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This thread only exists to drive you crazy

Postby Joao » Thu Oct 03, 2013 12:59 am

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I've been waiting for a thread like this one :)

Postby Allegro » Thu Oct 03, 2013 1:30 am

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Re: This thread only exists to drive you crazy

Postby minime » Thu Oct 03, 2013 9:47 am

Joao » Wed Oct 02, 2013 11:59 pm wrote:This thread only exists to drive you crazy.

This one only?
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Re: This thread only exists to drive you crazy

Postby MacCruiskeen » Thu Oct 03, 2013 1:00 pm

Joao, I know you're new here and mean well, but that's a truly horrible idea for a thread, especially in times like these. Please: let's cultivate sanity instead.

Peace out.
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Re: This thread only exists to drive you crazy

Postby Joao » Thu Oct 03, 2013 1:12 pm

MacCruiskeen, I understand but you'll have to take it up with the voices in my head. I just do what they tell me.

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Re: This thread only exists to drive you crazy

Postby MacCruiskeen » Thu Oct 03, 2013 1:21 pm

Simon & Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water, live at Central Park (This rendition always moves me to tears.)
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Re: This thread only exists to drive you crazy

Postby JackRiddler » Thu Oct 03, 2013 1:25 pm

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It's not working.

Wait, is it because I'm already crazy?

Which reminds me, long as we're on S&G. A phrase like "Still crazy after all these years" transports some questionable assumptions, don't you think? Like you're supposed to get less crazy as you get older? You might, in the bourgeois sense of conforming better to the expectations on "adults" during the period of middle age, as opposed to the "craziness" (usually meaning wild good times) of youth. Which I guess is what the song is about.

However, the eventual outcome for almost all people -- assuming a life is not interrupted by premature death but runs its course toward a natural demise -- is that you start losing your mind, and become crazy (or crazier). This can be a process of decades, during which one might display a respectable facade and may even stay in charge of things, like our largely gerontocratic ruling figures. Or it can happen within a few years or months. But it happens in almost everyone, normally long before they hit 90, let alone 100.

So really the song should be, "Predictably crazier than before, after all these years, worn down and feeling my faculties gradually stripped away as I lose more and more of I and eventually melt in stages or very suddenly into the inevitable oblivion that is our universal lot; said mental-emotional state perhaps tempered by the false hope of a worthy afterlife."

Don't you think?

Can we make it catchier? It could be a hit!

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Re: This thread only exists to drive you crazy

Postby MacCruiskeen » Thu Oct 03, 2013 1:44 pm

You're not crazy, Jack. You're just a typical stressed-out New Yorker.

To ground yourself in the Now, try this wonderful little technique (it's as effective as a power-nap): Sri Cyriak's three-minute Mindfulness Meditation exercise.
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Re: This thread only exists to drive you crazy

Postby justdrew » Fri Oct 04, 2013 7:14 am

MacCruiskeen » 03 Oct 2013 10:44 wrote:You're not crazy, Jack. You're just a typical stressed-out New Yorker.

To ground yourself in the Now, try this wonderful little technique (it's as effective as a power-nap): Sri Cyriak's three-minute Mindfulness Meditation exercise.


or this one always works for a momentary satori-like effect.
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Re: This thread only exists to drive you crazy

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Re: This thread only exists to drive you crazy

Postby JackRiddler » Fri Oct 04, 2013 9:56 am

Mr Trololo: Good.

Going to try the 3-min meditation right now.
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Re: This thread only exists to drive you crazy

Postby JackRiddler » Fri Oct 04, 2013 10:05 am

justdrew » Fri Oct 04, 2013 6:14 am wrote:or this one always works for a momentary satori-like effect.


One of death's consolations will be to never see another rick-roll link again. Phenomenon should be completely extinguished in another 10 years?

Ah, never mind: the graphic version is funny.
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Re: This thread only exists to drive you crazy

Postby seemslikeadream » Fri Oct 04, 2013 11:43 am

I just had a flash back to when I was 18 months old and went to a fireworks display ...now I am completely insane
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Re: This thread only exists to drive you crazy

Postby MacCruiskeen » Fri Oct 04, 2013 5:15 pm

"Ich kann gar nicht so viel fressen, wie ich kotzen möchte." - Max Liebermann,, Berlin, 1933

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Re: This thread only exists to drive you crazy

Postby Allegro » Sat Oct 05, 2013 12:21 pm

JackRiddler » Fri Oct 04, 2013 9:05 am wrote:One of death's consolations will be to never see another rick-roll link again. Phenomenon should be completely extinguished in another 10 years?

Ah, never mind: the graphic version is funny.
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