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07 Jan 2023, 7:13 pm

She just mentioned (rather dryly) it had something to do with a cyclone? I asked her why and she thought they might the right decision to protect passengers and damage to the planes.



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09 Jan 2023, 2:56 am

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Have you had special interests, that people have seen as "socially unacceptable" for some reason?
One of my SpIns is Halloween and while it doesn't creep people out, they find it as weird because I live in the country where Halloween isn't that common.

Some of my socially unacceptable special interests would be guns/hunting/trophy hunting and cults and the church of Christ.



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09 Jan 2023, 3:05 am

Biblical Education & Knowledge

I have attended seminary, read the Bible, and served as a church elder.

So when someone who believes only what their religious leaders tell them starts spouting off what they believe the Bible says (or does not say), and then I correct them with what it actually says (or does not say), I somehow become in their eyes a demon-possessed slimeball whose only purpose in life is to corrupt the faithful and debauch the innocent.

For example, someone who claims the divinity of Jesus' mother, Mary, might go through the 5 Stages of Grief.

1. Denial.  "You are WRONG, and I do not have to prove it!"
2. Anger.  "You should burn in Hell for your blasphemy, you sorry excuse for a human being!"
3. Bargaining.  "Tell you what . . . you leave me alone, I will leave you alone, and we will all be happy."
4. Depression.  "I had one thing to believe in, and you destroyed that belief."  (It rarely ever gets this far.)
5. Acceptance. "You were correct, Fnord, I was wrong, and I am sorry."  (It almost never gets this far.)


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09 Jan 2023, 3:38 am

Texasmoneyman300 wrote:
Magnapinna wrote:
Have you had special interests, that people have seen as "socially unacceptable" for some reason?
One of my SpIns is Halloween and while it doesn't creep people out, they find it as weird because I live in the country where Halloween isn't that common.

Some of my socially unacceptable special interests would be guns/hunting/trophy hunting and cults and the church of Christ.


Nice :D



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09 Jan 2023, 5:13 am

Another one of my socially unacceptable special interests is being interested in the no tipping movement.Another one of my socially unacceptable interests is fracking and the oil and gas industry.



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09 Jan 2023, 6:54 pm



Hmm, "Social Unacceptable Special Interests;"

Hehe, Indeed i Have A Few; Let's Take This
Passage From Iran For Review in Comparison:

"Not wearing a veil in public can be punished by law;
and when in public, all hair and skin except the face and hands must be covered."

Even As A Man And As A Social Outcast in Much of my Life in Subtle and Severe Ways
When Younger in Middle School For Looking and Acting Different Than Others As Naturally

Happens of Course
Even When You

Move Differently,

Speak Differently,

And Don't Dress And
Wear Your Clothes to
the Norm of the Present Human Condition
AS Such As It's A Well Know Fact These Days
That the Human Condition At Core isn't Particularly

Rational as You Will Even Find Mathematicians and
Such With 'High Degrees' Insisting That Supernatural
Stuff Doesn't Exist Yet in the Same Breath or the Next
One Insisting That God Came to Earth As A Man As An

Only Son of the Same Father He, and Him, And His God;

And Died For All of Humanity's Sin And Was Literally

Resurrected From the Grave Even Though That Dude

Is Assessed as Aramaic Illiterate, Never Writing

A Frigging Word on a Page; All This

Literally Believed By Some
Folks As Gospel Truth Yes

When As The Record Shows
In Biblical Scholarly Review that

Innumerable Ghost Authors in
Greek Roman Writing Way Wrote

The Story Revised And Edited It Over
Centuries Copied And Pasted With Old

Scripts and Not Numbered Until the 1300's
in Verses; And Not Rudimentarily Actually Published
By Printing Press Until the 1400's As Up to that point

of Centuries Upon Centuries, Innumerable Scribes Without
Faces Today, Copied The Scripts By Hand on Page, Also Making

Innumerable Mistakes And Yes Even Intentional Changes Along the

Way; Best Example, The Dude Called Paul Once Saul, Perhaps Epileptic,
Taking A Fall on A Road to Damascus Suggesting He Had the Visions

That Were to the
One True God
Man Alone of
The Same He
And Him And His God;

Yes By One Title of Human Being
Alone Yet By Several Names Ranging
From Yeshua to Jesus As The Mythical
Story In Housings of Vehicles and Vessels

of Words Continued to Change By The Hands
Again of Innumerable Ghost Authors and Faceless
Scribes Today Who Some folks Still Bend on Knee to Worship

Their Words of A Mythical Story Attributed to A Dude With Several Names

Through The Centuries of Such Like in Artistic Renditions Reflecting More the
Style of Long Hair And Someone Effeminate By Leonardo Da Vinci Through His Years

Of Last Supper Renditions By Mythical Story And Such As That; Yes True Where i Live

It's Almost Seen As Evil of An Affront to Tell the Recorded Truth in Biblical Scholarly Way

As It is For A Woman to Go Without A Scarf Over Her Head in Iran Yet It's True When i Am Young,

Women in the Catholic Church

i Went to Had to Wear

A Scarf Over their

Head As Well in Respect

to Their 'Male Overlords' too;

Yet Here's the 'Matter With Things;'
Of Reality 'These Days;' Science Shows
The Average Human Attention Span

is Literally Less than A Gold Fish; Yes,

Literally Less than 3 Seconds; So True,

It's Socially Unacceptable For Most Folks to Even
Be able to Read the EPiC Long Form Poetry i Write

in Measure of 11.2 MiLLioN Words in the Last 112 Months of
Effort; Fully iLLuSTRaTeD With Over 130,000 Photos and Around
10,000 YouTube Music Videos to Fully Accompany the Lyrics Now

of my SonG SouL True; And Additionally the 17,707 Miles of Public
Dance i've Done All Around the 'Deep South Trump/DeSaTaNiS States' Part Represented

By Oh Dear Lord oF iGNoRaNCE, Matt Gaetz too; Holy CR8P iNDeeD As This Area i LiVE iN
Once Holding the Guinness World Record For the Most Churches Per Capita in A Locality

And Originally

Literally Named
'Hell' For the Folks

Who Were Not So Nice
Veering Away So Far From
LoVE iN Peace In Love AS Such For Real;

Later Called "Scratch Ankle" For the Briar
Bushes on the RiverFront Downtown Banks WHeRE i Am Raised too;

Anyway As Far As That Rule in Iran Goes, my Psychotherapist Who Originally

Tried to Help me Escape From Hell From 2011 And Continuing to Monitor me in Heaven
From 2013 Through the Pandemic Year of 2020, Reviewed One of my PG Rated Nude

Art Presentations

of me at Age 60
Then And She Didn't
Say Much Yet Told my
Wife Also in Session

With A Big Smile the

'Pictures Were Nice'...

Hmm, Anyway She Told
me that Most Folks in this
Area At least Might Not View that

As Appropriate; Yet You See my 'Naturale Art;' Greets

And Meets First Amendment Rights From Our United States
Constitution And God Yes True, Barely 'Skirts' By Facebook

Community Rules Yet They Do; And They Still Do AS Such For What i Still Do Now;

Meanwhile, the Constitution in Article 21 In Iran Provides, Do Jail Time and Up to Hanging

For Dissidents/Protestors Who Don't Agree With That Requirement For Social Acceptance in That Country;

It's Like This, Where i Live is Assessed By Social Science As the Most Difficult Place to Be Different in the United States;

Yet Hey i've Been Outcast

in So Many Subtle to

Severe Ways Up to

Being Spit on in Middle
School At the City Park
And In Middle School Halls,

Just For Being A Boy Who Dared
to Smile; Taunted For Having Beautiful
Eyes And Eye Lashes Like A Girl then
With Fair Skin too; Yes Not Only Spit on;

Yet Threatened With Physical Abuse; Yet True,

Folks Don't Often Get in Fights With Who They

Must Look Up to Even at 120 Pounds at Almost
6 Feet Tall in 8th Grade As True Nature Changes All We Do...

Now i Leg Press 699 Kilograms, 12 Reps, Easily Warming Up at
The Military Gym Where i Work Out, More Than 6 Scale my Personal Weight

of 111 Kilograms; True, Not Many Folks Mess With The REAL Dude Who Dances

The Weight of His Finger Tips in Public Free Style Ballet and Martial Arts Dance;

Yes, A Few 'Good Old Boy Men' Tried When i Started at Only 210 Pounds, Leg Pressing
500 Pounds in 2013; And Even A Blonde Haired Elder Woman Who Sits in the Front Row
With Push Up Bra at Her Protestant Church, Telling me i Was Just Trying To Draw Attention

to myself And i Would Never Be Any 'King David' Dancing in Public in His Undies Either Hehe;

And i Told Her of Course

Not; i'll Just Do

John 14:12

In Hell
And Heaven

And Continue
to Do Luke 17:21;

(She Had No Clue Truly What
Those Bible Verses Are About)

Real Nirvana And Bliss Within
With This Free Dancing Moving
Meditating Flow of Ascending
Transcending Autotelic Way of

Transient Hypo-Frontality For

Real Unclocking Greater Subconscious Scales of

Directing Human Creativity and Productivity too;

Doing A Hell of A Lot More Great Works of Writing Than
Illiterate What's His Name Ever Did Way Back When Then;

And True, Going Deeper in Hell Than 'He' Ever Imagined As the
Type Two Trigeminal Neuralgia i Experienced, Literally Assessed
As The Suicide Disease And Worse Than the Real Torture of Crucifixion
As The Literal Worst Pain Known to Humankind That No Drug Would Touch
for me Wake to Sleep for an Entire 66 Months, Like A Dentist Drill in my Right
Eye And Ear; Basically Shut-in my Bedroom And Head For Almost All of Those 66 Months,
With Additionally, A Life Threat in Synergy of 18 Other Medical Disorders Mostly From

Work-Related Stress, Chronic to Acute, for 11 Years from 1996 to 2007; Before i
Entered into Full Blown Pain and Numb of HeLL ON EartH Within in January of 2008

Where All the Symptoms of that Truly EPiC "Autism Burn-out" Came to Fruition of Hell Then

For Real; Nope, No Little 3 Hour to 3 Day Tour in Hell For me; the Whole 66 Month Staycation For Real;

Anyway, Back to Social Unacceptable Special Interests; Even my Psychiatrist Today Admits Public Dancing

Isn't Normal or Experiencing Bliss and Nirvana in Flow Nearly All Hours of Every Waking Hour And in
Dreams
The Same
As WaKinG
Guiding
Fruition
of the
SaMe Deep Down

Yet Here's 'The Thing,'

i Don't Give up A Special
Interest Easy; No Matter What
the Naysayers Say or Do; For i Dance
And Sing Stronger And Healthier Freer Than Ever Before Real;

The Locals Got Used to me; SaMe As if 'Big Foot' CaMe And Stayed For Real.

And As Far As the "SonG oF mY SoUL," All FuLLY iLLuSTRaTeD, 11.2 MiLLioN
Words; Yes Fully iLLuSTRaTeD All The Way AS Such; Yes 'Darling;' '3 Second Rule' Applies

iN A World

of Gold Fish

on Average;

A "Na'vi"

"Blue Whale"

Is Much Too Big To
See That Relatively Also
Makes me An Invisible Dude For Real too;

Knowing How Ignorant And Shallow as Far
As Understanding Metaphors Go for the 'JeSuS
Crowd' At Hand, i Interview on the HiGHWaY to
Staycation in Heaven Within For Real Now; If JeSuS

Were Real And

Could Actually

Come Back the Way
He Did The First go Around New

Now; The Only Way He Might Escape

Their 'Right Hand' Restricted Left
Brain Think is Come Non-Verbally

Like me Until Age 4, With More of A
Right Hemisphere Big Picture of Seeing

That i am the Leaf of the Tree That Rises
the Forest Green And Falls to the Soil For New Trees

And

Forests

To Rise Green Again

Wave, Water, Ocean Whole
Naked, Enough, Whole Complete;

YeS, iNDeeD, Nature And i Am One;

It Truly Doesn't Take A 'Rocket Scientist'

To Feel and Sense This "Na'vi" Truth For Real;

It Was Nice of 'Mr Cameron' to Fully iLLuSTRaTE

my Way of Heaven Within ToGeTHeR On the Big Screen;

HAha Now,

A Movie of
my Life isn't
Even Necessary Again...

HAha, The Story is Already
Naked Enough Whole Complete

Any WaY iNDeed;

God Yes, With
SMiLeS AGAiN...

Dear Lord It Felt Like

2000+ Years of Stone
Were Rolled Away From
my SoUL When i Saw That Movie

Come to Hell, And Scratch Ankle, and The Such Again For Real...

The Artists Are the Real Saviors of Humankind At Core of Soul Always They Will Be...

And We Will
Be As Well

When We
Come to
the Table
of Plenty of Soul to Give Away Free...

Can You Imagine Anyone Accepting
me in 'Trump Town USA;' It's Easy

All i Have to
Do is

Shut
The 'F' Up

And Dance

To Be Named
Living Legend,
Famous, And Hero

Without Even A God
Damned Lincoln

Penny in

My Pocket;

Hmm..
Just Hmm..

Just Another
Run of the Mill Town Story...

Special Thanks Goes Out
to 'The Weekend' For That Theme
Song of the 'Na'vi' For mY SoUL DanceSonG True too..;)



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10 Jan 2023, 9:41 am

One of my special interests as a teenager was graffiti. Both photographing and painting walls or trains in the middle of the night. Obviously it's considered socially unacceptable, and it got me into quite some trouble. Though I didn't accept society either.


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10 Jan 2023, 6:00 pm

Silence23 wrote:
One of my special interests as a teenager was graffiti. Both photographing and painting walls or trains in the middle of the night. Obviously it's considered socially unacceptable, and it got me into quite some trouble. Though I didn't accept society either.


Graffiti art is kitch these days



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10 Jan 2023, 7:03 pm

When I was about 14 or so, I had an interest in rare, degenerative, neurological disorders. I spent a great deal of my time reading medical journal articles online. It was pretty socially unacceptable, and I had more than a few people in my life who were made uncomfortable by it.

At the moment my main interests are plants / gardening, psychology and a specific soviet personality typing system. None of those are particularly socially "unacceptable" in the grand scheme of things, but they're viewed as a bit out there for someone of my age group and gender.



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10 Jan 2023, 9:09 pm

arrec63 wrote:
At the moment my main interests are plants / gardening, psychology and a specific soviet personality typing system. None of those are particularly socially "unacceptable" in the grand scheme of things, but they're viewed as a bit out there for someone of my age group and gender.


I told my asian neighbour that I have a special interest in psychology. He looked me straight in the face and said in Singapore only crazy people are interested in psychology :lol:



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11 Jan 2023, 8:38 am

cyberdad wrote:
I told my asian neighbour that I have a special interest in psychology. He looked me straight in the face and said in Singapore only crazy people are interested in psychology :lol:


Based on my experience of the mental health system, he might be onto something there lol :lol:



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11 Jan 2023, 4:42 pm

arrec63 wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
I told my asian neighbour that I have a special interest in psychology. He looked me straight in the face and said in Singapore only crazy people are interested in psychology :lol:


Based on my experience of the mental health system, he might be onto something there lol :lol:


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20 Jan 2023, 8:01 pm

When I was in high school and given my Catholic upbringing, I believed that LGBTQ people were "weird" and "disgusting." :oops:

However, I think in junior year an openly gay faculty member helped me accept the fact that LGBTQ people are no different from straight people and to him I'll forever be grateful to. :)

Despite my mom accusing me of being gay to this day, I openly support the rights of LGBTQ people as does my NT sister who openly identifies as asexual.

On another note, my NT sister and I have a pair of uncles who believe that asexuality isn't real, that she is making it all up and that she is using her age to get out of wanting a boyfriend, which is IMO misogyny. :evil:


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22 Jan 2023, 9:52 pm

It's not "socially unacceptable" to the extreme but I do really love visual novels. I've been told that as a woman, I should find them degrading but I just... don't? (Also, don't tell me how to feel.) They present a wide range of stories and genres. Many have beautiful graphics and music too! I do enjoy some of the darker visual novels but I'm aware that they're just fiction. It's not real. It's just a story. (Obviously, anything that crosses the line into stuff with kids or animals is not something I'd be reading.) Anyways, I'm actually glad to see so many visual novels being translated nowadays because I got made fun of for liking them when I was younger. Now there's a decent sized market for them. :lol:



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22 Jan 2023, 9:56 pm

I went about six months watching YouTube documentaries about parents having stillborn babies and SIDS.
Hundreds if not thousands of stories.
It was therapeutic for me but everyone told me to shut it off.
I hate that there's a taboo on grief for pregnancy and infant loss.


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22 Jan 2023, 10:09 pm

My interestests aren't taboo, they're just boring to most people. The socially unacceptable thing is when I talk about them to uninterested people in mind numbing detail.


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