"A Beautiful Mind". There is hope for some people if they try.

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"A Beautiful Mind". There is hope for some people if they try.

Bowser — 9/29/2008 9:24:49 PM (archived)

How anyone can be so wrong, so long, about so much and still not learn is a marvel.

I can say I've lived to see it all. I would never have believed there were people out there so resistant to reality, so defended that facts are irrelevant, with a belief system which never, ever needed altering.

I believe the movie was "A Beautiful Mind". While not nearly as bright as the guy in the movie, very few people are, I think there is hope in that process for you. Buy the DVD, and watch that movie with an eye and ear for seeing how he challenged his hallucinations and came to participate in the same Universe as do his family, friends and the wider community.

That doesn't mean he has to agree with all of those, just that he can operate from the same reality.

I don't have any hope. One of the problems here is that some people believe the world is screwed up and they are well. And if they can find other people or blogs to reinforce the reality that they create their self-validated Universe in the Day Room and live in it.

I do wish you luck.

Arf

The whole thread (29 posts)

Housing crisis in a nutshell - TB - 9/29/2008 8:51:14 PM
- Must the assumption *always* be... - McFly - 10/1/2008 11:25:41 PM
- Thank you TB... - Jody - 9/30/2008 12:03:13 PM
  - re: Thank you TB... - REB - 9/30/2008 1:09:11 PM
- 1999 LA Times article - SDG - 9/30/2008 6:12:12 AM
  - 1999 New York Times article - TB - 9/30/2008 6:52:21 AM
- re: Another video - SteveS - 9/29/2008 10:55:16 PM
- That explanation is a scheme that only works... - alcaray - 9/29/2008 10:18:55 PM
  - re: Here's a scheme that worked - SteveS - 9/29/2008 11:07:04 PM
- "A Beautiful Mind". There is hope for some people if they try. - Bowser - 9/29/2008 9:24:49 PM
- Filling in holes. - Tony - 9/29/2008 9:03:43 PM
  - re: Filling in holes. - TB - 9/29/2008 10:12:18 PM
    - re: What would we be hearing on this board if a Republican speaker had called the opposition "unpatriotic?" - Mary Anne - 9/30/2008 8:43:28 PM
      - Oh, come on. "He did it too?" ;) (n/t) - TB - 10/1/2008 4:37:10 AM
        
        Yeah, I know... - Mary Anne - 10/1/2008 6:57:53 PM
        
        Both of us are old enough to remember... - TB - 10/2/2008 1:10:09 AM
        
        Those were the days. Good times. - Robert - 10/2/2008 4:38:10 AM
        
        Statistics - TB - 10/2/2008 4:50:28 AM
        
        re: Statistics - Robert - 10/2/2008 2:56:41 PM
        
        re: Statistics - TB - 10/2/2008 4:02:19 PM
    - "Any honest person would call this a bipartisan problem." - Tony - 9/29/2008 11:08:13 PM
    - I used to respect Jim Leach. (n/t) - TAFKASE - 9/29/2008 10:13:26 PM
      - What a mistake that was. - TAFKASE - 9/29/2008 10:14:50 PM
- After eight years of your spin, can you point to ONE reason we should take you or this administration seriously? (n/t) - ARRELL - 9/29/2008 9:00:37 PM
  - Actually, can you point to one reason why we shouldn't tar and feather the lot of you? (n/t) - ARRELL - 9/29/2008 9:05:18 PM
    - "Shut up and eat your cake!" (n/t) - Bowser - 9/29/2008 10:26:45 PM
    - Because we are the filthy rich and we own the tar. - TAFKASE - 9/29/2008 9:55:55 PM
      - 8^) Before you take that attitude you might want to research the french revolution (n/t) - ARRELL - 9/29/2008 11:57:06 PM
        
        Hint: Tar is cheaper than the Guillotine... (n/t) - ARRELL - 9/30/2008 12:15:20 AM

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