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I find imageshack reliable, but its not as easy to keep it all in one place.

Ta muchly.  I actually did this as I was falling asleep, which probably helped with the tone.

Yeah.  I thought he meant the bad sense of being mentally "healthy", the socially constructed healthy of positive thinkers, whose systems always seem to end up benefitting the status quo.

7 Habits of Highly Effective People readers and other types of "Positive Thinking" sorts, I would think.

Yeah, needs to be a header of some sort.

The problem is that mental illness is both a social construct and a biological fact.  So you have to be very wary on those grounds.  Not much can be done biologically, except getting the right drugs and dosage... 

Our society is a cause of many mental disorders.

Mental health is expressed as a range normally, with anything landing too far on one extreme or the other on a number of factors (such as introversion/extroversion or empathy/psychopathy) as having a disorder.

However, consider the state of society, where the is constant pressure to do one thing (often supplied by the media, religion, the state etc), where in fact, because of other factors (such as work, family, the structure of social life) many of these things become much harder to do.

Its not surprising that you get alcoholism, neurosis, introversion or complete psychopathy appearing with more regularity.  Coping mechanisms, ftl.

Pffft, we don't hold every member of MW responsible for their jackass admins.  Thats the sort of thing Mol does with us, IIRC.

Witchetty grubs.

Srsly.

freakin' AEWSOME

I wondered about that too.  I often find Islam makes more logical sense, because it had only one Prophet, and the Muslims were led to victory.

In contrast, the OT has several inconsistent prophets, a god who hates his own chosen people and every time they do something right, doesn't reward them, he just doesn't do bad things.

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

Sufi's aren't as cool as Ishmaeli's.

Cain,
is the real Aga Khan, bitches.

Greek mythology nerdiness time:

In Greek mythology, Chaos or Khaos is the primeval state of existence from which the first gods appeared. In other words, the dark void of space.

It literally means "gaping void", from the verb χαίνω "gape, be wide open", which likely comes from the root word where we get the English "chasm" from.

According to Hesiod's Theogonia (The origin of the Gods), Chaos was the nothingness out of which the first objects of existence appeared. These first beings, described as children of Chaos alone, were Gaia (the Earth), Tartarus (the Underworld), Nyx (the darkness of the night), and Erebus (the darkness of the Underworld).

In Ancient Greek cosmology, Chaos was the first thing to exist and the womb from which everything emerged.

The idea is also found in Mesopotamia and associated with Tiamat the 'Dragon' of Chaos, from whose dismembered body the world was formed.

Genesis refers to the earliest conditions of the universe as "without form and void," a state similar to chaos.

Primal Chaos was sometimes said to be the true foundation of reality, particularly by philosophers such as Heraclitus and those trained in Orphic schools. It was the opposite of Platonism. It was also probably what Aristotle had in mind when he developed the concept of Prima Materia in his attempt to combine Platonism with the Presocraticism and Naturalism. It was a concept inherited by the theory of Alchemy.

I meant that, more generally, esoteric interpretations require critical thought, because of the implicit assumption things are not as they appear.  Most religious nuts are literalists, it must be said.