I can reference many examples of absolutely asinine cultural superstitions: “Man-made global warming is
not a hoax!” “We are
seriously over-populated!” “Kanye West is Jesus!” (Or if you’ve heard the news lately, “Kanye West is
still Jesus!”) My purpose for this post isn’t to discuss these topics, though the first two are so easy to disprove, even for me, (and has been done already by people more qualified), that it isn’t worth my time.
Instead, I want you as the reader to consider why you might have unfriended. To begin with, you and I are sitting behind computer screens, maybe even half the world away. Yet your “fight or flight” responses have been activated. You. Feel. Threatened. Why? I can’t shoot you with my Red Rider bb gun. Ideas are not going to drive you to insanity, fast-food binges, or an early grave. Unless you let them. They’re issues; they aren’t
part of you. It’s not violence you fear. It’s the fear of being wrong. Just admit it. It might be that you realize your knowledge of a given topic is insignificant, yet you still hold on as if it were drift wood and you’re immersed in river rapids. Or it might just be that your subconscious mind is telling your conscious mind, “Haha! you sucker!”
Now the mature thing to do would be to immerse yourself in both sides of the issue obsessively with an open mind. Construct scenarios, look for possible contradictions, attempt to justify those contradictions and not decide until you have exhausted the topic, which is true. Of course this is the mature, intelligent method, but you don’t need me to tell you this one; you already know it, if you just thought about it. Seriously, you’re __ years old. Grow up. And you have a Xanga; if you can’t handle that responsibility, you shouldn’t have one.
There’s always the other option. You could continue to do what the government wants and believe them and your teacher. (Don’t get me wrong; there a few good public school teachers.) Then everything will be all right. It’s much easier for you and the government because you’ll be insecure then as you are now and ready to pee your pants because you can’t find Mommy. More importantly, you’ll continue to unfriend people who just might have taught you something important. There, you‘re still stupid, which means that you‘re still a respectable member of society. You fit in! Congratulations.
Oh, and if you
really believe Kanye is Jesus, this post does not apply to you, so unfriend to your heart’s content.
Comments (12)
Kanye West isn't Jesus, he's just Jesus' gift to the world XD.
Who is Kayne West?
I don't unfriend people based on their differing opinion. That's the beauty of opinions, every one can have their own. I only defriend people if they blatantly offend me (which is hard to do), timestamp a million times a day, are a spam site or just generally annoy the piss out of me.
But you have some good points, they just don't apply to me. Good post; people do need to grow up.
people who unfriend are just immature.
Consider yourself unfriended.
I will just block you it does the defriending automatically
Nuh-uh.
While as you stated, unfriending someone because you disagree with them and they are willing to actually argue with you is stupid, they are times when unfriending someone is the smartest thing to do. If some people really start to harass you and stuff, why wouldn't you unfriend them?
Getting offended is immature because anyone at any age is capable of it. An intelligent, well-thought remark is much more mature.
A "Red Rider" bb gun? You'll shot your eye out. lol
My problem is I hardly never unfriend anyone. Some times I stick my neck out too far someone and then I get it chopped of.
I have been "de-friended" once because of a vaccination post (or anti-gardasil post), written about as an alarmist who is stupid...then I've also been called almost a "heretic" for my basic beleifs in self defense as a Christian (by one of my Christian friends) It goes on and on.
And who is Kanye West?
@SWEETteaANDgingerSNAPS - Nah, he just THINKS he is.
@one_eared_batman - @ShamelesslyRed - A loser with a little talent, in a MOSTLY talentless music genre ((c)rap).
@StewieIsMyHero - Watch it; I might just test my luck. lol.
@Power_Ranger_Freak - @trunthepaige - muh-ah-hahaha
@storiesandsinker - Come on. I could just harass them right back. Why should it bother me? It might be rather fun.
And good to see you back on Xanga. I for one would say people missed you.
@SarahLynn_violin - Oh, but couldn't anybody be offended?
@mr_randyc - Dude, you like so read my mind on the bb gun thing. But I think some Karate classes might be a good idea for self defense. he-ya
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