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Forum: The Haven Topic: Victim-Blaming |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2024, 8:06 pm
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Replies: 22
Views: 1,295
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| Unfortunately, victim-blaming is extremely common, and not just among religious people. Even among nonreligious people, there seems to be a lot of hatred of homeless people, for example. Within American culture, there has historically been a strong tendency to believe that anyone can accomplish almo... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: 2024 Article On Non-Verbal Celebrity Found Pawn Of Mother |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2024, 2:45 pm
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Replies: 4
Views: 256
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: How (And Why) The Right Stole Christianity |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2024, 11:46 am
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Replies: 22
Views: 701
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| Communists have a history of persecuting religions in favor of creating an atheist state. Not just the Christians and Jews in Eastern Europe but the Chinese have done the same with Taoist and Buddhist religions in their own country (not to mention what they are doing to Uyghurs Muslims today. Yeah ... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: Every negative stereotype of ND advocates in one column |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2024, 8:43 am
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Replies: 21
Views: 1,664
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| The original autism of the 20th century had ID as part of the condition in most cases. There was a period of time when most people diagnosed with autism were also intellectually disabled, but that is NOT part of even Kanner's original definition, much less any of the earlier definitions. The first ... |
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Forum: Autism Politics, Activism, and Media Representation Topic: 2024 Article On Non-Verbal Celebrity Found Pawn Of Mother |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2024, 8:21 am
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Replies: 4
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| Hmmm, I think I remember reading and discussing the original 2021 article a while back. I would hesitate to dismiss the "Rapid Prompting Method" as just another form of "Facilitated Communication." Also, I would hesitate to evaluate the genuineness of Tito Mukhopadhyay's communic... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: My therapist thinks I can just learn social cues... |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 30 Apr 2024, 7:46 am
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Replies: 23
Views: 3,604
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| Believing that one's self is incapable of self-improvement seems to be a highly common form of self-sabotage. Agreed, but the opposite problem -- overestimating either one's own or someone else's potential abilities and pouring too much time and energy into vain efforts, often to the point of causi... |
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Forum: Parents' Discussion Topic: New online chat group for autistic parents |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 29 Apr 2024, 9:23 pm
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Replies: 1
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| A new online chat group (text-based) for autistic parents is now forming, and will hold a meeting on Thursday, May 2, at 7:00 PM Eastern time. Note that "autistic parents" means parents who are, themselves, on the autism spectrum. Their children might, or might not, be autistic also. The c... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: QAnon, Blood Libel, and the Satanic Panic |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 04 Apr 2024, 8:05 pm
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Replies: 127
Views: 16,361
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| Where the "adrenochrome" claims apparently came from, according to How Donald Trump is spreading a dangerous mental illness to his supporters by Thom Hartmann, in Raw Story : ... nearly a third of all registered Republicans believe that top-level Democrats are running international child t... |
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Forum: Social Skills and Making Friends Topic: How can I be likeable and/or seem confident? |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 27 Mar 2024, 7:01 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,937
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| Get involved in groups that focus on topics or activities that you personally are knowledgeable about. Many of us are likely to find such groups easier to participate in than in the kinds of social settings where people just engage in random chitchat. And a social setting in which you can win respec... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Hezbollah and its intentions and capabilities? |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 30 Jan 2024, 3:28 pm
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Replies: 28
Views: 1,577
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| ^ Regardless of whose fault the situation is, your desire to partition Hezbollah-land from the rest of Lebanon is certainly understandable. I hope this partition can be done peacefully. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Hezbollah and its intentions and capabilities? |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 30 Jan 2024, 4:03 am
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Replies: 28
Views: 1,577
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| If Hezbollah does decide to escalate, I would hazard a guess that it would likely be because of stuff like this. |
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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: Mideast War blowback |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 30 Jan 2024, 3:48 am
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Replies: 374
Views: 30,538
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| It's true that most Anti-Zionists probably aren't Anti-Semites, however Anti-Zionism has its roots in Anti-Semitism, Seems to me anti-Zionism can have a variety of different "roots," depending on the person Most Jews before 1948 were opposed to Zionism. and one must question the motives o... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Hezbollah and its intentions and capabilities? |
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Posted: 29 Jan 2024, 4:41 pm
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Replies: 28
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| “Israel's assessment, said the official, is that Hezbollah is desperate to avoid a full-scale war with Israel, as are its Iranian backers. Hezbollah,” Where have we heard that one before? Even after October 7th still apparently overconfident. "Desperate" may be too strong a word, but it s... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Palestine/Israel: 2-state solution vs. 1 binational state? |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 29 Jan 2024, 12:21 am
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Replies: 50
Views: 2,451
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| Whatever the best solution might turn out to be -- one-state, two-state, whatever -- the important question is how to get there, and how can Americans and other outsiders help, if at all. I just now came across the website of an organization called the Telos Group . According to its Who We Are page:... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Palestinian Christians |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2024, 11:25 pm
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Replies: 50
Views: 2,882
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| Kairos Palestine is a group of Palestinian Christians who, in December 2009, published the Kairos Document: A moment of truth: A word of faith, hope and love from the heart of Palestinian suffering . Some responses to them, both favorable and unfavorable, are described in the Wikipedia article abou... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Christian Zionism |
| Mona Pereth |
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Posted: 28 Jan 2024, 8:49 pm
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Replies: 42
Views: 2,440
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