Psychological Illnesses and the Problem of Evil

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How can a good God allow certain mental illnesses in creation? Are psychological illnesses a special case of the problem of evil? Big questions like these have been popping up in the comment boxes of our Aquinas 101 videos since the start of our very first season. In this video series with Fr. Ambrose Little, O.P., we will attempt to provide some answers.
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@Samnestro Жыл бұрын

Let the man have his milkshake, he's earned it.

@LuisaGarcia_nyc Жыл бұрын

Certainly not your everyday milkshake!

@KindMercenary Жыл бұрын

@Dana Bean this video is not the divine liturgy so I don't see how that matters

@user-ug2hk3go6i Жыл бұрын

@@dbean444 Presumably the marriage in Canna.

@CATboss001 Жыл бұрын

I certainly will that good for him.

@sethapex9670 Жыл бұрын

Psychopaths can indeed learn to show love to other people even if they do not feel it inside themselves. David Wood is one living example, who, having attempted to murder his own father in his youth and spent years in prison, came to Christ and is a devoted husband and father.

@MBarberfan4life Жыл бұрын

Love is more than a feeling or sensation, especially in the case of God. While love can be related to empathy, it can come apart. There are many times when I'm not feeling particularly empathetic towards a person, but I can still love the person.

@sethapex9670 Жыл бұрын

@@MBarberfan4life yep, I know this as well as anyone

@outoforbit- Жыл бұрын

Extreme childhood traumas can cause personality disorders, take for example the person diagnosed as a "vulnerable narisist". Young and vulnerable and repeatedly experiencing abuse he at some point adopts the survival strategy of just looking out for himself. Under these conditions as a young child he has neither the strength, energy or resources to think or care for another, well most of the time. It's takes alot of effort for an adult survivor of child abuse to get his act together and proceed in a normal way with his life. Often learning how to go about things in the right way is helpful. I learned as a young mental health worker that praying for your clients and sincerely engaging with them is the best thing we can do. Also we learn from them too.

@sethapex9670 Жыл бұрын

@@outoforbit- I don't think that's what is happening in the case of David Wood. He simply doesn't have any inherent feelings of empathy. In order to show love to his family he has to intellectualize those feelings and act as if he felt them.

@tomgjokaj Жыл бұрын

@@sethapex9670 i absolutely love David Wood i'm not Protestant I am Catholic but I love David's passion for the Bible and for Christ

@Harlow65965 Жыл бұрын

I have a feeling the “iced coffee sipping” was not quite as random as it was to appear 🤷🏼‍♀️

@johnbrion4565 Жыл бұрын

Willing the good of the other as other. This is the definition of love that completely changed my life and brought me back to God.

@angelacartland3867 Жыл бұрын

The mental illnesses mentioned are all personality disorders, which have a much more characterological dimension to them as compared with mental illnesses such as anxiety disorders, major depression, and schizophrenia. In fact, personality disorders (including others like histrionic PD and borderline PD) used to be classified as Axis 2 disorders in the DSM, to put them in a class of their own. They come about when a person develops a number of early maladaptive schemas, e.g. Mistrust & Abuse; Entitlement; Punitiveness; Unrelenting Standards; Defectiveness; Emotional Deprivation; and several more (18 in total). Depending on which ones and how many are held, will determine the kind of personality disorder and its severity. Maladaptive schemas are highly persistent bundles of beliefs, memories, emotions, prediction and attitudes that act to filter out information that does not conform to them. Thus, people with personality disorders tend to be rigid and do not spontaneously get better. They can be treated, but many choose not to because they think they are fine, it is the world and other people who are wrong. If anyone is interested, psychologist and trainer Jeff Riggenbach, a Protestant Christian, has written a book called The Personality Disorder Toolbox. He describes psychological therapies that can gradually change the schemas and thus attitudes and behaviour. He draws only on psychological therapies only (mostly CBT) but I as a Catholic counsellor and student of Aquinas 101 am sure that there are many aspects of St Thomas's philosophy that could help people with PDs to change. Fr Little's comments on encouraging those lacking in compassion to behave in loving ways is a great start. Other aspects of virtue ethics may hold promise as well, plus a lot could be said about the benefits of a realist phosophical approach to undercut the over-learned solipsistic beliefs and coping strategies of people with PDs. Great answer to a great question.

@spaceforgrace3312 Жыл бұрын

Thankyou for this. I agree that PDs are not mental illness. Sometimes it is just the way people are and their attitudes/reponses can be modified, but not changed.

@outoforbit- Жыл бұрын

I totally agree with you regarding the background of people with personality disorders. I think though that the vulnerable narcissist is treatable, finding God can really change them. As a mental health worker I have seen this. Generations of certain maladaptions can cause personality disorders. It is well known in Scotland's mental health services that a large proportion of people with personality disorders have a family with a recent or even long line of free masonary.

@angelacartland3867 Жыл бұрын

@@outoforbit- That's interesting. Suggests spiritual warfare, no doubt. As for treatment, yes Narcissists vary in how treatable they are. I worked with one very long term and she did become quite a bit less shallow. Borderline PD is very treatable, but it was originally given that name because it was seen as sort of between personality disorders and neurosis.

@outoforbit- Жыл бұрын

@@angelacartland3867 thank you for the response, I set up a project within a larger mental health organisation helping people into work. I'm not a qualified therapist. You frame the topic in a very understandable way that helps me anchor my perceptions somewhat.

@spaceforgrace3312 Жыл бұрын

@@outoforbit- really? This just sounds coincidental. Like saying they all supported the same football team. I despair.

@TheBlackopsDS Жыл бұрын

These issues also bring up very valid questions about nature versus nurture. From my own experience (NB: I have not been formally diagnosed with any psychological illnesses), I tend to rely more on the Thomistic definition of love, but can't shake the feeling that I'm only acting out of a sense of quid pro quo or to "feel normal" and wonder where that feeling of affection is inside of me. Please pray for me, that God may take my heart of stone and put a heart within me, like in Ezekiel

@leejennifercorlewayres9193 Жыл бұрын

The enemy is modifying humans so it's not entirely organic that some people don't feel compassion. However, one who tends to stay in their "thinking" brain and acts from there is not acting by instinct or emotions so those feelings might not come up from my personal experience having once been extremely emotional to now one who tries to act from thinking. Just something to think about.

@Men_In_Jesus Жыл бұрын

God bless you. My prayers are with you.

@SaintBirdie 3 ай бұрын

Thank you Father

@mikesarno7973 Жыл бұрын

The Milkshake of Evil makes another appearance.

@RocknRoRose Жыл бұрын

I'm so happy my emotions and psychological tensions are balanced. I have gone to psychology since being a cancer survivor in 2011. And things started to happen in 2013 and 2014 I almost left Catholicism again a few other times but I choose to stay. And have so much blessings in the Catholic Church through Anglican and Evangelical and other Christian Faiths and through the Faiths of all God's people helps make Faith Stronger. Seeing all people of different Faiths becoming Catholic.

@andreamariterickson5885 Жыл бұрын

Congrats on being a cancer survivor! I have had cancer 2x: brain cancer when I was 10 & breast cancer when I wasw 43. And I, too, turned to psychology. My diagnosis is bipolar due to brain injury. The dsm says I am now mood disorder not otherwise specified. Go figure- I'm an "other" again! God Bless us all!

@tomgjokaj Жыл бұрын

Thank you, thank you from the bottom of my heart for the great work your channel does 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

@ThomisticInstitute Жыл бұрын

It's our joy! Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment. May the Lord bless you!

@iqgustavo 10 ай бұрын

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:07 🤔 The episode addresses the question of how certain mental illnesses fit into creation and the problem of evil. 01:34 💡 Psychological illnesses, like physical evils, may have neurophysiological causes and are not a special case of the problem of evil. 03:22 🧠 St. Thomas' perspective on the mind distinguishes between physical and immaterial aspects, and mental illness can affect specific mental activities. 05:19 ❤️ Love, as defined by St. Thomas, is willing the good of another; individuals with psychological illnesses can learn to practice love by willing good even without the feeling. 06:25 🙏 There is hope for those with psychological illnesses through trust in God and treatments that promote positive reinforcement and virtue development. Made with HARPA AI

@colleenfrance Жыл бұрын

Fascinating! Thank you! Beautiful to understand more of the wills power in loving…like fake until make it…God is so merciful!

@Mary-ui4im Жыл бұрын

Very enjoyable and informative. Thank you Father. 🙏 🕊️

@ThomisticInstitute Жыл бұрын

We're so glad to hear it! Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment. May the Lord bless you!

@therese_paula Жыл бұрын

Awesome, Fr. Ambrose, as always 🙂 God bless you!

@ThomisticInstitute Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your kind words, and for taking the time to watch and comment! May the Lord bless you!

@ContriteCatholic Жыл бұрын

You have a beautiful soul, Father. Thank you for sharing.

@ThomisticInstitute 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for your kind words, and for taking the time to watch and comment. May the Lord bless you!

@jdludwig7830 Жыл бұрын

wonderful explanation of a big question. Bless you and thanks

@ThomisticInstitute Жыл бұрын

It's our joy! Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment. May the Lord bless you!

@tommypain Жыл бұрын

Father, I really don’t get the intentional intermittent sipping of the drink throughout the video.

@wilhufftarkin8543 Жыл бұрын

It's a running gag that started in an older video

@tommypain Жыл бұрын

@@wilhufftarkin8543 I guess I must've missed seeing it before. Thanks for letting me know.

@TheAngelicDoctor Жыл бұрын

Keeping drinking Father! Don’t let haters get you down! 😂

@charlesstepp2083 Жыл бұрын

A gunslinger holstering his gat 😊

@davekargol Жыл бұрын

I love it! A priest in traditional vestments drinking an iced latte seems like an anachronism to a lot of people. Not sure if this was the intention, but I think this is a great way of visually illustrating that these ideas are every bit as relevant to the modern world as they were in the traditional past.

@westvespers Жыл бұрын

Nice. Only thing I’d have added is a sentence or two on how emotions do seem to be integral to our moral development in certain ways, despite their reputation of being strictly confounding in that process (though they often are confounding of course), and although in principle someone without emotional affect can love by its strict definition, it will likely in reality be especially difficult for them to get there.

@westvespers Жыл бұрын

Although angels perhaps don't have emotional affect as we do and are still able to love, they also did not Learn to love via temporal process; they were created with their faculties fully developed (presumably?). It is difficult to articulate what I mean here, but I do seriously suspect the neuronal emotionality we experience is a very, very important part of our pursuit of virtue as creatures comprised of both body and soul, even though this emotionality can often be problematic and mislead us in a lot of ways

@anthonyw2931 Жыл бұрын

@@westvespers you bring up a good point. I think it is encompassed in the physical element of the mind, but your statement does elaborate it. But on the other hand, it is assumed that psychopaths lack emotion. But it's one thing to be apathetic, but it's another to enjoy doing evil (separating sin on this point). If there was a lack of emotion, I feel psychopaths would be the most rational/logical and would be categorized along with asberger's/autism.

@Chris-yr8wb Жыл бұрын

Excellent video, keep up the great work! God bless.

@ThomisticInstitute Жыл бұрын

We're so glad to hear it! Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment. May the Lord bless you!

@andersonmeneses3599 Жыл бұрын

Thank you! God bless!

@ThomisticInstitute Жыл бұрын

Our pleasure! Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment. May the Lord bless you!

@chissstardestroyer Жыл бұрын

Frankly, given the amount of things that have to work in tandem very precisely in a human being, it is really at least a minor miracle that we escape having literally *every single thing* go catastrophically wrong with us *at the same time*; as Dr. Peterson has voiced at one moment.

@marthacassell7523 Жыл бұрын

Very good/ helpful. Thank you, father. Stay in the boat and keep on loving, with our Will, graced by the Sacraments. God IS good, at all times and gave Himself up completely that we may endure and overcome, in Him, the incomprehensible devastation of the Fall, as expressed in mental disorders, etc., born of myriad causes, some known, some not so well… yet. Somatic healing is providing new hope for me these days, but regardless, in the end, we were all created to learn how to love and be loved and our God will not fail to achieve His perfect love, in all who a) desire it and b) trust and rely upon Him in all circumstances. Remember: “ In the twinkling of an eye, we shall be changed!” for all eternity. ❤️🙏🏽✨

@roisinpatriciagaffney4087 11 ай бұрын

Thank you, Father Little. Pax Christi.

@ThomisticInstitute 11 ай бұрын

You're welcome! Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment. May the Lord bless you!

@slevinchannel7589 10 ай бұрын

@@ThomisticInstitute Fiy, not being able to (romantically) love is also part of lgbt as it is a 'naturally-occuring thing completly unlike Narcisism and just happens'

@fennycruz6714 Жыл бұрын

Thank you fr little.

@ThomisticInstitute 11 ай бұрын

You're welcome! Thanks for taking the time to watch and comment. May the Lord bless you!

@DeafForever666 Жыл бұрын

I have BiPolar 1 disorder and Schizotypal. I’m fine most of the time and try my best to be a good Catholic but the manic episodes always result in mortal sin that I have little to no control over.

@blinkin_park182 Жыл бұрын

I don’t wanna sound like a broken record, but you might find some consolation and help if you explain what you just commented to a priest. I’m mentally ill too so I’m not trying to talk down to you or anything. Will pray for you 🙏

@Turtletanks Жыл бұрын

Know that the church recognizes mental illnesses as a mitigating factor. Not that that is an excuse for mortal sins, but if you are lacking full agency God knows this and you will I be judged justly.

@chissstardestroyer Жыл бұрын

We do not *feel* compassion or emotional love at all, for anyone, not even ourselves; but we do not only act out of self-satisfaction... that detail must be made clear. I know this because *I myself* deal on a daily basis with this, and it develops, you do not start your life with it, it develops over time... but when you calculate that love is not an emotion at all, but an election of the will; that changes things totally- it is a conscious choice of who/what to vote for, and something you know you cannot revoke ever once sent.

@user-fm9bs2fd1n 2 ай бұрын

God bless you

@debifambro1039 Жыл бұрын

Those are big answers ❤

@byron8657 Жыл бұрын

I like how St Thomas Aquainas define Love it is willing the Good of another even without feeling it! K

@GetNui Жыл бұрын

Loveeee❤️

@jnm4462 Жыл бұрын

Great video! A further question. It’s a two-piece question. 1. How can we reconcile the intellect being part of the soul with neurodevelopmental disorders or prefrontal cortex lesions that highly impair higher functioning and intelligence? 2. In such cases, how can repentance occur and thus how can the person pursue God? I’m more so curious about the developmental disorder group as these people are impaired since early on. God bless

@madelinedavis6570 Жыл бұрын

Nice sucinct treatment of this question. Where exactly does St. Thomas' love definition:"Willing the good for another" come from? (He can't be using it absolutely, thought can he, or how would we frame it when speaking of love for God, Who already possesses all the fullness of goodness in Himself?

@lucashardy4481 Жыл бұрын

God loved us before we loved him, so the way we love god is different from the way we love other people, Jesus says in John 14, "Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself to them.” When we love god, we respond to his love by obeying him and seeking the divine nature. Hope this helps.

@lboh5260 Жыл бұрын

#AskAFriar as a layman, what proper ways are there to ask your pastor to "up his game" when it comes theology or reverence or anything that may make him believe we think he is lazy or incompetent? I believe many seem caught in the I can't say anything because he is our shepherd who we have great respect for and end up staying silent. Thanks and God bless.

@therese_paula Жыл бұрын

I second this!

@wincentywiewiorczak4114 Жыл бұрын

My was caused by covid - depersonification and derealisation. I dont feel better human but lets wait for long term effects.

@WoyeurBoy Жыл бұрын

Evil for the sake of a greater good is an aesthetical nightmare. It’s a philosophical concession no more sophisticated than, “One day it will all make sense.” Sure. I hope so. While we wait, please make a video addressing the concerns of the Grand Inquisitor in relation to the question of (specific) evils.

@byron8657 Жыл бұрын

Love is a decision not an emotion! St Thomas Aquainas

@wishIwuzskiing Жыл бұрын

Could you expand on the aspect of the hope for people with these emotional challenges and disorders? I think of people in marriages who have found out, too late, that there are serious emotional problems. While God, in His infinite wisdom, may have a path of salvation for them, in the meantime there can be very serious long term emotional trauma for the family. Is there a moral obligation to live through this?

@michelpapineau8868 2 ай бұрын

Thank you Fr. Ambrose for making these videos! Here is my question #AskAFriar, while on Earth, humans are given varying levels of intelligence and capacities to be able to see, feel, understand and reason about the World. Given that it seems that St Thomas believed that intelligence was a faculty of the soul, after we die, will there also be varying levels of awareness or intelligence in Heaven? Does that mean that all souls were not created equal in their eternal intellectual capacity? Thank you once again.

@byron8657 Жыл бұрын

You nail it Fr Ambrose Little O.P Order of Preacher Thomasian Dominican Order! Your explanation is very simple helpful and understandable even by young and old people alike and you really know your subject matter well! Keep it up more of this kind illuminating videos of the power of the mind our will and intellect! I remember what Dr Albert Einstein has said once I qoute If you cannot explain the Physics about the Universe and about Energy E=mc square to a six yearold Child, you don’t really know your subject matter well! K

@TargetedPerson4815 Жыл бұрын

What's with the milkshake? Haven't been recommended a video in a while.

@YesheUSMC Жыл бұрын

I've been tested as a psychopath but Im altruistic because I know it is the right thing to do and I love my wife and kids but I lack empathy and feel hollow inside unable to have strong human connections. I do good things but I don't know if I'm doing them because I'm good or because I know it is the right thing to do and it's a facade to make me look good. I have always been this way, I'm hoping religion might be what I need to change. If I'm ill I want to get better not just for myself but for my family because they deserve better. Please help.

@nxbninjavoltageph 2 ай бұрын

I hope you can do something with how you make your presentations/videos as it looks so dry for young gen today. It is very noticeable that you just read your answers, why not try to put some added pictures or videos that would catch the attentions of the viewer, even added background music will do while you have your voice over. You can also include some text coming from your answers even references from the summas to make it more appealing and substantial. Try to check the youtube of the Breaking in the Habit, JesCom etc.

@donalfoley2412 Жыл бұрын

The sipping didn’t help for me. Quite the opposite. But I am a bit psycho. Still wonder why. Thank you still.

@nietzschesghost8529 Жыл бұрын

Even as an atheist I love these videos. While I (obviously) don't agree with most of Aquinas's ideas, there's no denying that there is a certain elegance to his system of philosophy, not to mention his capacity for philosophizing, that one cannot help but marvel at. However, what I found problematic in this presentation is the idea that God may consistently allow evil for some kind of greater good. And in fairness, one may retroactively look at the lives of certain saints to mine evidence of this. Nevertheless, it appears to turn humans into means to an end since their suffering is being justified for the sake of some greater good. This runs against some basic moral ideas and thus requires an answer of some kind. Thank you for the wonderful content! #AskAFriar

@PeterBrail-js7tu Жыл бұрын

#Askafriar What is a friar? How does a person become one? And what should be the motive?

@CandaceCassidy-hj2vy Жыл бұрын

Younger sister Constance Cassidy who is an estranged sibling. She is also suffering from psychological or emotional abuse. Because number one she denies it and won't accept the truth. So she end up lying about it and denies telling the truth. So she sacrifices real life or spiritual life alone. Because she wants the spirits to take care of the house.

@12JERICHO34 Жыл бұрын

The leitmotiv for all of us may be this: “But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgement: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.” Mathew:5:22 This chapter from my essay "The Children of Light and children of Descartes" speaks about the attempts to refashion the human nature at the begining of the 20th century, according to the ambition to establish new kind of authority with the flare of the 'science'. It came in the aftermath of several centuries long process of the inventing new philosophical claims, in the dried out beds of the ancient Christian faith and culture, and those who tried to enact them were Sigmund Freud, C.G. Jung , Adler and others. This chapter is my refutation of these, and of all psychoanalysis, together with Wilhelm Reich, who was Freud's pupil and Marxist, who coined the term 'the sexual revolution', which wrecked havoc in the Western world. The other chapter that seems to me as significant as this is "Do We Have Souls?" because we, who are Catholics, believe that we have the immortal souls, namely the immortal powers of the souls which are possible and active intellect, and will (which is the intellective appetite).With the apostasy this truth waned away into the oblivion and the scientific mindsets are left to deal with only a brain, which is really a thing that is animated by the intellect and is a speculative power, and can be that "that is destructible", which Aristotle stated in "De Anima" and St. Thomas Aquinas fully accepted. I hope you find it interesting. My greatest care is still whether this is truthful account, and I believe, somehow, that is. Blessed be God forever, and thanks be to God. zeljkobilandzic.wordpress.com/2022/10/27/the-hired-shepherds-and-brothers-and-sisters-keepers/ zeljkobilandzic.wordpress.com/2021/06/01/do-we-have-souls/ independent.academia.edu/ZeljkoBilandzic www.academia.edu/40450126/The_children_of_Light_and_the_children_of_Descartes_An_essay_by_Zeljko_Bilandzic ooperates

@elizabethfierro8104 Жыл бұрын

Can persistent sin ever become a personality disorder where they quite literally cannot see, desire, or understand another way to function? How responsible are they for what they do if they have become this way? Are they like a Dementia patient who refuses their medicine because they don't realize what they need?

@spaceforgrace3312 Жыл бұрын

Good question!

@Men_In_Jesus Жыл бұрын

Hi Elizabeth, Dementia patients don't act out in evil in your example and if they do the Church considers it as a mitigating factor... And as far as people becoming blind to sin, the Bible explains that they loved continuing in it And God rendered them blind (although they do have agency) Just that they are now hardened to it, stubbornly, and refuse to use that free will, which they still possess, to desist... God bless.

@elizabethfierro8104 Жыл бұрын

@@Men_In_Jesus Thank you for your response. I am just getting to these. It is very difficult to live with a person like this and I value comments and insights.

@madelinemcnicholas1939 Жыл бұрын

Can these mental illnesses contribute to or exacerbate a condition of hatred of God? How can you determine where the mental illness ends and evil is present and possibly primary in the condition? -I hope this makes sense.

@BikeVermont71 Жыл бұрын

David Wood( of the Acts17 channel, who deals with the Muslim question) is an example of someone pathologically unfeeling, but who lives a Christian life and is married with kids. He loves his family "voluntarily" not thanks to emotions.

@LeslieKlinger Жыл бұрын

In God there is always hope and if we Trust in Him..... I trust, I do...I am just so tired.

@ThomisticInstitute Жыл бұрын

Know of our prayers for you! May the Lord bless you!

@leejennifercorlewayres9193 Жыл бұрын

@serban6995 Жыл бұрын

I would like you to clarify some fragments of Holy Scripture that I find quite difficult and around which various myths have been created. These are: Genesis 6:4 and Numbers 13:32, 33. The term "Nephilim" also appears on the Internet. What is he referring to? I think a question would be: the Bible is a book of faith, so what is the significance of these characters and events for the Catholic faith itself? Thank you very much.

@maryhowsrd3381 Жыл бұрын

Should we tell others about mortal sin or just pray. They take revenge psychological warfare

@margaretahorzic3071 Жыл бұрын

Dođite u Međugorje ❤️

@denisemullarkey5117 Жыл бұрын

I have bipolar type 2 and take my meds

@chissstardestroyer Жыл бұрын

I can tell you, first-hand, how things like psychopathy/sociopathy and the like fit into a purpose for the individual; but to do so accurately, we've got to take a bit of a mental "time-trip" back a couple million years ago into the earliest days of the Old Stone Age for a proper image. Such a man who deals with what today we'd classify as "anti-social personality disorder" (the medical name for psychopathy/sociopathy) would actually *prefer* to isolate himself; his natural "vocation" would be as a perimeter guard as it were/military lifestyle for short; he's a natural extremist: can't not be. Generally he's going to isolate himself and act as something of a border-guard to the lands of his tribe; the reason: he, when he gains the training to master this, will naturally *prefer* to exclude himself from any occasions of violence against his immediate neighbors... as for the typical image of deceit so commonplace in that: think a cloaking device of sorts: if you are not detected: you need to *not* fight. Tis right and good to isolate himself therefore from any odds of doing harm to his neighbors. Other mechanisms available to him are to restrict who has any access to him, to only those who'd be able to fend him off if he loses it. This'd merely be a cross, a mixed-up task/assignment, not even slightly evil. Now sinful conduct on the other hand: that *is* evil in and of itself, and nothing else.

@slydrcooper Жыл бұрын

#AskaFriar From a natural law perspective, is it possible for insights and advances in the empirical sciences, especially in light of statistical data, to inform new conclusions about the primacy of intimacy or love in human sexuality (especially homosexuality)? Or is the “natural law canon” closed? My question is motivated by a desire to elevate the importance of human flourishing in sexual ethics, which mandatory celibacy for all homosexual persons seems to prevent, and monogamous unions seems to advance.

@wms72 Жыл бұрын

I sure hope the Church allows annulment of marriage for a Catholic who is deceived into marrying a psychopath with narcissistic personality disorder who presented himself as a devout Catholic, but changed and became abusive as soon as the vows were exchanged and we drove away from the wedding reception. When we went to marriage counseling, he lied continuously. I stayed for 33 progressively hellish years because of the Church teaching on the indissolubility of marriage.

@MA-qw6cb 4 ай бұрын

Is there a hope for schizophrenia ? How st. Thomas acquinas described insanity as a living death and that the mad can’t be happy since he is irrational … look it up ppl. How am I supposed to live? Isn’t suicide better than madness or severe mental illness? Someone answer me please😢

@TH-cz2uz Жыл бұрын

I’d love to know the answer to this. Please, been bugging me for years.I am an autism specialist. Autism can be defined as the inability to abstract. If the part of the mind which deals with intellect (abstraction) is non-corporeal why do people with autism have an inability to abstract?

@jacksungurl Жыл бұрын

Excess of Immune Cells Found in Brains of People with Autism An accumulation of T cells and astrocytes in postmortem brain tissue hints at possible autoimmune origins for many cases of autism. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/8162/

@aiantenor9080 Жыл бұрын

there he goes with the milkshake again, brace yourselves

@markbirmingham6011 Жыл бұрын

Comment for traction

@Mike-do8bc Жыл бұрын

Don't get the specialty drink. The point?

@Joe_Can Жыл бұрын

So my understanding of this video is that a psychopath can be trained to do good things; good meaning things defined as good by god, which are outlined in the bible. My first question would be what is good?

@kharismabaptiswan1754 Жыл бұрын

Good is anything that perfects our being or nature

@Joe_Can Жыл бұрын

@@kharismabaptiswan1754 I think I see where you're coming from. What are the criteria for qualifying as perfecting our being or nature?

@kharismabaptiswan1754 Жыл бұрын

@@Joe_Can Something qualified as perfecting our being or nature if it helps us to achieve our natural end (e.g. being healthy, prosper, happy) and ultimate end (beatific vision)

@poetmaggie1 Жыл бұрын

There is no secret that IMMORAL Behavior can unbalance our mental stability and lead us into even more IMMORAL Behavior.

@TheConorconor Жыл бұрын

The scariest individual I have ever known works for Ewtn. He has used his Narcissism in the Catholic world to try and gain fame. He abandoned his daughter and is estranged from his grandchildren. I know him, because I’m married to his daughter.

@AboveAnyOther Жыл бұрын

Good answer. The thing with the sippy-cup is kinda annoying.

@margaretahorzic3071 Жыл бұрын

Pozdrav iz Hrvatske. Lijepo vas je čuti. Osobno mislim da odjevanje svećeničke odjeće , samo po sebi "propovjeda". Bili bi puno autentičnije da imate kolar ili habit. Ovako, kao da želite dokazati da ste "običan" čovjek,a niste, vi ste svećenik i Djevica Marija vas posebno voli, imate posebno mjesto na Nebu. Zašto to relativizirati. Božji blagoslov ❤️

@theophilus749 Жыл бұрын

On a channel for which I have the highest respect, I think it unfortunate to have the speaker sucking what looks like a chocolate milkshake or even a slightly more serious iced coffee through a straw from a plastic cup. It is apt to look more than the trifle smart-arsed, especially in the context of the topic under consideration. On the issue itself, can we acknowledge the possibility of hope through sufficiently intelligent treatment for those who, because of mental illness, seem incapable of ever being able to love? Maybe, but one can hardly deny that this seems highly unlikely in so many tragic cases. Even if it not really a special case of the problem of evil, it certainly looks like one. If God's allowing such tragedy is justified then I can only say that the justification is quite beyond my ken, and I am not sure that I would like myself if it wasn't. What enables me to continue to believe in an all good God despite this tragic and unjustifiable awfulness is that one needs recourse to a conception of goodness of such magnitude, one that can only be what we call 'God', for it to matter much in the first place. Without such transcendent goodness such tragedy would be little more than an unfortunate outcome of the mindless processes of evolution. Having made my complaint, I trust That the TI will keep up its excellent work in evangelising through the great work of St Thomas. I could only wish that my own Church of England were remotely capable of reaching such excellence of theological and philosophical communication. This is a much needed channel, and it certainly gives me hope.

@joepisacreta3822 Жыл бұрын

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. Levity is important, even in serious conversations.

@theophilus749 Жыл бұрын

@@joepisacreta3822 Indeed, Joe, and I don't want to come across as a party pooper. I simply judged that in this case the levity was somewhat misplaced. The same cool-looking 'nonesense' in an equally serious discussion of angels, for instance, wouldn't have bothered me at all. (Nor the angels, perhaps, though I don't think they are known for their sense of humour.) I suppose that I was aggravated too by the inadequacy of the answer given in this particular case, even acknowledging its necessary brevity. However, I certainly also acknowledge with joy the wisdom I see at play in these TI videos. It's a terrific resource.

@spaceforgrace3312 Жыл бұрын

A thoughtful response on a matter which has personally affected me a great deal. No one is wholly good, neither is anyone wholly bad. I feel a rethinking on the difference between classified mental illness (in which someone cannot be entirely said to be responsible for the actions, such as contemplating ot even attempting suicide) and a mental condition such as BPD or even NPD, in which others (not the sufferer themselves) are impacted by their behaviours, is now overdue. The problem of evil affects all of us, and is not exclusively reserved for those we may judge to be in some way amoral, even in their very nature. We are far, far more complex and flawed creatures to consider 'normal' v 'psychopathic behaviours as they only mirror to be held up here.

@wms72 Жыл бұрын

@@theophilus749 Not to be argumentative, but how can you stay in a Church founded by Henry Vlll?

@theophilus749 Жыл бұрын

@@wms72 Henry VIII? A fine, fat fellow who took nonsense from neither pope nor Luther.

@SyedMuhammadMoaz3634 3 ай бұрын

Yea why he allowed suffering??

@andrewferg8737 3 ай бұрын

Seems to me that permitted evil for the sake of a "greater good" is misleading without a strong and clear caveat; namely a good that might be greater than would have pertained in a contingent sinful situation. Without this caveat we expose ourselves to the error of assuming a "necessary evil". God lacks no virtue from all eternity and requires no evil to achieve His greatest of all possible goods. "And not rather, as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say, Let us do evil, that good may come? whose damnation is just" (Romans 3)

@jamesof7seven Жыл бұрын

What if you're not smart enough to get any of this?

@chissstardestroyer Жыл бұрын

The intellect is the left hemisphere of the brain, the imagination is the right hemisphere; simple as that... and *neither* of them are immaterial, nor is the memory, nor is the will- but each is strictly a part of the makeup of the brain; and rooted in Intelligent Design, not "creation" but Intelligent Design; which is the only theory that makes any sense at all. We must do away completely with the classical "christian" understanding of the soul, as that understanding is devoid of any and all grasp of reality, and go with a strictly physicalist/materialistic understanding of the mind and brain and the person, as the last of these, the materialistic, is the one that's most rooted in humility- anything else is the hubris of the devil itself coming through the teachings of the church, which means that those same teachings have to be completely obliterated for being a means for the devil to enter mankind's mindset.

@Gewehr918 Жыл бұрын

Please differentiate love from lust. To me lust is nothing but greed ! But, please differentiate ! Make a video on it and draw a clear line between these two ! This is a big problem of this generation ! This confusion is also a driver of atheism ! Please !

@chissstardestroyer Жыл бұрын

Frankly, the immaterial intellect is *more* prone to change than the physiological body or brain; but I'd say, as someone who regularly deals with this *in and of himself*, on a daily basis: all it is is at worst a cross- elegance of it? Frankly, you're *more* prone to chastity, as you see the flesh as something beastial/subhuman at best... tis not pride, but rather the sure and certain knowledge that the human dwells in the individual human's mind; and only animals really are prone to acting on lust. What I *truly* have unlimited contempt for is the spirits that the Church recognizes as beings; and that is due to the stances of how the catechism condemns, rightly, speaking to them at all; yes, even by definition those in Paradise; but it does not stop there, no: everything immortal needs to die, due to how the church describes the war between good and evil. Everything immortal needs to perish for all eternity, and yes, I do mean by "perish" "cease to exist".

@NotNecessarily-ip4vc Жыл бұрын

The Manual of Discipline, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls, says that God created two great spirits, one of truth 😇 and one of perversity 👿, the latter being the angel of darkness. 'Through the angel of darkness, however, even those who practice righteousness are liable to error. All their sin and their inequities, all their guilt and their deeds of transgression are the result of his domination; and thus, by God's inscrutable design, will continue until the time appointed by Him.'

@NotNecessarily-ip4vc Жыл бұрын

Here are seven differences between "Ruach Elohim" and "Ruach Yahweh" as they appear in the Bible: 1. "Ruach Elohim" is first mentioned in Genesis 1:2, where it is translated as "Spirit of God." "Ruach Yahweh" is first mentioned in Judges 3:10, where it is translated as "the Spirit of the LORD." 2. "Ruach Elohim" is used throughout the Old Testament to describe the Spirit of God in general, while "Ruach Yahweh" is often used specifically in reference to the Spirit of God acting in a prophetic or empowering way, as in Judges 14:6 where Samson is "filled with the Spirit of Yahweh" to defeat a lion. 3. "Ruach Elohim" is sometimes used to describe the breath of life given to all creatures, as in Job 34:14-15 where it says that if God were to "gather back his breath [ruach]," all life would perish. "Ruach Yahweh" is not used in this sense. 4. In some passages, the two terms are used interchangeably. For example, in Isaiah 61:1, the Spirit of the Lord [Ruach Yahweh] is said to be upon the prophet, while in Ezekiel 11:5, the same phrase is translated as "the Spirit of God [Ruach Elohim] came upon me." 5. "Ruach Yahweh" is associated with the creation of humans in Genesis 2:7, where it says that Yahweh "breathed the breath [ruach] of life into [Adam's] nostrils." "Ruach Elohim" is not used in this context. 6. "Ruach Yahweh" is associated with the work of the Messiah in Isaiah 11:2, where it is said that "the Spirit of Yahweh will rest on him." "Ruach Elohim" is not used in this passage. 7. "Ruach Elohim" is used in the New Testament to refer to the Holy Spirit, as in Luke 3:22 where the Spirit descends on Jesus at his baptism "in bodily form like a dove." "Ruach Yahweh" is not used in the New Testament.

@NotNecessarily-ip4vc Жыл бұрын

Here are seven more differences between "Ruach Elohim" and "Ruach Yahweh" in the Bible: 1. "Ruach Elohim" is used in Psalm 51:11 where David asks God not to take his Spirit away from him, whereas "Ruach Yahweh" is not used in this context. 2. "Ruach Yahweh" is associated with dreams and visions in Numbers 12:6, where it says that Yahweh spoke to Moses in a dream and a vision, "but not like [He spoke] to [His] servant Moses, who had a close relationship with [Yahweh]." "Ruach Elohim" is not used in this passage. 3. "Ruach Elohim" is used in 1 Samuel 10:10 where it says that the Spirit of God came upon Saul and he prophesied along with a group of prophets. "Ruach Yahweh" is not used in this context. 4. "Ruach Yahweh" is associated with judgment in Isaiah 4:4, where it says that Yahweh will "wash away the filth of Zion's people...by a spirit of judgment and a spirit of burning." "Ruach Elohim" is not used in this context. 5. "Ruach Elohim" is used in Job 33:4 where Elihu says that "the Spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life." "Ruach Yahweh" is not used in this passage. 6. Ruach Yahweh" is associated with the exodus from Egypt in Isaiah 63:14, where it says that "the Spirit of Yahweh led [the Israelites] through the desert." "Ruach Elohim" is not used in this context. 7. Ruach Elohim" is used in 1 Corinthians 2:10-11 where Paul speaks of the Holy Spirit revealing God's wisdom to believers. "Ruach Yahweh" is not used in this passage.

@afanporsaber 7 ай бұрын

Don't seggregate evil and love. God is both. Now more at nowadays, because their son is receive inheritance becaming the Whole.

@lauracaponegro6811 Жыл бұрын

The subject matter is so important; why make light of it with the stupid prop?

@danielpacheco8090 4 ай бұрын

1) God is omnibenevolent and omnipotent 2) Evil has no positive content, it is the absence of goodness caused by our free will. 3) Some people with mental illnesses and character disorders cause immense evils to others and themselves without acting on the basis of free will (e.g. psychotic episode, mania, delirium, etc). At least one of these doesn't hold, and if you say it's 3) then you clearly have no clinical or personal experience with these illnesses and disorders. So I guess this is where apologists will say it's because of our "fallen nature". Which was caused by... God?