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How "normal" do you think you are?
heather:
I am Batman. :-D
MadassAlex:
--- Quote from: fatty on 04 Jul 2008, 00:23 ---TIME DOES NOT HEAL DARK ANGEL FUCK YEAH
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I think the idea here is that time is an abstract concept, in that it has no physical existence. We just named and put a system to the measurement of a sequence of events. So time, really literally, doesn't exist even though it does. I think it's kind of a pointless thing to argue because things will happen regardless of our conclusions about time.
Also, ON TOPIC, I would argue that NORMALCY IS A LIE. I don't think anyone feels truly normal, which is evidence enough for me that being "normal" is pretty impossible.
Caspian:
Hey, someone did a reference to dark angel? I can't believe I missed that.
THE CITY IS EMPTY! THE CRIME IS LIFE! THE SENTENCE IS DEATH! DARKNESS DESCENDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
etc.
parm:
So, recently I had a job interview where they gave me one of those stupid personality questionnaire things (not Myers-Briggs, but something like it). The idea was that it was supposed to rank you against certain personality traits and then indicate how well you'd, say, work in a team or what style of working you're best suited to or whatever. Anyway, I got pissed off with the test because for each question, you were given a set of 7 fixed answers, and then had ten "points" to split between at most three of them to indicate how they reflected you; frequently, none of the answers quite fit, and other times, some did but with caveats, and so on.
When my test came back, the interviewer had a quizzical look on her face. Apparently my results were "unusual". I'd ranked highly in two categories - two categories at opposite ends of a spectrum. Well, says I, I found that for many of the questions, I could say which "end" of the spectrum I was - there are times when, for example, I am dead sociable and talkative, and there are other times when I just want the world to fuck off and leave me alone - and so I just distributed the points evenly. I was surprised that they were surprised at this, because surely everyone is like this? People might tend one way or another, but unless you've got some sort of borderline personality disorder, surely everyone is a little bit of everything?
Anyway, I didn't get the job, and I'm can't say as I was terribly upset by that, because anyone hiring on the basis of trying to pigeonhole people into artificial categories probably isn't hiring for the kind of job I want to do, and anyone who is willing to let themselves be pigeonholed is probably setting themselves up for a fall later on.
I think what I'm trying to say is that if you start trying to quantify what constitutes a "normal" person, you get into difficulties very quickly. Sure, there's edge-case things like psychologically disturbed people, people with sociopathic tendencies and that, but most people, by statistical definition (and by whatever measure you choose to quantify on) are within a standard deviation from the norm - and equally, I'm sure if you pick the categories carefully enough, you can find something for which you lie in the 99.9th percentile too.
Stop worrying about whether you're normal, and go fly a kite or something. Kites are awesome.
MadassAlex:
--- Quote from: parm on 04 Jul 2008, 04:22 ---Stop worrying about whether you're normal, and go fly a kite or something. Kites are awesome.
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That's something that normal people do. :x
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