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"God" |
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18 Jan 2005 01:36:22 AM |
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Belief In God Is A Mental Illness |
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| User: "Michelle Malkin" |
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| Title: Re: Belief In God Is A Mental Illness |
18 Jan 2005 03:07:55 AM |
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"God" <here@now.com> wrote in message
news:41ec67b3$0$60988$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
Well?
Not necessarily, but the religion that develops around the
belief can be.
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| User: "XeNO" |
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| Title: Re: Belief In God Is A Mental Illness |
18 Jan 2005 07:00:44 AM |
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"God" <here@now.com> wrote in message
news:41ec67b3$0$60988$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
Well?
Honestly... a bit extreme. There IS a mental illness where a person is
REALLY religious and its a brain center that seems to activate more for them
than others. Was on a PBS program.
The attachment to God is really a cultural thing... its hard to separate
yourself from what your family raised you to believe. Many atheists (like
myself) simply never talk to their family about being an atheist, largely
because I consider the issue of religion to be closed... I tend to not care
as much about it as before, unless it's coming from the biblical literalists
of our time. Then I get nasty.
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"For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law
of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret
that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected
with this. "--Albert Einstein
XeNO
Order of the 8th dIgIt
aa# 1901
In order to email me privately, you must remove god from my email address,
and follow the links to get past my spam sheild.
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| User: "turk" |
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| Title: Re: Belief In God Is A Mental Illness |
18 Jan 2005 05:51:24 AM |
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"God" <here@now.com> wrote in message
news:41ec67b3$0$60988$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
Well?
Dawkins covered this:
http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/Dawkins/viruses-of-the-mind.html
turk
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"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and
more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day
the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the
White House will be adorned by a downright moron." - H. L. Mencken,
Baltimore Evening Sun on 26 July 1920
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| User: "Robibnikoff" |
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| Title: Re: Belief In God Is A Mental Illness |
18 Jan 2005 12:34:16 PM |
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"God" <here@now.com> wrote in message
news:41ec67b3$0$60988$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
Well?
I honestly don't think of it as a mental illness. The majority of my
friends and family believe in a god and I know for a fact that none of them
are mentally ill.
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Robyn
Resident Witchypoo
#1557
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| User: "kathryn" |
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| Title: Re: Belief In God Is A Mental Illness |
18 Jan 2005 06:49:30 PM |
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"God" <here@now.com> wrote in message
news:41ec67b3$0$60988$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
Well?
More a mental weakness
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| User: "Neil Kelsey" |
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| Title: Re: Belief In God Is A Mental Illness |
18 Jan 2005 02:13:52 AM |
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"God" <here@now.com> wrote in message
news:41ec67b3$0$60988$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com...
Well?
The more I experience christians the more I think the males secretly want to
be worshipped like jesus.
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| User: "Vivapadrepio" |
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| Title: Re: Belief In God Is A Mental Illness |
23 Jan 2005 05:12:26 AM |
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From: "God"
Date: 1/17/05 5:36 PM Pacific Standard Time
Prayer For Mental Health:
St. Dymphna, powerful patroness of all who are afflicted mentally and
emotionally, ask our Lord to grant us, please, an untroubled heart, peace, calm
and rest. Help me to learn how to entrust all my fears and worries into His
hands, and to place all my confidence in Christ's love for me.
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Pray, hope, and don't worry.
Worry is useless.
God is merciful and will hear your prayer.
-- Padre Pio, Pietrelcina.
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| User: "Schism" |
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| Title: Re: Belief In God Is A Mental Illness |
18 Jan 2005 02:04:25 AM |
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Well?
What's that? Timmy's stuck in the well?
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| User: "Vic Sagerquist" |
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18 Jan 2005 05:29:17 AM |
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On 17 Jan 2005, Schism dropped trou, farted, whirled, then shouted:
Well?
What's that? Timmy's stuck in the well?
Go Lassie! Get help!
--
Vic Sagerquist
aa#2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department
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Why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you
wouldn't want to ***** in the first place?
--George Carlin
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| User: "Hamish McNugget" |
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| Title: Re: Belief In God Is A Mental Illness |
18 Jan 2005 10:42:09 AM |
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Recently, Vic Sagerquist shared the following :
On 17 Jan 2005, Schism dropped trou, farted, whirled, then shouted:
Well?
What's that? Timmy's stuck in the well?
Go Lassie! Get help!
WOOF WOOF!
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Tom 0
aa #2134 a-vet #20
Mercenary Chef
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| User: "MarkA" |
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| Title: Re: Belief In God Is A Mental Illness |
18 Jan 2005 12:47:04 PM |
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:42:09 +0000, Hamish McNugget wrote:
Recently, Vic Sagerquist shared the following :
On 17 Jan 2005, Schism dropped trou, farted, whirled, then shouted:
Well?
What's that? Timmy's stuck in the well?
Go Lassie! Get help!
WOOF WOOF!
(Lassie returns with a dog-drool covered tennis ball).
--
MarkA
(still caught in the maze of twisty little passages, all different)
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| User: "Vic Sagerquist" |
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| Title: Re: Belief In God Is A Mental Illness |
18 Jan 2005 05:50:22 PM |
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on 18 Jan 2005 in alt.atheism, MarkA dropped trou, farted, whirled, then
shouted:
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 10:42:09 +0000, Hamish McNugget wrote:
Recently, Vic Sagerquist shared the following :
On 17 Jan 2005, Schism dropped trou, farted, whirled, then shouted:
Well?
What's that? Timmy's stuck in the well?
Go Lassie! Get help!
WOOF WOOF!
(Lassie returns with a dog-drool covered tennis ball).
ROTFLMAO!
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Vic Sagerquist
aa#2011
Supervisor, EAC Department of little adhesive-backed "L" shaped
chrome-plastic doo-dads to add feet to Jesus fish department
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Why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are the kind of
people you wouldn't want to ***** in the first place?
--George Carlin
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| User: "sanguinevikings" |
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| Title: Re: Belief In God Is A Mental Illness |
18 Jan 2005 09:11:59 AM |
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God wrote:
Well?
No. Most people who believe in God are socially conditioned to do so.
Most people who believe in God have never actually had spiritual
experiences that bring them closer to 'God'. They believe in order to
conform, which is a basic human instinct for good evolutionary reasons.
Mental illness, OTOH, is about having a 'disturbed' mind due to
distorted and nonconforming thinking processes and behavioural patterns
which may be linked to chemical imbalances in the brain. They may also
be induced by environmental factors such as family disfunction and
abuse. One example of such abuse is excessive religious brainwashing.
The electrical/electromagnetic perturbances which cause both epilepsy
and spiritual experiences of God (or whatever - if anything - one is
conditioned to interpret such experiences as being) are not classed as
mental illness, just epilepsy.
Intense spiritual experiences can be induced using a Transcranial
Magnetic Stimulator. See:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/2/2003/April/2869.shtml
Make sure you know where the salt is (if you don't have any, pinch some)
before going here:
http://www.wireheading.com/brainstim/savant.html
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| User: "FreeThink" |
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| Title: Re: Belief In God Is A Mental Illness |
18 Jan 2005 06:01:03 AM |
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God wrote:
Well?
What a cruel deity indeed to bait me like this.
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| User: "nobody" |
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| Title: Re: Belief In God Is A Mental Illness |
18 Jan 2005 02:39:02 PM |
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I cannot believe you!
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| User: "Zepp" |
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| Title: Re: Belief In God Is A Mental Illness |
18 Jan 2005 01:43:40 AM |
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 01:36:22 +0000, "God" <here@now.com> mumbled:
Well?
....is a deep subject.
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| User: "Al Klein" |
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| Title: Re: Belief In God Is A Mental Illness |
18 Jan 2005 07:00:13 PM |
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 01:36:22 +0000, "God" <here@now.com> said in
alt.atheism:
Well?
No argument. Only someone who's mentally ill would NEED a belief in a
magik sky daddy.
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The most curious social convention of the great age in which we live is the
one to the effect that religious opinions should be respected.
-- H. L. Mencken
(random sig, produced by SigChanger)
rukbat at verizon dot net
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| User: "Tak" |
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| Title: Re: Belief In God Is A Mental Illness |
18 Jan 2005 07:11:42 PM |
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On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 01:36:22 +0000, "God" <here@now.com> wrote:
Well?
If you want us to jump like sharks at blood we need more than "well"
Tak
a#344
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Never have I seen such corrupt and foul
minded perversity! Have you ever considered
a career in the church?
"The Bishop of Bath and Wells"
Blackadder,season II
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