Denialists are mental: Official!
Crapaud
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New Scientist's doing a feature on denialism: Special report: Living in denial
So that's that sorted.
... He believes the instigators of denialist movements have more serious psychological problems than most of their followers. "They display all the features of paranoid personality disorder", he says, including anger, intolerance of criticism, and what psychiatrists call a grandiose sense of their own importance. "Ultimately, their denialism is a mental health problem. That is why these movements all have the same features, especially the underlying conspiracy theory." ...
So that's that sorted.
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill
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Hmm .Sums me up to a T....Who's in that car parked up my street?bagpuss0
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conspiracy theory nuts may be paranoid? Thats certainly a surprise.
Ahem.i ride a hardtail0 -
It stands to reason really. I've suspected for years that anyone who doesn't agree with me is actually a complete lunatic.
It's nice to finally have proof from the New Scientist.0 -
deptfordmarmoset wrote:It stands to reason really. I've suspected for years that anyone who doesn't agree with me is actually a complete lunatic.
It's nice to finally have proof from the New Scientist. 0 -
It amazes me that it takes a Pro to point it out when many non-professional observers have already been saying it for years.
There is only one truth - people are nuts.0 -
bagpusscp wrote:Hmm .Sums me up to a T....Who's in that car parked up my street?
Me, and I'm naked!
http://www.youtube.com/user/Eurobunneh - My Youtube channel.0 -
Speaking of denialists.. this lot wont shut up:
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/8168047 ... abduction/
They deny that children can be safe. Facebook is making parts of Southampton even more pranoid it seems. Muppets.0 -
dennisn wrote:deptfordmarmoset wrote:It stands to reason really. I've suspected for years that anyone who doesn't agree with me is actually a complete lunatic.
It's nice to finally have proof from the New Scientist.
+1"I hold it true, what'er befall;
I feel it, when I sorrow most;
'Tis better to have loved and lost;
Than never to have loved at all."
Alfred Tennyson0 -
Crapaud wrote:New Scientist's doing a feature on denialism: Special report: Living in denial... He believes the instigators of denialist movements have more serious psychological problems than most of their followers. "They display all the features of paranoid personality disorder", he says, including anger, intolerance of criticism, and what psychiatrists call a grandiose sense of their own importance. "Ultimately, their denialism is a mental health problem. That is why these movements all have the same features, especially the underlying conspiracy theory." ...
So that's that sorted.
Well, they would say that. They're part of the conspiracy. 0 -
Crapaud wrote:New Scientist's doing a feature on denialism: Special report: Living in denial... He believes the instigators of denialist movements have more serious psychological problems than most of their followers. "They display all the features of paranoid personality disorder", he says, including anger, intolerance of criticism, and what psychiatrists call a grandiose sense of their own importance. "Ultimately, their denialism is a mental health problem. That is why these movements all have the same features, especially the underlying conspiracy theory." ...
So that's that sorted.
We are all in denial about something :twisted: We are all nutters :twisted: I'm glad about that, I thought it was just me and my mind friends
"Mother, please.......!0 -
They are all standing in a big river in Africa..............
They are in De-Nile.
Taxi for 1 please.
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and they are going all out for Africa.
Toto said it ...must be ture.bagpuss0 -
Surely a denier would just deny this?
Quite right too, sounds like garbage! 'Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible' Marcel Proust.0 -
why do people become or go mad / insane / gaga / denialism ?
I'm more interested in the happenings to send someone over 'the edge', and where and what exactly is 'the edge', except the rather spiffy guitarist in the band U2 I mean.
I find it interesting that one societies 'crazy' is anothers not so crazy. And how some crazies are actually also seen as 'savants'.
what I'm saying really is who decides who is crazy ??? - the ol' the nutters are running the asylum comes to my pan addled brain.
if you ever have worked in close proximity to others for long periods of time you soon see what crazy is and does to seemingly quite 'normal' people.
as the ol' saying goes I may be paranoid but it doesn't mean there not out to get me. possibly
'since the flaming telly's been taken away, we don't even know if the Queen of Englands gone off with the dustman'.
Lizzie Birdsworth, Episode 64, Prisoner Cell Block H.0 -
I'm more interested in the happenings to send someone over 'the edge', and where and what exactly is 'the edge', except the rather spiffy guitarist in the band U2 I mean.
How long a list do you want.I can give you more issues than many a book.I am not kidding here.
What is normal,and who says normal is normal :?bagpuss0 -
At first i thought this thread was about "Dentists"
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You are a 12 foot tall, human blood drinking, shapeshifting, illuminati lizard* and ICM £5.deptfordmarmoset wrote:It stands to reason really. I've suspected for years that anyone who doesn't agree with me is actually a complete lunatic.
It's nice to finally have proof from the New Scientist.
*Or David IckeA fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject - Churchill0
