The Life Foundations Nexus
BAD PSYCHIATRY
Dead-End Certainty
A growing number of psychiatrists are now promoting a new theory called the “Dead-End Certainty Theory.” This theory states that the foundation of truth is certainty rather than intelligence. STOP! THIS IS CRITICAL! YOU NEED TO GET THIS! We are talking about three things:
What do we mean by “the
foundation of truth”? The foundation of
truth is whatever you count on to prove to you that something is true. For, example, most people believe that if
they see a thing happen, it is true that it happened. For them, seeing a thing is a
foundation of truth. Most people
believe that, if they can physically touch a thing, that thing physically
exists. For them, the sensation of
touch is a foundation of truth.
Well, the proponents of
“dead-end certainty” want you to believe something very strange. They want you to believe that your mind is a
box that nothing can get into. They
would have you believe, therefore, that the only way you can know anything for
sure is if there is something conscious in your mind to accomplish this. This something is what they call dead-end
certainty. Now, we all know that
there is such a thing as certainty but that is not what these “brilliant”
psychiatrists are talking about. What
they are saying is that certainty is the final authority for the
knowledge of what is true!
What is certainty and what is
intelligence? Certainty is a state of
mind. Intelligence is a condition of
mind. A state is transient, passing,
temporary. A condition is
permanent. Certainty is temporary. Intelligence is permanent. Certainty tells you that you know something
is true. Intelligence FORCES you to
build on what is true and PREVENTS you from building on what is false. In terms of experience, certainty is on the
same order as feeling.
Intelligence can best be thought of as a kind of machinery of the
mind. Certainty does nothing. Intelligence does more things than you can
count. It is intelligence that keeps
you on the road of truth, not certainty!!!
Now, some of you might have a
hard time seeing the importance of all of this; so, an illustration is in
order:
John Bauer
was a bus driver. He started reading
about a new theory called the “Dead-End Certainty Theory.” He became convinced that all he had to do
was to rely on certainty to guide him in life and that he could ignore his
intelligence. One day, a mugger got on
his bus, shoved a gun in his face, and demanded that the bus driver take him
somewhere off the regular bus route.
The bus driver, having certainty that the mugger would back down, was
convinced that he had nothing to be afraid of and refused to comply.
The mugger
shot the bus driver.
Witnesses
on the bus say…that as the bus driver lie dying he spoke these words: “if only I had followed my God-given intelligence.”