IIRC he has had *LOTS* of AMA-certified, officially Pharm-Chem blessed, Govt. taxed chemicals - a slew of them IIRC, what: 5? 6? at a time. Add in the junk food and previous immune system damage..

Interactions? nahhhh. WTF is 5! factorial little 'mixture imbalances' anyway, in a modrin 3-minute HMO 'visit'; you can be sure that tyro MD spent at least one of the 3 to do the math. As in - OK yer fixed.. Next!

No.. I think he's had a fair amount of "help". Not that anyone could have interrupted this routine, or be silly enough to try from afar. And as with Ed Curry -- the perps won't even be ID'd. Capitalist Medicine\ufffd at work.

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Luck then, Norm.. if you find self in the er 'bardos' -- stay away from any smoky-red lights, OK? Just relax, enjoy the show and don't worry about "here" at all. It was just a play, and you get to go home; no need to pick a new play til you want to.

(Oh and - I don't 'blame' you! After screwing with W2K and a Dell's unwillingness to install it from even a new HD: I can see what working with this crap can do to any sort of human mind; you were right, BTW -- Billy Is the incarnation of Evil and software is his vector for spreading it. Bet that all seems pretty silly about now?)


Candle lit, no hard felings

Ashton

Postulate: it is possible, we see (or we damn well haven't been looking around, a lot) for a person to reach a state / stage in which the 'capacity' Is diminished. Yes yes, sometimes by a variant of aforementioned umm chain of lazy or ignorant choices.

But sometimes not. ie No One Knows the overall effects of the soup of noxious chemicals in our enviro thus in our organs = Everyone's; some accumulated from the days of leaching gold [What Else would we risk All to get, by any means?] with tons of metallic mercury (which has a pretty good vapor pressure even at STP) on through butadiene for rubber, chlorocarbons at Every 'dry cleaner' - long before anyone cared to match their carcinogenic qualities to dead Dry Cleaner workers. yada

Anyway - you can't look at a person and conclude that insouciant behaviour is Just willful irresponsibilty - well, marlowe could, of course, but then he's aberrant - like my Gramma. And from what has been posted re N's cute Pharm-Chem soups prescribed all along and even increased, at certain points: WTF here wants to judge that these episodes are entirely "responsible-self" inflicted ?? ie Blameworthy.

Whatever the drill, surely it's clear that psychobabble can both excuse and judge, thus panders a Lot in our culture's fav fucked pastime: Puritan-besotted Authoritative Judgment of others and their peculiar 'likes' (especially those.. if it's a Happy-producing Substance they Like). Hell, the major preoccupation of Pharm-Chem stainless-steel labs IS:

To try and take the Happy out of the pain-killers. By their own (occasionally honest) spokespeople: Murican MDs leave their indoctrination centers more woefully ignorant about 'pain management' *today* even - than in any civilized or uncivilized culture in the world. Till quite recently (allow for the time delay) there was NO course given to green-gowned wannabes, dealing with intelligent pain management! (I even heard this reiterated recently, past few weeks - in a lecture by a putatively credentialed white- coated Professional\ufffd)

Percodan and its now dozens of even more diluted clones.. The bogus-crap the US-AMA substitutes for honest heroin (unmatched by Any other ersatz pharm-chem) in our 'Brompton Cocktails' indicates the Puritan effect full blown. Ditto the brouhaha about fucking Terminal cancer patients and marijuana. Gosh.. what if the dying bastard might Like the stuff, er - get addicted (worse yet - really Enjoy it) Ashcroft could explain this neatly - of this I am as near-certain as it gets: it's God's Punishment for Sin; We Must bear It In Her Name Amen.

We're so self-fucked (in the area of human pain treatment) we ought to all be preggsie all the time! And what these outbursts are about - is pain. Psychic, however manifested in other phys. symptoms. (We don't know what a 'psyche' Is! - either. Add that to the humongous list of crap We Know Fershure / but It's False, just the same)


Cut him some (more) slack. All of us. (And remember it too, when Your next IIS-Server farm crumbles all-at-once on Your Employment Review day.. and drives you to a similar fate - you poor bastards)


Ashton

- and stated succinctly too ;-)

But unless my radar has become seriously detuned or is oscillating in the tank circuit - I don't think these qualify for even a fool's idea of how to accompish hey look at me! (more than once), so - when does repetitive stupid action become recognized as proof of aberration and not premeditation?

This level of paranoia / simulation thereof? / either way - doesn't cut it as voluntary; especially since part-of-him Knows the audience level here, of intolerance of patent-BS. "Take his claims at face value" ??! his 'discriminator' is fucking Broken! By definition. D'Oh..

You're sure. I'm not. I choose to err on the side of Christian Charity\ufffd; even if a lot of Xians give that a bad name, good idea.
(And it isn't even theirs. Why that's almost Microsoftian, as I think about it)

Canaries. That, I believe is the Point.

You live in a relatively sane environment, maybe even near the top for minimal daily idiocy (?) While you are remarkably (OK astoundingly) ept at grokking the nuances from afar - of This decaying, religiosity-besotted adolescent kultur: you don't Live In It 24/7.

Norm is, it very much seems: an outlier. We owe such persons not merely sympathy but gratitude: they are indicating the swamp-gas in the mine First. Ours is a pathological society; that which we call 'capitalism' (and so love to boast about Our mastery of its religious tenets of individual greed \ufffdber alles) is so deeply inculcated in the little cheeldrun that:

4 yos will today Scream if the Logo on their overpriced baggy-pants is Not What Everybody Else in Class\ufffd is wearing. 10 yo girls shall pierce navels, demand underwear from Victoria's Secret, attend carefully dumbed down 'non-sex' edjaKayshun classes (the precis having been dictated by a Son or Daughter of a local John Ashcroft wannabe, in lots of places), while later sneaking into the john to apply lipstick and pull the trowsers down just a bit lower. [Now this is all pre-orgasmic; wait for the reports later]

Meanwhile.. we have invented a whole generation of tads needing daily 'medication' (Gawd how we love our euphemisms for mind-altering Drugs). We call that ADD / Attention Deficit Disorder. (We have some Drugs for people who are uneasy at parties, too - I've seen those ads on the Tee Vee). [these are a Tiny sample, you understand]

These contrary-messages [Sex == dirty. Sex == sells. = even Me.] take their toll; the sanctimonious Righteousness intensifies the toll - the trillions of OTC drug-doses pushed in every place from a Drug Store to a supermarket - indicates just what the level of psychosomatic 'illness' IS (and the hypocrisy as goes with a War on Drugs\ufffd) Here.

You'd have to experience it to Believe it. Even you. So as I said: canaries. Walk a mile in moccasins yada. We can't know WTF is going on in folks who are less-inured, maybe simply less capable of eating so much daily shit (?) while flying on autopilot.. as if everything were 'Normal' out there (and inside).

Hey.. at the higher levels I submit to you, smply: Dubya. Many folks imagine him to be quite Normal. What does that tell you about the average, the norm and any concept of 'health' ?

(Futher hint - the humongous number [as %-pop] of dabblers in the 'mental health' game/profession here. Every Single One I've ever known or questioned to any extent: Got There as stimulus/response to Their early-on or late-on personal 'episode' of some cockamamie kind! Every One. So far..)

zIWE is no more a stat. valid sample of average Murican thought, daily madness than.. Den Lille Havfrue is 'like an average Dane'.


Ashton