Jonesy

Eliminate the illegal drug trade by making the drug trade legal and there will be no funding for secret wars + secret operations in general will be more difficult to fund. Our government is not supposed to be doing these secret things.

On a side note... marijuana has proven to be significantly better in every way than alcohol: no, or substantially fewer, driving accidents; fewer, if any, birth defects; lower addiction rate; no long-term deficiencies, and only minor short-term (offset by the myriad of benefits); a myriad of benefits beyond what is offset; no life-threatening or severe illnesses (such as liver damage); second-hand smoke is not as bad as with tobacco (no cancerous agents in marijuana)... fuck man, amazing how the government can fuck with the minds of morons.

Jonesy

Schizophrenia is like the opposite of what I have. For me, I stick to a subject for an extremely short period of time. The schizophrenic sticks to the same subject for an extremely long period of time.

For the normal person, you might get a song in your head for a few hours or a day. For me, it could be a few seconds. For a schizophrenic, it could be a month.

It is conceivable some schizophrenics could function without medication. There may be some job where the slow rate-of-change is helpful. Mostly, functioning in our society would rely on teaching the schizophrenic correctly.

Jonesy

People think criminals who take anti-depressants are crazy, and that is why they are on the pills. The truth is, the anti-depressants are the things turning them into criminals. (Crazy does not truly exist.)

These pills basically do two things: they prevent deterioration (depression), and they eliminate fear (caution). When someone takes these pills, they grow in all sorts of weird ways because they are not afraid of growing in a bad direction (the growth being pleasurable is misleading). This means, a person might grow a murderer complex as a result of taking the drug, because they have no caution against forming this complex. When they then stop taking the pills, the depression resumes, as well as the fear, which then might cause them to prevent the deterioration of the murderer complex, and the pain might cause them to actually murder (like it has many times, in school shootings as we are all aware of).

Jonesy

I've been working a little more on this.

The brain has a certain amount of 'resources'. What you can do is spread out these resources among many different parts of the brain, or you can focus them on a single part. When you focus all of your resources on a single thing, you can achieve the highest gains and losses.

The 'ADD' person uses their 'resources' in a multi-focus fashion. They might be apportioning between 4 different parts of the brain, only slightly more focused on 1 part than the other three.

If you do use multi-focusing, you can make yourself less 'sensitive'. In other words, you will not feel emotional pain or pleasure as much when you split your focus between 4 things. The inverse is also true, when you focus completely on one thing, you will feel greater degrees of pleasure and pain.

Jonesy

What they call 'social phobia' is actually completely normal. It is abnormal to be without this 'phobia'.

Fear = caution. Humans are the most dangerous creatures here. Even if they do not mean you any harm, they are all capable of harming you. This is where the 'social phobia' comes from. If you are afraid of heights, you are not afraid because the heights mean you harm; you are afraid because the heights could harm you. This is a perfectly normal function of what we call 'fear'.