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Stayed the night with my aunt and uncle, had some awesome steak, and some outstanding wine. Woke up the next morning at 6:20 and bit the airport. I’ve never been to the SEATAC airport before, was pretty cool. Had a breakfast bagel in the pub during our layover which was accompanied with a lovely bloody Mary. Then we loaded up on the 737 and flew to katchikan. The landing wasn’t nearly as bad as I expected from dad. The airport is on a seperate island away from town. Took the $5 ferry over to katchikan and got our other ferry tickets in order. It was a 3 hour wait until we were to leave, but we couldn’t leave our bags unattended. So dad having already seen katchikan said he’d stay by the bags and I could go exploring. He said town was ‘just over there’, and I came to find out the I was up for a 40min walk, but I grabbed some.pocs and some videos of the huge cruise ships that were in port. Also picked up some presents at the gift shop, and a new jacket. Then we loaded up on the ferry and took a nice lileisurly cruise for 3 hrs to hollis. Bob and judy picked us up at hollis and we drove through the ‘normal’ downpour over to craig/klawock. We went right to the dock to unload our bags where we will be sleeping for the next 9 days. Judy had bought some fresh local oysters which I found out have to be imported and grown from Washington, because the water is too cold for them to reproduce. Dad busted out the tequila and we had fresh caught lincod oysters, and baked potatoes, it was awesome! Then we went to sleep in the front of the fishboat, the ‘dena’ina’ where dad and I competed at seeing who could snore louder.

UFC recap - SuperStar Lee Anderson to face a WWE wrestler?

June 30th, 2008 10:59pm /bin/buddha

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In other UCF news, Superstar Lee Anderson is stepping out of his weight class in an exhibition fight on July 26 at Qwest Arena in Boise. Anderson is slated to take on WWE grappler King Kong Bundy. Bundy weighs in at a whopping 470 pounds and stands 6′4″. Anderson got a waiver on the weight difference to get the fight sanctioned, as the champion can’t find a challenger to his title belt. Anderson hasn’t been in a fight in nearly a year, but feels that he will be ready for the “big” challenge of Bundy. Tickets for the fight are available from Lee Anderson, as well as Ticketmaster locations for the Qwest Arena.

Fifty years ago homosexuality was on the DSM-1. It was considered a disorder. The DSM always was and always will be a political document. Banning homosexuality these days is not politically correct. Its not like the shrinks who call themselves ’scientists’ actually made some scientific discovery that took homosexuality off the list.

What they have done is take the sides of the bell curve that is society and proclaimed that anything too far away from the center is a disorder. This is totally unscientific. No wonder people think psychology is a psudo-science!

Many things like ADD are way overblown. The reason kids cant sit still in school is because school is an unnatural environment that goes against the natural inclination of the child. A kid knows when something is boring. A kid should want to do what every other young animal wants and that is to run and play. It is no coincidence that ADD and ADHD kids tend to be intelligent. They are harder to break. While I’m sure that there are cases where kids really need help, the great majority of these kids are not a problem, the society around them is the problem.

Of course Big Pharma has a lot do do with this. They own the FDA and the influence the ‘democratic’ APA which votes on DSM issues. So the reason things like ADD get blown out of proportion is because it is profitable.

Schizophrenia is different. There is subjective discomfort here. But how much of that is because of Society’s response? Is it possible that nature gave us the schizophrenic for a reason? Can they do anything well? Do they have any sort of higher connection? Would it be ridiculous to suggest that they might be closer to god than the rest of us? To borrow a line from Thomas Szasz.

“If you talk to God, you are praying; If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia”

Think about it. An insane person is actually hearing something, whether it be imagined or real, it exists in his subjective reality. But a person who spends years praying to something that has less proof behind it than these hallucinations is considered respectable.

From a scientific approach, religion could be put on the DSM as a disorder. But because the masses are religious, we would never do that. We do call smaller less established religions ‘cults’, because they are not on the center of any bell curve. But from a scientific approach, all religions are equally cultish