“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity..."

[cleanhippie]

“When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion.”

― Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

It's a great read.

http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Art-Motorcycle-Maintenance-Inquiry/dp/0060589469

[Exultant Democracy]

1. Should we expect this to get locked?

[Warpy]

2. Probably. They consider "delusion" a slur

since that delusion is all too real to them.

Don't forget this was dinned into their little heads before they could tell the difference between fantasy and reality and adults convinced them it was real.

Who knows? I remain convinced that for some of them it's a variation on the Third Man syndrome. Whatever it is, it gives them the delusion that they're safe in a dangerous world.

Maybe that's not a bad delusion. It only gets bad when they expect it to cure cancer of they try to force it into civil law.

[immoderate]

4. This post got an alert!

The jury voted 0-7 to Leave it Alone. Pretty fast, too.

--imm

[Warpy]

8. I'm deeply shocked at that

I thought at least some knees would jerk. I guess only one did.

[trotsky]

10. Awesome. Take that, alert nanny. n/t

[cleanhippie]

13. Lol! 0-7?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

17. heh. justice does exist in some places.

[cleanhippie]

19. Apparently, it's not justice. It's proof that religious privilege doesn't exist.

[mr blur]

12. Wow. Just wow.

[Curmudgeoness]

15. Yippee for the jury!!!!!

Thanks for posting it. Sometimes, we need something to make our day.

[EvolveOrConvolve]

20. It should surprise me but doesn't

We have our own crew of net-nannies monitoring all posts in A&A for any inkling that we're not 100% behind the wonderful religions and all the wonderful religious people doing all those wonderful things.

[Skittles]

9. why? it's the truth

[trotsky]

11. Because there are some who are so perpetually offended...

they actively seek out things to be offended by, apparently.

They probably just need a good ass-kicking. Know anyone who provides such services?

[onager]

16. THREAT of ass-kicking! I'm alerting on this!

Just bumping this thread. To gloat a little more...

[ChairmanAgnostic]

18. Oh, yeah? I alerting on an alert on a threat of ass kicking!

So take that, Red Baron!

[Rainforestgoddess]

3. I read this years ago.

I wonder if it's still in a box somewhere?

[cui bono]

5. I've been thinking of rereading this. Read it when I was 18 and could not put it down.

I don't know what spurred this thread, but it's a great book so OP gets a rec from me.

Edit: I see this is in the A&A group now... still a great book.

[immoderate]

6. It was moved?

I thought they didn't do that.

--imm

[cui bono]

7. I dunno. I saw it on the "Greatest" page.

If you mean my using the word "now", I meant now I see... not now it is here where as before it was somewhere else.

[immoderate]

14. Gotcha.

--imm