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Old 10-30-2013, 09:47 AM   #267 (permalink)
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Fellow rejects? I'm gonna take that as a compliment.

Does normal exist? I don't think it does. Or to be more precise, I think normal is being who you really are. You don't see oak trees doing their best to follow a standard, they just grow according to their nature. If one oak is shorter than another oak, or thinner, or more fragile, or darker, or has fewer leaves, or more crooked branches, it's still a normal oak. People are the same. Normal is following your nature. Abnormal (or weird) is following someone elses nature (ie believing you have to be a certain way).
Look at it this way. Humanity evolved to act in certain ways that maximize their odds for survival. Don't steal because it harms the collective. So kleptomania isn't normal. Have enough things like that that fall out of the range of what can be considered normal and I guess you are officially weird.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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