Recent content by intelfam

Sorry "IMO"

I have to concur. I went from christian and scientist to atheist and scientist; then agnostic and scientist. Then I retrained in social sciences and went from agnostic to buddhist and now a sort of sceptical panentheism. I can't seem to connect with a personal caring deity. Nevertheless, my...

I found that interesting, thank you. I have, as I said, a number of references re mindfulness, and am starting to look at compassionate meditation re mental health (my field). There are a number of styles of prayer in christianity, other than the "help me dad" variety, so your quotes have relevance.

I think you missed the point. But never mind, outside of our past conversation, you are correct, although we could debate the meaning of belief as over against faith. But I feel that we should then have to start another thread :eek:

I suppose that the response to jduster should be "Believing in God relieves depression because, as he exists, he intervenes in people's lives to help them". But I can't find a reference for that either Dalespam! I do have loads of references for mindfulness EntropicLove!. Now, if mindfulness...

Have you seen this online language course website? http://www.livemocha.com/learn/view" I floundered, but some have praised it.

This article seems to repeat a finding of a few investigations. The issue of course, is not whether there really is a caring God, just that someone has a belief in such a deity. In depression, hope is a significant factor in getting well anyway. If one has a belief that someone cares this may...

Things didn't stick for me but I underestimated the power of textbooks, and I mean the plural. I read the textbook and then, if it doesn't stick, I go and read it in another, and so on. I was amazed at how this helped me.