Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
-Morticia Addams
Interesting thread and quote, Silkthread
by SilkthreadNormal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
-Morticia Addams
There's also another angle, the relationship between the two.
It is normal for there to be a balance between the population of spiders and flies, predators and prey.
If there is an extreme imbalance that destabilizes the ecosystem, then something is abnormal.
[With people, it is natural for death and disease to result from factors obstructing normal health and balance. But it is also natural for people to learn to root out and overcome the causes of disease and other social ills. Imbalance is abnormal if the learning curve is disrupted, and problems resulting are disproportional. So there is both relative and absolute going on at the same time. It's not ALL "relative"; perspectives are relative, but there are set laws governing the relationship between these elements. There was talk on here if evil were "relative", so I thought I'd throw this in.]
Hi Cipher: This is interesting that some people don't believe in evil just because they can forgive whatever people are calling evil. That doesn't mean that negative energy doesn't exist. (Since you and TK both hold this view, I can start a new thread to explore this more. Thanks for posting.)
There are things dat even I can't forgive but I don't consider them evil per se. Our existence is just a lucky coincidence, and nothing what we do matters in the end.
Take a look at this: http://htwins.net/scale2/
Posting this made me thing of another quote. One by xkcd.
'The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.'
Edit: Which one will the humans be?