Sure signs that you're going batshit insane

[Journia]

The only prerequisite you really need to be considered insane is to go through a process, find it doesn't work, and do the exact same process over and over with the expectation of getting a different result.

 

[Slaver123]

The only prerequisite you really need to be considered insane is to go through a process, find it doesn't work, and do the exact same process over and over with the expectation of getting a different result.

It's called PERSISTENCE!
Or good-old-fashioned Stick-To-It-iveness!!!
(a word I've never typed before)

...and it works for relationships, too. (He'll really change this time, I know it! Things'll be different now!)

 

[Journia]

And it NEVER DOES!!!!

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

That way lies MADNESS! :47:

 

[Dave2112]

Ok, I'm playing Madden...franchise mode and made the playoffs. Wild Card game...no sweat. I get to the divisional round and everything goes to shit. Every third play, I get called for holding. Every time I throw a pass to a wide open receiver, he drops it. The team I'm playing? Completes passes into triple coverage. Every time I stop a runner from getting a first down, I get called for a face mask. In short...the zebras were out in full force and doing everything they could to make sure I couldn't catch a break.

So what am I doing? Yelling at the fucking screen like the refs can hear me. Accusing my Xbox of cheating.

How's that for insane? 🙂

 

[Timewarp]

You want insane? Rap your mind around this.

I know and can remember what non-existance feels like and the point where you cross into existance. Not a single other person remembers this after they are created for a good reason, it is extremely disturbing memory. Hell ain't got nothing on non-existance.

Now tell me i'm not the truely ****** insane one.

 

[gonevart]

Mr Fribble is angry with all of you... Hail the King of the Potato People!!!!

That is funny. I'm not crazy but the other people in my head and the singing purple goat thInk I am. The green dog name Bruce doesn't think so.

 

[Journia]

You want insane? Rap your mind around this.

I know and can remember what non-existance feels like and the point where you cross into existance. Not a single other person remembers this after they are created for a good reason, it is extremely disturbing memory. Hell ain't got nothing on non-existance.

Now tell me i'm not the truely ****** insane one.

Nah, you're just the ONLY ****** insane one. But you cool, you my bro.

 

[Horus]

Though this be Madness, there is Method in it.

Anyone wonder why Shakespeare had scenes of madness and borderline insanity in his plays? Even Hamlet played someone who was insane to find out who really murdered his father.

 

[captivatinglitz]

when you develop an obsession for sponges and think straight jackets are sexy... YOU have gone batshit insane.

 

[Dave2112]

That's not insane at all. The trip from non-existence into existence is a bumpy one, but more memorable than one would think. It all depends on your relative perspective on time and existence in the first place. 🙂

Now, if you wanna really talk about insane, try this one out. And I'm not even kidding about this one...I fully believe (as do a growing number of physicists) that time does not exist. Almost all theories (especially of the quantum variety) have issues making mathematical sense when time is plugged into the equation...yet work perfectly when time is removed, making it irrelevant on a quantum level. Nature doesn't do anything irrelevant. Then add this: for some reason, time is locked into one direction. There is absolutely no physical reason and no law of physics preventing time from "flowing" in any direction possible, yet it points in only one direction. It doesn't go the other way, although there's nothing preventing it.

We all know that you can't go back in time and kill your younger self, as it would set up an irreconcilable paradox. Since nature will not allow a paradox to exist, travelling backwards must therefore be impossible. Since there's no law preventing it, the only conclusion is that there's nothing to "travel" through. Time doesnt exist. Then, of course, there's other subatomic quantum breakdowns of time as a force of the universe, but they'd take pages to explain.

So, there is no time. Wrap your brain around that.

You'll go insane just thinking about it. Like I did. 🙂

 

[Slaver123]

You want insane? Rap your mind around this.

I know and can remember what non-existance feels like and the point where you cross into existance. Not a single other person remembers this after they are created for a good reason, it is extremely disturbing memory. Hell ain't got nothing on non-existance.

Now tell me i'm not the truely ****** insane one.

I remember a Blackness, similar to the "dark behind your eyes"...I remember first thinking this at a VERY young age, 4 or 5- think this is the womb or non-existence or something else?

Besides, I think non-existence would be just fine. It's the absurd extremist version of Hell that galls me
(just look up "23 Minutes in Hell" for the most obscene slander against the One true loving God that you'll ever read)

 

[Journia]

That's not insane at all. The trip from non-existence into existence is a bumpy one, but more memorable than one would think. It all depends on your relative perspective on time and existence in the first place. 🙂

Now, if you wanna really talk about insane, try this one out. And I'm not even kidding about this one...I fully believe (as do a growing number of physicists) that time does not exist. Almost all theories (especially of the quantum variety) have issues making mathematical sense when time is plugged into the equation...yet work perfectly when time is removed, making it irrelevant on a quantum level. Nature doesn't do anything irrelevant. Then add this: for some reason, time is locked into one direction. There is absolutely no physical reason and no law of physics preventing time from "flowing" in any direction possible, yet it points in only one direction. It doesn't go the other way, although there's nothing preventing it.

We all know that you can't go back in time and kill your younger self, as it would set up an irreconcilable paradox. Since nature will not allow a paradox to exist, travelling backwards must therefore be impossible. Since there's no law preventing it, the only conclusion is that there's nothing to "travel" through. Time doesnt exist. Then, of course, there's other subatomic quantum breakdowns of time as a force of the universe, but they'd take pages to explain.

So, there is no time. Wrap your brain around that.

You'll go insane just thinking about it. Like I did. 🙂

Actually, I came to that belief on my own, that time does not exist.

 

[Dave2112]

Funny thing, so did I. I actually, for a while, thought I might just be a little insane. Until I started coming in contact with others in the scientific community who were giving this theory serious credence.

My reasoning, leaving out the 20-letter-word explanations and equations is actually rather simple. "Time" has always been related to size...or more specifically, mass. Time breaks down at the super-sub-atomic level. But at what point? It's like the "surface of the water" illusion. from a distance, you can clearly deliniate the line where the surface of the water is divided from the lowest level of the atmosphere. You can see the line. But, as you get closer, and smaller...right down to the molecular level, the line isn't so easy to define. There isn't really a clear point where water becomes air.

Same with time. Now, if it's accepted that time breaks down in the quantum world, what's to keep it from breaking down in the macro universe? Consider Einstein's relativity lessons. About time "flowing" at different rates the farther you get from Earth (or any other gravity well) or how it changes as you approach the speed of light. Everything Einstein was trying to say had to do with perspective (relativity). For US...time breaks down and can be said to not exist in the quantum universe. What about to those much larger than us, hypothetically speaking. From the point of view of some theoretical galaxy-sized creature (which could exist in an infinite universe, and even in a finite but immeasurably large one), time would break down in the macroverse relative to that being. The fact that such a being exists or not is irrelevant. It's the perspective of such we need to consider.

This geek moment brought to you by Dave2112 Industries...Making the World an Irrelevant Place Since 1968. 🙂

 

[QueenBeeBeeMari]

I think that's pretty cool.This thread seems to have become the battle of the looney toons to see who is the most looney though lol

 

[Dave2112]

Like everything else, my dear...looniness is relative to the observer. 🙂

 

[Journia]

Funny thing, so did I. I actually, for a while, thought I might just be a little insane. Until I started coming in contact with others in the scientific community who were giving this theory serious credence.

My reasoning, leaving out the 20-letter-word explanations and equations is actually rather simple. "Time" has always been related to size...or more specifically, mass. Time breaks down at the super-sub-atomic level. But at what point? It's like the "surface of the water" illusion. from a distance, you can clearly deliniate the line where the surface of the water is divided from the lowest level of the atmosphere. You can see the line. But, as you get closer, and smaller...right down to the molecular level, the line isn't so easy to define. There isn't really a clear point where water becomes air.

Same with time. Now, if it's accepted that time breaks down in the quantum world, what's to keep it from breaking down in the macro universe? Consider Einstein's relativity lessons. About time "flowing" at different rates the farther you get from Earth (or any other gravity well) or how it changes as you approach the speed of light. Everything Einstein was trying to say had to do with perspective (relativity). For US...time breaks down and can be said to not exist in the quantum universe. What about to those much larger than us, hypothetically speaking. From the point of view of some theoretical galaxy-sized creature (which could exist in an infinite universe, and even in a finite but immeasurably large one), time would break down in the macroverse relative to that being. The fact that such a being exists or not is irrelevant. It's the perspective of such we need to consider.

This geek moment brought to you by Dave2112 Industries...Making the World an Irrelevant Place Since 1968. 🙂

You sir, make a lot of sense in your thought. And where do I find these peoplei n the scientific Community? *raises the shield of intellect.*

 

[kopfhorer1]

Now, if you wanna really talk about insane, try this one out. And I'm not even kidding about this one...I fully believe (as do a growing number of physicists) that time does not exist
.... ...

So, there is no time. Wrap your brain around that.

You'll go insane just thinking about it. Like I did. 🙂

You know, you aren't the first person I've heard say something like that. The late folksinger Utah Phillips recalls talking to someone who asserts that "the past didn't go anywhere". Time, according to one somewhat plausible theory, is only a means by which we account for certain processes, like aging.

Let's see, is it time for my medication yet? 😀

 

[sadi]

If you want to get 'technical' (which this thread has seemed to digress to), normal is merely the social views which are upheld as being 'positive' or the 'norm' by the majority of society. If Hitler took over, it'd likely become normal for everyone to be blonde and blue-eyed, and anybody deviating from that revered standard would immediately be ostracized and labeled as different/unique/rebellious, or any other negative labels.
If it were globally the 'norm' to greet one another by bowing (as it currently is in some Asian cultures), then anyone who attempted to hug, or shake hands, by way of introduction would naturally be shunned, and that behaviour would be discouraged. If it were normal for society to eat the dead, or obey traffic laws, or sexual harassment laws, then anyone who differed would immediately be 'weird', or really anything else that wasn't enforced by the majority of society.
Take for example, homosexuality. What once was the 'taboo' decision is forcefully being shoved into the main light, and society seems to be begrudgingly accepting this new change.

And Dave, on the whole prospect of time being non-existent, have you ever looked into the 11-dimension (or insert another number of your choosing) theory? :huh (Just asking for asking's sake, really)
Where time seems relatively adherent on the laws 'we' commonly follow, it is only because we are physically trapped in this 3rd dimension, with no ways of venturing into any other dimensions, despite any attempts we make to alter that?
(In this plane of reality, a two-dimensional piece of paper really doesn't exist. We call it 2D because it is labeled as 'flat', but, you can fold that piece of paper any direction you want, and you'll still be able to see that piece of paper, no matter 'how' minimally it may appear to be.)

 

[Journia]

Ah shit I've been enlightened!

 

[QueenBeeBeeMari]

Like everything else, my dear...looniness is relative to the observer. 🙂

Oh,I don't know about that lol.If a doctor says you are coo coo you are coo coo

 

[drew70]

This morning I made coffee as I do every morning. I ground the beans in the right quantity and dumped the powder in the filter basket, and turned it on. About 40 seconds later it beeped ready, which was far too early. You see, I'd forgotten to add one tiny little insignificant ingredient. The water. :blink

 

[Dave2112]

He he he....I've done that. 🙂

Sadistic - I've immersed myself in the study and conceptualizing of a hyper-dimensional universe. In fact, the number of physicists that still adhere to a strict 3-dimensional universe is shrinking rapidly, forming a minority now. Most of the universe and the forces therein simply can't exist in only 3 dimensions. And, just to be nit-picky 'cuz it makes me happy in my black little heart...we don't exist in "the 3rd dimension", we exist simultaneously in all three that we can measure.

Additionally, the "2-dimensional piece of paper" is actually 3-dimensional, it's just that its height (y-axis measurement) while lying flat is very small relative to you as an observer. Relative to a hydrogen atom, it's taller than a million Empire State Buildings.

Wanna try something neat to really make a 2-dimensional, one-sided piece of paper? Take a strip of paper about 10 inches long and maybe an inch wide. On one side, draw a blue line from end to end up the center. On the other, draw a red one. Now, pick up the piece, give it a half-twist and then join the ends together with a piece of tape. You'll see the blue and red lines meet. The paper has only "one side". It's called a Mobius Strip and it's used to demonstrate dimensional perspective. Of course, it's only a visual aid to help get your head around it. At any given point on the strip, you have 3 dimensions, but the strip as a whole could be said to be one-sided, or two dimensional.

Learning is Phun! 🙂

 

[Slaver123]

He he he....I've done that. 🙂

Sadistic - I've immersed myself in the study and conceptualizing of a hyper-dimensional universe. In fact, the number of physicists that still adhere to a strict 3-dimensional universe is shrinking rapidly, forming a minority now. Most of the universe and the forces therein simply can't exist in only 3 dimensions.
Learning is Phun! 🙂

I thought it was accepted Science that our universe is 10-16 dimensions

 

[Dr. Bill Kobb]

Maybe that's what's going to happen on 2012. You know, like the Large Hadron Collider thingamajig will mistakenly zap a black hole and a door to some dimension hitherto unknown to us will be opened.

Let's just hope it's the "tickling"-dimension and not the "goatse"-dimension. :scared