Last few weeks, i’ve noticed something about myself.
If i hold back thoughts that comes across my mind, I seem like regular fella. If i don’t hold back, then on the net, I’m viewed weird and strange most of the time.
What I’ve realized is that I don’t like being normal. Matter of fact, I really hate it.
Barni, you have only posted 4 times and from a cursory glance, I haven’t seen anyone respond negatively to you? So, how do you know you are “viewd as weird and strange”?
Secondly, what’s your personal definition of “normal”? Is it your innate desire to slag and flame? If so, go right ahead but expect the same abuse back or to be ignored.
To use a famous quote: “Its not rocket science” (Werner Von Braun: V2 rocket designer)
i hear that. ive found that a lot of times the problem is that we say too many things in too small an area, taking for granted that everyone will completely understand all of our indirect references. im pretty sure repeating subtle ideas in different ways gets them across more effectively.
just imagine if somebody is talking to you, and they refer to a bunch of things that you dont get. youd read it and it would come to a bunch of conclusions based on evidence that was effectively invisible to you. see golden arm for an example of somebody whose words mean a lot more to him than they do to other people.
km. I guess i should have made it more clearer. I’m not talking about this forum. I don’t believe(or at least i hope) that i have said things that were far out.
Let me clarify. The reason for post is that i’m frustrated at people who are around me. With alot of crap that happened last few weeks makes me wonder, is it me? Am I only one who feel out of place much of the time? In real life and on the net, but not this forum(yet.)
Fabiano. I have no idea. When i say normal, I find myself wanting a condition that is associated with being normal.
No, you’re not alone. Normal is boring—at least basing it on the ordinary conception of the word. As in, conformity to prevailing taste, thoughts, lifestyle.
As long as I can remember I have always walked a thin line, one that was neither here nor there, somewhere between other people and complete solitude. I am always struggling with my peers in a manner pervasive to attaining authentic relationships with them. I find myself compromising so that I may be accepted by someone,…anyone, and I feel like I’ve been cheated in this respect. I am somewhat arrogant and feel myself to be superior in many respects, dulling down to fit in and have a friend. I could never find anyone who would accept my ideas, my life style, my preferences in general, I’d have to edit my personality or disposition to fit any one of the tedious platonic routines following aquaintance and interaction. Because I am extreme, because I am inventive, because I cannot be contained, is my demise. A black sheep in foreign pastures.
I could never get along with conditions where one was supposed to say thus and thus, do thus and thus, have thus and thus such reasoning. Everywhere around me I find custom a danger, and often I agree with tongue-in-cheek. I cannot be effective and creative where people cower at strange new things and oddities, and, ironically, it is I who gets hurt.
Nobody wants to play with me.
Who is the big arrogant, superior man now, 'trop? Looks like you’re sitting in the sandbox all alone, with snot running down your nose and shattered fragments of army figurines lying in disarray.
No, barnicle, half the time I don’t say what I think. I just put my uniform on, practice all my hand gestures, posturing, and greetings for the day, and take my place as a cog among cogs.
NO. you just have to find places on the internet where people like to talk about the things that interest them. i was beginning to wonder if anybody was out there at all until i got the tip-off to look into philosophy and i landed here at this very site. i cant say it enough right now but thank god i am alone no longer. People here have the coolest subjects i am just glad this site is around… and an added bonus is the use of the word “Philosophy” it never struck me before i may fit in better with philosopher types but thats gotta make ya feel good too?
ILovePhilosophy and i never even realized it DOT com.