Why don't you believe?

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#261

Ahhh… the appeal to the Evil One. Completely fallacious, you are what you do. No one can condemn you for thoughts that are not acted upon.

If your whole view of reality has never been flipped over, you have wasted your life. You have failed to meet challenges. You have failed to thrive.

I would love to have a maniacal, murderous Demon with supernatural powers appear in my life. He would make a great friend for the invisible purple dragon that lives in my back yard. The demon and the dragon could spend their days comparing maniacal, murderous plans for ruling the universes. They could compare supernatural powers and pull pranks on each other. But most importantly, they could leave me the fuck alone.

Have you thought of inventing a magical purple dragon to go with your magical maniacal, murderous, demon? Perhaps they would get along and leave you the fuck alone. Perhaps they would kill each other, that would be good too.

Just consider the change it would make on your livelihood if you were to create a new magical demon to cancel out the old magical demon.

Think about it. You have found one magical demon deep within, THERE MUST BE MORE!

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#262

For some reason I haven’t met a scientist yet who can explain my irrational psyche well enough for me to go about inventing my own hallucinations.

Ie. nobody fucking knows what the cause or mechanism of schizophrenia is, you turdfuck

#263

I like the communication theory model but that is because I use it in Family Counseling with people who have schizophrenics in their family.

He he he … you fucktard, you don’t know a dumb fuck thing about me… http://www.oddlydevelopedtypes.com/files/The%20Secret%20Lives%20of%20INTPs.pdf

You will discover why I am so upsetting to you …

#264

I like the “Double Bind Communication Hypothesis.” (Jay Haley and Bates)

#265

I like “there’s an Evil demon in my head who tortures me” hypothesis.

#266

But I’d love to learn. I’ll come back to the forum after reading your 256 PAGE LINK!!! :face_with_monocle:

(And I thought I thought highly of my self)

Here’s a deal. Tell me about mind crushing psychosomatic headaches which last years and are precipitated by months and months of annihilation anxiety and I’ll fuck off; read the book; and only then come back.

Side note: “annihilation anxiety” was once upon a time a very interesting and informative entry in Wikipedia. Since a while back you can find almost no trace of the entry; nor can you seem to find much information on “annihilation anxiety” - despite its description as a prevalence among Philosophers and Psychiatrists alike. It is also known as “the unthinkable anxiety”.

#267

Why not feed it cookies and get on its’ good side? Given your lack of imagination and inability to create more than one demon at a time, a cookie might be a good alternative.

#268

Okay, “They Suck”
Anything else you need to know?

Enjoy the book!

#269

Apologies - this may be a double post -

Ratty me boy… Be careful what you wish for. Your headaches may be the only thing holding your life together.

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#270

It was four years of “I know there’s pain - but I can’t feel it.”

It was a bind so evil and strong that I could no longer discern it. But it was there. And it stayed there for four years.

When I unravelled, you should have seen me. I was free. And the only way to know I was free was to be gripped so tightly by that headache.

Believe me when I say “Unbinding” is a synonym for Nibbana!!! LIONS ROAR :tiger:

#271

Do have an audiobook for that, per chance, chip chipperoo?

#272

Makes perfect sense to me. Delusional pain conquered by a delusional cure. (I think the purple dragon would have been more fun.)

#273

The theories/explanations of the concept of gravity, yes, which is my point exactly. A theory which is an explanation of the dynamics of observed phenomena, can be revised, improved on or rescinded. Only when a theory is proven to be all encompassing and irrefutable, does it become established fact. Laws, like reported speech, merely report observed phenomenon, and are an objective given.

#274

Trans-speciation, which has never been observed, is the least criterion. Not adaptation/subspeciation.

#275

Not at all, that reply says a great deal, I have of course selected the part that highlights you have no objective support for your claim. And again if you admit you do not know was relieves your back pain, how are you ruling out a placebo effect?

Well of course it doesn’t, getting the same result doesn’t verify any claim you care to assign as the cause, why on earth would you think it does? This is the very definition of a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. I gave one example of an alternative, the placebo effect, and you can offer no credible explanation as to how you’ve ruled it out. NB Note I am not making a claim, merely pointing out how biased and flawed your reasoning is here.

Not without objectively verifying the cause, you are simply assuming it here. we are also doing you the courtesy of accepting your claim here, in a peer reviewed study of course such a subjective anecdotal claim would be meaningless.

#276

Nonsense again, speciation can be observed in the fossil record of course, but also has been observed in real time in laboratory research.

Did you really not know this?

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#277

You really are this stupid?
Fuck me dead galah…

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#278

Can you give an example?

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#279

Ummmmmm … “Evolution” for one.

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#280

He said “when a theory is proven to be all encompassing and irrefutable”. I’m asking for an example of that.

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