Thursday, December 20, 2012

THANKS FOR THE MEMORIES

THE ABSURD TIMES

According to the Mayan Calendar, according to some scholars thereof, this is the last full day of life on earth and the world ends on the 21st.  

So, once again, I am cheated out of a birthday party. but hey, I'm used to it, happens almost every year anyway.

If these interpretations of the ancient religion are right, this is the last day on earth, so I just wanted to take this opportunity to say farewell and share with you my true, deep, gratitude that this fucked up planet we call earth with be gone and me with it.  

The best part of it all, no more bullshit!

On the other hand, if the information we have been getting in the media is wrong, I'll be back with a more systematic appraisal of how the world will end.

CIAO

Monday, December 17, 2012

Und das nicht nur Mama, US


Und das nicht nur Mama, US





Wir werden auf dieser so lange fortgesetzt, wie es Interesse. Wir könnten vielleicht zuschreiben ein oder zwei von ihnen fängt schwere psychische Traumata, vielleicht mehr, aber noch wichtiger ist die Frage, warum wir scheinen vielleicht 15 bis 50 Mal die Zahl als andere entwickelte Länder haben. Ein paar Ideen, um meinen Verstand jetzt kommen und das sind die Verfügbarkeit von Schusswaffen in dem Land, sicherlich ihre Fülle, und die offensichtliche Natur, dass wir Gewalt verherrlichen. Wenn Sie mit mir nicht einverstanden, "C'mon, machen mein Tag!" Wir können vielleicht sagen, dass über ein paar, aber alle von ihnen? Das Argument scheint ähnlich zu einem von Nate Silber, wenn es um Statistiken. Haben Steroide produzieren mehr Home Runs? Nun, man kann nicht sagen, dass eine bestimmte home run von Steroiden verursacht wurde (ich könnte, wenn ich dort war), aber wenn ein Spieler die regelmäßig bekommt 30 Starts immer 60 pro Jahr, man vernünftigerweise schreiben sie auf Steroide.

Aber, um Ihre Kommentare:

Hugh zu haben scheint einige Probleme mit meiner Diskussion der Zuschreibung zu nehmen. Er schrieb:

 Über 10 Jahre zurück, es war ein junger Mann namens John Segretti aus
California, bleiben bei seiner Tante in Houghton und sie war wirklich
Sorgen durch sein Verhalten-prowling rund um das Haus die ganze Nacht. Sie hielt
Tür verriegelt. Sie bat die Polizei, etwas zu tun, und sie sagten
sie konnten es nicht, wenn er etwas falsch gemacht in der Öffentlichkeit. Später wurde er tat
etwas auf dem lokalen Bus, aber immer noch nichts von der Polizei durchgeführt.
Dann im Winter, in einem Schneesturm, trat er in die Houghton Nationalpark
Bank mit einer Schrotflinte. Der Polizeichef der Frau lief die Bank und war auf
das Telefon, wenn er und trat warnte vor dem Auflegen. Die
Police Station war auf der gleichen Straße und der Chef Raffelli war
draußen vor der Tür mit Gewehr in Sekunden erstellt. Ich weiß nicht, ob John bekam
kein Geld, aber er wollte eine Geisel - er sollte auch verdrahtet werden
mit einer Bombe um seinen Oberkörper. Raffelli Frau freiwillig, aber die
Schrotflinte versehentlich ging, als sie ihn fort, und es blies
Arm am Ellenbogen. Sein Schicksal war zu diesem Zeitpunkt verschlossen. Eine andere
Frau wurde als Geisel und sie gingen über die Straße zu einem überdachten
Parkplatz zu ihrem Auto. Schneesturm erinnern. Wenn das Auto kam
runter bis zur Kreuzung, jemanden erschossen, die Reifen mit einem Gewehr. Ich
glaube, sie hatten einen Scharfschützen an Ort und Stelle bereits auf der obersten Etage, dass
Gebäude oder über die Kreuzung ein. Dann hatten sie diese lange Stand
aus, während Verstärkungen kamen in - Landespolizei und wer weiß? Sie
nicht mit ihm so weit ich weiß, zu kommunizieren. Ich weiß, seine Cousine-a
lokalen CPA und Freund - fragte zu dürfen, um das Auto zu nähern und
mit ihm zu sprechen, wurde aber abgelehnt. Ich weiß nicht, was die Scharfschützen warteten
für, vielleicht, dass er seinen Einfluss auf die vermeintlichen Zünder lösen, und
dann schoss ihm in den Kopf. Wahrscheinlich wollte er sterben. Ich wünsche dem Cohn
Brüder würden diese Geschichte als eine Fortsetzung Fargo tun.
Jetzt habe ich einen lokalen Freund, dessen Sohn verloren, wenn er zur Schule ging
in Bozeman. Er hat nicht um sich selbst kümmern - nicht essen, nicht schlafen,
nicht richtig gekleidet, fand umher in der kalten Winternacht
mit nicht viel weiter. Zuerst sagten sie vielleicht Apsbergers Syndrom; später
bipolaren Störung. Das Kind verlor seinen besten Freund seinem ersten Jahr der
College Meningitis. Und er hatte einen fast tödlichen Erfahrung
Bergsteigen, wenn er aus irgendeinem Grund allein war und nahm einen Rückgang der
eine Gletscherspalte und musste ziehen sich 5 oder 10 Meilen. Seine Mutter, meine
Freund-gibt sich die Schuld für seinen Zustand, weil sie sich scheiden-
Nach dem jüngsten Sohn aufs College ging 5 Jahre nach - alle Kinder aus
das Haus, bevor scheiden. Er wurde auf einem Beitrag grad Grad arbeiten
Montana. Natürlich ist sie römisch-katholisch.
Dann gibt es diese Persönlichkeitsstörung Frau, die ich kennengelernt, als ich zum ersten Mal
zog wieder hier oben in 1990-single mom leben von Sozialhilfe oder SS
behindertengerechte sie eine Mutter zertifiziert. Dieser Sohn wurde schizophren
seinem Abschlussjahr an der High School. Einige Schuld, dass und Himbeere auf den
Immunisierung Schüsse alle Kinder bekommen jetzt, wenn sie Babys sind. Ich weiß nicht
kennen. Es funktioniert für sie und vielleicht ihm, dass es sie immer noch sowohl
leben in einem Haus vom Staat kostenlos zur Verfügung gestellt, bekommen Essensmarken
und ein Stipendium. Sie entdeckte ich ein Geheimnis war Trinker von Wodka und
Orangensaft. Ich weiß nicht, was sein Leben wie jetzt. Als er 10 war,
beobachtete er den Wetter-Kanal und schrieb temps und so. Jetzt mit
INTERNET, wer weiß? h


Nun, ich bin nicht über etwa um die Folklore rund psychischen Erkrankungen beitragen. Der letzte ist wie ein echter Fall von Autismus, möglicherweise eine Form von undifferenzierten (nicht finden können, das verdammte Rechtschreibprüfung hier) Schizophrenie sein. Es ist fast unmöglich zu sagen, nie mit ihm gesehen oder gesprochen mit den beteiligten Personen. Bi Polar nie wächst aus Asperger jedoch. Es wurde früher als manisch-depressiv werden und der Begriff wird noch verwendet (nicht fachgerecht), und es gibt hyper-Typen, Hypo-Typen, so weiter. Ich hatte einmal ein bisschen ein Problem mit einer Versicherungsgesellschaft der Diagnose Depression und ein anderer hatte bi-polar, hypo-Typ verwendet. Wir mussten ihnen sagen zusammen, dass die beiden zu unterscheiden bis zu drei Wochen sind zu einer Zeit.

Über all die Ehefrau, Mutter, etc., tun können, ist zu erstatten und versuchen, ihn verpflichtet. Auch kann eine professionelle "96" jemand, wie wir es zu nennen pflegte, sperren ihn für 96 Stunden zur Beobachtung.

Ein Großteil der Probleme begannen mit RD Laing und dergleichen zu wollen "befreien die Unterdrückten", nicht ahnend, dass jemand wie Ronnie Ray Gun würde mitkommen und zustimmen. Billiger. Schade, 70% dieser Menschen sind nicht in der Lage sich zu verkleiden oder sich selbst zu ernähren und viele nicht finden ihren Weg zurück in ihre Betten.

Matt, der auf der D.C. Madame schrieb, sagt:

Eine dysfunktionale Familie und Kultur. Die Verwandten und Nachbarn und sogenannten Freunde sollten sich die Mühe, wie wunderbar die Mutter war zu retten, wie "verantwortlich«, hatte sie mit ihren Pistolen gewesen. Die Tatsache, dass 20 Kinder und sechs Erwachsene jetzt tot sind beweist, dass dies ein moronic Annahme oder Behauptung ihrerseits mehr eigennützigen Lügen, die Idioten ist. Erinnert mich an John Wayne Gacy die verdammte Nachbarn sagen, dass sie nie bemerkt nichts falsch - richtig, sie waren wie ihn in ihren eigenen Weg, outlaw Nation auf einer Schicht aus toten Körpern wie der ganze Rest gebaut gefickt. Brion Gysin Vergleich Gacy einer normannischen Baron, und er war richtig.

Lassen Sie uns auf die Kultur hier zu konzentrieren - die Mutter nahm das Kind auf Schießständen, nach zwei Konten, weil sie zu binden versuchte mit ihrem Sohn. Er brauchte nicht Verklebung mit, dass jemand wie. Nachbarn sind fast überall zu sagen, dass er "ein schönes, wuite, höflich, Art war," in fast allen dieser Fälle. Ich kann nicht eine Ausnahme zu denken. Natürlich können Sie [re rechts, die Fakten über-fahren die Meinungen.

Soweit eine der Normannen betrifft, bin ich immer noch sauer auf sie für die Invasion Englands im Jahre 1066 und damit zu vermasseln englische Schreibweise für immer. Und "John Wayne Gacy"? Der Name sagt alles - das und die Tatsache, dass Michelle Bachmann selbst identifiziert, dass er im selben Ort geboren worden. Das war falsch, aber hey, sie Wort bedeutungslos ist um sie herum.

And Not Just Mom, US


And Not Just Mom, US





We will continue on this as long as there is interest. We could perhaps attribute one, or two, of these snaps to severe psychological trauma, perhaps more, but more important is the question of why we seem to have perhaps 15 to 50 times the number as other developed countries. A couple of ideas come to my mind right now and those are the availability of firearms in the country, certainly their abundance, and the obvious nature that we glorify violence. If you disagree with me, “C'mon, make my day!” We can perhaps say that about a few, but all of them? The argument seems similar to one made by Nate Silver when talking about statistics. Do steroids produce more homers? Well, you can not say that any particular home run was caused by steroids (I might if I was there), but if a player who regularly gets 30 starts getting 60 each year, you can reasonably attribute it to steroids.

But, to your comments:

Hugh seems to have take some issue with my discussion of attribution. He wrote:

About 10 years back, there was a young man named John Segretti from
California, staying with his aunt in Houghton and she was really
worried by his behavior- prowling around the house all night. She kept
her door locked. She asked the police to do something and they said
they couldn't unless he did something wrong in public. Later he did do
something on the local bus, but still nothing was done by the cops.
Then in the winter, in a snow storm, he entered the Houghton National
Bank with a shotgun. The Police chief's wife ran the bank and was on
the phone when he entered and gave warning before hanging up. The
Police station was on the same street and the chief Raffelli was
outside the door with gun drawn in seconds. I don't know if John got
any money, but he wanted a hostage - he was also supposed to be wired
with a bomb around his torso. Raffelli's wife volunteered, but the
shotgun accidentally went off as she proceeded him and it blew away
her arm at the elbow. His fate was sealed at that moment. Another
woman became hostage and they proceeded across the street to a covered
parking lot to her car. Snow storm remember. When the car came out
down to the intersection, someone shot the tires out with a rifle. I
think they had a sniper in place already on the top floor of that
building or one across the intersection. Then they had this long stand
off while reinforcements came in - state police and who knows? They
didn't communicate with him as far as I know. I do know his cousin- a
local CPA, and friend - asked to be allowed to approach the car and
talk to him but was denied. I don't know what the sharpshooters waited
for, maybe that he release his hold on the supposed detonator, and
then shot him in the head. He probably wanted to die. I wish the Cohn
brothers would do this story as a sequel to Fargo.
Now I have a local friend whose son lost it when he went off to school
in Bozeman. He didn't take care of himself - not eating, not sleeping,
not properly clothed, found wandering around in the cold winter night
with not much on. At first they said maybe Apsbergers syndrome;later-
bi-polar disorder. This kid lost his best friend his freshman year of
college to spinal meningitis. And he had a near fatal experience
mountain climbing when for some reason he was alone and took a fall in
a crevasse and had to drag himself 5 or 10 miles. His mother- my
friend- blames herself for his condition because she got divorced-
after the youngest son went to college 5 years after - all kids out of
the house before divorcing. He was working on a post grad degree in
Montana. Of course she is Roman Catholic.
Then there is this personality disorder woman whom I met when I first
moved back up here in 1990 -single mom living on welfare or SS
disability- she was certified a nut. This son became schizophrenic in
his senior year of High School. Some blame that and Raspberry on the
immunization shots all kids get now when they are babies. I don't
know. It works out for her and maybe him- that there they still both
are living free in a house provided by the state, getting food stamps
and a stipend. She I discovered was a secret drinker of vodka and
orange juice. I don't know what his life is like now. When he was 10,
he watched the weather channel and wrote down temps and such. Now with
INTERNET, who knows? h

Well, I'm not about about to contribute to the folklore around mental illness.  The last one does seem like a genuine case of Autism, possibly a form of undifferentiated (can't find the damn spell check here) schizophrenia.  It is almost impossible to say, never having seen him or talked with the people involved.  Bi Polar never grows out of Asperger's, however.  It used to be called manic-depressive and the term is still used (not professionally), and there are hyper-types, hypo-types, so on.  I once had a bit of a problem with an insurance company by diagnosing depression and another had used bi-polar, hypo-type.  We had to tell them together that the two are indistinguishable for up to three weeks at a time.  

About all the wife, mother, etc., can do is to file charges and try to have him committed.  Also, a professional can "96" someone, as we used to call it, lock him in for 96 hours for observation.  

A lot of the problems started with R. D. Laing and the like wanting to "liberate the oppressed," not realizing that someone like Ronnie Ray Gun would come along and agree.  Cheaper.  Too bad 70% of these people are unable to dress or feed themselves and many cant find their way back to their beds. 

Matt, who wrote on the D.C. Madame, says:

A dysfunctional family and culture. The relatives and neighbors and so-called friends should save the trouble about how wonderful the mother was, how "responsible" she'd been with her guns. The fact that 20 kids and six adults are now dead proves that this is a moronic assumption or contention on their part, more self-serving lies, the idiots. Reminds me of John Wayne Gacy's fucking neighbors saying they never noticed anything wrong--right, they were as fucked as him in their own way, outlaw nation built on a layer of dead bodies like all the rest. Brion Gysin compared Gacy to a Norman baron, and he was correct.

Let us focus on the culture here – the mother took the kid to rifle ranges, according to two accounts, because she was trying to bond with her son. He didn't need bonding with someone like that. Neighbors are almost universally saying that “he was a nice, wuite, polite, sort,” in just about every one of these cases. I can't think of an exception. Of course, you[re right, the facts over-ride the opinions.

As far as any of the Normans are concerned, I am still pissed off at them for invading England in 1066 and thus screwing up English spelling forever. And “John Wayne Gacy”? The name tells it all – that and the fact that Michelle Bachmann identified herself as having been born in the same place. That was erroneous, but hey, they word is meaningless around her.

Sunday, December 16, 2012

Mom Did IT! Slaughter in Ct.

This discussion started on Cognitive816, but I reserve that board for more technical aspects of cognitive theory. I also feel more free here to discuss the issues you have raised as they are not personal and as they have a broader scope to them.


Here is what I wrote simply to warn about the idiocy prevalent on Corporate Media over the school shootings:



Saturday, December 15, 2012

Autism and the Ct. School Shootings



I very seldom, in fact so far as I can remember, never comment on current events using my Psychological Training or Cognitive Science as an element. I try to keep that separate.

However, I am becoming very disturbed at the facile way reporters and commentators are throwing around terms such as "Autism" and "Asperger's Syndrome" as related to causation in the situation. Neither is or could be true. It is possible that some sort of identity disorder could be involved, but this is not Dustin Hoffman or Jerry from Boston Legal.

End of story. If you want to know more, let me know. Otherwise, look elsewhere for the causes.

http://cognitive816.blogspot.com/2012/12/autism-and-ct-school-shootings.htm



The first comment comes from the author of the new book on the D.C. Madame. I have never known him to be very far off when it came to facts and I feel absolutely comfortable is accepting his description of the guys mother.

When you want to find the cause of a murder suicide, it is usually more efficient to look towards the suicide, the the murder(s). I do know she owned several guns as well and the kids were shot by guns she owned. He also took care to dispose of her first..


It looks to me that his mother was a controlling, bourgeois cunt who was intensely neurotic. That would drive anyone nuts. ;0) The fact that the judge told both parents to take parenting education classes says it all, they're dysfunctional as hell. She was a moron not to have a locked gun case with one key hidden squarely away. I agree, just think she was pushing the poor bastard too far, square peg into a round hole bourgeois crap, insensitive treatment & an inability to face sending him off to the nuthouse. Not that society has a real mental healthcare system currently! That's what I think the real issue is, he was nuts, but it wasn't the autism at all, but something entirely different, cultural cues inclusive, our tendency towards violence to solve problems. He probably felt he was trapped with his shrewish mother for the rest of his shitty life and got desperate.

I also doubt, Matt, that is was Asperger's at all. It also looks as if the father got out of Dodge as fast as he could. I didn't know that about the judge, but it explains a great deal. In my practice, I have usually found that it was the parents who were screwed up, although I could not use that in the eitiology.



Another:

I have heard parents say Asperger's when it was adult onset  schizophrenia. Now his mother used that term to a friend saying he was acting up, maybe she would have gotten it right if time hadn't run out.

Well, those parents were wrong. They are two different ailments entirely, and schizophrenia is at least four different ailments. Asperger's may actually be environmental.


Here is another accurate obsevation:

Pop psychobabble diagnoses are a common a way to dismiss or trivialize people's motives...


It rather sums things up.


I really do think that the next thing to be put up on cognitive will be a discussion of the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (V). It is pretty controversial, but hardly fit for here. :)


Friday, December 14, 2012

[New post] Western smoke-and-mirrors terrorism


More on Syria


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Western smoke-and-mirrors terrorism Barack Obama, America's Conjurer-in-Chief, is trying to entertain the world with a new smoke-and-mirrors trick, with the announcement that his government is recognizing the Syrian National Coalition as "the sole representative of the Syrian people". The chemical weapons trick seems to have fizzled like a damp squib. So, now it's time for [...]

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Thursday, December 13, 2012

China


Sometimes it becomes a chore even to be aware of what is going on.  However, here is a bit more, this time about
rape and China:

Humanity simply is in the process of self-destruction.

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Sirens in China wail for murdered civilians, raped and murdered women worldwide.

Christof Lehmann – nsnbc. On Thursday, 13. December 2012 at 10 a.m. sirens throughout China started wailing. With global security being more fragile than ever since the end of the so-called Cold War; with new cold war conflicts from the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands, Phillipines, Southern Thailand, Myanmar, Nepal, Afghanistan and Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, Kongo, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, Mali, Libya, Colombia, Palestina and Syria.

With many of todays conflicts having the potential to develop into regional conflicts with global consequences, the sirens of China are understood as an ominous warning by war victims worldwide; the sirens of China are also sobering wakeup calls for those political leaders who oppose imperialism and warmongering, and who are aware of the daunting task that lies ahead. To maintain peace without surrendering to warmongers, imperialism and the heart of Darkness that is at the root of the rapes.

The sirens of China were wailing; 75 years after the Nanjing massacre 75 years after the rape of Nanjing. They were not only wailing for the 300.000 murdered and the survivors, they were wailing for the victims of the massacres in Sabra and Shatila, Jenin, Rwanda, Al Houla and the victims of massacres worldwide.

The sirens of China were wailing for the more than 20.000 women who were raped in Nanjing, 75 years ago, while the warmongers still systematically use rape as a weapon of war, worldwide, and with impunity. In a certain sense, the sirens of China were wailing for the International Criminal Court, which ten years after the Rome Statute has failed to prosecute any war criminal who acted under the protective cover of the US/UN/NATO Hegemony while prosecuting, sentencing and incarcerating exclusively those political and military leaders who dard to oppose the alliance. The alliance which has the expressed ambition of a Pax Americana and global full spectrum dominance.


Nanjing, the capital of China´s eastern Jiangsu Province is still physically and emotionally scarred; 75 years ago, in December 1937, more than 300.000 people, predominantly civilians including infants and the elderly were massacred; massacred systematically and in cold blood.

And all those rapes; 20.000 women beaten, brutalized, barbarically penetrated, many of them raped to death, many others of them beheaded for sport after they had been abused beyond recognition. How easy it is to murder those whose humanity has been murdered and raped already; how easy it is to forget a woman’s humanity after every remainder of her humanity has been gang raped. 20.000 experiences of sheer and unadulterated fear, hell and evil before a naked death. Where is the Heart of Darkness today.

On 13 December 2012 more than 9.000 international guests took part in the commemorations and the demonstrations for peace and yet, non of the most dangerous warmongers, who unleash rapes and beheadings in Syria today were among those 9.000.

Yang Weize, the secretary of the Nanjing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China delivered a keynote speech. Yang Weize called the Nanjing Massacre “the darkest chapter of modern civilization“. And yet; there were Hiroshima and Nagasaki and there were Dresden and Pfortzheim, and more can be expected any minute.

No women were raped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. No women were raped in Dresden, that is, not during the firebombing. The rapists had to wait until the ground troops arrived. One may speculate which is more evil, the mass incineration of an  entire city’s population from the comfort of a cockpit or the hands on beheading and brutal rapes.

As brutal as it may sound, if the intention is to stop either of them or both it is irrelevant to philosophize and to study how distance makes it easier to commit mass murder, or how thousands of young men in uniform who are normal human beings like you and I are brought into a situation where they literally rape women to death.

Those who are holding the political responsibility and those who are holding the economic responsibility by financing both sides of the wars which they helped to create are neither to be found in the cockpits of long distance bombers or in the dirty fields and trenches of bloody and slimy rape and murder. They are to be found in the comfort of their homes, together with their wives or husbands and their children, they are found in the offices of imperialisms presidential palaces and in the palaces of todays financial aristocracy. That is where the Heart of Darkness resides today.

When Yang Weize delivered his keynote speech for 9.000 guests  from the USA, Canada, Portugal, the Czech Republic, Greece, Nepal, the Republic of Korea, before the 9.000 international guests who had gathered in the memorial hall, he said the “we must engrave the lesson in our minds because if we let ourselves fall behind we will suffer a beating“. He concluded that “only development can make us strong”.

What development would be needed ? Unless we the people bring our opposition directly to the comfort of the palaces, homes and offices of those who abuse people like you and me as both the victims and the perpetrators; unless those who rape and murder you and me in the tens of thousands are confronted with the realistic possibility of having to face you and me and our justice, face to face, and until we the people of the world, men, women, elderly, civilians, soldiers, law enforcement officers stand up and unite in such a manner that raping or murdering any one of us will bring our wrath into the comfort of their homes and lives, unless we succeed at just that, we will continue being both the rapist and the raped, the murderer and the murdered.

The sirens of Nanjing wail for murdered civilians and raped and murdered women worldwide. My deepest solidarity and compassion with the people of Nanjing.

Christof Lehmann

13.12.2012 on the 75th anniversary of the massacres in Nanjing.

Please also visit the official website of the Nanjing Memorial Hall at: http://www.nj1937.org/english/default.asp