There was a time when "Jimmy The Burner" had the blessing of the Church.

On Tuesday, December 30, 2014 3:44:15 PM UTC-5, archytas wrote:
>
> You know I have no qualms on effects on you.  At about the same time, I 
> was discovering something about what was going on in the brains of people 
> no one would want to meet - my first involved listening to an arsonist who 
> had just killed two children.  A smelly, grubby little man with a smell I 
> still remember, he was racked with guilt and protesting he had been acting 
> on god's instructions, including his not guilty plea.  I had him bang to 
> rights, but the court bailed him.  He burned his wife to death a couple of 
> days later, only managing to scorch his hands, having doused himself with 
> disinfectant, mistaking it for petrol.  He didn't interest me much, though 
> the system's failure to protect those who should have mattered did.  I 
> haven't gone much on internally justified epistemology since  The system 
> has probably gone further down the pan too.  My chief constable at the time 
> was a prophet of god.  I went off religion.  How do you know its going to 
> turn you into an admirable old silver-basher or Jimmy-the-Burner?
>
>

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