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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
This is where I think sane people are more confused than the insane. It may be insanity to look for something that isn't there until you see it. But the flip side is that you can't discount the fact that they see it. Whether it is there or not does not make their views/understanding and perceptions, less valid to them than yours are to you. I might see the sky as being dark purple. You see it as blue. How much explaining on my part to you is going to make you see dark purple?
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The flip side is indeed that it's there *if you specifically look for it*, same as you can associate anything with anything *if you take the time to look for the association*. I'd argue that is certainly a less valid viewpoint that not believing that because there is an extremely tenuous link between A and F, with B, C, D, and E having to also be drawn into it, that any such link is not the illuminati, or intentional subliminal mind control.
As for the colour of the sky analogy - that's apples and oranges. A differently viewed single colour relates to layers of subterfuge, subliminality, and conspiracies, how?
But... I of course get exactly what you're saying about the fact they do 'see' it, which is why threads like these are ultimately a total waste of time, but I'm ill and just can't get into work mode, so here it is lol.
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Originally Posted by TheSquealer
We used to live in a world where crazy people got punched in the face or locked up. Now they not only all have a voice but political correctness makes you asshole if you call them crazy and with the internet and knowing just how many dipshits there are around us, it feels like we are surrounded. I personally look at crazy people as being put on this earth to entertain me. When they aren't busy blogging about seeing the Virgin Mary in their omlette or casually explaining the laws of themodynamics and physics to explain 9/11 though they were D students that dropped out of high school... they are flipping our hamburgers, delivering our pizzas and pumping our gas. So they aren't all bad, they are still useful. Its just a matter of adjusting our perspective and understanding of them.
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A touch condascending (ha, like I can talk), but yeah, I get your point
I liken it to the 'jar of sweets', as I call it. Some experiment... big jar, filled with marble sized sweets, bunch of people asked to guess how many sweets in the jar. Some were ridiculously low '17', some were ridiculously high '70,000'. You know where this is going no doubt - added up all the guesses, averaged them out, and it was like a few off the actual amount of sweets.
Nature needs those oddballs with the ridiculous answers/behaviour to make the 'flow' of the world, universe, blahblah continue. When dealing with idiots at work, in the supermarket, in the pub (back when), at the tax office, customer service jobsworths, and all the other annoying shit like female drivers for example, I have to remember - not having those total fuckwits on the planet is like dividing by zero, and the universe would either implode or disappear up it's own asshole
