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Well... are you? I am. It's a good life, not great, but good. What about you guys? Do you talk to yourself? See things that aren't there? Etc., etc.?

In a world gone mad only the craziest are insane.

I voted for all of them. Bibble.

I'm as sane as can be.

I voted for all of them. Bibble.

That's crazy

I voted for them all cause Branin will eat your babies!

legally or medically? because my answer could be different depending.........

legally or medically?

Both.

Both.
well, the figured out that I wasn't legally insane, but medically I am not exactly normal either.........

Well, my cousin once called me insane when I took a morning swim in a icy mountain lake, but that's about it...

Of course not! How could you think of such a thing? I am perfectly sane! Honestly... :rolleyes:

Though the voices in my head may claim otherwise, I am perfectly sane.
(I'm actually surprised I'm the first one to say that)

How long do I keep the kitten in the microwave, so it can warm my feet in such a cold night?

I think I'm the reincarnation of Napoleon.

Problem is, I'm all the fucking way in Southern California! What the hell?

Though the voices in my head may claim otherwise, I am perfectly sane.
(I'm actually surprised I'm the first one to say that)
You're not. I said it and so did Neo K.

You're not. I said it and so did Neo K.
I was refering to the part about "voices in my head." Anyone can simply say "oh yes, I'm sane", only the very obvious can jack hammer a joke about schizophrenia into such a statement.

I was refering to the part about "voices in my head." Anyone can simply say "oh yes, I'm sane", only the very obvious can jack hammer a joke about schizophrenia into such a statement.
Well, you could be clearer.

He was clear enough! Stop bothering him!

And you can just shut up!

Nevar! Mwahahahaha!

I'll see you evil laughter and match you DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR! KYAHAHAHA!

Trite and cliché, try something new!

Ummm...what?

And you can just be quiet!

Exactly! You're perfectly sane as we all know!

Listen to the authorities, Czardas. You know it as well as we do. Prepare to be assimilated. Resistance is futile, etc.

Shut up!

No!

Yes!

Er.... be back in 5 minutes... *runs off to find capsules*

I voted for all of them. DON'T LABEL ME!!!

*runs out of topic screaming*

I voted my conscience.

I voted my conscience.
All four of them I see.
I also voted my conscience, which is why you won't find a single vote from me.

As a good friend once told me - I'd rather be crazy than insane. And crazy I be!!!!!!!!!!! I once was insane but after figuring some stuff out I'm just plane crazy. But crazy more exciting than normality. :eek:

The problem with this question is that there are a vast number of people who like to claim insanity to be unique, and on the flip side there are people that would not like to be insane whether they are or not... I think I may be insane, on the average day I get a number of people telling me so... but who can truely define insanity?

damn I hate myself.

but who can truely define insanity?
An independent 3rd party.
Its a paraphrase of Catch-22, if you say you are crazy, then you are sane enough to know the difference and can't be crazy. If, however, you are crazy, then you won't know the difference and will almsot certainly claim to be sane.
damn I hate myself.
A healthy dose of Self-Loathing can keep you from becoming arrogant, which can lead to Megalomania, a form of insanity that is often accompanied by Paranoia. So keep up the good work!

Its a paraphrase of Catch-22, if you say you are crazy, then you are sane enough to know the difference and can't be crazy. If, however, you are crazy, then you won't know the difference and will almsot certainly claim to be sane.


As I've always said, the best way to stay out of the lunny bin is to admit to your insanity.

The answer to this question usually depends on a few conditions:

A. Who's doing the asking.

B. Wether or not I feel like lying to that person at the time.

C. What the askers definition of "crazy" is.

D. ARE YOU WRITING A BOOK?! i cut yer fekkin eyes out, agghhh!!!
DONT TOUCH ME, AHHHRGGH!!!

*twitches*

Eccentric maybe, but not insane.

Not yet. ;)

Eccentric maybe, but not insane.

Not yet. ;)


Poor people are crazy.

Rich crazy people are "eccentric".

Oh hell, this thread is the limit!

Just because I'm somewhat eccentric, and perhaps slightly unbalanced those times that I am not somewhat more unbalanced than slightly, and have the word 'certified' on my 'happy pill' perscription, that doesnt mean I'm not sane does it?

And if you think I'm not sane then how come I figured out your fiendish trap? Do you think I dont know, that I have not realised how you have all colluded, posting for months (and in some cases 1 year+) just to fool me into thinking this is a regular forum rather than having been put together just so when my guard was down you could spring the old 'are you insane' routine on me....oh no you wont get me that easily!

[think sane thoughts, think sane thoughts]

What possible reason do you have to think I am insane?:rolleyes:

Ok, well who needs labels anyhow?

Well... are you? I am. It's a good life, not great, but good. What about you guys? Do you talk to yourself? See things that aren't there? Etc., etc.?
Well, I talk to my dog and two cats, but they're very bright animals! :D

What, are you watching me??? Did the Aliens tell you to implant a subliminal message through your post to jump off of my roof?? I know you're hiding in my monitor! I see you ran past every 5 seconds!

Ok, seriously I often wondered if I am until I had a co-worker who actually hears voices every winter and has to take time off to check herself in.

In short I will end with this: The voices in my head are telling me that you are crazy... did my dog just tell me to kill Paris Hilton? BRB.

Poor people are crazy.

Rich crazy people are "eccentric".

OK, I alter my statement:

Crazy maybe, but not dangerous.

Not yet. :p

"Sanity is not statistical." - 1984, George Orwell

I'm sane. And not in some ironic-saying-I'm-sane-so-you'll-think-I'm-crazy kinda way. Non-ironic boring sanity. You can't prove otherwise.

An independent 3rd party.
Its a paraphrase of Catch-22, if you say you are crazy, then you are sane enough to know the difference and can't be crazy. If, however, you are crazy, then you won't know the difference and will almsot certainly claim to be sane.


"They're all trying to kill me!!"

"No they're not!"

"Why do they keep shooting at me then?"

"They're shooting at everyone!"

"What difference does that make?"

:)

or words to that effect

What do you mean by sane? Definitions tend to vary. Some people say that Sanity is your ability to rationally analyse situations and act according to your deductions and reasoning. Some say that Sanity is your tendency to conform to the societal norm in terms of behaviour and response. Most people claim that it's both.

To that, I say that if Society itself is shown to be irrational, Sanity and Insanity are one and the same. And society is quite clearly irrational. Do I need to give evidence?

Ergo, I'm both, and I am neither.

Please add to your poll: "All I wanted was a Pepsi. Just one Pepsi" so that I may vote. Thank you.

Excessively violent tendencies, just ridding self of obsessive compulsive things, misogynist streak - yep I'm crazy.

What do you mean by sane? etc
That seems an overcomplication. I suggest that sane is the opposite of insance, if you are not insane then you can be deemed sane.

Determining insanity is fairly simple. If you have sucidal tendancies but cannot kill yourself, then you are sane.

However clearly in a world such as we live anyone would have to be insane to not have suicidal tendancies.

Therefore by eliminating the sane 'all those with sucidal tendancies who cannot kill themselves' and 'all those who fail to manifest suicidal tendancies' we are left with the obvious criteria of 'sane', specifically dead....

See it's all very simple really.:p

If I understood sanity, I'd know where I stood with it! :D

If you have sucidal tendancies but cannot kill yourself, then you are sane.

If you have suicidal tendencies but CAN kill yourself then you are dead. Where's the insanity?

If you have suicidal tendencies but CAN kill yourself then you are dead. Where's the insanity?
It's there.
It's possible that I didnt type the 'in' (or that I typed it then wiped it out with the backslash), it's possible it's there but you dont see it.

Given that I'm not dead (and neither are you) there's little point trying to come up with a reasonable sane conclusion about quite what is going on with the 'in' referred to. :rolleyes:

Working out reasonable sane conclusions is not something insane people are necessarily qualified to do. If you really want to know what happened, you ought to see if you can get a dead person to work it out for you, only dont count on being able to rationally interpret whatever conclusion they might communicate to you...it's best to take such things with a grain of salt (or a pinch of pepper) when one is insane...:headbang:

Insanity is a legal term. It means that you cannot discern the difference between right and wrong, or cannot control your impulses to commit wrong.

"I know dragons with feet like rabbits'! 'Tis true, I swear!"
"Those the gods wish to destroy... they first make mad! MAD! HAHAHAHA!! MAA-AA-AAD!!!!"

Five cookies to anyone who can tell me where those two lines are from and name who speaks them.

Am I nuts? Nah. It's the world that's crazy.

I will devour your heart and crap out your soul!!!
MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Please add to your poll: "All I wanted was a Pepsi. Just one Pepsi" so that I may vote. Thank you.

After people have voted I don't think I can change the poll. Too bad though, I would also vote for 'All I wanted was a Pepsi. Just one Pepsi' except replace Pepsi with government official, and 'wanted' with 'killed'

Insanity is a legal term. It means that you cannot discern the difference between right and wrong, or cannot control your impulses to commit wrong.
Wrong being illegal or immoral? In fact, it makes no difference; both are restrictions placed on the individual by the society within which he lives.

That seems an overcomplication. I suggest that sane is the opposite of insance, if you are not insane then you can be deemed sane.
That's not a definition. You're saying that Sanity is the opposite of Insanity, and that Insanity is the opposition of Sanity. Circular definitions don't work! You've got to make some worthwhile interpretation of the term somewhere.

I still think that my suggestions for sanity are the general ones:

Some people say that Sanity is your ability to rationally analyse situations and act according to your deductions and reasoning. Some say that Sanity is your tendency to conform to the societal norm in terms of behaviour and response. Most people claim that it's both.

Well, I talk to my dog and two cats, but they're very bright animals! :D

That's not insane. You'd be insane if they talked to you. (Son of Sam, anyone?)

But you'd only be insane if you actually understood what they were saying. (One of my dogs talks to me, but all she can say is "Woowoooowoo rrrrooo wooorowoo!")

:p

That's not insane. You'd be insane if they talked to you. (Son of Sam, anyone?)

But you'd only be insane if you actually understood what they were saying. (One of my dogs talks to me, but all she can say is "Woowoooowoo rrrrooo wooorowoo!")

:p
but my pets talk to me all the time: my dog is always asking for more food and all my cat ever says is i hate you, now give me some food so that i can throw it up everywhere

Im insane. The Squirrels talk to me at night. I wake up with my pants on. And im a Democrat. >.>




(I am not a democrat. :P)

Im insane. The Squirrels talk to me at night. I wake up with my pants on. And im a Democrat. >.>
oh no! not the squirrels, they spy on me all the time, please, someone do something about them <hides in the corner>

oh no! not the squirrels, they spy on me all the time, please, someone do something about them <hides in the corner>

Don't worry. You are among many. RESIST!

Im insane. The Squirrels talk to me at night. I wake up with my pants on.
We used to have a squirrel who regularly posted here. He posted some very entertaining things, too. Pablo, why did you have to go?

And im a Democrat. >.>

(I am not a democrat. :P)

Multiple personalities, or just bipolar?

:p

Don't worry. You are among many. RESIST!
must burn down trees... remove the homes of squirrels. must burn down trees...

We used to have a squirrel who regularly posted here. He posted some very entertaining things, too. Pablo, why did you have to go?



Multiple personalities, or just bipolar?

:p

Jesus told me to do it!

Let's see...

I'm a seventeen year old mischief maker trapped in the body of a 32 year old family man.

I take nothing seriously.

My hobbies include: playing football and rugby with guys who outweigh me by about 100 lbs, playing in mud, and quantum physics.

Nothing amuses me more than when guys get struck repeatedly in the groin. Even if it's my groin. :(

I jump in quicksand on purpose and I once duct-taped a classmate naked to a toilet.

I'm a professional clown.

Face it; I'm the craziest guy you know. :cool:

<snip>
<strokes Lunatic Goofballs' head> friend... friend...

95.77% aren't sane?

That explains all the democrats

Jesus told me to do it!
you lie! i only told you who to place bets on in the last horse race

<strokes Lunatic Goofballs' head> friend... friend...

That's not my head.

*babbles*

I'm normal

*giggles*

*streaks*

*babbles*

I'm normal

*giggles*

*streaks*

*munches on popcorn. Waits to see if the streaker springs the trap*

*sigh*

I'd hoped this was a serious discussion of mental illness -- which some of us have.

*sigh*

I'd hoped this was a serious discussion of mental illness -- which some of us have.

I have ADD if it makes you feel better. *nod*

*munches on popcorn. Waits to see if the streaker springs the trap*
*cleverly springs the trap without being in it*

Streaker where?

*realization* *blushes*


Popcor!? Can I have some?

*cleverly springs the trap without being in it*

Streaker where?

*realization* *blushes*


Popcor!? Can I have some?

Aww. :( The marmite pit trap didn't work.

*hands out some popcorn*

Aww. :( The marmite pit trap didn't work.

*hands out some popcorn*
Somehow I missed the laying of the trap. And I figured it was best not to be victim to what I didn't know about. Especially if you actually cared. ;)

Oh, and thanks for the munchies. *munches*

Somehow I missed the laying of the trap. And I figured it was best not to be victim to what I didn't know about. Especially if you actually cared. ;)

Oh, and thanks for the munchies. *munches*

These things are best left a surprise.

...

Ahem. Could you put on some pants?

These things are best left a surprise.

...

Ahem. Could you put on some pants?
Huh? Oh, yes of course.

*dons clothing (in order and correct location)*

*sigh*

I'd hoped this was a serious discussion of mental illness -- which some of us have.
Ok, let me get this straight.

You are cruising along in the NS general forum (an environment you not entirely ignorant of, but rather are actually at least 'somewhat' familiar with), and you see a thread called

'are you insane?'

I'm with you up to here (presuming of course I have correctly interpeted the events leading up to this point).

You then go on to conclude that there is some actual (as opposed to theoretical) 'hope' that the contents of the thread might include a serious discussion?:confused:

Well if you say it's so, I guess I gotta take your word for it...
[POST SCRIPT EDIT]
If you hoped for such a discussion, could you not realise that hope by starting it yourself...? [END POST SCRIPT EDIT]

*sigh*

I'd hoped this was a serious discussion of mental illness -- which some of us have.



Hmmmmm, ... interesting. No really, just interesting. ;)



:p

Ok, let me get this straight.

You are cruising along in the NS general forum (an environment you not entirely ignorant of, but rather are actually at least 'somewhat' familiar with), and you see a thread called

'are you insane?'

I'm with you up to here (presuming of course I have correctly interpeted the events leading up to this point).

You then go on to conclude that there is some actual (as opposed to theoretical) 'hope' that the contents of the thread might include a serious discussion?:confused:

Well if you say it's so, I guess I gotta take your word for it...
it's not even a retread of an already-done political/moral debate! c'mon! :P

*sigh*

I'd hoped this was a serious discussion of mental illness -- which some of us have.
Winner! ;)

Actually, I'd have to say mental illness is pretty much a prerequisite for participating in NSG