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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (89968)11/29/2004 10:07:25 AM
From: J. C. Dithers  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
Do you recall that in 70s and 80s we went through a purge of boarding up state hospitals across the land. Those many thousands confined were dumped onto the streets, and some remain as the homeless persons you see having animated conversations with themselves as they shuffle along the sidewalk. Others became sheltered by relatives, and fairly often some of these ultimately blow, and then become the persons that make the headlines when they explode in a violent rampage.

By statistical probability, some who might otherwise be in those institutions have found their way here on SI. This is probably good, as they can exist here as aliases, exchanging paranoias and hallucinations in a harmless manner, while being happily confined to 2-D space where they can do no great harm.

Just a thought. (Disclaimer: I refer to no one in particular).
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