This is starting to feel like someone's playing a joke on me and the whole world is on it.

Thanks for telling me what I think. Take care.

Worse than that, I suspect they don't care much if people notice.

Someone's gonna get sent to his room without supper.

The words hell in a handbasket come to mind.

You didn't think very hard about my response to you.

Sorry, didn't mean it as a criticism... it's something I've been thinking about for a long time, and still can't come up with a 100% original thought of my own.

I'm not positive about this, but what I suspect is that we're maybe not capable of having thoughts that are 100% original... that we're in fact all followers in this sense, each of us following sets of different ideas originally coming from some place else. I do believe however that it's possible for an original thought to come to us from these other places that we can't express because there are no words to express them. The example I gave elsewhere in the thread is of a man I knew who almost died... he claimed to see something when he was unconscious that he said he couldn't describe because there were no words to describe it. And I think this is where the spiritual realm comes in, which a lot of people think is nonsense and don't believe in... but then can't explain why they seem incapable of having 100% original thoughts that are purely their own.

Just thinking about comics is already unoriginal, something originally created by someone else and that many people have thought about probably countless times by now.

Yes, it does seem that way, but our thoughts are influenced pretty much non-stop on a daily basis.

Expressing it wouldn't make it unoriginal... it's when you share it with others and they become influenced by it that it's no longer original on their part if they repeat it in some form or other.

In all seriousness, he strikes me as someone who's compelled to act out something from his past, maybe even his childhood... if true, that's very scary given the immense power he has today, that he simply can't be reasoned with like with a healthy-minded person.

ETA Even scarier, the same appears to also be true of Trump, and the two of them have now paired up together.