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Talked to a homeless guy while waiting for my bus the other day. He seemed like a run of the mill burnout. Starts telling me a story about how he moved all his stuff from one spot under the bridge to about 5 miles up the freeway not far from my place on the east side. He says he's disabled and shows me his collar bone which looks like it was severly broken and never set right. He gets more animated as he tells me some ruffians were threatening him at his new camp with some kind of whip and a slingshot with a nail in it. They were using his cigarettes to burn his stuff right in front of him. He says he called the cops but they wouldn't come and that he had asked the person who's house we were standing in front of to call the cops again but they wouldn't. He proceeds to walk to the edge of the gate and yell at the home owner in answer to questions from this person getting more animated and furious. He starts threatening to go get a gun and shoot the homeowner and any cops that come his way. Luckily the bus pulls up right then and I get on as he is still ranting.

No one lives in that house - it is for sale and is empty. I felt like crying because I couldn't help him and there is no way he would go to a shelter much less a treatment program.
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Will's project is challenging because it asks us not only to think about how we think about thinking, but it asks to consider persons which our parent's generation considered despicable to be acceptable, and possibly advantaged.

Quite a turnaround for one generation.

This is a human rights issue of the most intimate nature, resetting a set of social rules which persists in that thin sliver of existence between you and your delicate mind.

The watchword for this venture: be nice.
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I'm fucking nuts.
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Sounds like yet another anti-psychiatry hippie-dippy venture. I'm all for the de-stigmatization of mental illness, but to pretend like schizophrenia is a great condition to have is just ridiculous! AND, by the way, I have schizophrenia.

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