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Old 04-26-2012, 12:55 PM   #230
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I can't believe in one sentence you can say she has two-way conversation with an invisible man and communicates with demons, then follow it up with saying she's not "mentally deficient" just because other people do as well. Guy, that's as mentally deficient as it gets.
Is this a clinical diagnoses? I am not just talking about a handful of "other people", as I think that you will find millions upon millions of people around the world would report similar sorts of experiences. Are they all mentally deficient? The term suggests the absence of some sort of essential quality for proper mental function. What quality is it that all these sorts of people lack?

There are valid explanations for the sorts of thoughts, experiences and behaviours that I have described without appealing to some kind of psychological disfunction. I will repeat: for the vast majority of people who have these experiences they do not suffer from any sort of brain damage or mental or social deficiency. Their behaviour is best characterized as intuitive. The fact that many of us have come to both recognize the limitations of our intuitions and are in turn no longer so dependent upon them in no way suggests a higher level of mental or social function. Furthermore, the implication that it is, is exceedingly arrogant.
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