Re: Betrayel
slider <[email protected]>
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On Wed, 07 Aug 2024 11:15:44 +0100, kami <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 07 Aug 2024 03:08:24 +0100, slider wrote: > >> On Tue, 06 Aug 2024 21:07:55 +0100, kami <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 2 Aug 2024 23:17:18 +0200, Venus as a Boy wrote: >>> >>>> https://slowspacetemplehealing.help/2024/08/02/betrayel/ >>>> >>>> The christian church, not Christ, go hand in hand with psychiatry, >>>> they >>>> say only maybe a few hundred or thousand can be healers, have christ >>>> consciousnes if any one, or be seers etc., but according to indigenous >>>> people "mental sick" persons could be chosen to heal (see homepage) >>>> etc... >>>> According to Phil Borges information that about 20 % of the population >>>> at least in the west are diagnosed with "mentall illness" you can >>>> calculate that about 1.6 billion people probably worldwide could be >>>> considered healers or seers or anything spiritual help for >>>> humanity.... >>> >>> >>> that is just delusional thinking, romanticising defects as doped alloy. >> >> ### - not really, in india for example mentally ill/challenged people >> are >> considered to have been blessed by the spirit, and are revered... > > > no, they are locked up in institutions i belive, same as everywhere else. ### - nowadays maybe they are haha, but that's not at all the point am making here, or even anything to do with it other than to perhaps now observe/suggest that india has subsequently become more callous to such things because science is clearly beginning to replace religion in india, exactly as it was designed to do... the 'real' point (my original point in relation to the OP's observation/assertion) is that india has always been heavily steeped in religion as being their reason-d'etre for just about everything they did, and remained that way for millennia... it having perhaps since changed in no way detracting from their history of generally treating people suffering from, what 'modern' man now calls 'mental illness' as having been blessed by the spirit in some way and thus holy-er than the average man in the street... known sages and mystics throughout history often being renown for their eccentric behaviour and for speaking in seeming riddles and stuff, and that consequently such people were closer to the spirit/god, or whatever you wanna call it, than your average law abiding citizen... > > similar to the autism spectrum, there is a non-conformist spectrum as > well, > and past a certain point, it has diminishing returns. ### - ah yes, the clear mark of modern man, whose rationally identified and then categorised all the different so-called mental illnesses, every single one of which is considered to be something less (or lacking) compared to the average man in the street, and thus dismissed and looked down on as being 2nd class citizens... whereas, in reality, 'some' of them could in fact be budding sages, except modern man doesn't care about that anymore, and because, let's face it, mentally challenged people of any description or type don't exactly make very reliable factory workers huh, and that's basically all modern man is looking for these days because science has them by the balls in more or less exactly the same way religion once did ;)