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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. ..

Extinction is the decrease in strength of a learned behavior when the conditioned stimulus is presented without the unconditioned stimulus (in Pavlovian learning). When the behavior is no longer reinforced the proclivity to it is diminished.

Operant Extinction refers to the gradual decrease in the response rate of a behavior learned via reinforcement.

Conformity is the process whereby people change their beliefs, attitudes, actions, or perceptions 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.

Types of conformity: compliance, identification, and internalization

identification: A feeling of support, sympathy, understanding, or belonging towards somebody or something. compliance: the tendency of conforming with or agreeing to the wishes of others

The need for approval is the need to garner that sense of physical and emotional security.

Try To Understand Why You're Seeking or conform to obtain Approval or avoid disapproval.

Do you know what you believe?

What are your essential and fundamental values?

Do you know who you are?

Justification

When justification of behavior is desired, relationships may require conformity. that need for justification simply prompts people to conform to what ever behaviour is in need of justification.

Passive justification of bad behavior in others leads toward conformity to personal bad behavior which creates cognitive dissonance that will require some form of self justification.

Self-justification describes how, when a person encounters cognitive dissonance, or a situation in which a person's behavior is inconsistent with their beliefs (hypocrisy), that person tends to justify the behavior and deny any negative feedback associated with the behavior.

Denial that filters the view of the feed back from reality is denial of the truth.

Denial of the truth is denial of the light of consciousness which will lead to a dark place.

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).

2 Thessalonians 2

"Now we beseech you, brethren, by the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and [by] our gathering together unto him, 2 That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand."

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This warning in 2 Thessalonians chapter 2 of being deceived or troubled in the mind is about a conflict while waiting for the day of Christ, the anointing of our hearts and minds as priest faith and not fear, is at hand for all of us who continue in the way and gather together as Jesus commanded.

Understanding the Christian conflict with Rome and its government supported Temples, the teachings of God concerning the error in the thinking and practices of the Nicolaitan and Balaam can help us grasp the difference between Pure Religion and public religion which like the Corban of the Pharisees makes the word of God to none effect.

Understanding also the "mystery of iniquity" in verse 6 of who the workers of iniquity are, what the wages of unrighteousness consists of, and the difference between the mammon of righteousness and unrighteousness which includes the praying to the fathers of the earth for our daily bread and our Father in Heaven may challenge our delusions the wantonness and deceivableness of the systems of the world that operate by way of force, fear and fealty and the Kingdom of God that operates by faith, hope and charity through the perfect law of liberty.

Can we refuse to see these differences and the conflict with the covetous practices of modern Christians and the love and charity of the early Christians? If we follow the Modern Church rather than The Way of Christ and the early Church shall we not be made blind?

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3 Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; 4 Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. 5 Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? 6 And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. 7 For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth [will let], until he be taken out of the way. 8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: 9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

14 Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.

16 Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace, 17 Comfort your hearts, and stablish you in every good word and work.