Thank you, a virtual basket of muffins is on it’s way to you…
Does that mean we are once again back to being Godless heathens?
God has left the building. Buy tickets now for his triumphant return in six months, when we can once again grovel in the company of his greatness.
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DO you really think he’ll return. I probably wouldn’t. I think I’d take the hint.
So far, have only ever been banned from two Christian sites. Also left a Cairo based Egyptology forum. The place was infested with extreme Muslims. All I did was to say the Quran is not a history book. Holy jumping fucking shit balls, those fuckers are nuts. I mean, who makes a death threat on an internet forum at a person on the other side of the world?
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OT; Do you have a VPN? If so do you use it when here? . I don’t so far. I don’t think it’s necessary. Be interested in opinions.
Yes but you’re sane, and he is crazier than a box of frogs.
Anyone ever notice how dead people are a whole lot like idiots? The only annoy the living.
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Cog - I thought 
the dead and idiots have the same thinking ability in common.
Whitefire13Atheist
Come on White… Idiots, for the most part, can cross the street on their own. An, unfortunate, but true, fact… unfortunately for all of us.
Yes…but do they look 
first??? They yearn to be with those they have most in common with - “birds of a feather…”
Whitefire13Atheist
They don’t have to look any more. Red means “Stop” and the little green walking man, means “Go.” Admittedly they do get run over in rural areas but… face it … not often enough. There just aren’t enough cars out in the boonies.
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Yes, this wasn’t the first time I’ve banned that guy. Probably the 4th or 5th time.
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Really .Fascinating. Does that mean you think he’s mentally unwell rather than a troll?
In my totally bullshit amateur opinion: yes.
eta: And perhaps a scammer.
Crazy people are often very tenacious.
Yair. That’s because the mentally seldom have any have insight into their condition.
Erving Goffman published an interesting set of four essays looking at the career of a mental patient. It’s called Asylums (1961)
One interesting observation was about paranoid people who believe everyone is out to get them. That’s kinda right; the patient’s family, physician and psychiatrist are conspiring behind his back to put him away.
Yes, I know most developed nations no longer use asylums for the mentally ill. The book is about process.
Below is part of the summary. The full article is worth a glance if the topic interests .
Oh, what do we do with/to our mentally ill these days? Mostly they’re allowed to wonder at large. The dangerous ones are put in prison. In the years following the closing of our asylums, some were put on buses to Perth. The eastern states sent their’s here. Fair dinkum, for a while it was like musical chairs. I understand the practice was also common in the US.
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Summary
Based on his participant observation field work (he was employed as a physical therapist’s assistant under a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health at a mental institution in Washington, D.C.), Goffman details his theory of the “total institution” (principally in the example he gives, as the title of the book indicates, mental institutions) and the process by which it takes efforts to maintain predictable and regular behavior on the part of both “guard” and “captor,” suggesting that many of the features of such institutions serve the ritual function of ensuring that both classes of people know their function and social role, in other words of “institutionalising” them. Goffman concludes that adjusting the inmates to their role has at least as much importance as “curing” them.-------------------------"
Hey, I wouldn’t be so damn paranoid if everybody wasn’t out to get me.
Quite true. Nor would you be paranoid if the persecution was real.
In the UK Thatcher rather perversely called it “care” in the community. Which basically meant they were left to negotiate the cruel maze of social care and welfare with little or no support. Pity the poor souls who weren’t lucky enough to have able and caring relatives.
Genuinely SAD. (twenty characters)
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It might be a cool selfie, but sadly GodBennett’s posts suggest he is madder than a box of frogs.
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