Things you secretly oppose, but don't want other people to know:

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Anonymous wrote:You mean like secret police finding out who they are and interrogating them?

More like someone hacking into DCUM and exposing us all? They'd have to be able to identify our IP addresses.

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The fact that so many govt workers have accents so thick you can hardly understand them ok the phone

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I am opposed to emoticons - both the graphic ones seen on DCUM, or the low-tech colon + parentheses version. They make posters seem like schoolchildren.

You're an adult. Use your words.

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Religion. ALL religion.

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Anonymous wrote:Yikes, what's with all the stupid emoticons tonight?

How disapponting! 22:12, the Atheist, is really just incredibly shallow. Oh well.

NP.

Shallowness on DCUM? Impossible!

I'm an atheist. I was educated as a Catholic and went searching through multiple religions before finally accepting that I am an atheist. I tried really hard to be something other than atheist, but I just couldn't believe. I don't think Christians or other religious people are lost or confused. I think they are in denial. We are conscious beings living in rotting meat machines. When we die, we're done. [i]There is no meaning to life, except the meaning that we create. That's tough stuff, and existential fear keeps many people from accepting the truth. I don't say this to people who believe, of course. It angers me when adults use religion to project their anxieties about death, sex and morality on other people in abusive ways. (Hello, Westboro Baptist Church!)

I appreciate the artist analogy, but I would add this. I can look at a painting that includes fairies and dragons and angels and appreciate it for its beauty (if it's well done), but that doesn't mean that I believe in ACTUAL fairies and dragons and angels. I like to read fantasy novels. That doesn't mean that I believe in elves and dwarves. Marianne Moore described poetry as creating real toads in imaginary gardens. Religion tries to insist that the imaginary garden that it creates is real.

I don't find atheists to be pedestrian souls who don't appreciate beauty or meaning. The world is an amazing, diverse place. It's beautiful and full of more strangeness and wonder than anyone could ever appreciate in one life. People are fascinating - capable of both extraordinary good and extraordinary evil. What more could I want?

You say this with such authority. How do you KNOW this. Surely it's just your opinion?

I suppose.

I am the kind of atheist that Dawkins calls a 'strong agnostic.' I will accept the remote possibility that there is a God and will reconsider my opinion if presented with evidence. There is no evidence of God or any other mechanism for imposing meaning on our lives from the outside.

If you have real evidence, spill it.

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Toms shoes

over-recycling

sustainability

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Atheists
Over the top preachy religious people
People who constantly announce that they only eat organic food, use organic products
People who post pictures of their kids at least once a day
People who regularly (see above) post pics of their little girls on facebook dressed in tutus, princess clothes, dresses from etsy, etc. to get validation on how gorgeous and precious they are.
Smoking, especially parents who do
People who constantly say that McDonalds (or whatever food) is so bad for you
Asking people for monetary gifts for weddings, etc.

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People who waste their time on threads like this one.

Ooops. It's nice out there, I'm going outside to enjoy it.

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Anonymous wrote:People who use car seats with snap-in strollers. I don't really care when people use them for short trips from the car to a store or to the house, but it drives me crazy when I see people using them out for long walks or sitting at a coffee shop. Keeping a baby in a car seat for a long time is terrible for his or her posture, breathing, and head development. Get a stroller with a bassinet and lay that baby down flat or use a baby carrier.

I would never say this out loud to anyone because I know it isn't any of my business what you do with your kid, but I guess that is the point of this thread.

Wow. I completely agree. Thought I was alone.

Also bugs me: people who don't use the safest car seat/booster set up because its inconvenient or their child might not like it or they are afraid their child will be teased. Many are uninformed about this, but ignorance is no excuse here.

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Anonymous wrote:Women who wear make up. It's perpetuating a view of women that I find demeaning. After all the whole point of make up is to make a woman look like she is constantly sexually aroused. Ugh.

I saw a program, maybe from NatGeo, of a matriarchal society where the men use makeup hoping to attract women. And some of the ladies were chauvinistic, saying things like, why shouldn't the men try to please them. Very interesting.

Wow. I just wear makeup to hide my horrible facial scarring, because it hurts when I overhear little kids asking their parents "what's wrong with that lady?" and "was that girl in a fire?" The worst is "What's wrong with her face?" Sorry, but I'll keep on with my makeup.

I'm sorry for your pain. But this is not what the pp is referring to, I'm sure. I think she is referring to society's expectation that women must wear make up to be appropriately presentable. Especially in young adult social gatherings and then later law and business/professional settings.

Get out of DC. I live in Berkeley and while I do shave and don't ever wear Birkenstocks, I also don't wear any makeup beyond sunscreen and lipgloss on a regular basis to work. And I look completely appropriate and presentable in business and professional settings, and I am a young adult.

Wait until you're 45. You'll NEED makeup by then. Trust me.

Well, I'm 48, now, so...

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Anonymous wrote:I'm opposed to giving up all your own interests and aspirations and dreams just because you have kids.

Also opposed to getting a person to marry you and them turning into a fat, sexless ass who thinks your spouse only exists to help with the kids and bring in money. Goes for BOTH sexes.

Your interests and aspirations and dreams should always come after your children's interests, aspirations and dreams. And the primary job of both parents is to care for the children and bring in money for that purpose. How they choose to divide the jobs is up to them. Lots of people do gain weight because they put their children first and when children are young, there is little time for doing your own thing.

Totally disagree. My dreams come after my children's needs, but there is time and money for all of us.

your dream come after your children's needs but before your children's dreams, right? I get it. The parent drive the nice car while the kid is told they can't afford to [fill in child's request/dream here]. Kids see this and understand their parent's priorities early on.

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Anonymous wrote:People who oppose contraception should be required to contribute substantial proportions of their income to support unwanted babies.

I oppose women having sex when they are not an position to raise a child. Like paying for a a smoker's cigarettes. It's your choice, you pay for it.

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Anonymous wrote:Women who wear make up. It's perpetuating a view of women that I find demeaning. After all the whole point of make up is to make a woman look like she is constantly sexually aroused. Ugh.

Because that's when she's most attractive. So what?

Some women delight in looking as plain and frumpy as possible (it magically increases your intelligence). Take that misogynistic men!

Surely, women, there's a better way?

I like how I look when I'm wearing makeup. Is that okay with you?

Because you've fallen for societies definition of how you SHOULD look.

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Any mention of "god" in the public sphere - in the pledge of allegiance, by the President and politicians, on money, etc. Freakin' Eisenhower.

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Anonymous wrote:Women who wear make up. It's perpetuating a view of women that I find demeaning. After all the whole point of make up is to make a woman look like she is constantly sexually aroused. Ugh.

Because that's when she's most attractive. So what?

Some women delight in looking as plain and frumpy as possible (it magically increases your intelligence). Take that misogynistic men!

Surely, women, there's a better way?

I like how I look when I'm wearing makeup. Is that okay with you?

Because you've fallen for societies definition of how you SHOULD look.

I'm not big on makeup, but telling people that they do things based on societal expectations, is pretty ironic.