David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > rone at ennui.org (definitely what) writes: > > Frank Mayhar writes: > > Your belief itself may not be a disorder, but the fact that you feel that > > without it you couldn't function is pretty unhealthy, IMNSHO. > > Given how important God is to those who do believe in him, your > > opinion is fairly impolite. If i were to lose my wife, say, i would > > have a hard time functioning. I'd get over it eventually, sure, but > > she is only human. To lose one's god should damn well be a major > > problem. Try to be a little more sensitive. Erm, yeah. I have this major disorder myself, called "clinical depression." It has been a bitch and a half to deal with, and I'll simply never "get over" it. I have plenty of sympathy for people with disorders, but I will emphatically not support their system of denial, no matter how much "good" it might appear to do in the short term. As I tried to say, it's not the belief, it's the reaction to a perceived threat to that belief that exposes the disorder. > Hey, recovering from a major psychological problem *is* a big deal, > and I try to be as supportive as I can of people doing so. Somebody > who had thought better of god, and was having trouble adjusting, > certainly falls into that sort of category, and I hope I'd be > supportive of them. And I, too, would be as supportive as I could be. I _know_ how difficult this stuff can be, having gone through it myself. > On the other hand, I don't want to be an enabler. Egg-zactly. -- Frank Mayhar frank at exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/