The Scout Law

A Scout is:

Trustworthy 
Loyal 
Helpful 
Friendly 
Courteous 
Kind
Obedient 
Cheerful 
Thrifty 
Brave 
Clean
and
Reverent.

"We Can."

Concerning the age of the Earth.

Isaiah Chapter 66



(No peace...yet.)

Mind Warp.

Luke 19: 1-10

I just wanted to take a few moments to discuss something interesting.

(I am not advocating for the recreational use of MDMA. This is in reference to the medicinal, clinical use of the drug for treatment of serious psychological issues that are treatment-resistant to drugs that are in currently in use for the condition. Don't do drugs.)

The mind-warping effects of brainwashing through the media, PTSD, and Dementia.

When you pick up any newspaper, turn on just about any TV channel, or visit just about any website, and find yourself chained to myriad cases involving mentally ill people committing heinous homicides, molestations, mass murders, serial killings, rapes, and engaging in all sorts of deviant and violent behavior, it begins to have an effect on the psyche. Not just mine, but yours as well.

In the day program that I attend, we do an exercise called "Psychodrama," which is essentially role-playing.

At the end of the exercise, we use a grounding technique by stating our names and the current date, just so that no one walks out of the room confused as to who they are and what date it is.

It is a similar concept.

Not that I begin to believe that I am these persons, but I begin to internalize some of these labels attached to some of these individuals. Even though I have little to nothing in common with them.

"I guess I am weird."
"I guess I am jacked up."
Not "I am quirky," or "I am unique."

I am not the Batman shooter.
I am not Jared Loughner.
I am not the V-Tech shooter.
I am not the Elmo dude.
I am not Michael Jackson.

I have never done, nor will I ever be capable of doing the acts that these individuals are accused of, or have indeed committed.

It is just not who I am.
Period.
End of story.

In fact, under any actual scrutiny, the evidence points in the total opposite direction in all cases.
 
I do indeed suffer from Bipolar Disorder, Dementia, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, ADD, and Autism.

I may indeed get a little mixed up, triggered (internally, from my own speech or thoughts, or externally), or anxious from time to time, and I have made my mistakes, but I am not violent in any stretch of the imagination, and my intentions are pure.

Also, I am no longer a child.

The way the news coverage goes these days, it would appear that I have committed some heinous crime, or that I am the worst person on the face of the earth.

If you believe this, you have been successfully brainwashed.

There is nothing wrong with me except brain damage, trauma, and what you already know.
There is no "there" there.

Why all the rubbernecking over absolutely nothing?