busyOne of them gave me a shout-out today for a comment I left. We're talking about how and why the treatment of mental complaints lags behind that of physical complaints, and it started with a previous discussion about whether and why drugs can be helpful.
Basically, I have noticed certain patterns in dealing with friends who have mental challenges, and that has built up a little basket of ideas on the topic. Sometimes when an opportunity arises, I set one of them out. One of these days I need to flesh these out and present them in full. You can see bits of several here: different solutions work for different people because there are many different causes of mental complaints, and there's a difference between mental illness and mental </i> injury, and we just don't have ways of perceiving exactly what needs to be fixed let alone the ability to reach in and repair it. So we ... muddle.
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Re: Hmm...
August 12 2009, 05:09:52 UTC 11 years ago
That is true of some religions, though not all of the ones I have encountered.
>>You'd think that the omnipotent would be able to pass his/her wisdom down in a way that cannot be mistaken or corrupted by mere mortals.<<
Dude. I think you just identified something that the Omnipotent God can't do. Or at least, demonstrably has not yet figured out how to do.