I dunno. My neighbor had dementia and in his more lucid moments he said
things that would indicate that he knew he had it.
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Irvin D. Yalom “Truth," Nietzsche continued, "is arrived at through
disbelief and skepticism, not through a childlike wishing something were
so! Your patient's wish to be in God's hands is not truth. It is simply
a child's wish—and nothing more! It is a wish not to die, a wish for the
eveastingly bloated nipple we have labeled 'God'! Evolutionary theory
scientifically demonstrates God's redundancy—though Darwin himself had
not the courage to follow his evidence to its true conclusion. Surely,
you must realize that we created God, and that all of us together now
have killed him.” ― Irvin D. Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept
On 6/16/2021 6:25 PM, Frank Ventura wrote:
Well the good thing about dementia is that you probably will never know you
have it.
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Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2021 9:11 AM
To: blind-democracy <blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [blind-democracy] Telephone
I'm just getting on my computer for the first time this morning at about 8:30.
I usually don't deal with email this early, either reading or sending, but
since it had just been a topic of discussion I thought I would drop by anyway
to give you guys an update on my phone situation.
When I have a power failure my phone sits there and chirps at me. I call it a
chirp because that is what it sounds like as opposed to other electronic
sounds. That seems to be its way of announcing that it is not getting any
electricity. In this most recent phone crisis it has been chirping at me too,
but I did not associate it with a lack of power. For one thing, I was not
having a power failure. And also that is because during one of those power
outages the chirping is more regular. That is, each chirp sounds alike, has the
same duration and the spacing between chirps seems to be constant. In this case
neither the duration nor the spacing of the chirps seemed to be constant.
Sometimes it seemed that a chirp would be cut off in the middle. Sometimes a
lot of the chirps sounded more like beeps to me. And sometimes there would be
long pauses before there was another chirp and other times they were spaced
close together. And, of course, the problem was sporadic. I could still make
and receive calls, but only sometimes. If it was chirping I learned that I
could not and when it was not chirping it worked sometimes. Often when I picked
up the phone after not having heard a chirp for some time it wouldn't work and
that prompted it to start chirping again. Sometimes there would be an incoming
call and it seemed that the ring was abruptly cut off before I could get to it.
None of that sounded like a power issue to me and I called the phone company
twice and both times they came out and worked on the line and it did not fix
the problem. But last night, for a while, it started sounding exactly like it
sounds when I have a power outage. That made me wonder if it might actually not
be getting a steady flow of electricity. So at about 10:30 last night I started
wrestling with a bookcase. The phone plugs into an outlet behind a big and
heavy bookcase and I had to pull that out and away from the wall. I had to be
really careful too because moving it caused it to be on the verge of falling
over and if that had happened I would have had a real mess to clean up and if
it had fallen on me I expect that I would have been injured. After I got it
moved I then had to make my way through the cobwebs to the outlet. I gave the
plug a really hard push.
It didn't move much, but I did feel it move and that let me know that I did
tighten it up at least somewhat. So I wrestled the bookcase back into place and
noted that the phone was not chirping. I picked it up and got a dial tone. That
was nothing to celebrate because it had been sporadically working anyway.
Midnight came and I had not heard any further chirping and I was about to go to
bed, but I made one last check before I got to bed. I made a call. I explained
that I was just testing it and didn't have time to talk because I was about to
get some sleep.
Well, here it is the next morning and it is still working just fine. It looks
like I solved the problem. The plug was loose. Okay, I suppose I will continue
to look into mobile phones. After all, it is becoming harder and harder to
function without one and everyone just assumes that everyone has one, but now
the sense of urgency is gone. I can take my time and go back to using my land
line phone like I usually do. By the way, right after finding out that I had
been hearing certain song lyrics wrong for some fifty years I now find out that
my phone problem was a simple loose plug. A lot of things are piling up to make
me feel stupid.
I wonder if I am facing dementia.
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Irvin D. Yalom “Truth," Nietzsche continued, "is arrived at through disbelief
and skepticism, not through a childlike wishing something were so! Your patient's wish to
be in God's hands is not truth. It is simply a child's wish—and nothing more! It is a
wish not to die, a wish for the eveastingly bloated nipple we have labeled 'God'!
Evolutionary theory scientifically demonstrates God's redundancy—though Darwin himself
had not the courage to follow his evidence to its true conclusion. Surely, you must
realize that we created God, and that all of us together now have killed him.” ― Irvin D.
Yalom, When Nietzsche Wept