Posted by Destroyo on November 12, 2003, at 1:11:15
In reply to Re: New and Confused/anks » Speaker, posted by anks on November 11, 2003, at 23:41:13
You didn't ask ME, and forgive me for being an interloper. There was apparently a minor "flame war" recently, on this site, which surprises me. Moi?
-I'm a major depressive
-An incurable insomniac
-I'm afficted with undifferentiated schizophrenia (and ya'll just thought I had a vivid imagination)
-I suffer from "social phobia", although I would argue (as Porter so eloquently put it) that I'm more "sensitive to reality" than most others; in my case the reality that my brain chemistry, though it equips me to be compassionate and empathetic, is not especilly "sociable". Not "anti-social", more like non-social. I'm the gentlest man you could ever imagine. Yet for some reason, people in chat rooms regularly pick fights with me. I'm splenetically ruthless in defending what limited dignity I possess as a mentally ill person. That's how I earned the sobriquet, "Destroyo". I'm a very committed Christian, but I find myself alone in a sea of offensive dogma. George W. Bush and I both regard Jesus as our favorite philosopher, but I couldn't be more different from that guy. He's a baptist. I'm a gnostic. I take my direction from Jesus; he quite literally orders Jesus to support the stupid war in Iraq. You see, according to his own
interpretation of his fate, no less than GOD made him president. The stagerring hubris of his arrogance boggles the imagination. In his mind, God is the General; he's a "full bird colonel", and Jesus is just a captain. Disgusting! Hey, looking back and re-reading this post, I can see why some people want to flame me. I'm a bit strident, but like Popeye, "I yam what I yam".
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