On 06/11/2017 06:21 PM, billv wrote:
On 6/11/2017 10:30 AM, BruceS wrote:
On 06/11/2017 03:33 AM, billv wrote:
On 6/10/2017 6:48 AM, alal65536@gmail.com wrote:
On Saturday, June 10, 2017 at 5:05:21 PM UTC+5:30, billv
wrote:
On 6/10/2017 4:54 AM, alal65536@gmail.com wrote:
Religious people are delusional hypocrites. Research
(referred to under Morality in Wikipedia) show that
contrary to their claims, religious people in general, are
less moral. According to a 2005 study by Gregory S. Paul,
higher rates of belief correlate with higher rates of
homicide. Another study showed that non religious people
were more generous and compassionate.
It is time we acknowledged the truth. That religion
encourages immorality. We should encourage people to live
more moral lives, and abandon religion.
Abhinav Lal Writer & Investor
I see they let you out of the mental hospital again.
From your immoral conduct and lies, I suspect that you are a
religious person.
Abhinav Lal Writer & Investor
Where the person behind the posting is clearly insane, his
opinions don't matter to the rest of the world. Usenet permits
anyone to post anything.
I disagree. There are some who are clearly insane, but manage to
be entertaining in some of their madness, so some of us are
interested in their opinions. Of course, alal has proven not only
insane but boring, which is far more fatal to Usenet relevancy. I
only see these threads because you respond to him. He's like one
of those homeless derelicts who's clearly fouled himself and just
mumbles incoherently in a dark corner of the sidewalk. Most of us
walk by without looking, holding our breath, feeling simultaneously
disgusted and a bit guilty that we can't help somehow. He's like
what I would expect zook to be by now, assuming no competent
medical care.
I suppose I was mistakenly limiting my posting to the crazy presently
in front of us. It is a rare crazy that I find amusing, perhaps I
have become jaded with too much of that stuff on the periphery of my
life. I did have a crazy friend of several decades who died of a
heart attack last fall. He had become one of those characters hose
craziness slipped below my threshold of detection because he was so
very nice in almost every way, and when he slipped into either of his
bipolar extremes, he became a hermit till things got better. I didn't understand or inquire how his wife dealt with those dark periods, but
she married him knowing his condition and dealt with it their entire
married life.
I've known a few people with various degrees of mental illness, and been
good friends with some. It can be frustrating and sad when they take
the step from neurosis to psychosis, letting their illness prevent them
from having a reasonably normal and happy life. I lost one very good
friend when he let a very ill girlfriend/wife lead him further into dysfunction. Another, whom I'd known from high school and reconnected
with on Facebook, got very emotional and unfriended me for not having
all the same political views as he did. I tried to be careful with him
as I knew he had a history of mental illness, and his life was a bit of
a mess (living with his parents in his late 40s/early 50s), but even so
wasn't careful enough. I'm sorry your friend died, however screwed up
his life was. I can readily imagine one of my crazier friends or
ex-friends dying, having lost some non-crazy friends.
And to be quite truthful, had there ever come a time that I had to
call on someone to help me in an extreme time of need, he was the one
I would have called on. Fortunately that never happened.
Same here, though the one I lost to his crazy woman was of great value
to me and my family.
I'm not a good enough a person to feel guilt because I can't help
them and usually I find avoidance the best tactic since the day I
looked at a street person in Chicago and said "hello" to be met with
a hail of curses and unwarranted crazy agitation.
I don't consider myself a very good person, but I still feel a bit
guilty about being unable to help friends or even acquaintances in such
need. Sometimes I even feel a tiny bit guilty about teasing the crazy strangers on the Internet. It's probably just another bit of long-term
damage from being raised Catholic. I cast that particular devil behind
me about the age of ten, calling it just another cult, no better than
the Moonies, but the scars remain.
One can never know what is going on in their heads. The short pair
of reappearances of "sammi" in this newsgroup feeds into that entire
I remember that little incident. I also interacted with her a bit, and
tried to keep it friendly and positive.
story of my interaction with crazies. I do recognize that there are
"tame" crazies that can interact beneficially with their community.
I have one usually weekly for labor. He's harmless enough and
probably acquired some sort of brain damage along the way, and now 64
years old is slowing down. Still not to be trusted too far because
you never quite know where the tools and materials he's using on any
given day will end up, or what decisions he'll make that he thinks
sane.
I'd be very cautious about a crazy person with tools, at my home.
I use YouTube's "My Mix" to stream music while I'm at my computers.
When I started reading your post, it was playing Puddles Pity Party's
"Folsom Prison Blues/Pinball Wizard Smoosh Up". Now *that* isthe kind
of insanity I can easily find entertaining. And now, while I'm
finishing this post, it's playing another Puddles song (Cheap Trick's "I
Want You To Want Me")! I don't think it's played any of their stuff in
weeks for me, and now two songs in a few minutes. Google must be
watching what I'm reading and typing, and tailoring the feed to that.
Or it's an amusing coincidence. One or the other.
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