Do you have attitudes and beliefs that seem to contradict each other?

rebelann1949

@rebelann (112959)

• El Paso, Texas

6 Feb 18

You have the right to your opinion but please do not tell me that I have to agree with you @saritflor

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@TheHorse (220068)

• Walnut Creek, California

6 Dec 15

Maybe they're not as contradictory as I think. I'm also pondering ways in which my attitudes and opinions have changed over time.

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@saritflor (3914)

• Hungary

6 Feb 18

No @rebelann eating other individual who HAS feeling it's not normal, it's a crime.

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (317249)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

6 Dec 15

I never considered myself a people person, always a loner, and had a job in customer service for 11 years.

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Wendy789

@Drosophila (16571)

• Ireland

7 Dec 15

Same here! Technical support and I hate people. :)

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@TheHorse (220068)

• Walnut Creek, California

7 Dec 15

Oh, that's a good one! I consider myself a bit of a a shy person, and I didn't always like performing music (people watching me), yet I'm a college professor and have to get up and lecture all the time.

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Valerie J. Routhieaux

@just4him (317249)

• Green Bay, Wisconsin

8 Dec 15

@TheHorse I've gotten up to read some of my poems before the congregation at church and each time I shook like a leaf in the wind.

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purplealabaster

@purplealabaster (22091)

• United States

7 Dec 15

This is controversial, but I am anti-abortion yet pro-choice, although I am completely against late-stage abortion. If the woman cannot decide within a couple months, then clearly she can take a couple more months to carry the baby to term.

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@TheHorse (220068)

• Walnut Creek, California

7 Dec 15

Good one! So am I. I'm pro-choice politically, but pro-life at ground zero. One of my favorite ever humans (a kid I worked with in Oakland) was supposed to be abortion, but the line was too long, his mother told me.

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@TheHorse (220068)

• Walnut Creek, California

8 Dec 15

@purplealabaster I agree entirely. Withdrawal symptoms are terrible, but they don't necessarily lead to developmental delays.

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Arthur Chappell

@arthurchappell (44998)

• Preston, England

6 Dec 15

I'm sure I do have such contradictions - being a meat eating animal lover is one of mine too

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@TheHorse (220068)

• Walnut Creek, California

7 Dec 15

Yep. I bet many of us share that one!

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Jabo

@jaboUK (64354)

• United Kingdom

6 Dec 15

I can't think of any contradictory beliefs at the moment, apart from the one you've mentioned about being both a meat eater and an animal lover.

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@TheHorse (220068)

• Walnut Creek, California

6 Dec 15

I bet that one is pretty common.

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Ann LeFlore

@poehere (15123)

• French Polynesia

7 Dec 15

Truthfully I never thought of this before. I guess if you look at certain thing everyone in life can have them it just takes time to sit down and notice them.

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@TheHorse (220068)

• Walnut Creek, California

7 Dec 15

I think the first one I noticed was my love of both animals and meat. When I talk to cows and chickens (yes, I talk to cows and chickens), I say things like, "How strange that I might eat you one day."

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Ann LeFlore

@poehere (15123)

• French Polynesia

7 Dec 15

@TheHorse Yes people do love animals and a lot of people will eat them. I personally don't eat meat. I will eat chickens but for some reason the ones I raise and feed I hate to cook them and eat them. I also raise rabbits. They are my babies and I love them a lot. My partner wants t kill them to eat them. I refuse to allow this one to happen. I know I have a giant aquarium full of tropical fish. I don't have a like or dislike one way or the other. I know I love fish and I do eat fish. But in some ways I don't feel lilke this is a conflict in my life. Not sure why. I just think about the fish I put in my aquarium and they would not be found in the ocean. Now if I had salt walter this one sure would be different for me.

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Koalemos

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

6 Dec 15

We all have many contradictory opinions and morals. It is inevitable that some of the many standards that we develop during our lives will conflict.

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@TheHorse (220068)

• Walnut Creek, California

6 Dec 15

Very true. Life experiences change our attitudes, yet we holed on to old ones. Do you have any contradictions that come to mind?

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Koalemos

@Asylum (47893)

• Manchester, England

6 Dec 15

@TheHorse None that come to mind at this moment, although I am quite confident that all my opinions will not concur with each other.

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@allknowing (137553)

• India

8 Dec 15

It is a survival issue really that we create such situations that contradict with each other. When our instincts take over we just have to go along in order to survive. Hope I have not confused you (lol)

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@allknowing (137553)

• India

8 Dec 15

@TheHorse In that case you can surely stop eating meat and give your attitude a green signal

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@TheHorse (220068)

• Walnut Creek, California

8 Dec 15

Confusion isn't in my vocabulary. At least it wasn't. Heh. But I don't really need meat to survive I just like it.

@TheHorse (220068)

• Walnut Creek, California

8 Dec 15

@allknowing But it tastes so dang good.

Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine

@mythociate (21432)

• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

1 Feb 18

Everything is contradictory if you put it in the wrong context!

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Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine

@mythociate (21432)

• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

6 Feb 18

@TheHorse yes; the example I've been dealing with recently ... I'm a Christian--baptised as an infant, confirmed Catholic (son of St. Jude)--but don't necessarily "believe" a historical Jesus Christ existed (as portrayed in the Bible), and don't believe that prayer does what Christians say it does.

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@TheHorse (220068)

• Walnut Creek, California

6 Feb 18

@mythociate Good example. I'd say...what SOME Christians say it does. Prayer does not heal Grandma oIr help a team win the Super Bowl. But it can put someone in touch with their personal spiritual center. Like you, I'm open to the possibility that Noah's Ark, Moses's parting of the Red Sea, and Jesus's crucifixion and resurrection are all just lovely metaphors, or parables, or stories...whatever they might be.

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@TheHorse (220068)

• Walnut Creek, California

2 Feb 18

Can you give me an example or two?

Judy Story

@jstory07 (139782)

• Roseburg, Oregon

6 Dec 15

I am an animal lover but I will eat the meat from animals. Especiall a good steak.

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@TheHorse (220068)

• Walnut Creek, California

7 Dec 15

I'm nice to moo cows we meet while hiking. But I love a good steak too.

amnabas

@amnabas (14620)

• Karachi, Pakistan

6 Dec 15

Yesi do have behaviours and atitudes .

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@TheHorse (220068)

• Walnut Creek, California

6 Dec 15

Do some of them contradict each other?

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Wendy789

@Drosophila (16571)

• Ireland

7 Dec 15

I love food and try to diet?

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Wendy789

@Drosophila (16571)

• Ireland

7 Dec 15

@TheHorse Yep, because diet is moderation and/or abstaining the food I love.. It's not a contradiction, it's a hardship. xD

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@TheHorse (220068)

• Walnut Creek, California

6 Feb 18

@Drosophila Heh, that I can understand.

@TheHorse (220068)

• Walnut Creek, California

7 Dec 15

Hmm. is that really a contradiction?

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Reine25

@Lucky15 (37374)

• Philippines

6 Dec 15

Hmmm.. can not think of any, yet. Maybe it ia the one that i cry when a chicken is being.. you know but i love to eat chicken :(

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@TheHorse (220068)

• Walnut Creek, California

7 Dec 15

That's why I chose a chicken for my photo. I love kicking back and feeding chickens by hand. And just watching them do their serious chicken things. But I eat them.

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@TheHorse (220068)

• Walnut Creek, California

7 Dec 15

@Lucky15 I think I'm kind of the same way. I wonder how I'd be different had I grown up on a farm and raised Fifi the cow and Ginger the chicken.

Reine25

@Lucky15 (37374)

• Philippines

7 Dec 15

@TheHorse i can say no to have the chicken's neck to be cut but i can not say no to having chicken-'fried one on my plate. Sigh

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@saritflor (3914)

• Hungary

2 Feb 18

Well for eating normative food (Not seeing any individual as "Food") in the 21 century it is consider to be something very strange. That's fine for me, though not always easy because I feel pain for all these poor individuals people see as "Food".

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@TheHorse (220068)

• Walnut Creek, California

6 Feb 18

Including squash and broccoli?

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@TheHorse (220068)

• Walnut Creek, California

9 Feb 18

@saritflor Broccoli is good. Especially with salted butter.

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@saritflor (3914)

• Hungary

6 Feb 18

@TheHorse I can only feel joy from eating broccoli LOL

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celticeagle

@celticeagle (168126)

• Boise, Idaho

7 Dec 15

I am an animal lover and love meat too. I see a lot of attitudes and beliefs that are contrary but that work pretty well.

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@TheHorse (220068)

• Walnut Creek, California

7 Dec 15

I don't feel too much "cognitive dissonance."

Yalul

@yalul070 (1713)

• Manila, Philippines

7 Dec 15

a lot. sometimes I think i'm dr. jekyll and mr. hyde -- although that speaks of a medical case. i think it's normal to have contradictions within oneself. like yin and yang: one part of you telling you to do this while the other part tells otherwise. although sometimes you need to be more consistent to be credible.

Yalul

@yalul070 (1713)

• Manila, Philippines

8 Dec 15

@TheHorse Methinks as long as you can control your inner contradictions -- i mean, as long as people don't see you as a mental case -- you will be fine. There is a bubbler who writes about these things, Dark Age Prophet. I wonder if he made it to MyLot.

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@TheHorse (220068)

• Walnut Creek, California

8 Dec 15

@yalul070 Not sure. Nah, people see me as pretty stable, but somewhat philosophical at times. I think.

AbbyGreenhill

@AbbyGreenhill (45494)

• United States

7 Dec 15

I love most animals yet I eat meat, you aren't alone in this.

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@TheHorse (220068)

• Walnut Creek, California

7 Dec 15

This was actually the first one that came to mind for me as I was thinking up this post.

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Nanette Piotrowski

@nanette64 (20364)

• Fairfield, Texas

7 Dec 15

Wow, are we related @TheHorse ? Every one you named would be mine.

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@TheHorse (220068)

• Walnut Creek, California

8 Dec 15

No, we're just both RIGHT. (smilay face emoticon)

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ingrid

@ridingbet (66854)

• Philippines

7 Dec 15

I have to have self-evaluation so I know if I am indeed a contradicting personality. (I am shy but I like to mingle with other people. I think this is one).

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