Intellectual Brilliance in Spite of, Not Because of Epilepsy
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- What Are Seizures?
- Kinds of Epilepsy
- Partial Complex Seizures
- Intellectual Brilliance in Spite of, Not Because of Epilepsy
- Ellen White’s Visions Versus Partial Complex Seizures
- Stereotyped Symptoms Versus Varied Content
- Automatisms and Response to Environment
- Odors During Partial Complex Seizures
- Ellen White and Hypergraphia
- Perseveration
- Ellen White’s Eyes While in Vision
- Did Ellen White Breathe While in Vision?
- Long Periods of Apnea Inconsistent With Partial Complex Seizures
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Intellectual Brilliance in Spite of, Not Because of Epilepsy
Seizure disorders of whatever kind never enhance a victim’s mental abilities. No one has ever accomplished anything worthwhile during a seizure or as the direct result of a seizure. If a person with seizures is successful in life, it is not because he has epilepsy, but in spite of it. Many successful people are reported to have had seizure disorders, among them Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Buddha, Mohammed, Napoleon, van Gogh, Pascal, Socrates, Dante, Tchaikovsky, Lord Byron, Alfred Nobel, and Dostoevsky; but this disorder was not responsible for their success. So, even if Ellen White suffered from partial complex seizures, which we do not concede, any success she may have achieved was not because she had partial complex seizures, but in spite of them.ViOSe 16.4
Some have claimed that the great Russian author Fyodor Dostoevsky profited from having seizures. If he did, it was only because he was able to portray some of the characters in his novels as having seizures, and not because of anything he was able to accomplish as a direct result of his epileptic seizures.ViOSe 17.1