What IS Insanity?
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What i meant is that insanity is a state of mind that doesn't fit in with the "normal" majority.Abedeus said:
For a percise defination of insanity, read the first wall of text, for an inpercise but simple to understand defination, go to the bottom of the post.
I would define insanity in two as a partial disability of perception (perception = the 5 senses and/or how the mind processes info (which orginate from the 5 senses)). Sorry for the fancy words, it's kind of hard to describe with normal words.
By partial disability of perception I don't mean a person is deaf, blind, etc. but rather than he sees things which aren't there. In fact, the 5 senses are ussualy not the cause of this sort of insanity, although they can be. It's ussually the mind's thought process which interpets these senses which is somehow messed up (meaning he interpets something objective in a way which is simply not true to the objective fact). These insanties can range from subtle (that Einstein example) to dangerous for the man with the insanity or his fellow man (random attacks due to the illusions cast by the mind and/or the senses).
A full disablity in thought process and/or senses is not considired insanity. Being blind is not insane, not being able to think is not insanity, because that means one is either dead, or a vegetable (which doesn't happen due to experiences of a person, but rather through failure of the body, making it a disease, or a condition, but not insanity, which always orginates in the person's mind).
The "irreguluar-mind thinking" defination is too ambiguous. Athiests are a minority in the world - and they are thus to be considered insane because their thought process dictates that there is no god?
Excuse my spelling, I haven't written in fancy english, or in grammartically correct english for quite some time.
And if I confused you, let me say that shit in simple english. Insanity is what happens when your mind gets fudged up because of some weird voodoo shit (can't explain in simple englsih) which makes it self destruct on itself. This self destruction makes you unable to tell reality aport from your imgination, and that is insanity.
I would define insanity in two as a partial disability of perception (perception = the 5 senses and/or how the mind processes info (which orginate from the 5 senses)). Sorry for the fancy words, it's kind of hard to describe with normal words.
By partial disability of perception I don't mean a person is deaf, blind, etc. but rather than he sees things which aren't there. In fact, the 5 senses are ussualy not the cause of this sort of insanity, although they can be. It's ussually the mind's thought process which interpets these senses which is somehow messed up (meaning he interpets something objective in a way which is simply not true to the objective fact). These insanties can range from subtle (that Einstein example) to dangerous for the man with the insanity or his fellow man (random attacks due to the illusions cast by the mind and/or the senses).
A full disablity in thought process and/or senses is not considired insanity. Being blind is not insane, not being able to think is not insanity, because that means one is either dead, or a vegetable (which doesn't happen due to experiences of a person, but rather through failure of the body, making it a disease, or a condition, but not insanity, which always orginates in the person's mind).
The "irreguluar-mind thinking" defination is too ambiguous. Athiests are a minority in the world - and they are thus to be considered insane because their thought process dictates that there is no god?
Excuse my spelling, I haven't written in fancy english, or in grammartically correct english for quite some time.
And if I confused you, let me say that shit in simple english. Insanity is what happens when your mind gets fudged up because of some weird voodoo shit (can't explain in simple englsih) which makes it self destruct on itself. This self destruction makes you unable to tell reality aport from your imgination, and that is insanity.
But his most important equations (from a chemistry perspective) do apply. Equations explaining the Photoelectric Effect, the heat capacities of solids and the relation of mass to energy helped to create the field of Quantum Mechanics. He just didn't 'believe' in it, and felt that it was but a gateway to a more 'understandable' theory at the subatomic level. It's only really his General Relativity theory that doesn't apply; Special Relativity was used by Dirac to infer 'spin', an abstract property that was later experimentally verified.baggyn said:
Einstein said: Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different outcome.
And he is correct, in one sense. However, my definition of insanity is the inability to differentiate between logic and illogic.
And he is correct, in one sense. However, my definition of insanity is the inability to differentiate between logic and illogic.
Nothing is logic, all is fact, yet at the same time it comprises two small egss mounted on a red herring? you have no fish well then pay the milkman in eels.
Insanity is undefinable, it can be anything at any time, anywhere inside a top hat.
Insanity is undefinable, it can be anything at any time, anywhere inside a top hat.
Insanity is a mindstate that is not that of 50% of the society you live in. If someone dropped a smart bomb on Britain which magically made 51% of the country insane, then "Insanity" would become what we perceive as "sanity" at the moment.
Don't you just LOVE social economics?
Don't you just LOVE social economics?
Hearing Leonidas yell THIS IS SPARTA!!! over and over again.
And I know I just set my self up for someone to say "this is not Insanity, THIS IS SPARTA!!!"
And I know I just set my self up for someone to say "this is not Insanity, THIS IS SPARTA!!!"
Many things are really. I mean, me and a complete frothing-lunatic could both be described as insane; I have bipolar disorder, he is well, mad (I don't know what proper term it would be) but the two of us are still very different.
Your only actually insane when a judge says you are. Everyone elses opinion is merely evidence for the judge to consider. At least in the United States.Erana said:
Generally insanity is represented in movies as people who look at the world differently from "normal" people.
Heath Ledger's Joker would be a great example. Why is he blowing up stuff and killing people? Because that's hilarious and it's how he thinks things should be.
But really, you could describe someone with anything resembling a creative or unique thought "insane" and it'd really just mean the same thing, with the general public blanket use meaning of insane.
Heath Ledger's Joker would be a great example. Why is he blowing up stuff and killing people? Because that's hilarious and it's how he thinks things should be.
But really, you could describe someone with anything resembling a creative or unique thought "insane" and it'd really just mean the same thing, with the general public blanket use meaning of insane.