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''Citing Szasz's writings, legal reforms were enacted, and all 50 US states narrowed their criteria for involuntary commitment from the prior standard of "need for treatment ..."

Which Shirley put a stop to men having their hysterical wives, committed.

FFS. What is it with f ing men and their refusal to admit when they are wrong? Piss off. No 'extensive research' needed. If you want to throw wiki links at people then have them back at ya.

Next will come the gibberish

accelafine wrote: ↑Fri May 09, 2025 11:38 pm FFS. What is it with f ing men and their refusal to admit when they are wrong? Piss off. No 'extensive research' needed. If you want to throw wiki links at people then have them back at ya.

I'll simplify.

Sweetie, the reason folks are wearing shit-suits in the queues you frequent is because of the current state of mainstream psychiatry, which is pill popping, and does not reflect Szasz's views. This is not what Szasz was about.

Your shallow analysis and understanding of the situation is not the standard for right and wrong, at least in this case.

Walker wrote: ↑Fri May 09, 2025 11:43 pm

accelafine wrote: ↑Fri May 09, 2025 11:38 pm FFS. What is it with f ing men and their refusal to admit when they are wrong? Piss off. No 'extensive research' needed. If you want to throw wiki links at people then have them back at ya.

I'll simplify.

Sweetie, the reason folks are wearing shit-suits in the queues you frequent is because of the current state of mainstream psychiatry, which is pill popping, and does not reflect Szasz's views. This is not what Szasz was about.

Your shallow analysis and understanding of the situation is not the standard for right and wrong, at least in this case.

And what the f*ck does any of that have to do with anything I wrote...sweetie? I did exactly the same thing you did. Quoted from 'wiki'.
Rhetorical. I really don't give a .....shit....

Oh dear. Always lookin' for a fight.

You know what they say about that ...

accelafine wrote: ↑Fri May 09, 2025 11:40 pm Next will come the gibberish

(slight bow)

It’s all about energy, and for fighters it’s frustrated energy. Moving furniture around is one way to dissipate. It’s interesting that when energy no longer needs to be dissipated but in fact, naturally cultivated for the unknown moment when what was physically ordinary becomes extraordinary, one can begin to smell roses and feel rainbows in ones bones.

Ozymandias

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdQKUvv3bew

Walker wrote: ↑Sat May 10, 2025 12:01 am

accelafine wrote: ↑Fri May 09, 2025 11:40 pm Next will come the gibberish

(slight bow)

It’s all about energy, and for fighters it’s frustrated energy. Moving furniture around is one way to dissipate. It’s interesting that when energy no longer needs to be dissipated but in fact, naturally cultivated for the unknown moment when what was physically ordinary becomes extraordinary, one can begin to smell roses and feel rainbows in ones bones.

It's cute when toddlers make up a language only they understand--not so much when it's a grown man. Perhaps give your bullshit generator a rest? Just a thought.

accelafine wrote: ↑Sat May 10, 2025 4:09 am

Walker wrote: ↑Sat May 10, 2025 12:01 am

accelafine wrote: ↑Fri May 09, 2025 11:40 pm Next will come the gibberish

(slight bow)

It’s all about energy, and for fighters it’s frustrated energy. Moving furniture around is one way to dissipate. It’s interesting that when energy no longer needs to be dissipated but in fact, naturally cultivated for the unknown moment when what was physically ordinary becomes extraordinary, one can begin to smell roses and feel rainbows in ones bones.

It's cute when toddlers make up a language only they understand--not so much when it's a grown man. Perhaps give your bullshit generator a rest? Just a thought.

No rest for those who weary (v).

Just as a refusal or inability to engage with a topic precludes judgments of right and wrong, so does an assessment that expresses incomprehension of existing words whose meanings, singly and in combination, must lie beyond the grasp of comprehension as cause for the befuddled state expressed by that knee-jerk squeak of the B word, and the habitual creation of a new topic of ... The Other. Shirley, you see the meaning of this.

A corollary to the fate of Ozymandias

Obsolescence by Fowl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta3CImvWOxo

accelafine wrote: ↑Fri May 09, 2025 11:38 pm FFS. What is it with f ing men and their refusal to admit when they are wrong? Piss off. No 'extensive research' needed. If you want to throw wiki links at people then have them back at ya.

So that’s how it is. Boomerang this.

While patiently standing in the queue she began to quietly whisper under her breath, with just enough force so that a non-contextual word here and there could be heard by others longing for efficiency.

Curious, the woman behind her said, “What is that you’re saying?”

“Oh, was I talking? It’s just something someone taught me when I was a toddler. (pause, remembering) A little tongue twister, you know, like the little twisted things that happen in life. It seems that now and then I just have to say it, and sometimes I’m not sure if I did say it.”

“Yes, but what were the words. Sorry, if you don’t mind. Just curious.”

“It’s a nonsense thing. I’m a little sheet slitter so I slit sheets. It used to be a fun thing to try and say three times fast when prompted by social lubricants, before every other word in entertainment turned into F***!, along with creative variations adapted to all parts of speech, in surprising social situations.”

The woman took a step back and said, “Ah. Well. That sounds like fun. Do you always talk like you write?”

Because she was in public she stifled her first response while kicking herself for truthfully answering a stranger’s nosey questions, however, it was now out of her hands. Soon the entire queue was buzzing with whispers, some of them stage whispers, a spontaneous chorus of, “I’m a little sheet slitter so I slit sheets,” whispered in a sort of energized round.

However, the apparent man who was the cause of all the commotion, who was standing as far as away as she and the others could manage to keep him without actually leaving, was impervious for a very simple reason.

(Take it higher … for Gary’s Corner)

Anxious, depressed, lonely, and tired. And none of that matters in this world. Count me as one of the lucky ones.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Wed May 14, 2025 2:04 am Anxious, depressed, lonely, and tired. And none of that matters in this world. Count me as one of the lucky ones.

A good meal, some sleep, then some constructive physical exertion to occupy attention.

So God hates gays and people who don't worship him/her/it? I mean, I believe it. This world is pretty much a shit show for gays and atheists (among others). They're usually the most frowned upon people in traditional religious societies.. It can only be because God hates gays and atheists and wants everyone else to hate them too. I mean, you can kill in the name of God, just don't have sex with the wrong person or doubt God's existence. It would piss me off too if someone thought I didn't exist. Makes sense.