re: find a habit to break - will have to think about that one. not starting in on meat though. sorry, it's just too gross to me.
re: obsv. #1: yeah, but same goes for people who do eat meat. they don't realise that things like soja and tofu and pastes and all sorts of interesting combinations that people invent when they, for whatever reason, don't eat animal products. so it really goes both ways.
and anyway, same goes for instance for not drinking - if you don't drink alcoholic drinks, you have no clue about all the variety out there.
Now that I think about it your observation #1 goes for ANYTHING. like, say you only listen to classical music - you'll probably have no IDEA about all the various different genres out there, and probably also consider only classical music to be 'real' music.
What you call heresy is what I call breaking your own boundaries, expanding your own horizons.
hmm. Maybe I'll do something really stupid like go partying and kiss lots of guys once I'm in uni.
... nah. If anything I'll kiss lots of girls. *facepalm* I'm not very good at this expanding my horizons thing, am I?
I only call breaking boundaries heresy if you're really horrified to even think of doing it and reflexively want to repent, like ( I'm assuming) a really religious person feels at destroying their symbols or how Germans feel at the thought of swastikas or how some fictional people feel at saying voldemort. I guess taboo is the way better word actually. Not that those should all be broken of course for example putting on nazi uniforms will definitely lead to people getting hurt. But illogical personal taboos should.
Hm, I can see that. The thing is, all of my personal taboos are of such nature that I see absolutely no good reason to break them. So I won't.
The other way I deal with taboos is to have a long discussion with myself about whether said taboo is logical or reasonable or not. And if it's not, it becomes no-longer-taboo in my brain.
In conclusion, I am apparently great at arguing with myself and winning.
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re: find a habit to break - will have to think about that one. not starting in on meat though. sorry, it's just too gross to me.
re: obsv. #1: yeah, but same goes for people who do eat meat. they don't realise that things like soja and tofu and pastes and all sorts of interesting combinations that people invent when they, for whatever reason, don't eat animal products. so it really goes both ways.
and anyway, same goes for instance for not drinking - if you don't drink alcoholic drinks, you have no clue about all the variety out there.
Now that I think about it your observation #1 goes for ANYTHING. like, say you only listen to classical music - you'll probably have no IDEA about all the various different genres out there, and probably also consider only classical music to be 'real' music.
What you call heresy is what I call breaking your own boundaries, expanding your own horizons.
hmm. Maybe I'll do something really stupid like go partying and kiss lots of guys once I'm in uni.
... nah. If anything I'll kiss lots of girls. *facepalm* I'm not very good at this expanding my horizons thing, am I?
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The other way I deal with taboos is to have a long discussion with myself about whether said taboo is logical or reasonable or not. And if it's not, it becomes no-longer-taboo in my brain.
In conclusion, I am apparently great at arguing with myself and winning.