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September 28, 2011 8:00am by Kokila Patel

General Debate 28 September 2011

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Griff

Terrible jokes? Or a sign of a brain disorder? Actually, sometimes it’s hard to tell.

Witzelsucht (the Germans just have the best words for everything, don’t they?) is a brain dysfunction that causes all sorts of compulsive silliness: bad jokes, corny puns, wacky behavior. It’s also sometimes called the “joking disease,” and as Taiwanese researchers phrased it in a 2005 report, it’s a “tendency to tell inappropriate and poor jokes.”we give you a brain disorder that actually causes a poor sense of humor.

It’s a symptom of an injury to the right frontal lobe, which could be caused by brain trauma or a stroke, tumor, infection or a degenerative disease. “Patients who have disease of the left frontal lobe often are sad, anxious and depressed,” explains Dr. Kenneth Heilman, a neurologist at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, Fla. “In contrast … patients with right-hemisphere disease often (appear) indifferent or euphoric and have inappropriate jocularity.”
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September 28, 2011 9:30pm
chris

@ reid

I have always thought my political views are fairly similar to yours but you articulate them better than I do. I have replied to your reply to mine on the other thread here at your request but regarding religious views… I generally prefer to leave them alone.

FWIW… I’ve studied at University a lot of stuff around 200 years or so before/after the 0s BC/AD in my late teens / early 20s. I believe Jesus and Mohammed were real people. I don’t believe they were anything but mere mortals like the rest of us.

I live my life with more or less the same morals that a “christian” would but without the religion.

If I die and there really is a christian god (as opposed to the many other gods there are) and I go to hell then so be it.

But I believe we are all simply matter and when we die that’s it. I accept that.

We are all different and you may not be able to understand what I have been through and what I believe in, just as I may not understand what you have been through and what you believe in. But I do respect what you believe in.

And again FWIW I don’t think the scientists are right either.

You probably won’t get a response here as I’m unlikely to check back agin, but peace brother (or sister) 🙂

My aim in life is to live happy, to life in peace with others and my family, and to treat others with the same respect I expect others to treat me with.

Oh yeah and I’ve officially been an atheist since I was 13 but didn’t believe since I was at least 10, and I’ve studied the good old bible.
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September 28, 2011 10:15pm
chris

Oh crap, no reference to how old I am now. 37. And getting more right and atheistic as I age….
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September 28, 2011 10:20pm
Scott Chris

Griff – Or a sign of a brain disorder?

In my case, I’d have to say that the brain damage is pretty well uniform, as I exhibit all of the above symptoms…..
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September 29, 2011 6:56am
Scott Chris

chris – “I believe Jesus and Mohammed were real people.”

I agree. The New Testament confirms he was crucified and died. The bit about him coming to life again has more to do with his apostles cult conspiracy than any magical reincarnation.

But the “idea” of Jesus is alive and well in the shape of Christianity. In some other people’s minds, he is certainly alive, and in terms of aggregate relative truth, he is far more ‘alive’ than you or me.
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September 29, 2011 7:14am
Manolo

Some cops are plain stupid and thick: http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/5697490/Speeding-doctor-stopped-by-police
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September 29, 2011 7:15am
Manolo

If you risk losing at the polls, just suspend elections. That’s the stuff left-wing (illiberals) are made of: http://dailycaller.com/2011/09/28/new-audio-nc-governor-struck-serious-tone-on-suspending-congressional-elections/
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