EMOTIONAL TRAPS
How a Little Logic Can Change Your Life!

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Preface

Part One: Understanding the Human Condition

1. Emotions: The Human Experience (Sample PDF pages require Adobe Acrobat Reader)
   The Importance of Boundaries ... From Where Do Our Emotions Come? ...  A Personal Foolish Embracing of Emotions .... Can Emotions Be Physical?
2. Logic: Guardian of the Emotions (Sample PDF pages require Adobe Acrobat Reader)
   Logic and Its Gender-Based Vagaries ... The Professional Demise of Logic: Attorneys, Psychologists and Educators ...  A Thoughtful Proposal: The Statue of Responsibility
3. How Emotions Only Recently Came To Dominate Logic
   The Rise of Cynicism... The Logic and Emotion of War
4. Truth, The Slippery Beast 
   Truth Itself
5. Factors Influencing Behavior
   Genetics... Environment... Choice
   

Part Two: Achieving a Balance in the Physical World
and Overcoming Emotional Traps 

6. Let's Be Aware of the Real World
   Reality Check #1: What Do You Expect from a Team Member?
   Reality Check #2: What Do You Expect from Your Leaders?
   Reality Check #3: Is Specific Corruption Isolated from Society Corruption?
7. Thinking Yourself Towards Mental Health
8. Overcoming the Emotional Trap of Blind Ideology
9. Overcoming the Emotional Trap of Anger (Sample PDF pages require Adobe Acrobat Reader)
   Making Your Anger Appropriate... Controlling Your Environment... Why Are Young People So Angry? ... Getting Control of Your Anger
10. Overcoming the Emotional Trap of Depression
    When Medication is Necessary... Beyond Medication: Therapy... And Self-Help
11. Overcoming The Emotional Trap of Anxiety/Fear
12. Overcoming the Emotional Trap of Pride
    Overcoming False Pride ... Pride and Humility
13. Overcoming the Emotional Trap of Arrogance
14. Overcoming the Denial of the Existence of Evil
15. Overcoming Our Prejudices
    Racial Prejudice and the Collective Unconscious... Onward and Upward... The Second Civil War... What Do You Really Know about Another Individual?... Changing Your Ways
16. Overcoming the Negative Influence of Money, Power, and Fame
    Sector One: Business... Sector Two: Hollywood... Sector Three: Media
    

Part Three: Achieving a Balance in the Spiritual World

17. Religion
    Pedophilia in the Church... Homosexuality in the Church... The Hierarchy and Its Role in Pedophilia... Celibacy ... Other Religions
18. Avoiding Emotional Thinking in Governmental and Ecclesiastical Law
    Government Law... Religious Law... From Where Do We Get Morality?
19. Using Logic in Theology
20. Avoiding Emotional Thinking Regarding God's Judgment
    How Does God See It?... Sin Is More Than Behavior... An Aside on Homosexuality... Some Conclusions about Sin
    

Part Four: Practical Applications in Logic

21. Ten Scenarios 
    Chris and Lisa: Marriage and Alcohol... Kay and Lynn: Afraid to Go to the Doctor... Tom and Mary: The World Is Flat ... Kevin and Shannan: How Many Reindeer?... Larry and Katie: Somebody's Wrong... Don and Gerri: Trying the Apricot Cure for Cancer... Felicia: Surviving after Molestation... Bob and Beth: At Odds over Hair Color... Galileo: The Earth Revolves around the Church... Carl and Eileen: Hard and Soft Sciences and Proof
    
    Afterword

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