GB's member Gerrit Losch on college in Monza (Italy) in 2005

by Ancientofdays 27 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  Kudra

  Such a load of bullshit.
  
  I can't believe that. The only reason they don't want the dubs to go to school and better themselves is that then the dubs will realize the lies the WT teaches see that there is something better than that made up religion.
  
  ugh.
  
  They really are responsible for the lives they ruin.
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  Chameleon

  Losch can take his words and shove them you know where.
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  VM44

  February 25, 1988

  Brain Wound Eliminates Man's Mental Illness

  AP

  LEAD: A mentally ill young man who shot himself in the head in a suicide attempt suffered a brain injury that apparently eliminated his phobia of germs and his obsession with washing his hands, doctors say.

  A mentally ill young man who shot himself in the head in a suicide attempt suffered a brain injury that apparently eliminated his phobia of germs and his obsession with washing his hands, doctors say.

  The .22-caliber slug destroyed the section of the brain responsible for his disabling obsessive-compulsive behavior without causing any other brain damage, his doctor said in a report in Physician's Weekly, a British journal of psychiatry. Victims of the disorder typically have an inexplicable compulsion to repeat activities over and over.

  The afflicted man, now a straight-A college student, tried to kill himself five years ago, when he was 19 years old, said Dr. Leslie Solyom, a psychiatrist at Shaughnessy Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia. Effects of His Behavior

  The man, identified only as George, washed his hands hundreds of times a day and took frequent showers, Dr. Solyom said. The behavior had forced him to drop out of school and quit his job.

  Dr. Solyom treated him for more than a year before he tried suicide.

  ''George was also very depressed and told his mother that his life was so wretched that he would rather die,'' Dr. Solyom related. ''She said, 'So look George, if your life is so wretched, just go and shoot yourself.' So George went to the basement, stuck a .22-caliber rifle in his mouth and pulled the trigger.''

  The bullet lodged in the left front lobe of the brain. Surgeons removed it but could not get out all the fragments.

  ''When he was transferred to our hospital three weeks later, he had hardly any compulsions left,'' Dr. Solyom said.

  George had also retained the same I.Q. he had before becoming ill, Dr. Solyum said, and he returned to school, got a new job and is now in his second year of college. #3% in U.S. May Be Compulsive The story was also reported in today's issue of The Los Angeles Times.

  New research indicates that as much as 3 percent of the United States population displays some obsessive-compulsive behavior, said Dr. Michael Jenike, a psychiatrist at Harvard University.

  Conventional psychotherapy is useless in such victims, Dr. Jenike said. The disorder is most effectively treated with a combination of antidepressant drugs and behavioral therapy.

  As a last resort, neurosurgeons will occasionally remove part of the left front lobe of the brain, where the obsessive behavior is thought to originate. The operation is probably performed between 10 and 30 times a year in the United States, with mixed results, said Dr. Thomas Ballantine of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

  Correction: February 26, 1988, Friday, Late City Final Edition

  It is a medical news publication produced in New York City by Whittle Communications of Knoxville, Tenn.
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  VM44

  That news story is from 1988! Was Gerrit Losch waiting 17 years for an opportunity to use it in one of his talks as an example?
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  gymbob

  Just watched this with my "never-been-a-dub" wife. Here are some of her responses...

  "I want to throw up"

  "Why doesn't somebody stop that deranged man?"

  "This just makes me want to scream, 'What's wrong with you people?!"
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  sspo

  While others are struggling to pay rent, mortgage and raising a family without an education........ him and his wife are enjoying beautiful Italy

  and most likely the rest of Europe all expense paid by the struggling dubs
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  JeffT

  I hope more of these are on youtube. This makes the WTBS look like a bunch of deranged idiots.
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  What-A-Coincidence

  I am sick! Excuse me just a min.
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  xxfreethinkerxx

  If I hadn't been to college, I wouldn't have been able to learn English and Italian and to subtitle this talk... and only Italians would have been able to understand it... Mr. Losch should be grateful that someone who hasn't followed his advice has contributed to the spread of his words of wisdom. Education = empowerment, ability to communicate, think, refute, challenge.... all of which are extremely dangerous skills in the organization!!
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  VM44

  Losch didn't tell all of the story!

  He survived and after that he managed to live a normal life.

  Yes, it's true,

  he survived,

  ....AND THEN HE WENT TO COLLEGE!!!