by lepton | Dec 8, 2015 | Economy, Matters of the Heart, Semantics, Social Situations
There is often a very easy explanation for the beliefs one uses to navigate this world of ours. How beliefs are used. People figure if someone is using a belief on them it must be good enough for them to use. A few hypothetical examples: Susie is a 23 year old...
by lepton | Dec 6, 2015 | Computer, Faith, Mental Illness, Personal
“He saw himself as a scientific materialist; he believes that metaphor—the brain as a computer—has done more to increase the number of atheists than anything by Darwin.” This is a quote from a schizophrenic programmer who wrote his own sixteen color...
by lepton | Dec 5, 2015 | Faith, Mental Illness, Personal, Poetry
the mentally healthy can take religion a kernel of crazy stuff with a shell of rationality but those of us mentally ill eat through the shell and cannot handle the kernel I don’t choose what to believe the evidence chooses for me Listened to an amazing Blind...
by lepton | Dec 2, 2015 | Faith
Perhaps the most important thing to know about bad information is it does not have a uniform effect on the people it is given to. It has a disproportionately adverse effect on those who are at the margins. For example telling people a diet of deep fried foods is fine...
by lepton | Dec 2, 2015 | Autism Specific, Matters of the Heart, Personal, Power Dynamic, Social Situations
I have been unfortunate in life in that the two closest friends I have had became uncommunicative in the end. The first friend from junior high I had a falling out with and the second one from college I became too low status for. These people aren’t stupid,...
