# Unique or conformist?
**URL:** https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/unique-or-conformist/11103
**Category:** Philosophy
**Created:** [June 20, 2006, 4:33pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/unique-or-conformist/11103 "2006-06-20T16:33:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Drift](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Drift)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2006, 4:33pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/unique-or-conformist/11103/1 "2006-06-20T16:33:49Z")
it seems those similar to each other unite,while those diffrent are repelled for lack of common interest.
see also this thread [http://www.ilovephilosophy.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=148571](http://www.ilovephilosophy.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=148571)
however what if someone was so unique,that they had no interest group to hang around? they say uniqueness is a good thing.
so what would it be? would you rather be unique and alone,or conformist and accompanied?
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### Author:  [@Trevor\_W](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Trevor_W)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/unique-or-conformist/11103/2 "2006-06-20T16:38:55Z")
i always thought that everyone was unique.
regarding similarities; we are all the same animal so there will always be someone who thinks like you(even crazy people share similar personality traits)
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### Author:  [@John\_Doe](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/John_Doe)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/unique-or-conformist/11103/3 "2006-06-20T16:40:45Z")
Life is never usually ‘one way or the other.’ You can be unique and still surround yourself with a bunch of common nobody’s. Hell, I do…
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### Author:  [@Drift](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Drift)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2006, 5:10pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/unique-or-conformist/11103/4 "2006-06-20T17:10:54Z")
> [@John Doe](#):
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> Life is never usually ‘one way or the other.’ You can be unique and still surround yourself with a bunch of common nobody’s. Hell, I do…
i agree. still i cant really associate with people as much as i’d want, as they are all running the secular rat-race.
that and i have taste.
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### Author:  [@Dan1](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/u/Dan1)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2006, 5:27pm UTC](https://www.ilovephilosophy.com/t/unique-or-conformist/11103/5 "2006-06-20T17:27:30Z")
Lol. Drift! Your avatar! 😆
Anyways:
Both a retard and a geneous are unusual, unique, wierd, etc.
The idea that unusual = bad, is a very shallow mental protocal.