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Anyone else on this boat?

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/10/07/creativity.depression/index.html

burt_stanton, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 20:57 (sixteen years ago)

I wasn't aware that you suffered from creativity.

Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:00 (sixteen years ago)

game, set, match

max, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:03 (sixteen years ago)

Yes. Although I thought this was pretty generally accepted already.

Beatrice Lacey (Susan), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:03 (sixteen years ago)

Hurting otm

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:09 (sixteen years ago)

how does science define "creativity", or distinguish it from say: doing nothing all day apart from trying to create art?

Local Garda, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:10 (sixteen years ago)

Oh just read the damn thing

burt_stanton, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:10 (sixteen years ago)

i read it, you still suck burt stanton

Mr. Que, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:11 (sixteen years ago)

Ladies and Gentlemen, your High IQ Thread of the Day.

caek, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:12 (sixteen years ago)

Parts of it read like an Onion article.

Local Garda, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:12 (sixteen years ago)

CREATIVE PEOPLE MUST BE SENSITIVE TO WHAT'S AROUND THEM.

SCIENTISTS ARE COLD AND ANALYTICAL.

Local Garda, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:13 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.gadgetsmonkey.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/donut_flash_drives2.jpg

Mr. Que, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:13 (sixteen years ago)

Damn, I was just trying to post up with an easy zing. I didn't expect it to give way to overt hostility.

Everything is Highlighted (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:15 (sixteen years ago)

It's what i"ev experienced since I was 3 years old. I'm used to it

burt_stanton, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:15 (sixteen years ago)

come on burt, no need to be so fucking creative about it.

Local Garda, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:17 (sixteen years ago)

Ketter and his colleagues compared a healthy control group with bipolar patients, depression patients, and a control group of graduate students in writing and the arts.

ok this is hilarious

cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:17 (sixteen years ago)

this is some mean shit.

caek, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:17 (sixteen years ago)

The fallacy that work
under pressure...



results in a direct pipeline
to creative genius...



uh, that divine inspiration...



can be conjured by...



well, anything but the most, uh...



mind-bending concentration...



now, this is
the world of the poseur--



the, uh, pretender,
the fraud.

playing the abortion card (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:18 (sixteen years ago)

somewhere in Musil's diaries he writes a really good few pages about this shit

cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:19 (sixteen years ago)

read those

cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:19 (sixteen years ago)

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0226043886.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1056426162_.jpg

playing the abortion card (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:20 (sixteen years ago)

"The arts are more dangerous [than other professions] because they require sensitivity to a large extent," he said. "If you go too far you can pay a price -- you can be too sensitive to live in this world."

ANOTHER THINKING RELATED DEATH...MAN I'M TOO OLD FOR THIS ART LECTURER SHIT

x-post are Musil's diaries any good?

Local Garda, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:21 (sixteen years ago)

xp: dammit I was just quoting that so I could post this:

"You want to be a WRITER????? Why can't you go into something safer, like coal mining or deep-sea fishing?"

Like sicking a little bit of water into my mouth (HI DERE), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:22 (sixteen years ago)

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NMNH8J70L._SL500_AA240_.jpg

cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:23 (sixteen years ago)

uhhhh Gaddis did not suffer from manic depression as far as I know. Great book tho

Mr. Que, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:24 (sixteen years ago)

or are we just posting cool books

Mr. Que, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:24 (sixteen years ago)

musil's diaries were pretty good

cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:25 (sixteen years ago)

the book is a manic bernhard rip

cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:26 (sixteen years ago)

agape agape

cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:26 (sixteen years ago)

oh got it--i haven't read any bernhard yet--which one do i start with

Mr. Que, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:28 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.impawards.com/1991/posters/hearts_of_darkness_a_filmmakers_apocalypse.jpg

playing the abortion card (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:29 (sixteen years ago)

I'm a special genius!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

conrad, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:29 (sixteen years ago)

p.s. i am just posting 'texts' from the syllabus of this 'madness and genius' comparative lit class i took in lol college

playing the abortion card (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:30 (sixteen years ago)

correction is his best, but you may want to start with the woodcutters maybe?

cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:30 (sixteen years ago)

for your information and edification xp

playing the abortion card (elmo argonaut), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:30 (sixteen years ago)

ugh i accidentally bookmarked this thread

joe 40oz (deej), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:31 (sixteen years ago)

more cool readz plz

cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:32 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.blackocean.org/mainsuit_large.jpg

Mr. Que, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:37 (sixteen years ago)

For the record I've made as much money writing as you guys probably have doing whatever dorky computer stuff you do. This is probably the wrong -audience- to introduce this to, so to speak.

burt_stanton, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:38 (sixteen years ago)

what makes burt_stanton tick

max, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:39 (sixteen years ago)

burt stanton actually dan brown

joe 40oz (deej), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:40 (sixteen years ago)

burt_stanton: writer

Mr. Que, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:40 (sixteen years ago)

I don't think Dan Brown has made just as much money as software professionals; if so, he needs a better agent.

Like sicking a little bit of water into my mouth (HI DERE), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:42 (sixteen years ago)

OK seriously, in answer to the kickoff question, a coroner uses the term 'ination' to describe 'loss of will to live'. If that isn't thinking yourself to death, what is?

jane hussein lane (suzy), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:50 (sixteen years ago)

arguing on ILX?

Like sicking a little bit of water into my mouth (HI DERE), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:50 (sixteen years ago)

hello i am interested in guess papers burt stanton writing samples

plz help

joseph sixpack (ice crӕm), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:51 (sixteen years ago)

burt stanton iphone naked palin moose

Mr. Que, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 21:51 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.dalkeyarchive.com/images/book/cover/332/tlooth.jpg

cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 22:02 (sixteen years ago)

holy shiiiiiit they are reprinting (or have reprinted) this???

http://www.oneworldclassics.com/covers/Locus%20Solus.jpg

cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 7 October 2008 22:06 (sixteen years ago)

yall are brutal

i got u burt_stanton

BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 22:16 (sixteen years ago)

Burt Stanton (Peter Horton) and Vicky Baxter (Linda Hamilton) are a couple passing through Nebraska who hit a boy with their car. After inspecting the body, Burt, who's a physician, determines that the boy's throat had been slashed before being struck with the car. The boy, Joseph, was caught in the cornfields and stabbed by Malachai before wandering out to the road. Stopping at Gatlin, Burt and Vicky find themselves at the mercy of the children's corn-cult. Vicky is captured by the children when Burt leaves her with Sarah, a girl who can draw pictures of the future. Burt walks into the local church and finds the cult planning the ritual sacrifice of a 19-year-old named Amos, who will be sacrificed to "He Who Walks Behind the Rows" that night with Vicky. Burt is stabbed and while pursued by the children, is assisted by a child named Job. Realizing the situation his girlfriend is in, Burt follows Job and Sarah to the cornfield. Meanwhile, Malachai has turned on Isaac when the latter refuses to try and use Vicky as a lure for Burt, Malachai decides to have Isaac crucified as another sacrifice. Night falls, and the ritual begins.

Jordan, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 22:23 (sixteen years ago)

butthurt stanton

Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 22:30 (sixteen years ago)

I'm not really that butthurt - I only posted like, three times in this thing.

burt_stanton, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 22:31 (sixteen years ago)

I enjoyed the article. Thanks for posting it, Burt.

Bimble, Tuesday, 7 October 2008 23:37 (sixteen years ago)

For the record I've made as much money writing as you guys probably have doing whatever dorky computer stuff you do. This is probably the wrong -audience- to introduce this to, so to speak.
intersting wow thanks how much money you make is important 2 me and it obtains much credible one 4 u

Lingbert, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 00:00 (sixteen years ago)

people who get wrapped up in their own inner world are more prone to having mental problems, who woudld've guessed

Granny Dainger, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 00:10 (sixteen years ago)

Yeah, that whole article does seem a bit "scientists prove the obvious" but I guess these things have to be restated every few years for those at the back of the class just catching up.

C M Y Kate (Masonic Boom), Wednesday, 8 October 2008 10:11 (sixteen years ago)

I'm less driven to write the older and more content I get.

Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Wednesday, 8 October 2008 10:19 (sixteen years ago)

Smug git.

Subtext of the article: you are abnormal, gas chamber.

A. FIND MISSING LINK B. PUT IT TOGETHER C. BANG! (Marcello Carlin), Wednesday, 8 October 2008 10:34 (sixteen years ago)

i'm glad burt_scranton's hardscribble existence was rewarded in the end.

estela, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 11:05 (sixteen years ago)

"Thinking yourself to death"

Is this like that movie about the guy's head exploding?

cameron carr, Thursday, 9 October 2008 07:11 (sixteen years ago)


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