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talkpoliticsThe prophet Muhammad seemed to have serious psychological deformations and he suffered from megalomania - those are part of the conclusions in a book that angered lots of Muslims. Some authors even went further with these theories - Muhammad even had schizophrenia! Thank Allah that this whole episode didn't lead to something more extreme.
Or we could look at it from another angle. The German satirist Harald Martenstein said, "I write on topics that I hardly understand. Well, I'm outright unserious. Does that surprise you? That I'm admitting it? I may be unserious but I'm a decent guy, honestly. You can take an example from me".
Seems like in today's media you can't get into the mainstream without being unserious. Just look at the amounts of text that's being produced on a daily basis. How could you vomit such amounts of... stuff, if you're taking seriously the job you're doing? You just can't. The Medieval monks were pretty serious folks. They uttered just one or two sentences a day. That was their quota. Sometimes they could go on for days without saying anything. It's a well-known fact that the more you speak, the bigger the chances that you'd say something stupid. (In this sense, we all here are a bunch of idiots, but yeah we already knew that).
A while ago, within just a couple of minutes I read in one and the same newspaper two articles that gave diagnoses on the psychological condition of two people. Important people they are, I'm being told. The professor in psychiatry Borwin Bangelow said in an interview that the late Amie Winehouse had a borderline personality disorder. That disease had exactly 69% genetic element, i.e. it's being inherited. And in another interview from a few years ago he seemed to have predicted Amie's demise which would be caused by the exact same disease. In the same newspaper, some other professor in psycho-therapy, Sabine Nowara analyzed the psycho profile of the Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik. See, he wasn't really insane, because he wrote a manifesto of 1500 pages. A crazy person can't do that, OK? But what do we know, if a professor is saying it, it must be true.
I just can't wrap my mind around it, why should so much money be wasted for investigations, examinations and doctors, if we can just ask Borwin Bondelow and the likes. And their children and grandchildren of course - because the gift of being able to diagnose psychical disorders in other people that you've never met, is also 72% inherited. OK?
In relation to this, I'd recommend the book The Prophet's Disease by Armin Gois, a medical historian (whatever that means). The book even featured in a list of best-sellers for a while. The professor easily gets back a thousand years ago and, based on religious texts he reaches the conclusion that the prophet Muhammad "suffered a chronic paranoid-hallucination schizophrenia". So I browsed through the Koran to find the relevant places. There at some point Muhammad says that whoever doesn't eat from his camels doesn't belong to his kin. IMHO this speaks more of a pathological disdain for camels, but what do I know. I ain't no professor.
Only Allah knows what the next revelation of the next professor will be. Maybe the Neanderthals died out from bulimia, and Jesus had a phobia of planes and ships, so he constantly walked on water. Now, as for the fat Buddha there's no doubt about it: all his statues clearly show that he suffered from poor metabolism. I mean just look at this for Buddha's sake!
To be fair, I also browsed through the Bible. Now, turns out in Eden you shouldn't eat the fruits of a very particular tree; earth and water, light and darkness had to be distinguished extremely clearly; and God had a classic form of fixed ideas combined with hyperactivity. Because you have to be pretty crazy to create the whole world in just seven days. A simple garden fence took me a month! But that diagnosis is probably valid for humans too, if God is really our Creator. After all, the fish starts smelling from the head first.
So, if I'm kinda crazy, and if I have some kind of syndrome, then Bandelow will surely have noticed it. And he'll just wait for me to die, just like he did with Amie Winehouse. Then Borwin Bandelow or someone else like him will explain to everyone what had been going on inside my head, to the very last percent. If I were an important person, that is.
Or we could look at it from another angle. The German satirist Harald Martenstein said, "I write on topics that I hardly understand. Well, I'm outright unserious. Does that surprise you? That I'm admitting it? I may be unserious but I'm a decent guy, honestly. You can take an example from me".
Seems like in today's media you can't get into the mainstream without being unserious. Just look at the amounts of text that's being produced on a daily basis. How could you vomit such amounts of... stuff, if you're taking seriously the job you're doing? You just can't. The Medieval monks were pretty serious folks. They uttered just one or two sentences a day. That was their quota. Sometimes they could go on for days without saying anything. It's a well-known fact that the more you speak, the bigger the chances that you'd say something stupid. (In this sense, we all here are a bunch of idiots, but yeah we already knew that).
A while ago, within just a couple of minutes I read in one and the same newspaper two articles that gave diagnoses on the psychological condition of two people. Important people they are, I'm being told. The professor in psychiatry Borwin Bangelow said in an interview that the late Amie Winehouse had a borderline personality disorder. That disease had exactly 69% genetic element, i.e. it's being inherited. And in another interview from a few years ago he seemed to have predicted Amie's demise which would be caused by the exact same disease. In the same newspaper, some other professor in psycho-therapy, Sabine Nowara analyzed the psycho profile of the Norwegian terrorist Anders Breivik. See, he wasn't really insane, because he wrote a manifesto of 1500 pages. A crazy person can't do that, OK? But what do we know, if a professor is saying it, it must be true.
I just can't wrap my mind around it, why should so much money be wasted for investigations, examinations and doctors, if we can just ask Borwin Bondelow and the likes. And their children and grandchildren of course - because the gift of being able to diagnose psychical disorders in other people that you've never met, is also 72% inherited. OK?
In relation to this, I'd recommend the book The Prophet's Disease by Armin Gois, a medical historian (whatever that means). The book even featured in a list of best-sellers for a while. The professor easily gets back a thousand years ago and, based on religious texts he reaches the conclusion that the prophet Muhammad "suffered a chronic paranoid-hallucination schizophrenia". So I browsed through the Koran to find the relevant places. There at some point Muhammad says that whoever doesn't eat from his camels doesn't belong to his kin. IMHO this speaks more of a pathological disdain for camels, but what do I know. I ain't no professor.
Only Allah knows what the next revelation of the next professor will be. Maybe the Neanderthals died out from bulimia, and Jesus had a phobia of planes and ships, so he constantly walked on water. Now, as for the fat Buddha there's no doubt about it: all his statues clearly show that he suffered from poor metabolism. I mean just look at this for Buddha's sake!
To be fair, I also browsed through the Bible. Now, turns out in Eden you shouldn't eat the fruits of a very particular tree; earth and water, light and darkness had to be distinguished extremely clearly; and God had a classic form of fixed ideas combined with hyperactivity. Because you have to be pretty crazy to create the whole world in just seven days. A simple garden fence took me a month! But that diagnosis is probably valid for humans too, if God is really our Creator. After all, the fish starts smelling from the head first.
So, if I'm kinda crazy, and if I have some kind of syndrome, then Bandelow will surely have noticed it. And he'll just wait for me to die, just like he did with Amie Winehouse. Then Borwin Bandelow or someone else like him will explain to everyone what had been going on inside my head, to the very last percent. If I were an important person, that is.
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Date: 19/10/11 19:39 (UTC)To channel my inner Howard Stern:
Date: 19/10/11 19:58 (UTC)And as far as the Bible's authors, I think the Bible's authors had a combination of envy and impotence given the perpetual fixation with the penis in the Bible and how almost none of the Biblical characters save David and Solomon seemed to avoid impotence issues. There's also a bit of an incest fetish and a rape fetish, in addition to a focus on MA-rated blood and gore. Man, a fully faithful Hollywood version of the Bible would be awesome just to see the Fundie dittoheads' heads explode.
Re: To channel my inner Howard Stern:
Date: 19/10/11 20:09 (UTC)Re: To channel my inner Howard Stern:
Date: 19/10/11 20:10 (UTC)Re: To channel my inner Howard Stern:
Date: 19/10/11 20:21 (UTC)Re: To channel my inner Howard Stern:
Date: 19/10/11 20:27 (UTC)Re: To channel my inner Howard Stern:
Date: 19/10/11 20:40 (UTC)Medieval Under L sez:
Date: 19/10/11 20:54 (UTC)Re: Medieval Under L sez:
Date: 20/10/11 00:06 (UTC)And we try to avoid hitting the face. Whatever beef we may have with our target, that's no reason to disrespect his mother by forcing her to go to a closed-casket funeral.
Re: Medieval Under L sez:
Date: 20/10/11 15:13 (UTC)Re: Medieval Under L sez:
Date: 21/10/11 00:14 (UTC)A homemade tank or a pillbox is effective, true. But very untraditional. You have to get up close and make sure the face isn't damaged. In the old country, there's a protocol to these things, ya know. ;)
Patriotic-Ferver-filled Under L sez:
Date: 21/10/11 00:18 (UTC)Re: Patriotic-Ferver-filled Under L sez:
Date: 21/10/11 22:34 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 19/10/11 20:13 (UTC)So we generally have an entire market of people giving explanations for things, all equally or more specious than religion.
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Date: 19/10/11 20:19 (UTC)The video neatly demonstrated the ability of intellectuals to incorporate everything into an explanation, what we call "story-telling". If someone brings up counter-evidence, just explain how it confirms the original thesis, and actually demonstrates what you're talking about "on a deeper level". These sorts of unfalsifiable, fantastical stories are multiplying like flies and we are all the worse off for it.
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Date: 19/10/11 20:23 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 19/10/11 20:23 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 20/10/11 10:22 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 19/10/11 20:43 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 20/10/11 15:14 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 20/10/11 15:17 (UTC)I learned how to paste text on my phone!
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Date: 20/10/11 18:44 (UTC)For the glory of civilization, fredomdom and democracycy!
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Date: 19/10/11 22:56 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 20/10/11 05:05 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 20/10/11 07:04 (UTC)Also, a science should never have any interest in being accessible for the average person.
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Date: 20/10/11 07:11 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 20/10/11 09:47 (UTC):)
Date: 19/10/11 23:13 (UTC)I heard about this Eden - Russia tried to build it, called communism..
It wasn't really built but they were close - fruits were rare for people.
I heard North Korea and Cuba are very close to this ideal.
Re: :)
Date: 20/10/11 07:12 (UTC)Re: :)
Date: 20/10/11 18:46 (UTC)Re: :)
Date: 20/10/11 18:47 (UTC)Re: :)
Date: 21/10/11 05:13 (UTC)Re: :)
Date: 21/10/11 07:05 (UTC)ROFLMAO:
Date: 20/10/11 14:52 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 20/10/11 05:02 (UTC)