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What is normal?
« on: 17/04/2025 10:44:00 »
What is normal?


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Simulacra and Simulation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacra_and_Simulation

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HyperNormalisation explained by Adam Curtis

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HyperNormalization: A Different Experience of Reality [Full Documentary, BBC, 2016]


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Stop! - Sam Brown | Music Video | Lyrics
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Re: What is normal?
« Reply #1 on: 17/04/2025 13:03:00 »
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Let's take that the "mind" is "universal" - events and so on, and so forth.

The "mind" is a machine of itself.

Then comes the "body", which is a machine of a different kind.



Lying is unnatural to "mind" (reasoning, logic)

but

lying is natural to "body".


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Everybody "reasons". Everybody's cool.

Feelings are for losers.

/if there isn't logic, then there is another logic.


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Stop! - Sam Brown | Music Video | Lyrics


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"3rd Rock from the Sun" showed that

there is a "mind"

and

there is a "body".

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Re: What is normal?
« Reply #2 on: 17/04/2025 14:07:47 »
What is normal?, not this thread, certainly.
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Re: What is normal?
« Reply #3 on: 17/04/2025 14:47:52 »
Quote from: paul cotter on 17/04/2025 14:07:47
What is normal?, not this thread, certainly.

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A Mostly Complete List of Murphy's Laws
http://scottrainey.com/jokes/murphys_laws.htm

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Cirino's Law of Burnt Fingers
Hot glass looks the same as cold glass.

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No result is worthless: the value of negative results in science
https://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-medicine/2012/10/10/no-result-is-worthless-the-value-of-negative-results-in-science/

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Negative Results: The Data are the Data
https://www.depts.ttu.edu/research/integrity/RCR/sm-archive/negative-results.php

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People are fixated on positive.

They love winning.

They are hooked on plain and simple propaganda.
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Re: What is normal?
« Reply #4 on: 20/04/2025 13:02:38 »
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What is normal?

normal (adj.)
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=normal


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Indian summer (L'?t? Indien)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_summer

Etymology
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Usage
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Other names and similar phenomena
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the 5th line
"poor man's summer"



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Joe Dassin, Indian Summer (L'?t? Indien) lyrics (HQ)


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Joe Dassin - L'?t? indien (1975)


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? Toi .. Joe Dassin " Alain Delon and Dalila"


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Salut - Joe Dassin യ Alain Delon & Mireille Darc


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Le Professionnel - Chi Mai


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Re: What is normal?
« Reply #5 on: 25/04/2025 09:49:52 »
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passing by "What's normal 101"

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bibliotheque
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bibliotheque

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phonoth?que
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/phonoth%C3%A8que

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videotheque
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/videotheque

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discotheque
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/discotheque

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adder (n.)
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=adder

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Blackadder, Johnson's Dictionary


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Cell multiplies through division,

people unite through intersection.



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How a Russian student invented a faster multiplication method


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The Genius Way Computers Multiply Big Numbers


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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy


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Infinite Improbability Drive

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Discovery

The principle of generating small amounts of finite improbability by simply hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea) were well understood. It is said, by the Guide, that such generators were often used to break the ice at parties by making all the molecules in the hostess's undergarments leap simultaneously one foot to the left, in accordance with the theory of indeterminacy.

Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this, partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn't get invited to those sorts of parties.

The physicists encountered repeated failures while trying to construct a machine which could generate the infinite improbability field needed to flip a spaceship across the mind-paralyzing distances between the farthest stars. They eventually announced that such a machine was virtually impossible.

Then, one day, a student who had been left to sweep up after a particularly unsuccessful party found himself reasoning in this way: "If such a machine is a virtual impossibility, it must have finite improbability. So all I have to do, in order to make one, is to work out how exactly improbable it is, feed that figure into the finite improbability generator, give it a fresh cup of really hot tea... and turn it on!" He did this and managed to create the long sought after golden Infinite Improbability generator out of thin air. Unfortunately, shortly after he was awarded the Galactic Institute's Prize for Extreme Cleverness, he was lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists on the ground that he has became the one thing they couldn't stand most of all: "a smart arse".

https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Infinite_Improbability_Drive


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Castle, TV Series, 2009 - 2016
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1219024/

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Stana Katic (Kate Beckett)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stana_Katic

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When you date a Balkan girl...
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ab0Ifj4Y0LM


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Re: What is normal?
« Reply #6 on: 25/04/2025 11:33:18 »
Normal is what is healthy.
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Re: What is normal?
« Reply #7 on: 25/04/2025 12:09:43 »
Quote from: cpu68 on 25/04/2025 11:33:18
Normal is what is healthy.

Well said, really well said.
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Re: What is normal?
« Reply #8 on: 25/04/2025 13:14:34 »

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poor /poo͝r/ (adjective)

 1. Having insufficient wealth to meet the necessities or comforts of life or to live in a manner considered acceptable in a society.

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The American Heritage? Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition


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wealth (n.)
https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=welth

health (n.)
https://www.etymonline.com/word/health


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Wealth is not the static amount of money, ... (whatever, the 0-th derivative).

Wealth is the FLOW, the 1-st derivative, The money, one can spend on a unit of time.

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Re: What is normal?
« Reply #9 on: 04/05/2025 14:50:10 »
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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/03/09/as-we-are/


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Maxwell's equations


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Leon: The Professional (1994) - Ok, Jean Valjean and Cosette



Sting, The shape of my heart



Les Miserables
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables



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