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fascism - a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.

Cleary you either didn't know what fascism is or you suffer from Paranoid Schizophrenia. The definition above should elighten you in the first case, the following link should help you in the latter. http://www.healthsquare.com/mc/fgmc2415.htm

Hey, I'm here to help!

$35 million for Fraud.

http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1979/11/do wie.html As you can see, more than 15,000 people have been killed by corporates worldwide directly.

http://www.healthsquare.com/fgwh/wh1ch20.htm The Dalkon Shield device killed 17 people in US. Yet what was done? The product was withdrawn and the company censured.

No Siree! Corporate crimes are meant to be "settled" or "fined".

Corporates should have a criminal sheet and a blotter plus an impact on their credit scores like us.

A criminal conviction should result in the CEO being directly implicated, and the credit scores updated to reflect that. With a score of 320 good luck to the corporate to get cheap loans/raise money by stock.

No, paranoid schizorphrenia or a related disorder. The smart ones concoct some quite complete explanations of the world, with only the minor flaw that they are completely wrong. Most true kooks come from this basic template, which is also why they are so similar once you dig past the exact manifestation. Time Cube Guy, for instance, seems to me to have built up this massive explanation based on a partial understanding of time zones, and is quite sure it is the path to, well, everything, and everybody who disagrees with him are just "educated stupids", which, if nothing else, I have to concede is a powerful phrase, even if he misapplies it.

Others have these powerful and simple physics which completely disprove Einstein, as it should be obvious to anybody with a brain, but fail on simple points like making predictions, or even being internally self-consistent in algebraic terms, let alone the "higher" maths. Others have simple perpetual motion machines that can solve the energy crises by applying <physics buzzword they don't really understand> ("zero-point energy" being a common one), but they only work when nobody else is looking, or they fail only because some evil conspiracy keeps sabotaging the equipment.

One of the side effects of the disease is to innoculate you from all criticism, including people trying to explain you have a disease, as they are just more people out to get you.

It's really sad and scary to think about how close to this we all are; the right chemical or neurological trauma and any of us'd join the ranks...

First off, I'd like to state that "A Beautiful Mind" does not provide an accurate representation of schizophrenia, in general. While the symptoms of intense paranoia are pretty accurate (for paranoid schizophrenics, as opposed to catatonic schizophrenics, or any of the other types), visual hallucinations are not all that normal. Typically hallucinations from paranoid schizophrenia come in an audible form. The real John Forbes Nash did not suffer visual ones, but rather heard voices. This first bit may seem off the point, but I feel it's important to not go into this expecting your sister to start talking about an imaginary roommate.

Depending on the severity of the schizophrenia, medication may help a great deal or may..not. I have two uncles, both of which have at one point or another have been diagnosed with schizophrenia. One takes the medications prescribed to him as he should, and has returned to relative normality. He does become slightly paranoid from time to time, but it is nowhere near as severe as it was without medication, and the episodes are short-lived.
The second uncle is a different story. He is also bi-polar, and during his manic states, he feels he is cured of his plight and no longer needs the meds, so he ceases to take them, plunging him back into his previous state.

I think the best advice I can offer you and your sister is to listen to the advice of professionals, take the medications as prescribed and make sure she has regular meetings/sessions with her psychiatrist or psychologist.

Her life will probably not be as it was, but she should still be able to lead a relatively normal life style.

God be with both of you.

For more information check here or here.

>and that topical gel stuff they put on your gums before the injection? That actually CAUSES me pain.

Five bucks says it feels like your mouth is on fire wherever they apply it. I find it useless, too. Can't they find a better way to inject than to go an inch into the joint in my gums? I can't imagine there's anywhere else it could hurt more... And they make sure your muscles are as as stretched as possible for maximum pain (ok, they don't do it on purpose, and I could always lay off the candy). :-/

"Don't worry, it just feels like a mosquito bite". Yeah, like a mosquito bite on my crotch, maybe.

Carbocaine sounds great, but with previous experiences with other prescription pain killers, I'm wary to try it.

Last major dental surgery was having wisdom teeth removed. After waking up, I puked lots of blood (I'm told I was a real winner for the amount -- and the first in the last while) and was given Toradol for the pain.

After two Toradols I sat in a seat for a while trying to catch my breath while my heart was racing (probably a stupid thing to do -- next time I'll get my ass to the hospital instead). So again, I lived with the pain, and used that super-duper tylenol they prescribe you instead.

Maybe I'm just an over-sensitive, over-complaining loser, though. Or it could be the fact I haven't been in hospital for anything serious for a couple of decades. No, the first one sounds more realistic.

Thanks for the suggestion anyways. I'll ask about it...

In any case, the visuals are really starting starting to kick in now, so I'm going to go lay down for a bit.

Please try to hold the fort while I'm gone. If you need anything, just leave me a message, I'll check it when I get up in 7-8 hours.

See you then - XOXO

Metallica = Dyer's Eve

Marlyn Manson = Dogma

The idea that if you shelter a kid they will turn out well balenced is about a silly as people thinking that a utopia is acheivable. If utopia's existed then it would only take on person without the right balance of thorazine to destroy the hole civelization.