Dark Angel Of Silence
(?)Community Member
- Posted: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 21:31:10 +0000
Weird, strange, freaky. Those are all synonyms of the word different. Different can be described in many ways and shown through many examples. For instance, just about everything in your avatar is different from mine. (original, I know) Maybe the way you talk, act, and the things you wear are different from me. Religion is a big example of diffence, like Christianity is different from Judism.
But I'm not here to talk about how one thing is different from another.
Difference between things and people can get out of hand. If you're not a mindless sheep who's following the same person everyone else is, you're different and can get picked on for that. There are still religious fanatics out there who believe in the words of Hitler and eliminate people different than them.
My question is, is different really all that different?
You might say that yes it is, but if you look at it another way I hope you will see that it is not in a lot of cases. Take the example of Christianity vs. Judism. To a Christian, a Jewish person might be different, but to a group of Jewish people the Christian will obviously be different, and the original Jewish person won't be since there are a lot of other people like them.
What if you get picked on for being different, like liking and wearing different things from other people? If you find a group of people who are just like you when it comes down to those things, you will not be so different anymore. surprised
Of course, difference is not a good thing, like if you get a different answer than everyone else in the class (and yours is wrong) it's best to get the same result. (no more on that subject of different being a bad thing)
But I'm not here to talk about how one thing is different from another.
Difference between things and people can get out of hand. If you're not a mindless sheep who's following the same person everyone else is, you're different and can get picked on for that. There are still religious fanatics out there who believe in the words of Hitler and eliminate people different than them.
My question is, is different really all that different?
You might say that yes it is, but if you look at it another way I hope you will see that it is not in a lot of cases. Take the example of Christianity vs. Judism. To a Christian, a Jewish person might be different, but to a group of Jewish people the Christian will obviously be different, and the original Jewish person won't be since there are a lot of other people like them.
What if you get picked on for being different, like liking and wearing different things from other people? If you find a group of people who are just like you when it comes down to those things, you will not be so different anymore. surprised
Of course, difference is not a good thing, like if you get a different answer than everyone else in the class (and yours is wrong) it's best to get the same result. (no more on that subject of different being a bad thing)