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Forum: News and Current Events Topic: The French view on Autism -scary |
| petitesouris |
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Posted: 19 Oct 2011, 8:34 pm
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Replies: 31
Views: 4,876
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| One video does not summarize an entire country's opinion. As a French citizen, I can attest that I was never mistreated while I was there for what used to be a crippling social handicap. Actually high functioning autistics are most likely better off there with the lack of services. The French tend t... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Stoics |
| petitesouris |
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Posted: 10 Oct 2011, 10:10 pm
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Replies: 26
Views: 3,395
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| Stoicism is the technique I use when I cannot be distracted like when I have to finish something. Otherwise I tend to assign too much meaning to everything. So I am not really stoic, I just tend to dissociate a bit. There were years of my life when I intentionally turned off most of my emotions exce... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Wrong Planet = Harbor for haters? |
| petitesouris |
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Posted: 10 Oct 2011, 9:41 pm
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Replies: 111
Views: 9,848
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| I do not hate nts. I get irritated sometimes (on this forum) because I spend a lot of energy trying to please them even though I try not to judge them on anything superficial. |
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Forum: Bipolar, Tourettes, Schizophrenia, and other Psychological Conditions Topic: Can benzodiazipines be used without causing brain damage? |
| petitesouris |
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Posted: 02 Oct 2011, 9:37 pm
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Replies: 7
Views: 2,392
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| There was recently a study conducted on elderly people who had used this brand of medication for years. The results? These individuals were twice as likely to suffer from alzheimer's disease than those who did not poison themselves so their "doctors" could make a profit. I will try to find this stud... |
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Forum: General Autism Discussion Topic: Anders Behring Breivik -Aspie? |
| petitesouris |
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Posted: 10 Sep 2011, 9:28 pm
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Replies: 143
Views: 20,752
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| It has been suggested that terrorists like Breivik and McVeigh could not enter into any meaningful relationship. A sign of autism? I doubt it. Now that I have had more time to read into what happened, it has become clear that the massacrer saw people as little more than abstractions or as national s... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Hell |
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Posted: 05 Sep 2011, 11:56 pm
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Replies: 48
Views: 4,426
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| I think the idea of hell is violent and often nothing but blackmail. It one of the reasons for which I am not affiliated with any religion. Think of people in the middle ages who thought they would be sent there if their sins were not pardonned by a Catholic preist before they slip away. Of course e... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: What libertarianism is ACTUALLY about |
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Posted: 19 Aug 2011, 9:24 pm
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Replies: 51
Views: 7,970
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| I think it is important to distinguish between what is legal and what is right. I see libertarianism as a practical way to create a clear division between the two without leading to nihilism or authoritarianism. I think my (merely political) preferences stem from a deep fear of social engineering wh... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Islamophobes (Godwin warning) |
| petitesouris |
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Posted: 03 Aug 2011, 11:26 pm
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Replies: 8
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| First of all, why would you trust AJ? It is known for inciting violence against American soldiers. And why assume that someone with certain convictions would have similarities with a butcher who murdered or injured all these people, most of them children who were supposed to have a long future ahead... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: What makes one a Muslim? |
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Posted: 20 Jul 2011, 10:49 pm
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Replies: 54
Views: 4,338
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Islam in a nutshell:
"They should denounce wordly concepts like liberalism, democracy, socialism, and everything associated with it and originated from the human brain" < from Fitna |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: A Criticism of (and Defense of) Geert Wilders |
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Posted: 20 Jul 2011, 2:50 pm
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Replies: 3
Views: 737
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| While I am not Dutch, I have heard about him and seen his 15 minute film. One could certainly question whether he has ulterior motives, yet it is so thuggish to persecute the only politician who is brave enough to articulate what many Western people have worried about for years. In my opinion, if Wi... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Blanket Sharia rule in parts of England? |
| petitesouris |
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Posted: 13 Jul 2011, 10:43 pm
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Replies: 32
Views: 2,802
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| My not being very surprised is the worst part of this story. How can some of the world's most powerful countries make such a mistake? < letting in thousands of muslims who would without doubt be hostile to the ways of their host countries. The left, who I have second thoughts about voting for, will ... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Global warming scientists say something plausible for once |
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Posted: 12 Jul 2011, 11:36 pm
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Replies: 6
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| I am not sure if the global warming theory is completely false. I wish it were so that I would feel less guilty about being wasteful. There is really no connection between certain substances being emitted into the atmosphere and ozone depletion and no consequences of them trapping heat? Nonetheless,... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Any Americans who support the European Union |
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Posted: 10 Jul 2011, 10:44 pm
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Replies: 42
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| I am a dual citizen. I think that the E.U. can learn from the U.S. by not replacing free speech and thought with entitlements. I could write a long tirade about how it is trying to destroy Europe. It is like anyone will submit to that usurper as long as they receive the welfare they have become addi... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: French Muslim proves that the west discovered nothing |
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Posted: 10 Jul 2011, 4:52 pm
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Replies: 33
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| In France, he made himself known in 2007 when he attempted to introduce thousands of copies of his Atlas of Creation into French schools. And this is one reason why there is a backlash against their *superior* religion. Would he like it if the French government decided to desseminate overtly "islam... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: A Question for Teabaggers |
| petitesouris |
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Posted: 03 Jul 2011, 1:28 am
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Replies: 37
Views: 3,429
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| I never had the chance to ask this in any thread: If you care about freedom than why are the working class taxed over twice as much as the richest Americans? Is that not state enforced discrimination? Thank God that my father's side is able to financially support my grandparents because they would o... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Are most aspies Atheists? |
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Posted: 19 Apr 2011, 9:37 am
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Replies: 110
Views: 23,918
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| I am indecisive about whether there is any supreme being. If there is it will be easier to understand the origins of all matter/energy, yet what could have created dieties? If I followed any religion, I would be more interested in its ethics and symbolism and in being imaginative than in forcing mys... |
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