Chances are, yes! |
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If everyone on the planet, save one, believed something, but the one other did not, would he be "insane" or "illogical"? |
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"There are people who say there is no God, but what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views." ~Albert Einstein
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Chances are, yes! |
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Well, sanity depends on society as it is a subset of the concept health which can be defined in various ways. |
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As far as sanity goes, no one quite fits the bill there. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
Taking one example, there are literally billions of religious people in the world who consider themselves sane, whereas I find it incomprehensive as to how people can beleive such things. As a result I think I'm the sanest person on Earth but I'm a minority... so really either we are all sane or all insane; unless someone is truely insane like kept in a madhouse or something. |
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Plato's Cave is relavant to this topic |
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I once heard a parable about King and his faithful adviser. The adviser warns him that next year the wheat crop will be diseased, and all who eat from it will become crazy. He tells the king that if they begin now they can save up wheat for the royal families for next year. The men realize that either they eat of the crop and become mad as well – or – they don’t eat of it. But if they are sane and everyone else is mad, it will appear as if they are the ones who are mad! This feels a little bit like fear as it drives our society – that we’re catching this fear from what we eat, what we take in, or imbibe, as we go through each day. |
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Wow that's excellent. Perfect way to explain society. People know certain paths are insane but walk them anyway for fear their sanity will ostracize them. |
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Everything works out in the end, sometimes even badly.
I just posted this in a similar thread, but found it more pertinently placed here. If you already read it, then simply pass over it. |
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From the grand perspective of things, it's quite simple: The majority are trying to escape acceptance and realization of the different facets of themselves. Like dream characters continually denying they are all equally inter-connected subconscious parts of the dream when you go lucid and attempt to inform them. At least, I'm being forthright in the fact that by choosing this finite shell to occupy my blip in infinity, I too, am escaping in some sense of the word. However, I'm not justifying anything. I just think every individual is just as perverse as the next person. Some are just better at concealing it, or creating the many barriers of social acceptance into fooling themselves into thinking they aren't. |
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Last edited by Cyclic13; 12-03-2007 at 11:27 AM.
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"These paradoxical perceptions of our holonic higher mind are but finite fleeting constructs of the infinite ties that bind." -ME
That doesn't really answer my question. you say that we are all escaping acceptance of the fact that we are " ...dream characters [that] are all equally inter-connected subconscious parts of the dream..." but the majority does not believe this to be true, and it is by no means a self evident capital T Truth that we are all denying. The majority does not even consider what you claim we are trying to escape from as reality, and so are not actually trying to escape from anything. |
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The ability to happily respond to any adversity is the divine.
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Couldn't be f'd reading these posts coz I need to LD soon. But yes, crazy is majority rules. |
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Last edited by tommo; 12-03-2007 at 02:02 PM.
You will notice that SolSkye is making perfect use of the unfalsifiable denial=true argument. You can still disagree with what he is saying and it still proves him right. There is no sense in arguing it because denying it also shows his argument to be true. However, the fact that he has constructed it as such, proves it is false. |
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It's not quite like saying Santa Claus exists because any rational mind would know, he doesn't. However, if you were to systematically go back through the lineage of this universe you could trace an invisible line back between everyone and everything inter-connecting them. |
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The Art of War <---> Videos
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"These paradoxical perceptions of our holonic higher mind are but finite fleeting constructs of the infinite ties that bind." -ME
Saint Nicholas was a Bishop of Myra during the third century. He is the patron saint of sailors, merchants, archers, children, and students in Greece, Belgium, Bulgaria, Georgia, Russia, the Republic of Macedonia, Slovakia, Serbia and Montenegro and he most definitely exists both in a physical sense and in a metaphysical sense in the same way that politics, philosophy, love, hate, greed, and altruism exist. |
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The ability to happily respond to any adversity is the divine.
Dream Journal Shaman Apprentice Chronicles
Ok, I walked right into that one. I meant it means he clearly doesn't exist as we portray him as this timeless image that delivers gifts every year. |
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The Art of War <---> Videos
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"These paradoxical perceptions of our holonic higher mind are but finite fleeting constructs of the infinite ties that bind." -ME
HAHA, I just read this thread and as soon as I saw divergent I instantly thought of the same movie as you lol! Then I see you made a song from that. I will listen to it tomorrow coz' I don't have my headphones here right now. |
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I'm not a schizophrenic, at least I hope I'm not. I'm what you would call eccentric. |
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The Art of War <---> Videos
Remember: be open to anything, but question everything
"These paradoxical perceptions of our holonic higher mind are but finite fleeting constructs of the infinite ties that bind." -ME
Oh woops it was O'nus that said that lol |
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