On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 11:34 AM, frantheman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
And this one as well to put it all in perspective... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CRnQ65J02XA -Don > > 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 - > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > ""Minds Eye"" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en. > > > >
-- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en.
