"A Beautiful Mind"

by onacruse 13 Replies latest jw friends

  • onacruse
    onacruse

    Of course, schizophrenia, as defined in the biochemical and medical sense, is a clinically diagnosable disease, not a "conditioning" such as we experienced with the WTS. In that sense, the analogy breaks down.

    But it's the psychological dynamic of the analogy that intrigued me...rather like Larry said:

    who really are the sane people. Is it the world calling people insane or is it the insane being oblivious to the insanity of the world.

    What schizophrenics "see" is as real to them as anything we see. And, as JWs, we "saw" things that were so real to us, and which by far the majority of other "normal" people, when we told them what we "saw," could only shake their heads and say "these people are crazy."

    As exJWs, we "see" things {{very clearly}}, and are equally convinced that what we see is now, finally, after all our delusions, reality.

    The movie offers a two-edged sword; the "resolution" of the dilemna is purely personal.

  • Farkel
    Farkel

    : As John Nash said in his Nobel Prize acceptance speech (according to the movie): "I've gone from the physical, to the metaphysical, to the delusional, and back to the physical...and to the ultimate realization that love is the only reason."

    I did that and said that before Nash said that and did that. (I got the National Lampoon Award instead of the Nobel prize, but let's not quibble about minor details here.) Except the very last part of that statement, that is. I hate everybody. But equally. I'm NOT prejudiced!

    Farkel

  • onacruse
    onacruse

    Farkel:

    I hate everybody. But equally.

    Yeah, well that's one difference between you and me: I hate you more than anybody else on this planet.

    Even more than Bush. (Ooops, off-topic, sorry) LOL

  • seeitallclearlynow
    seeitallclearlynow

    LOL onacruse!

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