Is life in this world bizarre?

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Fhanson, I loved reading everything you just wrote. It was beautiful.
 
Catherinabird said:
Fhanson, I loved reading everything you just wrote. It was beautiful.
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Why, thank you, Catherina-I appreciated your posts as well. I guess life isn’t good or bad, either/or, but both/and- strange, beautiful, ugly, painful, awesome-not so easy to figure out in any case!
 
fhansen said:
Why, thank you, Catherina-I appreciated your posts as well. I guess life isn’t good or bad, either/or, but both/and- strange, beautiful, ugly, painful, awesome-not so easy to figure out in any case!
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That is a good way of putting it. I’m quite enjoying this topic.
 
To clarify, I don’t mean to say life isn’t essentially good. It is-but we’ll also experience a great deal of evil here as well. Either way sometimes “bizarre” isn’t a bad way to characterize certain aspects of it IMO. 🙂
 
I got that from what you were saying. A few people, however, seem to think bizarre only means the terrible, horrible, grotesque, and macabre. Or, that it is wrong to sometimes feel like life is bizarre. I don’t think it is wrong at all as it indicates a sense of marvel at everything that is. Perhaps people take offense at the suggestion that life is bizarre because to them it is ordinary and normal, and calling life bizarre is, well, a bizarre point of view for them. Or maybe they fear stepping out of the comfort of seeing everything as ordinary and don’t want to view things as strange and extraordinary.
 
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I got that from what you were saying. A few people, however, seem to think bizarre only means the terrible, horrible, grotesque, and macabre. Or, that it is wrong to sometimes feel like life is bizarre. I don’t think it is wrong at all as it indicates a sense of marvel at everything that is. Perhaps people take offense at the suggestion that life is bizarre because to them it is ordinary and normal, and calling life bizarre is, well, a bizarre point of view for them. Or maybe they fear stepping out of the comfort of seeing everything as ordinary and don’t want to view things as strange and extraordinary.
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People who maintain a strong sense of “self” will, I think, conform to the world in such a way as to view it as being “normal.”
 
Robert_Sock said:
No matter how I look at it, this life is bizarre. “Into this world, we’re thrown.” People, I think, get so caught up in life that they never realize just how bizarre it is.
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And highly interesting as well.
 
Robert_Sock said:
People who maintain a strong sense of “self” will, I think, conform to the world in such a way as to view it as being “normal.”
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I don’t necessarily agree with that. A person with a strong sense of self might view the world as strange too. That might be part of their self. Unless I have misinterpreted your meaning.
 
GEddie said:
It isn’t “life” that urges “values” upon us, but the social environment; go far enough away, and while you will find human beings with whom we share physical life, the “values” will be quite divergent.
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Here’s a couple of commercials from two generations back. The values seem bizarre to me. Interesting to try to predict which current values will seem bizarre two generations into the future.

Goodyear, when a woman’s at the wheel - youtube.com/watch?v=rC5aGCOT6bs
Camay, you’ll be a little lovelier - youtube.com/watch?v=_Rnu72NRWjU
 
Catherinabird said:
I don’t necessarily agree with that. A person with a strong sense of self might view the world as strange too. That might be part of their self. Unless I have misinterpreted your meaning.
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I never meant it in an absolute sense, but as a tendency.
 
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