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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: koan who wrote (34434)	7/2/2011 6:35:28 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

Yes I do: < We don't even really know what mental illness is, or what reality is, or what we are, or much else about ourselves or reality. > Reality is what happens when you bump your head on a hard object. Mental illness is when you think your model matches reality, but when you test it by bumping your head against reality, it hurts. Admittedly, that's not a complete answer, but it's good enough for government work and for our lives in the Newtonian way of life we live. <Now if 90 to 99% of a large group of cancer scientists told you, you had cancer. Would you just blow them off? > Yes, and if they didn't yes, depending on the situation - but not "blow them off" [whatever you mean by that expression] but check their conclusions which in one instance [me] were 100% wrong [3 of 3] and I was 100% right. In another, I was 100% right and they were 100% wrong [hundreds of them]: warning.... applied intelligence needed: Message 24119968 I have other specific professional errors regarding cancer, where I was right and they were wrong, but we don't need masses of examples to prove the point which is already proven. Mqurice