For me, if I ask for an unpopular opinion and you say something about pineapple on pizza I’m going to assume you have no personality.

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    Most of our heros in movies actually kind of suck. They are for the most part only able to solve the world through violence because by some magical or supernatural or just bad writing, in an absurd position to do so.

    I blame this on why I have more people willing to literally kill or die for me in my life then willing to engage in uncomfortable dialogue or eat more fiber for me.

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        That poor guy at Microsoft who saw cartoon speech bubbles with Times New Roman and thought “I can make something friendlier than that”, and people still haven’t stopped spewing hate and joking about torturing him

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      I feel like that’s a pretty common opinion, I’ve never heard of anyone railing against motorsports not being a sport.

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          These days, I hear the line “it’s just people driving in circles” from F1 fans dumping on NASCAR, more than anything else.

          But like, any sport sounds boring when you just break it down like that. Baseball, basketball, either kind of football, they’re all about a bunch of dudes just moving a ball around.

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            The people who say that are being willfully ignorant. If it was just “driving in circles” F1 drivers would have more success when they go to NASCAR.

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      When I’m alone with somebody and they say absolutely nothing after I sneeze, I have to process that for a moment and decide what kind of person they are. They are probably stoic & logical & they eschew bullshit meaningless traditions. I like it. But I’m a girl with a big heart and I still cannot bear to be silent after somebody sneezes, but I agree it’s meaningless & old-fashioned to say “bless you,” so

      I learned Chinese a few years ago and they say “Yi bai sui” or “may you live 100 years” after somebody sneezes. So I say that in english after somebody sneezes. “May you live 100 years.” That way there’s no awkward silence showing that I’m cold and heartless, instead I’m a compassionate educated polyglot 😜

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    Anyone can become an addict, it is not a genetic trait. If you use any additive substance long enough you will being addicted, there is no if, its just a matter of when.

    This includes alcohol and more people are addicted to alcohol then they want to admit.

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      I’m not sure about this when it comes to heroin. I’ve tried it and it was meh, but others try it feel like they have never before felt ok. And pot too I can’t find the high at all, it feels yucky but so many people love it and feel high on it, so in some ways there are “two kinds of people in the world” situations.

      I do agree that anyone can become an addict if they try hard enough, though. Coffee for me, caffeine.

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        This is 100% true for heroin. If you pressed through and still did it enough times even if you thought it was meh, you would eventually become addicted, because that is how brain chemistry works. It is not the high people are chasing when they get addicted, its relief from the withdraws.

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      Sure hope I am free to do what I want with my own body someday. Surely someone will believe in bodily autonomy eventually.

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        Not sure where you got that from? You are free to become addicted to anything you want.

        My unpopular option is that addiction is not genetic, if you take an addictive substance long enough you will become addicted, no one is exempt from this.

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    Things aren’t actually all that bad. Seriously, in the grand scheme of things, yo, we doing OK. Antibiotics. Hot water. Sunscreen. Whiskey. Coffee. Shit, we’re frying things with the air now, man. As a species, we’re doing kinda OK. We could be doing better, but we’re learning. Some of us, anyway. There’s a lot to love out there in the world, and every day something beautiful can happen to you. Yes, even you, you crabby-ass bitch.

    Most Mac ‘n’ cheese from scratch is poorly made and not good. You have to make a goddamned cream sauce base first. It’s not hard, it just takes giving a shit.

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    People and groups generally are not inherently evil, and if you pay a little bit of attention, their actions are almost always logical to them (even if they are evil actions).

    A lot of people might think they agree with that…but start naming people and groups and they will call you names pretty quickly.

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    Christianity has a large user base but is unpopular. Jesus is the living God and through him is the only way to the Father. He didn’t come just to forgive us and get us into heaven, but for the kingdom of God to break into every area of life here and now - health, peace, justice and more. We won’t see the fullness until his return but he already came out of the grave once and he said he is coming back. Biblical timelines say we should expect him relatively soon.

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      Yeah, hasn’t it been a few centuries of this guy coming “relatively soon”. At that point I have to ask, relative to what? Human civilisation or the motion of entropy?

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        Biblically there was 2000 years between Jesus and Abraham, and another 2000 years between Abraham and Adam. Two thousand years after Jesus’ crucifixion is coming up within a handful of years. That’s six Biblical “days”, and God rested on the 7th day. There’s more to the timing people look to based on old prophecy but a lot of things line up for the next maybe fifty years. I’m no expert, but a lot of Christians believe this.

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          A lot of Christians believe a lot of things, most of it silly and untrue.

          Your calculations are based on something that has already been thought of way back in the 1800s. And these guys are still waiting around for the second coming and the end times, despite every prediction they made never coming true.

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        Christians are a large group of people and at the same time a global minority. They can be at the same time a significant group and also looked down on by the majority.

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          If billions of followers doesn’t make something popular, then nothing does. One of the beauties of Christianity is the a la carte menu and they all get to pick what they want to believe and still call themselves Christian. Christianity is both popular and ridiculous.

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    “The Beatles are overrated”

    Not only is it untrue, but even if you don’t like their music you’re an idiot if you can’t see their influence.

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      I see more influence from Jazz, and other genres of black origin, than anything the Beatles have come up with.

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      Still overrated. Right place, right time. If it wasn’t them, it could have just as easily been someone else.

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        Contrarianism doesn’t make up for a lack of personality. You not liking something doesn’t make it overrated.

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          The Beatles are overrated and liking them to the degree you do shows a lack of originality.

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            Because being a contrarian is so original in today’s world. If you were smart enough to know how dumb you sound you’d be embarrassed.

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              I’m not contrarian. I’ve never thought much of the Beatles. It wasn’t until they got their own whole band game (back when those were popular) that I realised Beatles were somehow enjoyed by more than just really old people.

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                Okay, but that’s down to your taste, which has nothing to do with if they’re overrated or not.

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            Idk if you put someone in a pilot seat that isn’t a pilot, it’s an extraordinary effort and newsworthy if they don’t crash the plane.

            Even if they got given the plane, they are still great pilots. Every album is novel and there are so many.

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          I think the dispute is over what defines overrated. I think they can be aptly called overated if you are looking at the technical aspects of the actual music they wrote.

          But if we’re defining it by influence on a genre or era of music then it would be hard to make the same claim.

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            By no metric can the amount of classic albums they put out in a 5 year span be considered overrated.

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              Yes, but that is again another metric by which to judge. The amount of albums does not affect the technical complexity of the music. And I am by no means trying to claim that music needs to be technically advanced to be good, it’s just another way in which an individual could possibly be judging if something is or isn’t overated. The quality of the music itself is always going to be subjective, while the cultural impact of the music is not. So I can see both sides of the argument.