why Mandolin didnt like being called Mandy....

[Guest guest]

I think I have just got Mandolin sussed.

Not totally proven maybe, but I'm 99% I'm right, and I'm quite proud

of my deductive work. As a poker player I'd bet the farm on it.

I must say that I have striven to *not* refer to Mandolin as Mandy,

tempting though it was. The odd time I did do though, must have cut

deep. - such name calling is indeeed facile and pointless.

I have cracked the Mandolin mystery. Mandolin is a SCIENTOLOGIST.

This was the ideological change I referred to that made him say " I am

married to one woman " . The important point is not so much *one* but

*woman*. I remember thinking that that, combined with his blanket

decrying of drugs, there had probably been some radical change,

perhaps a conversion to Xtianity. But he didnt sound like a Xtian. He

did however refer to a spirit that existed before birth and vaguely

refer to religions with this view. I also remembered the Scientology

is of course totally anti-psychiatry. Scientology believes in a

spirit that existed before birth. All it needed was for Scientology

to be homophobic and that would add the final ingredient - Mandolin

was a drug using gay who believes he was cured of drug taking and

homosexuality thorugh Scientology, and now lives a drug free married

life. In took about a 10s web search and straight away it popped up -

Scientology views homosexuality as a form of insanity.

All it took was a few vague references to homosexuality myself,

combined with Mandolin's narcissistic faith that absolute everybody is

the same as himself, to conclude that my own problems were also caused

by guilt over homosexuality and I could respond to the same

Scientological approach. As I trashed Scientology as well, no wonder

he got so pissed. In the unlikely event he belongs to freedomofmind as

welll, he will have seen me attack Scientoliogy's drug initiative

there as well.

Move over M. Poireau....

P.

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> > I think he was just shooting out any " ideas " he could,

scatter-shot,

> > to see if any would hit.

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> > As an aside, it is totally beyond me why anyone would think

anything

> > about " homosexuality " is a " problem. " (Do realize that lots of

> people

> > don't agree with me, but don't care).

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