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10 days of Confessions! (Day 7)
12 years ago
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~SEVEN DAYS~ o_o
This one was less fun to write. xP
Day 1: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now.
Day 2: Nine things about yourself.
Day 3: Eight ways to win your heart.
Day 4: Seven things that cross your mind a lot.
Day 5: Six things you wish you'd never done.
Day 6: Five people who mean a lot to you (in no order whatsoever).
Day 7: Four turn-offs.
Day 8: Three turn-ons.
Day 9: Two emoticons that describe your life right now.
Day 10: One confession.
1. Drugs, as in recreational. Like most of my turn-offs, I fully support other people's right to do what they want. But recreational drug use make me super, super uncomfortable, even marijuana. I honestly don't know why. Drinking used to make me uncomfortable too, which was what finally made me try alcohol myself, just so it wouldn't be so painful to me when my friends told me about their drinking escapades. The more dangerous the drug, the more uncomfortable I get, which explains part of my distaste, certainly; the last thing I want to see is someone I care about ruin themselves with addiction or overdose. But again, even pot makes me uncomfortable, so... *shrugs*
2. Guns. I feel like I don't know the scientific reality of whether or not it's actually safer to own a gun in certain places or not... statistically, people who own guns are more likely to get shot, but that may be because people who own guns are usually in more dangerous neighborhoods, but then again, how much of a neighborhood's danger has to do with the fact that everybody has guns~? Regardless, I don't have a problem with our constitution or with most gun control measures, but people who have guns make me uncomfortable to be around, especially when they actively enjoy playing/practicing with them. Like the drugs, this is somewhat odd to me, especially given that more "quaint" weapons like swords or even antique guns don't bother me as much. I suspect it's just the idea of owning a tool (particularly a modern one that people actually use) that was designed for the specific purpose of ending a human life (even if you don't use it that way). I honestly don't know why this fact doesn't bother other people more, but I know I'm a lot more sensitive than most people, too.
3. Alternative medicine. Sorry, but as an enthusiast of mainstream, modern medicine, alternative medicine usually makes me wince or, in cases where it's more harmful than useless, feel disgusted (anti-vaccination practitioners being chief amongst this category). Mostly, I find it upsetting the things that people believe about alternative medicines that generally show a serious misunderstanding about how medicine actually works. Even for something like herbal medicine, where you're talking about substances with the actual capacity to affect your body, there are a number of bizarre beliefs that go along with it: That eating the entire plant instead of the isolated substance is somehow better for you, or that herbal medicine has fewer "side effects" and is safer. The former is based on a completely unfounded theory of holism and flies in the face of existing science that says the more precise the dosage the better, and the latter is just a fundamental misunderstanding of the difference between desired effects and side effects. (Protip: There is none. Drugs just do stuff to your body, and we take them when one or more of those effects are desirable.)
4. Lack of empathy. This can be just selfishness, which is a huge turn-off, or it can be downright cruelty. My heart goes out to cruel people, because so many of them are that way because people were cruel to them. That, or they're actually psychopathic to some degree, and their brains are literally incapable of processing empathy. Either way though, I don't feel like I have any capability to help these people, and that being the case, I'd generally prefer to have nothing to do with them.
This one was less fun to write. xP
Day 1: Ten things you want to say to ten different people right now.
Day 2: Nine things about yourself.
Day 3: Eight ways to win your heart.
Day 4: Seven things that cross your mind a lot.
Day 5: Six things you wish you'd never done.
Day 6: Five people who mean a lot to you (in no order whatsoever).
Day 7: Four turn-offs.
Day 8: Three turn-ons.
Day 9: Two emoticons that describe your life right now.
Day 10: One confession.
1. Drugs, as in recreational. Like most of my turn-offs, I fully support other people's right to do what they want. But recreational drug use make me super, super uncomfortable, even marijuana. I honestly don't know why. Drinking used to make me uncomfortable too, which was what finally made me try alcohol myself, just so it wouldn't be so painful to me when my friends told me about their drinking escapades. The more dangerous the drug, the more uncomfortable I get, which explains part of my distaste, certainly; the last thing I want to see is someone I care about ruin themselves with addiction or overdose. But again, even pot makes me uncomfortable, so... *shrugs*
2. Guns. I feel like I don't know the scientific reality of whether or not it's actually safer to own a gun in certain places or not... statistically, people who own guns are more likely to get shot, but that may be because people who own guns are usually in more dangerous neighborhoods, but then again, how much of a neighborhood's danger has to do with the fact that everybody has guns~? Regardless, I don't have a problem with our constitution or with most gun control measures, but people who have guns make me uncomfortable to be around, especially when they actively enjoy playing/practicing with them. Like the drugs, this is somewhat odd to me, especially given that more "quaint" weapons like swords or even antique guns don't bother me as much. I suspect it's just the idea of owning a tool (particularly a modern one that people actually use) that was designed for the specific purpose of ending a human life (even if you don't use it that way). I honestly don't know why this fact doesn't bother other people more, but I know I'm a lot more sensitive than most people, too.
3. Alternative medicine. Sorry, but as an enthusiast of mainstream, modern medicine, alternative medicine usually makes me wince or, in cases where it's more harmful than useless, feel disgusted (anti-vaccination practitioners being chief amongst this category). Mostly, I find it upsetting the things that people believe about alternative medicines that generally show a serious misunderstanding about how medicine actually works. Even for something like herbal medicine, where you're talking about substances with the actual capacity to affect your body, there are a number of bizarre beliefs that go along with it: That eating the entire plant instead of the isolated substance is somehow better for you, or that herbal medicine has fewer "side effects" and is safer. The former is based on a completely unfounded theory of holism and flies in the face of existing science that says the more precise the dosage the better, and the latter is just a fundamental misunderstanding of the difference between desired effects and side effects. (Protip: There is none. Drugs just do stuff to your body, and we take them when one or more of those effects are desirable.)
4. Lack of empathy. This can be just selfishness, which is a huge turn-off, or it can be downright cruelty. My heart goes out to cruel people, because so many of them are that way because people were cruel to them. That, or they're actually psychopathic to some degree, and their brains are literally incapable of processing empathy. Either way though, I don't feel like I have any capability to help these people, and that being the case, I'd generally prefer to have nothing to do with them.
sorry about #2. to say that I own "a gun" would be a gross understatement :P
Yeah, I know. ^^; I figured that out when I first visited your page. =P And statistically, most people don't own "a gun" anyways, it's usually none or a large number (an average of 8, actually). So that doesn't surprise me. I understand it's mostly irrational though, as I expect that most gun-owners don't actually relish the day they might have to use them.