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Norman Vincent Peale

Do you agree or disagree with her opinion about positive thinking meme's? Do you react positively or negatively when seeing them yourself on the net? Do positive thinking meme's have value to you?

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I read a book owned by my aunt about positive thinking sometime in the late 1950's. Norman Vincent Peale was an American minister and author and a progenitor of "positive thinking". His ideas were not accepted by mental health experts.( Wikipedia)

Maybe read it in 1956 to 1959. That is the only book I remember reading by Norman Vincent Peale.

Through the years of my life I have met lots of people who equate faith with positive thinking. Some of them probably don't even know about Norman Vincent Peale. Faith should be studied avidly before linking it with anything.

Positive thinking without action is not possible. I knew a teen age boy who wanted a red sports car. He really expected someone to walk up and hand him a car because, he was confessing it to happen. I never found out how that turned out. But, my guess would be a good education ending in a job or some kind of crooked enterprise was the only way it would have ended successfully.

Positive thinking alone just does not work. And, if someone is already having mental distress, positive thinking indoctrination could actually bring on a break with reality.

I always think mental distress is harder to treat than physical. You can set a bone, sew a cut, etc. But, you have to find the root cause of mental health breakdowns and sometimes the root cannot be removed. Like cancer it is difficult to heal.

Since we live in an indoctrinated society we need to:

2 Timothy 2:15 King James Version (KJV)

15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Even though life as we know it still has some aspects of mystery we as bloggers continue to research the puzzle.

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