XPost: sci.skeptic, alt.atheism   
   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   In article <7gi7b99kbn5mcgninpavrtlnc4sife8jr5@4ax.com>,   
    Christopher A. Lee  wrote:   
      
   > On Fri, 20 Dec 2013 00:43:50 -0330, David Dalton    
   > wrote:   
   >   
   > >In article ,   
   > > raven1  wrote:   
   > >   
   > >> On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 01:11:31 -0330, David Dalton    
   > >> wrote:   
   > >>   
   > >> >In article <3fc3b91pi967d7k3mvhsv2obmttthtgr4l@4ax.com>,   
   > >> > raven1  wrote:   
   > >> >   
   > >> >> On Wed, 18 Dec 2013 01:07:58 -0330, David Dalton    
   > >> >> wrote:   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >> >I have recently posted about my sun stare and blue rose   
   > >> >> >vision   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >> To a very odd selection of newsgroups, one might note.   
   > >> >   
   > >> >I was an atheist when the events happened, and would still   
   > >> >have posted the same post even if I was still an atheist.   
   > >>   
   > >> May I suggest, with all due respect, that discussing your experiences   
   > >> with a psychiatrist, or even better, a neurologist, might prove more   
   > >> fruitful for you in the long term than posting about them here? It may   
   > >> even save your life if the underlying pathology is a brain tumor or   
   > >> similarly dire condition.   
   > >   
   > >I am under the care of a psychiatrist, and indeed was   
   > >admitted to a mental health ward the day after my   
   > >sun stare of 1991, and was diagnosed as bipolar.   
   > >Psychiatric medication has moderated my experiences   
   > >since such that they have not again become too   
   > >severe, except for the first half of 1996 when my   
   > >lithium level was a little low, plus I was blindly   
   > >believing perineum click divination, plus I was   
   > >still drinking during waxing gibbous moon.   
   > >   
   > >If you don't like reading my posts I suggest that   
   > >you skip them.   
   >   
   > The standard net.loonie's arrogant rudeness and stupidity.   
   >   
   > There is a reason Usenet is split into so many tens of thousands of   
   > separate groups, each with its own theme - but netiquette doesn't   
   > apply to the loonies who imagine this doesn't apply to them and they   
   > have carte blanche to post any off-topic rubbish to any group they   
   > want, telling people who object that they don't have to read it.   
      
   My posts are on-topic on alt.atheism since they attempt   
   to demonstrate that significant past religious figures   
   also had bipolar disorder as I do and that their mystic   
   experiences, like mine, can be attributed to that   
   bipolar disorder.  I also hope to at least partially   
   explain the mystic experiences in terms of resonance   
   with large-scale natural systems.   While this might   
   not interest you, Christopher, it may perhaps interest   
   a small minority of the thousands of alt.atheism   
   readers, for entertainment value if nothing else.   
   Thus again I request that you skip my posts and allow   
   the few who might be interested in them to receive   
   them, rather than trying to stifle free speech by   
   your heckling.   On my part i will try to make any   
   future posts to alt.atheism as much on-topic as I can,   
   plus I will avoid crossposts between alt.atheism and   
   religious, mental health, or kook newsgroups.   
      
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   "I want you to tell me why you walked out on me   
   I'm so lonesome every day... Walk right back"  (Everly Brothers)   
      
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