I kind of think normal people don’t even exist. Everyone is weird in their own way. What we call normal is just the average of all these uniquely strange individuals - but that kind of person may be nothing more than an abstraction, like saying the average family has 2.5 children.
Normal people probably don't consider themselves normal.
Submitted 1 month ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Everyone is normal.
But at least half of us are not average.lordnikon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If everyone is normal then noone is normal and that’s okay
annette_runner@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No one is looking at me and thinking “normal” lol
latenightnoir@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Honestly, I would. In my opinion, if it exists, then it is normal.
Even what we perceive as shitty/horrid/weird/unorthodox is entirely normal, as everything is part of a deeply complex causal system. We may not fully grasp the tapestry of ramifications which lead to said causal normalcy, but, again, if it weren’t normal, it wouldn’t exist (to further entangle this, nothingness itself thus becomes normal).
Everything beyond that is our biased perception which births opinions. Nothing more. This is not to say that our opinions don’t matter, as some aspects are more constructive than others (eg. honesty vs. deception, life vs. death, etc.) and we have the power to act upon our opinions and directly influence the system of causality within which we exist, which we should do as often and as sincerely as possible.
ZephyrXero@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“Normal” is first and foremost a mathematical concept. And so by definition, everything can not all be normal
annette_runner@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s just a joke, like saying you have a great face for radio.
Matriks404@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Same. People look at me all the time for some reason, although who the fuck knows why.
Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Shout out to all the abnormal people that don’t consider themselves abnormal.
jaycifer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
One of the most important things I heard in middle school was from a friend of a friend: “It’s normal to be weird and it’s weird to be normal. Have you ever met someone who was truly ‘normal?’”
thenextguy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I normally don’t consider myself at all.
Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I don’t consider at all.
DarkMetatron@feddit.org 1 month ago
Normal people doesn’t exist, because people is a way to broad term to perform any kind of normalisation.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The most common first name in the world is Mohammad. The most common surname name in the world is Wong.
Thus, logically, the most normal person on Earth must be named Mohammad Wong.
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Me trying to work out the pun over here squinting my eyes and clocking my head. Got nothing.
WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
It’s really a statistics joke. If you assume both observations are independent, then yes, the most average name might be “Mohammad Wong.” But if there are other confounding factors, such as the mapping of names to ethnic groups, then the whole thing falls apart. Obviously Mohammad Wong is not the most common name on the planet.