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Joe Pantoliano: The Soprano's, Matrix, and Mental Health

The Hudson Union Society
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josealonsoleon
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Posted: 04.26.09, 11:44 AM
Joe, you presented us in the beginning of your film with what I would call the most underrated, underestimated statistic and statement one can make. You said that 87 Million people in America are diagnosed with some form of mental illness. It seems to me that a nation that has 240 Million people (fact taken form Sam Harris' book "Letter to a Christian Nation") believing that Jesus will come back in the next fifty years and threw Armageddon actions will take back his own and destroy all the others, is a much bigger delusion that needs attention and some form of a cure.
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JoanC
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Posted: 05.23.09, 10:32 PM
josealonsoleonsaid "a nation that has 240 Million people (fact taken form Sam Harris' book "Letter to a Christian Nation") believing that Jesus will come back in the next fifty years and threw Armageddon actions will take back his own and destroy all the others, is a much bigger delusion that needs attention and some form of a cure."

Carl Jung once said (I'm paraphrasing) "There is no neurosis or psychosis of modern man that is not, at bottom, a matter of religion."

Religion teaches us to divorce our consciousness from this world and seek meaning in some imaginary "other realm". That way madness lies.
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