I do think that that is true. I became a vegan a year ago and several people criticized me and threw all these made up things at me to convince me not to be a vegan even though I had not once tried to force them to become a vegan. I feel that it's the lack of knowledge of a subject or belief that drives people to assume that they're right and that because more people do what they do then that person over there that is different is wrong. Sometimes that's true but often it's not like in the case of spirituality and religion. Someone believes one thing and someone else believes another and so they have their norm and so anyone out of that is wrong. It's so hard to change what someone believes in because of how passionate they are about it. I feel that it's also about being threatened and having a person question what another believes in makes people question it themselves and that scares them. I think that that may be in the subconscious mind though and so if I ever tried to say that to someone they would write it off right away.
So I feel like I just rambled that but basically yes. I feel that people with abnormal practices or beliefs open themselves up to more criticizing. I fully welcome questions and wish that people would instead ask about it and be curious about what ever I or someone else believes instead of going straight to judgment and criticism.
The "norm" should be called the "abnorm" :P I have been brought up on christianity. I wasn't informed on anything about contraception, other than "no sex before marriage" and that was it. Nothing else was ever mentioned other than that. It was all abotu the connection and the one person for the rest of your life, way of life. I'm going to say "idea" (thank you Dogma!) I think it is alot easier to get critisized for your belief/idea, if that's what you stand for, the bigger it is. However, I think it is also based on how open you are to listening to other people's ideas and values, with out immediate judgment jumping, before really hearing anythign that has been said. I think it is unfair for those who have the same belief to put down other people's ways on doing things because it isn't exactly the same as their own. That can be contradicted by the topics of terrorism, but that isn't the point I'm making! What I mean is that people have their own book to read, and in order to make a decent library, you have to be able to accept that not every other book out there is for you, though some others might be, and yet allow that book to rest on the shelf with the best of the collection. I hope that makes sense. I think that people who cannot be as open to question/reflect on their own ideas are going to straight away be circled by others who want to know why they can't see anything else and be put down for it, and by doing that it pretty much makes them a little bit alienated or "not so norm/abnorm" as the rest of world.
So I feel like I just rambled that but basically yes. I feel that people with abnormal practices or beliefs open themselves up to more criticizing. I fully welcome questions and wish that people would instead ask about it and be curious about what ever I or someone else believes instead of going straight to judgment and criticism.
I have been brought up on christianity. I wasn't informed on anything about contraception, other than "no sex before marriage" and that was it. Nothing else was ever mentioned other than that. It was all abotu the connection and the one person for the rest of your life, way of life.
I'm going to say "idea" (thank you Dogma!)
I think it is alot easier to get critisized for your belief/idea, if that's what you stand for, the bigger it is. However, I think it is also based on how open you are to listening to other people's ideas and values, with out immediate judgment jumping, before really hearing anythign that has been said.
I think it is unfair for those who have the same belief to put down other people's ways on doing things because it isn't exactly the same as their own. That can be contradicted by the topics of terrorism, but that isn't the point I'm making! What I mean is that people have their own book to read, and in order to make a decent library, you have to be able to accept that not every other book out there is for you, though some others might be, and yet allow that book to rest on the shelf with the best of the collection. I hope that makes sense.
I think that people who cannot be as open to question/reflect on their own ideas are going to straight away be circled by others who want to know why they can't see anything else and be put down for it, and by doing that it pretty much makes them a little bit alienated or "not so norm/abnorm" as the rest of world.