As a vegetarian, I find fellow vegetarians can be among the most annoyingly preachy people on the planet.
lol just ones who talk down to you because you eat meat.. and look at you like youre barbecuing a kitten when you cook meat.
I went vegetarian for almost three years, but decided I didn't like being lumped in with the PC vegetarians to which you're referring. It was never anything health or politically related; for a while meat just bummed me out.
Cook the tofurkey in bacon grease and see if they notice. Tell 'em it's seasoned with frankincense and myrrh...
I was going to have a salad tonight, but since maxie needs help making up for three lost years, NY Strip Steak with meat loaf on the side it is!
I freakin' love this board! Kill more cows! Kill more pigs! I had a delicious sub for lunch today--dry salami, Genoa salami, pepperoni, capicola, turkey and parma ham. I'm back, baby!
I always feel bad about eating meat but I figure if they were carnivores and if we tasted good they'd eat us too.
You don't really believe in a meritocracy. A meritocracy would first level the playing fields. Or are you now for "real" opportunity redistribution? The New York Yankees are analogous to my point. Do you feel that franchise has success because of merit? Or is it because the rules allow for them to succeed in conditions in which other franchises are pitted squarely behind the eight ball? Yes, it's possible for other franchises to succeed, but not without working more efficiently, with far less resources, and with the surmounting of all the other necessary barriers to entry . That to me is not a system of meritocracy. That is the system of the status quo free market and that is the system I'm willing to bet that you support. You know all of this though. You are smart. So what gives?
I can attest to this same feeling. But maybe it's because in real life we aren't typically surrounded by so many conflicting matters of opinion or at least of opinions that are so readily stated. I figure that if confronted by real life contention of the sort that you see on this board, that you'd probably react with the same intensity and stubborness. That's how I feel for myself at least. Luckily enough, I suppose, that in real life people are often too sheepish to say what is really on their mind. I think that in a sense facebook is an extension of real life for a lot of people and that this thread typifies my point. People are afraid to speak out their political ideology for fear of alienating those others that they care about on a personal level. I personally find that to be demeaning to the self. I guess that's why I tend to say what is on my mind on facebook. Why the need for us all to wear a public mask? I think it's quite sad really.
Classic. Maxiep makes a comment about "illegal" immigration, and you turn it into an "immigration" issue. This is such a simple distinction, and yet people on the left get it wrong all the time. Is it intentional? Wow. So if someone is opposed to murder, then they are "bigoted" against murderers?
Ask your brother to bring his political posts over here to the OT forum, and keep the Facebook arena as a non-threatening place for fun communication w/family and friends. This is about the only place I get political anymore, as all my friends already know where I stand and I know where they stand and none of us is about to change anyone else's mind.
Huh? I turned this into an "immigration" issue? Re-read the thread. Or at least the original post to this thread.
Odd. I find the bolded statement a much better description of this board than I do people in my own life. (My brother being a major exception.)
My friends and I are probably older and more set in our ways. We weren't always that way. But by now we've been there done that. It's not like there's anything new politically going on all of a sudden. Same old same old, speaking in broad terms. We just enjoy discussing other things more at this point in our lives, like vacations or fishing or families...
