Clearheaded -Not everybody who is mentally ill can’t control themselves and are Putter. Some can and some can’t. Stop trying to paint every mental patient the same.
“Interesting how you feel you have the right to interpretate halacha and when I do it you say that I seem to think I’m a posek. Talk about double standards.”
How can you call this a double standard? Even if you went to Rabbi Weiss’s school and you are a Rabbah, you can’t pasken.
“What gives you the right to extrapolate and say that I think that I’m a posek?”
I didn’t extrapolate anything- you said -“mental disease is not an excuse for going OTD”. This is a P’sak Halacha.
“I have said that mental illness is not an excuse for dropping Yiddishkeit. When I say that they dropped their Yiddishkeit under the guise that “mental disease caused them to” that’s exactly what I mean – that they used their mental illness as a guise for dropping Yiddishkeit. You twist my words out of context.”
What your saying is -mentally people are so twisted, that they know they are mentally ill and that they know they really can control themselves, but they want people to think that they went off because of their mental illness (which isn’t the case acc. to you) in order to fool everyone why they went off. Or are you saying people like pretending they are mentally ill, when they are not. You actually need a mental health professional to diagnose mental illness. People or even YOU saying that guy’s crazy doesn’t mean anything. I never heard a person who was OTD say -“I’m OTD because I’m mentally ill”. People only admit to mental illness when they have a real diagnosis.
This sounds twisted to me and you call yourself “Clearheaded”!