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Showing posts with label insane. Show all posts
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Sunday, February 22, 2009
The World is Insane
The world is insane. All of you. And I can prove it.
Now you see anyone can argue that they are perfectly sane and you can also argue that insane people think that they're sane. But then if you think you're insane you must be sane. So therefore insanity is from a different point of view. That is flawed (how do you know the person defining sanity is sane? They think they're sane but like I said, that's a symptom of insanity) and not my arguement at all.
Now it all depends on how you define insanity. Now if you define it as something that is beyond normal to the extremes then congratulations! We've got the basis for my arguement. (No I'm not saying that if you like getting weird looks is the reason why you're insane.) OK you see what is "normal" is a subjective concept and is constantly changing so it's hard to define at any given point in time. Because this is so unreliable as somewhere to stand or put as a base for an arguement we have to find some given definites. What is definite about everything in the world? What do we all share as a complete and total definite throughout all of time? The core scientific principles about biology that's what. We may evolve and change as the millenia progress and the very earth itself terraforms into an alien landscape but there will always be the basic principles of life: Eat, Drink, Mate. This is all animals do. We survive. Now, because we've determined that the bare necessities of survival are the only universally normal traits amongst humans (let alone any other animal) we can then argue that any action outside of these parameters are not normal at all. Some of our actions lead to our survival but are ultimately superficial. OK for example: You drive around a car. Sure it gets you places (even to get food) but if you tried hunting in it then you'd scare away your prey. And the only reason why you don't hunt in a car is because someone else has made a farm far far away from you that grows a bunch of food... far away from you. You think a car is convenience when really it's only convenient because you made something more complicated. Plus, cars kill people and destroy the environment and therefore are detrimental to the species. Survival has paradoxically been hindered and helped by this invention. Now let's move onto something else. Language. It's nice, we get to talk to each other in such an infinitely complex manner with almost endless words that none of us will ever completely know or understand and just ignore spelling completely. When you think about it... we don't need it to survive. All it does is give us fun or give us pain. People can live in complete silence and don't need communication to survive and therefore as a species it's a completely abnormal trait.
So building cities, driving cars and even talking or coming up with multiple philosophies are completely abnormal ideas which have no real benefit to an animal. The very fact that I can explain this to you or the fact that you understand it is complete madness. Therefore the world is completely and utterly insane because we've turned hunting and gathering into fine art, skyscrapers and quantum physics.
Of course that's from a completely non-religious point of view as to why the entire world is insane. (So being scientific and saying that religion is insane is not really any improvement at all.) So therefore the only sane course of action is to become religious because at least then from your point of view you can argue that you're completely (with a few exceptions) sane. Unless of course you're a scientologist in which case you're the crazy of the crazy. Now it get's a bit more dificult to argue from a religious point of view that everyone is crazy but it's very very easy to argue that everyone besides you is crazy. Which... is unfortunately how terrorists can do what they do. But like I said... they're completely bonkers so we don't care about their false reasons just the fact that they're making a lot of mess.
OK I argued that we're all crazy on the arguement that anything completely out of the norm is madness. Now let's see if I can try to argue that we're all crazy on the arguement that the majority of thought is sanity instead. (The "normal" way to define insanity) It's quite simple. Now replace the idea of what's fundamentally normal as a species with what you consider fundamentally normal in a culture or society. Now go to a country on the other side of the world and compare the two. Cultures will vary wildly and vastly amongst continents let alone the entire world so it's quite hard to find what is the majority of thinking on a worldwide scale. There isn't a majority at all because no culture encompasses over %50 of the population and even the largest populated countries in the world have a massive amount of subcultures and different ideas within itself. Let's leave that alone for a bit and go to Germany 1939 for example. (GODWIN'S LAW!) OK if you're a nazi and you see someone beating up a Jew this seems like a perfectly acceptable idea to you because that's the majority of what the country (that isn't in prison) thinks is right. Now if you're a Jew/non-german/someone from today then you'd think this was completely unnaceptable and fail to comprehend how they could think that a Jew is not even human. We think that they're intolerant and uneducated but they thought the same thing about previous cultures. So we're back to the fact that nothing is constant in society. One day our beliefs as to what is right or even socially acceptable will one day become outdated, then archaic. You cannot say that you're right because you know that you will inevitably be proven wrong. Scientific theories seemed incredibly sound but have been disproven by something that was in turn disproven itself. The only difference is one day we will reach a point where we have proven everything we can whereas society will never find somewhere to stop. So there is no one single line of thought or general idea of thinking that you can rely upon to put as a basis for sanity and so comparing you to someone from 50 or 100 or 1000 years ago/from now you are as insane to them as they are to you. Insanity is a relative concept and relatively speaking we're all one fry short of a happy meal.
Goob goob ba dooba woop.
I hope you've enjoyed me explaining to you why we're ALL (including me) completely insane. Thankfully some are just more insane than others. Now let's all go drool over some of those things we call bricks that have been made by the magic of fire. Then we can all put lampshades on our heads and throw pens at people in the street.
P.S. Of course if you just try to argue that insanity is merely a dysfunction in the brains ability to process due to a chemical inbalance or misfiring neurons that make you see things that aren't there then you can argue that the world is indeed quite sane. But then some psychological disorders would have to be excluded from the category of insanity.
Now you see anyone can argue that they are perfectly sane and you can also argue that insane people think that they're sane. But then if you think you're insane you must be sane. So therefore insanity is from a different point of view. That is flawed (how do you know the person defining sanity is sane? They think they're sane but like I said, that's a symptom of insanity) and not my arguement at all.
Now it all depends on how you define insanity. Now if you define it as something that is beyond normal to the extremes then congratulations! We've got the basis for my arguement. (No I'm not saying that if you like getting weird looks is the reason why you're insane.) OK you see what is "normal" is a subjective concept and is constantly changing so it's hard to define at any given point in time. Because this is so unreliable as somewhere to stand or put as a base for an arguement we have to find some given definites. What is definite about everything in the world? What do we all share as a complete and total definite throughout all of time? The core scientific principles about biology that's what. We may evolve and change as the millenia progress and the very earth itself terraforms into an alien landscape but there will always be the basic principles of life: Eat, Drink, Mate. This is all animals do. We survive. Now, because we've determined that the bare necessities of survival are the only universally normal traits amongst humans (let alone any other animal) we can then argue that any action outside of these parameters are not normal at all. Some of our actions lead to our survival but are ultimately superficial. OK for example: You drive around a car. Sure it gets you places (even to get food) but if you tried hunting in it then you'd scare away your prey. And the only reason why you don't hunt in a car is because someone else has made a farm far far away from you that grows a bunch of food... far away from you. You think a car is convenience when really it's only convenient because you made something more complicated. Plus, cars kill people and destroy the environment and therefore are detrimental to the species. Survival has paradoxically been hindered and helped by this invention. Now let's move onto something else. Language. It's nice, we get to talk to each other in such an infinitely complex manner with almost endless words that none of us will ever completely know or understand and just ignore spelling completely. When you think about it... we don't need it to survive. All it does is give us fun or give us pain. People can live in complete silence and don't need communication to survive and therefore as a species it's a completely abnormal trait.
So building cities, driving cars and even talking or coming up with multiple philosophies are completely abnormal ideas which have no real benefit to an animal. The very fact that I can explain this to you or the fact that you understand it is complete madness. Therefore the world is completely and utterly insane because we've turned hunting and gathering into fine art, skyscrapers and quantum physics.
Of course that's from a completely non-religious point of view as to why the entire world is insane. (So being scientific and saying that religion is insane is not really any improvement at all.) So therefore the only sane course of action is to become religious because at least then from your point of view you can argue that you're completely (with a few exceptions) sane. Unless of course you're a scientologist in which case you're the crazy of the crazy. Now it get's a bit more dificult to argue from a religious point of view that everyone is crazy but it's very very easy to argue that everyone besides you is crazy. Which... is unfortunately how terrorists can do what they do. But like I said... they're completely bonkers so we don't care about their false reasons just the fact that they're making a lot of mess.
OK I argued that we're all crazy on the arguement that anything completely out of the norm is madness. Now let's see if I can try to argue that we're all crazy on the arguement that the majority of thought is sanity instead. (The "normal" way to define insanity) It's quite simple. Now replace the idea of what's fundamentally normal as a species with what you consider fundamentally normal in a culture or society. Now go to a country on the other side of the world and compare the two. Cultures will vary wildly and vastly amongst continents let alone the entire world so it's quite hard to find what is the majority of thinking on a worldwide scale. There isn't a majority at all because no culture encompasses over %50 of the population and even the largest populated countries in the world have a massive amount of subcultures and different ideas within itself. Let's leave that alone for a bit and go to Germany 1939 for example. (GODWIN'S LAW!) OK if you're a nazi and you see someone beating up a Jew this seems like a perfectly acceptable idea to you because that's the majority of what the country (that isn't in prison) thinks is right. Now if you're a Jew/non-german/someone from today then you'd think this was completely unnaceptable and fail to comprehend how they could think that a Jew is not even human. We think that they're intolerant and uneducated but they thought the same thing about previous cultures. So we're back to the fact that nothing is constant in society. One day our beliefs as to what is right or even socially acceptable will one day become outdated, then archaic. You cannot say that you're right because you know that you will inevitably be proven wrong. Scientific theories seemed incredibly sound but have been disproven by something that was in turn disproven itself. The only difference is one day we will reach a point where we have proven everything we can whereas society will never find somewhere to stop. So there is no one single line of thought or general idea of thinking that you can rely upon to put as a basis for sanity and so comparing you to someone from 50 or 100 or 1000 years ago/from now you are as insane to them as they are to you. Insanity is a relative concept and relatively speaking we're all one fry short of a happy meal.
Goob goob ba dooba woop.
I hope you've enjoyed me explaining to you why we're ALL (including me) completely insane. Thankfully some are just more insane than others. Now let's all go drool over some of those things we call bricks that have been made by the magic of fire. Then we can all put lampshades on our heads and throw pens at people in the street.
P.S. Of course if you just try to argue that insanity is merely a dysfunction in the brains ability to process due to a chemical inbalance or misfiring neurons that make you see things that aren't there then you can argue that the world is indeed quite sane. But then some psychological disorders would have to be excluded from the category of insanity.
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Eulogy
What would one say if they were to write their own eulogy? The answer: a lot less than than anyone else... "I was a person... I didn't achieve anything and now I can't... I suck, I'm a loser and I'm sorry I caused you all pain from dying I guess my existence was a bad thing..." if you're reading this and thinking "Yep that's about right" then you my friend ARE SO VERY WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! There is a reason why we don't write our own eulogies and it's not just because we're dead! It's because when we see a mirror we see less then your friend sees looking at you... the world can be so very cruel but we are the cruelest of them all to ourselves... if you think you suck your opinion is wrong... and in the reverse for the vain and selfish: if you think you are the greatest thing around your opinion is incredibly wrong... the vain are evil and pathetic and those who view themselves as pathetic are sometimes very wonderful people :)
Oh how cruel the world would be if it would only judge itself...
Well eulogies may seem overly done and they go on about how nice people are and how wonderful they were during life and you think "OK I knew that person they weren't really that great..." then think that the same will happen with you and no one will actually care and it's just common courtesy to show up to someones funeral... you have to be one cold son of a hobo to not go to a friends funeral. Well once again these sort of people are WRONG! OK so far their only failing seems to be they can't realise their own potential.... or not even potential... they don't realise what they do and the things they do and jsut how great they really are sometimes. It's really sad because I have this certain need to help people (OK let's hope this doesn't border on personal information here or I start to break my own rules as stated in the first blog entry...) and I don't feel like I've done or achieved anything unless I help others feel good about themselves... kinda annoying if you want to take over the world... because you have to do it with mild nagging but then going "Sorry am I annoying you? I'll stop.... but you know, what could I do to make you give in though? In a nice way though...." so I instinctively find people who are... "Broken" because they have enough problems with them to make them feel better every now and then when I try to solve these problems... sometimes I succeed (if only temporarily) and somtimes I fail...
... it's very annoying when I fail... because I have to live with knowing that the person I was trying to make feel better is still broken.... I really wish some people would just open their eyes, look in the mirror and think "Hey... I actually look good..." or write and essay and go "Hey... I actually am proud of what I wrote" or look at two marks, one AMASINGLY GOOD and one that wasn't and go "Yay! I did really well in one assessment!" instead of focusing completely on the worse mark... if only that person listened to the people around them trying to reassure them they'd feel so much better... it's just annoying looking at a person and seeing that they are so absorbed in their own little delusions that they are worthless that nothing you say can help them feel good about anything.... I feel sad because they're sad... and now I sound kinda vain "I know YOU have a problem but please stop having it! You're making ME sad now!" but everything can be twisted to be either good or bad... I have proved this with my latest media project... I took my archrival, documented him making his media project (It was on reality TV) and he is pretty much #1 TOP student for the year in media, absolutely brilliant and when he gets and assignment he goes all out and hands in 20 pages of work when everyone else does 2-5.... then I made him and his group, look abusive, violent and dysfunctional.... now if you can edit footage to make someone look completely different to who they are then surely someone with the paranoid delusion that no one cares can twist things around them to make it all look negative...
You're not perfect... the world's not perfect....
... give up?
.... accept this and realise you did a pretty darn good job given the fact no one can be perfect?
Which one do you choose? If you chose the first one then you get a free hug *Hug* OK feel better now? If not... I am not letting you go until you do... the world cares a lot more about those who care nothing about themselves then you would think....
Eulogy:
A brilliant person, kind, caring, loving, self loathing and deluded into thinking they weren't worth anything... if they looked back on their lives they'd see nothing but failure... But when everyone else looks back on that persons life we see non-stop laughs. We see someone who held themselves back but still managed to do some pretty decent things with their life... they might have raised kids, they might have written a book, they might have done so much but never really appreciated it. We did...
If they could see how dearly they will be missed... they'd have realised just what they meant to us all :)
...Hoorah for the broken....
--Dedicated 15 Nov 2008 to a wonderful person :) May mirrors one day be your friend
Oh how cruel the world would be if it would only judge itself...
Well eulogies may seem overly done and they go on about how nice people are and how wonderful they were during life and you think "OK I knew that person they weren't really that great..." then think that the same will happen with you and no one will actually care and it's just common courtesy to show up to someones funeral... you have to be one cold son of a hobo to not go to a friends funeral. Well once again these sort of people are WRONG! OK so far their only failing seems to be they can't realise their own potential.... or not even potential... they don't realise what they do and the things they do and jsut how great they really are sometimes. It's really sad because I have this certain need to help people (OK let's hope this doesn't border on personal information here or I start to break my own rules as stated in the first blog entry...) and I don't feel like I've done or achieved anything unless I help others feel good about themselves... kinda annoying if you want to take over the world... because you have to do it with mild nagging but then going "Sorry am I annoying you? I'll stop.... but you know, what could I do to make you give in though? In a nice way though...." so I instinctively find people who are... "Broken" because they have enough problems with them to make them feel better every now and then when I try to solve these problems... sometimes I succeed (if only temporarily) and somtimes I fail...
... it's very annoying when I fail... because I have to live with knowing that the person I was trying to make feel better is still broken.... I really wish some people would just open their eyes, look in the mirror and think "Hey... I actually look good..." or write and essay and go "Hey... I actually am proud of what I wrote" or look at two marks, one AMASINGLY GOOD and one that wasn't and go "Yay! I did really well in one assessment!" instead of focusing completely on the worse mark... if only that person listened to the people around them trying to reassure them they'd feel so much better... it's just annoying looking at a person and seeing that they are so absorbed in their own little delusions that they are worthless that nothing you say can help them feel good about anything.... I feel sad because they're sad... and now I sound kinda vain "I know YOU have a problem but please stop having it! You're making ME sad now!" but everything can be twisted to be either good or bad... I have proved this with my latest media project... I took my archrival, documented him making his media project (It was on reality TV) and he is pretty much #1 TOP student for the year in media, absolutely brilliant and when he gets and assignment he goes all out and hands in 20 pages of work when everyone else does 2-5.... then I made him and his group, look abusive, violent and dysfunctional.... now if you can edit footage to make someone look completely different to who they are then surely someone with the paranoid delusion that no one cares can twist things around them to make it all look negative...
You're not perfect... the world's not perfect....
... give up?
.... accept this and realise you did a pretty darn good job given the fact no one can be perfect?
Which one do you choose? If you chose the first one then you get a free hug *Hug* OK feel better now? If not... I am not letting you go until you do... the world cares a lot more about those who care nothing about themselves then you would think....
Eulogy:
A brilliant person, kind, caring, loving, self loathing and deluded into thinking they weren't worth anything... if they looked back on their lives they'd see nothing but failure... But when everyone else looks back on that persons life we see non-stop laughs. We see someone who held themselves back but still managed to do some pretty decent things with their life... they might have raised kids, they might have written a book, they might have done so much but never really appreciated it. We did...
If they could see how dearly they will be missed... they'd have realised just what they meant to us all :)
...Hoorah for the broken....
--Dedicated 15 Nov 2008 to a wonderful person :) May mirrors one day be your friend
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