Total Madness

[Doktor Howl]

Words can mean anything now, folks!

Wheeeee!  You are freed from the horrible, oppressive ability to communicate!

[Doktor Howl]

A little madness, now and then, is relished by the wisest men.

BECAUSE LOSING YOUR GIRL, SCARING THE SHIT OUT OF YOUR KIDS, AND ALIENATING MOST OF YOUR FRIENDS IS SOMETHING TO BE RELISHED!

HOT DAMN!  WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THAT?

You fucking asshole.

[Doktor Howl]

While we're at it, a little full body paralysis goes down nicely every once in a while.  Or so the wisest men say.  It's very relaxing.

Also, carcinoma.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Words can mean anything now, folks!

Wheeeee!  You are freed from the horrible, oppressive ability to communicate!

I actually shat in my mouth a little

[Doktor Howl]

Words can mean anything now, folks!

Wheeeee!  You are freed from the horrible, oppressive ability to communicate!

I actually shat in my mouth a little

Sorry, I can't talk.  I'm due to go a little mad and frighten my children half to death with the notion that their old man and sole means of support has lost his shit.

We wise men relish that shit.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Lots of poetic bullshit has been written about madness, usually either by people who have no idea what it is to really live that way or by sad, desperate writers seeking a silver lining in what is largely a torturous situation.

"Mad without being ill" is called PRETENTIOUS POSEUR JACKASS.

[Cosine 5]

The only appropriate response to the mechanics of this planet is total madness.

Every conclusion we ever make about anything is based on an observation of an unbelievably tiny portion of the universe. We can't even pay attention to everything happening in our house at once, let alone our street, city, state, country, planet, solar system, galaxy; we've managed to discern through archaic tools the existence of an entire spectrum of light and sound we are physically incapable of witnessing ourselves, every opinion, every fact, every single thing we base our purpose and entire life on is inherently a woefully under-informed position, there is no truth, anywhere, I can't believe so many people claim to know the ups and downs and moral code of all of reality, I am not proud to be an American or a relatively-hairless ape, this charade has gone too far, the only thing to be done in the face of all this absurdity is to go totally nuts - quoting Mark Hammill's Joker, "It gets easier once you give in... it really does."

The idea that the meat industry can amount to a daily holocaust, enabled by this worldwide apathy, boggles my mind. So many things about this state boggle my mind. This backwards ban against public masturbation / fucking is a crime against humanity and all of evolution. When I get in these moods I feel like if I were in public I'd just start jacking off. Consider it a case of civil disobedience. I've been hearing about various trickster gods out of the corner of my ear ever since I was a little boy and now a bad case of apparent manic-depression has led me to relate more to The Mask (the Jim Carrey film) than I ever thought possible.

It irks me how cynics keep talking about going insane to escape from quiet desperation or whatever, and yet no one I know has really done it yet. In any case, I don't think that going insane will solve the problems of the world, or even make you happy "giving in" to them. If you want to give in and be happy, why not take advantage of them? Eat meat. Go partake of a hot dog on a Friday. Joyously.

[Doktor Howl]

Lots of poetic bullshit has been written about madness, usually either by people who have no idea what it is to really live that way or by sad, desperate writers seeking a silver lining in what is largely a torturous situation.

"Mad without being ill" is called PRETENTIOUS POSEUR JACKASS.

...And Nigel takes the pass and slam dunks it.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Unless Rat is defining madness as the same as naturally occuring but harmless eccentricity.

But yeah weirdo =/= madman

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

"Words mean whatever I want them to mean" ITT. 

I will agree with the OP so far as that some kinds of mental illness seem to be a reasonable reaction to an unreasonable situation.

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Unless Rat is defining madness as the same as naturally occuring but harmless eccentricity.

But yeah weirdo =/= madman

Such as has been used thoroughout Discordian writings, poetry and colloquially since the Victorian era? Nah, obviously I was saying it was fun to have OCD. Ya know... cause that makes sense. Because when people say "The crowd went mad with excitement" it means they all suddenly became clinically ill. When we say someone came up with a completely 'mad scheme', we mean that their plan is documented in the DSM-IV.

EDIT:

"Words mean whatever I want them to mean" ITT.

Cause words only ever have a single meaning!

  1.  Angry; resentful.
  2. Suffering from a disorder of the mind; insane.
  3. Temporarily or apparently deranged by violent sensations, emotions, or ideas: mad with jealousy.
  4. Lacking restraint or reason; foolish: I was mad to have hired her in the first place.
  5. Feeling or showing strong liking or enthusiasm: mad about sports.
  6. Marked by extreme excitement, confusion, or agitation; frantic: a mad scramble for the bus.
  7. Boisterously gay; hilarious: had a mad time.
  8. Affected by rabies; rabid.

[Doktor Howl]

Then clarify your original statement:  which definition, specifically, did you mean?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

In a bizarre and apparently unwarranted expectation of cohesiveness and topicality, I assumed he was using the definition the OP was using.

Of course, since words can mean anything you want them to mean, I realize now that expecting him to be replying to the topic raised by the OP or even really responding to this thread at all was unreasonable of me.

Potato bicycle chicken glorp.

[Doktor Howl]

In a bizarre and apparently unwarranted expectation of cohesiveness and topicality, I assumed he was using the definition the OP was using.

Don't let's get all SILLY, now.

Of course, since words can mean anything you want them to mean, I realize now that expecting him to be replying to the topic raised by the OP or even really responding to this thread at all was unreasonable of me.

Potato bicycle chicken glorp.

Smack my bitch up with a parachute.  I eat the yellow monkey!

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Then clarify your original statement:  which definition, specifically, did you mean?

Sometimes it can be good to go mad emotionally for a bit. You're a good example of that kind of mad sometimes
I think number 4 is likely the closest to the term as generally used in Discordian writings... or sometimes number 7.

Number 4 as a definition though, I think works for my comment.

Even more generally though, 'mad' often has a connotation of someone who is eccentric, who doesn't fit with the normal flow, ala the Hatter from Alice In Wonderland. We call him 'Mad' because we understand the term to mean eccentric. Mad magazine, Mad TV don't mean to indicate that there is a serious psychological problem, but rather a sense of silly, eccentricity etc. The Mad Fishmonger is another example.