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Tantra is hardcore, but shorter.  However, you have a greater chance of burnout.

99.9% of occult truths are bullshit, or pretty obvious to anyone who takes the time to work these out.  There is more enlightenment in a passage from Machiavelli or Nietzsche than certain self-proclaimed gurus of today and years gone by.  I hardly call Paul of Tarsus an enlightened being, for example.

Reading the science section of the BBC website.

Yeah, thats what I meant (couldn't think of the exact word).

I find imageshack reliable, but its not as easy to keep it all in one place.

Ta muchly.  I actually did this as I was falling asleep, which probably helped with the tone.

Yeah.  I thought he meant the bad sense of being mentally "healthy", the socially constructed healthy of positive thinkers, whose systems always seem to end up benefitting the status quo.

7 Habits of Highly Effective People readers and other types of "Positive Thinking" sorts, I would think.

Yeah, needs to be a header of some sort.

The problem is that mental illness is both a social construct and a biological fact.  So you have to be very wary on those grounds.  Not much can be done biologically, except getting the right drugs and dosage... 

Our society is a cause of many mental disorders.

Mental health is expressed as a range normally, with anything landing too far on one extreme or the other on a number of factors (such as introversion/extroversion or empathy/psychopathy) as having a disorder.

However, consider the state of society, where the is constant pressure to do one thing (often supplied by the media, religion, the state etc), where in fact, because of other factors (such as work, family, the structure of social life) many of these things become much harder to do.

Its not surprising that you get alcoholism, neurosis, introversion or complete psychopathy appearing with more regularity.  Coping mechanisms, ftl.

Pffft, we don't hold every member of MW responsible for their jackass admins.  Thats the sort of thing Mol does with us, IIRC.

Witchetty grubs.

Srsly.

freakin' AEWSOME

I wondered about that too.  I often find Islam makes more logical sense, because it had only one Prophet, and the Muslims were led to victory.

In contrast, the OT has several inconsistent prophets, a god who hates his own chosen people and every time they do something right, doesn't reward them, he just doesn't do bad things.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aga_Khan