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"justpackrat" |
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27 Dec 2006 12:49:44 AM |
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what is normal? |
I'm trying but it's hard when I don't have a clue.
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| User: "cal" |
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| Title: Re: what is normal? |
27 Dec 2006 05:13:46 AM |
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"justpackrat" <maddie_75@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I'm trying but it's hard when I don't have a clue.
normal = comfortable for you.
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| User: "Jane" |
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| Title: Re: what is normal? |
27 Dec 2006 07:34:00 PM |
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"justpackrat" <maddie_75@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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I'm trying but it's hard when I don't have a clue.
Maybe we are normal and every one else is not
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| User: "%" |
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27 Dec 2006 07:41:43 PM |
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"Jane" <jarsenal66nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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"justpackrat" <maddie_75@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1167202184.370127.306500@79g2000cws.googlegroups.com...
I'm trying but it's hard when I don't have a clue.
Maybe we are normal and every one else is not
i'm what i do
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| User: "Jane" |
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| Title: Re: what is normal? |
27 Dec 2006 07:49:50 PM |
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"%" <persent@gmail.com> wrote in message
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"Jane" <jarsenal66nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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"justpackrat" <maddie_75@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1167202184.370127.306500@79g2000cws.googlegroups.com...
I'm trying but it's hard when I don't have a clue.
Maybe we are normal and every one else is not
i'm what i do
Exactly, normal for me, may not be normal for anyone else, but it's still
normal... Does that make sense?
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| User: "%" |
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27 Dec 2006 07:55:19 PM |
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"Jane" <jarsenal66nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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"%" <persent@gmail.com> wrote in message
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"Jane" <jarsenal66nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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"justpackrat" <maddie_75@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1167202184.370127.306500@79g2000cws.googlegroups.com...
I'm trying but it's hard when I don't have a clue.
Maybe we are normal and every one else is not
i'm what i do
Exactly, normal for me, may not be normal for anyone else, but it's still
normal... Does that make sense?
it does if i do what i do
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| User: "Hexe" |
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| Title: Re: what is normal? |
27 Dec 2006 01:17:07 AM |
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On 26 Dec 2006 22:49:44 -0800, "justpackrat" <maddie_75@yahoo.com>
wrote:
I'm trying but it's hard when I don't have a clue.
i've observed people who are considered normal, they are usually people
i don't particularly care for. i watch them do something that i don't
approve and think, i wouldn't do that. in that instance i feel better
because i'm not normal but i'm a better person. quite often normal
people are not nice people. i'd rather be nice.
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:Hexe
:Thought for the journey:
To Err is human, to forgive is simply not our policy.
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| User: "Doug Laidlaw" |
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| Title: Re: what is normal? |
27 Dec 2006 06:25:05 AM |
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Hexe wrote:
On 26 Dec 2006 22:49:44 -0800, "justpackrat" <maddie_75@yahoo.com>
wrote:
I'm trying but it's hard when I don't have a clue.
i've observed people who are considered normal, they are usually people
i don't particularly care for. i watch them do something that i don't
approve and think, i wouldn't do that. in that instance i feel better
because i'm not normal but i'm a better person. quite often normal
people are not nice people. i'd rather be nice.
There is a variety in what is normal. Remember the movie about
the "average" man who became President? More likely, he would have
finished up in an "average" job. "Average" is a fixed number. Normal is a
range either side of the average. They have recently suggested that autism
is not entirely distinct from "normal." Looking at all the cases of autism
under the "bell curve" or "Probablity curve" there are examples right along
the range from average or normal to extreme, not a gap separating the sick
from the normal.
GROW has a saying: "We aren't divided into the sick and the well. The line
between sickness and health passes down the middle of each one of us." As
an illustration of this, I always use an obsessive-compulsive next-door
neighbour we once had. My wife and I were always arguing about which side
of the line she was on.
If people are "sick" but still productive, they are called
merely "eccentric." If they are disabled, they are called sick.
(I didn't see that movie, but I can't imagine a strictly average person as
President not making an absolute mess of the job. A President needs to be
somebody particularly special.)
Doug.
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"Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair."
- Alexander Pope.
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| User: "slunky" |
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| Title: Re: what is normal? |
27 Dec 2006 01:00:28 AM |
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_/ justpackrat wrote \_
I'm trying but it's hard when I don't have a clue.
I saw normal, and decided it wasn't for me.
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-slunky
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| User: "Janithor" |
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| Title: Re: what is normal? |
27 Dec 2006 01:49:29 AM |
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x-no-archive: yes
justpackrat wrote:
I'm trying but it's hard when I don't have a clue.
To me, a good first order approximation is anything that's not harmful
to you or to others. e.g. I listen to the Mexican radio stations - not
normal among my peer group. But that's what I like to listen to these
days. However, if I wanted to commit violent hate crimes against
Mexicans, that would be not normal too, but that's a whole different
kind of "not normal". My $.02.
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