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Paranoia ? - 9/18/2010 6:46:08 AM

Aneirin

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Paranoia

From that font of all knowledge Wikipedia ;

Paranoia is a thought process heavily influenced by anxiety or fear, often to the point of irrationality and delusion. Paranoid thinking typically includes persecutory beliefs concerning a perceived threat towards oneself. Historically, this characterization was used to describe any delusional state.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paranoia

Now although I do wander there sometimes myself, it has come to my attention that this forum in particular shows a fair few others who display characteristics of paranoia, so I have to ask myself just what is it about politics and religion that causes this, What is it about P&R, which is basically the same thing that incites what I would suspect as normal rounded people to become so lairy.

Of the wikipedia description of paranoia above I will outline two words I find synonymous with this forum. Those words are Fear and irrationality what comes from those two words is also contained in the description, but it is here, on this forum, why ?

I do understand there is much fear in the world, personal fear from what people have perceived for themselves and fear created by others, but why, why do we feel so much fear ?

What is happening to this world we live in, is it that people have discovered fear is a useful tool to use where it is necessary to gain the upper hand and of those that use fear as a weapon, who are they, the enemy ?

But who or what is the enemy ?

Ourselves ?

If ourselves, do we just need to re examine ourselves from time to time and see where we are heading, are we using our own thought process or the process of another, are we being brainwashed by those who seek to control.

Let's just take the recent war of words over the proposed cultural centre that was said to be being built a couple of blocks away from ground zero, the original story I believe, what happened to the story, it became a mosque built on ground zero, the facts were modified to create a response, undoubtedly to set off that age old tool of control fear

Who or what is using that ancient tool and why ?

Again, who are the enemy ?

Now some have identified us Brits like to tangle in American political affairs, some believe we have no right, but hey, this is an international website open to all, so when a question is asked, similarly, it is open to all, but from this particular oddball Brit, I am seeing and saying the US in particular appears to have become largely a paranoid society, many are being manipulated to forge a response, a response that feeds those that seek to control a situation. It agues me to see what used to be considered a pretty easy going nation to become what it has, a country steeped in fear, suspicion and paranoia. Have any of you ever considered you are being had, used for whatever aim ?

Me, I have learned to suspect authority and so rely on my own thoughts to a situation, not others.

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Everything we are is the result of what we have thought, the mind is everything, what we think, we become - Guatama Buddha

Conservatism is distrust of people tempered by fear - William Gladstone