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cbayer

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11. Monster? Who in the world called you a monster.

Reply to AtheistCrusader (Reply #10)

Thu Aug 21, 2014, 02:43 PM

Aug 2014

You have now made multiple posts indicating that you see psychiatric illness as a personal failing, a shortcoming, a self-indulgent state, a weakness.

You seem to equate it to procrastination and making excuses, if I can go by what you choose to bold.

And then you go to vice?

You are really not making this any better.

Why don't you just tell me in your own words how you see psychiatric illness.

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Supernatural 'Jinn' Seen as Cause of Mental Illness Among Muslims [View all] SecularMotion Aug 2014 OP

I think it is spelled "djinn" longship Aug 2014 #1

Sure she would, kentauros Aug 2014 #27

Cool. Thanks for the explanation. longship Aug 2014 #28

No problem! kentauros Aug 2014 #29

Are you familiar with Judith Tarr's novels? okasha Aug 2014 #34

No, I haven't heard of her. kentauros Aug 2014 #35

A song comes to mind. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #2

Do you see psychiatric illnesses as failings? nt. cbayer Aug 2014 #7

Quick! To the Bat Thesaurus! AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #8

So you see psychiatric illness as a blemish, frailty, shortcoming, fault, failing, foible, cbayer Aug 2014 #9

You have an unreasonable fondness for negative connotation that I am not using. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #10

Monster? Who in the world called you a monster. cbayer Aug 2014 #11

You are amazing. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #12

Thanks! But you don't need to flatter me. cbayer Aug 2014 #13

When why did you bing up 'vice'? AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #14

Well, that all sounds good and I am glad to see that is your position. cbayer Aug 2014 #16

I cannot control what tone you ascribe to a word. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #17

Disappointed? In yourself or in me? cbayer Aug 2014 #18

In that I had to repeat myself, and defend myself from unwarranted accusations. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #19

So would that be disappointment in yourself for not being clear cbayer Aug 2014 #20

I could not be more clear than the bold highlight in post 10. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #21

So I'm just too dense to see it? cbayer Aug 2014 #22

Re-visiting this thread. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #30

Thanks for that. I think we both may have over-reacted, but cbayer Aug 2014 #32

Do they edhopper Aug 2014 #3

Accepted and officially endorsed by the largest Christian church in the world. n/t trotsky Aug 2014 #5

maybe its brain chemistry and environment samsingh Aug 2014 #4

Every culture has had ways of trying to understand psychiatric illness that cbayer Aug 2014 #6

Those aren't djinn, they're thetans! n/t Silent3 Aug 2014 #15

It's a poor headline. rug Aug 2014 #23

And that's what one would expect... MellowDem Aug 2014 #24

None of which rehabilitates the assertion that Muslims think mental illness is caused by genies. rug Aug 2014 #25

Ahem: SOME, not all. AtheistCrusader Aug 2014 #31

Exactly procon Aug 2014 #26

Jinns...and Fairies... NeoGreen Aug 2014 #33