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  Where and What. . . IS THE EVIDENCE for "Mental ILLNESS"? ? ?

  by Terry in

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  i have no interest whatsoever in stirring up controversy.. in fact, i find clashes of opinion to be debilitatingly negative.. so, i'd simply like to request that we narrow this discussion to evidence.. please watch this video which is tantalizingly titled :.

  "there's no such thing as mental illness".. consider this data and listen to the presentation of cause vs. effects and give me your analysis and any evidence for conclusions you may draw.

  we all have anecdotal tendencies, but i should remind you, anecdotal testimony isn't evidence, only opinion.________________________________________.

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  Terry

  It is pretty clear who didn't watch the entire video.
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  Where and What. . . IS THE EVIDENCE for "Mental ILLNESS"? ? ?

  by Terry in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i have no interest whatsoever in stirring up controversy.. in fact, i find clashes of opinion to be debilitatingly negative.. so, i'd simply like to request that we narrow this discussion to evidence.. please watch this video which is tantalizingly titled :.

  "there's no such thing as mental illness".. consider this data and listen to the presentation of cause vs. effects and give me your analysis and any evidence for conclusions you may draw.

  we all have anecdotal tendencies, but i should remind you, anecdotal testimony isn't evidence, only opinion.________________________________________.

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  Terry

  I have no interest whatsoever in stirring up controversy.

  In fact, I find clashes of opinion to be debilitatingly negative.

  So, I'd simply like to request that we narrow this discussion to EVIDENCE.

  Please watch this video which is tantalizingly titled :

  "There's No Such Thing as Mental Illness".

  Consider this data and listen to the presentation of cause vs. effects and give me your analysis and any evidence for conclusions you may draw. We all have anecdotal tendencies, but I should remind you, anecdotal testimony isn't evidence, only opinion.
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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOScYBwMyAA
  
  
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  The man presenting this video is a Libertarian blogger/ podcast Philosopher named Stephen Molyneux. If you want to take exception to him personally, why not start a separate discussion topic so we don't trip over our Ad Hominems, okay?
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  My interest in this topic is spurred by my experiences with people who have taken these medications and by my extensive interactions with psychologists, counselors and psychiatrists over the years.
  Your mileage and interest may be different or even prejudicial. If so, please state why, if you please.
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  John Barry and the Picasso Syndrome

  by Terry in

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  john barry and the picasso syndrome.

  picasso self-portrait.

  in their final years, john barry and pablo picasso were often criticized for having limited their palette of colors to pastels.

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  Terry

  John Barry and the Picasso Syndrome

  
  

  

  Picasso Self-Portrait

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  In their final years, John Barry and Pablo Picasso were often criticized for having limited their palette of colors to pastels. Where was the revolutionary zeal to innovate which had once carved a jagged niche out of a jaded public accustomed to incessant novelty?

  Both, in their old age, allowed themselves a freedom that, at the very end of life, neither sought to try to justify. They had found communion with a greater ethos than fame and public acceptance, each had found interior celebration of life itself.

  Such a celebration begins with profound contemplation of life’s opposite: death.

  
  

  
  

  Composer JOHN BARRY

  

  This visage pauses at the frontier that separates life from death. Nothing else is expressed in the features, which in their rigidness reveal the extreme receptiveness of the eyes. And there is no doubt that these eyes are aware of life’s end.
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  Both Picasso and Barry were the old Masters of their day, living the good life of fine wine, a beautiful young wife, four children, a superb lifestyle of wealth and fame and above all, a serious contemplation of beauty in both nature and art.

  Maestro Barry’s two final solo albums grappled with memory, longing, love, and the infinite. The Beyondness of Things and Eternal Echoes are titles clearly marking these intentions.

  Pablo Picasso’s last self-portrait was titled Facing Death.

  Each, in his own way, faced eternity or oblivion as a Catholic, having eschewed all outward trappings of spirituality until the final years.

  John Barry’s last track on his final album is titled, Elegy.

  What is an elegy but a serious meditation which mourns what shall be lost in death?

  We must pause to ask, what is lost in the passing of both Pablo Picasso and John Barry?
  Picasso is arguably the most collected, most referenced and most famous artist of the 20th century, and perhaps in all of art history.

  John Barry created a romantic legend straddling three worlds of music which includes Rock n Roll (John Barry Seven), film scores (Five Academy Awards), Jazz/Big Band (original arrangements both unique and memorably his own style, and musical theater. (Passion Flower Hotel, Lolita My Love, Little Prince, Billy, Brighton Rock).
  He is best known for his scores to the James Bond movies, From Russia with Love, Goldfinger, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Diamonds are Forever, The Man with the Golden Gun, Moonraker, Octopussy, Living Daylights. (His creation of the James Bond Theme from a few notes sketched by Monty Norman, due to contract obligations, has gone unknown by the public at large.)
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  What is the Picasso Syndrome?

  Well, rather than a ‘thing,’ it is a symptom on the part of the artist’s audience who begin to complain of too much repetition, sameness, and predictability. In actuality, it is a failure to understand the nature of an Artist’s journey of exploration through many periods and phases.

  In both painting and music composition we find theme, variations and medium. John Barry’s most innovative period blossomed as time for capturing the ear with exotic instruments and mixed stylization. His final period eschewed odd textures in favor of great majesty in strings and horns, piano and choirs.

  For Picasso, the transition from traditional portraiture to Modern Cubism stunned the general public as readily as his fixation on the color blue soon to follow. Each stage of his development alienated those who preferred the previous period’s work.

  In each instance, it wasn’t the fault of either composer or painter that their admirers soon became detractors for no other reason than the unwillingness to allow the artist absolute freedom of expression unfettered by demands of a marketplace.

  
  

  If an Artist is the slave of public tastes, it is a tragedy for both.

  John Barry and Pablo Picasso reached the end of their respective lives firmly positioned as master’s of their domain. What history or posterity may decide is of no more importance than the decision to make Pluto a planet or a small, icy body beyond the orbit of Neptune.

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  Their works shall ever live on!

  
  

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  List of Movies scored by John Barry

  • Beat Girl (1960)
  • Never Let Go (1960)
  • The Cool Mikado (1962)
  • The Amorous Prawn (1962)
  • The L-Shaped Room (1962)
  • Man in the Middle (1963)
  • A Jolly Bad Fellow (1964)
  • Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
  • Zulu (1964)
  • Boy and Bicycle (1965)
  • Mister Moses (1965)
  • Four in the Morning (1965)
  • The Party's Over (1965)
  • The Knack ...and How to Get It (1965)
  • King Rat (1965)
  • The Ipcress File (1965)
  • Born Free (1966)
  • The Chase (1966)
  • The Wrong Box (1966)
  • The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
  • The Whisperers (1967)
  • Dutchman (1967)
  • Boom! (1968)
  • Petulia (1968)
  • Deadfall (1968)
  • The Lion in Winter (1968)
  • The Appointment (1969)
  • Midnight Cowboy (1969)
  • Monte Walsh (1970)
  • The Last Valley (1970)
  • They Might Be Giants (1971)
  • Murphy's War (1971)
  • Walkabout (1971)
  • Mary, Queen of Scots (1971)
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972)
  • Follow Me! (1972)
  • A Doll's House (1973)
  • The Tamarind Seed (1974)
  • The Dove (1974)
  • The Day of the Locust (1975)
  • King Kong (1976)
  • Robin and Marian (1976)
  • The Deep (1977)
  • First Love (1977)
  • The White Buffalo (1977)
  • Game of Death (1978)
  • The Betsy (1978)
  • Starcrash (1978)
  • Hanover Street (1979)
  • The Black Hole (1979)
  • Somewhere in Time (1980)
  • Touched by Love (1980)
  • Inside Moves (1980)
  • Night Games (1980)
  • Raise the Titanic (1980)
  • The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981)
  • Body Heat (1981)
  • Frances (1982)
  • Murder by Phone (1982)
  • Hammett (1982)
  • The Golden Seal (1983)
  • High Road to China (1983)
  • The Cotton Club (1984)
  • Until September (1984)
  • Mike's Murder (1984)
  • Jagged Edge (1985)
  • Out of Africa (1985)
  • Howard the Duck (1986)
  • A Killing Affair (1986)
  • Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
  • The Golden Child (1986) (only partially used in final cut)
  • Hearts of Fire (1987)
  • Masquerade (1988)
  • Dances with Wolves (1990)
  • Chaplin (1992)
  • Ruby Cairo (1993)
  • My Life (1993)
  • Indecent Proposal (1993)
  • The Specialist (1994)
  • Cry, The Beloved Country (1995)
  • Across the Sea of Time (1995)
  • The Scarlet Letter (1995)
  • Swept from the Sea (1997)
  • Mercury Rising (1998)
  • Playing by Heart (1998)
  • Enigma (2001)

  
  

  
  

  
  
  
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  Socialism

  by Perry in

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  socialists think that money will solve all man's problems.

  everything is obsessively related to money in the socialist ideology.. they have an almost supernatural ability to blame others with more money.

  god calls this greed and envy.

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  Terry

  bohm

  Yes, he is an odd mixture of things, none of which is less than mercurial. He has a remarkable talent for didactic exposition.

  I doubt I'll become convinced to shun from watching his videos, although I'm pretty certain we all have a right of boycott, do we not?
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  Socialism

  by Perry in

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  socialists think that money will solve all man's problems.

  everything is obsessively related to money in the socialist ideology.. they have an almost supernatural ability to blame others with more money.

  god calls this greed and envy.

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  Terry

  This fella has a Philosophy channel on YouTube where he discusses every conceivable topic.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNPIpbPrIDM
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  Thinking of writing a book about jw's, what should I put in it?

  by purrpurr in

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  i've just finished reading alan miller's "fade from the truth", i enjoyed it and i love that it's freely available.

  so i was thinking of writing a book of my own.

  not an account of my life but more a simple step by step look at jw's and what they are really like?

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  I think my book, The Monorails of Mars, may be the only Jehovah's Witness science fiction novel out there :)

  
  
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  The slimboyfat challenge...

  by The Rebel in

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  i hope slim hasn't left the forum, ( again) but i noticed his last post was post 10,ooo which is quite an achievement and a great statistic to say " au revoir" on.

  ( yes i studied compulsory french at school, but " au revoir" is all i can remember so i may as well use it) .

  anyway now for the " slimboyfat" challenge, can anybody here name past or present posters that have made over 10,000 posts?

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  Terry

  I have 17,394 posts.

  Does that count?

  I think the number of TOPICS begun is a far more important statistic, personally.
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  Thinking of writing a book about jw's, what should I put in it?

  by purrpurr in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i've just finished reading alan miller's "fade from the truth", i enjoyed it and i love that it's freely available.

  so i was thinking of writing a book of my own.

  not an account of my life but more a simple step by step look at jw's and what they are really like?

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  Terry

  I'd ask myself the question, "How would my book differ in any substantive way from a visit to JWSurvey or JWFacts?"
  
  YouTube's Watchtower Examination series is among the best (let's call them tutorials) presentations for laying bare the dangers of Jehovah's Witnesses.

  I've written and published 2 books myself.

  In other words, unless you are a committed writer with a burning desire to say SOMETHING not already covered, I'd take your query to be an indication there may be better ways to be an activist.
  
  How about 1st person interviews with DF'd ex-JW's as to the fairness of the process and the impact on themselves and their families?
  
  
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  registering for Selective Service at age 18?

  by halcyon in

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  every year this news item was published in the km.

  but i've noticed that i've never heard of it anywhere else, ever.

  how do most young men in the world know that they're supposed to do this?

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  The biggest mistake I ever made was registering for the draft when it WAS compulsory.

  If I had a time portal, I'd go back and NOT register.
  There are no do-overs in life, unfortunately.
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  Is reasoning with a JW the answer?

  by Saved_JW in

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  when i first left the watchtower society, i can remember being very eager to learn new information, especially information which pertained to discrediting the watchtower organization.

  i called it "the cage stage" .

  this excitement and newfound change in worldview completely rocked my world.

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  Terry

  Some people play cards with deuces Wild.

  JW's, for instance. (A Wild card can be anything you want it to be. JW's want JW doctrine to be "true.")

  If you try to "reason" with a JW, you are playing by THEIR (deuces Wild) rules.

  In other words, they're set up to win and you're not.