Template:Extinction
The extinction of righteousness
In psychology, extinction refers to the gradual weakening of a conditioned response that results in the behavior, good or bad, decreasing or disappearing to the point of destruction.
Extinction is the decrease in strength of a learned or required primal behavior when the behavior is no longer reinforced and the proclivity to it is diminished creating an imbalance that undermines fundamental functions required for continuation.
Operant Extinction refers to the gradual decrease in the response rate of an elemental and fundamental behavior learned via reinforcement. This can be the result of conformity to an alternative form of behavior with a different reinforcement.
Conformity is the process whereby people change their beliefs, attitudes, actions, or perceptions, ergo practices, to more closely match those held by groups or individuals to which they belong or want to have a relation with or whose approval they desire.
There are numerous types of conformity with in human society which may include compliance, identification, and internalization.
- Compliance: the tendency of conforming with or agreeing to the wishes of others.
- Identification: A feeling of support, sympathy, understanding, or belonging towards somebody or something.
- Internalization: Unconscious mental process where characteristics, beliefs, feelings and attitudes of other people are assimilated into your own self.
The need for approval is the need to garner that sense of physical and emotional security through an acceptable feedback satisfying the need for an agora instinct which integrates the mind of one with the mind of the group in a collective consciousness.
Do you know what you believe?
What are your essential and fundamental values?
Do you know who you are without external justification?
Personalities at war
There are said to be 5 Big Personality Traits that are often seemingly at war with each other when the war is really internal within each trait.
- Conscientiousness – impulsive, disorganized vs. disciplined, careful
- Agreeableness – suspicious, uncooperative vs. trusting, helpful
- Neuroticism – calm, confident vs. anxious, pessimistic
- Openness to Experience – prefers routine, practical vs. imaginative, spontaneous
- Extraversion – reserved, thoughtful vs. sociable, fun-loving
The only real conflict is found in the paradox that we may see between light and darkness, cold and heat, or good and evil. The existing positive attributes are represented by those basic personality traits with their only real opposition being found, not in an opposing force or power but in the denial of their absence.
Existential threat
Existential threat or crises refers to anything that threatens the existence of something or someone or their soul, their "right to think" from free travel to free speech. It is often used in a philosophical context related to existentialism, "a philosophy centered on the individual, personal choice, and the meaning of life as self-determined."
The right of self-determination is even mentioned in the United Nation's Charter in Art 1 (2).[1]
Without the individuals accepted right to self determination there is will be an existential threat to all liberty.
The greatest existential threat to your life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness comes from when you put you right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness before the rights of your neighbor. This is often done through personal, political, and public policies that could be said to be covetous practices.
Justification
When justification of behavior is desired, relationships may require conformity. That vain need for justification simply prompts people to conform to what ever behavior is in need of justification. When the need to justify the absence of a positive personality trait arises mutually within a society the MOB[2] is born.
Passive justification of bad behavior in others leads the individual toward conformity to personal bad behavior which creates cognitive dissonance that will require some form of self justification, often at the expense of the truth.
Self-justification describes how, when a person encounters cognitive dissonance, or a situation in which a person's behavior is inconsistent with their beliefs (a.k.a. hypocrisy), that person tends to justify the behavior and deny any negative feedback associated with the behavior.
When the denial inters in to practices and behavior that censors or even oppresses another the perpetrators will be drawn into a mind set of self destruction by proxy.[3] Denial that filters the view of the feedback from reality is denial of the truth which is self blinding behavior.[4]
Denial of the truth is denial of the light of consciousness which will lead to a dark place [5] tempting men to exercise authority over other men with the power they are given.[6]
Targeting
Maladaptive behaviors inhibit your ability to adjust healthily to particular situations. In essence, they prevent you from adapting or coping well with the demands and stresses of life.
Maladaptive behaviors are dysfunctional and non-productive behaviours.
Adaptive behavior is behavior that enables a person to cope in their environment with greatest success and least conflict with others or themselves.
Adaptive behavior may relate to everyday skills or tasks, addictions, destructive or negative behavior, but also to the most fundamental virtuous social bonds of society.
A maladaptive behavior is a type of behavior that is often used to reduce one's anxiety, but the result is dysfunctional and non-productive, even counter productive or harmful.
The behaviors have a self-destructive nature to them. Because there is a singularity element to society all appearances of self-destruction will encompass destruction of others even to the point of extinction.
Maladaptive and adaptive behaviors of individuals who compose society are outlined in the Ten Commandments.
The more society abandons or denies those behavior outline the closer they move toward social extinction.
"Extinction bursts" refer to the expected and temporary escalations in the frequency, duration, and/or intensity of the maladaptive “target” behavior (i.e., tantrums).
- ↑ UN Charter Preamble
WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS DETERMINED to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,..."
Article 1 "The Purposes of the United Nations are:"
Sectiion 2. "To develop friendly relations among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen universal peace;"- See also Article 39, "The Security Council shall determine the existence of any threat to the peace..." see, Persecution Christian conflict, Falun Gong, censorship, Cain, Destruction...
- International Bill of Human Rights
- The Right of Self-determination
- ↑ Mindless Observable Behavior
- ↑ Judge not
- Matthew 7:1 "Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again."
- Luke 6:37 "Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: [forgive], and ye shall be forgiven:"
- John 7:24 "Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
- Isaiah 1:23 "Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them." See Pure Religion.
- John 12:47 "And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge(2919) him not: for I came not to judge(2919) the world, but to save the world. 48 He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day."
- ↑ False prophets and Guru theories
- Isaiah 42:16 "And I will bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them. 17 They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye [are] our gods. 18 Hear, ye deaf; and look, ye blind, that ye may see."
- Isaiah 30:20 "And [though] the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not thy teachers be removed into a corner any more, but thine eyes shall see thy teachers: 21 And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This [is] the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. 22 Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence. 23 Then shall he give the rain of thy seed,..."
- Matthew 13:13 "Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand."
- Matthew 15:14 "Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch."
- Luke 4:18 The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recoveing of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
- John 9:39 ¶ "And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind."
- Luke 6:39 "And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch? 40 The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master."
- Acts 13:11 "And now, behold, the hand of the Lord [is] upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness; and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand."
- ↑ Eyes darkened
- Psalms 69:22 "Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake."
- Psalms 107:10 "Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, [being] bound in affliction and iron;"
- Isaiah 9:2 "The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined."
- Isaiah 42:7 "To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, [and] them that sit in darkness out of the prison house."
- Isaiah 42:16 "And I will bring the blind by a way [that] they knew not; I will lead them in paths [that] they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them."
- Isaiah 49:6 "And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth."
- Ecclesiastes 2:14 "The wise man’s eyes [are] in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all."
- Micah 7:8 "Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, the LORD [shall be] a light unto me."
- Matthew 4:16 “The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.”
- Luke 1:79 "To give light to them that sit in darkness and [in] the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace."
- John 1:9 [That] was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
- Romans 11:10 "Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway"
- 2 Corinthians 6:14 "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?”
- Job 34:22 "There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves."
- Matthew 6:23 “But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!”
- 1 John 2:10 "He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. 11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes."
- John 3:19 "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." See Born again.
- ↑ Power corrupts
- "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely." Lord John Dalberg-Acton
- "Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority." again Lord Acton
- "Power corrupts, and there is nothing more corrupting than power exercised in secret." - Daniel Schorr
- "Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it." - Frank Herbert
- "Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality." - Alexis de Tocqueville
- “One Ring to rule them all,
- One Ring to find them,
- One Ring to bring them all
- and in the darkness bind them.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
- We are warned not exercise authority, nor covet that which belongs to our neighbor, nor eat at the tables of rulers but let every soul remain subject to the perfect law of liberty and beware of the Leaven of the Herod who succumbed to the way of Cain, and the orthodox pharisees who united as hypocrites in the formation of public religion of the world leading the masses to destruction.