Unpopular Opinions. What's yours?

[99 Bananas]

i think its a bit more than that

but as you said

its not something we are supposed to understand

at least, not on this earth

The word god is an illusion. It's not real. You'll get it someday. You have no choice. Just think of the world without words. Words create mysteries and lies, not concrete reality. Divine truth is nothing but truth in front of you. We make up words that can hardly describe reality and live within the concepts rather than the immediate wordless reality. If you don't sleep, you don't dream. If you don't construct a reailty in your head of how it is, you'll see how it truly is. The sky is not blue. Look at the sky. That's what the ''sky'' is. The thing you're looking at outside the concepts in it's true nature.. Words will not transcend time. They are stuck in it. They may as well never have been. The absolute truth, the whole game, is here forever. It's in you and all around you. You're just not ready to see it yet. You can't rip away caterpillarness. It just happens when it happens. You ask what created me? The fucking thing you're hanging out in created you! Don't try to figure out how or why, it's an illusion. It's a trap that too many are stuck in. Trying to figure out an answer that is also the question.

You ask who is god and I ask who is asking the question?

[TacoBell]

Your mother is a virtuous woman.

[sync pulse]

Southern USA accents are speech impediments...

[doriancutlerman]

that all hot women should stop anything their doing at any moment and give me outstanding head on demand. 

That sentiment is VERY popular with me ... provided I get sloppy seconds, at least

[Andy Griffin]

Emotions are for ethnic people.

[doriancutlerman]

My unpopular opinion:  lay the fuck off the smokers already.  It's not that I have any great love for them, but they're on the front lines of what will become a slippery slope if the discrimination against them continues unabated.  Soon, anyone with a BMI over *whatever*, people with high blood pressure, diabetics, folks who drink more than two glasses of wine/wk. will be fair game.  

Some people say, oh, no, that won't happen.  After all, the slippery slope's a logical fallacy!  It is, but remember, the American judicial system is based in PRECEDENT.  And let's face it, being a huge fat fuck for many years is easily as bad for someone as some skinny sorority girl smoking Parliament Lights 'til she's got mad crow's feet, a cough like a bus engine starting up, and decides knitting ugly shit with sequins all over it is a worthwhile hobby.

Once the smokers fall, I tell you, the modern bodybuilder will be a huge, if indirect, target.  High BP from test and all the other shit we take?  Check.  Grossly excessive BMI, in spite of average or lower bodyfat?  Check.  Livers like hard-core drunks?  Check.  

That's why I say it's best to stick up for our smelly nicotine-addicted friends.  Maybe if the anti-smoking trend is halted and turned backward a bit, that'll give us a nice buffer zone for a decade or two.  

Besideswhich, I don't think any level of government has a hand in telling what an individual can or cannot do with a legal product, nevermind where, when and how.  A community college at which I used to teach recently enacted a campus-wide ban on all tobacco use (even after the dumbasses went to the trouble to create gazebo "smoking sections" that were dozens of meters removed from any major walkway or building).  I like to chew tobacco from time to time.  Maybe once a month, as a head-rush to get stoked for a workout I know I should do but don't feel like fucking with.  On said campus, I can't even do that if I'm seated in my car and spitting onto the asphalt (which I would not do, but you get the point).

Fucking retarded.

[HTexan]

My unpopular opinion:  lay the fuck off the smokers already.  It's not that I have any great love for them, but they're on the front lines of what will become a slippery slope if the discrimination against them continues unabated.  Soon, anyone with a BMI over *whatever*, people with high blood pressure, diabetics, folks who drink more than two glasses of wine/wk. will be fair game.  

Some people say, oh, no, that won't happen.  After all, the slippery slope's a logical fallacy!  It is, but remember, the American judicial system is based in PRECEDENT.  And let's face it, being a huge fat fuck for many years is easily as bad for someone as some skinny sorority girl smoking Parliament Lights 'til she's got mad crow's feet, a cough like a bus engine starting up, and decides knitting ugly shit with sequins all over it is a worthwhile hobby.

Once the smokers fall, I tell you, the modern bodybuilder will be a huge, if indirect, target.  High BP from test and all the other shit we take?  Check.  Grossly excessive BMI, in spite of average or lower bodyfat?  Check.  Livers like hard-core drunks?  Check.  

That's why I say it's best to stick up for our smelly nicotine-addicted friends.  Maybe if the anti-smoking trend is halted and turned backward a bit, that'll give us a nice buffer zone for a decade or two.  

Besideswhich, I don't think any level of government has a hand in telling what an individual can or cannot do with a legal product, nevermind where, when and how.  A community college at which I used to teach recently enacted a campus-wide ban on all tobacco use (even after the dumbasses went to the trouble to create gazebo "smoking sections" that were dozens of meters removed from any major walkway or building).  I like to chew tobacco from time to time.  Maybe once a month, as a head-rush to get stoked for a workout I know I should do but don't feel like fucking with.  On said campus, I can't even do that if I'm seated in my car and spitting onto the asphalt (which I would not do, but you get the point).

Fucking retarded.

Maybe it is because smoking directly effects the people around you?

[Marty Champions]

The word god is an illusion. It's not real. You'll get it someday. You have no choice. Just think of the world without words. Words create mysteries and lies, not concrete reality. Divine truth is nothing but truth in front of you. We make up words that can hardly describe reality and live within the concepts rather than the immediate wordless reality. If you don't sleep, you don't dream. If you don't construct a reailty in your head of how it is, you'll see how it truly is. The sky is not blue. Look at the sky. That's what the ''sky'' is. The thing you're looking at outside the concepts in it's true nature.. Words will not transcend time. They are stuck in it. They may as well never have been. The absolute truth, the whole game, is here forever. It's in you and all around you. You're just not ready to see it yet. You can't rip away caterpillarness. It just happens when it happens. You ask what created me? The fucking thing you're hanging out in created you! Don't try to figure out how or why, it's an illusion. It's a trap that too many are stuck in. Trying to figure out an answer that is also the question.

You ask who is god and I ask who is asking the question?

yeah people get hung up on words and forget to look deeper into the complexity and superior analyzing. But you should try to figure out how or why, that is why we are here for is discovery. Yes The trap is your body, your mind is the way out or the way in or the way to 'grow' and of course inferior minds make for superior traps aswell.


The only or best thing a human can and the most basic to do is practice superior reasoning, \ Who would not agree?

[MONSTER_TRICEPS]

Maybe it is because smoking directly effects the people around you?

So does driving cars, industry, radiation from nearby powerplants, and basically everything else that makes money,

[Nirvana]

can't get second-hand chew.

[doriancutlerman]

Emotions are for ethnic people.

Andy, potentially funny anecdote:

When I was in the seventh grade, my stupid girl of an English/"Social Studies"/(and something else, I forget) teacher asked the class to write about our ancestry.  I knew I was from largely Scot and English stock, though my grandma, a Daughter of the Revolution, had done some [perhaps dubious] research to the effect that her side of the family hailed from Roman Emperors and such.  She suffers from mild dementia today, but she remains adamant that her research traced "us" back at least to Romulus the Second, Emperor of the East Empire/Byzantine.

So, I go to my dad and ask for particulars.  Among other things he said, he noted, "We're not an ETHNIC people."

I wrote that in my paper, and my bushy-haired old post-menopausal bitch teacher wrote, in bold red ink, something like, "We are ALL ETHNIC!"  

The dummy didn't realize that my father used a frequently-used connotation of the word; i.e., "ethnic" can be Caucasoid, but dark-skinned or distinctly different in other ways, like Southern Italians, some Spaniards, Slavs, etc. don't look like Irishmen, French, Northern Italians or Scots.

I still give my dad grief over that every so often  But good Lord, did I hate junior high school.  

[Andy Griffin]

Andy, potentially funny anecdote:

When I was in the seventh grade, my stupid #girl of an English/"Social Studies"/(and something else, I forget) teacher asked the class to write about our ancestry.  I knew I was from largely Scot and English stock, though my grandma, a Daughter of the Revolution, had done some [perhaps dubious] research to the effect that her side of the family hailed from Roman Emperors and such.  She suffers from mild dementia today, but she remains adamant that her research traced "us" back at least to Romulus the Second, Emperor of the East Empire/Byzantine.

So, I go to my dad and ask for particulars.  Among other things he said, he noted, "We're not an ETHNIC people."

I wrote that in my paper, and my bushy-haired old post-menopausal bitch teacher wrote, in bold red ink, something like, "We are ALL ETHNIC!"  

The dummy didn't realize that my father used a frequently-used connotation of the word; i.e., "ethnic" can be Caucasoid, but dark-skinned or distinctly different in other ways, like Southern Italians, some Spaniards, Slavs, etc. don't look like Irishmen, French, Northern Italians or Scots.

I still give my dad grief over that every so often  But good Lord, did I hate junior high school.  

Good stuff.  I was constantly in hot water over expressing various opinions during my school days.

[doriancutlerman]

Southern USA accents are speech impediments...

Let me tell ya, when I worked for Wyeth and we had sales meetings in various parts of the country, nothing got the girls in Michigan, Philly, Wisconsin and Oregon wetter than me and my buds talking like Atticus Finch.  

Copious amounts of alcohol did not hurt our efforts, mind you  But the second one of those Minnesota girls came over and caught a hint of my drawl, it was game over.

Mind you, this is coming from a guy who has been with less than 10 women.  And I freely admit that I failed to capitalize on one of those gals because we were both fucking BLOTTO.  (Well, I was inside her for maybe two minutes, but between her yapping and my drunkenness/steroid use, I went flaccid and faked an orgasm, then fingered her to coming before I dozed off.)

You want to talk speech impediments?  Go to Massachusetts.  

[_bruce_]

My unpopular opinion:  lay the fuck off the smokers already.  It's not that I have any great love for them, but they're on the front lines of what will become a slippery slope if the discrimination against them continues unabated.  Soon, anyone with a BMI over *whatever*, people with high blood pressure, diabetics, folks who drink more than two glasses of wine/wk. will be fair game.  

Some people say, oh, no, that won't happen.  After all, the slippery slope's a logical fallacy!  It is, but remember, the American judicial system is based in PRECEDENT.  And let's face it, being a huge fat fuck for many years is easily as bad for someone as some skinny sorority girl smoking Parliament Lights 'til she's got mad crow's feet, a cough like a bus engine starting up, and decides knitting ugly shit with sequins all over it is a worthwhile hobby.

Once the smokers fall, I tell you, the modern bodybuilder will be a huge, if indirect, target.  High BP from test and all the other shit we take?  Check.  Grossly excessive BMI, in spite of average or lower bodyfat?  Check.  Livers like hard-core drunks?  Check.  

That's why I say it's best to stick up for our smelly nicotine-addicted friends.  Maybe if the anti-smoking trend is halted and turned backward a bit, that'll give us a nice buffer zone for a decade or two.  

Besideswhich, I don't think any level of government has a hand in telling what an individual can or cannot do with a legal product, nevermind where, when and how.  A community college at which I used to teach recently enacted a campus-wide ban on all tobacco use (even after the dumbasses went to the trouble to create gazebo "smoking sections" that were dozens of meters removed from any major walkway or building).  I like to chew tobacco from time to time.  Maybe once a month, as a head-rush to get stoked for a workout I know I should do but don't feel like fucking with.  On said campus, I can't even do that if I'm seated in my car and spitting onto the asphalt (which I would not do, but you get the point).

Fucking retarded.

x2

[OTHstrong]

That the queen is a direct decentant from King David and his son King Solomon ....... a little bit of history for you

[Man of Steel]

That all Getbig threads should be about Groink.

[doriancutlerman]

Maybe it is because smoking directly effects the people around you?

A.  I don't smoke.

B.  People smoking outdoors many dozens of meters away from others has zero effect on non-smokers.

I mean, think about it, man.  It generally takes hard-core smokers many decades to develop their cancers.  That's 30-40 years of sucking that shit directly into their lungs, maybe 10 drags/cigarette times 20-40 cigs daily.  Even if we go with the lower figure (which I think is about typical for most addicted smokers), that's 73,000 times a year a typical smoker sucks the shit directly into his/her lungs.  Over 30 years, that's almost 2.2 million direct from cig filter to lung draws.  

I've lost the figures I used to have on-hand, but that's about the equivalent of a non-smoker sitting a meter away from such a smoker, non-stop, for sixty years before the non-smoker exhibited even one-ONE HUNDREDTH the lung damage the smoker sustained.

My figures might be wrong -- my memory isn't what it used to be -- but it doesn't take much imagination or logic to put two and two together.  To be sure, second-hand smoke is harmful ... but it takes MASSIVE exposure, and over many years at that, to make a measurable difference.  People these days talk about walking within 10m of someone smoking will make them have coughing fits, stinky clothes and all manner of other outright horseshit.  

I freely admit I'm glad to live when I do, but where were all of these second-hand cancers and whiners during the obnoxious smoking and drinking excess of the early to mid-60s?  (Yeah, I've watched Mad Men )  

Again, my point isn't to defend the quarter or fifth of the population that smokes cigarettes; rather, I have the foresight to recognize that, once they are sufficiently demonized, the liberal "good-doers" among us will shift their focus onto, among other things,s "grossly obese" bodybuilders who carry 10% bodyfat or less.

Fellas, get over your hatred for people smoking cigarettes.  Most of our hottest actresses are HUGE smokers.  Charlize Theron, Eva Longoria, Olivia Wilde, Kate Winslet, Vera Farmiga, Virginie Ledoyen, Eva Green, Evan Rachel Wood, Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan, Kate Beckinsale, Kat Heigl, and even sweet-as-pie Anne Hathaway -- all of them are on-record for either regretting quitting and/or absolutely LOVING smoking cigarettes.

Gross?  Perhaps to some, but I don't give a fuck.  If Beckinsale, Heigl or Hathaway wanted to make time with me, I'd light their every fucking cigarette by striking a match off my dick

[The Wizard of Truth]

That this kigtropin is actually quite good 

[apply85]

that all women belong to me and everyone else is just borrowing whatever one is with them at the time