Comments on: What were you up to, Benjamin Blood?

By: Benjamin Blood

Benjamin Blood — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:30:29 +0000

I found this article by google ‘n my own name. I found it a little bizarre that both our fathers where named John. And that as I have my forefather had experienced the sanity within insanity . For me and as others may have found, that the reasoning of the masses is foolishness.

By: Tdave

Tdave — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 05:55:07 +0000

I got a kick out of Musician/comedian Oscar Levants description of himself: “There’s a fine line between genius and insanity, I have erased this line.”

Oscar Levants imdb bio:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0505157/bio

I’ve had some psychotherapy, I have a six page report stating that I’m a genius without any mental illness. It actually concludes by stating in a very technical way that I am just weird and not mentally ill.

By: Tracy

Tracy — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:26:19 +0000

sorry-Churchill!

By: Tracy

Tracy — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 21:24:36 +0000

I agree with Sheila-

Intelligence does not necessitate sanity. One of the most intelligent persons I had ever met was a patient with me in a county psychiatric ward.

Think about the fine line between insanity and genius. Using the definition for insane given my Meriam-Webster’s online dictionary: “mentally disordered”, NAMI lists many individuals we would look at as “intelligent” who have had their rounds with mental illness including Issac Newton, Beethoven, Virgina Woolf, and Chruchill.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:33:37 +0000

I can not lean in any way toward sanity being a basic quality of intelligence. I have seen smart person part ways with sanity and it is disturbing.

By: Sheila

Sheila — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:53:25 +0000

Sanity is a relative thing. Social Security has kept me on total disability for 17 years now with severe, severe OCD and yet, I can look at some people, some world leaders, some sports “heroes” and wonder, really, who is more sane? Is it me who wants to be absolutely certain of my every action or is it these guys who just don’t seem to care how many beings are harmed or killed to get their own way.