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Garzik: An Andre To RememberGarzik: An Andre To RememberPosted Jul 31, 2012 8:57 UTC (Tue) by morhippo (subscriber, #334)In reply to: Garzik: An Andre To Remember by kjp Parent article: Garzik: An Andre To Remember I think it is not very good taste to spread your personal belief system in the context of this sad news, where an apparently sick man ended up killing himself. Let's not bring belief system into this, but let's honor the man. That is of course, unless Andre would have endorsed your belief system and lived by it, which I seriously doubt.
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Garzik: An Andre To Remember Posted Aug 1, 2012 10:27 UTC (Wed) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]
Seconded. It is inelegant and seems like the person is taking advantage of the situation to proselytize.
Garzik: An Andre To Remember Posted Aug 2, 2012 10:11 UTC (Thu) by dunlapg (subscriber, #57764) [Link]
So what's the difference between saying, "Seek professional help" and "Seek spiritual help"? If you genuinely believe the benefits of therapy and medication (in the appropriate context), would you refrain from mentioning it because you know *some* people don't believe in it? So if you genuinely believe Christianity (or whatever) will benefit someone, why should you refrain from mentioning it because you know some people don't believe it?
Garzik: An Andre To Remember Posted Aug 2, 2012 12:47 UTC (Thu) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link] Speaking on the basis of knowing several people with bipolar spectrum disorders: God can't write you a prescription for carbamazepine; your psychiatrist can.
Garzik: An Andre To Remember Posted Aug 2, 2012 13:05 UTC (Thu) by dunlapg (subscriber, #57764) [Link]
Indeed. No one said *not* to go to a psychiatrist; he only recommended to *also* look into church and prayer.
Garzik: An Andre To Remember Posted Aug 5, 2012 21:05 UTC (Sun) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]
> So what's the difference between saying, "Seek professional help" and "Seek spiritual help"?
Basically? Science.
Garzik: An Andre To Remember Posted Aug 12, 2012 18:40 UTC (Sun) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]
And what is science?
As practiced by humanity, precious little difference between that and religion! See my other comment :-)
Cheers,
Garzik: An Andre To Remember Posted Aug 12, 2012 18:44 UTC (Sun) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]
I should add to that, science is supposedly the rational observation and study of "what is", but in reality in medicine (and certainly it seems true of American medical research) it appears largely to be the collection of "facts" that re-inforce the financial interests of big pharma. (And the suppression of "inconvenient" facts that don't.)
And the same appears to be true of many other areas of big business, too :-(
Cheers,
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