If we were to get diagnosed with anything, it would be higher intelligence than the average 'sheep'.
lol. And then they'd probably 'diagnose' you as a conspiracy theorist or something. Seen it happen many times.
Topic: How Many Bitcoiners are Mentally Ill? - page 3. (Read 8761 times)
Bitcoiners aren't mentally ill, though I'm sure there are people with various mental illnesses here. I also think there's a lot of trolls but those people are more sad than having an illness. They obviously feel inferior so seek out personal glory on the net.
lol. And then they'd probably 'diagnose' you as a conspiracy theorist or something. Seen it happen many times.
lol. And then they'd probably 'diagnose' you as a conspiracy theorist or something. Seen it happen many times.
The trolls are less about casting aspersions and more about schadenfreude nowadays. It used to be they attacked Bitcoin with accusations of drug trafficking and terrorism. Now they attack investors personally as if they feel they can somehow hurt them. It's sad how the days of Something Awful raids have devolved into such petty cries for attention. The trolls here have nowhere else to go. They don't have a forum that wants them. Buttcoiner's don't want them because they they don't suffer fools either. Shibe's don't want them because they don't have the chops to keep up. The admins must pity them because they allow newbies to come directly into the forums with no forewarning. They become easy prey for the sociopaths lurking in the shadows. Fortunately experienced Bitcoiners, like the honey badger, don't care what they do because Bitcoin Abides.
Our coins aren't worth much anymore, but at least we are extremely intelligent.
LOL! +1
Our coins aren't worth much anymore, but at least we are extremely intelligent.
If we were to get diagnosed with anything, it would be higher intelligence than the average 'sheep'.
+1
In case anyone missed it, I believe many here would benefit from reading this article:
http://www.davidsongifted.org/db/Articles_id_10554.aspx
An understanding of the above article is perhaps a necessary (but not sufficient) component of self-actualization for those with the vision and ability to see the significance of what we are witnessing (Bitcoin). The RawDog style of the OP and the comical use of the fancy "elucidate" word indicates he/she will not benefit from the above article. But some the rest of you (posturing OP excluded) might be edified. Read the article. For your children, perhaps.
If we were to get diagnosed with anything, it would be higher intelligence than the average 'sheep'.
I totally agree.
If we were to get diagnosed with anything, it would be higher intelligence than the average 'sheep'.
Just briefly glancing through here it seems like anywhere from 15-25% could be diagnosed as morbidly paranoid, with 5% of that as full bore schizophrenia. There's also a great deal of mania in this forum, with the other subforums exhibiting mania/depression or both depending on the subject. It's difficult to parse through a forum but it just seems like an unusually large number of posters here are suffering from some combination of narcissistic/victim personality disorder, either resulting from social isolation, autism spectrum diseases, substance abuse (perhaps bitcoin's primary use) or PTSD.
Has anyone elucidated the link between bitcoin and mental illness? How many people here got involved in bitcoin because you couldn't function in the normal economy, or in society at large? I'm seriously asking because the idea of a currency that specifically draws the unstable members of society is fascinating from a social psychology perspective. There are certainly a very high number of sociopaths leading the bitcoin community (which explains the continuous scams and thefts of the beta member resources). Anyway if there are any normal members here you might want to commission a social worker to survey this forum for potential suicide/homicide risks or a psych researcher to try to and determine what factors of the bitcoin system are selecting for dredges. Cheers!
Has anyone elucidated the link between bitcoin and mental illness? How many people here got involved in bitcoin because you couldn't function in the normal economy, or in society at large? I'm seriously asking because the idea of a currency that specifically draws the unstable members of society is fascinating from a social psychology perspective. There are certainly a very high number of sociopaths leading the bitcoin community (which explains the continuous scams and thefts of the beta member resources). Anyway if there are any normal members here you might want to commission a social worker to survey this forum for potential suicide/homicide risks or a psych researcher to try to and determine what factors of the bitcoin system are selecting for dredges. Cheers!
One could make a very convincing argument that most people overly rely upon various defense mechanisms and psychological coping techniques to mask the true horrors that represent reality.
I don't need to believe in any "fringe" conspiracy theories(as if the popularity of an idea had anything to do with its validity.) to justify a healthy amount of skepticism (or paranoia, if you prefer) based upon what is openly admitted. Read some Noam Chomsky or Christopher Hitchens and your eyes will be opened straight away.
I had many colleagues call me a tin foil hat nutter 10 years ago when leaks started coming out regarding NSA crimes and my healthy skepticism drew conclusions that now have all been vindicated and those detractors now have a case of Historical revisionism and claim of course the NSA was doing all those "activities" that is what their central role is.
Inbitwetrust, you are an order of magnitude more intelligent than the posturing OP. She is likely not worth any time. It is easy to dissect her post to reveal grammatical errors, uninformed and indefensible statistics, and hand-waving. Many in the list of disorders the idiot posts in her first paragraph are mutually exclusive and have little to no comorbidity.
Just briefly glancing through here it seems like anywhere from 15-25% could be diagnosed as morbidly paranoid, with 5% of that as full bore schizophrenia. There's also a great deal of mania in this forum, with the other subforums exhibiting mania/depression or both depending on the subject. It's difficult to parse through a forum but it just seems like an unusually large number of posters here are suffering from some combination of narcissistic/victim personality disorder, either resulting from social isolation, autism spectrum diseases, substance abuse (perhaps bitcoin's primary use) or PTSD.
Has anyone elucidated the link between bitcoin and mental illness? How many people here got involved in bitcoin because you couldn't function in the normal economy, or in society at large? I'm seriously asking because the idea of a currency that specifically draws the unstable members of society is fascinating from a social psychology perspective. There are certainly a very high number of sociopaths leading the bitcoin community (which explains the continuous scams and thefts of the beta member resources). Anyway if there are any normal members here you might want to commission a social worker to survey this forum for potential suicide/homicide risks or a psych researcher to try to and determine what factors of the bitcoin system are selecting for dredges. Cheers!
Has anyone elucidated the link between bitcoin and mental illness? How many people here got involved in bitcoin because you couldn't function in the normal economy, or in society at large? I'm seriously asking because the idea of a currency that specifically draws the unstable members of society is fascinating from a social psychology perspective. There are certainly a very high number of sociopaths leading the bitcoin community (which explains the continuous scams and thefts of the beta member resources). Anyway if there are any normal members here you might want to commission a social worker to survey this forum for potential suicide/homicide risks or a psych researcher to try to and determine what factors of the bitcoin system are selecting for dredges. Cheers!
One could make a very convincing argument that most people overly rely upon various defense mechanisms and psychological coping techniques to mask the true horrors that represent reality.
I don't need to believe in any "fringe" conspiracy theories(as if the popularity of an idea had anything to do with its validity.) to justify a healthy amount of skepticism (or paranoia, if you prefer) based upon what is openly admitted. Read some Noam Chomsky or Christopher Hitchens and your eyes will be opened straight away.
I had many colleagues call me a tin foil hat nutter 10 years ago when leaks started coming out regarding NSA crimes and my healthy skepticism drew conclusions that now have all been vindicated and those detractors now have a case of Historical revisionism and claim of course the NSA was doing all those "activities" that is what their central role is.
I prefer the term mildly autistic. And so what?
While modern psychology and psychiatry relies upon more clinical trials these days, there still remains plenty of classifications which are very unscientific and decided by committee rather than through science. This would place psychology in a transitional stage between a soft science like sociology/womens' studies and a hard science like physics/chemistry.
Mental Illness exists as a continuum and what one could classify as a disorder another could classify as a personality trait.
I would agree with you that there certainly are going to be a higher amount of sociopaths/psychopaths drawn to bitcoin (as with the early internet) because they are willing to take risks with newer technologies that afford them a competitive advantage. This could be equally stated about psychopaths/sociopaths being drawn to other positions of power like politics and CEO positions.
A good book to read is "Snakes in Suites" which reflects a enlightening perspective upon CEO's in fortune 500 companies:
http://www.amazon.com/Snakes-Suits-When-Psychopaths-Work/dp/0061147893
Mental Illness exists as a continuum and what one could classify as a disorder another could classify as a personality trait.
I would agree with you that there certainly are going to be a higher amount of sociopaths/psychopaths drawn to bitcoin (as with the early internet) because they are willing to take risks with newer technologies that afford them a competitive advantage. This could be equally stated about psychopaths/sociopaths being drawn to other positions of power like politics and CEO positions.
A good book to read is "Snakes in Suites" which reflects a enlightening perspective upon CEO's in fortune 500 companies:
http://www.amazon.com/Snakes-Suits-When-Psychopaths-Work/dp/0061147893
I am worried about the drug use, but more drugs are bought with fiat then ever will with Bitcoin. Traces of drugs are even on US dollars as well as most likely most fiat currencies. So it seems to say fiat is used more for drugs then Bitcoin.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/17/cocaine-dollar-bills-currency-us
I'll second that http://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/aug/17/cocaine-dollar-bills-currency-us
Just briefly glancing through here it seems like anywhere from 15-25% could be diagnosed as morbidly paranoid, with 5% of that as full bore schizophrenia. There's also a great deal of mania in this forum, with the other subforums exhibiting mania/depression or both depending on the subject. It's difficult to parse through a forum but it just seems like an unusually large number of posters here are suffering from some combination of narcissistic/victim personality disorder, either resulting from social isolation, autism spectrum diseases, substance abuse (perhaps bitcoin's primary use) or PTSD.
Has anyone elucidated the link between bitcoin and mental illness? How many people here got involved in bitcoin because you couldn't function in the normal economy, or in society at large? I'm seriously asking because the idea of a currency that specifically draws the unstable members of society is fascinating from a social psychology perspective. There are certainly a very high number of sociopaths leading the bitcoin community (which explains the continuous scams and thefts of the beta member resources). Anyway if there are any normal members here you might want to commission a social worker to survey this forum for potential suicide/homicide risks or a psych researcher to try to and determine what factors of the bitcoin system are selecting for dredges. Cheers!
Has anyone elucidated the link between bitcoin and mental illness? How many people here got involved in bitcoin because you couldn't function in the normal economy, or in society at large? I'm seriously asking because the idea of a currency that specifically draws the unstable members of society is fascinating from a social psychology perspective. There are certainly a very high number of sociopaths leading the bitcoin community (which explains the continuous scams and thefts of the beta member resources). Anyway if there are any normal members here you might want to commission a social worker to survey this forum for potential suicide/homicide risks or a psych researcher to try to and determine what factors of the bitcoin system are selecting for dredges. Cheers!
Epic post. I would only caution that the "bitcoin community" IS NOT the bitcointalk community!
Takes one to know one I guess... 
It's like people going around calling everyone thieves are themselves typically the greatest ones of all.
I am totally insane, by liberal standards but guess who's winning this Bitcoin Mining game?
You have to be insane to some degree to do well in this business, same applies with Gold mining; we do shit most would find insane.
Normal people who don't belong in this industry usually become trolls, trying to make more trolls; it's some fuck fest I want no part of.
I'm out of my fucking mind, an anti-social misanthrope but I'm happy and live like a king.
I also suffer from MS and take a lot of drugs but I guarantee you my mechanical & tech IQ is way up there; however my socialist IQ is very low.
Don't like it, how I live, one of my associates will get you a phone book and you can call the affirmative action office.
Psycho Miner Pride
It's like people going around calling everyone thieves are themselves typically the greatest ones of all.
I am totally insane, by liberal standards but guess who's winning this Bitcoin Mining game?
You have to be insane to some degree to do well in this business, same applies with Gold mining; we do shit most would find insane.
Normal people who don't belong in this industry usually become trolls, trying to make more trolls; it's some fuck fest I want no part of.
I'm out of my fucking mind, an anti-social misanthrope but I'm happy and live like a king.
I also suffer from MS and take a lot of drugs but I guarantee you my mechanical & tech IQ is way up there; however my socialist IQ is very low.
Don't like it, how I live, one of my associates will get you a phone book and you can call the affirmative action office.
Psycho Miner Pride
Bitcoin sperg, you don't belong here. I imagine if you were to read the article I posted it would float right past your dozen or so brain cells on its way out your other ear. Clearly we are not your people. Shill or otherwise, find YOUR folk and thrive. The internet makes it possible to draw together small communities of people separated by great distances (e.g. badger rapists that caters to people interested in coitus with reluctant badgers).
I think there are many angry people in our community but they are angry for good reason. Apply your pontifications and analysis to what I have written. List your qualifications for diagnosing any of us, run through the NPD criteria regarding yourself (reading your original post makes it pretty clear you suffer from this as well as projection). And finally, where am I in the DSM, you self-important shit? Or do you even know what the DSM is.
I think there are many angry people in our community but they are angry for good reason. Apply your pontifications and analysis to what I have written. List your qualifications for diagnosing any of us, run through the NPD criteria regarding yourself (reading your original post makes it pretty clear you suffer from this as well as projection). And finally, where am I in the DSM, you self-important shit? Or do you even know what the DSM is.
This. Bitcoin is the only hope to scape the bankster mafia. If we have a mentally retarded population in the first world that will stick suck banker cock for some decades, at least outside our borders people will find use on BTC.
For most people on the planet today, the world already is shit. If it's not to you, congratulations now check your privilege. For the billions of poor, global capitalism is sucking the life from them.
Not so long ago the average person would believe that the loss the Divine Right of the King, and subsequent (ongoing) slow death of religion would be "the world going to shit". All the fruits of the age of reason would have been forsaken if the nobles and priests of the middle ages could have prevented the failure off Divine Right.
They could not prevent progress then, just as the banksters (our modern "nobles") can't stop bitcoin or the slow death of capitalism in our generation.
Not so long ago the average person would believe that the loss the Divine Right of the King, and subsequent (ongoing) slow death of religion would be "the world going to shit". All the fruits of the age of reason would have been forsaken if the nobles and priests of the middle ages could have prevented the failure off Divine Right.
They could not prevent progress then, just as the banksters (our modern "nobles") can't stop bitcoin or the slow death of capitalism in our generation.
Just briefly glancing through here it seems like anywhere from 15-25% could be diagnosed as morbidly paranoid, with 5% of that as full bore schizophrenia. There's also a great deal of mania in this forum, with the other subforums exhibiting mania/depression or both depending on the subject. It's difficult to parse through a forum but it just seems like an unusually large number of posters here are suffering from some combination of narcissistic/victim personality disorder, either resulting from social isolation, autism spectrum diseases, substance abuse (perhaps bitcoin's primary use) or PTSD.
Has anyone elucidated the link between bitcoin and mental illness? How many people here got involved in bitcoin because you couldn't function in the normal economy, or in society at large? I'm seriously asking because the idea of a currency that specifically draws the unstable members of society is fascinating from a social psychology perspective. There are certainly a very high number of sociopaths leading the bitcoin community (which explains the continuous scams and thefts of the beta member resources). Anyway if there are any normal members here you might want to commission a social worker to survey this forum for potential suicide/homicide risks or a psych researcher to try to and determine what factors of the bitcoin system are selecting for dredges. Cheers!
Has anyone elucidated the link between bitcoin and mental illness? How many people here got involved in bitcoin because you couldn't function in the normal economy, or in society at large? I'm seriously asking because the idea of a currency that specifically draws the unstable members of society is fascinating from a social psychology perspective. There are certainly a very high number of sociopaths leading the bitcoin community (which explains the continuous scams and thefts of the beta member resources). Anyway if there are any normal members here you might want to commission a social worker to survey this forum for potential suicide/homicide risks or a psych researcher to try to and determine what factors of the bitcoin system are selecting for dredges. Cheers!
Not an excuse; just an explanation:
http://www.davidsongifted.org/db/Articles_id_10554.aspx
Perhaps many here fit the Debrowski definition of gifted. Debrowski himself hid Jews during the Second World War and was imprisoned for it. Apparently he was deviant or not well adjusted to his society (according to the Nazi's) but I believe he was more sane and more human than any Nazi could have been.
http://www.davidsongifted.org/db/Articles_id_10554.aspx
Perhaps many here fit the Debrowski definition of gifted. Debrowski himself hid Jews during the Second World War and was imprisoned for it. Apparently he was deviant or not well adjusted to his society (according to the Nazi's) but I believe he was more sane and more human than any Nazi could have been.
If 1 BTC equals $1,000,000 then the worst problem will have been the collapse of the dollar...and probably the USA, which means the world would have gone to shit too.
For most people on the planet today, the world already is shit. If it's not to you, congratulations now check your privilege. For the billions of poor, global capitalism is sucking the life from them.Not so long ago the average person would believe that the loss the Divine Right of the King, and subsequent (ongoing) slow death of religion would be "the world going to shit". All the fruits of the age of reason would have been forsaken if the nobles and priests of the middle ages could have prevented the failure off Divine Right.
They could not prevent progress then, just as the banksters (our modern "nobles") can't stop bitcoin or the slow death of capitalism in our generation.
If 1 BTC equals $1,000,000 then the worst problem will have been the collapse of the dollar...and probably the USA, which means the world would have gone to shit too.
For most people on the planet today, the world already is shit. If it's not to you, congratulations now check your privilege. For the billions of poor, global capitalism is sucking the life from them.Not so long ago the average person would believe that the loss the Divine Right of the King, and subsequent (ongoing) slow death of religion would be "the world going to shit". All the fruits of the age of reason would have been forsaken if the nobles and priests of the middle ages could have prevented the failure off Divine Right.
They could not prevent progress then, just as the banksters (our modern "nobles") can't stop bitcoin or the slow death of capitalism in our generation.
rpietila predicting 1 million per coin doesn't make him a mentally ill individual! he's just a misunderstand genius 
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