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People may perceive the individual's eccentric behavior as the outward expression of their unique intelligence or creative impulse. [2] In this vein, the eccentric's habits are incomprehensible not because they are illogical or the result of madness, but because they stem from a mind so original that it cannot be conformed to societal norms .
Wilson had also discussed the Philip Jenkins book Fertility and Faith (which makes a different argument), and described it as "more focused" than The WEIRDest People in the World. [6] In Kirkus Reviews it was praised as a "fascinating, vigorously argued work that probes deeply into the way 'WEIRD people' think." [7]
Collecting unusual items is a hobby that can range from quirky and endearing to bizarre and straight-up gross. Here are 12 weird and wacky things that people collect.
One theory has it that "odd fellows", people who exercised unusual, miscellaneous "odd trades", eventually joined together to form a larger group of "odd fellows." [ 11 ] Another theory suggests that in the beginning of odd fellowship in the 18th century, at the time of the early era of industrialisation, it was rather odd to find people who ...
Meanwhile, as of 2020, around a billion people use Google Maps, launched in 2005, every month. #13 Another Crashed Plane, This Time A Bomber From The Second World War I Think. Found Between Russia ...
This thing was weird for the world, because it shows that how Japan as a nation, serious about its children and their future. People are praising Japan authorities for making education a top priority.
So to get a better understanding of these dynamics, Reddit user NoMarket2312 asked people online to share what "the weird kid" did at their school that they simply cannot forget.
Poster for the Norwegian magazine Urd by Andreas Bloch and Olaf Krohn. Wyrd is a concept in Anglo-Saxon culture roughly corresponding to fate or personal destiny. The word is ancestral to Modern English weird, whose meaning has drifted towards an adjectival use with a more general sense of "supernatural" or "uncanny", or simply "unexpected".