DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy) and Faith

In study of “Dialectical Behavioral Therapy,” I find that DBT is relevant to faithfulness.  DBT understands that our mind is a product of reason and emotions.  Where reason and emotions overlap, there is wisdom to be found.

Faith that comes from the gut, loving-kindness, causes our hearts to ache for those without faith, as victory comes to those with faith.

Faith may also be rational, connecting to the Mind.  Faith helps explain why some live blessed and why some don’t.  Undersized, malnourished children, with bellies full of worms, AIDS, and malaria; such persons are charged with having to respect their ancestors, even though their ancestors are to blame.  Torah explains this horror.

Yet, my reality is such that when I experience something good, I give thanks.  I thank Gd for not making me like the other man.  Time, reason, tells me my reality will unfold according to Hashem’s blessings, because as though I am puffed up, the righteous will live by my kind of faith (Habakkuk 2:4), both Jew and gentile.

I believe in the Exodus while science currently does not.

What if something came to light that said that in fact that the Exodus is true? Wouldn’t you feel terrible for having missed out on the Hashem’s truth? Perhaps, science is making a mistake with the dating methods, as we know them. Reason mandates that we can’t really know from dating things for a few years, that things have held stable over millions of years. Sure that is what scientists think now, but the final chapter in science is yet to be written. We have only been using carbon dating for about 60 years! To base our entire cosmogony of millions and billions of years of formation on 60yrs worth of data, as many scientists tell us to do is too audacious. Who knows? maybe given another hundred years of carbon dating on earth, we may have to come up with some sort of correctional constant, and what is to say that 200yrs from now we won’t come up with yet another correction, and so on.  Perhaps, we should give this radioactive dating thing a million years or more of testing before we bet that the Torah is a lie.

A More Appropriate Grading System than GPA

A More Appropriate Grading System than GPA

We all know what GPA is, or grade point average. However, what I suggest is that a more meaningful, but also more complex grading system could be used. GPA is like an overall score, but what about those classes that are perhaps more logic and reasoning centered verses those which are verbally centered. That is, I suggest that the current system is possibly overlooking some people at college. Most classes tend to be either logic/reasoning centered or verbally centered, but very few are in between. This is virtually absurd. What of the person that neither excels at verbal nor logic/reasoning, but can do well enough at both to get by. These are the people that are truly creative, the ones that can create in the areas of logic and reason for instance. Traditionally, we have said, one is either right brain dominant or left brain dominant, and we give them a major and an overall GPA score, but what if we scored GPA in tiers, separating the logic and reasoning class scores from the verbal scores in two (or more) different GPAs, and letting employers know the scores on both, such that they could possibly identify a different type of job candidate, the multidimensional applicant.

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