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mikebart101
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Is insanity sane?
#7442403 - 09/23/07 12:39 AM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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3 questions...
1.) "if you had a split personality; if you could associate with sanity and insanity at the same time, which personality would you choose;insanity?"
2>) "If you truly knew what i was talking about, would you cry at your best friends wedding/funeral; or....would you laugh."
3.) "If you know what you are talking about, why are you afraid to be God.?"
-------------------- So we finish the eighteenth and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know." And he says, "Oh, uh, there won't be any money, but when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness." So I got that goin' for me, which is nice.
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Icelander
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Wrong forum.
The insanity forum is to your left.
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finally a thread *I* can relate to
question first: insainity FTW!
number two: laughter is key
and in the end: pfft...what makes you think I'm afraid
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One quick question.....
If you were insane, would you be able to realize, recognize, and know it....?
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MushroomTrip
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Re: Is insanity sane? [Re: PhanTomCat]
#7444074 - 09/23/07 01:14 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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I can 
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PhanTomCat
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The people that call themselves "insane" are posers.... 
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Re: Is insanity sane? [Re: PhanTomCat]
#7444098 - 09/23/07 01:21 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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that's not what my doctors say
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Re: Is insanity sane? [Re: PhanTomCat]
#7444100 - 09/23/07 01:21 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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No no no! I refuse to take this conversation any further if you don't believe me!
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PhanTomCat
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OK, OK, you can both be insane for the sake of conversation....
But, only on the grounds that I get to be a Pimp....

>^;;^<
-------------------- I'll be your midnight French Fry.... "The most important things in life that are often ignored, are the things that one cannot see...." >^;;^<
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MushroomTrip
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Re: Is insanity sane? [Re: PhanTomCat]
#7444171 - 09/23/07 01:43 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Pimp or assistant pimp?
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Re: Is insanity sane? [Re: Muppet]
#7444195 - 09/23/07 01:52 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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yeah...I'd say this thread is about two seconds away from pube status at this point
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stellar renegade
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Quote:
mikebart101 said: If you truly knew what i was talking about,
Well I don't, so there.
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 "To believe in the wide-awake real, through all the stupefying, enervating, distorting dream: to will to wake, when the very being seems athirst for godless repose: these are the broken steps up to the high fields where repose is but a form of strength, strength but a form of joy, joy but a form of love." -George MacDonald
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Either or all the time every time forever right now.
Both always.
Its not a man, man. At least not yet, right?? Left. For good??
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I'm certainly out there, but not quite so much that I can't function (mostly) within normal society. Sometimes. Most of the time. Kinda.
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Re: Is insanity sane? [Re: Kinematics]
#7444509 - 09/23/07 03:41 PM (16 years, 4 months ago) |
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Normal?? Dang. Thing is beyond overwhelmingly strange, for sure, already. Is there an on-ramp to non-normal society somewhere, where?? Up to speed, blinker, merge.
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MushroomTrip
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Metal illness and sanity are socially defined. Those who differ from the masses are mostly considered to be insane. Can someone who is labeled as insane have great skills at maneuvering life, feeling good about life, experience lots of understanding, compassion as well as the ability to make constructive changes around them? The answer is yes. Are those people really mentally ill? The answer is no in my opinion.
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MushroomTrip said: Metal illness and sanity are socially defined. Those who differ from the masses are mostly considered to be insane. Can someone who is labeled as insane have great skills at maneuvering life, feeling good about life, experience lots of understanding, compassion as well as the ability to make constructive changes around them? The answer is yes. Are those people really mentally ill? The answer is no in my opinion.
I would agree that it is often defined that way, although society normally determines someone as actually mentally ill when it impedes the quality of their daily living to a serious degree. Of course, a generalization about that kind of thing is hard to make.
But yeah, I totally understand what you're saying. I was labeled crazy for a long time simply because I didn't believe like the status quo. 
Oh, well. Guess that's what you get when you become a revolutionary. 
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Metal illness
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 "To believe in the wide-awake real, through all the stupefying, enervating, distorting dream: to will to wake, when the very being seems athirst for godless repose: these are the broken steps up to the high fields where repose is but a form of strength, strength but a form of joy, joy but a form of love." -George MacDonald
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MushroomTrip
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And I would agree with you if I had the prove that the society itself is sane. Until now, it shows no signs that it would be. So how can an unhealthy society determine what's healthy? Our minds are being evaluated, mostly, by sad people. So it's only natural to figure that, in order to fulfill their sanity standards, we have to have a certain degree of sadness (worrying about life) as well. How many times have you heard someone tell you "it's ok to feel sad". Well it's NOT ok to feels sad, it's not ok to encourage, in any way, someone to feel sad. In fact, most problems come exactly from this particular issue. If we let ourselves being driven into "insanity" by those who lack the ability to feel animated, alive, it means that we're facing the risk of becoming living corpses.
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Well see, the issue you're talking about isn't even what I was referencing when I said "impedes the quality of their daily living to a serious degree". I'm talking about those who can't even lift their fork to eat because of all the crazy thoughts running through their heads. That's certainly not healthy and concerns a different issue.
As far as being sad or whatever, I don't think it's a bad thing to be sad, but it's unhealthy to be depressed. There's a difference between the two, IMO.
I don't think I ever remember seeing someone overwhelmingly happy being labeled as insane, though.
-------------------- "I threw a small stone down at the reflection of my image in the water, and it altogether disappeared. I burst as it shattered through me, like a bullet through a bottle... and I'm expected to believe that any of this is real!" -mewithoutYou
 "To believe in the wide-awake real, through all the stupefying, enervating, distorting dream: to will to wake, when the very being seems athirst for godless repose: these are the broken steps up to the high fields where repose is but a form of strength, strength but a form of joy, joy but a form of love." -George MacDonald
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