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  1. its not an illness on Schizophrenia Experiences and Suggestions? · · Score: 1

    schizophrenia, bi-polar, etc is not an illness but rather a spiritual condition than needs to be overcome - not "cured" - by the power of our savior Jesus Christ.

  2. MAY YOUR PSYCHOTROPIC MEDS BURN IN HELL on Schizophrenia Experiences and Suggestions? · · Score: 4, Funny

    The advice to "take your meds, take your meds," is utter and complete garbage. The only time I began to become better was when I stopped believing in meds and thrust my salvation and deliverance into the hands of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

  3. JESUS CHRIST IS OUR ONLY HOPE on Schizophrenia Experiences and Suggestions? · · Score: 1

    Yes, she probably is under the influence of a great number of demons - so what? I'm a born again believer in Christ Jesus that for a long time wandered in darkness dropping lots of acid and smoking dope. I, too, was diagnosed with schizophreina and after I stopped taking my meds and began submitting to my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ for total and complete deliverance, I occasionally see dark things fly out of me - I'm not 100% sure what they are but my guess is that they're demons or something similar and that they began to take residence inside of me during my druggy days.

    But torture to drive demons out does not work - you have to cast them out by the power and authority of Jesus Christ else you'll just make things worse - see the Scripture concerning what happens when a demon leaves a person and returns with seven more wicked than itself.

  4. Re:Support in taking meds on Schizophrenia Experiences and Suggestions? · · Score: 1
    The problem is balancing helping take medication with harassing her into taking her medicine.

    You're not kidding. I was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia years ago and since I was (and still am) convinced that the voices/visions are spiritual in nature, handed my complete recovery over to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. As such, I stopped taking my medication cold turkey and guess what, my mind began to work much, much better.

    Anyway, while working as a janitor I began studying Linux and general system administration, networking, and a little coding and eventually landed a job at a mental health provider here in town. They were greatly impressed in that I was supposed to be insane, not taking meds, and was better at computers than any of them. So what did they do? They tried to drive me insane so I'd go back on medication. Later investigation proved that an embezzlement ring was going through the IT department (either "phony purhases" or inflated prices in which extra $ goes into the employees' pockets) and since I knew about it, they had to run me off somehow.

    Look, you can't trust psychiatry. The only one that can really do something about this is Jesus Christ. This is not "the power of positive thinking," but rather trusting in God's One and Only Son which the Almighty likes very, very much. I have become better after I stopped taking my meds and thrust my deliverence solely in the hand of the Lord, period. The weird thing about this is that now people figure I'm kidding and don't believe I continue to see visions and hear voices (I do) as it is obvious my mind is working better than most.

  5. we don't want you to burn in hell on Inferno 4 Available for Download · · Score: 1

    I did not submit the article but I believe that the last link was included for the sake of non-believers.

    On a related note, what do you think of the sounds supposidly recorded from hell [RealAudio] on that webpage? It sounds kind of electronic to me but maybe it really is from hell?

  6. coding beats making burgers on Increasing the Value of the Domestic IT Worker? · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    While the costs of living may play a role, what type of living is it that American programmers want so badly? I would be satisfied with an apartment and basic living expensives ($1000/mo) so it seems to me that we should offer our services for a much lower price.

  7. check out "stream engines" on Off Grid Via Slow Moving River? · · Score: 1

    Stream Engine via Google - the top link (for me) is an owner's manual

  8. here is the link on Off Grid Via Slow Moving River? · · Score: 4, Informative
  9. what about a fish-like device on Off Grid Via Slow Moving River? · · Score: 1

    what about building some kind of water-wing that, when placed in the water, oscillates from low position in the water to high position in the water - then somehow pull energy in off of that.

  10. does this remove energy from the current? on Off Grid Via Slow Moving River? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ok, say this person puts in a paddle-boat or what-not which drives a generator. Does this remove energy from the river? will the downstream hydro-electric plant have less energy?

  11. mining the moon for hydrogen-3 on Forget Mars. Should We Go To The Moon? · · Score: 5, Informative

    Yes, going to the moon would be nice and if we mine it for hydrogen-3 it will also be profitable.

  12. extreme video machine on GameCube-Powered Webserver · · Score: 1

    I think this is wonderful because here is a little self-contained fast, very-capable graphic machine. If the software is available, a physician for instance could run by Wal-Mart and pull down some kind of surgery simulator to practice on before an operation.

  13. me too on Dell Offers FreeDOS With New PCs · · Score: 1

    oh well.

  14. should NASA let Wind River write the code? on Spirit Sends Debug Information to Earth · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I'm wondering if this is a software glitch running on Spirit and if so this truly does call into question the competence of Wind River, the people that wrote the code in use inside of Spirit. Why doesn't NASA hire its own programmers instead of hiring another firm to write it for them?

  15. mirror (if needed) on Forgotten Electronics of the 70s and 80s · · Score: 5, Informative
  16. did the wind flip it over? on Spirit Rover Communications Error · · Score: 1

    I read in a Yahoo Message that the wind knocked over the vehicle.

  17. Re:co-workers that try to drive you crazy on The Absolute Worst Working Environment? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the comment.

    They did some things that most would consider trickery or mischieviousness at my expense but coupling that with their knowledge of my diagnosis - and knowing that if I reported this to someone higher up they'd say, "take your meds" - we can easily see how heinous their actions were. All to protect their stealing money from the american people. losers. I have lost any respect I may have had for the mental health establishment and I now consider it a tool of the devil.

  18. i don't work there anymore on The Absolute Worst Working Environment? · · Score: 1

    but I did notice an email address used by one of my co-workers that did the walk-by-cubicle-saying-things routine. It turns out that that particular email address was used to use someone else's credit card to view porn on the net. In fact, I basically left the organization scratcing my head like, "Why were they so cruel to me?" because I did not realize the scope of the embezzlement. It was only in 2003 - two years later - that I contacted that particular co-worker that tried to blow the whistle and he told me what he did and what the response was.

    When this was all occcurring I did not realize what they were really doing - I figured they were jealous of my programming talent and/or just didn't like me.

  19. that's their cover on The Absolute Worst Working Environment? · · Score: 1

    See my other reply. I'm currently working with someone to start an official probe in their embezzlement and I'm sure that forensic auditors can find enough evidence to indict them. As for the voices, etc. I'm positive I know what the root cause is (demons) and the only method to counteract them is with the power and authority of Jesus Christ - medication doesn't work.

  20. nope on The Absolute Worst Working Environment? · · Score: 2, Informative

    A co-worker tried to blow the whistle on our supervisor - the main conduit through which the organization was embezzling money - and our supervisor and his co-horts harassed him in a similar manner as they later did me. Thus, they truly were embezzling money (there is no question about that - they got in trouble for a similar thing about twelve years before my working there) and used their diagnosis as a method to drive me away from the company.

    I can tell the difference between a voice that someone says and one that comes out of the sky, etc. and after this do you really think I'd ever take a med from a shrink again? No way.

  21. a klaxon is a loud electric horn on The Absolute Worst Working Environment? · · Score: 1
  22. co-workers that try to drive you crazy on The Absolute Worst Working Environment? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I worked at a mental health agency that a few years prior diagnosed me with schizophrenia - hearing voices, seeing visions, etc. Anyway, I quit my meds and my brain began working overtime so naturally I make a great programmer. While working at the agency I find out that they're embezzling money and after a while they realize they can't trust me. So what did they do? They started simulating the symptoms of schizophrenia. Totally serious - they'd go by my cubicle and blurt out words such as "nigger" or blame things I had nothing to do with on me.

  23. jealous much? on Linux Conf 2004 Gives in Many Ways · · Score: 1

    they're a bunch of brainy guys having a good time.

  24. as a programmer's skills increase on Rewrites Considered Harmful? · · Score: 5, Interesting

    As I recall, Torvalds made mention that some of his original code in the Linux base was not very good and he would have written it much differently today. Indeed, most anyone that habitually programs naturally becomes more skilled and if the underlying premisis/framework/model of an application or tool is not as good as could be - or is lacking a certain methodology that time has proven to be beneficial and only rewriting it will solve this - what is wrong with rewriting the code from the ground-up?

  25. is this quantum physics? on Double Pulsar Discovered · · Score: 1

    Does anyone know if understanding these types of phenomena is in the field of quantum mechanics or Newtonian mechanics?