Nonconformity and Freethinking Now Considered Mental Illness

[Oldgringo]

I mentioned in another thread viewtopic.php?f=83&t=75999&p=958301&hil ... o+#p958301" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; our relative who was committed by her husband, daughter, and the family doctor. Part of the testimony against her was that she was non-conformist and incapable of self control, even all the way back then.

Those in power would love to put away those who think differently.

Didn't that Hitler guy, et al, do something like that with folk who weren't like him?

[R DAVIS]

What did all these chaps have in common (other than being "mentally ill") ?

John Adams of MA, Samuel Adams of MA, Josiah Bartlett of NH, Carter Braxton of VA, Charles Carroll of Carrollton of MD, Samuel Chase of MD, Abraham Clark of NJ, George Clymer of PA, William Ellery of RI, William Floyd of NY, Ben Franklin of PA, Elbridge Gerry of MA, Button Gwinnett of GA, Lyman Hall of GA, John Hancock of Ma, Benjamin Harrison of VA, John Hart of NJ, Joseph Hewes of NC, Thomas Heyward Jr of SC, William Hooper of NC, Stephen Hopkins of RI, Francis Hopkinson of NJ, Samuel Huntington of CT, Thomas Jefferson of VA, Francis Lightfoot Lee of VA, Richard Henry Lee of VA, Francis Lewis of NY, Philip Livingston of NY, Thomas Lynch of SC, Thomas Mckean of DE, Arthur Middleton of SC, Lewis Morris of NY, Robert Morris of PA, John Morton of PA, Thomas Nelson of VA, William Paca of MD, Robert Treat Paine of MA, John Penn of NC, George Read of DE, Caesar Rodney of DE, George Ross of PA, Benjamin Rush of PA, Edward Rutledge of SC, Roger Sherman of CT, James Smith of PA, Richard Stockton of NJ, Thomas Stone of MD, George Taylor of PA, Matthew Thornton of NH, George Walton of GA, William Whipple of NH, William Williams of CT, James Wilson of PA, John Witherspoon of NJ, Oliver Wolcott of CT and George Wythe of VA.

[Abraham]

As a major Contrarian/Curmudgeon, I'm beginning to see why Scientologists hate psychiatrists.

I always thought Scientologists were coo-coo, but now I'm beginning to see why they have so much disdain for psychiatry...

[Pawpaw]

What did all these chaps have in common (other than being "mentally ill") ?

That's an easy one... they were the liberals of their day.

[Redneck_Buddha]

As a major Contrarian/Curmudgeon, I'm beginning to see why Scientologists hate psychiatrists.

I always thought Scientologists were coo-coo, but now I'm beginning to see why they have so much disdain for psychiatry...

I share the same position on psychiatry and SSRI medication as Scientology, but you'll never see me paying $100,000 for "auditing" or with a copy of Dianetics. You see, Scientology's opposition to the field is because psychiatry cuts in on their action.

[Abraham]

Redneck_Buddha,

A wee bit of thread jacking.

I've a friend who's a type of doctor (I'll avoid specifics) and he's a Scientologist. Unbelievable to me that he and a whole passel of other docs are also
Scientologists. It's not just actors who are Scientologists.

He has contributed more than a $100,000 and as S missionary tried to recruit me into the club. Fat chance...

How anyone can quite literally buy into science fiction baffles me.

After listening to his recruiting plea, I responded that now matter how much I may enjoy science fiction, (though not L. Ron Hubbards') I wouldn't pay to join the fan club...

[Jim Beaux]

What did all these chaps have in common (other than being "mentally ill") ?

That's an easy one... they were the liberals of their day.

I assume that youre being factious.

Our forefathers were many things, but by today's standard, liberal they werent.

[MeMelYup]

According to that thought, Albert Einstein, Samuel Clemons, Aristotle, and a good many others were mentally incompetent. I don't think so.

[Pawpaw]

What did all these chaps have in common (other than being "mentally ill") ?

That's an easy one... they were the liberals of their day.

I assume that youre being factious.

Our forefathers were many things, but by today's standard, liberal they werent.

I was attempting to be humorous, but not factious, in the least.

IN THEIR DAY, they were the liberal thinkers. Even the idea of a government of the people, by the people, and for the people was unheard of.

Today's standards have nothing to do with it.

[C-dub]

I mentioned in another thread viewtopic.php?f=83&t=75999&p=958301&hil ... o+#p958301" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; our relative who was committed by her husband, daughter, and the family doctor. Part of the testimony against her was that she was non-conformist and incapable of self control, even all the way back then.

Those in power would love to put away those who think differently.

Didn't that Hitler guy, et al, do something like that with folk who weren't like him?

Same for Stalin, Kim Jong-Un, & Pol Pot.

[Jim Beaux]

What did all these chaps have in common (other than being "mentally ill") ?

That's an easy one... they were the liberals of their day.

I assume that youre being factious.

Our forefathers were many things, but by today's standard, liberal they werent.

I was attempting to be humorous, but not factious, in the least.

IN THEIR DAY, they were the liberal thinkers. Even the idea of a government of the people, by the people, and for the people was unheard of.

Today's standards have nothing to do with it.

Not true. Research the origins of democracy & republics. You will find a long history my friend - and you will have to do a whole lot more to convince a knowledgeable person that a lib today is the same as an 18th century liberal.

It's not worth my time to continue this debate. Have a good one.

[Jeff B.]

Very much like the way things worked in the old Soviet Union. If you disagreed with "State Think" you were obviously in need of mental help and were remanded to the State run Mental Health Care System for "treatment".

Interesting how things turn about.

Jeff B.