Netherlands’ Euthanizing the Mentally Ill

     The Netherlands, the global capital of homicide-based “medicine“, has so normalized suicide that even involuntary suicide is considered medically acceptable. But the “conditions” that are to be treated by death are not limited to physical ailments, but to any and all psychiatric conditions.

“In January a young Dutch woman drank poison supplied by a doctor and lay down to die. Euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide are legal in the Netherlands, so hers was a death sanctioned by the state. But Aurelia Brouwers was not terminally ill – she was allowed to end her life on account of her psychiatric illness.

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“During those last weeks, she spent her time with loved ones, doing craftwork and riding her bike in Deventer, the city she adored. She also visited the crematorium – the place she had chosen for her own funeral service.”

Death, Rx

     There was a time that a mentally ill person who tried to kill themselves would be stopped and given treatment. Not in the Netherlands, where many “doctors” believe that “when people apply for euthanasia on psychiatric grounds, in some cases they will kill themselves if they don’t get it. In her view, they should be regarded as people with terminal illnesses.” When psychological problems are treated as if they were physical ailments, and “incurable” physical ailments are increasingly routinely treated by just offing the patient, it becomes inevitable that the easiest and most cost effective way to treat someone with psychological issues in a socialized healthcare system is to just kill them off. A bit of a conflict of interest for the “doctors” to, rather than help their patients cope, are complicit in getting their patients to die.

     Perhaps more frightening, is how a life-long psychiatric problem can, and is, being equated with life-long medical conditions such as diabetes! After all, if you can legally get a person with psychiatric issues killed, then why not someone, including children, with diabetes to die as well?

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AP Exam Reclaims A Quarter of a Millennium to Fight Western Civilization

     Recently, the College Board, which provides the Advanced Placement Exams that allow high schoolers to earn college credit by successfully passing an exam, purged all history before A.D. 1450 from the exam. Interestingly enough, it was the Left that objected the most because it would exclude most pre-colonial societies.

     This, of course, is not too surprising when one realizes that it was the 15th century that introduced the West to the rest of the world beginning with the Age of Discovery. The history of the world, then, was the history of Western Civilization and its unprecedented global influence. In order to combat this and allow Left-indoctrinated teachers to preach the pre-Western utopias of the world, the test will now include world history back to A.D. 1200:

“Since our recent announcement about changes to AP World History, which were meant to alleviate that problem, we’ve received thoughtful, principled feedback from AP teachers, students, and college faculty. This feedback underscores that we share the same priorities: engaging students in the rich histories of civilizations across the globe and ensuring that such important content is given the time it deserves.

“The AP World History: Modern course will begin in 1200 CE, rather than 1450 CE, starting in the 2019-20 school year. This change will ensure teachers and students can begin the course with a study of the civilizations in Africa, the Americas, and Asia that are foundational to the modern era.”

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Outlawing Un-woke Psychological Therapies

     One of the justifications for outlawing “Gay conversation therapy” that seeks to help those with an unwanted physical/romantic attraction to those of the same sex is that such therapies are harmful and even cause people to kill themselves, as has been declared to be holy writ according to the American Psychological Association (APA). That this doesn’t seem to bar a psychologist from helping a patient embrace their homosexual feels simply underscores that this policy position by the APA is based on the assumption that homosexual attraction is set in stone and ought never be altered while it is perfectly acceptable to help people “come out of the closet”.

     A recent peer-reviewed journal article questions the APA’s stance:

“The American Psychological Association and other organizations have formally claimed that sexual orientation change therapies should not be used because they are probably ineffective and may cause harm. A survey asking for negative and positive experiences of 125 men with active lay religious belief who went through sexual orientation change efforts (SOCE) strongly conflicted with those claims. In our study, most of those who participated in group or professional help had heterosexual shifts in sexual attraction, sexual identity and behavior with large statistical effect sizes, similarly moderate-to-marked decreases in suicidality, depression, substance abuse, and increases in social functioning and self-esteem. Almost all harmful effects were none to slight. Prevalence of help or hindrance, and effect size, were comparable with those for conventional psychotherapy for unrelated mental health issues. Judged by this survey, these therapies are very beneficial for lay religious people, but no Catholic priests were in the sample, and this study makes no recommendations for them.”

     While psychology peer-reviewed articles ought to always be held in skepticism, that there is any question of the “established truth” puts into question the “established conclusion” of the APA, and that maybe, juuust maybe, wanting to change to whom one is attracted is and ought to be left as a private matter between doctor and patient.

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News of the Week (September 3rd, 2018)

 

News of the Week for Sept. 3rd, 2018


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They Day

     The “trans” movement is inherently at odds with the biological reality that is intuitively obvious to the most casual (non-indoctrinated) observer. In order to push the “fantasy” that we are somehow not a sexually dimorphic species, our very words must be mutated into Newspeak and the English language savaged to inanity.

     An example of this is the Australian state of Victoria’s pushing “they day” to push politically correct usage of pronouns. The YouTuber Bearing expostulated upon this linguistic crime the state of Victoria’s desire to “reprogram some neural pathways”.

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Quick Takes – Cisnormativity: In Anime; In Preschool; In Human Behavior

     Another “quick takes” on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.

     The focus this time: It’s like we’re a sexually dimorphic species that perpetuates itself through dudes and chicks screwing…

     First, a little mood music:

     Carrying on…

     One of the woke views of the future of humanity is a post-humanist view where gender/biological sex are outdated things to be liberated from… especially that entire icky “reproduction” thing. Little surprise, then, that when hardcore Leftists of the most woke bent suddenly realize that they can be identified as the villains in a futuristic science-fiction mecha anime from Japan, where the heroes rediscover how a male and female having a child together is natural and normal, is somehow now “rightwing propaganda“.

     The full meltdown is both inane and worthy of belittling.

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Transing the Cake

     The Masterpiece Cakeshop, after winning the Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission case this year at the Supreme Court, discovered that the same biased Colorado Civil Rights Commission is going after the baker again, this time for not helping celebrate transgenderism as desired by a lawyer who sprung this on the very same day that the Supreme Court ruled.

“On the very day the Supreme Court decided to hear Masterpiece Cakeshop (June 26, 2017), a caller asked the bakery to make a cake with a pink inside and a blue outside, celebrating a gender transition from male to female. The shop politely declined, but Phillips believes that the same lawyer, on other occasions, requested that he create other custom cakes with messages that violate his faith — a cake celebrating Satan and a cake with Satanic symbols. The lawyer, a man identifying as a woman, goes by the name Autumn Scardina.

“Shortly after the Supreme Court gave Jack Phillips his win, denouncing the Colorado Civil Rights Commission for “religious hostility,” the state began to investigate Phillips again, finding probable cause that he had discriminated against the transgender lawyer who Phillips believes placed the call.”

     One of the justifications for going after Masterpiece Cakeshop was that the baker would bake wedding cakes for opposite-sex couples, and thus was discriminating based on some protected status. This is completely different since the baker, to your humble authors knowledge, ever baked a cake for anyone that celebrated a persons “gender” (being something separate and distinct from biological sex), as opposed to their biological sex such as with an announcement regarding a baby’s biological sex).

     With all the persecuting of cake makers, et al., and such persecution going so far as to not just refuse to celebrate a wedding but to those who didn’t want to express an explicit political message concerning legislation, this new persecution is not surprising.

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The White Patriarchy’s Greatest Weapon Against Women of Color: Menses

     Apparently non-White women never menstruated before the White Man came along:

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Venezuela: Purging the Military; Purging Basic Necessities; Purging the People from Venezuela Itself

     What better excuse to make potential dissenters within a regime disappear than a gold old fashioned assassination attempt? Why, none, of course. Whether this drone attack was a “false flag” operation or an honest attempt to get ride of Venezuela’s own anal boil is irrelevant at this point, ‘twould seem.

     Meanwhile, as Maduro enjoys getting rid of enemies, the people of Venezuela continue their ever downward spiral of suffering, now without any way to save dying infants, or even without water! That entire Venezuelan states are without electric power for days is of no concern to the tyrant Maduro.

     And how does Maduro deal with this? By laughably hiding the hyper-inflation by ordering a 96% devaluation of its currency! Of course, the Bolivar as currency is probably the last thing that the resurgence of pirates (yes, actual pirates of the Caribbean, and not the Disney-fied version) who are plaguing the people.

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News of the Week (August 26th, 2018)

 

News of the Week for Aug. 26th, 2018


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