Define Normal ?

[MrHyeSev]

What is normal. Do we follow what normal is to society?
is anyone really normal. I think everyone hs an abnormal thing about them

[KanadaHye]

Re: Define Normal ?

Don't pay too much attention to buzz words that are used in society. There is nothing normal or typical about people, everyone is different in one way or another. I can start a whole thread about language and psychology and how it makes us think in strange ways.

For example:

In Canada, native Indians are referred to as: ABORIGINAL

Alright... since they are Native to this land, should they be called ORIGINALS? The European settlers who are in government are the aboriginal people!

In the U.S. immigrants are referred to as ALIENS. Yes, they are foreign beings from another planet! They speak a strange language and are a different color. We must assimilate them! lol


Another one that kills me is when discounted products are put ON SALE and everyone runs because there is a SALE.

Uhm... aren't they always on sale? If they weren't, they would have "not for sale" tags on them. You can't go into an art gallery and buy a work of art or an auto show to buy a car.

[Artashes]

Re: Define Normal ?

Many thoughts come to mind, I'll express a few.
People are so -- mmm-- enamoured? mabe that's the word I'm looking for(not sure) with --- INDIVIDUALALITY --- the they are virtually salivating at the jawbone. The commonality that we all share is put way on the backburner when it comes to the utter glorious ness of the complete and uniqueness of the individual.
Normal is when cries when they see their parents and family killed and tortured. Abnormal is when someone laughes and makes a game of killing and torturing other lives.
Artashes

[KanadaHye]

Re: Define Normal ?

Many thoughts come to mind, I'll express a few.
People are so -- mmm-- enamoured? mabe that's the word I'm looking for(not sure) with --- INDIVIDUALALITY --- the they are virtually salivating at the jawbone. The commonality that we all share is put way on the backburner when it comes to the utter glorious ness of the complete and uniqueness of the individual.
Normal is when cries when they see their parents and family killed and tortured. Abnormal is when someone laughes and makes a game of killing and torturing other lives.
Artashes

Well INDIVIDUALITY is another word that bothers me. Why? Well if you look at the word itself, it sounds like it is derived from IN-DIVIDABLE or IN-DIVISIBLE which basically means that INDIVIDUALITY is aiming to DIVIDE the UNITY among people.

[Artashes]

Re: Define Normal ?

Many thoughts come to mind, I'll express a few.
People are so -- mmm-- enamoured? mabe that's the word I'm looking for(not sure) with --- INDIVIDUALALITY --- the they are virtually salivating at the jawbone. The commonality that we all share is put way on the backburner when it comes to the utter glorious ness of the complete and uniqueness of the individual.
Normal is when cries when they see their parents and family killed and tortured. Abnormal is when someone laughes and makes a game of killing and torturing other lives.
Artashes

Forgot to say that it is normal to recognize and remember such atrocities and it is abnormal to either not recognize an atrocity and/or lie about such. It is normal to seek the truth. It is abnormal to seek lies.
Artashes

[hrai]

Re: Define Normal ?

Don't pay too much attention to buzz words that are used in society. There is nothing normal or typical about people, everyone is different in one way or another. I can start a whole thread about language and psychology and how it makes us think in strange ways.

For example:

In Canada, native Indians are referred to as: ABORIGINAL

Alright... since they are Native to this land, should they be called ORIGINALS? The European settlers who are in government are the aboriginal people!

In the U.S. immigrants are referred to as ALIENS. Yes, they are foreign beings from another planet! They speak a strange language and are a different color. We must assimilate them! lol


Another one that kills me is when discounted products are put ON SALE and everyone runs because there is a SALE.

Uhm... aren't they always on sale? If they weren't, they would have "not for sale" tags on them. You can't go into an art gallery and buy a work of art or an auto show to buy a car.

Nice one. I've wondered why "a building" is called a building, surely once it's finished it should be called "a built" ?

[jgk3]

Re: Define Normal ?

Forgot to say that it is normal to recognize and remember such atrocities and it is abnormal to either not recognize an atrocity and/or lie about such. It is normal to seek the truth. It is abnormal to seek lies.
Artashes

Many people will filter out the truth, because it's uncomfortable to seek or remember.

It's like religious people complaining about how scientists are attacking the word of God. They propose that the world would be a better place if we somehow reworded all of our scientific knowledge (even though much of it is incompatible with the worldviews and cosmology expressed by their scriptures and their religious history) to somehow hide the fact that several elements of traditional religious cosmologies have been discredited by scientific evidence. They do this by either lashing out on science, or by trying to reinterpret their cosmologies to say, `well if you read deeper, you`ll see the scriptures are being metaphorical`, or they`ll overemphasize how a small set of statements about nature as they are expressed in the scripture are in fact supported by evidence verified by modern science, while ignoring how lots of other statements in their scriptures are discredited by it.

Filtering out the truth also reminds me of people or communities who want to deny the blood on their hands, or of people who love meat, don`t believe in hurting animals but would rather not think about how their meat comes from rather mechanical, generally unethical slaughtering.

Something very "normal" seems to explain all of this behavior.

Normal: norming, or adhering to a set standard. So if in your spaceship, the set standard for oxygen levels are ones that can support proper human respiratory function, then when you start to run out, you have an abnormal situation

Or, if you`re in a nationalistic movement, the set standard is to get everyone to see the logic that your party's assertive policy is righteous and noble, and has a good cause despite the fact that it must ignore certain criticisms from people in order to survive. But when members from your community start to falter and express too many humanitarian concerns`unhelpful`to the cause, they are no longer normal, but as softies, or even traitors. So a Turk who does everything an Armenian wants him to in recognizing personal and state guilt for genocide, is not a normal Turk, since among Turks this is not the standard.

[Sip]

Re: Define Normal ?

I consider it "normal" for KanadaHye to post a reply that has absolutely nothing to do with the question at hand.

[LadyLazarus]

Re: Define Normal ?

There's no such thing as "normal". Everything is relative; normalcy, or lack thereof, is a matter of perception (whether based on individual judgment or set of culturally derived social mores).

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[MrHyeSev]

Re: Define Normal ?

So when people say your not normal, you should ask the person please give me the definition of it =)

There's no such thing as "normal". Everything is relative; normalcy, or lack thereof, is a matter of perception (whether based on individual judgment or set of culturally derived social mores).

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