Reply #42: People believe a lot of incredible things --

[Radio_Lady]

Many of us here in America believe that God visited a virgin one night and implanted her with His seed, and that seed became a Man and walked among us as the Son of God. Others think that Moses wandered in the desert for years, heard the voice of God from a burning bush, received the Ten Commandments at Mt. Sinai, and parted the Red Sea. And, of course, I'm not even touching the religions of the Far Eastern cultures (Buddhism, Taoism, Shintoism), or those of India and those other Indians, the Native Americans, and a lot of other people who have inhabited this world.

I have met and interviewed witches, warlocks, numerologists, astrologists, people who believe in ghosts, aliens, paranormal stuff of all kinds, and a variety of shapely and not so shapely gods and goddesses of television and film. The authors I speak to are passionate enough to write about all kinds of things in which they believe intensely.

Regarding Cruise's comments, some antidepressant drugs work for some people and not for others. Personally, both electroshock therapy and drugs have helped me during my life. I have lived with clinical depression diagnosed when I was in my late teens. I've done my share of "talking" therapy, although it was mostly to psychologists, because psychiatrists were more expensive! So, Tom Cruise is not talking to the choir here, and frankly, he was pretty abrasive in that interview with Matt Lauer. But that doesn't mean I can't appreciate Tom's acting.

I have a grandson who is now 16 and he's been on Ritalin since he was five. I wonder what it has done to his mind and body. It wasn't my decision to put him on it. It would be good to know more about the ADHD drugs which we are giving to children "en masse".