Are You a Path-Hugger?

Twinkling_Butterfly wrote:I found out what a "sweetie-path" is. It's a...well, a path made out of sweets.

marshmellow wrote:

Twinkling_Butterfly wrote:I found out what a "sweetie-path" is. It's a...well, a path made out of sweets.

Don't worry, you're anything but sweet. You're more like a path made out of shards of glass, tacks, nails and razor blades... all covered in marshmallows as to look inviting and unsuspecting

Twinkling_Butterfly wrote:Did you guys know about this use of the term "path-hugger"?

Never heard it before you. Path hugger sounds like a dangerous job/position though.

Tempest80 wrote:Never heard it before you. Path hugger sounds like a dangerous job/position though.

Not for a Malnorm.

I couldn't find a picture of a marshmallow path. (Mallow-path? mellow-path? Sounds like the lazy guy in The Sociopath Next Door.) But I did see a strawberry path bounded by marshmallows. Would that be a marshmallow path-hugger?

Tempest80 wrote:

Twinkling_Butterfly wrote:Did you guys know about this use of the term "path-hugger"?

Never heard it before you. Path hugger sounds like a dangerous job/position though.

I'll say! Some vines can grow big and strong enough to tear down a metal fence. Wait—what are we talking about?

OneRinger wrote:Not for a Malnorm.

What's that? Someone who's normally bad?

Maybe it's about time I got to work on that glossary I kept saying I would write for us.

Twinkling_Butterfly wrote:

OneRinger wrote:Not for a Malnorm.

What's that? Someone who's normally bad?

Maybe it's about time I got to work on that glossary I kept saying I would write for us.

Malignant Norm.

I'll take that as a yes.

There are a few Paths I would hug happily.
My hugs are amazing and VERY powerful, so only a special few really get them.
Some are just not ready to feel that kind of care.
Lets face it, there are lousy hugger'z every where. If your going to do it, do It right I say.
ne

If your 'path doesn't like to be hugged, there are other ways to show love.
antisocial-personality/topic68210.html (I think I posted this one earlier.)
antisocial-personality/topic75816.html

Twinkling_Butterfly wrote:I'll take that as a yes.

Obviously not.

If you say normally bad, the adjective normally modifies the word bad. So you are saying that it is a trite or acceptable badness.

I say malignant Normal, which means someone who creates and follows bad norms. In order to know what norm means here, you would have to look at the root of the word: "nomos", which can mean law or rule, custom, etc. For a Normal, what I just said would be an oxymoron, because normal always means good. That is part of the normal delusional fantasy.

I wrote you a reply, but I buried it.

OneRinger wrote:

Twinkling_Butterfly wrote:I'll take that as a yes.

Obviously not.

Well, I didn't mean it seriously, hence the , but if I must...

OneRinger wrote:If you say normally bad, the adjective normally modifies the word bad. So you are saying that it is a trite or acceptable badness.

When I say normally bad, I mean that badness is the default state, just as when I say I'm normally anxious around strangers, I mean it would be odd for me to approach them without anxiety,...but I can see how my sentence structure might confuse the meaning. Here we go...

Someone who_ normally is bad

There. Now it looks like "normally" modifies "is." Fixed?

OneRinger wrote:I say malignant Normal, which means someone who creates and follows bad norms. In order to know what norm means here, you would have to look at the root of the word: "nomos", which can mean law or rule, custom, etc.

I thought you meant someone who is malignant but not because of a PD, but it's interesting that your description reminds me of David Lykken's distinction between psychopaths and sociopaths. I imagine he might say that psychopaths create bad norms and sociopaths follow bad norms. (Incidentally, this is what I thought Jeremy Sherman meant by "Psychopath Cowboys, Sociopath Herds," but that turned out to be about the Milgram experiment. )

For a Normal, what I just said would be an oxymoron, because normal always means good.

It sounds like a confusion of two senses of the word. You said "someone who creates and follows bad norms," implying that a norm is a rule or custom (as in, "rising before dawn is normal in our household"), but "normal always means good" would imply that a norm is a standard for health (as in, "a normal heart beats without an artificial pacemaker"). In the second case "malignant normal" would indeed be an oxymoron, but creating and following bad rules is entirely possible (and all too common) because the person creating and following the rules may be simply deceived rather than disordered.


Oh, I found a golden donut for you, too.