And Bedlam received 96,000 individual visits in 1814 alone, as people queued up to laugh at the writhings of the insane. A dignified behaviour, to laugh at the misfortunate? No. But let's not kid ourselves that they don't still do it today still; that the internet hasn't allowed an outlet for the same morbid fascinations;
Crank Dot Net has been logging, and laughing at online lunatics since 1997, for instance. And that had approximately 10,400 visits in the last month alone. So... you're on a web page here where you have no friends, on the internet that recognises no virtues or public restraints in general. Now why do you really think you're getting those hits?
It's because people are coming to your thread is to see you trapped in your own self inflicted bedlam, and to laugh at it.
They watch you writhe around, distorting even your own precious Bible in your desperate attempts to keep your demons away; One minute the Bible is true because it gives perfect message, the next it's true because the messages are conflicted, confusing and nonsensical... just like you are.
They sit on the sidelines and laugh as you debase yourself, for who knows what reason; come watch the mad man declare publicly he's going to pretend people don't exist, because he doesn't want to listen to them! Watch him play out Little Napoleon complexes, or set dates for his Papal forgiveness!
They hurl the rotten fruit of invective, as you sit gibbering in the corner, endlessly repeating yourself; "Geisner says... Civil War... Signatures... Geisner... Signatures... As my 1000 posts say.... Civil War... Geisner... Signatures... As my 2000 posts say... Geisner... Geisner... Signatures!"
Oh, many people here are trying to debate with you rationally... they want to
help you, or at least warn others away from following you down the same road to irrationality... but the peanut gallery? They don't care. Don't kid yourself that they do DOC. They are just watching and wondering how you'll top this weeks insanity in next weeks show. And putting them on ignore only blocks up your ears, it doesn't close their ravenous eyes... they are the ones out there,
still watching you DOC.
And they're the ones who'll bust out laughing every time 2,000 becomes 3,000 because they know exactly what that means; you've been laughed at another 1,000 times since, and
still haven't salvaged any dignity from it all. Cruelty has a stomach that can never be filled... but if you insist on feeding yourself to it, so be it DOC. But don't say you haven't be warned plenty of times before...
