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DOoooooooooods. What took you so long?
Tuesday, August 27, 2019 3:46 PM
1KIKI
Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.
Quote: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/27/politics/donald-trump-france-2020-pitch/index.html Trump shows voters his true colors (CNN)President Donald Trump tried to explain his agitating approach to life, politics and the rest of the world in a flash of impatience during a blustery news conference in France. "It's the way I negotiate. It's done me well over the years and it's doing even better for the country, I think," he said.
Tuesday, August 27, 2019 4:21 PM
SECOND
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Tuesday, August 27, 2019 4:29 PM
JEWELSTAITEFAN
Tuesday, August 27, 2019 4:49 PM
Tuesday, August 27, 2019 9:17 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 1kiki: I ran out of patience.
Tuesday, August 27, 2019 10:50 PM
6IXSTRINGJACK
Quote:Originally posted by SECOND: The ability to distinguish what is real from what is unreal is very important. With mental pathology, the afflicted person starts to see delusions and hallucinations as real. This mentally unwell person will actually do whatever they can to bulldoze over reality as it actually exists and the people who believe in it. This is why a sick, delusional person will force family members and those around them to abandon their own sense of reality and espouse the sick person's delusions and conspiracy theories.
Thursday, September 5, 2019 7:56 PM
Quote:Originally posted by 1kiki: Thanks !!! I got as far as text / paste but there were too many extra headers, sidebars, captions etc, and for some weird reason, it recopied entire sections and re-inserted them at random. All from scroll / reverse highlight / copy / paste into text. I ran out of patience.
Quote:Originally posted by SECOND: Quote:Originally posted by 1kiki: I ran out of patience.Question: Every day Trump and his regime seem to do something unprecedented in modern American history. How do people become used to this malignant normality? Answer: The origin of that phrase goes back to Robert Jay Lifton, who wrote the foreword to our book, as you know. He insisted on using that phrase and I thought it was a brilliant one. His foreword is centered around two themes. Eventually a malignant normality will set in where we will accept what is malignant as being normal. That is described as "a loss of insight." This happens when an individual or a group no longer sees what is wrong, destructive and pathological as abnormal but actually accept it as normal. The second theme Dr. Lifton highlighted was our role as witnessing professionals. As mental health professionals we understand this phenomenon. We see this every day. We know what happens to patients when they lose their ability to have insight, when they can no longer see the abnormal as malignant and bad. The patients are delusional because they believe bad things are good for them. When this happens a patient succumbs to the disorder and starts being destructive. Question: Donald Trump appears to be pure unrestrained id. He is driven by greed. Trump does not read and is proudly ignorant. He possesses no ideology. Beyond greed, how much of Trump's behavior is a function of his own desires and how much is because of manipulation by others? Answer: Trump would have remained psychologically disordered as an individual, and therefore not doing much harm, if he had just remained a private citizen. As a real estate builder and a reality TV personality, Trump's power to do harm to society would be vastly limited. But because he rose to the level of president of the United States, this is why I and other health professionals have a medical obligation to speak publicly, to sound the alarm about this whole situation. Donald Trump is the center of vast levels of harm being done to a wide segment of society. This is a public health and public safety issue. The health paradigm has no room for politics. This has nothing to do with politics. Our concerns are purely about public health and safety, and whether or not American society will choose a destructive route versus a life-affirming, constructive route. Disease by definition is destructive. What we are witnessing with Donald Trump's presidency are all signs of destruction. These symptoms are the dismantling of democracy, rampant corruption, thwarting the rule of law and even the loss of a shared sense of what reality actually is. The ability to distinguish what is real from what is unreal is very important. With mental pathology, the afflicted person starts to see delusions and hallucinations as real. This mentally unwell person will actually do whatever they can to bulldoze over reality as it actually exists and the people who believe in it. This is why a sick, delusional person will force family members and those around them to abandon their own sense of reality and espouse the sick person's delusions and conspiracy theories. This is what Donald Trump is doing to the United States and the American people. People who have their grounding in reality and rationality are now losing ground to him. www.salon.com/2019/06/14/yale-psychiatrist-bandy-lee-trumps-mental-health-is-now-a-national-and-global-emergency/
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