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Article Source: BBC NewsCreativity is akin to insanity, say scientists who have been studying how the mind works.
Brain scans reveal striking similarities in the thought pathways of highly creative people and those with schizophrenia.
Both groups lack important receptors used to filter and direct thought.
Some of the world's leading artists, writers and theorists have also had mental illnesses - the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh and American mathematician John Nash (portrayed by Russell Crowe in the film A Beautiful Mind) to name just two.
I guess the mad professor is no act?.
#1 - Sat May 29, 2010 7:54 AM EDTImportant to know that if you've done everything right, played by all the rules, adopted the belief system your were told to adopt...and now you have a wife and kids, mortgaged to the hilt...you DARE NOT change anything...meaning this...you think WAY inside the box.
It is a frightening prospect to think differently. Well this is what creative people do-namely NEVER go along with the crowd. Result?...you will be thought of as "odd", whacky, Schizzo, and a risk to everyone who perceives that 'this person does not conform, like the rest of us "normal" people.
"Therefore, that creative person must, by definition, be insane". Thus the creative person lives a lonely life, and becomes the butt of jokes...the 'geek' , the dweeb' the nutball', and so on. When people are confronted with creativity, they feel a sensation of the ground falling away beneath them...they feel better by impugning , mocking, devaluing whatever it is they are looking at produced by a creative person.
Case in point, an artist friend of mine committed suicide some 20 years ago...another mutual friend remarked that he thought that person was a little 'schizzo'...that was an unfair remark. As if to say, "we haven't really lost someone who was useful to society'; another way of saying, "good riddance'.
Dull people are cruel...it all starts in high school, and is maintained for life, everywhere you go- in particular: church folk. This is a prime example of creative people systematically 'weeded out'. So that we wind up with stiff, strong church heirarchy, the 'inner circle' of "normal people", who act alike, speak alike, dress alike, and show no sign whatever of 'differentness'.
And THAT, my dear friend is why the Jehovah's witness all seem to look alike to you, or the Amish, or Mennonites, or any religion or cult, where there is a dress code, or a 'vestment' motif that prevails...
C.S. Lewis remarked that"... the most dangerous force on earth is the Half Truth".
The other side of this coin is the overwhelming, overpowering need for humans to feel they "belong" to some group that has a good image...a regimented, "normal" look. OR...they join a group, like Harley Bikers, and sport tattoos, beards, leather, chrome, boots, noise, shaved heads, , flashing bare breasts....and thus, 'belong' to a group of people enjoy "notoriety"...this is not creativity !! This is NOT "individuality" of any kind!
Again, like church folk, they are unable to come up with a unique, individual identity.
This is sad, and is the very dynamic that is regarded as "lemmings rushing to hurl themselves over the cliff into the sea"; and there perish...as will some 90% of the population that thinks they qualify for Heaven. They don't. They say, "I believe in God"...yet this alone doesn't mean automatic entry into eternal life in glory land...why?...because Satan and his army "believe in God"...the trick here, is to make yourself useful, as well as 'conformed'...to become the individual we were originally designed to be.
This is , apparently, the most frightening thing to the vast majority of humans on earth. To think creatively, and independently, will cause you to be cruelly mocked and ridiculed...and possibly be prescribed a 'brain detergent' that will erase your "poor, delusional, befuddled, schizophrenic mind"....
How sad...how criminal, how foolish are the people who think inside the box-especially doctors who will prescribe those brain detergents...to "help you". Groan. To help you 'conform'., and in this way, become like "the rest of us" marked and sealed for perdition.
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#2 - Sat May 29, 2010 9:34 AM EDTThank for your time in replying to my seed,my reason to seed it is that I done things and I have been called a genius on the other hand I've been accused of being schizo.As for your friend the artist do you still have his art as a memory of him.
Creativity is akin to insanity, say scientists who
have a product to sell. "Treatment" and accompanying medications. An $80 BILLION yearly business BTW. They are trying to close the sale by making you think there is actually something wrong with you.
Phychiatrists and pharma have been pumping the "idea" that to deviate from "Normal" is a symptom of an illness. What they will never tell you is that there isn't ANY biological test to confirm ANY diagnosis. BTW evidence ISN'T a colored chart or MRI style "brain scan". CHEMICAL ANALYSIS doesn't NEED color coded visual aids. They will expound all day long on the "chemical imbalance" associated with said diagnosis' but ask them to provide a biological test to confirm this "imbalance" and they balk, cajole, misdirect, change the subject, ANYTHING and EVERYTHING but provide the evidence.
WHY?
Because they have a "product" to sell. Treatment and medication.
Like a pet rock or a junk bond. Just because they say it's a good idea doesn't carry any credibility or weight.
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