Magical Thinking

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I must say that I am enjoying the Miller Buzz. The current music is BPC#1-2. I noticed recently that Kootch has reduced her red wine intake to the equivalent of two shots. Good girl. I knew she was never in danger of developing a taste for alcohol. She's just not the type.

Which brings us to my notes (which really ought to remain secret). I had the pleasure of watching Gordon Robertson (son of Pat Robertson) praying yesterday (boom) for God to have mercy on Texas. Gordon's prayer was for Rita to diminish in strength. That was the first prayer. Gordon prayed for Rita to diminish. As Gordon went on and on it became very clear that Gordon was doing 'magical thinking' which is a well established psychological disorder. People who do magical thinking are delusional. They believe that their words can influence natural processes. Magical Thinking is fundamental to Fundamentalist Christian religion. In fact, it seems to me that most all of Christian Fundamentalists are victims of this particular disorder. Furthermore I have no doubt at all that most fundamentalist Muslims suffer from the same disorder.

This brings us to the idea that ALL Religious Nuttery worldwide is essentially pathological.

But there can be an essentially dishonest aspect to Magical Thinking: various disorders do not tend to exclude other disorders. In fact, disorder tends to associate with disorder.

On the basis of that observation it seems to me that the practice of watching The 700 Club every day might well be tandamount to the study of a certain class of human pathology.