Re: Public Nudity: Innocent or Sin?

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:22:54 GMT, dolf <[email protected]> wrote:

<something of interest for a change.>

Thank you for this post Dolt. By posting it you make your private
business public business and you can never again claim that you
have not been certified mentally unfit.

I have kept a copy for future reference.

Thank you again Dolt.




>I'll talk about my 21 August 1999 protest only when specific questions 
>are asked ... the matter of my being characterized as having a 
>particular state of mind as derangement associated with HIV and of being 
>falsely designated as having a particular mania (ie. that is prevalent 
>amongst Tibetian demonstrators)  is presently the subject to litigation 
>as a claim of religious, racial and sexual vilification against the 
>Victoria Police, Alfred Hospital and the Equal Opportunity and Human 
>Rights Commission.
>
>Dolf presents with a decade-long history of a very complex and unusual 
>belief system that is involved in his conflict with his Insurer. I could 
>not understand what the exact dispute was with the Insurer--he is 
>receiving salary continuation; it may be that there were some aspects of 
>this that were denied by the Insurer, but he did not make this clear.
>
>Given the complexity of his system and the degree to which it affects 
>his life, I consider him to have a delusional disorder. That is, that he 
>holds a very complex system of beliefs that other people do not 
>understand and which tends to impinge adversely on much of his life due 
>to his preoccupation with it. It also reflects his continuing antipathy 
>towards organized religion, particularly the Catholic Church [over his 
>presence at Archbishop Pell’s refusal of communion at Pentecost Sunday 
>Mass Melbourne on 31 May 1998 and 21 June 2000 as a treasonable act of 
>heteronomy against autonomous regulative free under the Commonwealth].
>
>A letter dated 28 November 2003 from the Director of Psychiatry at the 
>Alfred Hospital reads in part: “One issue which I would like to raise 
>with you is your contention that no diagnosis was made during your 
>admission to The Alfred Inpatient Unit in August 1999. I think that is 
>incorrect. The circumstances are as follows. Brian Griffin of the Inner 
>West C.A.T. Team assessed you on 21 August and completed an Authority to 
>Transport without Recommendation form as is provided for under the 
>Mental Health Act. In it he said, ‘Dolf is psychotic and expresses 
>delusions re his role in the end of the world. He was apparently 
>catatonic earlier in the interview. He is insightless re his situation.’
>
>You were brought to The Alfred where you were recommended for inpatient 
>psychiatric care. Copies of those forms are attached and unfortunately 
>were not in your medical record and you probably didn’t have them 
>previously provided to you.
>
>As you were brought into hospital on Sunday, 22 August you were examined 
>by our oncall psychiatrist, Dr. Kemp. She found that you met the 
>involuntary detention criteria under the Mental Health Act. She did not 
>come to a firm diagnosis and thought you were more likely than not to 
>have hypomania.
>
>You were examined by Dr. Kym Jenkins the day after and she confirmed the 
>diagnosis of hypomania. On 25 August you were no longer in need of 
>involuntary hospitalization and Dr. Kym Jenkins discharged you off the 
>Act. During the course of your admission you were seen by Associate 
>Professor Judd who also confirmed a diagnosis of hypomania.
>
>Thus there seemed little doubt in the mind of a number of psychiatrists 
>at The Alfred that you were hypomanic at the time of admission and you 
>settled quickly.” [Associate Professor Peter Doherty, Director of 
>Psychiatry, The Alfred Hospital]
>
>Much of the antipathy, of course, has a justifiable basis, eg: the 
>homophobic comments that are made by senior clergy of various faiths 
>from time to time.—Is that it conflicts with the Church’s official 
>teachings with respects to a 17 year court battle over right to life, 
>lack of clarity over holocaust denial, Pope Benedict’s obscurity over 
>the 75th anniversary when the office of Holy See signed the Concordat 
>with the German Reich during World Youth Day 20 July 2008, and attempts 
>to redefined the sense of holocaust as being associated to a pro-life 
>anti-abortionist stereotyping: “They all seem to be suffering from the 
>same problems - sex obsessions, mental hospitals, "Nazis" and "freedom 
>of choice" (I think that's a reference to abortion and the fact that the 
>jew is in favour of the holocaust that is now known as "freedom of 
>choice") In any event, they all come across as pathetic creatures who 
>should be confined for their own good until they can be studied to find 
>out what their problems are. I also believe that they should be denied 
>use of the therapy room computers, since said computers are being used 
>to spread their madness and libel all over the net.”
>
>Dolf does manage to look after his day-to-day affairs, in that he can 
>provide a roof over his head and basis necessities. However, he spends 
>an enormous amount of time and energy on his dispute with his Insurer 
>and also promulgating his ideas on the Internet. He finds it hard to 
>understand why people do not understand them and often make rude 
>comments. He often interprets this in a paranoid way, ie. that people 
>are actively discriminating against him.
>
>(ru) dolf: "There were two highlights to the Roman Catholic World Youth 
>Day as special mass on 20 July 2008 which occurred on 21 July 2008 in 
>William Street, Sydney.
>
>I turned to a group of 5 or more persons and International visitors and 
>participants in that event at traffic lights in proximity to Palmer 
>Street and said,"I will not forget the abuses to our human rights which 
>you have subjected us to this week."
>
>The reason why Pope Benedict XVIth (Joseph Ratzinger) at World Youth Day 
>Sunday Mass spoke of 'an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet 
>sense of despair,' is that it was the 75th anniversary when the office 
>of Holy See signed the Concordat with the German Reich on 20 July 1933.
>
>And I want Roman Catholics to know that we know the cause for this 
>despair which Pope Benedict XVIth (Joseph Ratzinger) feels.
>
>To another approaching group of International visitors and participants 
>in that event including a nun,
>
>I said, "Heil Hitler!"
>
>The nun responded, "Heil!"
>
>"You can't call yourself a real Catholic and hold such absurd views. I'm 
>not certain about his place on Judgement Day," said the 52-year-old 
>Sabina Medina, a resident of La Reja who who wakes up to the seminary 
>bells at 6am every day, sharing the shock that many in the local 
>community feel concerning Bishop Williamson's statement about the Holocaust.
>
>ONLY birdsong and muttered prayers disturb the tranquil cloisters where 
>men dressed in long, black cassocks make their way to daily Mass said in 
>Latin: "Have you not heard, a Brisbane Catholic priest has been sacked 
>following a long-running dispute with the Vatican over his controversial 
>practices.
>
>Father Peter Kennedy, from St Mary's Parish in South Brisbane, was 
>notified of his termination by Archbishop of Brisbane John Bathersby in 
>a letter dated Friday 6 February 2009.
>
>It followed an ultimatum to the church last August in which the 
>archbishop called the 700-strong parish "an authority to itself" and 
>threatened to close it.
>
>At the church, unorthodox masses are conducted, women can preach and 
>homosexual couples are blessed.
>
>In this week's letter, Archbishop Bathersby said it gave him no pleasure 
>to terminate Father Kennedy's appointment from Saturday 21 February. But 
>he said there was no reason for further discussion of the decision.
>
>"I have repeatedly asked for changes but you and community have not 
>budged an inch," he wrote.
>
>"... Time and time again St Mary's has chosen to go its own way."
>
>Parishioner Karyn Walsh said the community was deeply upset by the 
>decision and was behind Father Kennedy's plea. Ms Walsh said the 
>parish's gay and lesbian community in particular felt discriminated 
>against by the archbishop's decision. She said the parish did not 
>consider the liturgical reasons given for Father Kennedy's termination 
>were good ones. "They are really no reason to take away such a strong 
>sense of community that exists at St Mary's," she said. "There's 
>certainly a strong feeling that people don't want to go anywhere." The 
>archbishop has been sought for comment while a spokesman for Father 
>Kennedy said he was making no further statements." ["'Rebel' priest 
>sacked in mass row" by Jessica Marszalek (c) The Australian newspaper 08 
>February 2009]
>
>Yet the neo-classical seminary of Our Lady of Corredentora, set in open 
>countryside in the peaceful outskirts of Buenos Aires, is at the eye of 
>a storm that stretches all the way to the gates of the Vatican. For the 
>past five years, Bishop Richard Williamson has presided over this 
>ultra-conservative religious community in La Reja, but the man behind 
>the international uproar is not receiving visitors.
>
>But by lifting the excommunications without demanding any undertaking 
>from Bishop Williamson and the others, the Pope has angered not just 
>liberals, who see it as capitulation to an unpleasantly reactionary 
>splinter group, but also the many conservatives who admired his 
>insistence on obedience and who feel he has blunted the most fearsome 
>disciplinary instrument in the Pope's gift.
>
>The controversial British cleric certainly does not seem about to break 
>his quasi-monastic routine to answer Pope Benedict's request for 
>clarification of his comments on the Holocaust, which surfaced last week 
>shortly after the Vatican's decision to welcome back into the church 
>four excommunicated bishops, including Williamson.
>
>Few, in Rome at least, were ready to vent their criticism publicly. But 
>according to one well-informed source, Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, 
>the senior Vatican official who was told to sign the decree lifting the 
>excommunications on behalf of the Pope, "roared" his disapproval of the 
>move.
>
>Defenders of the initiative noted that the decree did not, of itself, 
>heal the schism or settle the issue of the SSPX's future status within 
>the church. The announcement said it was issued out of "paternal pity".
>
>"What Benedict has said is that this is the first step in a dialogue," 
>acknowledged a prominent British liberal speaking on condition of 
>anonymity. "But that could be very bad for the church as a whole. It is 
>one thing if (the Lefebvrists) come nearer to the church universal. But 
>if the church universal comes closer to them, it matters a great deal." 
>[by Oliver Balch and John Hooper, "As Holocaust storm rages, cleric 
>seeks solace", The Age newspaper 8 February 2009]

Barry
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