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Living A Digital Existence Week 13
Well, a new year has begun, but don’t worry, your Living a Digital Existence blog still remains! This week, I’m having a bit of trouble sleeping (yes, I AM writing this at 5.30 in the morning
), and so thought I would share with you some of my thoughts I’ve been having whilst the nights drag on...
Normalisation
The other night I had rather an in depth chat with one of my friends about our society as a whole, and one of the topics which came up was what it is to be normal. Basically it came about because I don’t really tend to make friends with people who society would class as “normal”, as to be quite honest, find these people to be very boring. I make friends with people who some might say are “weird” but to me, they’re interesting, and often very nice people. We then got onto the topic of Chavs and “chav culture”, in which they will try and start a fight with you for no apparent reason. What I couldn’t understand is how they could possibly start a fight with someone, when they don’t know them at all and are basing it on whether, to them, they look “normal”. People’s perceptions of what normal is are all different, but to me, there is no such thing as “normal”. Everyone is different, and yes, there are those who follow trends, and in my opinion, they need to find out who they really are, and not be afraid to be that person. It’s those who are their own person, and are truly unique, that are “normal” to me.
Insomnia and feet
A couple of weeks ago, I was talking with my brother about ghosts and things I think, and he was reciting a story to me, and I said to him, “to be honest, I don’t believe in that stuff at all.” In bewilderment and amazement, he turned to me and said, “so you don’t believe in the supernatural?!”
My answer to this, is no.
I don’t think that I’m pessimistic about the supernatural, but I believe there is enough brilliance and great stuff in the natural world to compensate. I mean, take the theory of natural selection as an example. I’d like to agree with one of my favourite comics, Tim Minchin, on this subject on this subject, and shall recite a story of his.
I love the idea that an individual can mutate, but in a good way, and in mutating, it can provide an evolutionary breakthrough for that whole species.
The theory of natural selection is great science, I think about it all the time, and imagine what it must’ve been like for these mutant freaks, at school and stuff. I mean at my school you got bullied for wearing the wrong clothes, but these guys have whole new appendages!
And also, I want to know how they learned how to use their new bits. I mean did it just come naturally to them? Imagine you’re a fish, just swimming in the sea, and suddenly, Tony turns around and says “That’s it, I’m getting out.” All his friends turn around and “Don’t be stupid Tony, you’re a fish!”. But no, Tony gets out, and suddenly sprouts a couple of legs! It’s mind boggling stuff!
And imagine what Tony would think if he knew that a few short hundreds of billions of years in the future one of his distant ancestors, a Jew called Jesus had nails put through his feet, the very feet Tony gave him, as a punishment because he had a belief in a god who was created by man to explain the existence of feet, in the absence of the knowledge of the existence of Tony! I think it would just blow his fishy mind!
So yes, a rather random Living A Digital Existence this week, but as I say, it is now 6 in the morning, I have college in 3 hours, and I think I’m going slightly mad!
Until next time...
David
(MunkyMagikUK)
Well, a new year has begun, but don’t worry, your Living a Digital Existence blog still remains! This week, I’m having a bit of trouble sleeping (yes, I AM writing this at 5.30 in the morning
), and so thought I would share with you some of my thoughts I’ve been having whilst the nights drag on...Normalisation
The other night I had rather an in depth chat with one of my friends about our society as a whole, and one of the topics which came up was what it is to be normal. Basically it came about because I don’t really tend to make friends with people who society would class as “normal”, as to be quite honest, find these people to be very boring. I make friends with people who some might say are “weird” but to me, they’re interesting, and often very nice people. We then got onto the topic of Chavs and “chav culture”, in which they will try and start a fight with you for no apparent reason. What I couldn’t understand is how they could possibly start a fight with someone, when they don’t know them at all and are basing it on whether, to them, they look “normal”. People’s perceptions of what normal is are all different, but to me, there is no such thing as “normal”. Everyone is different, and yes, there are those who follow trends, and in my opinion, they need to find out who they really are, and not be afraid to be that person. It’s those who are their own person, and are truly unique, that are “normal” to me.
Insomnia and feet
A couple of weeks ago, I was talking with my brother about ghosts and things I think, and he was reciting a story to me, and I said to him, “to be honest, I don’t believe in that stuff at all.” In bewilderment and amazement, he turned to me and said, “so you don’t believe in the supernatural?!”
My answer to this, is no.
I don’t think that I’m pessimistic about the supernatural, but I believe there is enough brilliance and great stuff in the natural world to compensate. I mean, take the theory of natural selection as an example. I’d like to agree with one of my favourite comics, Tim Minchin, on this subject on this subject, and shall recite a story of his.
I love the idea that an individual can mutate, but in a good way, and in mutating, it can provide an evolutionary breakthrough for that whole species.
The theory of natural selection is great science, I think about it all the time, and imagine what it must’ve been like for these mutant freaks, at school and stuff. I mean at my school you got bullied for wearing the wrong clothes, but these guys have whole new appendages!
And also, I want to know how they learned how to use their new bits. I mean did it just come naturally to them? Imagine you’re a fish, just swimming in the sea, and suddenly, Tony turns around and says “That’s it, I’m getting out.” All his friends turn around and “Don’t be stupid Tony, you’re a fish!”. But no, Tony gets out, and suddenly sprouts a couple of legs! It’s mind boggling stuff!
And imagine what Tony would think if he knew that a few short hundreds of billions of years in the future one of his distant ancestors, a Jew called Jesus had nails put through his feet, the very feet Tony gave him, as a punishment because he had a belief in a god who was created by man to explain the existence of feet, in the absence of the knowledge of the existence of Tony! I think it would just blow his fishy mind!
So yes, a rather random Living A Digital Existence this week, but as I say, it is now 6 in the morning, I have college in 3 hours, and I think I’m going slightly mad!
Until next time...
David
(MunkyMagikUK)
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