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Originally posted by st00p1dfac3Be nice. 🙂
I would disagree that anything offered so far is a definition and not an example of something that might be considered normal. Normal is as normal is defined. You are looking for another word. The reason you are looking for another word is that you are upset with your role as a misfit, an unpopular person lacking the confidence reinforcing sense of be ...[text shortened]... redefine words in an online forum, you turn the computer off, go outside, and meet some friends.
Originally posted by artplayerThat's not true either. If all things are what each individual makes of them, then all delusional psychotics are actually sane - it is merely their interpretation of reality. So Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, and Charles Manson are normal because they interpret things differently. You can't reject all of reality for some fuzzy, feel-good, self-empowerment version of things that deny the way things actually are.
normal is what you make of it. Just like reality, language, and everything else in the known universe. If someone wants normal to mean grasshopper in a cheesebox on thursday or something like that, who are we to criticize? There might be tons of preconceived notions about what these six integers mean, N O R M A L, but that's not to say someone can't make t ...[text shortened]... t that you don't understand it for what it is, so you try to define it on your own terms.
Originally posted by st00p1dfac3lol...ouch!😀
I would disagree that anything offered so far is a definition and not an example of something that might be considered normal. Normal is as normal is defined. You are looking for another word. The reason you are looking for another word is that you are upset with your role as a misfit, an unpopular person lacking the confidence reinforcing sense of be ...[text shortened]... redefine words in an online forum, you turn the computer off, go outside, and meet some friends.