I think deep down I believe this also...But I'll never admit it!
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Beliefs you hold despite knowing they are bad?
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Princess Viola
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People who put their religion first shouldn't be allowed to hold public office.
You should reread my post. I'm not encouraging suicide. When I say the world would be better off with less people I mean 1-2 billion less people not a few people offing themselves. There is a gigantic difference between suicide, and living but deciding not to pop out half a dozen kids.
Deified Data
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Yeah, I can get behind this OP. Ask me on any given day and I'll say I'm against the death penalty - too much room for error, state-sponsored vengeance, more expensive than simply keeping them alive, etc. - but say you know someone did it? Doesn't matter how, you could have seen them do it. They really deserve the worst the world has to offer. I genuinely enjoy stories of people being mauled/eaten after abusing an animal.
Additionally, I still struggle with certain social-Darwinist tendencies from my anarcho-capitalist days - it probably doesn't help that this way of thinking is heavily reinforced my the world at large. I hear someone on foodstamps say "I wish they let me buy better food" and I think "So fucking what"...until I remember that my family was on foodstamps as a child and I can either be an empathetic person or a total hypocrite in this regard. I'm a person with certain uber-conservative, fascist tendencies who has made a commitment to being liberal-minded that trumps those negative traits. I know what I believe and I know it's right, but sometimes it's difficult to escape dogma that was drilled into you in the past. Takes a deliberate effort to ignore it.
MetalGuardian
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Oh sure, I know you aren't advocating suicide. It just seems weird to have such a low view of other people's worth yet choose to spend your life helping them anyway.
is this thread just a public confessional?
Anyway, I hate morbidly obese people, even if they are nice. Especially those who let their fat sag out of their shirt. I guess my belief would be that they are all lazy?
I also dislike most people around my age and younger than me. This is probably due to twitter, youtube, and facebook.
I realize this probably makes me seem super antisocial, but I'm really not.
Anyway, I hate morbidly obese people, even if they are nice. Especially those who let their fat sag out of their shirt. I guess my belief would be that they are all lazy?
I also dislike most people around my age and younger than me. This is probably due to twitter, youtube, and facebook.
I realize this probably makes me seem super antisocial, but I'm really not.
Nobody is "for" abortion. But the option should remain. Framing the argument as "pro-life" is wrong and damaging.
Do you despise homeless people as well?
I'M FINISHED!
Um exCUSE me Sakurai but CLEARLY the best choice for Smash Bros would be my fav niche character HOWEVER you are clearly INCOMPETENT and
God gave dinosaurs AIDS to test our faith.
I know plenty of people including myself that wish more people had abortions.
Wiktor
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Sure, I just don't feel like using that option is the right thing. But at the same time it's such personal thing I think anyone should decide it on their own in their own case. I might loose some respect for them if they excercise that option, but it's their decision.
Where did that come from? No I don't.
AKingNamedPaul
I am Homie
That I'm more intelligent than everyone.
Are you calling all homeless people lazy? And I said morbidly obese.
Precisely where the difference is at. By the same line of thought homeless people turn homeless for more than just being too lazy to cope with everyday life, morbidly obese people are obese for more than just eating unhealthily and not doing enough physical activity: they are diseased, as well, and severely at that. Not trying to lecture you or anything along those obnoxious lines, I just don't get the correlation...
meltingparappa
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Wait, is that a "bad" opinion?
Alcohol is responsible for a ton of deaths in the modern world, but it's possibly offset by the vital importance of it throughout history which helped create babies who created other babies and maybe the net "loss of life" versus "creation of life" evens out.
I don't think the homelessness comparison is very apt. Yes, there are some people with legit clinical reasons for being morbidly obese. But a lot of people just eat and sleep into their glory weight due to laziness. Conversely, there are homeless people who cannot get a job or have untreated medical conditions that prevents them from functioning in society. But you don't see most sane people start testing the waters of homelessness.
However, I worded my original post poorly. I know that not all morbidly obese people are lazy. But when I see an obese slob in public, it doesn't help the stereotype in my mind. It doesn't help that there are reality shows about some people who are like that and just get a tummy tuck or whatever and then whine that they can't eat ice cream and pizza. Also there is that Honey Boo Boo show.
SirMossyBloke
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A lot of people on here are going to hate me for this but....
I believe most Americans feel they are superior to the rest of world, which is why they never seem to take into account differences in other countries.
Oddly enough I see this on GAF more than most places.
I know I shouldnt feel this way as i'm sure most DON'T feel this way, but whenever I see someone post or tweet something that only applies to the States, but they dont mention that, it pisses me off.
Microsoft is the fucking worst for it actually. I remember waiting for 6 months for something to appear on Xbox Live, a new feature announced at E3, only to find out on the day it was released that it only counted for the U.S.
I believe most Americans feel they are superior to the rest of world, which is why they never seem to take into account differences in other countries.
Oddly enough I see this on GAF more than most places.
I know I shouldnt feel this way as i'm sure most DON'T feel this way, but whenever I see someone post or tweet something that only applies to the States, but they dont mention that, it pisses me off.
Microsoft is the fucking worst for it actually. I remember waiting for 6 months for something to appear on Xbox Live, a new feature announced at E3, only to find out on the day it was released that it only counted for the U.S.
By the same line of thought, I don't believe sex is a need at all. The comparison with drinking and eating always made me cringe very hard.
Tommie Hu$tle
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Pretty much this and it's my one really big flaw. I try to give people the benefit of the doubt but it gets to be hard. I have a situation now where a co-worker has to travel for a major assignment training on some technology that has been around the organization for over 6 years but something he isn't that familiar with. He's known for two weeks he had this task and today he txt me asking for help setting up the system. Like the day before he leaves. To myself I'm like "Didn't you see this coming?"
How could you be so dumb?
BigEvilTurtle
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For some reason, I believe I always know what I'm talking about, even when I truly don't. It's an annoying habit of mine. /:
Well, it's a need for the species as a whole if nothing else.
LumpOfCole
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If the calories and nutrition facts aren't posted, then the food/drink cannot be that unhealthy.
Why, though? Were you powerless to rectify a position you found unfair when you were a child?
Many people do the same. Knowing full well the same thing you just said,
For some reason, I believe I feel I always have to include that "I believe" whenever I'm speaking on factual information. To give you some insight, I did it just now without even thinking about it. I paused for a minute when I quoted myself, looked back, and shook my head. I guess it's been a habit from being put down or questioned so many times in my life? I don't know.
Depends on what you consider a good life expectancy, you can even renounce food and water in that case, just lower your expectations enough.
lol was about to post this
Only noticed your edit while backtracking the thread. Sentence in bold sums up my feelings, word for word.
Back when I was 17, I had a friend who was six years older than me (or was it five? Can't remember). She turned pregnant at 17, got dumbed by her boyfriend a few weeks after, but decided to keep the baby still. She then ended up her living and raising the child on her own. All relationships she had afterwards were merely for sex. However, I wasn't one of her sex-friends still. We were just friends, hanging out together. I was in love with her but I'm not sure that was reciprocal.
One night we were chilling with folks, I had to stay sleeping at her home for it was 5+ AM and I lived rather far away. It's when I was about to lie on the couch that she asked me to go sleeping at her bed.
But that was it: we were sleeping together in the same bed. No sex or what have you. I think she did hold my hand at some point tho.
Story unfolded at the beginning of Summer 2009, party was to celebrate the end of high-school's finals (I was still in high-school back then), meaning we eventually lost track because of holidays. I wrote her a letter while in vacation, which she replied to. Wrote her another, got no response... until a year after, in September 2010, wherein she said she wanted us to meet again. Never responded, and not for I met other girls in the meantime, rather because I didn't feel like it. She wrote me another one a few months ago, in July, to commit me to an aperitif celebrating her departure to Brazil. Never responded either. She was nothing but a memory at this point.
Long story short, out of the two relation-ships I've had so far, that one remains my favorite. Other story happened when I was 14/15 and was irrelevant for a lot of reasons that hardly relate to this thread, even though it involved squeezes and kisses unlike the other one.
Nowadays, I'm 21, single and virgin, but I don't feel "forever alone", neither am I losing sleep over the fact I've never had sex. And that brings us back to the thread: I consider virginity to be a richness.
If everyone could kill one person they hated, everyone would die.
That most relationships and marriage is bullshit. Sexual exclusivity is stupid and limiting. My girlfriend doesn't have dominion over my junk, nor do I have it over hers. The importance of a relationship is the emotional connection shared between two individuals, while sexual attraction takes a distant second. These beliefs are rather radical and explains a lot of my relationship failures but I wouldn't have it any other way.
I can't shake this notion that without violence, social re-engineering cannot really succeed. I'm from that sick school of thought that believes that the great terror during the french revolution was somewhat of a natural outgrowth of popular emancipation. That is not to say i believe that this sort of social upheaval is the best way forward. It's just hard for me to conceive radical change towards equality without heads rolling. I think this is awful, but my gut finds it to be true.
Rubbish King
The gift that keeps on giving
THEY ARE A GOOD BAND
I'm a little biased as you can tell from my avatar, but I really don't think he was being anywhere near an asshole in those links. He liked eye-catching titles (i.e. "God Is Not Great," ect) but I think he reasons pretty articulately why there are more funny men than women (not that women are not funny, period).
Anyway, I my personal "bad" belief is that Jared Leto is just "average" looking. Come at me, GAF.
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