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How to be a strong atheist in a rather straightforward way
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H0ary H0bbit Religious Views: “Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.” - Edgar Allan Poe (January 26, 2010 at 1:53 pm)tackattack Wrote: I'll say I won't take Fr0d0's substantiation on this because he calls it an emotional rush amd he's bound to skew things more to comedy than to the point. Also the Holy Spirit is personal and doesn't require substantiation from any other source for those who've experienced it. That's you off my Xmas card list Mr serious face! 
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  (January 26, 2010 at 6:33 pm)Synackaon Wrote:(January 26, 2010 at 4:53 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: That's you off my Xmas card list Mr serious face! The clown thing started with me. Fr0d0 just added his own.
Best regards,
Leo van Miert Horsepower is how hard you hit the wall --Torque is how far you take the wall with you 
And the clown thing only furthered my belief that clowns are evil
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
But we are really not.
Well most of the time we are not. Well we can be good sometimes. We have know to be nice to kids every once in a while. We hardly kill anyone anymore. I am down to off only 3 people a day.
Best regards,
Leo van Miert Horsepower is how hard you hit the wall --Torque is how far you take the wall with you
I've experienced an insanely high 'High' (yet peaceful and pleasant feeling) very much like tackattack describes it for 8 weeks while I was in hospital and I ended up getting diagnosed with the possibility of bi-polar due to the kind of psychosis I experienced. I then had a weird residue of the feelings during my recovery and I still take 800 mg of Lithium a night now. Now I feel very empty then suddenly pretty good then suddenly very empty again. Dunno if that's anything to do with the drugs or if I am just not the sort of excitable person I used to be (apart from for brief moments).
It takes a long while to come off a drug like Lithium even if it's thought to not be required anymore, I have to come off it very gradually. Unless I have a 2nd mental episode I'm not confirmed as actually having Bi-polar and it may have been a 'one off' due to a lot of stress and other factors. One can feel the most amazing things when one is delusional... and heck, I would have believed anything back then, if someone mentioned the holy spirit, sure I'd believe it. I was super high and ultra gullible. I was high and could have easily attributed it to the Holy Spirit. I don't see how being high and attributing means fuck-all. You have to have some way of genuinely knowing it is the Holy Spirit if you are to claim it is... and I know of such way. How can you know what the 'holy spirit' feels like? And personal experience isn't remotely valid evidence for such things anyway (as I said, how can it be anyway - how can you discern what the 'Holy Spirit' feels like? That's crazy). EvF
Hey EvF, I had suffered from drug induced psychosis about 8 years ago. Through some relapsing due to repeating drug use habits, I learned to stop taking particular drugs and to monitor myself for changes that aren't rational. This can mean looking for times when I'm elated, or when I put too much energy/time into activities that aren't healthy. Yeah, I also need to keep an eye on my stressors when I feel like life's challenges are out of my control and I need to reclaim some perspective occassionally.
Not lately, but I need to remember to keep it in check. Mostly because of the way psychosis can "sneak up on you; evade the radar". Besides this, I learn as much as I can about the illness, about myself and psychology in general. I have a huge interest in the field and would love to prove that bipolar and schizophrenia as we know them are illnesses which are completely curable. Coming soon: Banner image-link to new anti-islam forum.
I have become a much more rational person ever since all that happened. I've learnt a lot about myself and if anything I think more good came out of it than bad (after all, it only lasted 8 weeks (of madness yeah, but then it was over)).
The problem is as of late.... things are starting to seem a lot more samey for me. I mean a lot more. Everything seems so incredibly mundane I think my frustration levels might hit the roof (the imaginary, hypothetical roof mind). EvF
Something that wasn't apparent to me throughout much of my recovery process (and which I'd like to have been) was the very basic truth that I'd changed. Even though I knew I'd grown it somehow didn't sink in that I'd grown out of who I was before hand. The trouble with this was that I could really only remember who I'd been before becoming ill. I was changing so dramatically that I couldn't go back to being an adolescent skater doin drugs all the time (mostly because I couldn't do drugs anymore - lol) but all for the better, and I'm growing to this day and will continue to grow and learn as all mature adults do.
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