. . . or why you became a religious fanatic, a band groupie, the Chicago Cubs' Number One Fan, a fill-in-the-blank junkie/obsessive-compulsive, a political radical, an activist, a racist, or maybe a workaholic, drug addict or alcoholic, got a tattoo or covered yourself in them, cut your ears, and maybe your tongue, nose, nipples or genitals, replete with jewelry, questioned your sexuality or gender, added or subtracted breasts, got a chopadickoffofme or an addadicktome, keep changing your hair color, or are otherwise consumed by your "identity".
Because you ain't heavy.
Are Twitter trolls mentally ill? :
"diagnoses
of the various kinds of personality disorder are very fuzzy — often
people are in several categories, or don’t fit neatly into any of them." ...
"neurotypical people ... are
heavy, it takes a lot to move you. So when something quite nice happens
to a neurotypical person, it makes them slightly happier: the wind only
moves them a little bit. When something quite unpleasant happens, it
makes them slightly sadder. ... if you are cognitively light, then the same events will move you much further. ... think of it as someone being light, rather than heavy: being blown on the wind of events. [Light] people ... feel
emotions much more strongly. But they also have difficulty forming a
strong self-image, and often take on very visible identities, such as
being a Goth or a fan of a particular band, dyeing their hair or getting
tattoos, in order to give themselves something solid to cling to." ...
"we all grow more emotionally stable over the course of our lives (as children, we are very emotionally volatile, and settle down with age) and by middle age, most people ... are leading healthy and happy lives. One study followed up patients 27 years after diagnosis and found that 92% of them no longer met the diagnostic criteria." /end
The easy malleability of the human personality, its "light" nature, its instability, particularly of the child, is both a feature and a bug according to the New Testament.
Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.
-- Luke 18:17
The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes or whither it goes; so it is with every one who is born of the Spirit.
-- John 3:8
While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children
of light.
-- John 12:36
Ye are all the children of light, and the children of the day: we are not of the night, nor of darkness. ... But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
-- I Thessalonians 5:5,8
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
-- Ephesians 4:14
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light:
-- Ephesians 5:8
