FancyMancy
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Hi, all.
I may have missed a sermon about this, or it being over multiple sermons generally, if not in one sermon specifically, and if so then ignore this, but I'm not quite asking the question myself. This is more an exercise to think and realise/remember. Then also for n00bs to also be informed.
Of course, we have to work ourselves - if we're lazy and careless, then why should anyone help us after too long? That's a rhetorical question making my point. Someone who relapses into whatever might not deserve to be helped, perhaps, or at least if they relapse too many times or not bother trying to keep clean/good/safe. There may be extenuating circumstances as exceptions.
This is not a rhetorical question. Is a way of teaching and helping that the Gods and Goddesses do actually Operant Conditioning, or perhaps Nature itself employs Operant Conditioning? - If we work, we get rewards, which the results of working are the automatic rewards themselves; if we don't, then we're helped less, ignored or punished, by the Gods and Goddesses or by Nature. Non-activism is a punishment in and of itself - we're either increasing or decreasing, growing or atrophying. Like positive/negative reinforcement.
What about in other ways and things?
I may have missed a sermon about this, or it being over multiple sermons generally, if not in one sermon specifically, and if so then ignore this, but I'm not quite asking the question myself. This is more an exercise to think and realise/remember. Then also for n00bs to also be informed.
Of course, we have to work ourselves - if we're lazy and careless, then why should anyone help us after too long? That's a rhetorical question making my point. Someone who relapses into whatever might not deserve to be helped, perhaps, or at least if they relapse too many times or not bother trying to keep clean/good/safe. There may be extenuating circumstances as exceptions.
This is not a rhetorical question. Is a way of teaching and helping that the Gods and Goddesses do actually Operant Conditioning, or perhaps Nature itself employs Operant Conditioning? - If we work, we get rewards, which the results of working are the automatic rewards themselves; if we don't, then we're helped less, ignored or punished, by the Gods and Goddesses or by Nature. Non-activism is a punishment in and of itself - we're either increasing or decreasing, growing or atrophying. Like positive/negative reinforcement.
What about in other ways and things?