Roger Waters wrote a nice little song about the kind of institution you are thinking of, Orn ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Dpyjvo3XWk Francis On 16 Jan., 18:08, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote: > Fran, within the article one finds “…On the one hand, being chosen by > God generates passion and conviction. On the other, it does not fit > easily with notions of accountability…” For many of us, the terms > ‘passion’ and ‘conviction’ can all too easily be substituted with one… > fanaticism. And, this latter word aptly describes the unbalanced > psyche of those obsessed with right/wrong. Overall, the examples given > in the article, those who hear specific words from god…along with the > rest including W…are easily analyzed by psychology today. And, even > though Regan all but defunded mental health in the US, surly a place > can be found in some institution for them rather than parading such > bizarre and clownish behavior on the media as if it were the Jerry > Springer show instead of ‘news’. Oh, wait…I forgot, being corporately > funded, such programs find ‘truth’ one place and only one place…the > bottom line. Perhaps antipsychotics could be funded and passed out > instead? Of course, this is not the view of many atheists alone… it > includes many religiously inclined too. > > So before I’m pilloried and burned at the stake of Perpetual PC, I’ll > assign all of the above to having been nothing more than a bad dream…a > nightmare in fact… perhaps caused by eating too much popcorn too late > at night. (No, I don’t think it was wafers.) > > On Jan 16, 6:32 am, frantheman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > For a thinking analysis of some of the strange issues involved in > > evangelical protestantism, this is rather good: > > >http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2010/0116/1224262453386.html > > > On 16 Jan., 14:52, frantheman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 16 Jan., 06:36, ornamentalmind <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > This was my response to Robertson's (not Robinson's) Haiti crap. > > > > Ooops! Freudian slip, I suppose. I've been following another story > > > involving protestant fundamentalists in N. Ireland - the Mrs. Robinson > > > affair - and I guess it kind of spilled over > > > ...http://www.independent.ie/national-news/here-beginneth-the-hardest-of... > > > > Francis- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text -
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