(August 27, 2017 at 8:38 am)Hammy Wrote: So you guys are more than happy to trust the symptoms written by psychiatrists and say it fits, and yet are completely happy to ignore the fact you'd have to apply those symptoms to a proportion of the population far greater than psychiatrists say it subscribes to.
Okay you two go and play in the sandpit, maybe one day you'll realize how diagnosis actually works and recognize that you can read symptoms to a great deal of conditions and see them in yourself but it doesn't mean you have all those conditions yourself, and that the mistake you're making here fails by exactly the same poor logic.
I don't know anyone in my life who has exhibited even close half of those symptoms (not in front of me, at least, nor according to anyone else I know via hearsay) and I don't give a fuck about most of the rest of the population because I don't know them well enough to make a probabilistic determination (you seem keen to, though, what's THAT all about, I wonder, or is that just typical hypocrisy?) I don't pay attention to most people in the media enough to do mock long-distance diagnoses except for prominent theists and atheists, and virtually all of the theist speakers raise huge red flags on most of those symptoms (and others not on that index) which I noticed in them before I even saw that itemized list. Maybe it's an act and Craig is just the best mind-fucker on the planet. But if not...again, IF THE SHOE FITS. Maybe think a little deeper before you say something anyone of even average mental talent can refute with such ease? Besides, we understand that having all of those symptoms doesn't necessarily mean for sure he's genuinely got that underlying condition, it could be situational or a coincidence or he's unintentionally sending those messages across because he's poor at communicating or at least not without giving off an air of this or that. We're just concluding that based on observations and consistent patterns, he seems to fit the bill, among others in the same profession. We could be wrong but...that's in the category of less likely to be the case, what with how we know religion fucks with the minds of believers and the strong correlation between his behaviors and the symptoms as described.
Religions were invented to impress and dupe illiterate, superstitious stone-age peasants. So in this modern, enlightened age of information, what's your excuse? Or are you saying with all your advantages, you were still tricked as easily as those early humans?
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.
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There is no better way to convey the least amount of information in the greatest amount of words than to try explaining your religious views.