Victorian Abortion “Debate”

Over the last few months the controversial topic of abortion has gripped our state. Just over a week ago logic and morality won out, and the bill to allow abortions up to 24 weeks was passed. All that’s left is the details of the bill.

Boy, what we had to go through to get it passed. Let me give you a little history.

What really turned up the noses of pro-abortionists was archbishop Denis Hart’s threat to close Catholic run hospitals because, he argued, the bill would force them to provide referrals, a clear impingement upon their human rights.  

Apparently the Catholic medical wing is so pro-life they will close life saving hospitals. I mean, how self righteous is that shit? They are willing to put thousands of lives in danger because they fear their services will cost them their tickets to heaven. 

Well, the Catholic Church does have a history of asserting vacuous nonsense without any evidence merely to bask in respect generated on the assumption they have taken a profound stand against injustice.

Indeed, most Christians believe the soul enters the zygote at the moment of conception. Since the soul is much more important than the body in Christian belief — because it is unique to you and constitutes your personality — it must be preferentially protected.

What a pile of poetic nonsense. Ignoring the fact that what could loosely be termed ‘personality’ is stored in your frontal lobe of the brain, there is no evidence of any soul man, creepy ghost, or spirit in the sky infesting our body.

I find it amusing how many people equate personality with the soul. Personality is a biological formation reinforced through societal conditioning. Its appearance does not validate the soul. This idea has got to the stage where one can’t argue the existence of personality without automatically asserting that such a phenomenon is generated by a soul.

Indeed, the notion of the distinct soul is absurd. According to most pro-life advocates the soul enters the body at the moment of conception. But what happens if the zygote forms a blastocyst and splits to form identical twins? Does only one twin have a soul? 

Taking the example further, two blastocysts merge to form a chimera. Does the one person have two souls inside them? Do Siamese twins share a single soul? I’m sure you see my point.

To put peoples lives in danger by closing hospitals for such superstitious nonsense is nothing short of evil.

Perhaps the most despicable act of the Catholic Church was their deceptive campaign. In the last few weeks before the vote they circulated misleading television advertisements replete with lies about foetal development in the womb. 

The campaign culminated in rallies on the steps of parliament, during which they exploited the heart-wrenching stories of women suffering depression following abortion procedures. 

Existing evidence suggests a small percentage of woman may become depressed following an abortion if they are not sufficiently counselled to deal with the psychological loss. However, the demonstration attempted to suggest depression is an inevitability following an abortion and claimed women were not offered counselling — a blatant lie.

I guess you could say I care about the elimination of suffering. Making abortion illegal isn’t going to stop desperate mothers, and a dead young girl with a coat hanger sticking out of her vagina creates more real world suffering than a medical abortion.

Surely the best defence is to avoid pregnancy through education and contraception, but even Catholics are against that. Luckily, the Victorian State Government realises the option still needs to be there, for the time being…

Amy Winehouse Chooses Scientology

Ok, so she sings like cat on fire and looks like sin itself but I feel sorry for Amy Winehouse. She has a mental problem that needs fixing.  Its almost diagnosable from the amount of times she’s been in and out of rehab to the sheer desperation of choosing to go to scientology.

When you’re depressed, I mean clinically depressed you will do anything to feel happy again. Its a bastard of a disease that affects anybody regardless of wealth, regardless of fame and is life destroying.  Depression makes you KNOW, not think, but KNOW you will never be happy again. It is it’s certainty that can for some lead to suicide. You will do anything for a quick fix.

How often to do you hear friends say, “Psychology isn’t for me”, or “I tried it and it didn’t work”?  That statement is like saying, “surgery isn’t for me”, right after one of your legs has been bitten off by a shark.
By the time most people actually go to psychologists its already too late. The symptoms are so acute that its going to take months on years to help them.  When nothing happens after the first two sessions they stop going.
The brain is a complicated organ. Your actions have had months to condition the brain to feel emo, and to change its very brain chemistry is going to be a long and hard path. Especially when treatment depends on the very organ they are trying to fix, show up to treatments and sessions.

You would expect a person who’s damaged their spine to get up and walk normally after just two sessions of physiotherapy. It will take months.  Psychological illness is no different.
It’s hard for alot of people to see their emotions like this.  The truth and the reality of the situation is most psychological treatments take time, but really do address the issue.
Quick fixes are a pipe dream and false hope for alot of psychological illnesses. Only science based psychological treatment has the chance of tackling mental problems head on. Like most diseases it can take months if not years to fix.

The only thing more evil than depression are the pricks who pray on those suffering from the disease, by offering quick fixes and pseudo science.
How do they do this? Well they say “we have the answer”, but rather than tackle your mental illness, they introduce a new imaginary reason for your illness (like sin or theatens) and concentrate on the the removal of those imaginary aspects. Placebo’s can work wonders, if done by people who know how to use them responsibly. Placebo’s aside all you have done is swapped one mental illness for an obsessive compulsive disorder, while never really dealing with your original mental illness. All you have done is buried your problem. For some they get a hollow relief, for others they find the new imaginary reason more horrifying than the original illness. When all said and done this isnt a cure its a distraction and a distraction isn’t helpful or address the issues in your life. It is usually fear that keeps people attached to these quick fixes, fear of the original illness returning.

Christianity uses sin as the imaginary reason for your illness and concentrates on the removal of it. Scientintology uses theatens for the imaginary reason of your illness and concentrates on the removal of them. They are no different and both as equally as low and shallow for exploiting people.
Scientology makes a little more sense to me at least because it sounds scientific and doesn’t have a talking snake.  But its that first reason what makes scientology so seductive.

They have “science machines” and use alot of scientific sounding words. All this is their to give an air of authority. To convince people that they know what they are doing.
Its manipulative and its sick. The only defence is to know the difference between real science and pseudo science.
But unlike Christianity, they don’t believe psychology should exist at all. They also believe that you can treat all types of mental disorders without drugs. That’s what makes scientology so dangerous is because this can come at the cost of peoples lives. Stopping medication or playing doctor when you’re really a quack costs lives.

This is no joke. This isn’t up for debate. The only people qualified to make decisions about your health is a doctor. NOT YOU! Especially not some cookoo cult follower.

So remember. In psychology there are no quick fixes, but feel sorry for the people choosing them as they have an evil disease that makes them do stupid things.

Lets hope for Amy, that once the reality of no drugs (not even prescription ones) sinks in she will come to her sences and go back to rehab for real this time.

One can only hope.

Weltschmerz

Weltschmerz

1. Mental depression or apathy caused by comparison of the actual state of the world with an ideal state.
2. A mood of sentimental sadness.

Something is screwed up in the world at the moment. Myself and alot of other people are sick and tierd of the only ones voicing opinions being the champions of stupid!

Narrow minded idiots vote in dim dicks to control the world, because a “C” grade average is good enough just so long as your moist for Jesus. Washed up Celebrities use their fame to convince the gullible masses that vaccination’s cause autism (which it doesn’t). The average joe on the street who’s idea of “balanced news” is making sure Today Tonight doesn’t interfere with Neighbours. All this is just a race to the bottom which I want to stop.

A recent study has shown that the world is getting dumber as a whole. This doesn’t sound hopefull for the maintenance of civilisation. It’s about time we all start thinking again.

This blog is going to be about using critical thinking. I will bring up alot of things called Logical Fallacies. They are a life skill, the bread and butter for slicing through other peoples bullshit. If I had my way these would be ingrained on every kid before they left primary school. But then again teaching kids how to think and not what to think isn’t on the schools agenda most of the time.

Their are alot of issues out their that need attention. I will get to them one at a time. But while Moronosaurus’s still roam and make decision’s that affect me. I will still comment on their fallacious reasoning.

I hope you will find this blog educational and entertaining.