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@fmf said
I have not been referring to "clinical delusion".

Why are you responding to a post directed at Dive?

@fmf said
Are there really no such things as different levels of delusion?

Not in the sense that you are using.

@fmf said
The only thing that really matters to him, I suspect, is that he has her back.

I think Dive thought you had his back, until you publicly described him as delusional.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Like I said, it has seeped into every day conversation.

Actually, if you look at the etymology, the words deluded and delusion predate their use as mental health terms by centuries.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
I think Dive thought you had his back, until you publicly described him as delusional.

Why does he need me to "have his back"? My friendship with him is rooted in honesty and candour.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Not in the sense that you are using.

Of course there are.

@fmf said
You've never seen her use it? Really?

I probably have, but don't recall a specific example. Again, I have seen nobody use the word correctly. (In the same way I have seen nobody use schizophrenic in meaningful way when it is thrown around as an insult).

@fmf said
The only thing that really matters to him, I suspect, is that he has her back.

Oh for sure.

It is what makes all this fun; seeing how far he will compromise his principles and training to do so.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Why are you responding to a post directed at Dive?

I am contributing to the conversation the three of us are having.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
I think Dive thought you had his back, until you publicly described him as delusional.

Oh I am delusional, I’m a theist.

I consider this a lot. Nevertheless I have a faith anyway.

@divegeester said
Oh for sure.

It is what makes all this fun; seeing how far he will compromise his principles and training to do so.

The best bit of fun so far in the thread is FMF throwing you under the bus and calling you deluded. 😀

@divegeester said
Oh I am delusional, I’m a theist.

I consider this a lot. Nevertheless I have a faith anyway.

Weird post.

@ghost-of-a-duke said

As a believer in angels, do you think it conceivable that you could one day encounter an angel? And if so, is it conceivable that the angel you thought you met (perhaps at a time when you were at a low point in life) was just a kind person who coincidentally was in the right place at the right time, perhaps said something profound?

Let me make a point of getting back to this, otherwise you’ll bring me not doing so as a tactic to dodge something in a couple of pages time…

I don’t see it as conceivable that I will meet an angel anymore than I think I’ll see someone raised from dead. Whilst I think it’s possible, I think it possible in a way that an agnostic sees it possible that there is a God.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
I probably have, but don't recall a specific example.

Would that be why you've never seen fit to tackle her on it? Or when WoofWoof has used it? Or Very Rusty? Or Kevin Eleven? etc. etc. Simply never worthy of comment?

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Weird post.

As FMF said, this is all about you’re inability to read people. A trait which leads into you not being a qualified clinical mental health practitioner, and losing friends because of it.