The Batlord

Somebody well-adjusted enough to live their life with a minimum of problems caused by irrational emotional issues. So, boring cubicle worker with a mortgage that he pays off on time = normal.

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Mr. Charlie

Well adjusted? Hmm. As Jiddu Krishnamurti said, it is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

anticipation

so weird.

butthead aka 216

I'm so weird I mean my m moo m told me lots of times growing up that I was a special and unique snowflake and now I'm be dgy as fukc so u be the judge

The Batlord

That's silly. Society functions pretty much how it's supposed to. If it didn't then humanity would have probably gone extinct. Whether or not you can acclimate to it isn't necessarily society's fault. This is one of those things that bothers me about my fellow rejects. Sure, normal is subjective, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. Whenever I see people say things like that it just sounds like they're trying to rationalize there own issues so they don't feel like a freak.

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Mr. Charlie

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).

The Batlord

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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Mr. Charlie

See... officially weird? What does that mean? Who are the masters who get to say what's normal and what's weird? Where in the universe instruction manual, or humanity instruction manual, does it say we have to act a certain way?

The only person who knows how you should behave is you. The only person who knows how I should behave is me. And so on...

You could argue that the greater part of society acts the way it does because of the interference and influence of governments and corporations and the media - all of whom are self-serving and more interested in bettering themselves than they are society. Why would any free-thinking, sane person follow what they say?

Sansa Stark

i'm qaf

The Batlord

Basically, dysfunctional.

Well, if acting/thinking within a certain set of parameters can maximize survival then I'd call that a "humanity instruction manual".


I'm gonna need you to start providing the Urban Dictionary links for all these obscure abbreviations you use.

P.S. I almost posted that until I noticed that I'd made a typo and spelled "start" as "stark". I am amused.

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