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

This one only?

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.

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

Simon & Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water, live at Central Park (This rendition always moves me to tears.)

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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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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.

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.

Mr Trololo: Good.

Going to try the 3-min meditation right now.

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.

I just had a flash back to when I was 18 months old and went to a fireworks display ...now I am completely insane

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.

^ First time in a while that I've actually Laughed Out Loud!

Seriously .