In article <ee1u829o1tf6kcqmuhvi3s6ks0509ro8fg@4ax.com>, Matt Silberstein
<RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:11:55 -0700, in alt.atheism ,

In article <mflt82lc8ju8fi0gpohe6ob8tbfth0fnf9@4ax.com>, Matt Silberstein
<RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 04:54:19 -0700, in alt.atheism ,

In article <wlrjg.103722$iU2.78670@fed1read01>, Miriam Cohen
<mimiNOSPAMgal@cox.net> wrote:

•R L Measures wrote:

In article <ci2r82db12i4mfcd85kb6f1iboo8snj2or@4ax.com>, 2495 Dead
<zepp22112495@finestplanet.com> wrote:

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 07:57:50 -0700, "Yang, AthD (h.c), Kicking AWOL's
Cocaine Snorting *****" <eacmole@/*AWOLBUSH*/mail.com> wrote:

Tourette Sydrome nothing. Ann Coulter's hatred for 911 widows merely
underscored GOP's hatred for America.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/NYT_Coulter_afflicted_by_rhetorical_Tourettes_0611.html

NYT: Ann Coulter may be 'afflicted by a kind of rhetorical Tourette's
syndrome'
...
"Coulter, who seems afflicted by a kind of rhetorical Tourette's
syndrome, most recently labeled the widows of 9/11 'harpies,'" Carr
continues. "But Coulter knows precisely what she is saying."

That's a bit unfair to Tourette's sufferers, who do NOT express their
vocal tics on a voluntary basis.

• The English language has over 2.000.000 words, a few dozen of

which are

profane. It seems a bit curious to me that some malady could cause

people

to ejaculate words that are considered profane and pretty much

ignore the

other couple of million.

Yes, that is odd, but it's true just the same.

• I don't buy it. Unless indecent words and decent words are stored on
separate RAMs in the brain,

Why in the world would you think that?

• Because they favor ejaculating words from one RAM. Thus, either they
have software that fetches mostly nasty words, or they have two RAMs, one
of which stores profane words.

Or you have a astoundingly wrong notion of how the brain works. The
exclusive hardware notion will fool you, for one thing. Lots of
different categories of words are stored/retrieved in various manners.
But it is just plain wrong to see each storage as a separate physical
item.

You have an odd hardware view
of the world. A number of studies from various angles show us that
things are stored in the brain in very complex ways. Different word
categories are store in different manners. Would you think, just from
introspection, that someone could lose the notion of Left, but not
Right?

Tourette's is a cousin of Munchausen
syndrome.

Where in the world did you get that notion from?

• What appears to be the lowest common denominator -- getting attention.

How are compulsive tics the "lowest common denominator -- getting
attention"? Do you know anything real about Tourette's or just a
cartoon version summary?

It is my opinion that getting attention is the Achilles' heel
of humans.

Tourette's is not about getting attention. It is, in fact, related in
some interesting ways to Parkinson's.

• Please explain why they favor ejaculating profanity.

A *small* portion of people with Tourette's do that. If I knew nothing
about it, however, that would not support your claim that they just do
it to get attention. Not one of the people with Tourette's I have met
did it for attention.

For example, a passanger on an airliner telling the stewardess
that there's a bomb on the plane is a sure fire way to get met at the
airport by the FBI, be escorted to their place of business, receive lots
of delicious attention from them, and possibly even make the newspapers --
especially if the insurgents in Iraq are taking a few days off.

And this has nothing in the world to do with Tourette's, nothing. You
might want to read up on the subject before talking about it:

• First I would have to get past the proclivity for profanity conundrum.

If you need to remain ignorant then you need to remain ignorant. I
still suggest you learn about the condition before you post your
ignorance.

• Are there people with Tourette's who have a proclivity for ejaculating
words from other word storage areas other than profanity ?

cheers

http://www.mentalhealth.com/dis/p20-ch04.html
http://www.tsa-usa.org/

I notice you signed off before the links. Deliberate ignorance is not
pretty.

• I do not believe everything that exists on the Internet.

In article <ee1u829o1tf6kcqmuhvi3s6ks0509ro8fg@4ax.com>, Matt Silberstein
<RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 09:11:55 -0700, in alt.atheism ,

In article <mflt82lc8ju8fi0gpohe6ob8tbfth0fnf9@4ax.com>, Matt Silberstein
<RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

On Tue, 13 Jun 2006 04:54:19 -0700, in alt.atheism ,

In article <wlrjg.103722$iU2.78670@fed1read01>, Miriam Cohen
<mimiNOSPAMgal@cox.net> wrote:

•R L Measures wrote:

In article <ci2r82db12i4mfcd85kb6f1iboo8snj2or@4ax.com>, 2495 Dead
<zepp22112495@finestplanet.com> wrote:

On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 07:57:50 -0700, "Yang, AthD (h.c), Kicking AWOL's
Cocaine Snorting *****" <eacmole@/*AWOLBUSH*/mail.com> wrote:

Tourette Sydrome nothing. Ann Coulter's hatred for 911 widows merely
underscored GOP's hatred for America.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/NYT_Coulter_afflicted_by_rhetorical_Tourettes_0611.html

NYT: Ann Coulter may be 'afflicted by a kind of rhetorical Tourette's
syndrome'
...
"Coulter, who seems afflicted by a kind of rhetorical Tourette's
syndrome, most recently labeled the widows of 9/11 'harpies,'" Carr
continues. "But Coulter knows precisely what she is saying."

That's a bit unfair to Tourette's sufferers, who do NOT express their
vocal tics on a voluntary basis.

• The English language has over 2.000.000 words, a few dozen of

which are

profane. It seems a bit curious to me that some malady could cause

people

to ejaculate words that are considered profane and pretty much

ignore the

other couple of million.

Yes, that is odd, but it's true just the same.

• I don't buy it. Unless indecent words and decent words are stored on
separate RAMs in the brain,

Why in the world would you think that?

• Because they favor ejaculating words from one RAM. Thus, either they
have software that fetches mostly nasty words, or they have two RAMs, one
of which stores profane words.

Or you have a astoundingly wrong notion of how the brain works. The
exclusive hardware notion will fool you, for one thing. Lots of
different categories of words are stored/retrieved in various manners.
But it is just plain wrong to see each storage as a separate physical
item.

You have an odd hardware view
of the world. A number of studies from various angles show us that
things are stored in the brain in very complex ways. Different word
categories are store in different manners. Would you think, just from
introspection, that someone could lose the notion of Left, but not
Right?

Tourette's is a cousin of Munchausen
syndrome.

Where in the world did you get that notion from?

• What appears to be the lowest common denominator -- getting attention.

How are compulsive tics the "lowest common denominator -- getting
attention"? Do you know anything real about Tourette's or just a
cartoon version summary?

It is my opinion that getting attention is the Achilles' heel
of humans.

Tourette's is not about getting attention. It is, in fact, related in
some interesting ways to Parkinson's.

• Please explain why they favor ejaculating profanity.

A *small* portion of people with Tourette's do that. If I knew nothing
about it, however, that would not support your claim that they just do
it to get attention. Not one of the people with Tourette's I have met
did it for attention.

For example, a passanger on an airliner telling the stewardess
that there's a bomb on the plane is a sure fire way to get met at the
airport by the FBI, be escorted to their place of business, receive lots
of delicious attention from them, and possibly even make the newspapers --
especially if the insurgents in Iraq are taking a few days off.

And this has nothing in the world to do with Tourette's, nothing. You
might want to read up on the subject before talking about it:

• First I would have to get past the proclivity for profanity conundrum.

If you need to remain ignorant then you need to remain ignorant. I
still suggest you learn about the condition before you post your
ignorance.

• Are there people with Tourette's who have a proclivity for ejaculating