Read this. Weep.
Read this. Rage against the dying of the Enlightenment.
(Apologies to Dylan Thomas)
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Are you trying to suggest, Gummo, that there was an Age of Enlightenment?
The fact that religion still occupies a powerful place in the world suggests to me that Enlightenment has not yet arrived!
Yeah but you see of course chemical imbalances in the brain do not exist. If chemical imbalances in the brain existed, one would have to think through the problem, which is, like, boring, and too hard, and hasn’t got any rapture in it. And one would not be able to blame anyone, much less point one’s finger and utter howls of execration, and what fun would that be?
Not altogether unexpected from an outfit started by a mediocre science fiction scribe.
As for myself. I’ll go with the mob set up by that carpenter’s kid. No contraception, but pills and booze are kosher.
But that wasn’y Yeshua ha Notzri, it was that nutter Saul of Tarsus.
Well shilled, Evan.
Yairs, what can you say about secretive quasi-religious groups who militantly attack people’s behaviour and ordinary social drug use that isn’t scriptural (ie. Matthew 7:16)? You will know them by their fruits, baby.
Citizens are more at threat from unwillingness to restrain the freedoms of unfortunates with chemical imbalances than the threats supposedly averted by the government’s willingness to restrain freedoms so they can be seen as "tough on security issues"
But then, underfunded psych services aren’t news, are they.
Also, I’m yet to hear of a differential diagnosis that allows separation of a religious rapture or vision from a psychotic episode. Do we have enough stocks of chlorpromazine and the like if there are no definitive ways to tell the difference and use the “walks like a duck, quacks like a duck” method of analysis.
Are there any experts on psychiatry who can point to an objective method of differentiating the two - apart from a statement that “it’s a matter of faith”.