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New International Version
Then I turned my thoughts to consider wisdom, and also madness and folly. What more can the king’s successor do than what has already been done?

New Living Translation
So I decided to compare wisdom with foolishness and madness (for who can do this better than I, the king?).

English Standard Version
So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly. For what can the man do who comes after the king? Only what has already been done.

Berean Standard Bible
Then I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what more can the king’s successor do than what has already been accomplished?

King James Bible
And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what
can
the man
do
that cometh after the king?
even
that which hath been already done.

New King James Version
Then I turned myself to consider wisdom and madness and folly; For what
can
the man
do
who succeeds the king?—
Only
what he has already done.

New American Standard Bible
So I turned to consider wisdom, insanity, and foolishness;

R. D. LAING


CAN A PSYCHIATRIC institution exist for ‘really’ psychotic people where there is communication within
solidarity
, community and communion, instead of the It-district, the no-man’s-land between staff and patients?

This rift or rent in solidarity may be healed in a professional therapeutic relationship. A ‘relationship’, professional or otherwise, which does not heal this rent can hardly be called therapeutic since it seems to me that what is professionally called a ‘therapeutic relationship’ cannot exist without a primary human camaraderie being present and manifest. If it is not there to start with, therapy will have been successful if it is there before it ends.

There can be no solidarity if a basic, primary, fellow human feeling of being together has been lost or is absent. It is not easy to retain this feeling when you press the button. Very seldom, when I pressed the button, could I feel I was doing for this chap in terrible mental agony what I hoped he would do for me if I had his mind and brains and he had mine.

This issue of solidarity and camaraderie between me as a doctor and those patients did not arise for me, it did not occur to me until I was in th

Ecclesiastes 1:17 – Beyond Madness and Folly




Give Thanks?⤒🔗

We have shared the fruits and harvest of another season, and have again experienced the goodness and the kindness of God in supplying all our needs with an abundance of earthly gifts. Again one can say: God's promise holds true, for seedtime and harvest continue as long as the world remains, Genesis 8:22.

And yet Qoheleth, the teacher of wisdom among God's people who was God's instrument in writing the book Ecclesiastes, does not appear to us as such a thankful figure. He observes the regular recurrence of the seasons and the flow of the generations, and only concludes: All things are full of weariness!


What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 1:9



What is there to give thanks about? All this has happened since the beginning of the world, and we can only expect things to continue in this way. What do we gain by all our toil? It is all vanity and a striving after wind. Wisdom, madness and folly – they are all the same. What difference does it make if you pursue one or the other?

Vanity of Vanities …←⤒🔗

Like all books of t

Wisdom, Madness and Folly: The Philosophy of a Lunatic

January 22, 2020
I read this account of his illness by a manic depressive psychotic because Oliver Sacks recommended the book in "Everything in Its Place." As Sacks notes, there is (still) no cure for bipolar disorder, which never goes away completely, but typically recurs. Nevertheless, it can often be controlled with medication and therapy. At the time the book was published (1952), Custance's manic depression seemed under control. (John Custance is a pseudonym, allegedly for Harry Powys Greenwood, or so claims Gail A. Hornstein in "Agnes's Jacket: A Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness.")
Most of the book was written while Custance was in the grips of mania, which is often accompanied by bursts of energy and creativity. At the same time, mania often results in illogical thinking and odd connections, for example between words that begin with the same letters. When Custance rereads the words he wrote while manic, he "can barely make head or tail of it and very often its appalling eccentricity nearly makes [him] sick." This objectivity about his disease, combined with descriptions of what it is like subjective