The funny thing is that psychiatrists can’t come up with a singular definition themselves. They certainly have their own biases of what sanity is but there is nothing scientific about it.
The trick is to convince a mass majority of society into believing that sanity or narrowly approved behavioral mechanisms is the way people ought to act as.
Behavioral conditioning at its finest.
Somebody has come back from a Krishna temple retreat I see…
And yet the clinically mad man has an entire thread based upon the treatment of mental illness. Interesting.
Women will listen to anything especially if its from an authority figure. They’re very good at obedience and mental submission these female creatures.
In other words sanity is the mental perception of an obedient slave. Well, I’m certainly glad we got that well out of the way.
Thanks for amusing me this morning with that tid bit.
Or the so called ‘insane’ people are the ones unable to cope with the mechanisms of physical and mental slavery that encompasses all of modern civilization…
Ah, yes, but you simpletons are unable to grasp such perceptions, aren’t you?
Wow ! This has been a learning experience for me. I just assumed some things are obvious. I have had to rethink this.
The inability to cope is a symptom, not the definition.
Rotten apples are brown. But being brown doesn’t make you a rotten apple.
… cope with it. 
Many people do cope with their problems. Just like that mass shooter from last week. That was his coping mechanism.
Not a smart one but nonetheless a coping mechanism all the same.
The guy was an actor reading a script. “Believe nothing you hear and only half of what you see. And on TV or video ISN’T “seeing””.
What you say is very much possible and I wouldn’t put it past the general authorities however like anything else I would need more substantial evidence to ponder upon. 
Why the invective? What’s your stake in this?
Amusement and entertainment. Like always.
Exactly. And that’s precisely the use the Church has always served.
Do this! Why? God tells me to tell you! Oh, okay. If God says so.
Or without the intervention of the priest, “let go and let God” can mean simply to renounce conscious intent and to leave your decisions up to intuition or instinct, which could go well for you depending on your physiological constitution of the time. It can easily lead to quite horrible people and experiences.
But thirdly, it can mean leaving aside prejudices and societally programmed patterns, and an awakening to the “god within”, which is the proper self-valuing, the real core of the being. In that case, the Lord taking over is really your proper ontological identity.
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I don’t actually see anyone as a saint. They don’t exist for me.
I don’t think that necessarily works for me. Our so-called knowledge may be simply our perception which may be erroneous, which might mean that the intention is not based in reality or in harmony with “to do no harm”.
Have you ever heard of Joan of Arc? She was canonized a saint by the church - and we now “believe” that she was schizophrenic. So apparently, you do not have to be clinically sane in order to be a saint.
God doesn’t have to be anything which we attribute to this concept. Wouldn’t you say that 'sane" and “saint” have to do with humanity? Where does a God fit into this equation?
In other words, a human being who is imperfect.
Even your so-called saint is capable of bad intention. A real saint may be more self-aware, cognitive and have compassion.
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By human perception. But this might not necessary describe the “reality” of what god is.
Sorry for delay, AD. I missed this.
Yes, that is true. They do not exist anymore.
That is not wrong. Sanity depends on ones knowledge and intention. To do no harm is certainly sanity and may varies. It may means differntly to different people.
She was not the sane as she misunderstood her visions due to her age and lack of proper guidance, which ultimately turned her to some sort of military commander ( if the historians are right about her ).
One must be clinically sane in order to a saint.
Yes, more or less.
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No. A saint is not open to any bad intention at all, though to some lack of knowledge.
He may not know all but will never act intentionally bad according to his knowledge.
A real saint must not have any bad intentional at all, though the same cannot be said about his knowledge.
And, that is the only difference between him and The God.
with love,
sanjay
An excellent explanation. Thank you for helping me understand.
You are always welcome.
with love.
sanjay