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Nation of One:
When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event ...

Do you know many people who think and talk the way you do?

Even when you search through literature from the past, do you find only a handful of thinkers who are in your orbit?

Maybe 2000 page manifestos serve a function ... for those who are in the state of mind and have the patience and focus ... and maybe short dialogs that convey a certain attitude also serve their function as well.

We'll see. 

With most "message board" projects in the past, I may have been too quick to load the forums with threads and topics.  This time through, I would prefer to move in slow motion.

Maybe less really is more.  Our own nonsense may be more valuable than the sense of the experts and professionals.  Our own insanity may make more sense to us than the sanity of a sick society.

Crazy Squirrel:
Quote: "Do you know many people who think and talk the way you do?"

Hahahahahaha, NOPE! I never cross paths with anyone who doesn't regard me as a complete weirdo. Oh well, I'm quite used to it now, but it will never cease to be depressing to know that most people have nothing going on inside their heads.

Nation of One:
It is kind of creepy, and it explains why, when I'm in a public place like a grocery store, I kind of play the buffoon ... just to talk myself through it.  That Dostoevsky had so much insight, and I don't have to keep re-reading his books to "be there."

Well, I just wanted to log in to make sure that there was somewhere a few people that do think a little like me could enjoy each others' take on things.  I have to venture out into Bizarroland to forage for groceries ... and I have to find a DVD drive for the Old Clunker since I have a Linux Mint 17 installation DVD ... They don't offer an option to install with CDs ... My, my, how quickly technology becomes obsolete.  No floppies, no CDs.   

Keep rolling with the punches!

Holden:
Well,I don't know any contemporaries who are like me but I think if I consider the past then van Gogh could be said to be in my strange orbit,mind, I'm not saying I'm as talented as he was,only that I suffer as much as he did.Like him, I keep trying to come up with the art which will break the mould,but all I get is disappointment.And what hurts the most is that I'm ridiculed & mocked all the time.

I get mocked more than Jesus,when they were taking him to the cross.Mockery all the damn time.
Maybe I'd die like van Gogh too.

PS-Hey Mr H.this is Justin.Thanks for the link.

Holden:
This is how the society makes me feel-like a dog-I quote van Gogh-

There’s a great reluctance about taking me into the house as there would be about having a large, shaggy dog in the house. He’ll come into the room with wet paws — and then, he’s so shaggy. He’ll get in everyone’s way. And he barks so loudly.
In short — it’s a dirty animal.
Very well — but the animal has a human history and, although it’s a dog, a human soul, and one with finer feelings at that, able to feel what people think about him, which an ordinary dog can’t do.
And I, admitting that I am a sort of dog.
This home is also too good for me, and Pa and Ma and the family are so unduly fine (no feelings, though)1 and — and — they are ministers — many ministers. So the dog recognizes that if they were to keep him it would be too much a question of putting up with him, of tolerating him ‘in this house’, so he’ll see about finding himself a kennel somewhere else.
The dog may actually have been Pa’s son at one time, and Pa himself really left him out in the street rather too much, where he inevitably became rougher, but since Pa himself forgot that years ago and actually never thought profoundly about what a bond between father and son meant, there’s nothing to be said.  1v:2
Then — the dog might perhaps bite — if he were to go mad — and the village constable would have to come round and shoot him dead. Very well — yes, all that, most certainly, it is true.

The dog is just sorry that he didn’t stay away, because it wasn’t as lonely on the heath as it is in this house — despite all the friendliness. The animal’s visit was a weakness that I hope people will forget, and one that he’ll avoid lapsing into again.

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