anti-Christ

@ghost-of-a-duke said
I don't think you have sufficiently evidenced that she has.

So?

@fmf said
It is your prerogative to disagree with how I describe her occasional fantasist tales.

I find most of the stories in the Bible as fantastical tales, and yet you objected to me calling them fairy tales. Is fairy tales worse than delusional?

@ghost-of-a-duke said
It is one of those words that has seeped into every day use.

That is how I use it.

@fmf said
She has been calling me delusional for years. You have never ever commented on it.

I invariably stay out of your spats.

@fmf said
So?

Without evidence your opinion is meaningless. You can't even link to where she said the things you claim.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
I find most of the stories in the Bible as fantastical tales, and yet you objected to me calling them fairy tales. Is fairy tales worse than delusional?

I don’t think calling scripture "fairy tales" helps any discourse about theism. I think calling some of Suzianne's tall tales delusional is accurate. I think she sometimes builds up a head of self-aggrandizing steam and fabricates things and maybe, years later, sees it as a good idea to dial it back or distance herself from it.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Without evidence your opinion is meaningless. You can't even link to where she said the things you claim.

It doesn't matter if you think it is "meaningless".

@ghost-of-a-duke said
You can't even link to where she said the things you claim.

I don't need to.

@fmf said
That is how I use it.

It's not the same.

It's akin to people saying they are depressed when they've had a bad day. It is not comparable to clinical depression. Similarly, people often say about themselves "I'm a bit OCD" when they double check the cooker, but this is a million miles away from somebody diagnosed with OCD. Words like 'schizophrenic' have also found their way into every day use. It diminishes the actual meaning/condition.

@fmf said
It doesn't matter if you think it is "meaningless".

Not to you, obviously.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
I invariably stay out of your spats.

As I said, regardless of your claims about your day job, in this environment you are partisan and inconsistent with regard to this "issue" you have with the word delusional.

@fmf said
I think she sometimes builds up a head of self-aggrandizing steam and fabricates things and maybe, years later, sees it as a good idea to dial it back or distance herself from it.

That sounds like a very poor example of a delusion.

@fmf said
I don't need to.

You don't think people need to evidence things they say about other posters?

What planet are you on?


You'd be the first to ask for evidence if people made claims about things you had apparently posted in the past.

@fmf said
As I said, regardless of your claims about your day job, in this environment you are partisan and inconsistent with regard to this "issue" you have with the word delusional.

I think you miss the nuances of conversation.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
It's akin to people saying they are depressed when they've had a bad day. It is not comparable to clinical depression.

I haven't claimed she is clinically delusional. If I say a poster seems depressed, I don't mean they are clinically depressed. If I claim Relentless Red was paranoid about the source of the porn he was receiving in his inbox, or whatever ludicrous victimcard he was trying to play, I don't mean he is clinically paranoid.