On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> writes: > >> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > I found this to be a very sad story. Sure, he had some issues, but I >> > don't think they needed to drug him, and take all that he had >> > learned away from him and turn him back into what he was before. >> >> "All that he had learned" meaning his delusions and psychoses? > > Indeed. If a revelation is unconnected to reality, it's misleading to > say that one has “learned” it.
But what is reality? > Also, I don't see how anyone “took away” those experiences. He wrote an > article describing them and clearly still retains those experiences as > memories to recall as he wishes. They made him believe they were not true. > When someone describes the ill effects their mental illness produced, I don't consider him to have been mentally ill. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
