would U agree:

Yes...No...Maybe...Not sure!

what about U?

How do U keep sane?

can U be honest with yourself?( U might want 2 keep it 2 yourself!)

after all we are human aren't we!!

1) Please (as a favor to us old [folks], don't use "netspeak"! You, not U. Two, to or too, not 2.

2) In the words of the late, great Waylon Jennings:

"I've always been crazy.
It's kept me from going insane."

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Of all the things I've ever lost, I miss my mind the most. - unknown.

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Alright I will write properly!

Also I consider myself crazy as we'll; it stops me from going insane to..we are all the product of experience!!

if I wasn't +ve I would be in a mental hospital...insane!

Jimmy Buffett:

"If we werent all crazy we would go insane"

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I heard it on the news just the other day
There's this new stuff called dark energy
We can't measure and we can't see..." - from Jimmy Buffett's What if the hokey pokey is all it really is about?

I always say 'Embrace the Madness'.

Conformity is grossly overrated. And 'sanity' is only conformity of the mind, as dictated by the often-misguided social norms.

If you researched almost any great figure in history you'll find they are all at least borderline loons.

Thinking 'outside the box' often means bucking convention, not just being 'smarter' than others.

Often 'thinking outside the box' IS being 'smarter than others'.

Creative minds, especially, flirt with 'madness' because they access the unconscious brain with greater depth and frequency than the 'others'.

It's been said, though I don't know the scientific merits of it, that creative minds are more prone to psychological disorders. Depression, for instance, often afflicts artists.

Maybe it's because we -- I mean THEY -- spend more time roving the high and dark seas of their own mind...Which I reckon cna be a pretty darn scary place.

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Although humorous, I disagree with every post so far.

The reason being- if we take the OP seriously, nothing is defined to answer the question.

"Madness" if categorized as lacking in critical thinking, logic or rationality is an instigator of misunderstanding and creator of problems.
e.g. "Believing in Hoax Believer claims is madness."

If we call Madness mental illness, then it is a physical function (or malfunction) within the brain.
Heck, no part of that is going to keep someone sane.

Madness if defined by experiencing human nature (e.g. Bungee jumping) is very much a sanity element.

I'm overanalyzing this...

"But I don't want to go among mad people."
"You can't help that, we're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad."
"How do you know I'm mad?"
"You must be, or you wouldn't have come here."

Fred

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"you shall know the truth and the truth will shall make you mad"

Aldous Huxley

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so what is your level of madness??? I keep my secrets to myself!just like you!!!

Utterly and totally sane. Everyone else is mad. It makes it easier that way and explains why nobody seems to know how to take you but it is not your problem. It also keeps you off the Jesus threads where discussion is given to those poor souls who really do think they are the second coming.

But being utterly sane and totally different means paying a price. For some it is depression, for me it is escapism into logic and mentally saying goodbye to all the beautiful people every time I go out and toughing it out. Third volcano dream in a month. First one far off and ground shakes. A week ago see the volcano with straight sides and smoke plume. Night before last volcano in the dream just outside the city and opens fully on left side.

Accessing the unconscious has benefits and costs, you adapt or die an emotional death.

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Hey Michael, you do know that you're responding to a banned sock puppet, don't you?

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[Eliza] And how do you feel about you're responding to a banned sock puppet? [/Eliza]

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The sock puppet is not important. The logic is. First I live in Western Australia and there are no volcanoes so a dream is symbolic. Heck in Western Australia we do not even have mountains. Second experience indicates regardless of who I have contacted from space agencies to prime ministers that people do not understand my ideas.

Believing oneself is mad is a coping mechanism. Accepting that one has pushed ones mind as far as one might can bring repercussions, lucid dreaming. Whatever happens in life happens and the key is to keep moving forward. Besides it makes me feel just that bit better if I do consider the world to be mad because then it is not my fault.

Cheers

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I strongly agree. With both comments, the first on the use of proper grammer. This isn't a chat session - it's a message board. BIG difference. And on Waylon's comments...

"They're coming to take me away, ha-ha, they're coming to take me away..."

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Perception isn't reality. It's merely an abstraction thereof, and quite often not a very good one at that.

I am human. Fully human.

Michael, meet Eliza. Eliza, meet Michael.

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Ozzy Osborne, believe it or not.

#EDIT: I believe the direct quote was, "Above all things, I probably miss my mind the most."

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Huh.

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Helpful very helpful. Thanks Moose I've been to counselling sessions and to a psychologist. In both cases I was able to determine that they were helpful, knowledgeable and well adjusted people and if there were issues in their lives then it certainly wasn't apparent.

Eliza would probably appeal to the youth with the net-speak or anyone under pressure, appears to be helpful. Now if she could understand complex geometry I would be in a position to enjoy a full on conversation. Back to the drawing board.

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I have managed to put to put this right!!

I was also Schutzstaffeln-SS and Paul Leeks simultaneously.I am a real person and collect german memorabilia and am not a "sock puppet".There has been a misunderstanding.

I was at Clavius and there are some good people there but I would rather be here.
problem solved.

Thank You

Paul Leeks
New Zealand

Hi, The problem is keeping things in balance. One likes to be aware in many senses, but don't get overwhelmed by the protracted potential of suggested facts as presented by the media. I like Dr. Andrew Wile's suggestion of taking
a "News Holiday" every so often. Don't let the buzzing disturb you and your life.
Many of the people we describe as " Mad" are simply socialy disturbed.
They can be helped if, in the company of the right sort of people, if they want to be.
And the others........ (shrug)... just want attention of some sort..