anti_normalcy j_blue most blatherers seem to be all about this. i dont know how many times i have heard that stupid played out question, "what is normal?" with the ultimate conclusion "no one is normal." the reality is that pretty much most people fall within the standard_deviation of normal. that is, they fall within the bounds of normalcy. the irony is that, while normal is hard to define, pretty much everyone is aware of it, and know when they are deviating. i myself am very normal seeming, and many people view it as a wholesomeness. i dont mind, its a compliment. it helps soothe my inflamed paranoia. of course, i feel abnormal, and know that nothing i could ever do, no matter how well i emulate it, how hard i try, could ever change the feeling. so being told i am normal, like being told i am dumb, is cute and refreshing. i would have to say i am pro_normal, am all about it, and i think the nobodys_normal cliche is boring. 001229 ... silentbob j blue You feel abnormal. so do they. maybe im restating your point, but everyone is normal. no one is abnormal. some people want to be abnormal and so they try very hard, but they are just fooling themselves. im normal. im not abnormal. if i act differently its because i get bored and try to amuse myself. people think i'm trying to shock the world. i'm just acting how i feel in my heart, i'm not trying to be anything, i just am myself. i dont care if i'm normal. and i really don't care if i'm abnormal. if everyone acted like me, i wouldn't be different, i wouldn't change, i'd still act like myself. 001230 ... Thyartshallshant Ok, j_blue, Ive got a little theory. I would say that most people are not "normal" in the sence that the have a wife and kids, and live in suburbia, with a full time job, but then who is, right?. But i really mean on a lower level, something like having a dog or a cat as a pet, having a steady job, all that good stuff. And i would ALSO say that most people are (and would call themselves) "weird". "Weird" in the sence that they , perhaps, stay up at all hours of the day on the net writing at a place called "Blather", or maybe just little weird idiocencrecies (wow, i really fucked that word up). Ok, now follow me here, it gets tricky. Sence most people are (and this is an opinion) "weird", by the true definition of "normal" itself (normal being the the avearge or the mojority), that makes weird people normal and normal people weird! Yea, its confussing, but thats the way i like it. 001230 ... j_blue abnormal its the little things that most people trying to be abnormal skip the little neuroses and inclinations the stupid human tricks you can do the stupid nonhuman tricks you can do the whole shebang its unavoidable, unenviable, necessary 001231 ... Barrett I like peanutbutter. 001231 ... silentbob have i or have i not said those exact words somewhere else on here? 010101 ... j_blue peanut_butter_is_your_friend 010102 ... Aimee none of us truly knows what normal is, so therefore, how can we be anti it? 010729 ... mulder very carefully... take lots with alcohol 010729 ... freakizh if everybody is unique and all that stuff, i guess being normal stands for the most general standards.. that is two eyes, a nose, and a switchable penis/vagina. 020201 ... Rowbes Perhaps it is because we don't understand normalcy that we are against it. We don't know what it means to be normal, so we reject the whole concept. A bit ignorant, but humankind has always rejected ideas that we don't unterstand. was here 030817 ... is this related? all my friends are non_conformists, so i became one too. 030817 ... endless desire everyone at school tries to be different therefore we are all the same. i look around and i never see new faces. even if they had just zapped down and i had never seen their eyes before. they still all look the same. and i laugh because they would die to be different. so i guess i could stay the same and be different. but then i would just be out of style. i don't wear styles i just observe them. the cycle interests me. i wear what i like and what i've worn for a very long time now. but i'm still not different. there's too many people. i'd have to naked to be different. endless desire ponders this idea. it's been done. what if i was deformed? then i'd be different. i'll break my neck and they'll praise me for being original. and then i laugh. 030913 ... misstree not coloring outside the lines, but on the other side of the paper. 030913 ... Death of a Rose not having any lines at all or paper for that matter. 031127 ... Lemon_Soda Anytime you find yourself on the side of the majority, its time to rethink your standing. As for normal, yay, we're all normal. To our selves. Everyone else is crazier than a ****house rat. 031127 ... epitome of incomprehensibility ...means favoring frequent usage over concision by using the word "normality" instead? 140516 what's it to you? who go blather from