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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 08/15/2004 : 12:40:01 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Renae
Hmmmm. Thanks, beskeptigal.  So if the data itself is never actually stored, nobody's got a truly accurate memory. We only have the interpretation of our reality. Hm.
I think the extremely religious (like those who pray but don't take their kiddo to the doctor) may have a mental disorder, but I'm wondering if the religiosity might be a symptom of another disorder (rather than being a disorder in and of itself.)
If someone has a bona fide mental illness like schizophrenia, delusions can be a part of it, yes? And religious delusions are apparently pretty common.
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As a side note I've long thought that many fundies and other religious extremists manifested some pretty serious control and anxiety issues with their "faith." Just my opinion, though.
False memories have been instilled in adults experimentally. It has very powerful implications.
Clearly mental illness can include religious delusions.
I guess you have to add dysfunctional to mental illness. In some cases, religious material might have played a role in the person's dysfunction. I agree about the "serious control and anxiety issues".
So a mentally ill person might have a compulsive disorder, while a person who is dysfunctional might be fanatically anti-gay. I guess those could both fit a mentally ill diagnosis.
So do we think Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell are mentally ill? And are Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson not so because their passions are more political than religious? Hmmm. That's a tricky one. |
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 08/15/2004 : 21:16:58 [Permalink]
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So do we think Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell are mentally ill? And are Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson not so because their passions are more political than religious?
Nope, they are all 4 whacked in the head. Purely my subjective opinion, of course. |
Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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Renae
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Posted - 08/16/2004 : 05:23:03 [Permalink]
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Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell? I think they scapegoat others (gays, liberals, etc.) in ways that are unhealthy. I also see them both as suffering from a startling lack of the ability to think critically. Mentally "ill"? Maybe not technically, but not mentally healthy, either.
I like Al Sharpton--I think he's smart and funny. Jesse Jackson is just boring, IMO...I don't see anything else really wrong with him.
I've long thought Ann Coulter manifests some serious mental issues (illness or not, she has issues, IMO) in her political writing. She's one hateful, bigoted woman. That kind of hate has to come from somewhere, doesn't it? |
| Edited by - Renae on 08/16/2004 05:24:45 |
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