By Thomas Stephen Szasz
If, because the previous testomony tells us, the 1st or unique Sin was once the data of excellent and evil, then the information of transparent speech was once the "Second Sin," At Babel, God punished guy for this transgression with the Divine Confusion, and we have now been deceptive one another ever because. Dr. Thomas Szasz believes that it really is this confusion of language that has produced a lot of the inhumanity, intolerance, and outright stupidity which this day impact every little thing from our politics to our intercourse lives. this can be Dr. Szasz's attempt to dispel a few of this confusion. it's a choice of penetrating, clean, and infrequently funny options, starting from intercourse and the relatives to medicinal drugs, schizophrenia, and psychiatry. for instance, Dr. Szasz issues out that after somebody acts as though he have been talking to God we are saying he's praying, but if he acts as though God have been chatting with him we are saying he has "schizophrenia" - and we glance to clinical technological know-how to "cure" him of his "mental illness." different excerpts from the second one Sin: previously, americans fees with homicide have been thought of blameless until eventually confirmed responsible; now they're thought of insane until eventually confirmed sane. Masturbation: the first sexual intercourse of mankind. within the 19th century, it was once a affliction; within the 20th, it's a medication. Treating habit to heroin with methadone is like treating habit to Scotch with Bourbon.
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D. (R—L) brawijan · haitinazwas . . R. 6 j =^. The stone ends immediately after R. 19 s = ^ (reversed), and it is not certain that the inscription is complete, nor that was . . contained no ending. frraw-ija-n, masc. gen. , _vow-stem; PG */brau-joh-ez/, cf. OHG drewen drouwen »threaten*, OE frreian (fcreade) ,to grieve, torment', OIc. frreyja ,to pine, yearn'; PIE */tr-ow-yon-es/, cf. Olr. misery', Gk. trüö ,fret, torment', OS1. trova, truti ,to wear away'. , masc. nom. , o-stem; PG */hait-in-a-z/, cf.
87; Noreen no. 64; v. Friesen 21*; Krause 1937, no. 11*; Makaev no. 67; M sset no. 1; Krause 1966, no. 31*; Krause 1971, no. 127. 2. Thorsberg chape. Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. D. (A) owli>u|>ewaz (B) niwajemariz R. A-7 e = Π ; B-5 j = (\ ; B-6, 7 em = Η . In words: owlfntfiewaz waje mariz. owlbupewaz, cf. Go. Wulfru(-wulfs), OIc. (Egg-)per. ni (Ala-)theus, OHG Wuld(-berht), (Eggi-)deo, owlpu- = wolp-u- (with /o/ from gen. sg. */wolpoz/); PG */wulp-u-/, cf. Go. wuljnis, OE wuldor (s-stem) ,glory', OIc.
Noreen no. 55; Krause 1937, no. 56*; Marstrander 187-96*; Makaev no. 73; Müsset no. 15; Krause 1966, no. 73*; Krause 1971, no. 76. 27. Tune stone. 0stfold, Norway. D. (A) (I) (L—R) ekwiwazafter · woduri (II) (R—L) dewitadahalaiban : worahto ' (B) (I) (R-L) [me]zwoduride : staina · (II) (R—L) brijozdohtrizdalidun (III) (L—R) arbijarjostezarbijano The only uncertain runes in this inscription, which I believe is complete, are found at the beginning of line B-I, where the lower portion of four staffs are visible.