Internet addiction disorder (IAD) is a theorized disorder originally made as a satirical hoax by Ivan Goldberg, M.D., in 1995. He took pathological gambling as diagnosed by the DSM-IV as his model for the spoofed description.
Although IAD was meant to be a hoax, it is promoted as a real condition by some supporters. Supporters often divide IAD into subtypes by activity, such as pornography, overwhelming and immoderate gaming, inappropriate involvement in online social networking sites or blogging, and Internet shopping addiction. Activities which, if done in person, would normally be considered troublesome, such as compulsive gambling or shopping, are called net compulsions. Others, such as reading or playing computer games, are troubling only to the extent that these activities interfere with normal life.
- Wikipedia
to what extent does the above apply to you and me?
Where do we draw the line between art and porn-
ography?
this question was the subject of a film and digital
photography forum at usefilm.com
here is a sample of visitor responses:
- One person’s nude is another person’s pornographic image.
- “Where do you draw the line between nudes and pornography?” At the mid point between images that glorify and those that objectify.
- I draw the line where the photo is deliberately created or used for sexual content. A photo in a porn magazine might be artistic if taken out of there and placed in a book of artistic nudes. A photo in that book would become pornographic if put in that porn magazine.
- Somewhere between good and evil.
- Is pornography necessarily evil?
- At a philosophical level, pornography is about sex and nudes are about beauty.
- I know it when I see it.
- For me to know where my line is I apply the following: Will I show this to my family at the dinner table and say “Look what Pa did today? ” If not, it is on the wrong line of our family’s moral threshold.
- There is no single line between nude and porn. There are as many lines as people and these lines run parallel, cross each other, overlap, are perpendicular… Perfect composition and lighting, creative processing, the result is art. If it display two or more people having sex, it’s still art. But your personal line might run different than mine.
- I can’t remember who said it but it was the response of an artist when asked by a female journalist about the nudity in his paintings. He said ‘Art versus pornography is a question for censors. I’m an artist.’
Sunlight reaches Earth’s atmosphere and is scattered in all directions by all the gases and particles in the air. Blue light is scattered in all directions by the tiny molecules of air in Earth’s atmosphere. Blue is scattered more than other colors because it travels as shorter, smaller waves. This is why we see a blue sky most of the time.
and if this is not sufficient to answer the perennial
parent-stumping question, The History Channel’s Universe provides the following,
yes today we parents have the answers; or at least
we know where to find them
sometimes we suffer and struggle with pain and
problems; feeling alone, helpless and hopeless
and we may suffer in silence for a long time,
falsely believing that -
our condition to unique to us,
it reflects something about us that is shameful,
we are somehow responsible for the pain,
we deserve to suffer
and there is absolutely nothing we can do about it
eventually we may seek help; we may consult a
specialist who reviews our situation and forwards
a diagnosis, that is, a description of our condition
that entails -
an explanation of the cause of our suffering,
an plan of treatment and
demographics which tell us that we are not alone
sometimes a diagnosis is a relief in that -
it lets us know what we are up against
it removes the false beliefs that added to our pain
it empowers us with a plan to fight the problem
it lets us know that we are not alone and
that there are others, like us -
others with whom we can join to confront our
shared problem and free ourselves of unnecesary
suffering
the relief that a diagnosis can bring is illustrated
in the video below
it is the opening segment of a BBC documentary
called -
Stephen Fry:
The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive
at the BBC’s Health website the documentary is
described as follows:
This two-part documentary investigates the reality of living with bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression.
Comedian, actor, author and film-maker Stephen Fry meets celebrities and members of the public who talk frankly about the impact the condition has on their lives.
During the two programmes, Stephen Fry talks in detail about his own experience of having bipolar disorder. He recounts his suicide attempt after walking out of the West End play Cellmates in 1995, and the continuing severe mood swings he has to endure.
Stephen interviews other celebrities with bipolar, including Star Wars actress Carrie Fisher, Hollywood star Richard Dreyfus and British comedians Tony Slattery and Jo Brand.
He also meets ordinary people and their families coping with the condition and talks to them about some of the possible triggers. They all speak candidly about how bipolar disorder has affected their day-to-day lives.
