Teabillie idol and walking deadman Limbaugh does his last broadcast......EVER!
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It also begets stupidity. My brother has a friend who exclusively watches only MSNBC for his "news." As you can imagine his POV is skewed far to the left. Sometimes my brother will say "Did you hear about ___?" and relate some silliness his friend heard and repeated. But then my brother watches Fox, so he's not much better. Feel like I need a recording that says "The truth lies somewhere in between."
Public education should do a better job of teaching the scientific method and inductive logic.
The skeptical and free thinking adult should always feel an obligation to default to the null hypothesis -- any assertion should be categorically rejected as untrue or unproven, absent any credible supporting evidence or corroboration (gossip, conjecture, and speculation do not count as evidence).
It would save us all a lot of trouble next time a rightwing poster falsely claims a prominent liberal poster enjoys kiddie porn.
Gotta hit rock bottom at some point.
Reported! Violation of rule against posting personal info about JPP members.
Might also spare the ban hammer. lol
My brother is one of the smartest people I've ever known. Yet he seems to struggle at times with keeping his skepticism gland in good working order. For instance, he used to forward me dire warnings about non-existent things, like using your cell phone when it's plugged into the charger will cause it to explode. He always falls for those doctored nature pics that show an eagle doing some impossible stunt like flying away with a 90-lb fish or the like. He's 77 now and that trend seems to have accelerated as he got older.
Dutch Uncle
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Critical thinking skills seem very lacking among the majority of Americans.
Did he fall for the picture of the great white shark leaping out of the water and latching onto a Coast Guard helicopter?
The other thing that the scientific method teaches us is to consider alternative hypotheses. I have convinced my wife that there could be multiple explanations for why something happened, or why someone behaved in a certain way. Leaping to assumptions generally never ends well.
On the other hand, she has trained me to cook, and to put the toilet seat down.
I think it is a skill we all must continuously cultivate, because it is possible our brains are genetically wired to leap to assumptions without taking the necessary steps of careful deliberations. Brains be genetically evolved that way as a matter of survival.
100,000 years ago on the African Serengeti, there was less risk, less cost, and more benefit to leap to the assumption that rustle in the grass you heard was a lurking predator, rather than to consider it might have just been the wind blowing the grass.
BattleofHodow
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That's for sure too many West Euro dregs like you.
It's very LOLzy that your people went from looting & shooting the World in racial genocide.
Did a 180.
Now support racial minorities looting & shooting your own nations in racial suicide.
Dutch Uncle
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Intelligence and mental illness, such as paranoia, are not mutually exclusive. Such conditions can, indeed, increase with age. I don't know if it's the aging process itself or simply because the condition remains untreated and simply increases over time.
American men are culturally conditioned to be "manly men"; protectors of hearth and home, shining white knights. As they age, they weaken and, therefore, cannot protect and defend as they once did. This can result in fear of failure as they rightly perceive that younger people are stronger and more capable of dominating them. Two common paths are acceptance or compensation....sometimes over-compensation such as a 70ish man with a gun, backup gun, boot knife, etc. Obviously anyone predisposed to paranoia, even a little bit, could be more adversely affected. Giving out "warnings" is one way of compensating.
IMHO, your brother (and a few of my relatives) are examples of a culture noticeably lacking in mental healthcare facilities and supporting legislation.
We can come up with a vaccine for a novel virus in less than a year, but we can't help aging Americans with their fears without doping them up into ?
https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/conditionsandtreatments/paranoia
Treatment
While there is no absolute cure for the conditions that cause paranoia, treatment can help the person cope with their symptoms and live a happier, more productive life. Treatment depends on the type and severity of the condition but may include:
- Medications – anti-anxiety drugs or antipsychotic drugs can ease some of the symptoms. However, a person with paranoia may often refuse to take medication because they are afraid it will harm them.
- Therapy – this can help the person to cope with their symptoms and may improve their ability to function. However, a person with paranoia is unlikely to talk openly and freely to a therapist, so progress can be extremely slow.
- Coping skills – other treatments aim to improve the person’s ability to function socially. Options may include relaxation therapy, techniques to reduce anxiety, and behaviour modification.
- Hospital admission – in severe cases, the person may need to stay in hospital until the condition causing paranoia stabilises.
https://www.webmd.com/mental-health/why-paranoid#1
Symptoms of Paranoia
The symptoms of paranoia can include:
- Being defensive, hostile, and aggressive
- Being easily offended
- Believing you are always right and having trouble relaxing or letting your guard down
- Not being able to compromise, forgive, or accept criticism
- Not being able to trust or confide in other people
- Reading hidden meanings into people’s normal behaviors
Dutch Uncle
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Agreed we are genetically spring-loaded to survival which includes suspecting every bump in the night.
BattleofHodow
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Right, which includes survival of your culture.
Of course, West Euros like you have Autism or OCD.
You are desperate, rigid, unfeeling& thoughtless overall.
Look at you.
You think it's okay to bash Poles with prejudices but not Jews.
Because you were told anti Semitismnid wrong.
But anti Polish prejudices are acceptable.
Typical desperate & dumb West Euro.
You are obsessed about fitting in.
Truly lemmings falling off a cliff.
christiefan915
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Amen. Not only after she died, but plenty of death wishes and hate poured on her every time she was hospitalized for years before she died.
christiefan915
Catalyst
^ Whose name immediately springs to mind after reading this? Textbook case!
What's going on with him though is typical of a lot of us as we age, especially in the Year of the COVID. His circle has gotten smaller and smaller, he's exposed to fewer new people and new ideas, and is basically stuck in a rut. He suffered some serious health problems earlier this year and now doesn't leave the house except for medical appointments. This is a guy who in his younger days would hop in his truck, tell his wife see ya in a few, and head out West and camp in the national parks for weeks at a time. He was always athletic and until the day before his health issues began, he walked and/or biked several miles daily. If anything he could use antidepressants but as he hates medicine that's not going to happen. I talk to him weekly (he lives in Richardson TX) and can still make him laugh. I guess that will have to do it for now.
No, but if he'd seen it he would have!
Dutch Uncle
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Dutch Uncle
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While I agree, my point was that little is being done to help him since such help is either nonexistent or very expensive.
I'm not a big fan of just throwing pills at people. That's as silly as cauterizing a serious wound, giving the person a bottle of aspirin and wishing them "Good luck!" There's a lot more to helping people with such conditions; environment, therapy (usually group therapy is the best first and cheapest option), regular monitoring for effectiveness of treatment and inclusion of relatives in the healing/treatment process, just to name a few.
It's like finding a solution to national obesity; there's a lot more to solving the problem than simply saying "Eat less".
Regular communication with him is good. Richardson is about an hour from me.
Dutch Uncle
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