Paranoia: Classic Or Dud?

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Since the boards seem no stranger to it. ("Oh my God, he's saying ILE is full of paranoids...HE MUST MEAN ME!")

― Tom, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Dud: waste of time and energy. As a teenager I was extremely paranoid: I used to think *everyone* was talking about my back. I stopped when I started accusing myself of it. ;-) I think it's a sign of insecurity and being too dependent on others.

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

*Behind* my back.

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

such a dud. were you implying i'm paranoid?

― lady die, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

anyway can we get back to talking about nathalie's BACK. *bzzz bzzzzz bzzzz* (= meant to represent whispering)

― duane, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I knew it, I knew it! ;-)

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

paranoia: what has pretty much killed ther fun on ilm. the whole "there's a secret cabal!" theoree there ist so redikkikulous.

― junichiro, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

this thread is directed at me, isn;t it?

― Geoff, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"Paranoia: You only have to be right once to make it all worthwhile." -George Carlin

― Joe, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you" K.Cobain. I'm paranoid about this place, it's easier to get paranoid when you don't know anyone at all, and plus I don't always get my point across and it matters to me. And as Triple H said to Stone Cold..."DTA Austin, DTA".

― jel, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm paranoid about Tony Blair for all sorts of reasons. For what it does to me emotionally dud, for the feelings that inspire it IMO classic.

― Robin Carmody, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm paranoid that the NY krewe is renting cars for a city-wide scavenger hunt to which I'm not invited. Just make me one of the items, kay??

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm hooked on a feeling.

― Nude Spock, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm wary of this question due to the word's precise, scientific use of a not at all pleasent medical condition.

I once mentioned to someone I had met at a party that I was getting paranoid after a recent theft, and then told me in vigorous detail that using that term was offensive to anyone genuinely suffering from that medical condition.

It made me wonder which word should be used instead. Suspicious? Anxious? These miss the mark. I'm not sure that there is a real substitute, since paranoia has been adopted for this lighter, more frivalous definition.

I didn't ask the chap I was speaking to, as he preceded his argument by leaning over the table and giving me a solid, heartfelt punch on the shoulder, and spent the next hour telling me that I would be first agains the wall in a revolution due to my posh voice. I remember it well.

― He's Not Here, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after you" K.Cobain

Saul Bellow, wasn't it?

― Johnathan, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Or Hunter S. Thompson?

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

He's Not Here: Why are you censoring your discourse based on the aggressive yatterings of a TOTAL TWAT?

― mark s, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I haven't really censored what I say, I'm just a bit more careful that I won't be offending anyone.

He's not the only person to have said that, incidentally, although he was the most emotive.

― He's Not Here, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Paranoia sucks. Arrogance is arrogance, no matter whether you think the world is Pro or Anti-You

― jamesmichaelward, Thursday, 2 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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