Posted by PeterC on June 14, 2000, at 19:47:45
In reply to Re: The Best we can hope for is distraction, posted by brian on June 14, 2000, at 17:37:11
Well, this seem like productive dialogue.
A clarification: boBB is not clair. boBB hints of tolerance or perhaps even approval for street drugs, but has never affirmed a personal need or interest in industrial psychopharmaceuticals. boBB is PeterC. for whatever reason, the software would not seem to accept the boBB handle and password, so I used the PeterC instead. Claire might (or might not) want to get well. boBB does not. boBB said he hopes his discomfort infects those around him. "boBB" (isn't the very use of the handle just irritating now?!,heh heh) owns his dour feelings and thinks whatever sickness he suffers is a likely reaction to circumstances, and prefers to challenge the circumstances. Whereas others consider "cutting" pathological, boBB considers it a crude sacred ceremony. Well, thats boBB for ya!. boBB owns his depression, anger and mania, prefering to sublimate these chemical "imbalances" into an artful life of mental gymnastics. RUDE!
Whatever heat erupted in this thread likely involved in part my confusion over how quickly a discussion about dopamine went to a discussion about personal preferences in approaches to symptomology, but I explained that in an earlier post.
The only thing i would like to add now, having contemplated these posts for a while, is that I am not so sure we would do well to start talking to God. I was thinking God might prefer that we cease the constant talking-talking, and listen for a while.
This goD really has said quite a lot that deserves consideration.
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