OK I've totally had it with delusional people this week (not on DU)

[lindysalsagal]

Am I getting a late April Fool's?

Is someone sending all the crazies at me on purpose?

Is there such a thing as reality anymore???

Do I have a sign on my back that says, "Kick here. She'll put up with it?"

I have been slandered. I have had someone lie to my face and literally ask me if I'm going to just agree to it. That same person said, "Of course, it's not OK for anyone else to lie to me."

Well, of course. That goes without saying.

Have people been this nuts all along, and I'm just catching on????

I don't do drugs. I don't really drink. I get lots of exercise and sleep. I'm effective in my job. I'm not hallucinating.

What. The. Hell. Is. Wrong. With. People.

[Skittles]

1. I swear that more and more, people are behaving in ways that make no f***ing sense

not just in politics, in the news, but in everyday life

[Tripper11]

2. Good! Then it's not just me!

seriously, I've been feeling the same way lately.

It's like everyone is just off kilter a little from me,
And who's to say I'm the epitome of sanity?

[Aerows]

10. I quit smoking a week and a half ago

There isn't a DAMN thing that makes sense.

[Skittles]

11. it gets better

I smoked for a long time but gave it up (after several tries) years ago

NOPE - "Not One Puff Ever"

[Aerows]

12. I'm in the NOPE crowd

I've had it with the hacking cough. Period.

No more. I have some white knuckle moments, but I refuse to start. I sealed the two cigarette packs I had with packing tape that would take a nuclear bomb to get them off.

I look at them in the morning, take a deep breath, and grit my teeth and I am F'ing glad I sealed them with packing tape.

[pipi_k]

3. I am, as they say...

flypaper for freaks

Have been for years. Decades.

So it's nothing new

It's one of the major reasons why I have such a hard time making friends or trusting people


Maybe it's me, I don't know. But I can't deal with crazy.

[gratuitous]

4. It's the same old story . . .

[Tobin S.]

5. I think it has something to do with the loosening of social norms in America.

It's a double edged sword. On one hand, we are getting legal weed and gay marriage. On the other, we are increasingly getting people who think it's okay to engage in objectively bad behavior- the root of which is selfishness. We are losing our collective dignity as a society.

[lindysalsagal]

6. No details, but basically, a delusional client tried to get my validation of her own

personal imaginary la-la land, and since I didn't enthusiastically validate it and celebrate it, I was slandered and mis-quoted to a supervisor. I didn't challenge her, I played along, but it wasn't with feeling, apparently.

I'm not in trouble for anything I did, except that I supposedly said some "unkind, uncaring words" to her in private.

I mean, in no way could I have profited from saying these unkind words: None of this was about my job. I want nothing from this woman. I never see her. We never work together. We have no connection at all.

It was her own personal crazy, she came for me, and I just didn't play along well enough. She wasn't asking me to do my job:

It was her own imaginary fantasy about my reaction to her. That's it.

It's just so weird to sit down with crazy, when the crazy really believes their right.

And I can't even drink tonight because of my anti-inflammatory. Damn!!

[eppur_se_muova]

7. One thing I always enjoyed about Bob Newhart's TV shows ...

his character always had to deal with people who were just plain crazy, but he managed to make comedy out of it. Having to deal with loons every day became a little more bearable when I could watch Bob suffering outraged conniptions from dealing with total space cadets. He never really managed to get the best of them, which is true to life -- they drag you down to their level of stupidity and beat you with experience. If only the morons in real life were as amusing as Larry, Darryl, and Darryl !

[Dont call me Shirley]

8. I've been one one post almost all afternoon...

trying to explain to people why rape is wrong. WTF!

It's like a corporation released a dumb pill in the air.

Have a better day lindy

[HeiressofBickworth]

9. I've invented a new game:

After watching the mini-series Pillars of the Earth (set in about 1120+) I decided the entire plot hinged on two things: greed and superstition. My game is to listen to the crazies now and determine which side of the equation they are on -- greed or superstition. And yes, religion is categorized as superstition. So, when you have your mind engaged in evaluating which side motivates the speaker, what they are saying is stripped of its significance. I wind up with the idea that human nature has never changed, but with the invention of mass communication, we are exposed to it more often.

[lindysalsagal]

13. I just finished The Edge of Eternity: The 3rd in the trilogy. Fabulous.

I think you're right:

In ancient history, we were pre-christian barbarians, not even trying to make sense of anything: Just trying to survive and not freeze/work/starve to death.

Then, according to St. Patrick et al, "God" became benevolent, and suddenly, people mattered. But humans still clung to delusion as it promoted their particular agendas.

The renaissance was a good try to think with our higher-order brains, but, alas, we still spent hundreds of years chasing each other around with swords, spears, and eventually cannon, tanks, airplanes and missiles.

And here we are, in the 21st century, with the world in our palms, watching video of the carnage in syria, and we still cling to the 10th century superstitions that originally sprang from our pre-historic tribalism.

I also think greed and superstition are symptoms of fear. Why is it so hard to understand that one's religion is merely an accidental function of our birth location?

Maybe we are just a fearful species. It's so tiring.