Happy atheists? You ain't seen nothing yet.

[Mister Joy]

I'm rolling in the stuff. Wallowing in pure ecstasy. And this is nothing to do with the fact that I haven't slept for 4 days, haven't eaten for 2 and may well be more delusional right now than a fundamentalist crack addict (feel fine, but wont know until later I guess). Ooooh speaking of which - and feel free not to indulge yet another of my useless compulsive tangents here but I can't help it, especially when I'm feeling so chirpy - did you know that in the British legal system at least, if you haven't slept for more more than 72 hours you are technically though temporarily insane? Ie. if you have to appear in a court of law and say "I hadn't slept for a while when I committed the offence" you are, in essence, pleading insanity? Utterly stupid isn't it! Though it's extremely useful to know if, like me, you've a medical history of chronic insomnia and you happen to have an ambition to kill two or three people (and get caught for it) in the near future. That's besides the point, though. The REAL point is this:

I just solved the rubik's cube! For the first time since I forgot how to. First time was when I was in preschool and God knows how I did it then (I genuinely believe that I've become steadily less intelligent as the years have gone by) so I recently set out on a quest to rediscover my former time-wasting skills, with stupendous success!

And this, I appreciate, may not seem like much to you but to me it's like riding on the back of a rainbow through the bleakest of British weather: everything is utterly depressing, the world is a big ball of turd, but it really doesn't matter because I've got my own personal fucking rainbow.

Get my drift?

Anyway, I thought that I'd share this moment of triumph with you, since this forum apparently exists to cater to happiness as well as atheism. Don't you just feel loved?

Cheerio.

[LARA]

Enjoy the rainbow and don't forget to eat.  If the walls start moving, you've gone too far.

[MommaSquid]

Congrats on the achievement, Mister Joy.  But, seriously, you need to sleep now.

[Whitney]

Congrats on solving the cube, I've only been able to get one side.

No sleep for four days....do you feel like you've been out for a night on the town.  In school I didn't sleep for four days and started to have the same symptoms as if I had had a few drinks.  I'll actually be surprised if you remember making this post.  When I don't sleep that long being awake is like a dream world.

Make sure to eat something....you have to fuel your body.

[tacoma_kyle]

Sweet, good to know!

I gave up around 17 years ago. Not really but I havent touched one in a long time.

[Mister Joy]

Hmmmmm. Dear oh dear...

Funnily enough, I remember posting this but I've forgotten the solution to the cube.  Mercifully though, I care significantly less now that I'm back to Earth, so I shall solve it again when I can be bothered. It'll probably come back to me as I do it.

No sleep for four days....do you feel like you've been out for a night on the town. In school I didn't sleep for four days and started to have the same symptoms as if I had had a few drinks. I'll actually be surprised if you remember making this post. When I don't sleep that long being awake is like a dream world.

That pretty much sums it up yes. Sort of a combo between the sobering up stage of drinking to much, some sort of psychedelic & exponentially increasing narcissism and detachment (like playing a video game and watching the world go by as if it's on a TV screen).

Oddly enough, waking up after you finally do sleep is kind of like having a hangover, coincidentally. I figure it's because you're immune system and appetite have been totally vacant for a while, so when they return you suddenly feel like crap. I have a stock pile of prescribed temazepam & amitriptyline to avoid such things but I tend not to take either unless I really have to. Temazepam is very addictive and fairly heavy duty (plus it tends to give me really vivid nightmares which force me to wake up anyway) and amitriptyline just doesn't do anything besides destroying my ability to think imaginatively for 12 hours.

[Kona]

Start singing....Lucy in the sky with diamonds......

[SteveS]

Get my drift?

 Yeah, I think I do!  I give you joy of your solution and attendant happiness!

[Ezequiel Medvietzky]

wow you british are crazy, of course we in israel have been aware of that since 1920.
seriously now, unless you want to find yourself hanging from a cliff shouting at eagles in a Marlon Brando costume, eat a Big Mac and go to sleep...

[Mister Joy]

Can't argue with you there, Ezequiel. The whole world is crazy & it'd be silly to think of us as an exception. Mind you, we don't have those bigoted psycho Christians like they do over in the states; the "THIS IS TAIN'ED! I DUNNO WHAT ID IS, BUD IT'S TAIN'ED!" kind, I mean (hopefully most of you will see the reference, there). Which is a crying shame, I think, because they hold so much entertainment value. They're hilarious and fascinating at the same time. Though that might partly be due to my idiosyncratic and typically British nature: I want to be surrounded by thick, oblivious yet mawkishly absolute people because I then have a good excuse to be revolted, embittered and antagonistic about the whole thing. Brilliant fun!