What IS Insanity?

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Lord George

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Nothing is logic, all is fact, yet at the same time it comprises two small egss mounted on a red herring? you have no fish well then pay the milkman in eels.

Insanity is undefinable, it can be anything at any time, anywhere inside a top hat.
 

wordsmith

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Insanity is a mindstate that is not that of 50% of the society you live in. If someone dropped a smart bomb on Britain which magically made 51% of the country insane, then "Insanity" would become what we perceive as "sanity" at the moment.

Don't you just LOVE social economics?
 

SinfulKnight

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Hearing Leonidas yell THIS IS SPARTA!!! over and over again.

And I know I just set my self up for someone to say "this is not Insanity, THIS IS SPARTA!!!"
 

wordsmith

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SinfulKnight said:
Hearing Leonidas yell THIS IS SPARTA!!! over and over again.

And I know I just set my self up for someone to say "this is not Insanity, THIS IS SPARTA!!!"
Dammit! I *JUST* thought of that, rushed back here and searched "sparta" to see if anyone had done it yet...

Curse my late thinking! Curse it!
 

TheRightToArmBears

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Many things are really. I mean, me and a complete frothing-lunatic could both be described as insane; I have bipolar disorder, he is well, mad (I don't know what proper term it would be) but the two of us are still very different.
 

Rock Beefchest

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Erana said:
Well, you're only insane if you've been diagnosed by a professional, technically...
Your only actually insane when a judge says you are. Everyone elses opinion is merely evidence for the judge to consider. At least in the United States.
 

J.B

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I can't really define it. For me it's the same as trying to define "art". I usually use it to describe something out of the ordinary.
 

Booze Zombie

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Generally insanity is represented in movies as people who look at the world differently from "normal" people.

Heath Ledger's Joker would be a great example. Why is he blowing up stuff and killing people? Because that's hilarious and it's how he thinks things should be.

But really, you could describe someone with anything resembling a creative or unique thought "insane" and it'd really just mean the same thing, with the general public blanket use meaning of insane.
 

Angelic-Dragon

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wordsmith said:
SinfulKnight said:
Hearing Leonidas yell THIS IS SPARTA!!! over and over again.

And I know I just set my self up for someone to say "this is not Insanity, THIS IS SPARTA!!!"
Dammit! I *JUST* thought of that, rushed back here and searched "sparta" to see if anyone had done it yet...

Curse my late thinking! Curse it!
Whey!

Braking news We are ALL insane!! makes life Interesting!
 

Ancientgamer

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Insanity is when a persons mind deviates from objective truths. However, people are sadly fairly quick to label a person who deviates from social, subjective "truths" insane.
 

scotth266

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Insanity isn't possible to measure.
That being said, I think all people are naturally insane. It just differs by degrees.
 

Atvomat_Nikonov

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Sorry if I've been ninja'd, but I believe insanity is relative(I believe thats the word). If every one on the planet was insane, leaving you as the only sane person would that not make you insane and the rest of the world sane?