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26 Dec 2009, 9:41 pm

MartyMoose wrote:
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Odin wrote:
"Do you have a soul?" 8O


Apparently, Martin Luther said back in medieval times that autistics (or at least, people assume by the description he gave that he was talking about autistics) don't have souls, and there's still some that believe it. Might be Jehova's Witnesses - not sure, exactly.

Martin Luther was a straight up loony who also said "reason is a whore"

Ironically, Martin Luther contributed to the Protestant Reformation which would culminate in the subsequent birth of one of the most renown rational movements in history, the Age of Enlightenment. From the Enlightenment came the political philosophies and the culture which would form the backbone of modern Western society.



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26 Dec 2009, 11:26 pm

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He and Hitler...butt buddies....

:lmao:

This is good to know. :lol:



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26 Dec 2009, 11:29 pm

TheDoctor82 said:

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He and Hitler...butt buddies....

:lmao:

This is good to know. :lol:
I did think about it, but I really don't get what you were insinuating in regard to Amelia Earhart and Hans Asperger. Could you be more direct? It sounds like some kind of conspiracy theory.



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26 Dec 2009, 11:31 pm

TheDoctor82 said:

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He and Hitler...butt buddies....

:lmao:

This is good to know. :lol:
I did think about it, but I really don't get what you were insinuating in regard to Amelia Earhart and Hans Asperger. Could you be more direct? It sounds like some kind of conspiracy theory.



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26 Dec 2009, 11:32 pm

TheDoctor82 said:

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He and Hitler...butt buddies....

:lmao:

This is good to know. :lol:
I did think about it, but I really don't get what you were insinuating in regard to Amelia Earhart and Hans Asperger. Could you be more direct? It sounds like some kind of conspiracy theory.



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26 Dec 2009, 11:33 pm

TheDoctor82 said:

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He and Hitler...butt buddies....

:lmao:

This is good to know. :lol:
I did think about it, but I really don't get what you were insinuating in regard to Amelia Earhart and Hans Asperger. Could you be more direct? It sounds like some kind of conspiracy theory.



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26 Dec 2009, 11:49 pm

TheDoctor82 said:

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He and Hitler...butt buddies....

:lmao:

This is good to know. :lol:
I did think about it, but I really don't get what you were insinuating in regard to Amelia Earhart and Hans Asperger. Could you be more direct? It sounds like some kind of conspiracy theory.



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26 Dec 2009, 11:51 pm

TheDoctor82 said:

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He and Hitler...butt buddies....

:lmao:

This is good to know. :lol:
I did think about it, but I really don't get what you were insinuating in regard to Amelia Earhart and Hans Asperger. Could you be more direct? It sounds like some kind of conspiracy theory.



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27 Dec 2009, 5:58 am

Uhm... about the "Do you have a soul?" thing...
IMO I think we don't have souls at all... since if there were that would prove there is an afterlife and a whole lot of stuff and that there is a deity of some sort, etc.
Plus consciousness is only neurological.
I think if they were to ask that question disregarding the topic of souls then it would be like "Do you have a brain?" Which wouldn't make sense at all.


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27 Dec 2009, 6:17 am

Aietra wrote:
Odin wrote:
"Do you have a soul?" 8O
Apparently, Martin Luther said back in medieval times that autistics (or at least, people assume by the description he gave that he was talking about autistics) don't have souls, and there's still some that believe it. Might be Jehova's Witnesses - not sure, exactly.
If I've read wikipedia correctly Jehovah's Witnesses don't believe that people have a soul, but that they are souls? (Soul) Also souls are not immortal, nothing survives death: When you die, you're gone.

Which seems (rather surprisingly) a more rational idea then which most other religions have?



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27 Dec 2009, 12:38 pm

A friend asked me if my IQ would drop because of Altzheimer's!!

Well it does begin with an 'A' as well as having an apostrophe before the final 'S'.

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27 Dec 2009, 3:12 pm

cosmiccat wrote:
TheDoctor82 said:
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He and Hitler...butt buddies....

:lmao:

This is good to know. :lol:
I did think about it, but I really don't get what you were insinuating in regard to Amelia Earhart and Hans Asperger. Could you be more direct? It sounds like some kind of conspiracy theory.



No, I'm simply referring to the fact about how limited information was at the time, and how long it took so much of it to actually get back...and during the process, all the weird theories and beliefs that formed about them. And then, when that information was finally able, how intensely ingrained in society the urban legends already were.



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28 Dec 2009, 1:03 am

TheMysteriousOne wrote:
MartyMoose wrote:
Aietra wrote:
Odin wrote:
"Do you have a soul?" 8O


Apparently, Martin Luther said back in medieval times that autistics (or at least, people assume by the description he gave that he was talking about autistics) don't have souls, and there's still some that believe it. Might be Jehova's Witnesses - not sure, exactly.

Martin Luther was a straight up loony who also said "reason is a whore"

Ironically, Martin Luther contributed to the Protestant Reformation which would culminate in the subsequent birth of one of the most renown rational movements in history, the Age of Enlightenment. From the Enlightenment came the political philosophies and the culture which would form the backbone of modern Western society.


yes, but not as much as you'd think, as there were also many philosophers before him that were already doing just that, including Galileo.

One could consider Martin Luther a bigger asset to the Enlightenment had he not been just as heavy of an opponent of reason as the Catholic church.



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28 Dec 2009, 11:47 am

I think my favourite was when the psychiatrist asked me, "How can you be autistic. You're obviously not ret*d and you are functioning okay. You just need some medicine to make you think better." I went for depression not thinking issues.

My other favourite is, "don't you feel guilty about that.....(insert action, comment that's been deemed inappropriate here)....as if I'm capable of that emotion....I always laugh.

My boss one time asked me how to fix a situation and I told him that it would probably do best to fire me because once I realise that there's a problem, it's too late to fix it at all. He was a little amazed that I really had no clue in my head at all.


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28 Dec 2009, 12:44 pm

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Soon after i was diagnosed, one person i told about it said that i should get a second opinion... Because apparently she had taken a psychology class at some point, and couldn't have AS because people with AS don't care about others and have problems with speech. I can kind of understand how someone might jump to the "don't care about others" conclusion from the whole "lacking empathy" thing... But i'd never associated speech problems with AS at all.. Most aspies seem to speak really well. Sure, there can be issues with tone of voice, volume, pauses, etc., but she seemed to be talking more about speech impediments than problems with the social use of speech.. because I said that the only speech problems i knew of were things like not knowing what to say or going on about the same thing for too long, and she said that she was talking about the actual speech itself. So, uh, yeah.
I told one person i know recently about my AS, and that it's a form of autism and all of that... And she said that i seemed fine and that she didn't understand how a professional could diagnose me with any kind of autism.. because an autistic kid goes to her church, or something like that, and i don't act like that person. And that was kind of funny, because this person who was saying this seems to have quite a few spectrum-y traits herself.


Well, if this person's traits are substantially similar to yours, perhaps that person is in denial, and by acknowledging that you have it, they would be forced to acknowledge that they likely have it.