Your Mind is a Terrible Thing

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Soon enough the problem was resolved or it just dissolved. And it was God who did the work (Phil 2:13), not me. In the Star Trek: The Next Generation novel "Metamorphisis", in an alternate timeline the mercenary Sdan - who was a mixed species individual with some Vulcan ancestry - remarked that even before Surak's reforms most Vulcans were reluctant to kill others as it would mean feeling the thoughts, pain, and fear the other would feel before dying. Let’s dig deeper into this question. You should note when the Bible talks about the mind, it can also refer to your thoughts, your intellect, your disposition, or your understanding. Regardless of which word you use to describe the mind, one thing is true of each of them. Your mind sets the course for the actions you are going to take. These can be actions that are right or actions that are wrong. Here is an example from Romans. It's easy to quip, "You can't stop the birds of worry from flying over your head but you don't have to let them build a nest inside your head." Trying to stop our thoughts is like trying to stop the wind. We can't just toss out our negative thoughts about a situation or condition or problem and replace them with positive thoughts as if they were bubble wrap. We can only stop reacting to those thoughts, identifying with them, and beg God to take them away. It is never the problem that is the problem, it is our nagging thoughts about the problem that bring us suffering. The solution? "Let God transform you into a new person by letting God change the way you think. Then you will learn to know God's will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect" ( Romans 12:2 ).

Firefly: River is distraught by the thoughts of shipmates in " Objects in Space", experiencing several upsetting emotions. It doesn't help that she's only getting fragments, so that she hears Simon thinking about the loss of his old life and career, making her feel guilty even though he neither holds her responsible nor regrets rescuing her—he just misses it sometimes. Played straight elsewhere as he discovers that, after reading the mind of one of his dates, she was perfectly willing to commit suicide if he rejected her. He wound up lying and claiming he was gay because he could tell from her thoughts this was what she preferred to believe.Features the Bulgarian State Television Female Vocal Choir singing the song "Kalimankou Denkou" off of the 1975 compilation album Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares. Amusingly subverted with Gary and Cindy's daughter, Leia, in The Supervillainy Saga as everyone tries to watch their thoughts around her due to the fact she's a small child. Leia responds that as a small child, she doesn't understand most of what she reads and isn't affected by it anyway. Reading a bit like a fever dream, one that totally carried me along for the ride! I could never have guessed what was going to happen next, and I was so nervous to see what would be around the next bend. The title of the album is a reference to the UNCF's slogan, " A mind is a terrible thing to waste". Jourgensen was further inspired by the " Just Say No" anti-drug campaign. Rieflin said the other band members groaned when they heard it, but Jourgensen had the final say in naming. According to Connelly, the album art was inspired by a television program Jourgensen saw where migraine sufferers painted images of their pain. The image itself was a picture of an x-ray from a studio receptionist's mother, who had been in a car accident and received a metal plate. Jourgensen said he wanted that as the album artwork as soon as he found out about it, but the other band members disliked it. Barker praised the concept but said the execution was poor. [4] :54 Release [ edit ]

The Downer Beginning was ended by a subversion of this trope; as she saw Manabe has no contempt for her, unlike everyone else. This subversion persists as Manabe is so honest that the invocation above doesn't work at all. In a 2016 short by Dorkly Originals, a Haunter uses Dream Eater on a sleeping Pikachu, only to find its dreams rather racy, including sexual fantasies with its trainer and a Tentacruel. I started out believing everything that this story served up as truth, but the deeper into the story I got, the more I questioned everything that was happening.

Elva, however, was cursed with the ability to sense the pain of everyone around her. Her 'range' so to speak, is several dozen miles, and the effects of it nearly drive her insane. And she's been enduring this since she was a baby (which wasn't that long ago, as she matured rapidly). In The Non-Adventures of Wonderella, Intelli-Ape comes to this conclusion after making the mistake of prying too deeply into Wonderita's mind. We are the products of our thoughts and actions, and education can greatly influence it. Remember, a growing mind is one that is eager to learn new things and is open to seeking improvements or changes. Kino's Journey: This is the entire plot of the first episode, in which one country developed a technology to allow its citizens to read one another's minds. This becomes so unbearable that they all move out to the countryside and stay out of each other's "mental ranges." Jourgensen recalled the band's state as dysfunctional and the album's production as "complete chaos and mayhem", which gave the band a level of artistic freedom impossible had they planned it. [4] :52 Jourgensen says that despite being a fan favorite, it is not among his favorites because of the condition he was in at the time; he was heavily into drugs during recording and had a poor relationship with his bandmates. In one instance, he chased bassist Paul Barker around the studio with a chair and hit him on the head with it because he "couldn't stand him anymore". [5] Jourgensen credited the era, the city, and the atmosphere at Chicago Trax Studios for the album. Bill Rieflin and Chris Connelly instead attributed the album's sound to the band's interest in technology. [4] :52

Diaries of a Madman: Navarone deliberately invokes this when Shining Armor tries to read his mind, resulting in the good captain on the floor screaming in terror. Jourgensen, Al; Wiederhorn, Jon (2013). Ministry: The Lost Gospels (2ed.). Da Capo Press. p. 97. ISBN 9780306822186. As a member of the skeleton crew on a corpse ship, Alto has suddenly found themselves alone with the exception of a wraith named Zelany that they’ve kept hidden.He also discovers from the same woman, that his lovemaking abilities are nowhere near as good as he'd like to believe. She spends most of the time that they're having sex either thinking "I don't like that, why is he doing it?", or wondering about what's on television or what she's going to have for dinner. After a brief freakout in the bathroom, however, he does successfully turn the evening around and reads her mind to find what she really does like in bed, and proceeds to send her into a state of blissful delirium. In Avengers: Age of Ultron, Wanda is absolutely horrified when she is able to read Ultron's mind and discovers his plans to wipe out humanity. It takes a lifetime of suffering from our thoughts and surrendering them to God to get to a place of peace and love and gratitude that is no longer easily disturbed.

Mousou Telepathy: The main plot. Ayako Nakano can see people's thoughts (and apparently can't prevent it). While some of her grief comes from being aware of other people's ugly thoughts and double standards, most of it stems from her classmate Toda Hayato, who has a crush on her... along with a very lewd imagination. What does the Bible say about the mind? Even with the verses shared in this article, we are just scratching the surface. I encourage you to give your mind the respect it deserves and don’t neglect its role in the outcomes in your life. Whether you realize it or not, your entire life and who you will be depends on it. The Conversion Bureau: The Other Side of the Spectrum: Apparently, it's for the best that nobody looks into a Newfoal's mind. The complex lattice of spellwork governing their minds is apparently so horrifying to see directly that it left TCB!Fancy Pants vomiting and suffering nightmares for the better part of a week when he went on a Journey to the Center of the Mind of one. Cruel : In canon, the angel Arael looked into Asuka's mind and traumatized her. Here, it looks into Gendo's mind instead and is Driven to Suicide by what it discovers. Knowing what an utterly loathsome person Gendo is, the NERV staff and even his superiors in SEELE find themselves empathizing with the angel. Parodied in Chappelle's Show as What Men Want. A woman walks into an elevator full of men, who all start thinking incredibly perverse things about her... including a little kid, much to her disgust. Though the end of the sketch seems to imply they were all deliberately trolling her.Planescape: Reading a fiend's mind is dangerous. Even the lowliest of manes has experienced and caused more pain and suffering than most mortals can dream of, and trying to look into a demon's thoughts can drive a man insane from the horrors he sees there. You cannot set your mind on the things of God if you are constantly filling them with the things of the world. This means you just have to miss some things. I recall one day I binged a cable television show. After watching the entire season, I felt grimy. The themes presented in the show did nothing but appeal to the things of this world. I soon realized that I need to let that go.