Amos

Holy smoke, and here I thought that I was the only guy who knew what he was talking about.

Sabine Grant

To some of us who may have a loved one who is indeed schizophrenic and had to deal with this terrible illness, your remark is not so welcome. I wish my loved one had the lucidity of Amos and his ability to live life with a touch of happiness.

Ronin

Amos ~ your point is firmly emanating from the top of your head.

To a catholic it may be a happy song, but to this savage tribal heathen it is merely another dark dirge usurping the values and traditions of my ancestral culture.

Perhaps you should go sing some happy protestant tunes in order to find the proper frame of mind.

I agree that catholicism is a powerful cancer overshadowing and destroying all that is beautiful and natural.

Beyond that, Amos, the protestant theology is just another strain.

Ronin

Well, it is good to see that you have your own personal allegiance to your loved one.

It appears that we all might just have one or two issues to which we are hypersensitive.

PS ~ bonus points for actually using 'lucidity of Amos' positively in a single sentence...he is definitely 'touched'.

Sabine Grant

I meant to express to Naked Mage that I would welcome a discourse similar to the way Amos expresses his thoughts with great relief coming from my mother. The internal distress she experiences percludes her from any ability to even discuss reality as it is. As far as the touch of happiness, the torment of her mentaly ill mind also percludes her from experiencing enjoyment of the most simple things. There is a sense of bon vivant in the way Amos expresses himself..... something close to candor. I simply and yes react to comments made in a derogatory manner concerning mental illness.

Once we transit from theorical opinions to experience we do become more sensitive to comments made from a theorical point of view.

Amos' thoughts cannot be compared to my mother's dereliction. Too often comments are used to evaluate one participant or the other as a mentaly ill person. But mental illness is a cruel reality. Once we have lived it and watched the destructive effects it has on an indvidual who cannot be rescued from that distress, the gratuitous intent to insult someone by using the mental illness route becomes very personal.

I just do not settle for those comments with a smile.

Amos

Ah, but you fail to recognize that a great God is needed to create a great civilization. This is based on the fact (not just anthro 101) that the mythology is for the survival and prosperity of the tribe, and this is exactly why the Catholic Church was and still is the driving force of our civilization and therefore can overshadow all other (minor) mythologies.

Because you do not think that the Catholic religion is beautiful and natural only means that you must find yourself in this 'new land' wherein all of us are sojourners and tie this down with the land of your birth-- which is what I called the Alpha earlier in this tread. In other words, you must find yourself and then you will be happy to sing the Ave Maria who is from the place of your birth (sic)-- or we would not have Mary's from every race and color.

Ronin

Ah, you are incorrect because you are incorrect.

You must have a mouse in your pocket, Amos, for ‘my’ civilization is repulsed by your pretense and arrogance and that of your cult.

The Catholic religion is but an acidic bubble of indigestion found within the history of our natural world and is failing on a daily basis.

It decays just as many of other nonsensical myths have decayed and will soon take it’s treasure place in the junk heap of tired, baseless and useless conditions.

seebs

People have been saying this for a *long* time. Don't hold your breath.

Ronin

The Euchee survived for thousands of years until their recent demise ~ all things pass, seebs.

Upstarts abound.

seebs

Is it too much to hope that your use of italics will also pass?