Gratification

@moonbus said
Er, there is an ornery bunch of leprechauns which come round the garden shed sometimes, after pub closing time. Fortunately, I have been able to keep them at bay by playing my Tommy Roe records at high volume. “Hooray For Hazel.”

That's a dizzy spin on leprechauns.

@mchill said
It is 'His own rules of logic' He isn't following. - The existence of metaphysical evil, like earthquakes or diseases, either indicate God is not all powerful (or perfect) or else isn't omnibenevolent.



I sincerely hope you don't find out the truth of this the hard way-

That's the problem with the integrity of some religions. Their spokespersons are always using poolroom and casino language. Please, the hard way? Playing pool I learned the hard way...the hard way to get the 8 ball in the side pocket by hitting the sequential ball, first. Or in a gambling joint, all the ways to make the number on the passing line, the hard way. The hard way is not always bad, as in those situations making it the hard way makes more for you than betting on the easy way to make it to heaven.

If I were you I'd worry more about the way many will easily call the Lord, Lord, but Jesus will say to their faces...I never knew you.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Again, I think you are using words you don't really understand and probably haven't encountered many people who really do struggle with delusions and paranoia.

The everyday use and meaning of the words delusion and paranoia is not difficult to understand and how many mentally ill people you just so happen to have encountered has no bearing on it.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
You claim you use 'delusion' and 'paranoid' in the every day sense, not in relation to mental health, but use them alongside such expressions as 'mad as a bunch of frogs.'

mad as a bunch of frogs

The expression I have used on occasion is "as bonkers as a box of frogs". If that's a term psychiatrists and other mental health practioners use, please point to some resources on the internet that verify it. I use "as bonkers as a box of frogs" in a coloquial, non-technical, vernacular way.

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This simply isn't true. In the same sentence you used paranoid, delusional and mad as a box of frogs, making quite clear your 'every day sense of the word' is a load of codswallop.

Can't you be honest about anything?

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@divegeester said
Communicating with ghost of duke these days is like talking to someone on the spectrum.


Oh dear. Moved on now to autism slurs. What ever next?

@fmf said
mad as a bunch of frogs

The expression I have used on occasion is "as bonkers as a box of frogs". If that's a term psychiatrists and other mental health practioners use, please point to some resources on the internet that verify it. I use "as bonkers as a box of frogs" in a coloquial, non-technical, vernacular way.

Okay, okay. 'Delusional and paranoid' are used by you in the every day sense and 'mad as a box of frogs' by Dive in a colloquial, non-technical, vernacular way. But what about him now comparing me to somebody on the spectrum? Is that just a vernacular, every day, colloquial, non-technical, provincialistic and analogous characteristic mode of expression?

Definitely not a mental health slur.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
what about him now comparing me to somebody on the spectrum?

Is that just a vernacular, every day, colloquial, non-technical, provincialistic and analogous characteristic mode of expression?

Yes. "On the spectrum" is an everyday expression.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
But what about him now comparing me to somebody on the spectrum?

@ghost-of-a-duke said
This sounds a little contrived. (Like Gwyneth Paltrow's unconscious uncoupling).

@ghost-of-a-duke said
So it 'was' an unconscious uncoupling, akin to that had by Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin?

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Their relationship came to an end as a result of an 'unconscious uncoupling,' in the same way your relationship with Christianity came to an end.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
This sounds a little contrived. (Like Gwyneth Paltrow's unconscious uncoupling).

@ghost-of-a-duke said
But you said above it was a "realization and was not the result of a conscious decision." If it wasn't a conscious decision then it must have been unconscious (Like Gwyneth Paltrow).

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Ah, it was an unconscious realization (akin to the one had by Gwyneth Paltrow).

Your posts recently have reminded me of dj2becker. He posted like someone "on the spectrum".