Originally posted by JS357
"Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world."
R. D. Laing

www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/r/r_d_laing.html

This guy had a contrarian view of psychiatry and psychosis that IMO is worth considering.

We saw a bullet coming, this thing from outer space, and we knew it would miss. I guess the next thing is do be able to do something about it.

Try running after it. 🙂

Originally posted by Kewpie
Some of the statements on his page are interesting:

- Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
- We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
- Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.

Originally posted by Kewpie
Try running after it. 🙂

There are some right fruit-cakes in the forum. Just an observation from my hut.

Originally posted by divegeester
There are some right fruit-cakes in the forum. Just an observation from my hut.

Originally posted by divegeester
There are some right fruit-cakes in the forum. Just an observation from my hut.

Originally posted by apathist
We saw a bullet coming, this thing from outer space, and we knew it would miss. I guess the next thing is do be able to do something about it.

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Originally posted by rookie54
and sandwiches,
without cheese...
full of horsemeat,
and disease...
some goofy mods,
a few hippies...
one grampy,
a dozen grannies...
special ladies,
several hussies...
two bananas,
three kiwis...
two nice guys,
a million meanies...
fourteen goats,
six monkeys...
one "for real",
the rest, phonies...
lotsa chickens,
all turkeys...
now i grow weary,
of lists and sundry...

Originally posted by Very Rusty
Prayers, is about it if you have faith. 😉

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Tonight I got upset,
although none know it yet.
A barb, cruel words, that sharp look.
My innocence, my trust you took.

I came here just to laugh and play,
a childlike mind now taken away.
New rules are now here to stay,
friendship I did mislay.

Life teaches us a short harsh lesson.
Deadly as anything from Smith or Wesson.
Then just as humans do need food,
change the menu, change the mood.

Cynical traits do now emerge,
I am standing on the verge.
Wondering should I cross?
Safe now but at a loss.

To make acquaintance or to not?
Am I happy with my lot?
Shall I venture forth?
Which new experience has some worth?

Just as one prefers peppers over salts,
which is true and who shall prove false?
The answer is you do not know,
until that fateful dice you throw.

There are many here who are good,
befriend you and not misunderstood.
but now and then do not forget.
Sometimes you will get upset.