From: duckman@gfy.slf   
      
   Joel wrote:   
      
   > "That Guy" <7@f.com> wrote:   
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   >   
   >>Before you posted in this thread, one poster referred to another's beliefs   
   >>as "schizophrenia" [...]   
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   > I meant that literally.  Schizophrenia (literally "split mind") is the   
   > state of either being unaware of psychic phenomena, or having a   
   > chemical imbalance preventing the use of it (i.e. "paranoid"   
   > schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder).   
   >   
   > An atheist, who truly believes what he/she says, is the unaware type.   
      
      
   This is rich. A person who believes in imaginary invisible beings that no   
   one can see, hear or otherwise perceive, accuses sane people of being   
   schizophrenic.   
   Schizophrenia is characterized by delusions such as your religious belief,   
   hallucinations such as ability to communicate with invisible beings, and   
   behavior such as your deliberate lying to twist reality to conform with your   
   mental illness.   
   But of course, anyone who knows what schizophrenia is can see through your   
   bullshit: to define this mental illness as "being unaware of psychic   
   phenomena" is just plain stupid. I mean, really, are you that desperate?   
   Lying for Jesus, are we?   
      
   Webster - schizophrenia: a psychotic disorder characterized by loss of   
   contact with the environment, by noticeable deterioration in the level of   
   functioning in everyday life, and by disintegration of personality expressed   
   as disorder of feeling, thought (as delusions), perception (as   
   hallucinations), and behavior.   
      
   Now, clearly, your imaginary beings and your stubborn belief in them in   
   spite of any lack of evidence constitute a delusion, no?   
      
      
      
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