Cult

Such an alarming subject.
That someone you know might one day start spouting some TOTAL BOLLOCKS. Maybe not far out enough for commitment, (which they don't have in the UK unless you are a threat to yourself or criminally insane).
You should see some of the people on our streets. And you have to just let it be. Total and utter lunacy and people just get on with their day.
There are degrees of "completely off their faces", but then let one of those milder cases come under the influence of drugs or alcohol and you have a situation. Some of the most violent crime I have ever heard of has taken place at pubs by purely potty, (freaking insane), people who have smashed those big, thick beer glasses across people's faces and they are cut to smithereens and will forever look like a meat bag.
Druggies arguing over the needle, the last hit, who got more....
It's so demoralizing you feel you should do something. But, the will to survive over-rides one's benevolence and you scurry by as quickly as possible to avoid getting an invitation to arbitrate.
The one with absolutely no Science in it's tology is one of the more worrying. They have loads of money, and from stories you hear, a bloody gestapo keeping people and scenarios on the system.
But, we all see the results of their participation. Happy, successful, and then one day, like the "weird" switch was flipped, previously composed individuals are jumping on sofas and arguing with celebrities and morning show personalities. Just bizarre.
I don't get it.
If I sense even a hint of someone trying to persuade me to do something,
I resist. My rebellious nature and suspicious, un-trusting disposition have always run fairly good security for me. I wouldn't drink any damn Kool-aid, I'd have never gone. I don't worry about my mind or it's ability to sniff a pile. I am concerned about it in others, though. You can't possibly assess the mentality of random people, what meds they're on, what they SHOULD be on and aren't, or what other chemical elements are at work. It is a very interesting study about what causes the mind to sort of "trap door" like that.
I have grown suspicious of psychiatry lately.
A field of medicine established essentially to justify the dispensing of prescriptions for illnesses that are under researched and may not even exist. I'm just glad to be well. Not totally normal to the point of putting people to sleep. but not with any manifestations of madness.

well....you know what i mean. coming from me, it has to be slightly altered, i'm a strange one, but a normal kind of strange. i used to think i was all hardcore and then met some hardcore kids and had to scoot my upper middle class arse right where it belonged. i am happy to have been sheltered.
happy not to have any disturbing images coursing through my head. you do get out what you put in, and i put a lot of literature, classics, art, humanities, philosophy, medicine, science, biology and botany and the like. i used to wonder if i would one day fizz over and lose it. that's what seemed to be happening to people. but, i have it on pretty good authority that i am held together with gorilla glue.
it's those empty vessels that you have to look out for.
they fill easily with nearly anything.
i even keep a tight knit circle of friends.
oh, i gotta go.
i gotta go to bed. i have recently been slaving and must get up and do it again tomorrow. i lost my weight, though.
all gone. and i found a gym that is only 2 quid a visit, or 10 quid a month. i'm small enough now i can firm and smooth this and i won't look like some hulk woman!!
i am joining the cult of fitness!
if it's good for you, and you take it in moderation, i fail to see a problem!

Miss weakness, you pretty much amaze me sometimes.

Moderation is the name of game, hmmm, but I often find myself using the word balance a lot more