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How "normal" do you think you are?
Johnny C:
I have a couple semantic issues with this poll.
--- Quote from: fatty on 02 Jul 2008, 21:58 ---- People may say you're "crazy" or "wacky" or "weird". Doesn't mean you necessarily think you're on the 'fringes' of society. Rather, those people are probably pretty boring.
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This is fairly exclusionary language at the end, and seems to invalidate the opinions that most of the poll's respondents will be at least somewhat reliant on. After all, this is a poll which asks you to place yourself on a scale relative to other people, and you are severely handicapped in this regard by relying solely on your own definition of "normal" and how you fit or don't fit that definition. Which leads into my next point.
--- Quote from: fatty on 02 Jul 2008, 21:58 ---The kinds of "norms" I'm suggesting are like:
- interpreting things differently to those around you
- having different priorities to other people your age/gender
- how 'well-adjusted' you are
- how you compare to your friends
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I feel these go hand-in-hand with what I just said.
Obviously it's possible to answer this without relying on that information but I'd wager that how others view you is as important to this if not more important than how you view yourself. Norms are external conditions that exist independently of your own behaviour and have as their judges your fellow human beings. I think it only makes sense to consider how others perceive you as well as how you perceive yourself if you are to gauge how "normal" your behaviour is.
waterloosunset:
I am the norm, everyone else is different.
I don't know, I tend to wish for a bygone era more than my friends do. A bygone era as in about 100 years ago or so. I think I'd place myself in the fringe category.
fatty:
--- Quote from: Johnny C on 03 Jul 2008, 01:19 ---I have a couple semantic issues with this poll.
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Yes I get that. But a discussion about semantics when it comes to definition of "normal" is also worth having. The original poll question asks for a completely subjective and based on personal perception. Actually the whole post is biased, but I didn't try very hard to create an 'objective' and rationale poll.
My interest lies in what is percieved as "norm" just as much as where people believe they fall! Anyway, I'll write on this when I have more awakeness.
ruyi:
I think it's normal to believe that you're abnormal.
Slick:
--- Quote from: Papersatan on 02 Jul 2008, 23:16 ---I don't believe in time. No, seriously.
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Pardon me, but what the hell do you mean? I just had a discussion with my housemate about 'what is time' and found it kind of irritating. I mean, do you disbelieve in the linear flow, the application of metrics, or the concept entirely? We impose our system on time and time would pass happily without our calendars, but calendars are still incredibly useful. Is your problem with the quantification of time?
Do you not believe in time at all? Like, completely not believing in time is, as far as I see it, like trying to disbelieve a spatial dimension. Like what is motion without time? I don't understand.
I am not trying to be a dick but I really want to know what would ever make you say those words.
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