I remain boringly sane. A dose of minor craziness might spice life up a bit, but not to the extent where I'd want to believe that no planes struck the Twin Towers .... and I scanned pixels on grainy photos and vids looking for anomalies.... and went delving for obscure YouTube films doctored and misinterpreted by equally disturbed individuals... and wondered whether Beam weapons or mini-nukes might be worth considering...or agreed the Govt were spraying us with nasty drugs in aeroplane vapour trails... or that lizard aliens from Sirius might represent
the truth about The Devil... or that weird burrowing parasites might require buying Vit C from a particular supplier .... or denied basic physics ... or claimed all the concrete at WTC was reduced to powder.. or claimed the bottom of WTC2 should have "caught" and stopped the top part .... or .... or ... (insert your own bizarre belief)
Dog - those things are of the same ilk and are often found together in the CT type. Hence the "diagnosis".
Although I don't believe that the NWO organised 9/11, I do believe GWB is a piece of horsesh#t that used 9/11 to pursue a desired agenda (well, not GWB in fact, but his puppet-masters). That's the difference. The ability to differentiate between fact and fantasy. If that seems judgemental, well tough. Deal with it. Prole/Thought Thingy needs help. Or, at least, time to recover and get a life instead of leaping from one extreme belief to the next.
Ah, but PPD is a very different beast largely contingent on interpersonal interaction.
The problem is, it depends on your starting point.
For example, your other post disses Rodin for 'delusions of shilldom'. You may regard it at as a bizarre belief. This is because you believe 911 happened as stated in the OT - why on earth would shills be present?
If, however, you believe it is an inside job, it is quite rational to expect 'agents' of the PTB to seek to subvert your attempts to discover the truth of the matter. That sort of behaviour is not unknown.
The further a belief system is from your own POV, the more insane it becomes. My mum has a mate who (this is totally true) believes the Daily Mail is the gospel truth and would never, ever print inaccurate news or opinion. It defines her world. No nonsense. To me, that's totally wacko (why my mum is friends with her is equally mystifying). Nevertheless, however irrational and contrary to available evidence this is, it does not imply pathology. If anything, an inability to empathise with differing viewpoints is arguably more pathological.
I'm yet to be convinced at all of NPT, but TC/PAT cannot be said to be 'unwell' for believing something I agree is (in all likelihood, IMHO) untrue.
Neither does it indicate an inability to fail to sift fantasy from reality; it would if he thought he was on a mission from Judy Wood who communicated with him telepathically; there's a difference between having 'unusual' beliefs based on a ('flawed') interpretation of evidence and intrusive and erroneous personal experiences. Though this gets tricky, as it's hard to find the exact point at which we decide it's 'mad'. Which is why the ability to function socially is a useful benchmark: If someone ran round the shopping centre shouting "There were no planes!...No planes! Can't you seeeeeee???!!!!" randomly, the collapse of social functioning would indicate problems, But this would be no different to someone running round the shopping centre randomly shouting "The truthers are wrong! Wrong! Wrong! Gaaaahhhhggghhh!!!!!!!!!" What's important is, whether you can cope with life. Contrary to popular belief in some quarters, truthers generally lead normal lives.
I know people who would see
I do believe GWB is a piece of horsesh#t that used 9/11 to pursue a desired agenda (well, not GWB in fact, but his puppet-masters).
As total booby babble or at least wild-eyed radical nonsense. I see at as one of the most self evident statements in contemporary politics. It's a mad world.
Incidentally, it strikes me that 911 as a
metaphorical inside job is probably the closest to actual common ground between camps. Irrespective of individual truther credentials, I feel it is sometimes overlooked that the appropriation of the tragedy to act as a political tool is a peculiarly Machievellian (sp?) conspiracy in itself.