I stumbled over this just after making my last post:
Take the quiz: "What Kind of Soul Do You Retain?"
Tortured
You aren’t sure how to feel, and this leaves you constantly in distress about what you do and who you are. You are tortured in the fact you can’t run OR hide.
This is pretty funny since I was kind of tortured over the last few sentences that I wrote and finally decided to remove from the post. It’s a little less funny in the tragic sense that there’s a lot of truth in it.
But then these quizs are pretty silly anyway. I could’ve easily answered some of those questions very differently.
On a related note, here’s my horoscope from last week’s Buzz v3 no26 (local free entertainment weekly):
Psychiatrist R.D. Laing espoused a view of insanity that’s radically different from the conventional wisdom. He said the rules of the game in the so-called normal world are crazy and sick. So when a person has a breakdown and no longer agrees to play by those rules, it’s actually a sign of vitality. In fact, a period of chaotic rebellion may be the only way to burst free from the lunacy of everyday life. Eventually, of course, the escapee has to return to a semblance of mental health and create a new relationship with the normal world, though in such a way that he or she will be less susceptible to its pathologies. Often the process I’ve just described is a terrible ordeal, even when it results in a dramatic healing. …
Alright! I must be well on my way to mental health cause I’m all about "a period of chaotic rebellion" and "burst[ing] free from the lunacy of everyday life."
Seriously, I need to research this Laing guy because his thoughts on the cause of this sort of distress seem to be highly similar to those of my favorite professor. See R. Stivers, Shades of Loneliness: Pathologies of a Technological Society.
BTW, I don’t believe in horoscopes either. But it is fun when they get something right. Of course, the part I elided, that is, the actual horoscope part, was pretty much crap. Theory and experience people. You got to get them in sync!
