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Hello PG, you wrote something yesterday about grumpy old people and frontal lobes, and Rixter wrote about impulse control. I get to work with several clients every day who have "different" frontal lobes and other neurological stuff happening. Those ideas sent me on a tangent. We regularly...

Actually Marc I totally agree with you. At no time was I suggesting that only people belonging to a church can be nice people. I was alluding to my theory that the nasty ones do not have any peer pressure (supplied by a God-fearing society around them) to affect their impulse-control. It is...

Summary The piece I wrote yesterday was a history lesson. My reason being to show that laws tend to be based on the prevailing religion of the time and place. It is the values and standards of the religions or social systems that determine public behaviour. Take Australia today - broadly...

Yep, sounds good to me.

Thus continueth the lesson for today, dear brethren Frontal lobes and the modern ADHD epidemic I do not believe there is any ASD, ADD or ADHD epidemics. What I see are more and more people surviving childhood who, in my day, would have killed themselves at a young age. Hence the perception...

Western society - from Europe after the Roman Empire dissolved, is based upon laws of the Judeo-Roman Catholic Church, See Magna Carta. In the 16th and 17th centuries there was the Reformation and some European countries became Protestant and broke away from Catholicism, but still kept the same...

I am a grumpy old lady, especially when confronted by teenagers who have never been taught the manners that I was taught. My sermon on the issue is thus: In the 1950s and 60s, western society was heavily influenced by the church, whether someone likes that statement or not, it is an...