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    Posted: June 20 2012 at 00:19
I could write a huge essay messing around with what I mean exactly by "crazy" but people would just disagree with it so let's keep this short:

I don't mean batsh*t insane, I just mean that virtually all of us have minor things, that when you look at them objectively, are signs of psychological dysfunction. The less I've assumed that people are rational and make sense, the more accurate my predictions have become.
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If you think about it, it's kind of amazing that we keep ourselves in line so much.We're really just animals that have a conscience somehow.

We have a flurry of emotions, but almost all of us have a desire to connect with others somehow. That's what drives most interaction, whether it's love or sex or friendship or anything, it's a desire for connection or feeling.
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Originally posted by stonebeard stonebeard wrote:

If you think about it, it's kind of amazing that we keep ourselves in line so much.We're really just animals that have a conscience somehow.

We have a flurry of emotions, but almost all of us have a desire to connect with others somehow. That's what drives most interaction, whether it's love or sex or friendship or anything, it's a desire for connection or feeling.


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Of course, we are insane. We can get pretty hung up on little things when there are much, much more important things to hiccup about. "Your life is not the amount of breaths you take; it's the moments that take your breath away", but we don't give a s$%t.
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No. Insanity is subjective, and is judged in perspective to other people. If most people are somewhat like other people in their perception of other people and their social skills and they don't murder anybody for no reason, I guess you could say most people aren't insane.
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I'd say stupid is more like it.
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Man With Hat: An interesting discussion that. Stupidity and mental dysfunction are very hard to tell apart a lot of the time.
 
Like let's say you have a big test tomorrow that you really care about, but you stay up all night partying and sleep in, missing it.
 
Did you do something stupid or something crazy? Does the distinction even matter?
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Is Textbook, (in general) creating too many separate threads for issues that many on PA really couldn't give a discarded fig about? (Though I guess 5 responses to date indicate a semblance of enthusiasm) Why not write that 'huge essay' and actually articulate your ideas for consideration fully, at length and in depth? I know the answer to that last question and so do you.Ermm
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Exithelemming: This is a message board, not the senate floor. Whether you "give a fig" is utterly irrelevant. I start a thread, you start a thread, people reply or they don't, that's it. It's pretty clear your post here is about the nature of the posiitions I take, not that I start threads people might not be interested in. Because that's almost everyone on the forum.
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I don't think people are crazy or stupid generally speaking.

Some people are sociopathic, and others just hapless. But for most of us, we just move through life sometimes making sound judgements and sometimes making bad judgements. Most of us probably learn from the mistakes of those bad judgements. Some don't.

I find it bewildering that most of us seem to maintain a level of functioning sanity, with all the pressures on us to 'be this' and 'do that' and 'think this' For me personally, I could consider it a significant achievement, that I have held it together for 43 years, without harming myself or someone else. I'm pretty thin skinned and over sensitive. I find the world around me quite frightening and threatening.

But to quote a Rush song: 'Folks are basically decent' I do believe that.

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If a majority of people are dysfunctional, then I'm not sure we can keep using that word for it. 
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Points: 10841 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2012 at 09:58
I would rather say that everyone has their own way of living, thinking and speaking... And sometimes people don't understand each other and call each other "crazy".

Oh, and I have my two cents about it: when someone calls other people "crazy" or "stupid", he might be crazy or stupid himself.

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Originally posted by Textbook Textbook wrote:

Exithelemming: This is a message board, not the senate floor. Whether you "give a fig" is utterly irrelevant. I start a thread, you start a thread, people reply or they don't, that's it. It's pretty clear your post here is about the nature of the posiitions I take, not that I start threads people might not be interested in. Because that's almost everyone on the forum.

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6. Unusual; bizarre; singular
10.  Having an unusual, unexpected, or random quality, behavior, result, pattern, etc.



Edited by Slartibartfast - June 20 2012 at 10:35
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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if my family is any clue, then yes. LOL
 
but in all seriousness, pop culture has convinced me that most people have gone insane.
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Reality TV especially.


Edited by Slartibartfast - June 20 2012 at 10:39
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Points: 14169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2012 at 10:47
Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Reality TV especially.
 
yup, scary sh*t. Scary how stupid we are becoming.
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Points: 14693 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 20 2012 at 10:49
Originally posted by Blacksword Blacksword wrote:

...to quote a Rush song: 'Folks are basically decent' I do believe that.


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Personality and psychological disorders and malfunctions and craziness (to put everything here) are not "yes' or "no" things. It's not that you either "have" or "don't have" certain disturbances in your mind or psyche, there are just levels, we all are kind of crazy in degrees. Some people's mental personality, ego, problems are just strong enough to cause serious distress to their lives. 
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Generally, people are not crazy. I know this because I am the one that everyone thinks is weird and crazy.
 
That would mean all the people that think I'm crazy are not crazy, which is most people.
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Everybody has obsessions everybody clings to certain things everybody repeats routines just to keep order and sanity. Everybody. Some just get overwhelmed in all of that. Everybody is potentially crazy. 
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