R U Nuts ?

The shocking answer is probably. If we rephrase this question to ‘how nuts are you?’ you’d be relieved to find that the bats in most people’s belfries are about the size of mosquitoes, more annoying than anything else.

However, many serial killers were know to be pillars of their community before their thirst for taking the lives of total strangers became public knowledge.

If the term 'normal' represents nothing more than what is acceptable within a given society, the term ‘nuts’ (as in insane) becomes somewhat harder to define. Eating the flesh of a member of your own species certainly sounds ‘nuts’ to most of us but it is 'normal' for a cannibal to behave in this manner.

To put a finer point on the issue, a poor person that acts irrationally is ‘nuts’. A wealthy person that behaves irrationally is ‘eccentric’.

If we take it for granted that we all have at least a few screws loose, this makes the task of judging who has a grip and who doesn’t that much more difficult.

While violent mood swings and a volatile temper are indicators that someone may be heading over the edge, it’s safe to say that we are all guilty of having had a ‘meltdown’ at one point or another.

It’s having them several times a day that is not a good sign.

We are taught that when we pray, we are talking with God. I don’t pray very often but more importantly, never once has that conversation been a two-way exchange.

I talk, he/she/it ‘listens’.

There are more than a few many famous figures in history who have been quoted as saying they have ‘spoken in their hearts with God’, who then follow up that claim with how God told them marching into war was the ‘right’ thing to do.

How God manages to endorse both sides of the conflict remains a mystery. Guess it’s that God thing happenin’.

People who hear voices in their heads (that aren’t their own) are without question, ‘nuts’.

Here the yin and yang of good and bad come into play. It seems that when some people think ‘bad’ thoughts, they like to pretend these bad thoughts come from the bad person inside them, it’s that bad person who is always arguing with the good person inside them.

Splitting these warring parties or worse yet, naming them, is the first step down the slippery slope of schizophrenia.

Perhaps scarier still is the notion of once ‘saved’ always saved. Admit a love for Christ just once and after that anything goes! You’re going to heaven regardless. You’re free as a bird, off the hook. Whatever you do in this life is of no consequence. Rape, murder, lie, cheat, steal, it’s all good! Proclaim your love of Jesus and he is GUARANTEED to make room for you in Heaven…

Which might explain why so many criminals tend to be ‘born again’ (and vice versa.)

This isn’t so much an example of nutty behavior but of nutty logic. It’s hard to tell which part is worse, believing it yourself or telling others you do.

So the point is we’re all a little nuts when it comes to certain things and given the incredible amount of happy horse shit that is passed off as the truth, it’s not all that surprising.

I’m sure some of you think my plan for a labor driven society is ‘nuts’. Given our inbred resistance to change that may well be true.

Because in the end it’s all relative.

Thanks for letting me inside your head,

Gegner