03-09-2012, 11:16 PM
Quote:Another would be people whom are consistantly depressed. I can understand the occasional sadness, but dude, Cynicism is SO 1980's doncha know?
I assume you're talking about negative people, not the ones with real, serious, debilitating depression, right? Because... that's not a choice. We can debate what CAUSES such depression, but it is a real condition.
Quote:Also? Pro Lifers. Like, not the concept itself. Just the people whom blindly crush medical scientific advances just because it don't jive with their jeebus mess.
They are a pet peeve of mine too. The idea of banning abortion is so dangerously irrational, I can't believe people even argue for it.
It is purely emotional, not based on reality. If I try to explain the necessity of abortion to them all they say is, "But it's MURDER! Those sweet innocent babies! *SOB*" I'm a mother myself. I know how precious and amazing babies are. That's why I choose to keep unwanted babies from having shitty lives, and focus on improving the lives of LIVING, CONSCIOUS people.
Quote:Mormons, also. For no other reason than the forced Child bride thing. they said they stopped doing it, but come on man. What goes on behind closed doors?
I was raised Mormon and I can tell you for a fact that there is no child-bride stuff going on in the mainstream church. It happens a lot in certain off-shoots of the mainstream church, but the huge multi-billion dollar monstrosity we all think of as the "Mormon" church, really, truly doesn't do that stuff anymore.
I am now atheist, if you were wondering. I'm not trying to defend the church, just share my inside experience of it.
But anyway... pet peeves? Well, I spend a lot of time debating religion and also parenting practices. I am a home birth and breastfeeding advocate, so I get into it with a lot of women. There are a few catch-phrases that REALLY grate on my nerves. Some are,
"I don't care about studies and statistics. I do what's right for MY family!"
As if their children are so magically different from all others????????
And, "No, you don't understand. I REALLY couldn't breastfeed! I couldn't produce any milk!"
Then you find out that they gave birth in a hospital, and their baby was supplemented with formula from day one. Gee, I wonder WHY you didn't produce milk??? You can't claim innocence if you did nothing to PREVENT the problem in the first place.
Anyway... there's a lot more but I'll stop there for now lol