On 9/28/2014 11:41 AM, Bhairitu [email protected] [FairfieldLife]
wrote:
I'm not sure anyone here would want to be sane. Sane as defined by
the psychological community these days is the "norm." IOW, if you
behave like that average bumpkin then you are sane. Do you want to be
an "average bumpkin"?
Most of us can recall the days when the psychological community jumped
on the Maslow bandwagon and defined "sane" as a person who is
self-actualized. IOW, one who is enlightened. Then there was a
pouring out of magazine and newspaper articles about how everyone was
crazy because very few by that definition could attain enlightenment.
I'm guessing that made the psychological community redefine "sane".
>
/Abraham Harold Maslow was best known for creating a hierarchy of needs,
a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human
needs in priority, culminating in self-actualization./
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-actualization
>
On 09/28/2014 03:14 AM, TurquoiseBee [email protected]
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
*From:* salyavin808 <[email protected]>
I don't know about you but I feel more like Wonko the Sane as the
days go by. Just a few of us outside the asylum now, with only the
mad scratching from the inmates to distract us from the real world.
This is really worth revisiting, especially for those who don't know
who Wonko the Sane is:
http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Wonko_the_Sane
I understand your feelings. My eyes hurt from rolling so much lately,
not only here on FFL but on a Rama-related forum that's grown more
active lately. If you think FFL is out there, you should hear some of
the things *they* believe. :-)
I love the concept of "The Asylum" and "The Outside of the Asylum" as
Douglas Adams defines them:
"The Asylum was set up one day after Watson came across a set of
detailed instructions on a set of toothpicks. Watson, distressed and
fearing for the world's sanity, built 'The Asylum' to put it in and
help it get better. The Asylum is a four-walled house turned inside
out. That which one would be inclined to take as the door into the
house opens into a lawn with benches and walking paths. This is the
area that Watson calls Outside the Asylum. Thus, the inside of the
asylum contains the entire world, save for that small area. Within
that small 'outside' area, Watson has mounted the instructions for
the toothpicks, in order to discourage himself and others from going
back into the asylum, i.e. returning to the mad world."
It does seem from time to time as if you and Xeno and Curtis and
Bhairitu and myself and a few others are trying to create an "Outside
the Asylum" space here in the FFL Madhouse.
