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Society and how it thinks of Insanity
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Dikont5
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Society and how it thinks of Insanity
Why do most people I know think I'm insane? I mean really just define normal. Then you can define insanity. People often look at my actions and think I'm insane. Honestly It pisses me the fuck off. School often treats people that think differently as insane. This causes extroverted thinking which limits individualism to the point where if you think DIFFERENTLY THAN OTHER FUCKING PEOPLE YOU ARE CONSIDERED INSANE.
SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT THE FUCK DEFINES NORMAL? Society in America often thinks that the individual is insane most of the time. What if it was the society that caused the person to start school shootings? People live in ideas that shun a individual for thinking differently or having different traits. Insanity happens to everyone so while you fucktards are avoiding me secretly I'm laughing while society shuns you for being "insane".
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Gwedin
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Insane != crazy/weird.
Something people get wrong a shit load. The former is bad, the latter is good because everyone will be crazy or weird to soem extent.
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darkmind15
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inasnity is doing somthing over and over expecting another result
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Ky
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Insanity is no laughing matter; our mental health system is terrible, and there are real lunatics out there, just as there are mentally tormented individuals who need help for their own sake as well.
To be insane is not the same as to be weird, or crazy, as some have said. People who think differently are not insane; people who act so differently that they explicitly harm other people are. There's a significant difference, and I believe that most people understand this to some degree.
What pisses me off is not how people see insanity, but normality. There is no normal. No one is completely average. Conformity will not make you a better person no matter how hard you or others believe it, and it won't even make you any more "normal" than messed up.
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Cianna200
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I can define normal as having nothing biologically damaging about it and insane/ behaving, thinking or speaking in a way that shows incredibly low wisdom and mental stability
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brainiac3397
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People call me insane.
I just laugh and then seriously cast a spell on them. They'll never know what hit em when I finally master the firebolt. I tried summoning a demon but all I got was a cloud of powder.
Levitation didn't work either.
MUST PRACTICE MY MAGICK!
Course the real "insane" folk are never properly handled. Society is too busy calling "freaks" insane/weird to be able to properly distinguish real insane from "luddite misanthropic hedonist"
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NiteRaidah
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It's easier for some folks - school as a HUGE example of this - to simply follow and support the status quo and sneer at anything that's out of the ordinary. Because heaven forbid anything outside their little bubbles comes in and starts to threaten everyone with their "differences". Sigh.
"All these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."
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Gwedin
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(06-10-2014 04:05 AM)darkmind15 Wrote: inasnity is doing somthing over and over expecting another result
Far Cry 3 quote.
You sir get an internet for remembering it.
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That isn't from far cry 3, far cry stole it from someone else.. that saying has been around for ages :P
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Gwedin
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I knew that >.<
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KFC Nyan Cat
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We need to become a society that values everyone that doesn't commit heinous crimes.
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Dikont5
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Thanks, everyone for your comments. I was just in a bad mood that day, but people should stop making generalizations of people without knowing how their minds work. With all the recent school shootings I believe that school caused the troubled individual to snap and cause the events to happen.
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brainiac3397
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I'm generalized all the time.
I just laugh at those pathetic humans who are incapable of complex thinking. Then I write a million page manifesto in mirror-reverse...in latin...in a random nonsensical fashion.
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