I find it very interesting that some kid blows into town for a month and is now a sudden authority on paranoia on our site! I also find it rather insulting, disrespectful and rude. You don't walk into to someone's house and start tossing around how much better you are and insulting others. If that's your observation, then the polite thing would be to either keep it to yourself or discuss it with more respect. I don't mean to be as harsh as it is coming out, but this one kind of ticked me off because I have a great amount of respect for the folks here and, even those who might
appear a little "off", are darn good people who give up a lot of time to come here to help others! I might add that those appearances can also be deceiving. There is a good reason why some of them are the way they are and we not only respect that, but are grateful for what they gave up in becoming the way they are! Your walking around a free man today because some of these "paranoid people", as you call them, gave up a portion of their healthy minds for this country when called to do so. That's not paranoid -- that's a hero!
I have to say that, although we might have a few fruitcakes come by from time to time (which only makes for more interesting conversation and they generally leave after a short while), I don't see paranoid people. I see differences of opinion, but not paranoia. I see people overwhelmed by a pace so fast in the world you can no longer keep up, but that's not paranoia. Now I
do see people who are concerned about being prepared for a future economic and political direction in the world that appears to be heading completely out of control, but that's also not paranoia -- that's just common sense and being prepared for come what may; and the term for that would be "smart"!
