Are Artists Really Mad? Sohail Sahib,

It is not only unfortunate that mental illness is so poorly understood but what is even more unfortunate is the stigma attached to it.

While there may be great sympathy for someone with diabetes or cancer, both organic illnesses; there is very little knowledge or sympathy amongst the masses for people with mental illnesses such as lets say schizophrenia or depression. Mental and Physical ailments are both organic in nature, yet physical ailments elicit a sympathetic reaction in most people whereas mental illness revulsion and blame towards the person afflicted..

Now that`s Unfortunate! Dont you think?

Depression is usually called the ``writer`s malady`` but most people think that clinical depression on its own or as a component of manic depressive illness is something that one can just snap out of.....

People say, ``If you are depressed, just snap out of it``. There is no such thing like that for clinical malingering depression.

Sohail Sahib,
I appreciate that you have recognized that the title of your article maybe percieved as insensitive.

Are Artists Really Mad? The article is good, Khalid Sahib

I wish your title was more sensitive?

People with Mental Illness are not ``Mad``.

Actually most people who ARE really mad in my opinion and commit really bad acts such as crimes are perfectly sane in the clinical way.

The one illness that is the mainstay of the connection between creativity and mental illness is Bipolar or Manic Depressive Disorder. Many people who are afflicted with this illness may appear to be bizaare, eccentric and what have you, but are hardly mad.....

Creativity is not just limited to art, but is the fountainhead of all innovation in human societies.

Inventors, Writers, Lawyers, Doctors, Surgeons, Scientists, Architects, Musicians, Chefs, Mothers, Fathers, are all creative beings........

I guess its the level of creativity that differs between all these people from all walks of life....

The mental high felt by Sufi Mystics through out ages would be considered Mania by today`s psychiatrists.........

What ignorant arabs believed to be divine revelations 1400 some years ago would be considered by many to be the ramblings of a very gifted poet well versed in Judeochristian traditions....and I am not saying whether they are or they are not........

Whether a person is experience spirit possession or psychosis is a matter of opinion and the cultural frame of reference....

One Man`s Spirit`s Possession is Another Man`s Psychosis easily cured by some Strong AntiPsychotics and Sedatives....HOLY Water or not.......Quranic Verses or Not......Jharoos or Dum ka Paani or NOT........

Veil for vendetta Great Article!

Loved it.......

Dnyandeep (Lantern of Knowledge) My soul is the lamp that illuminates the temple of my being......

My soul is fed by the fuels of knowledge.......Gyana.......

Like MahaDevi Ganga emanating from Maheshvara............

a trickle, slowly but surely......

Innocence, Loss and Nagan Chowrangi Very good!

I know what it feels like to be taken so forcefully against your own will....

Once a physical virginity is lost, it cannot be replaced.....

and once the spirit is wounded, the body doesnt care anymore......

Prayer brings the body dignity, and any man cant take it away.....

You can rape, you can pillage
You can drive it in harder or softer

Faster or slower.....

It makes absolute no difference

because its just the flesh....the mere body.....

The spirit can no longer be touched by you......the rapist, the molestor, the buyer of a prostitute in this case....

After my unwilling rape in 1995, it matters not what can happen to my body.....

No man can do anything to it......

I mean they can create physical pain and pleasure.... the two do tend to go together simultaneously........sometimes anyways......

But the point I am trying to make it that no man or woman can take your dignity away...no matter how horrific the act might seem......


Prostitutes are not born.....

They are made! by the vile desires and lasvicious desires of Unclean and Unchaste Men and Women.......

Mary Magdalene was a prostitute........

I rest my case..... if there was ever one .........

I hope this has been instructive.....

Although I am glad the author had a blast....

Hey, Men have Phalluses and they need release......

Such are the matters at the base of all things.......

Muslims ‘Unveiled’ Great Article, NaqshBandhi Sahib.....

Nature and Natural Disasters Oh yes....

The clueless blonde Mystic has just spoken to the Intellectual from Amherst........

Nature and Natural Disasters Yes, the divine does nothing.......


Yet....the divine lives within the people who predict....

Its called Being Human and having the divine spark animate us....

otherwise we are just glorified carbon molecules.....

Oh get a clue....please

what an utterly ridiculous article.......and what a totally ludicrous premise....

Go read some philosophy

Aristotilian perhaps.......

Read Anthony M. ALioto`s, A History of Western Science.....

Things just dont happen for a reason.......

our electrons and neutrons set things in motion tempered by frenzied motion.....

what is here is neither here nor there.....

yet the earth is like an electron circling around a nucleus.............always in motion..neither here nor there, in a dimension less space...........

Is this called Metaphysics...

Read some please...

and the cardinal directions please and the points of origin theory.....and the destination theory.....

HELLO DUH>>>>>>

What Osama gave Muslims Thank you Ranjit......

What Osama gave Muslims How to improve Pakistan


Start with Telling the TRUTH about things.......

What Osama gave Muslims I pin the blood of Abeer on Osama`s Head.......


The Creator of Fitna.........

Wa iza Qaila lahum La Tufsido Fi al Ard...

Qaloo Innama Nahanu Musleyhoon,

Allaa Inna humul Mufsidoona

Walakin la Yash aarooon.......


When it is said to them,
Why do you make mischief on Earth.....

They say we only make peace.....

``NO``

It is they who make mischief yet have no consciousness of it.......


The Cow.... The Recitation most Wise......

Don’t Shoot the Messenger The Great Grandson of Sayyedah Rasheedah Begum of Meerut India....

Who out there knows her?

Her father was a very well known Bozorg........

Bozorg is Farsi for Mountain.........



I am Asim Javid, proud brother to Sajal Javid and Atir Javid, and Qutaybah Imran and Sama Javaid in Lahore Pakistan......
I have a BA in Philosophy and Religious Studies/minor in Biochemistry from Louisiana State University, and presently I am in graduate school studying to be a Family Nurse Practitioner.

How to Kill the Dead Again Dear IAMNADIA>>>>>


YOU RULE>>>>>>>>>>


BRAVO>>>>>>>>

HUMARA AAP KO SALAM>>>>>>>>

KABHI APNA DEEDAR TO KARAEYE GA>>>>>>

BEYCHAIN HEIN HUM AAP SEY MILNEY KO>>>>>>

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How to Kill the Dead Again What purpose is to memorize the damn Quran

Do we not have books to write on

DO we not have paper

DO we not have Ink

DO we not have TAblets

Do we not have Parchment...

DO we not have Other things to write on......

Why did he need to memorize the Quran

Why was the young boy subjected to the Mullahs

and their Pedophilia

because probably his father is a pedophile too.....

very very NAMBLA>>>>>>>


But Pakistani Style...done in mosques........

My best friend in Pakistan ....was the Hafiz ....Lived at 316 Sector A-1 Township Lahore.....

Very very nice guy........but a Hafiz...His father had sent him to Pirs and Murids and all other sorts of men......

Omar From Sargodha.....God I would love to marry him......

He is built like an Indian God.......

Never ever violated me.....RAther loved me..... Kissed me....Hugged me........what a truly nice man.......

How to Kill the Dead Again Ahmednejad is an ape.....

Definitely.....

A naked one at that.......

Well.....

How shall we deal with him.....

Get the darling Fucklumpt.........

and He will learn his lesson......

Give Iranian women their freedom....

Enough


Enough

Enough


DOKHTAR_E_FARHANG

For the Heck of It Hmmmm.....I am thinking whether I should accuse him of Date rape........

The man I fall in love with.....

Its like he is created in the image of the divine....atleast he thinks that.......and erects lots of phallic symbols everywhere to glorify his ever drooping viagra requiring Phallus.........

The more viagra he requries.......The more obstinate and perverted he gets......


Syed Akber Ahmed mentions him in his book as the perverted grandfather who seats the grandchild on his lap and then lovingly strokes the child.......now the innocent child for some reason knows that it is being violated if that is so the case........

But Pakistani children, or Islamic children have no recourse.....they are taught by their mothers to pray......

Pray to Allah.....He will listen to your prayers........Just grow up and then abuse your own children......

and the vicious cycle continues......


who will speak for the children of the world......

As Khalil Gibran would say......


Your children are not your property.........

O Mankind, why do you not heed the signs.....so clear!

Are you waiting for a table from heaven to arrive with a God sitting on it....or some defunct Imam......


Get a clue you idiots......


Hello DUH