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Confession of Opinions

Many decent folks hide their opinions - or even lie about them - when they find themselves in a group of people who would most likely disagree with those opinions. We have all, at one time or another, given a blanket statement regarding our distrust and dislike of people who vote a certain way, listen to a certain type of music, belong to a specific religion or simply disagree with something we believe strongly in. More often than not, we fail to realize that the person standing next to us (maybe a good friend or family member) may fall into such a category. We let a stranger's single opinion of a very specific topic dictate how we feel about them as a whole, regardless of their other traits and characteristics that may very well show them as a good person, much like how we like to see ourselves. Take the time to list TEN opinions you hold that may be different from those of your friends and family. What views do you have that, if taken individually to form an overall description of a person, may paint you as someone your loved ones may initially hate? Five would be too easy, but TEN forces you to dig a little bit.

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1. I not-so-secretly want to shake "WOOOO" girls at bars. 2. labeling is stupid. the only times anyone actually fits into a label is when they don't know who they are and they use it to identify with something. 3. I believe that organized religions are the same as cults. 4. I hate the term "pro-life" barring a few antisocial types, everyone is pro-life! it should be called "anti-choice" 5.When traveling it is important to experience the culture of where ever you are. just because you stayed in a 5star resort on the coast of a country doesn't mean that you've actually been there. 6. I think schools should focus more on teaching kids how to think rather than what to think. 7. I HATE Journey and Bon Jovi. 8. The only restrictions on marriage that should be practiced are when more than one species or incest is involved. 9. I don't think that civilians should be able to carry guns. 10. Hunting for sport disgusts me.

1. The only truly good type of person is the one who doesn't have a type. 2. Most music on the radio is sh*t. How did we get to this point in music? 3. If you live everyday to the max, how long you live shouldn't matter. 4. No one should spend hours cleaning. Let's just keep things somewhat tidy and then we won't be so miserable. 5. The stories in the Bible are no more important or believable that they stories in a Disney storybook. 6. Taylor Swift is an awesome singer and songwriter. I admit it. 7. Heaven can exist on Earth if you want it enough. 8. Hogwarts is real, somewhere. 10. I have a prejudice against the number 9.

1. I do root for Obama but I was appalled at the lopsided news coverage of this election 2. It's unfair that it's considered socially ok to ask tall people how tall they are and make a big deal of it but not ok to ask how short someone is or their weight 3. I agree completely w/ someone below on abortion - it should be legal but let's get real about the timeframe it's allowed in; things have gone horribly wrong 4. I eat meat sometimes but avoid hearing the facts about factory farms and I don't want to think that's lame 5. Every politician is something of a hypocrite - ALL of them 6. Everyone has some prejudiced thoughts even if they don't show it or they get past it - unless they are completely unobservant about different ethnic groups or live in an ivory tower 7. Sorry to my gay buds but you'll never know that while I support civil unions, I don't support gay marriage in my heart. It's not discrimination when you don't get the same exact thing called exactly what you want; it's just life 8. I feel for single mothers but i think we've gone overboard to where it's like an automatic badge of honor now 9. It's not right that feminist groups don't stand up for women who are under attack - when they don't agree with their ideology (except for you Geraldine Ferraro) 10. Ageism and sexism are much more dominant in the culture now than racism because they are more insidious and the consciousness has not been raised

1. people are inherently flawed 2. stupiditiy is a global pandemic, and the human race is doomed because of it 3. humans must be subject to natural selection 4. the next generation is evil and corrupt 5. rap isn't even close to music 6. steroetypes are there because they are often true 7. being good is impossible and no fun 8. blatant homosexuals (though I have no problem with them being actually gay) are terrifying in their mannerisms 9. religion is now pointless 10. men and women both need to stop enforcing their own stereotypes Wow... these are really dark and evil-like. Ah well, c'est la vie.

There are some good opinions on here. I'm afraid if I wrote mine down you'd throw stones so I won't.

1. While I usually have the patience of a saint, I succumb to road rage very easily. 2. I think a lot of people who have children have no business raising them. 3. Get off your $%^# cell phone while driving!! (see #1) 4. I think people in general are becoming gradually more rude and inconsiderate toward strangers. Try holding a door for someone once in a while. 5. I am a non-violent person (never thrown a punch), but if someone would try to harm my child, I would probably try to kill them. 6. Just because you're poor doesn't mean you have to send your kids to school in dirty clothes. Maybe if you had some dignity and self-respect, your kids would have a chance (see #2). 7. Minorities should no longer be able to bring up slavery or segregation as the causes for their problems in society. Fifty years is enough time to start changing--it's time to take responsibility for your own predicament. 8. Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals are awesome, especially West Side Story and Oklahoma. 9. I despise rabid Republicans and rabid Democrats equally. Try forming your own set of opinions, instead of letting a political party rubber-stamp them for you. 10. I am Pro-Choice, but I could not live with the knowledge that my future child had been terminated, so I could never willingly allow it.

1. iPhones are incredibly over-rated and Apple needs to calm down in general. 2. I only hate two people in this world: Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Kimmel. 3. The high school I went to doesn't deserve to be called a place of learning. 4. I hate the club scene with a passion. 5. Tattoos are only for the brave or crazy. 6. I have yet to find anything more delicious than spaghetti. 7. Technology is ruining socialization. 8. Over-population is the reason why so many people are unhappy. 9. Capitalism is what's wrong with America. 10. Close-minded people are the worst to argue with.

The following opinions that I hold for myself can really offend others, so I never talk about them with a group of people, but I really believe them: 1. I think money is a great thing to have and to spend. I will not stop until I am a billionaire. 2. I believe in God. 3. If I had to vote I would be a Republican. (But I love Obama ). 4. I believe in the after-life. 5. I can't stand people who are mean. 6. I would rather spend my time with the poor (money wise) than with the rich and powerful. 7. I am a religious person. 8. My weakness is that I am too soft. 9. I think there is nothing I can't do if I set my mind on it and do the thing required to get it. 10. I love most people I meet but I can't tell them that.

1. i dislike mainstream anything.. 2. i dislike all the woman magazines out there telling me I have to look like this or act like this or cook this, decorate my house like this, have sex like this and do it all with a fake and paranoid smile on my face. 3. i am so lazy. 4. i think hollywood movies are just as bad as woman magazines..im tired of the same actors and the same story lines and same special effects. god, think outside of the freaking box and watch a movie that does not have a actor you have heard of 5. we are all the same...we are are not, race, creed, religon..in my eyes are we are is HUMAN. that's it...just HUMAN. 6. religious group fighting all the time in the name of god is such a strange concept to me. What happened to love? 7. Why do we care what Oprah says? 8. I think I am beautiful and sexy. even though soeciety thinks I should lose a few pounds and wear contacts and dye my hair and wear the right clothes. I don't do these things and I am still something to behold. 9. my family upsets me. i think they are phony. 10. country music is not good. at all.

i'm sorry... i have no idea how that was a reply! :O

10. Motorcycling is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. 9. Tea first. Tea second. Tea third. A drink worth imbibing is a drink worth going to war over - it was the Boston Tea Party, not the Maine Coffee Calamity. 8. Rugby Sevens tournaments are the best spectator sport - ever. 7. Genesis never quite managed to be as good as they were when led by Peter Gabriel. 6. Speedos should be only available to swim club members after a thorough physical exam, and like a pilot, they should be re-examined every year thereafter that they still wear the article in public. 5. Stupidity should never be tolerated. 4. People always have a fascinating story. Some just are not equipped to tell it in an interesting manner. 3. Children should be encouraged to read in and out of school. 2. Music can make everything alright. 1. Bread or Crumpets toasted by any means other than a proper fork over an open fire taste bland.

10. Kermit the Frog's "Rainbow Connection" is a deep, beautiful song. 9. Marijuana is utterly without romance to me. 8. On an emotional level, I don't really recognize my mortality. I accept it intellectually, but my own non-existence is by its nature so different from everything I've ever done that my death seems weirdly impossible. I presume this will change if I get old. 7. Ben Folds is a fantastic songwriter, and the Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner is a fantastic album. 6. Having a lot of sex is a lot like eating a lot of food: I'm not knocking it, it's a good time, but it's not that big a deal yo. 5. I'm almost never offended, but often annoyed by those who go out of their way to offend. It can be grating. 4. I like the Killers. 3. I don't care for Islam--it's a backward, orthodox, socially oppressive institution. It baffles me when people bash Christianity for these same reasons and then defend Islam. I have nothing bad to say about any Muslim I've ever met--all lovely people--but nothing good to say about Islam as an institution. 2. You don't really like those charred black marshmallows, you're just too lazy to cook them right! 1. Mary Poppins is one of my all-time favorite films.

Are those your particular 1o in the above photo? 1. Baseball is the most difficult sport to play at a professional level. 2. I think that the world might be a better place sans our technological advances* 3. I struggle (not judge, nor condemn - simply struggle) understanding how fashion is something that people can be so passionate about. In my head all it does is further the idea(s) that what's important is how we look. As if we need more reasons to feel insecure. 4. Redemptive violence is a lie. 5. The gray-ness of life is the most beautiful. 6. Nature > ...everything. 7. It's easier for me to listen to people that read books. I also don't understand meeting people who wish to author books, but don't read them. 8. Further Seems Forever got better after Chris Carrabba left. 9. Beauty is subjective** 1o. All truth is God's truth - not limited to any religion, practice or even belief. * - I realize what this says about illnesses, life expectancy, childbirth, the common cold, diseases, etc. I just love the idea of things being simple again; and wonder at times if living 4o years of simplicity, in touch with nature and away from the lure of cars/gadgets/phones/etc would be better than 1oo years with it. ** - This might sound obvious, but I've had conversations with people that tell me that things simply ARE beautiful or not, and whoever sees them otherwise is wrong.

1. Anti - the government recognizing any marriage at all. It should only recognize civil unions, including for opposite sex coupes, and allow the couples themselves to work out how they want to celebrate/define their relationships. 2. Pro-euthanasia. Individuals and families of those who are irrevocably comatose or brain dead should be allowed the right and the privacy to make end of life decisions. 3. Certain aspects of life should be socialized. Health care and education specifically, because your paycheck should not determine your ability to be healthy or improve your life. 4. The music thing. Yeah, I don't have a lot of respect for a person's unwillingness to explore what's out there beyond the crap that's on the radio. 5. Same goes for literature. If you read something for s***s and giggles that's one thing, but take it seriously then I have to wonder about you. 6. Religion in general. I totally respect a person's right to believe, but I have little respect for religion in general. I have no use for it and find it mostly silly, but hey, whatever. 7. Children are not perfect little people, but little barbarians that need to be socialized, rather like feral chihuahuas. (I know, I used to be one) Please people, if you take them out in public try to make them behave appropriately for the setting. I'll do the same. 8. And speaking of children, people who blather on and on about every little poopie Johnny has make me wonder what happened to them between the conception and birth. 9. Drugs should be decriminalized and all the money wasted in locking people up should be put towards rehabilitating people and providing them with good mental health care so they can figure out why they're using. 10. And finally, 100% pro choice. Not my business, not anyone else's business. You body, your choice. But that said, I don't wave most of my opinions around unless I know the company I'm in. Just common courtesy, really. My family tends to be a bunch of heathens and hillbillies anyhow, so they wouldn't get terribly offended.

1 - Cigarettes should be taxed up the wazzoo 2 - Swearing/foul language is often hilarious 3 - Sarcasm is a sign of intelligence 4 - Pro-choice people do not like abortions. No one likes abortion. Obviously we discourage it. But that doesn't mean it should be illegal. 5 - Small companies can be just as, or more, corrupt than larger companies when it comes to leadership. It can be much easier to be unethical in a smaller environment with less prying eyes. 6 - Recycle. Just do it. It's easy. Stop throwing away items that can be reused or recycled. You're an a*s if you toss out easily recyclable items. 7 - In most situations, guys shouldn't wear sandals 8 - It doesn't matter if someone is gay or straight. It doesn't matter. Any consenting adult should be able to marry any other consenting adult, case closed, end of story. 9 - 95% of Heavy Metal sucks. 10 - I hate the Dave Matthews Band.

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