What is Psychosis?

Psychosis is a loss of contact with reality. Psychosis often involves delusions and seeing or hearing things that others can not see or hear (hallucinations.) People with psychosis often feel fearfulness or suspiciousness (paranoid). Psychosis may develop suddenly or gradually. Psychosis may occur as part of other mental health disorders. Some people with depression develop psychosis and some older people with dementia have psychosis. Drugs called anti psychotic can be effective in reducing the symptoms of psychosis.

Healing, creativity, adventure, and intense feelings of aliveness

Sex is not harmful. It is a vehicle to self-knowledge, love, healing, creativity, adventure, and intense feelings of aliveness. – Judith Levine

Miss Alabama in the 1994 Miss USA Contest, Question – Answer session

Question: If you could live forever, would you and why?

Answer: I would not live forever, because we should not live forever, because if we were supposed to live forever, then we would live forever, but we cannot live forever, which is why I would not live forever.

Pakistan’s jihad against the Internet

Drawing a line: Pakistan’s jihad against the Internet – By Urooj Zia

– HIMAL

A couple of months ago, when self-styled ‘security analyst’ Zaid Hamid’s anti-India vitriol started getting out of hand, a group of Pakistanis got together on Facebook to condemn his hate speech and calls for war against ‘Hindu Zionists’. There were jokes about ‘Jihad-e-Facebook’ and ‘Ghazwa-e-YouTube’ because, like former dictator Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf, that’s where an overwhelming majority of Hamid’s supporters were anyway. No one could have thought at the point that an organ of the state would declare jihad against Facebook, but that is exactly what has happened. On 19 May, on a petition filed by a group calling itself the Islamic Lawyers Movement, the Lahore High Court ordered the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to block Facebook in response to the perceived blasphemy of a single page about ‘Draw … Day’.

Why all the responsibility for all problems is being put upon President Zardari?

– Tausif Kamal

If Zardari is forced out before his term it would be the beginning of the end of our nascent restoration of democracy. I’m no supporter of PPP or Zaradari but why all the responsibility for all the country’s problems is being heaped upon one man, who has been in , power’ (whatever that means ) for not even two years.

If anybody has to go down, its “K”. He’s directing an inept war in slow motion against the enemy, Talibans/ Jihadists. Under his command GHQ has been attacked… Talibans are murdering and terrorizing the citizens of the country at will.

It has taken many years or indeed decades for the existential and debilitating problems of Taliban/ Jihadist terrorism, Baluchistan insurgency and the dead-end state of the economy to germinate and develop. They did not come about overnight. Its obvious that the reactionary forces in Pakistan, the Islamist parties like JI, right wing media and groups , pro-military establishment etc are spearheading a campaign to remove Zardari, to sidestep the PPP govt and to grab power themselves. Eventually such a move will derail whatever democracy we have. Since nurturing democracy in Pakistan is the core agenda of CRDP we all should be concerned about this possibly destructive move and I suggest that we take some action.

Courtesy: – CRDP, Nov 13, 2009

Pakistan : No separation of ‘Religion and State’ is addressed in 18th constitutional Amendment

18th Amendment-Position Statement – WSC

The pretence of ‘reforms’ will prove counterproductive. Since its inception, Pakistan has been under direct or indirect military rule. Never has Pakistan established itself as a true federal and democratic state, and today’s current constitution has proven completely inadequate in progressing towards that end. Rather than safeguarding the rights of the oppressed  Nations, of the religious minorities and of other marginalized groups (i.e. women), the constitution has become the very instrument of hegemonic control and military domination by which the Punjab majority subjugates all other ethnic and religious minorities into a tyrannical majoritarianism.

The current 18th Amendment passed in National Assembly, though a step in the right direction, does not sufficiently address the genuine concerns of equality of all the peoples of Pakistan.