Prove that you are sane.
LY told me about a teacher who told the class about a university lecturer who set this dumbfounding essay:Prove that you are sane.
The simplicity of the question and its seemingly obvious answer stumps everyone like the question:
Why is 1 + 1 = 2? Who defines '2', and who defines '1'?
Same question here, what is 'sane' defined as?
All of us have our quirks in nature, nuances in language, differences in perspective. It would make sense to say that everyone is sane by their own standards. When I was on the wheelchair after my cat-emulation incident, I once again emulated F1 drivers by steering my imaginary steering wheel while my mum negotiated the turns in the hospital from behind. I made this comment myself:
'Should others see me doing this, they'd know how I got injured in the first place.'
Which made perfect sense, and shows that I am insane to a certain extent, and this 'insanity' of mine is only because of the what is deemed as 'normal' in society--people don't normally treat being pushed around in a wheelchair as F1-material.
People don't normally jump around on tables either :c
If mine is the more extreme case of 'insanity' which is not 'incriminating' enough to get me sent to Buangkok Green Medical Park (IMH), then there must be other milder forms of insanity that are quite like mine, except that they are, well, milder.
We all do things that are logical to us, and what is logical to us may not be logical to others, thus making everyone 'insane' in that way.
Such a cheem question and I don't think I've answered it because I've only shown, slightly, that everyone is insane to a certain degree.
In games, whenever we get pwned in DotA or L4D, we always get up/respawn and fight again despite knowing that we'd probably get knocked down again. But why? Is it just to maximize our $2/hour expenditure? No! Another radical definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting different results. And we fit that description perfectly. We try to attribute our successes and failures to 'luck', which is quite an insane thing to do to be honest, but we feel better that way.
I've run out of steam. Is knowing that we are all slightly insane a proof to why I am sane because insanity is only defined as such by the general population, and thus by pointing the finger at the general population there is no such thing as insanity?
Well never mind that. What is this thing?
Well you probably guessed wrongly. Nope, it's not soup nor rice, it's actually...
...pizza topped with a bottleful of cheese.
And here's a cashier named 'Am Cashier':
How random.
Well I didn't get to do much today. I kinda ponned school because I didn't bother with coming up with any valid reasons to not go to school. I mean I do have a valid reason to skip school but that doesn't mean that I actually produced the valid reason to do so, thus I 'ponned' in every sense of that word. But then again what can AJC do to me now that we're all graduating on Friday? (;
Then WK and I decided to crash VJC, just because we were bored. OK actually it was more of my...persistence in that matter. So we had to smuggle ourselves in because we didn't want to bother to get a visitor's pass and all in all it was epic in the sense that we were walking around as inconspicuously as possible trying not to get spotted by teachers. It was fun in that way <3
Well I'm just going to talk about how successful we were and not how we failed because I don't want to uhhh trample on someone's feelings (;
Yea well all in all a day wasted, HOOOOOPS.
-- 10/14/2010 01:05:00 AM