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From: tim@k.cs.cmu.edu.ARPA (Tim Maroney)
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Subject: Re: How come God doesn't affect Dave?
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Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 22:49:41 EDT
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Enough with the amateur psychoanalysis!  I have taken a Bachelor's in
psychology, and that is enough to give me the authority to say the following
things:

(1) No overt neurotic or psychotic symptoms are evidenced in any of Mr. Paul
Zimmerman's postings.

(2) The charge of obsession is unfounded, since there is no way of
estimating how much of his time is devoted to maltheistic practices or
proselytizing, or to what extent his maltheism interferes with other
activities; in fact, none of us have any ideas what patterns of behavior
other than a desire to discuss it from time to time (emphatically not an
obsessive symptom) pertain to Mr. Zimmerman's beliefs.

(3) No reputable psychoanalyst would base even a preliminary diagnosis on a
small amount of correpondence on a restricted subject, barring strong
evidence of particular dysfunction, e.g., speaking about nothing but
different ways to tie women up and beat them.  Anyone who does make such a
diagnosis is a fraud.

>From my experience on the network, I reach this conclusion with surety:

(4) The people performing the amateur, fraudulent psychoanalysis of Mr.
Zimmerman are assholes.  They are incapable of answering his belief system
rationally and directly, and so they resort to personal attacks and
judgments which neither they NOR ANYONE ELSE is qualified to make from the
evidence at hand.  Unless they apologize for their unfounded and libelous
(yes, technically libelous if it hurts Mr. Zimmerman's image materially)
attacks, they should be subjected to net ostracism, as they do not deserve
the attention of rational people.
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Tim Maroney, Carnegie-Mellon University, Networking
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