Re: Public Nudity: Innocent or Sin?

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.â€

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]



Dan Abel wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
>  "David Looser" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> "Neosapienis" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>
>>> Hi David,
>>>
>>> The ancient Romans used to use the 'vaulted chambers' for their worship of
>>> sex gods.
>>>
>> Did they now, I didn't know you were an expert on Roman religions Dario. So 
>> come on tell us, which "sex gods"? and just how were they worshipped? 
>> Perhaps you'd like to provide a source for that?
>>
>> But in any case, if the word means "vaulted chamber" it doesn't mean "to 
>> worship a sex god", does it?
> 
> Dario provided a cite.  It appears you didn't read it.
> 
>> Perhaps you'd like to give us a clear and accurate etymology for the word,
>> describing *in detail* every nuance of meaning of it in both Latin and 
>> English.
> 
> The Bible was written in Greek, not Latin or English.  (The Old 
> Testament was written in Hebrew).
> 
> I would claim that all of this is off topic for this group, anyway, 
> except that the list of newsgroups includes three with the word "christ" 
> in them.
>