Re:I got arrested in Kazakhstan and represented myself in court
by theoh on Thursday July 21, 2016 @09:49PM
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Being schizophrenic does not mean that the brain/mind is "AWOL". Schizophrenics endure experience like the rest of us. The idea that the insane have "no mind" is an old-fashioned, dehumanizing idea which should not be tolerated even on HN where everyone is of course young, healthy and overconfident. (!)
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Re:I got arrested in Kazakhstan and represented myself in court
by taneq on Thursday July 21, 2016 @10:11PM
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I was thinking about this just the other day, the term "demented" literally means "with mind removed".
Re:I got arrested in Kazakhstan and represented myself in court
by elbrownos on Friday July 22, 2016 @07:34AM
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Actually it means "out of one's mind"
Re:I got arrested in Kazakhstan and represented myself in court
by taneq on Friday July 22, 2016 @09:33AM
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Huh. So it does, thanks for that!
...as a tangent, I'm impressed and slightly weirded out by the fact that I googled for "etymology demented" and it answered directly with an etymological tree for the word. Google's getting smarter.