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Re: Defining Sanity [Re: Bernackums]
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Bernackums said:
learningtofly said:
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Bernackums said: to technically be insane one must believe they are in fact sane.


huh?


Someone who thinks they are insane is not insane.


That's the catch. Catch-22.


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Re: Defining Sanity [Re: Kickle]
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Insanity is walking around a room without doors or windows Smoking an ounce of crack perpetually while trying to be something you're not blindfolded with a a comppund fracture in your right leg while forgetting to pay your dealer.

As long as you can feel the blindfold, you are not too far gone.

Also, some people wear blindfolds for other reasons, like going to sleep.

(inspired by RGV's post)


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Re: Defining Sanity [Re: redgreenvines]
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is the concept of unmerited favor insane?


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Unmerited, you mean no selfish motives whatsoever, yes?


Whether or not selfishness is involved.

Can life be unfair?

Speaking of unmerited favor, what about beauty being in the eye of the beholder? I'm told there is no accounting for taste.

If only tangible things can be called rational, are intangible things insane?

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Re: Defining Sanity *DELETED* [Re: durian_2008]
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Re: Defining Sanity [Re: redgreenvines]
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Thanks for that RGV, in particular

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suppleness of mind and instability are not always distinguishable, so a key to mental health or sanity, can appear as a symptom of insanity, and the poetry of dreams can be converted to the curses of diagnosis.

in this way we live in a mad world. we have to get used to it.


You always provide an interesting perspective.


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Why shouldn't the truth be stranger than fiction?
Fiction, after all, has to make sense. -- Mark Twain

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Re: Defining Sanity [Re: Kickle]
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The words of the foolish and the words of the wise, aren't far apart in discordian eyes...

Some excerpts from an Interview with Malaclypse the Younger by THE GREATER METROPOLITAN YORBA LINDA HERALD-NEWS-SUN-TRIBUNE-JOURNAL-DISPATCH-POST AND SAN FRANCISCO DISCORDIAN SOCIETY CABAL BULLETIN AND INTERGALACTIC REPORT & POPE POOP

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GREATER POOP: Are you really serious or what?
MAL-2: Sometimes I take humor seriously. Sometimes I take seriousness humorously. Either way it is irrelevant.

GP: Maybe you are just crazy.
M2: Indeed! But do not reject these teaching as false because I am crazy. The reason that I am crazy is because they are true.

GP: Is Eris true?
M2: Everything is true.
GP: Even false things?
M2: Even false things are true.
GP: How can that be?
M2: I don't know man, I didn't do it.

GP: Why do you deal with so many negatives?
M2: To dissolve them.
GP: Will you develop that point?
M2: No.

GP: Is there an essential meaning behind POEE?
M2: There is a Zen Story about a student who asked a Master to explain the meaning of Buddhism. The Master's reply was "Three pounds of flax."
GP: Is that the answer to my question?
M2: No, of course not. That is just illustrative. The answer to your question is FIVE TONS OF FLAX!


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Re: Defining Sanity [Re: Lakefingers]
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Lakefingers said:
The intangible (in the limited imaginations of the herd) often designates the horizon of insanity


Is there something more, and can it be useful?

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Re: Defining Sanity [Re: Lakefingers]
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For me, grace represents the ever-growing process, which is life, not a tear in my ability to think straight.

Is there no favor, no advantage, which lends itself to the ongoing expression of nature?

If so, how can anything "unfair" be attributed to cause and effect?

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Re: Defining Sanity [Re: Lakefingers]
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I reckon nearly every person in the world wishes they could work 38 hours a week. Something to think about :smile:


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                                                part of the world belongs to me
You know... I'm not a blind man
                                                    but truth is the hardest thing to see

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