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Agear: "Stove piping" is something we all do, but its partly the byproduct of our intrinsically schizophrenic hobby ...

"Please speak for yourself. Schizophrenia is a dreadful disease. It is not "intrinsic" to our hobby."

Yeah, I don't think it's quite that bad. Perhaps a mild disorder like obsessive compulsive disorder or mild depression. Perhaps mild case of bipolar. In some cases even a full blown case of the you know what.

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Please speak for yourself. Schizophrenia is a dreadful disease. It is not "intrinsic" to our hobby.

Okay kids.  I was using definition #2 to describe the innate tension in our hobby.   

Definition of schizophrenia
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: a mental disorder that is characterized by disturbances in thought (such as delusions), perception (such as hallucinations), and behavior (such as disorganized speech or catatonic behavior), by a loss of emotional responsiveness and extreme apathy, and by noticeable deterioration in the level of functioning in everyday life —called also dementia praecox ◆Schizophrenia often involves an inability to orient oneself with reality, a withdrawal from social interactions, and a failure to integrate thoughts with emotions so that emotional expression is inappropriate. There are several subtypes of schizophrenia, including paranoid schizophrenia and those types marked by catatonia or hebephrenia .
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: contradictory or antagonistic qualities or attitudes <both parties … have exhibited schizophrenia over the desired outcome — Elizabeth Drew>
schizophrenicplay \-ˈfre-nik\ adjective or noun
schizophrenicallyplay \-ni-k(ə-)lē\ adverb

Yeah, I don't think it's quite that bad. Perhaps a mild disorder like obsessive compulsive disorder or mild depression. Perhaps mild case of bipolar. In some cases even a full blown case of the you know what.

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OCD tendencies and/of depression do feed into it, but at its core, it has that element of internal division due to obvious reasons.  That's all.  

Definition of schizophrenia
1
: a mental disorder that is characterized by disturbances in thought (such as delusions), perception (such as hallucinations), and behavior (such as disorganized speech or catatonic behavior), by a loss of emotional responsiveness and extreme apathy, and by noticeable deterioration in the level of functioning in everyday life —called also dementia praecox ◆Schizophrenia often involves an inability to orient oneself with reality, a withdrawal from social interactions, and a failure to integrate thoughts with emotions so that emotional expression is inappropriate. There are several subtypes of schizophrenia, including paranoid schizophrenia and those types marked by catatonia or hebephrenia.

that sounds about right. I've often thought the pseudo skeptics and naysayers to be at sea as it were and filled to the brim with angst.

To be more specific, schizoid mentation/depression/OCD tendencies superimposed on a predisposition towards addiction: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/music-sex-stimulate-same-part-brain-opioid-drugs-rock-n-roll-mcgill-university-scientific-reports-a7568606.html

The burning question is what role isolation plays.  It is my understand that the LIGO team experiences uninterrupted bliss while on the job.  I presume Sheldrake has entered a similar dimension although through a different pathway.....