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I would wager the solipsism of scenes works on both sides of the Atlantic. If you dare make a disparaging remark about a hallowed garage or jungle tune you get ripped on here. Same as you would on CB, although I've never read comments there, and I'm not a regular reader of it...

Here's an interesting fact: neurologists recently observed infant brains reaching orgasm. Freud was scientifically right on at least one thing (and many others), then. Before him, nobody believed children felt sexual pleasure or arousal/stimulation. Another good one: an infant male produces...

Yeah, the Freudian idea is that the original cathected object (or object of libidinal desire) for an infant is the mother (or the mother's body), and that it's a long slow process to go from "I'm the center of the universe, mom is magic and makes everything all better" to full-fledged...

Search schizophrenia and childhood trauma on pubmed. I dare you. For that matter, search google in general, you'll find plenty of studies and literature. You'd probably have to pay for the better stuff, but there are abstracts floating around. I like how your reaction to Luka's "reductive"...

"Value judgments" are made all the time, everyday, in every discipline, in every walk of life, in minds, everywhere, all the time. I'm impatient with anyone who pretends that they somehow avoid making these. Oedipalization is the process through which a child enters into "adulthood"--i.e...

I really like sci-fi in theory but in practice I'm usually disappointed by the caliber of the writing, and the high faluting stuff other people pull out of it is not what I usually read on the page. (I feel the same way about jungle, fwiw--I like what everyone says they hear in it conceptually...

OMG... I mean, the guy is onto something with this whole quadratic fixation, but he's doesn't quite get there...think about it guys...four is better than three...cubing better than triangulation... Schizophrenics are good at resisting Oedipalization. But what's funny about this guy is how...

i also think that NO group is entirely homogenous. Ask any anthropologist.

What are you talking about here? Yes, psychiatrists and psychologists "systematically evaluate" their own biases using the null hypothesis and huge data sets. It's called the scientific method, and at the moment, there are MOUNTAINS of data supporting a correlation between early childhood...

Of course there is! Do you think I don't constantly analyze my every thought and action? I'm not exempted from my own games. I bet if you searched you'd find some good Trekkie pages. Aren't comic book people and sci-fi people sort of legendarily obsessive-compulsive/autistic? I mean isn't that...

I can do it with everyone, and I do. In my head, all the time. It's a fun game.

The delusions here aren't really about conspiracies, and they're almost never "just nonsense"... I have no credentials and I haven't examined this person but here's my best guess (based on a hypothetical "real guy" who sincerely typed all that stuff): 1) probably abandoned by female caregiver...

Someone I know found a briefcase (on Bedford Avenue) full of loose papers covered in writing very similar to this. He's weird himself so he kept it and framed some of it. The disorganized thought processes and delusional thinking here are umistakeable markers of paranoid schizophrenia...

I know what he's saying is ridiculous but I kinda like how Sun Ra esque he sounds.

Ok I didn't think so. But it was never even a TV series here (never heard of it till just now) it's just one of those weird cult VHS thingies, I think. Although CBN has some pretty amazing programming.

Wait...are you guys saying that Bibleman was actually on TV in your country? In 2000, no less? Holy. shit. Over here you'd definitely have to get something like that on direct-to-DVD at Walmart.

Ooooh southern baptists! They make the women wear like old timey prairie clothes and stuff. There was this girl I liked when I was 13 or so who went to a baptist church, so I would go to her youth group and bible drill with her. After a couple of years of this awesome fun, Jesus sent a tractor...

This must have come out around the time Tron did, or you know, appropriately late and slightly off-trend like most religious pop cultural stuff does. I love how fundamentalists like to feel in the loop, too, but they can't allow themselves to watch icky "secular" movies with questionable themes...

I have a second edition or third edition of that but I've never read it. Let me know if it's good.

Yeah, it's not as if we're going to run out of plausible, sane reasons to dislike Obama anytime soon. No need to rush to bog-standard conspiracy theorizing.