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Repetition-compulsion

repetition-compulsion

In psychoanalysis, the tendency to repeat earlier experiences or actions, in an unconscious effort to achieve belated mastery over them; a morbid need to repeat a particular behaviour such as handwashing or repeated checking to see if the door is locked.


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Zogby Poll on Darwinism

... Evolve means to change, and a changed thing is not what it once was, by definition. Thus the example can be reduced to absurd and useless repetition: something evolved from what it was not. The end result of the phrase is merely an assumption, not a demonstration. Evolution in this way ...

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by gamila
Thu Sep 10, 2009 6:14 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Zogby Poll on Darwinism
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... ns is wrong you have even said Yes, "something evolved from what it was not, thus . Thus the example can be reduced to absurd and useless repetition: something evolved from what it was not. The end result of the phrase is merely an assumption, not a demonstration. Evolution in this way ...

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by robsabba
Fri Aug 28, 2009 2:22 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
Replies: 177
Views: 16516

Natural selection is proven wrong

... ns is wrong you have even said Yes, "something evolved from what it was not, thus . Thus the example can be reduced to absurd and useless repetition: something evolved from what it was not. The end result of the phrase is merely an assumption, not a demonstration. Evolution in this way ...

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by gamila
Fri Aug 28, 2009 5:37 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
Replies: 177
Views: 16516

Re:

... Evolve means to change, and a changed thing is not what it once was, by definition. Thus the example can be reduced to absurd and useless repetition: something evolved from what it was not. The end result of the phrase is merely an assumption, not a demonstration. Evolution in this way ...

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by robsabba
Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:37 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
Replies: 177
Views: 16516

Natural selection is proven wrong

... Evolve means to change, and a changed thing is not what it once was, by definition. Thus the example can be reduced to absurd and useless repetition: something evolved from what it was not. The end result of the phrase is merely an assumption, not a demonstration. Evolution in this way ...

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by gamila
Thu Aug 27, 2009 3:39 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
Replies: 177
Views: 16516
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