{"id":3456,"date":"2017-11-03T13:30:29","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T18:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3456"},"modified":"2017-11-29T10:12:29","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T16:12:29","slug":"create-problems-or-solve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=3456","title":{"rendered":"CREATE PROBLEMS, OR SOLVE ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do professionals solve problems or create more problems?<\/p>\n<p>Psychologist John Rosemond on psychologists&#8212;&#8220;Psychologists have created more problems than they know how to solve.&#8221; (host of &#8220;Because I Said So&#8221; on afr)<\/p>\n<p>President Ronald Reagan on liberals&#8212;&#8220;The problem with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant&#8212;it&#8217;s just that they know so much that isn&#8217;t so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jesus Christ on theologians&#8212;&#8220;Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees hypocrites! For you compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Why is this so, especially in church leaders?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about job security and control.<\/p>\n<p>It is self-perpetuating.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Strange&#8212;perpetual motion (keeps itself going) does not exist anywhere else in the real world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do professionals solve problems or create more problems? Psychologist John Rosemond on psychologists&#8212;&#8220;Psychologists have created more problems than they know how to solve.&#8221; (host of &#8220;Because I Said So&#8221; on afr) President Ronald Reagan on liberals&#8212;&#8220;The problem with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant&#8212;it&#8217;s just that they know so much that isn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faith_based","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3456"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3500,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions\/3500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}