Bonsoir, mes chers lecteurs, comment ça va?
We had a very windy day here in MX City, I understand a good portion of the city is still without power (with me not being in that portion, fortunately). There were lots of leaves, some branches and ads scattered around everywhere. Even a few trees were knocked off.
I just love windy days!
Rêves Doux
So, yeah, I know it's a bit late for this kind of post, but hell, these are good things to expect!
Fallout 3. We've been waiting for this damned game for ten years. also, we had to suffer one half-good game and and abject misuse of the franchise name (Fallout Brotherhood of Steel for the Xbox).
Starcraft 2. Another decade of waiting, blizzard finally decided to publish the sequel.
Star Trek Online. A star trek MMORPG! Need I say more? It's a dream come true!
A new Star Trek movie. About the exploits of a young captain Kirk and company in their academy days, YAY!
Soul Calibur IV. The newest of the series. I'm impossibly bad at fighting games and therefore, I don't like them, but SoulCalibur has long been the exception. Can't wait to see what they can do with the newer hardware. Also, Yoda and Vader will be appearing! Who would have thought?
Rêves Doux
It is my impression that religious belief has a lot of similarities with schizophrenia or other mental ailments. In particular, fanatical belief, as is demonstrated by this lovely piece of news. So, this idiot sees what he believes to be the mark of the devil in his hand, and proceeds to lop it off himself because the bible tells him so...
So let's analyse this shall we?
Wikipedia defines schizophrenia as follows:
Schizophrenia, from the Greek roots schizein (σχίζειν, "to split") and phrēn, phren- (φρήν, φρεν-, "mind"), is a psychiatric diagnosis that describes a mental illness characterized by impairments in the perception or expression of reality, most commonly manifesting as auditory hallucinations, paranoid or bizarre delusions or disorganized speech and thinking in the context of significant social or occupational dysfunction.
Now let us compare it with religious belief:
Auditory hallucinations: The most devout believers claim to hear their deity of choice.
Paranoid or bizarre delusions: Many believers claim they are under the watchful gaze of an all mighty but improbable god who will banish them to some fictitional hell if they do not behave according to some self contradicting book written millenia ago.
Therefore, their perception of reality is highly impaired. I wonder why that has not yet been classified as a mental illness...
Rêves Doux
