Are depressed people more realistic?

[junkyardboy]

Evolution has nothing to do with your socioeconomic status, Baron Von Trollstein.

i know, it was some bacteria that decided it wanted to be a monkey that put you here
its all evolutionary

[Something completely different]

stop being al fucking cryptic and answere the questions I asked instead of continuously building one strawman after another.


Do I have to get all GESTAPO on you?!

[thesummerqueen]

I didn't say anything about Buddhism either, and anything that sounded as if I was Buddhist is purely coincidental. It was merely a response to your stupid generalization that atheists live in the moment -[b] no more than any other human does or does not on this planet.[/b]

wait, wait
isn't it atheist dogma that Christians are deluded because they look for an afterlife?

What part about what I just said had anything to do with an afterlife?

Evolution has nothing to do with your socioeconomic status, Baron Von Trollstein.

i know, it was some bacteria that decided it wanted to be a monkey that put you here
its all evolutionary

bacteria evolving into a monkey has nothing to do with my father putting himself through law school so he could put me through college later, except for the fact that he is a human any more than someone being borne in the stews of India has anything to do with them having evolved from monkeys.

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(Yes I know that's not the correct evolutionary term)

[Cato]

Junkyard's brain works much like a lottery machine, but instead of numbers the balls have words written on them. He opens the valve and jots down whatever word comes next.

[thesummerqueen]

Junkyard's brain works much like a lottery machine, but instead of numbers the balls have words written on them. He opens the valve and jots down whatever word comes next.

I almost choked on an M&M, since I burst out laughing at work. That's going into the thread of wit and epicness.

[Whateverist]

why are atheists, especially in the usa, ever depressed?
your mutant primate life to tough?

I especially like the way he asks this as though it had a simple and obvious answer. After all Christians are never depressed, right?

Christians don't have to be stupid. What's your excuse junky?

[thesummerqueen]

Statistics show that intelligent people are more likely to be depressed. This makes me feel better about my lifelong struggle with depression. Just seeing things as they are is enough to make one depressed.

When I'm happy, that's great and all, but I'm being selective about what parts of reality I allow myself to think about.

By the way I'm not sure if this is where you were going to with this, but just because there's a correlation between intelligence and depression doesn't mean there's a causal effect. There are plenty of highly intelligent people who aren't depressed.

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And saying it as generally as that doesn't really identify why 'intelligent' people are depressed. Is it because they had a horrible reality check? Maybe they have high intelligence, but are having financial troubles. I know plenty of "dumb" people who have that problem too. What about intelligence (which we haven't really defined) means you won't be susceptible to ignoring the outside world?

[Shell B]

Fuck it. I'm a pessimist in most situations and that is because shit is more likely to hit the fan than flowers. It's called preparedness. Spending every day all, "Lalala, things are going to be fine" is called being oblivious to reality. That being said, depression is a mental illness, not an outlook on life. Being depressed is not being pessimistic. It's being sick.

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Oh, sorry. I didn't realize that we had moved on to monkey bacteria. Well, someone has to be the example of what not being intelligent is like. Glad it wasn't me this time.

[junkyardboy]

why are atheists, especially in the usa, ever depressed?
your mutant primate life to tough?

I especially like the way he asks this as though it had a simple and obvious answer. After all Christians are never depressed, right?

Christians don't have to be stupid. What's your excuse junky?

i'm not depressed
a depressed Christian is continuously living outside God's will

[thesummerqueen]

He didn't call you depressed. He called you stupid.