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Tonight we’re talking about the dangers of teaching methods that only emphasize the positive and fail to cover uncomfortable or negative aspects of a particular topic.

Regular Hosts:
Amber of Red Tail Arts, Branden of Pagan Men, Dave of Pagans promoting Healthy Active Tendencies (PHAT), Joe “I am a Pagan” of Pagan Roadtrip, Sam
Guest Hosts:
Amanda, Barrett of Pagan Men, Snooze Possum of Hedgehog Stole My Beer!, NRia of Pagan Men

02:33
How this got started on the PCP radar
02:58
Joe is a Moody Pagan
03:05
What is Positive-Only Teaching?
03:52
Positive-Only Reiki Teaching
02:58
Joe is a Moody Pagan
03:05
What is Positive-Only Teaching?
03:52
Positive-Only Reiki Teaching
04:15
All Energy is Good
04:15
All Energy is Good
04:54
Burn your plastic Jesus, the Christian equivalent of PCP!
05:49
Kids claiming to be Reverands
06:41
All lint, no sweater
06:04
Wikipedia vs. Encyclopedia Dramatica
06:41
All lint, no sweater
06:57
The Positivity Police!
07:16
Pimp yo’ head dreads = no no, dread is a bad word
08:11
Hello vs. Heaven-O in Michigan
08:53
Hellenic vs. Heavenenic
09:37
Are the positivity police very well off or just psychotic?
10:38
Positivity police have the belief that they don’t need to care about anything because the university always automatically provides for them
11:06
Dangers of Positive-Only teaching: Occupy Wall Street
11:31
Name it and claim it theology
12:15
Some of the positive-only types have something from their past to hide like raping babies
12:54
Some people want a reason for why the universe is unfair
13:26
Positive-only folks get 2 parts of psychology very wrong
14:47
Case study of someone who embraced The Secret and the problems it caused.
13:47
Learning from mistakes, or not.
14:06
Positive-only thinking is an extreme application of the law of attraction
14:20
Balance vs. one-sidedness
14:47
Case study of someone who embraced The Secret and the problems it caused.
15:33
Positive-only thinkers are often in denial.
16:06
People look for perfection
16:18
The absence of negativity is not positive
16:43
Making peace with what others believe vs. constantly going “we’re not evil” to convince themselves and everyone around them.
17:16
Anger, managed properly, tells you when something is not cool.
17:39
An absence of negativity allows for people to do dumb things in front of you.
18:34
Many believe that if you teach only positive things and never teach fear or negativity then people wont get hurt because fear causes people to be hurt.
19:05
Positive-only thinking seeds bad coping skills
19:18
It was meant to be
19:43
Karma as an excuse
20:25
Optimism doesn’t allow for preparation for negative outcomes
20:38
Pessimism denies us the joys we could get from little things.
20:57
It’s all about your mindset.
21:21
Chilrens books are positive-only so they can focus on helping the child read with simple concepts without going into depth about the topics about which they are reading.
22:18
Positive-only thinking/teaching results in a childish view of the world, without understanding the depth of the topics one encounters.
23:09
Bright Sided, How Positive Thinking is Undermining America
23:22
Mandatory positive thinking
26:42
Canadians aren’t even THAT positive
23:31
Planning (e.g. taking an umbrella) will cause failure in the mindset of positive-only thinkers.
23:53
Positive-only thinkers are the reason for Hitler’s successes j/k
28:14
I disagree with them, thus they are not Pagan = result of Positive-Only Thinking
24:18
Use of umbrellas shows a lack of faith in oneself and one’s gods thus showing an immaturity in your practice
25:59
Positive-only thinkers want to eliminate hardships by way of eliminating negativity from teaching (believing negativity can be bred out) thus creating a utopia without hardships or coping
26:42
Canadians aren’t even THAT positive
27:19
Positive-only thinkers have no realistic perception of the world around them and thus cannot be successful.
28:06
Positive-only people can get hung up on their identity as a Pagan so much, they’re the cause for the need for things like Project Pagan Enough
28:14
I disagree with them, thus they are not Pagan = result of Positive-Only Thinking
28:30
Amber’s not a Pagan because she told someone to watch their intake of St. John’s Wart
29:18
Natural Derp
29:58
Mushroom roulette
34:28
SPCA syndrome co-dependency
30:26
Is Positive-Only teaching synonymous with Cranial-Rectal Insertion?
31:07
Being too accepting of others
31:27
Being a functioning member of society?
31:50
Dave hypothesizes that denial is a defense mechanism deployed by positive-only thinkers to avoid failure.
32:20
Joe’s seen this heuristic before.
32:33
Discomfort means “someone must always be wrong” when they disagree with you.
34:28
SPCA syndrome co-dependency
36:17
Are positive-only people not very skilled?
32:33
Discomfort means “someone must always be wrong” when they disagree with you.
34:28
SPCA syndrome co-dependency
34:58
Some people don’t appreciate forced self-improvement
36:17
Are positive-only people not very skilled?
38:13
That’s just my style. Nope, your style is shit. But, you have to understand…
38:58
It’s okay to do something because you want to, and not be perfect at it
40:21
You don’t need to do everything perfectly.
42:07
You can do damage!
42:17
Do not use lead solder in jewelry
43:06
If you don’t believe in it, it can’t hurt you? Silly positive-only thinking?
43:55
Scurvy is only buying US, Canadian and European clothing – email scurvy@PaganCenteredPodcast.com if you have something to sell him for he will buy.
45:06
Joe is a Left Hand Path Wiccan?
45:50
Left Hand Path Wicca = Church of Dave
46:21
Positive-only people in management?
46:50
How do we combat positive-only teaching?
45:50
Left Hand Path Wicca = Church of Dave
46:21
Positive-only people in management?
46:50
How do we combat positive-only teaching?
46:54
What is teaching?
47:29
How can mama cat be a positive-only teaching?
48:34
Positivity implies altruism, but one must be aware negative exists
50:29
Much of the painful stuff we go through makes us who we are
50:53
Martial arts is not all happiness, you will get sore and get injured but it helps you learn better
52:12
Emotional abuse is also bad
53:10
Pointing and laughing breeds animosity in many relationships
53:29
Electrical safety
53:29
Electrical safety
54:03
Combating positive-only teaching: talk to the teachers.
54:29
Reality show for these positive-only places might snap some sense into these folks?
55:29
Have positive-only people been traumatized by real life and thus deluded themselves into believing everything outside their love and light university should just be brushed off.
55:29
Have positive-only people been traumatized by real life and thus deluded themselves into believing everything outside their love and light university should just be brushed off.
56:17
Positive-only people tend to intentionally isolate themselves into like-minded communities.
57:18
Natural selection?
57:23
Can positive-only people handle reality?
57:42
Are these people important to you? Are they capable of change? This is a huge investment to fix a person.
58:06
You may be better off letting these people be what they are

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