Dancing Bears
October 20, 2005
From my on-going, testy exchange with Dr. Warren Throckmorton, Post-Modern Psychologist of the Ex-Gay Movement:
Here's a quickie experiment, Warren, for your post-modern, "If I believe it to be so it must be true" therapeutic style/personal world view.*It only gets better after that.1) Orient yourself towards the nearest load-bearing wall; brick, concrete, steel, doesn't really matter, just something tough and strong.When you firmly believe this to be true...2) Step back several feet from that wall.
3) Bend at the waist, perpendicular with the floor and your face now leading your body.
4) Close your eyes.
5) Repeat over and over again the following: "The '...essentialist conceptual framework...' that walls are solid is no '...more valid than the one that says...' walls are '...malleable...' because of my thoughts. Therefore, the wall in front of me isn't real; I will pass through it without a scratch. '...I echo Beck regarding Ellis and state dogmatically this is true.'
6) Run full bore into the wall.Let me know how it goes.
*Dr. Throckmorton maintains that if people say they've changed their sexual orientation from straight to gay they should be believed at face value, because, in his experience, such things really do change if you say that have.
Posted by Jody at October 20, 2005 09:56 AM
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