Inventing Absolutistic gODDs

Post date: Jan 04, 2021 11:33:57 PM

They invent absolutistic gODDs, and thereby pretend that there is some final, invariant answer to human problems... Patently, these people are fooling themselves-and instead of healthfully admitting that they do not need certainty, but can live comfortably in this often disorderly world, they stubbornly protect their neurotic beliefs by insisting that there must be the kind of certainty that they wrongly believe they need... This is like a young boy's believing that he must have a kindly father in order to survive; and then, when his father is unkind, or perhaps has died, the boy dreams up a father (who may be a neighbor, a movie star, or a pure figment of his imagination) and insists that this dream father actually exists...