I tried looking for a clinical definition of normal and couldn't find it. That doesn't mean it can't exist.
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Re: What is a normal person?
Tue, June 24, 2008 - 2:10 AMas a clinical definition, it doesn't... this is why "health" services is in fact a euphemism for illness services... dysfunction is so much easier to spot and define.
You would be be better off looking at sociological anaysis of the processes of normalisation, norms, labelling and the mathematical concept of normal distribution for the concept of normal as a statistical reality. "Normal" is simply what most people "are" when presented through a commonly accepted set of filters (which is why the definition can shift like sand in your hand even within a given culture) -
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Tue, June 24, 2008 - 2:12 AMOh, and the sociological concept of deviancy is interesting in this context:-)
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Tue, June 24, 2008 - 2:21 AMThe 'bar' or 'box' that society has set.
You also have your personal 'norm' or what is normal for you.
My personal definition is: BORING! (lol!)
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Re: What is a normal person?
Tue, June 24, 2008 - 9:10 PMThe reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
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Fri, July 18, 2008 - 3:59 PMSo if we don't have a definition of normal how can we have a definition of what is abnormal? That's a logical fallacy. -
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Sun, July 20, 2008 - 10:08 PMAre humans walking breathing 'logical fallacies' maybe? lol
Yeah.... I think this must be a definition of normality we can agree on, even for purposes of debate. -
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Re: What is a normal person?
Wed, July 23, 2008 - 4:04 AMWe are imperfect and thats what makes us perfect! (lol)
Lets take this to the next level...
If we are created in 'God's' image, then what does that make God?(Christians hate this :-) -
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Wed, July 23, 2008 - 4:07 AMThat makes God more human... -
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Wed, July 23, 2008 - 8:25 AM...or Humans more like God?
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Thu, July 24, 2008 - 3:45 PM"If we are created in 'God's' image, then what does that make God?(Christians hate this :-)"
How many Christians precisely? -
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Thu, July 24, 2008 - 10:04 PMAs many that think that God is infallable and 'Perfect' and above humanity and certainly would never make mistakes! LOL -
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Thu, July 24, 2008 - 11:03 PMProbably American Christian, becoz they are the wackiest! (Prove me wrong! :P) -
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Sun, August 24, 2008 - 4:11 PMWhat is a Christian and what right do they have to call themselves such. They don't even believe what he taught!
When people can say they are Selfless, help their fellow Beings, be it Human or otherwise.........treat others as they would be treated themselves...........only then may they call themselves Christians. Instead they should just call themselves Religious!
So, if we can't work out what a Christian is, how can we find the meaning of Normal...........hehehe! -
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Wed, August 27, 2008 - 7:22 PMChrist-ian (believer or follower of Christ)...probably a misnomer at 2000 years on. Most have no clue who he really was or what he really said or stood for. They cannot quote his words even as recorded in their version of the New Testament. But they seem to be quite sure that WWJD means to bomb the crap out of suspected Moslem terrorists...and take their oil. And to condemn to hell anyone even contemplating an abortion.
I get the willies looking at that guy on the wall nailed to a board. A dead or tortured and dying deity. Absolute weirdness to me....
"...you have so little faith. Truly I tell you, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you."
Jesus Christ
seen any mountains walking around lately?
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