how can we fight against psychiatry (the worst and more powerful religion)?
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Assuming you are not some kind of fanatic, you might find it interesting to look into the work of Thomas Szasz and R.D. Laing.  These two took a radical view of psychiatry, psychology, and mental health in general that strongly criticized the medical model applied in these fields.  They believe that mental illness is a cultural construct rather than a disease, and that psychiatrists essentially practice a poorly conceived form of mind control intended to pacify social deviants.  As I said, they were radicals and never attracted many adherents among mental health professionals.  But their ideas were plausible at least, and they should be read by anyone with a serious interest in the theory and practice of mental illness treatment.\n\nAlso assuming you are not a crank, you might take note of the fact that millions of people have been helped by psychiatric pharmacotherapy, beginning with Thorazine, Haldol, tricyclic and MAO inhibitor antidepressants, and other side effect-ridden agents, on up to the current generation of SSRI's (e.g. Zoloft), atypical antipsychotic agents (e.g. Zyprexa), and mood stabilizers (e.g. Depakote and Klonopin) which are more effective and produce fewer side effects than earlier medications.  \n\nThere is at least one valid criticism of current psychiatric practice, and that is that it relies exclusively on biological models and treatment methods for mental illness.    Most psychiatrists today do little more than monitor their patients' medication(s).  They have relegated "talk" therapy to psychologists and social workers, who are also able to achieve good results with millions of people whose problems cannot be and are not solved completely by medications.\n\nI think you are probably a crank though.  Slow down, take it easy, and do some reading.  You don't need to be fighting a war.
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Absolutely.\n\nTo rid ourselves of "Body Thetans" and also “engrams” (past negative experiences stored in our unconscious mind) so that we can become “clear”, we have to go through "auditing" with a member of the “church” who uses an "e-meter" to measure our “reactive mind”...... and we have to pay lots and lots and lots of money for “auditing” (purchased in 12.5-hour blocks, costing anywhere from $750 for introductory sessions to between $8,000 and $9,000 for advanced sessions) and to take courses on Scientology to advance to higher “levels” in the “church”.  The “church” has also taken a very hostile stance towards psychiatry and psychiatric drugs irrespective of the fact that some people require medication to remain adequately functional in everyday life.  They deny the reality of chemical imbalance and profound mental disturbance and accordingly do NOTHING to effectively stabilize the dangerously unstable. The “church” has been known to withhold prescription pharmaceuticals from member (with deadly results).\n\nThey claim that you can spend less money on Scientology than you would on a psychiatrist and their drugs, but consider the prices of all the books, all the auditing, all the tests you have to take to attain higher levels (and if you fail, you have to pay to retest).
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If shall you be indeed under an attack of incubus, there are several possible counter-measures that can be done.  Since I do not know your personal religious faith, I can only offer the most non-religious oriented method to counter such a demonic attack -- an occultic defense known as "shielding".\n\n- Cleanse yourself by showering (as the water cleans your physical body, you should also visualise your mind is also washed).\n- Close your eyes, and continue normal breathings.\n- Visualise a light originating from inside yourself (usually by focusing on the coloured lights in the dark when the eyes are closed -- visualise them grow and unite into one large light as well as continuing growing), let this light grow beyond your physical body.\n- Shape this light into an "armour" around your physical body (you can do this by visualisation and/or "acting-out" the motions to help the visualisation).\n- Open your eyes, done (Do NOT reverse the steps! You are to keep the "shild" intact).\n\nPerform this each night before sleep.  Also, sprinkle some seasalts around your bed, making a defensive circle: laugh at this superstition shall you desire but, truth is that, this "superstition" is NOT that of a nonsense.  If shall you cannot find seasalts to use, try the kosher-salts.
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Beware of collapsing the two-- religion and those who follow religion. For I posit, that even without "religion", we would be divided over something or other. \n\nObserve two toddlers at play for a few hours and watch them fight over one toy. Very quickly you'll see, it is not their religion that has divided them, but their "idea" that they both own this toy. \n\nWe fight not because of religion, but because of our differing ideologies, beliefs, etc. Throw our heated emotions into the mix, and we can really be hostile, violent people.\n\nHence, don't vilify religion but take note of human nature. For that's what religion does, it illuminates our human nature in hopes that we might be empowered to "be our best" in spite of ourselves.
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You ask a question here, it's open to all. Typical that you seek to control what you don't like to confront. Thing is, I DO care if some busybody gets me out of my armchair or stops me in the street out of a sense that I am wrong about everything and they are right about everything. So I don't care if you don't want to read what I have to say, that's not the sort of forum this is.\n\nAnd don't evangelize. Distrtibute food parcels, do something for the homeless, drug addicts, refugees, battered women, children with cancer, elderly day care or something that is of actual value to other people, and not just your ego. We'll choose your way of seeing things if we want to. Otherwise just go away.
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One of our biggest problems--and the fastest way of turning others off to faith--is that so many of us believers think our way is the only way to approach God.  We don't allow for differences in the body of believers.  Jesus had dinner with tax collecors, allowed a prostitute to anoint him, and had fellowship with the woman at the well.  In fact, many of the most powerful moments in his ministry involved his encounters with folk who scandalized the establishment.  \n\nWho are we to try to ban someone just because he has a few ideas different than ours if Jesus refused to do that?\n\nPS for David:  I hope your sabbath was all you hoped for.  Blessings!
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What you've written is what organized "theocracies" have perpetrated since the dawn of recorded history. While the Catholic Pontiffs of yesteryear have acted particularly egregiously, they are not the only examples of how "Cows, Pigs, Wars, & Witches" (- the title of an anti-religious anthology of anthropolgical, cross-cultural studies, written in the 1970's) have come to be enlisted to create fear in the masses and exact control over protracted periods of time. Look at what the "Religious Right" want to do in this country. I suggest you read a book by Kevin Phillips entitled "American Theocracy." In there you can derive the sense that even a country such as ours is vulnerable to these age-old tactics... for example, think on just how effective the "culture of fear" trumped up by the present administration has been in creating an effecient "smokescreen" or deversionary force to escape the public's otherwise probing eyes.
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There are a lot of issues in this situation. For example, there are crimes for which a 'free pass' is given in this society. Vehicular homicide by senior citizens is one (they even sue the car manufacturers for faulty brakes and/or gas pedals) and killing one's children due to insanity is another. \n\nEver since the story of Abraham hearing voices (from God?) in his head telling him to kill his son Isaac, we've been acculturated to allow people to rejoin society as normal after a period of mental health treatment.\n\nMaybe the real question is "Should mental health professionals be allowed to declare people 'cured' when heinous crimes have been committed?"\n\nI think if we could all acknowledge that the bible story relates a tale of schizophrenia described in a primitive fashion and that child murder, even by parents, results in guilty but insane verdicts, then we'd all be better off.
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You are absolutely right, there can be no other opinion this side of the lunatic asylum. It is the enemy within that is destroying this country, and, as you point out, it will incite racial tensions, even many of the immigrant groups realise that. Left wingers don't believe in religion or the nation state. In fact, left wing ideaology is their religion. So, expect increased attacks on religion from the State. I also think that global warming is nonsense, but the government will find it to be a nice little earner and it will afford a useful distraction from the Iraq war and a weakening economy together with the problems caused by immigration.\n\nI think the following groups are the main causes of our problems. The government, left leaning teachers/lecturers, the EU with its ridiculous Human Rights Act, the TV media, the PC brigade, feminists and a whole host of other quangos including pressure/focus groups.
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It is called a Messiah complex ... and you would be surprised how many Christians and Atheists share this problem.\n\nTOP TEN ways to develop a Messiah-Complex\n\n- Always preface your indoctrination sessions with the words, "The Holy Spirit is the best teacher."\n- Make sure that 90% of your posts are Bible quotes to refute other people's unauthorized Bible quotes.\n- Like the King that you are; demand proof, demand respect, demand apologies, demand allegiance and shame your unruly subjects until they submit. (and don't forget to demand proof.)\n- Stubbornly ignore polite and direct requests from others to be left alone.\n- Realize that God depends on you, and you alone.\n- Recognize insubordination as the spirit of the antichrist.\n- Make outrageous claims to put people on the defensive. (ie. "When are you going to stop beating your wife?")\n- Have the uncanny ability to always be at war with yourself or those around you.\n- The world is your audience. Show them the way.\n- Persuade others to join your crusade of sanitizing the world of all the people/ideologies that God forgot to kill first.
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the problem with a question like this is that there are a thousand different ways to answer it.\n\nA religious person will tell you that he needs their religion in his life to help him better deal with his problems and find himself.\n\nA sheep in the flock of society will tell you that therapy will help him find peace and deal with his emotions.\n\nA doctor will shove pills in his hands and bill him for them.\n\nAn Alarmist will tell him it's all in his head, or that our shallow society isn't allowing his self-fulfillment like it does for the rest of the flock. \n\nYou ask a hundred different people and you'll get a hundred and one different answers.\n\nso instead of asking people that don't know your friend, talk it over with him, ask him what he thinks will work and what he wants to try. If he wants to go to a therapist let him decide. And if screaming into a pillow is his thing and that works for him, there is no reason some anonymous person on Yahoo! needs to tell him otherwise.
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Armegeddon.\nSome things need to be taught locally, to individuals. Trying to dictate rules for missionaries from the top down would probably be ignored, since you first have to have some underlying common ground to set up a base of morality which is higher than that being presented by the proselityzers. In other words, the people being proselytized to need to be smarter than the ones trying to sell them stuff (TVs, gods, deodorants, McDonald's, etc.). The powers-that-be are the powers-that-be because they know things or present things which individuals cannot inherently disagree with. Sometimes the indigenous peoples have figured this out, but were unlucky and wiped out by diseases or weapons beyond their powers. All global organizations have some kind of profit motive or control motive, neither of which have the individual's rights in mind unless enough individuals managed to get together on their own. Try Amnesty International, maybe they can help you.\nYou are basically trying to start a group of people who don't want to be in one group. Anarchists Unite!!
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I am not sure but fight for our god? Depends on what it is.....like if someone asks a bad question about Islam then answer by correcting it. BE PROUD. but just dont go getting into fights just to stick up for your religion because you no why? because they fight wont help solve anything.....if you believe then nothing can destroy that. Fighting doesnt solve anything..
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Yup.\n\nAnd religion is IN politics, which makes it worse!
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Honey, the way to fight this is for you to heal.\n\nWhen you heal (thus defeating what they did to you), you can help others, and advocate for children.  \n\nWe need more child advocates.\n\nThese people do hide in churches.  They try to hide behind God.\n\nOne day they will have to face God, and it won't be pretty for them.  \n\nFor now, please let someone help you work through this.
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Violence begets violence. However, the only way to stop this madness is to do away with Islam and those who follow it. I am on your side on this one.
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The only person who can keep you from living your life to the fullest is YOU.  Naturally we all want to shift the blame and responsibility onto someone else -- the government, the situation, our family, maybe even god.  Start taking responsibility for yourself.  Why don't you start a grassroots agenda for something you care about?  Start reading the news, and find an issue that you care deeply about.  Nothing will make you fill more fulfilled than helping those in need.  \n\nI have to ask...you're not actually *hearing* god, are you?  If so, you really need to tell a professional.  Please, please don't let anyone convince you that it's normal to hear a voice in your head.  That's not a religious issue, it's a mental health one.