't stop there, Jeff.  Surely other diseases are caused by sin, too.
> Especially the really disgusting ones like cancer of the pancreas and
> the black death.  The so-called "germ theory" is an even more
> invidiously humanist plot than evolution.

Neurosis is a form of, or a result of, sin -- holding to false beliefs about
oneself and/or one's environment -- believing lies, lying to oneself.  Lying
is a sin, even if one lies to oneself.

I said nothing about physical diseases in my previous posting; thus the rest
of the paragraph seems inappropriate sarcasm.  However, now that the issue
has been raised, I could mention that certain physical diseases are indeed
caused, or at least fostered, by practices which I strongly suspect of being
symptoms of underlying neurosis (itself a symptom of underlying sin); but I
won't swear that they are because I have no experience with them.  The obvious
example is that alcoholism contributes to cirrhosis of the liver.

-- 
-- Jeff Sargent
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