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OCD/Allegory/Plato
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By:
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Garp
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Mood:
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Content
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Date:
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Jul 10, 2011
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Music:
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I
was
thinking
the
other
day
as
I
was
out
hiking
with
my
dogabout
the
correlations
between
Plato's
allegory
of
the
cave
and
OCD.
I'm
sure
everyone
remembers
the
allegory
from
school,
but
here
is
a
quick
summary.
Hope
it
makes
sense.
Imagine
mankind
as
living
in
a
underground
cave
which
has
a
wide
entrance
open
to
the
light.
Deep
inside
are
human
beings
facing
the
inside
wall
of
the
cave,
with
their
necks
and
legs
chained
so
they
cannot
move.
They
have
never
seen
the
light
of
day
or
sun
outside
of
the
cave.
Behind
the
prisoners
a
fire
burns,
and
between
the
fire
and
the
prisoners
there
is
a
raised
way
on
which
a
low
wall
has
been
built,such
as
is
used
in
puppet
shows
as
a
screen
to
conceal
the
people
working
the
puppets.
Along
the
raised
way
people
walk
carrying
all
sorts
of
things
which
they
hold
so
that
they
project
above
the
wall
statues
of
men,
animals,
tress
and
so
forth..
The
prisoners,
facing
the
inside
wall,
cannot
see
one
another,
or
the
wall
behind
them
onwhich
the
objects
are
being
carried--all
they
can
see
are
shadows
these
objects
cast
on
the
wall
of
the
cave.
The
prsioners
live
all
their
lives
seeing
only
shadows
of
reality,
and
the
voices
they
hear
are
only
echoes
from
the
wall.
But
the
prisoners
cling
to
the
familiar
shadows
and
to
their
passions
and
prejudices,but
if
they
were
freed
and
able
to
turn
around
and
see
the
realites
which
produce
the
shadows,
they
would
be
blinded
by
the
light
of
ththe
fire.
And
they
would
become
anger
and
would
prefer
to
regain
their
shadow
world.
But,
if
one
of
the
prisoners
were
freed
and
turned
around
to
see,
in
the
light
of
the
fire,
the
cave
and
his
fellow
prsioners
and
the
roadway,
and
if
he
were
then
dragged
up
and
out
of
the
cave
into
the
light
of
the
sun,
he
would
see
the
things
of
the
world
as
they
truly
are
and
finally
he
would
see
the
sun
itself.
What
would
this
person
think
now
of
the
life
in
the
cave
and
what
people
there
know
of
realit
yand
morality.
So
how
can
we
compare
this
to
OCD?
To
me
it
is
an
allegory
of
sleeping
and
waking,
of
our
time
asleep
(OCD)
in
the
dark
of
the
cave
and
needing
to
awake
to
a
clear
vision
of
the
world.
WIth
OCD
we
spend
our
lives
living
with
illusions
and
false
and
conflicting
ideals.
OUr
lives
are
dominated
by
the
shadow-play
on
the
wall
of
our
cave
made
by
our
own
imaginations
and
minds.But
once
we
our
unchained
and
brought
out
of
the
cave,
we
start
to
see
the
illusions
of
our
minds
for
what
they
were/are---FALSE
.Don't
believe
everything
you
think!
Especially
in
regards
to
OCD.
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