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Originally posted by Skyfloating
Originally posted by lifecitizen
Okay, so are you saying people who don't believe they are a spiritual being suffer neurosis?
I hadnt heard the term before, thanks for that.
What are some of the cross over points?
A part of spiritual education in many schools is being able to handle emotions and overcome negativity. Hinduism offers a vast array of techniques of yoga and meditation. Buddhism offers meditation and mantras. Christianity and Judaism and Islam offer prayers and rules-to-live-by and even eating habits.
The mystical versions of these Religions offer ways to directly experience higher realms. Neurosis and Psychosis cannot exist in such frequencies.
Spiritual perception is squashed by dumbed-down by the way schooling of children has worked for thousands of years and continues to work today.
Originally posted by lifecitizen
Despite religious myths there is no evidence we are spiritual beings or that there are 'higher realms'
I don't agree with your assertion that people who lack spirituality suffer neurosis.
Is emotional illness the same as mental illness?
Originally posted by Freeborn
I personally can not believe that a persons mental or physical well being is dependant on their previous actions.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Ah yes, its only my judgement that he was ill. Or like another poster put it: "Mental Illness is only a label"
By those standards I could go on a killing spree and if someone judged me because of it I could say "Its not true that Im crazy. Its only in your judgement. Dont label me or discriminate against me"
Darwin was an inspiration for both Hitler and Stalin, two of the greatest mass-murderers of all time.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Originally posted by riley
Trying to discredit a scientist by calling him mentally ill?
Trying? No, not trying. Succeeding.
Originally posted by melatonin
I'm not sure I'm allowed to note what I think you did achieve, I hear the ban-hammer has been dusted off.
The small-minded bigoted sociopath might want to belittle his efforts, of course.
Originally posted by melatonin
You see, a scientist can be an a-hole, psychopath, maudlin, neurotic, sentimentalist, paranoid conspiricist, emotional and/or social leper, manic depressive, narcissist, racist, and/or bigot and so on. They can even be fervently religious and pray for magical intervention in their experiments - however, the quality of their science is actually determined by its empirical veracity.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
The crowds are too easily impressed by what appears to look like the work of a "genius"
edit on by Skyfloating because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Ive never suggested that those who disagree with me be banned. Its a fantasy by many here, a complete misperception of my role in this thread as a member. Indeed there are some on my friends-list who disagree with me to the point of fury.
Originally posted by melatonin
And the attempt to discredit his contribution because he appears to have suffered from depression is more a reflection on your position. It shows that you have nothing to actually contradict his ideas.
Indeed, although the term is often thrown around willy-nilly, this is one of the first actual argumentum ad-hominem I've seen on ATS. Well done.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
Actually first I had dismissed his ideas and then only later found the explanation of why they were as dumb as they were. And by dumb I dont only mean contradictory but near mentally-challenged.
Any person even only slightly in touch with reality realizes he does not know the "origin of species", much less his own origin.
It may be the first thread that purposefully attacks someones character in an eye-for-an-eye, yes.
Originally posted by Skyfloating
If Darwin had taught you the origin of species, you could tell me your origin in one sentence just like I could tell you the origin of a building or a piece of food.
But you cant. Its, as of now, a complete mystery.
Originally posted by melatonin
Anyway, although you provide many lulz the football is calling. Caio. (sic)
Originally posted by Skyfloating
No, Football is more important. And look how it unites even us. Ciao.
Originally posted by lifecitizen
Mentally ill or not, I will still believe in Darwins theory of evolution as opposed to a invisible magic sky fairy that is coming back to save us.
Intelligent people can't suffer from neurosis? is it limited to dumb people?