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Why are people so ignorant?
A Life story and certain question
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Yahadreas
YHDRS  Usergroup: Sponsors Joined: Mar 02, 2006 Location: Awesometown Total Topics: 16 Total Posts: 2630 |
 #11
ragus wrote: Yahadreas wrote "Those who are enjoying life are doing everything right; those who aren't need to start.". Enjoy, but you don't have to do everything right. By "those who are enjoying life are doing everything right", I meant to make a very general half-serious claim that all that matters is that one is enjoying life. Not that those who enjoy life then do everything right. Unless I'm misunderstanding your reply? Squiloople - Just have fun! |
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Arkady
Tenured Poster  Usergroup: Members Joined: Jul 29, 2009 Total Topics: 24 Total Posts: 1497 |
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Maxvilly wrote: During 2004, I suffered a mental breakdown and was taken for mentalcare and ever since then, the people around me threat me like I am some 12 year old brown nose kid. If your Avatar is your picture, you seem pretty young. What drove you to a nervous breakdown? "A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence." -David Hume |
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ragus
Tenured Poster  Usergroup: Members Joined: Apr 23, 2006 Total Topics: 16 Total Posts: 2541 |
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Yahadreas wrote By "those who are enjoying life are doing everything right", I meant to make a very general half-serious claim that all that matters is that one is enjoying life. Not that those who enjoy life then do everything right. I misunderstood your post to mean that those who enjoy life do so because they do everything right. Others could make the same blunder. My point was about everything and not about whether enjoyment was a function of doing things right (or vv). Our awareness of truth and falsehood gives us the capacity, but not the reason, to lie. |
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Inferi
Philosophical Genius  Usergroup: Members Joined: Aug 25, 2009 Total Topics: 2 Total Posts: 3 |
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Maxvily, i can understand totally what you are going through, you think that because you were treared for mental illness, people have "branded" you mentally ill, however they think that mentally ill means the illness they get shown by the media, not the actual mental illness. I know that you are fed up of being treated like an idiot, and want to communicate with people on a "normal" level. I respect you for dealing with it, because it must be incredibly frustrating to be treated like that. Inferi - Underworld in Latin |
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nightday
Initiate Usergroup: Members Joined: Jun 16, 2009 Total Topics: 1 Total Posts: 17 |
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I would not be too hard on doctors and mental health workers. Most of them do a good job under tricky and difficult situations and circumstances. Edited by nightday on Aug 26, 2009 - 7:15 AM |
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Cadrache
Tenured Poster Usergroup: Members Joined: Dec 09, 2006 Location: AB, Canada Total Topics: 107 Total Posts: 3080 |
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It's hard for people to realize that by accepting the fact that you are mentally unstable they are accepting your existance as an individual. Then they go and state 'we are going to alter who you are.'.... thus sending the message that the acceptence of who I am is not actual acknowledgement of being. I can't tell you that yes, you will be better off or not by taking those recommended pills. I can only point out that there are many, many kinds of society within the larger whole. Individuals who step from one form of society to another do not always notice they do so. Words the wiser become the name you do not know. - Some guy with a surname Blanchard. _____________________________________________ For Wit to happen; one must first play in shadows. |
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BitterCrank
Tenured Poster  Usergroup: Members Joined: Mar 01, 2008 Location: Minneapolis Total Topics: 27 Total Posts: 1230
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Edit: Modern telephones are here to brainwash us? Did no one else catch that? Ikrark, it should be obvious even to you that telephones and brainwashing go together. The very existence of cell phones and the uses to which they are put (forcing everyone to listen to their mindless drivel on the bus, the train, the street, EVERYWHERE) is a MASTERPIECE of brainwashing by the phone companies. Work, strive, and persevere! You are all victims of a monstrous hoax. --New Yorker cartoon-- |
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unenlightened
modern poster  Usergroup: Administrators Joined: Aug 10, 2007 Location: Wales Total Topics: 42 Total Posts: 4515
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Most people are very frightened of anyone who is different, and most especially of anyone who thinks diferently. This is because they are themselves rather unstable, and suseptible to the influence of another's thinking, which they are powerless to resist. Anyone who is different threatens to overwhelm them. In this way, insanity is highly infectious, as a glance at history shows. They don't, in particular, like to be made aware of their vulnerability by those who are a little more awake to the situation. ...most of our actions are the result of the past, or according to a future ideal. That's not action, that is just conformity. J Krishnamurti "Philosophy, to the Philistine, is an evolutionary process, watched over by some sort of brisk dynamic Providence, and culminating in the supreme insight of modern thought." John Cowper Powys |
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ragus
Tenured Poster Usergroup: Members Joined: Apr 23, 2006 Total Topics: 16 Total Posts: 2541 |
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unenlightened wrote insanity is highly infectious That's a weird thought! Our awareness of truth and falsehood gives us the capacity, but not the reason, to lie. |
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unenlightened
modern poster Usergroup: Administrators Joined: Aug 10, 2007 Location: Wales Total Topics: 42 Total Posts: 4515
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ragus wrote: That's a weird thought! I present in evidence, Germany under Hitler, China under Mao, Rwanda, Cambodia, Britain under Thatcher, to mention just a few of the more obvious recent outbreaks of mass insanity. The human mind is a sheep - or sometimes a lemming. 
...most of our actions are the result of the past, or according to a future ideal. That's not action, that is just conformity. J Krishnamurti "Philosophy, to the Philistine, is an evolutionary process, watched over by some sort of brisk dynamic Providence, and culminating in the supreme insight of modern thought." John Cowper Powys |
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