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مثل أوراقَ الأشجار،
كهذا هي أجيالُ البشر؛
عندما يَهبُّ النسيم، تتساقطُ الأوراق،
وفي الربيعِ تنمو أُخَر؛
كما تَذهبُ الأوراقُ وتَطلُع مجددًا،
كذلك على وجهِ الأرض يَطلعُ البشر

- الإلياذة
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The schizophrenic is desperate, is simply without hope. I have never known a schizophrenic who could say he was loved, as a man, by God the Father or by the Mother of God or by another man. He either is God, or the Devil, or in hell, estranged from God. When someone says he is an unreal man or that he is dead, in all seriousness, expressing in radical terms the stark truth of his existence as he experiences it, that is – insanity.

Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair. See especially Kierkegaard, The sickness unto death.

- The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness.
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The schizophrenic is desperate, is simply without hope. I have never known a schizophrenic who could say he was loved, as a man, by God the Father or by the Mother of God or by another man. He either is God, or the Devil, or in hell, estranged from God. When…
الكاتب يذكر أنّ بأي لقاء بين شخصين، أكو درجة من "التطابق" بين نظرة (أو هوية) الشخص لنفسه، وبين نظرة المقابل إلة. يعني اني أكدر أُدرِك هوية الشخص مثلما هو يشوف نفسه، وبالمقابل الشخص يكدر يدرك هويتي مثلما اني أشوف نفسي، بدرجة أو بأُخرى. صحيح هالنظرة مو 100% متطابقة، بس هالشي كافي حتى نكدر نتفاهم والحياة تمشي طبيعي.

بينما، تخيل مثلًا لو وكّفك شخص بالشارع وسأل إذا انت "فلان"؟ وذكر إسم مو إسمك. هنا صار أكو عدم تطابق بين نظرة المقابل إلك ونظرتك لنفسك. هالشي تكدر تفسره بسهولة بأنّه شبّهك بواحد ثاني. رح تكله أنّه غلطان وما صار شي. بس تخيل لو هالشخص اللي وكفك بقى يلح بأنّك انت فلان من الناس وأنّه مستحيل يكون غلطان... بهالحالة رح توصفه بأنّه "متوهم" أو يمكن "مخبّل." ليش؟ لأن انت متأكد من هويتك، فأكيد هو اللي عنده مشكلة.

الفِصام إلى حد كبير يشبه المثال الفوك وية شوية تغيير: تخيّل لو الكل يكولولك أنّك "فلان" من الناس، بينما انت متأكد بأنك شخص ثاني. هنا انت المصاب بالجنون (الفصام) لأن أكو خلاف بين هويتك الذاتية وبين الهوية اللي أغلب الناس يشوفوك بيها.

لما شخص يعتبر نفسه المهدي¹ ونظرته لذاته هي أنّه المهدي، بينما نظرتك إلة (ونظرة الكل تقريبًا) هي أنّه مو المهدي... هذا هو تعريف الفصام حسب رأي الكاتب: وجود خلاف بين نظرة المرء لذاته ونظرة أغلبية الناس إلة.


¹بعض مصابين بالفصام يعتبرون نفسهم هيج. مرات يعتبرون نفسهم الله (أو المسيح، حسب الديانة).
I suggest, therefore, that sanity or psychosis is tested by the degree of conjunction or disjunction between two persons where the one is sane by common consent.
The critical test of whether or not a patient is psychotic is a lack of congruity, an incongruity, a clash, between him and me.
The ‘psychotic’ is the name we have for the other person in a disjunctive relationship of a particular kind.

- The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness.
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three fires must you light ... one for life and one for death and one to love"

"three mounts must you ride ... one to bed and one to dread and one to love"

"three treasons will you know ... once for blood and once for gold and once for love.
I think it is clear that by ‘understanding’ I do not mean a purely intellectual process. For understanding one might say, love. But no word has been more prostituted.

- The Divided Self
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An Age of Decadence inevitably follows. Frivolity, aestheticism, hedonism, cynicism, pessimism, narcissism, consumerism, materialism, nihilism, fatalism, fanaticism, and other negative attributes, attitudes, and behaviors suffuse the population. Politics is increasingly corrupt, life increasingly unjust. A cabal of insiders accrues wealth and power at the expense of the citizenry, fostering a fatal opposition of interests between haves and have-nots. Mental and physical illness proliferates. The majority lives for bread and circuses; worships celebrities instead of divinities; takes its bearings from below rather than above; throws off social and moral restraints, especially on sexuality; shirks duties but insists on entitlements; and so forth. The society’s original vigor, virtue, and morale have been entirely effaced. Rotten to the core, the society awaits collapse, with only the date remaining to be determined.

- Immoderate Greatness, by William Ophuls
In media vita*—No, life has not disappointed me. Rather, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year—ever since the day the great liberator overcame me: the thought that life could be an experiment for the knowledge-seeker—not a duty, not a disaster, not a deception! And knowledge itself: let it be something else to others, like a bed to rest on or the way to one, or a diversion or a form of idleness; to me it is a world of dangers and victories in which heroic feelings also have their dance and playgrounds. ‘Life as a means to knowledge’—with this principle in one's heart one can not only live bravely but also live merrily and laugh merrily! And who would know how to laugh and live well who did not first have a good understanding of war and victory?

*Latin for ‘In mid-life’
- The Joyful Science
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أصلًا الجاحظ وأُسامة بن منقذ كل واحد منهم ألّف كتاب إسمه 'كتاب العصا' 😂
ما عدا عركات الطفولة بالعودة مال الماسحة والسيوف البلاستك