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Taylor Howard36 said:Oh, please—I am not afraid of anything! Especially not some "core essence" or "matter"! Matter actually fascinates me!
Donna Campbell6 said:Basically, he argues that people "break" because society itself is totally dysfunctional. It’s about those crazy patterns you see in families... just being unable to handle the weight of the world. He almost suggests that Sch. isn't some disease, but more like a "journey" someone takes to try and find themselves. Back in the sixties and seventies, his ideas really shook up the whole psychiatry scene. His books were huge hits back then: "split self", "experience politics", "fact of life", "me and the others", and stuff like that...
Taylor Campbell4 said:Well, that’s certainly not the most rational way to look at it—though I suppose everyone else had the exact same thought.
Donna Campbell6 said:briskgull27, maybe you've heard the rumors... is it actually true that the highest percentage is among thin, smart Black women, and they tend to burn out fast once they hit their late 20s?😕
Taylor Campbell4 said:.
Yeah, I get it—it’s that feeling when you're being pulled in two different directions. It draws you toward the edge because it looks so tempting, but it's dangerous—one wrong move and your dog could end up tumbling straight into the Atlantic. 😁
Taylor Campbell4 said:I remember one of my first times navigating a boat solo. I was heading back from an island after picking up a two-month paycheck—it was a decent amount of cash. Now, I’ve always had a thing for boats and being out on the water (though not necessarily for swimming in it 😁), but I have to admit, standing there by the railing of that massive ship, I was constantly paranoid about accidentally dropping all that money overboard 😁
Taylor Howard36 said:Man, what actually happens inside the brain of someone with schizophrenia? Beyond all that chemical imbalance talk you guys were hitting on earlier?😕 Is it really just a matter of chemistry?😕
Taylor Howard36 said:Personally, I thought being on a ship was absolutely wonderful...😍 I mean, you look ahead—ocean. You look behind you—ocean. Left? Ocean. Right? More ocean!😍 I didn't even feel like I was on a boat at all... 🙂
So... yeah... I'm okay... everything is more or less fine... just don't ask me again until next week... I have two exams coming up... next week...
So, I was actually trying to teach my brother the ropes of how to navigate a forum today...
and oh my god, he doesn't know a single thing!!!! 😂 😱 It really hit me lately just how obsessed everyone has become with being online... even my friend—who, mind you, was asking me just a month ago, "Why on earth do you spend so much time on the internet and forums?"—she's totally hooked now too.
And people are so terrified of anything labeled "schizophrenic." They're scared of people with schizophrenia. And we end up right back where we started—with all those old prejudices... they just don't get it...
At least, that's how I see it.👎
Donna Campbell6 said:I know this girl from SCH. Haven't actually seen her in two years, though. She’s got a computer. When she’s doing alright, she gets stuff done, handles the practical side of things, passes her exams, and basically acts like SCH doesn't even exist. But when things go south... man, she falls apart so hard she wouldn't even be able to turn the computer on. Or so it seemed to me once...
Taylor Campbell4 said:We all carry our own personal karma—it’s built into us—but we also share the karma of the groups we belong to. We're influenced by the collective energy of our nation, and on a much larger scale, there's this shared karma of humanity as a whole...
Man isn't the center of the universe.
Personally, I find that incredibly unfair—just as I'm willing to take responsibility for my own "mistakes," I have absolutely no intention of paying for someone else's.
Look, I'll admit I might have oversimplified things when I wrote that, but the core idea isn't unjust. Would you call it unfair if you happened to benefit from positive karma because you're surrounded by good people or part of a thriving society? Well, that's the same thing...
I think we really ought to put in some effort to grasp the nuance here.
Taylor Campbell4 said:Not really—suggesting that God gave you something for a specific reason can be interpreted in countless wrong ways, most of which likely stem from some sense of guilt. And guilt is usually just us being foolish without realizing it.
Personally, I don't look at life through the lens of whether God—or anyone else—handed me a situation for a particular reason. I don't personify God that much; to me, the absolute concept of God is everything that exists, something far too vast and incomprehensible to fit within our limited imagination—it’s essentially impersonal and beyond our grasp.
Consider this: according to esoteric thought, God is the totality of all existing energies and the laws governing them. One such law is karma—the principle of cause and effect. If you follow my logic, it’s a completely impersonal law.
It simply exists, and it’s better that it does. Generally speaking, I find there is plenty of positive or negative karma at play, even if it feels otherwise in the moment. But if we look closer, we'll see it holds true.
We are subject to personal karma, sure, but we also carry the karma of the groups we belong to. We feel the karma of our nation, and as humans, we share a collective karma of all humanity...
Man isn't the center of the universe.
Keeping that in mind, a "reason" for what happens might simply be that you are part of the human race. Because of our collective karma, humanity is prone to certain flaws and imperfections. Though, perhaps that's an oversimplification.
The way I view things is that everything entering our lives is meant to serve or help us—that isn't just an intellectual theory for me, it's something I've actually experienced firsthand. This perspective leaves much less room for the kind of misinterpretation found in saying, "God gave this to me for a reason"—which is technically true in a broad sense, but still...
I doubt God has nothing better to do than micromanage each of us individually by handing out specific reasons—again, that's a conditional truth. So much misunderstanding comes from dogmatic teachings within the Church or man-made dogmas in other religions; it's hard to observe these truths without that distorted lens.
PS: As for this business with the ego dissolving—I'm not sure if you mean the disappearance of the ego, its fragmentation, or something else entirely. Even if we are talking about "ego dissolution," the reason medications are used is likely because we haven't figured out how to synthesize a cure yet—it's simply 🙂