Well, I enjoy country blues and those old black guys worked on farms and I think that some of them grew melons and considered watermelon to be a delicacy and it appears to have been a staple of their diet. Over here we refer to the Irish as tatty houwkers. This is how racial slurs work. Black people are stereotyped as banana eaters and then compared to animals that eat bananas.

Now, Repo man is an American movie but it was made by a British director and I think that he was annoyed when they made him take out the offensive language and my theory is that he thought that it was funny to use a racial slur that people wouldn't take for a racial slur and he was saying that if the studio wanted to treat the audience like idiots and flip his film up like that he could say to them that melon farmer is not considered to be a racial slur because they gave him a list of words that he couldn't use and it wasn't on it.

I don't fear pimples. They come they go. I just hate when I get one on my butt and I don't know till I sit down.. hahaha

This is a forum for discussion, for the exchange of ideas. Both 'science' and 'philosophy' imply questioning, investigation. So this is also, sometimes, a forum for investigation and learning.

Saying that "I believe..." something doesn't mean I've completely given up on investigating it. Have you given up? Have you settled into a dogmatic worldview, unassailable by reason or evidence?

By responding in this way to my question 'how do you know if its true' - are you saying that you completely don't care at all whether this belief is true or not?

I care about people. I care about the truth. The belief you espouse is a dangerous belief. This belief has killed people. Not very many in the west, in recent years, but it still happens.

This is a forum for discussion, for the exchange of ideas. Both 'science' and 'philosophy' imply questioning, investigation. So this is also, sometimes, a forum for investigation and learning.

Saying that "I believe..." something doesn't mean I've completely given up on investigating it. Have you given up? Have you settled into a dogmatic worldview, unassailable by reason or evidence?

By responding in this way to my question 'how do you know if its true' - are you saying that you completely don't care at all whether this belief is true or not?

I care about people. I care about the truth. The belief you espouse is a dangerous belief. This belief has killed people. Not very many in the west, in recent years, but it still happens.

Cuddlebunny. Why would you question my profile pictures? Hahahha! Now I know you got the hots for me. Go on tell me I'm a stud. I know you want to.

Alright, I know that this is going to be really contraversial but I don't like frizzy hair and that's a deal breaker for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byEGjLU2egA

I think this is the perfect song for this thread. lol

How do you know whether this belief is true?



I've found that man ppl who believe this treat it like a tautology, and fall prey to the 'no true scotsman' fallacy. If belief fails to cure you, then you just didn't really believe. In this way they never have to face truth.

What a stigma those two words can inflict – “mental illness”.

It is interesting to note that “mental illness” constitutes a condition where in a person can be incarcerated, drugged and/or tortured (e.g. electro-convulsive therapy and psychosurgery) against their will, with no legal recourse whatsoever.

Unlike our legal system wherein every person has the right to legal defense, a person diagnosed with a mental illness has no right to “medical defense”.

The most disturbing aspect of this is that the proponents of “mental health” claim that it is a “medical condition”. But unlike true medical conditions where a person has the right to accept or refuse medical treatment, the “mentally ill” have no such right. “Treatments” can be physically forced on them.

It is also interesting to note that 60 years ago, there were less than a dozen recognized “mental illnesses”. But DSM IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) lists over 300. And NIMH (National Institue for Mental Health) says “An estimated 26.2 percent of Americans ages 18 and older — about one in four adults — suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in a given year.” Where did they all come from??? According to Professor of Psychiatry Emeritus, Dr. Thomas Szasz, they were simply invented, unlike true medical conditions which are discovered.

Now considering that virtually 100% of all so-called “mental illness” is based on nothing more than subjective evaluations of behaviour (ref: the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), with no objective physical diagnostic procedures based on physiology, (because they don’t exist), and the fact that a person so diagnosed can be incarcerated against their will, we really do have what amounts to a loophole in “due process”.

Maybe I learned a long time ago to assess myself and change the things I can, accept the things I can't, and work towards having the wisdom to know the difference. Way I look at it everyone has the same number of hours in a day and the difference be tween being successful and unsuccessful is wasting time and energy envying others rather than being the best version of the me that I can be. Sometimes that is improving some of my weaknesses and sometimes it is just learning how to get around them.

At just shy of 21 I was basically told that regardless of the fact that I survived and incredibly abusive childhood that was in many ways no "childhood" at all I was then basically being sent back from pursueing my dream at the time to an empty apartment being told that it was so soon to be impaired to probably ever work again before an increasing debilitating condition that would probably preclude me ever having not only finding my family or having one of my own or even caring for myself.

Well hate to break it to you I did sustain myself, have a family, eventually find my family, and hold not only numerous jobs but actually owned businesses, vehicles, and homes with a multitude of friends, hobbies I enjoy, and experiences they told me were more than I dared dream to have BUT DID.

Did I sometimes have to work harder, longer, slower, back track, start from scratch more than once often doing things with people staring and saying give up? Sure. But you have to ignore that " can't/shouldn't/your not" thought's and people and just play the cards your dealt. It isn't easy and you may have to reshuffle your own cards here and there but you just have to quit daydreaming about how you want things to be and deal with how they are to your greatest advantage.