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Have you heard of "The Goldwater Rule"? Basically, it states that psychiatrists and psychologists may not offer a diagnosis of someone they have never met. It came about after a magazine surveyed a bunch of psychiatrists about the psychological state of Barry Goldwater who ran for president in 1964.
It's a solid rule and I don't see why it shouldn't apply to Putin as well.
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Have you heard of "The Goldwater Rule"? Basically, it states that psychiatrists and psychologists may not offer a diagnosis of someone they have never met. It came about after a magazine surveyed a bunch of psychiatrists about the psychological state of Barry Goldwater who ran for president in 1964.
It's a solid rule and I don't see why it shouldn't apply to Putin as well.
ANYONE who takes advice from the gospel of THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN/ MAKE BELIEVE/ MONEY/ HALF-TRUTHS/ LIES no matter how clever it sounds _ and it will always sound very clever (in order to deceive, most of the time "inadvertently") ... is operating out of PLATO'S MENTAL PRISON CAVE created by the same gospel of DECEPTION!
“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2 For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
Matt 7, 1-4
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16 By their fruit you will recognize them. Do people pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 Likewise, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus, by their fruit you will recognize them. Matt 7, 16-20
THE WAY THE TRUTH AND THE LIFE ONLY - THE ONE AND ONLY INCARNATION OF GOD ALMIGHTY AND SHEPHERD AND SAVIOUR THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND THE HOLY SPIRIT FOREVER AND EVER - AMEN HALLELU-YAH - SOLI DEO GLORIA!
Buh-but-but the rules-based-international-order--!!
It accords the hegemon the right to diagnose from afar, not to mention the redoubtable insight