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| Kenny Klassen |
 Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 9:29 am Post subject: Are you ever relived when this place makes you feel normal? |
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Normally, I am consdered insane and to have werid hobby's but here I look realtivly sane and rational I am not saying it would be nice all the time but its nice to go some place where your opinion doesn't go over peoples heads or seem completly crazy
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In the study of life in todays socity there are sevral truth we must face the folowing are the ones I have manged to come to terms with:
1. You will probably end up doing something related to Cancer, Aids, or some other dieases that incovinces the genral public
2. In order to make money you either will be doing the afore mentioned research because that is where all the free grant money is, working for a company, or having to teach people some of whom really should not be there
3. You cannot take up reserach biologist as a hobby inless you have another substancial form of income |
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| 425 Chaotic Requisition |
| Posted: Sun May 04, 2008 10:50 am Post subject: |
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If there is one thing I've learned from life, its that there is no such thing as 'normal'. And most people here are snubby upstuck up their own backsided hypocrites, and the few thatcomplain about them  . But no I don't feel normal here, people are so inconsiderate that I don't feel at the same page with others here. But thats my opinion.
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| Pong |
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On one hand, being a 37-year-old cabinetmaker and unmedicated family man without police record, I know I'm normal, all too normal.
On the other hand, earnest questions and hypotheses I've put to this science forum mostly garner lame or flaky comment, or (the vast majority of readers) no comment at all, as though my thoughts are too obscure. Perhaps I need a pickable shtick like 425 Chaotic Requisition's, to pull dialogue here. |
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| Selene |
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Don't put all your eggs in one basket
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scatter your seeds far and wide but don't bank on all of them sprouting!
Edit: P.s- this place makes me feel like Esmerelda in the bell tower!
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| Kenny Klassen |
| Posted: Mon May 05, 2008 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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that was the type of response I started this thread to get selene
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In the study of life in todays socity there are sevral truth we must face the folowing are the ones I have manged to come to terms with:
1. You will probably end up doing something related to Cancer, Aids, or some other dieases that incovinces the genral public
2. In order to make money you either will be doing the afore mentioned research because that is where all the free grant money is, working for a company, or having to teach people some of whom really should not be there
3. You cannot take up reserach biologist as a hobby inless you have another substancial form of income |
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| Pendragon |
| Posted: Tue May 06, 2008 11:23 am Post subject: Re: Are you ever relived when this place makes you feel norm |
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| Kenny Klassen wrote: |
| Normally, I am consdered insane and to have werid hobby's but here I look realtivly sane and rational I am not saying it would be nice all the time but its nice to go some place where your opinion doesn't go over peoples heads or seem completly crazy |
Maybe this post is interesting for you, especially the article quoted in the original post. In most small communities (high school classes, small villages, neighbourhoods) being intelligent and / or being interested in science is a kind of deviance. Bullies will try to make you believe that it really is something strange to like learning, to seek knowledge voluntarily. But once you look beyond those small communities you find that for a great number of people it's completely normal behaviour. And at this forum it's the standard
The main thing I learned at university is that in the end every form of science is interesting, every specialized field of science can be fun to study once you get to know it a bit. As a kid I didnt really understand why people would devote their life to theoretical physics or mathematics. But even though I still don't know much about these fields, I do understand now that people can have a lot of fun with it. It's not something weird, it's just healthy human curiosity  |
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| Kenny Klassen |
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Not really but its good to hear they get better
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In the study of life in todays socity there are sevral truth we must face the folowing are the ones I have manged to come to terms with:
1. You will probably end up doing something related to Cancer, Aids, or some other dieases that incovinces the genral public
2. In order to make money you either will be doing the afore mentioned research because that is where all the free grant money is, working for a company, or having to teach people some of whom really should not be there
3. You cannot take up reserach biologist as a hobby inless you have another substancial form of income |
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| Pong |
| Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 12:28 am Post subject: Re: Are you ever relived when this place makes you feel norm |
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| In most small communities... being intelligent and / or being interested in science is a kind of deviance. |
You pegged him alright. Quesnel is a remote, small, logging town. I'll bet half the kids who stay there get careers at the pulp mills. Or driving log trucks. Itchy feet eh Kenny? |
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| Kenny Klassen |
| Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 4:45 pm Post subject: |
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You are right most of the smart ones are working there part-time now and the ones with no hope for education are opsest about losing there jobs because of the lack of work but this has nothing to do with me, and yes am leaving as soon as possible
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In the study of life in todays socity there are sevral truth we must face the folowing are the ones I have manged to come to terms with:
1. You will probably end up doing something related to Cancer, Aids, or some other dieases that incovinces the genral public
2. In order to make money you either will be doing the afore mentioned research because that is where all the free grant money is, working for a company, or having to teach people some of whom really should not be there
3. You cannot take up reserach biologist as a hobby inless you have another substancial form of income |
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