Reply to article by: "rick nielsen" <rnielsen@centurytel.net>
Date written: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:28:30 -0400
MsgID:<w9ydnRByjoIIoODcRVn-hw@centurytel.net>

Wrong. See http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=normal&r=67. It says that
normal is "Conforming with, adhering to, or constituting a norm, standard,
pattern, level, or type; typical". There is nothing there about mathematics
being involved. You are making dangerous sweeping generazilations about
something you know little about. Math is only a tool used by scientists to
*quantify* normal (when possible), not define it.

nothing in this defination says that any experience is not unique, or indeed
any thing is not unique.

Therefore since it isn't mentioned, it isn't relevant.

it is only language short hand again to aid
communication the name is not the thing and the menu is not the meal. the
only place that normal has any real meaning is in mathmatics which is itself
abstract

It is a standard english language reference and unless you are talking in some
other language that has a word that sounds like normal but has a different
meaning, you have nothing factual or logical to stand on. The meaning of normal,
and there are no other means as you want to pretend, clearly states that normal
is anything that conforms to whatever is typical or usual. Experiencing UFOs and
ghosts are not typical or usual, therefore they are not normal. Eating and
drinking and walking are normal.

And no matter how much you try to twist words and argue over stupid things like
what is normal, the fact still is that the dictionary clearly defines anything
that is "beyond the range of scientific explanation" as paranormal. That makes
UFOs and ghosts paranormal. Let see you try to wiggle and lie and rant and rave
you way out of that in-your-face fact, just like you always try to do.

The Sage

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