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Apart from established physical parameters like our body temperature and the Sun coming up every day and those kinds of things, it seems that the tendency is for everyone to think that they're normal and that it's everyone else who are the weirdoes. But if that's the case, then our perception of normalcy must be something entirely subjective. Or is it? What if the so-called weirdoes are actually more in tune with the truth than the so-called normal people, then isn't it really the weirdoes who are normal?

Words like "paranormal" imply that anything that is outside scientific understanding isn't normal, yet recent discussions here about the nature of consciousness reveal that consciousness remains beyond the grasp of direct scientific study. That means the very essence of our relationship to the world around us falls under the definition of paranormal. How do we reconcile such seemingly paradoxical realities? This is the thread for discussing these issues.

Starter Resources: World view - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Can you say Weltanschauung: Weltanschauung | Define Weltanschauung at Dictionary.com

NOTE: I had also wanted to include a poll question but the default close date is stuck on 7 days, making a poll pretty much pointless. Maybe someone could fix it to allow non-expiring polls again.

<blockquote data-quote="Randall" data-source="post: 156188" data-attributes="member: 2682">Apart from established physical parameters like our body temperature and the Sun coming up every day and those kinds of things, it seems that the tendency is for everyone to think that they&#039;re normal and that it&#039;s everyone else who are the weirdoes. But if that&#039;s the case, then our perception of normalcy must be something entirely subjective. Or is it? What if the so-called weirdoes are actually more in tune with the truth than the so-called normal people, then isn&#039;t it really the weirdoes who are normal? &nbsp;Words like &quot;paranormal&quot; imply that anything that is outside scientific understanding isn&#039;t normal, yet recent discussions here about the nature of consciousness reveal that consciousness remains beyond the grasp of direct scientific study. That means the very essence of our relationship to the world around us falls under the definition of paranormal. How do we reconcile such seemingly paradoxical realities? This is the thread for discussing these issues.&nbsp;Starter Resources: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_view" target="_blank">World view - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a>Can you say Weltanschauung: <a href="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/weltanschauung" target="_blank">Weltanschauung | Define Weltanschauung at Dictionary.com</a>&nbsp;NOTE: I had also wanted to include a poll question but the default close date is stuck on 7 days, making a poll pretty much pointless. Maybe someone could fix it to allow non-expiring polls again.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Randall, post: 156188, member: 2682"] [FONT=arial]Apart from established physical parameters like our body temperature and the Sun coming up every day and those kinds of things, it seems that the tendency is for everyone to think that they're normal and that it's everyone [I]else[/I] who are the weirdoes. But if that's the case, then our perception of normalcy must be something entirely subjective. Or is it? What if the so-called weirdoes are actually more in tune with the truth than the so-called normal people, then isn't it really the weirdoes who are normal? [/FONT] [FONT=arial]Words like "paranormal" imply that anything that is outside scientific understanding isn't normal, yet recent discussions here about the nature of consciousness reveal that consciousness remains beyond the grasp of direct scientific study. That means the very essence of our relationship to the world around us falls under the definition of paranormal. How do we reconcile such seemingly paradoxical realities? This is the thread for discussing these issues.[/FONT] [FONT=arial]Starter Resources: [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_view"]World view - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url][/FONT] Can you say[I] Weltanschauung: [url="http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/weltanschauung"]Weltanschauung | Define Weltanschauung at Dictionary.com[/url][/I] [SIZE=3][FONT=arial]NOTE: I had also wanted to include a poll question but the default close date is stuck on 7 days, making a poll pretty much pointless. Maybe someone could fix it to allow non-expiring polls again.[/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]

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