In your Estimation, is Anything Off-Limits to Think About?

Question

sunscour, Thinking is Not Acting.

Contrary to your Statement, canron4peace, I am Indeed Very Familiar With Concepts of All Kinds, I Reread sunscour's Reply, but Even What he Mentioned, Although Unpleasant, is Not Off-Limits, it is Not the Act.

Answer 1

For me, the answer to your question is simple: cognition is, for the most part, a separate entity from behaviour. There is no evidence to suggest, aside from obsessive ideation, that one *sufficiently* nor *necessarily* folds into another.

Anyone who claims to have not thought about murder or had thoughts that any civilized, moral human being would otherwise not do, you're lying, confusing thought with obsessive ideation, intermingling thought and behavioual processes, or have not achieved many childhood and adolescent developmental milestones. Plain and simple.

In a sense, you can not completely control thought. If you have developed past 10-12 years, you are capable of mutual role taking. This entails abstract, hypothetical reasoning and an ability to adopt others' perspectives. If you are also part of the social reality we all live in, you can and will *think* about others' actions, no matter how abhorrent. See any basic developmental psychology textbook citing the research of Piaget and Selman. Another example: Have you ever had a nightmare? Dreams ARE visual representations of thoughts on a preconscious and conscious level. See Freudian (or more recent) works on unconsciousness, preconsciousness versus consciousness for further evidence and examples.

Answer 2

Sunscour`s answer is good. You need to read it again to find the truth of it. In my and his estimation. as you asked for, we happen to know that focus on what one does not want, ie cancer, can only attract the subject of that focus with thought, habit of thinking about (belief), negative emotion about (attitude), or negative sensing or feeling. I just don`t know how to say it in a simpler way. It is good to verify new ideas before rejecting them, new to you apparently.

Answer 3

All thoughts tend toward outer physical expression. That manifestation is not necessarily instantaneous. Law of Attraction says what you think about you attract. I would say there are no limits to thought, however if and when you manifest various experiences that you did not want ,be "big" enough and own your own creations. Man's amazing power to be constructive or destructive lies in his ability to think and reason.

Answer 4

Yes. Repeated horrible thoughts about murder or mass suicide. Thoughts that condition the mind to think negativly or ill will towards another, but other than that no.

Answer 5

No.
If you can fathom it (what ever it is) from the deepest darkest recesses of your mind, then you can think about. Whether you will understand what you are thinking about is something else entirely.

Answer 6

nope, we are naturally drawn to that which is off-limits anyways so it is a self defeating prophecy

Answer 7

No

Answer 8

No

Answer 9

No. EVERYTHING should be thought about.