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What if?

Unknown userMember08 Mar 2018, 6:44 pm AEDT

What if?

I want to create a space where we can use our imaginations...

there are so many of us on here who are so very creative in so many remarkable ways...

I also believe that we are all intelligent in differing aspects of thinking

we support and show compassion to one another

many of us feel different...as though we don't fit in....don't belong...

is this really because of society's way of treating us....stigma...I am not diminishing in any way people's struggles...they are very real...

we have humour...

or is it another phenomena

what if:::

we have travelled here from another zone

we are here to observe the medical profession...I love this one...

we communicate with each other....in the real world?

which is our virtual world?

So what if

willing to add some thoughts? anyone?

Sooohhhhh anyone who wants to put forward an idea....add the far side....who is bored...

What if

I am just adding a few names .....not excluding anyone...just struggling to remember...

@CheerBear @outlander @Zoe7 @NameUnknown @Former-Member @Former-Member @eth @Mazarita @Former-Member@Silenus @Faith-and-Hope @PeppiPatty @Appleblossom @Former-Member @soul @Determined

@eudemonism @Friendconnect

please if joining in add names I have left out...Out of respect I have not included at this time those who are particularly struggling so as not to offend....

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Unknown userMember09 Mar 2018, 8:34 am AEDT

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lovely @Former-Member

anything is possible

what if

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Unknown userMember09 Mar 2018, 8:37 am AEDT

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haha @Bunniekins

a spinning pea....or a slippey one rolling off of the plate across the table onto the floor...

I have picked up many peas in my time whilst my boys were young...

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ethSenior Contributor09 Mar 2018, 9:29 am AEDT

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All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream.

Alfred Hitchcock

@Former-Member @Silenus @Bunniekins and all - great thread!

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eudemonismSenior Contributor09 Mar 2018, 12:06 pm AEDT

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What if society has been wrong all along? What if there is no such thing as mental illness? What if mental illness is the dividing line between who we really are and what what society wants us to be (which is used against us)? Eude...

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NotLabelDefinedSenior Contributor09 Mar 2018, 12:18 pm AEDT

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hey @eudemonism,

interesting concept you've bought up.

i like the idea that mental health is just like any other capacity humans have, each of which are on a continumm. the diversity of our capacities is what makes humans so successful. there are so many people in history who have made a massive positive impact on humankind who had mental health which could be said to be on the extremities of the continumm, aka de vinci. really, most successful people have capacities which fall on the extremities of a given continumm

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Unknown userMember09 Mar 2018, 1:19 pm AEDT

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@NameUnknownwrote:
What if who you are now is not who you are ment to be?

this is a good one too...

who we are now is not who we are meant to be?

who we are now is all that we can be...as we can only be in the now...meant to be refers to future and future is not yet written...never comes..

perhaps..

what if we are not really who others think we are?

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Unknown userMember09 Mar 2018, 1:22 pm AEDT

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@Silenuswrote:
What if the past is pointless and the future is pretendies?

you are too quick for me @Silenus

am only getting to these now...

the past has happened and cannot be changed... without insulting anyone...as it has been and gone..

again future is a word that presumes....suggests...

there is no tangible answer about the future

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Unknown userMember09 Mar 2018, 1:23 pm AEDT

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@ethwrote:
All that we see or seem
Is but a dream within a dream.

Alfred Hitchcock

@Former-Member @Silenus @Bunniekins and all - great thread!

yes @eth I love this one

experiencing a time where waking up in the middle of a dream and not knowing which part or state is reality in the moment....

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Unknown userMember09 Mar 2018, 1:26 pm AEDT

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@eudemonismwrote:
What if society has been wrong all along? What if there is no such thing as mental illness? What if mental illness is the dividing line between who we really are and what what society wants us to be (which is used against us)? Eude...

yes @eudemonism

agree wholeheartedly with this one....

what if we are not the ones who have the illness...the ones who judge us and try to change us are the ones who have issues accepting that we are in a higher state of existence...

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Unknown userMember09 Mar 2018, 1:28 pm AEDT

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@Silenuswrote:
What if being insane is in sane?

@Silenus

this response is in line with @eudemonism

what if we ask ourselves: who is the one who is insane?

being in sane...in sanity...sane

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