Just in Case: Caveat

Let’s pretend for a moment, in some future events, my prophetic announcements about war with Iran turn out to be inaccurate. Under the Laws of Moses, you should stone me, since I dared to declare, “Thus saith the Lord.” Besides being out of physical reach, I do have one valid defense. I’m not a liar, but a nut.
You can go back into literary history quite some ways and find it has always been in vogue to claim a certain degree of madness. It’s a way of distinguishing oneself from the crowd, in part because it implies one does not see reality quite the same as everyone else. In human society, we judge someone not quite sane if their version of what’s real varies too much in one way or another from any recognizable thread of common thinking. The claim to be “crazy” becomes synonymous with brave and artistic rejection for something better, and implies the cutting edge of a new trend.
Other terms have also been hijacked: disturbed, insane, etc. But the clinical definition of “psychosis” is someone whose grip on reality is simply too far off what’s typical to even consider it trendy. We might imagine degrees, and whether or not there is a perception of danger of very real harm arising from the psychosis, and we might even discuss why there is this radical departure from perceptional norms. Still, the clinical side of the question offers a rather limited range for debate. When we label someone clinically psychotic, few would argue.
In may case, it really does not matter I am consciously aware of the wide gap between what is manifestly so and what I must pursue. It’s not literal voices inside my head; that’s only a figure of speech for the internal dialog all healthy humans engage. The fully conscious human mind is normally a place of conflicting demands from various threads of the self. One of my internal voices demands things which are obviously not connected with what actually happens. It happens to be the voice I cannot ignore. Doing so would be genuinely self-destructive, not to mention a threat to others.
So for me to assume the posture which is least harmful, I must listen to that one unrealistic voice which causes me to say and do things which can’t be true. Sorry about that, but you’ll have to resolve your madness your own way; this is my way. What I write here will most certainly be affected by that psychotic voice in my head. That has no bearing on my intelligence or talent (such as it is), so it may be I can still entertain you. And perhaps some of my brain spew here does approach reality as you know it, so that you can benefit from comparing notes. Glad I could help. As for the crazy stuff, you’ll just have to put up with it, because it’s all in the same package.
(Note: This works the same if you simply don’t happen to believe any part of my religion.)