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"charming" (idiotic?) inconsistencies

Goodness Gracious Meme

00:50 / 01.07.02

Where are people's inconsistencies in the way they act, the ones that are absolutely barmy...

what got me onto this was one of my personal favourites:

the person who tries to take an active interest in what they put into their body, tries to buy organic, keeps an eye on their alcohol intake, is interested in nutrition, is motivated and interested enough to have taken on board ideas from all over the place about how to treat their body well, knows that peppermint can help settle dodgy stomachs, and that echinacea boosts the immune system, drinks soya milk to cut down on dairy intake etc etc... and yet smokes tobacco, a substance proven to be linked to all sorts of illnessess/ill-effects from dehydration/skin problems to emphysema and many cancers.

yep, that's me. the health-conscious smoker.

another fave is Miss "'how dare you attempt to prescribe me medication/interfere with my body, those things are dangerous. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to be getting along, I've just scored some pills and acid and am off to a party. Actually, come to think of it, if you could just prescribe me some MAO inhibitors, that'd do nicely"

say hello to the antimedication recreational drugs user...

Our Lady of The Two Towers

14:20 / 01.07.02

The important thing is that you're consistently inconsistent.

The thing I find is that I easily get caught into living my life through routines, and so dislike trying new things, despite the fact that I can't think of any time when doing something new has actually been bad for me, hasn't necessarily been the most wonderful experience ever, but it's not been bad as such.

Rollo Kim, on location

17:04 / 01.07.02

Craving stability, at the first sign of stability, I'm climbing out of the window, six floors up...

Trying to reach 'inner calm', I'm whipping out my soap-box and shooting my mouth off at the first hint of bullshit...

Allergic to everything, I cut down on all the stuff that's bad for me (pizza, pasta, bread, anything with a grain in it), go all week without even thinking of cigarettes, smoke ten or twenty in one sitting come Friday night.

And I flirt despite the fact that I've no intention of letting anyone actually 'do stuff to me'.

17:40 / 01.07.02

Trying to reach 'inner calm', I'm whipping out my soap-box and shooting my mouth off at the first hint of bullshit... – Rollo Kim

Heh heh heh heh heh

That is so me today...

Murray Hamhandler

19:14 / 01.07.02

I won't even kill a bug, but I still eat meat. There's cognitive dissonance for you.

I rail (to myself, mostly) against the distance that people maintain between one another, and it's almost impossible for me to push myself to interact w/people that I don't know or to tell the people that I'm close to how much I care about them.

So many of the personality traits that bother me are ones that, I realize later, I myself possess to some extent.

Rollo Kim, on location

19:56 / 01.07.02

Me and the bugs / meat thing too. I've given up killing flies, but I still eat chicken: flies are a lot easier to help out of a window. You know what I mean.

20:07 / 01.07.02

It must be said that I smoke but I make sure to eat my five portions of fruit and veg. Cos, you know, I wouldn't want to get cancer or anything.

On the other hand, given that I smoke I need all the health pluses I can get. It's too easy to say "ah well, I'm fucked anyway, it doesn't matter what else I do to myself".

08:56 / 02.07.02

Liking where I am in life while still wanting to bog off to that hut in Canada.

Smoking while wanting desperately to quit.

Rollo Kim, on location

09:03 / 02.07.02

I can go all week without a smoke - but it never occurs to me to actually quit. I intend to at some point, but not yet.

09:15 / 02.07.02

Regarding poultry, I eat chicken and turkey with relish, but refuse to eat duck.

I don't keep any, but I very much like ducks and am ridiculously sentimental about them.

Rollo Kim, on location

11:07 / 02.07.02

What happens if you run out of relish?

That makes me think - I eat fish, but I really think that fish, as a living organism, are really cool and dignified. That's terrible I know.

11:46 / 02.07.02

For health reasons, I try not to eat a lot of red meat, but yet I eat plenty of chicken which is more chemically engineered & processed than beef. Not to mention that chickens are treated far less humanely than cattle. (shrugs)

11:50 / 02.07.02

Can you not get free range chicken - with no steroids, chemicals etc.?

14:38 / 02.07.02

(threadrot)
Bunch o' wimps....

You'll quite happily pay somebody else to kill, gut, dismember your food for you, but can't even squash a bug. gah. No pirates in this bunch, obviously! Are you all nancy-boy ninjas who only kill in the dark so you don't have to see the blood?
(/threadrot)

Rollo Kim, on location

14:52 / 02.07.02

I only eat what I kill myself. There isn't an orchard for miles that hasn't tasted of my wrath.

01:24 / 03.07.02

On a more serious note, I don't eat much critter either. I enjoy it when I do eat it - it tastes good! but it's just not good for me or the ecology. The curious thing is that I tend to remember to consider the animal that feeds me if I buy free-range or organic meat, don't tend to remember or say thank-you if I buy factory-farmed stuff.

Don't know why that is - if it's that a free-range animal has had the opportunity to have something like a "real life" to give up (as opposed to an entire existence in a tiny cage), or that a factory-farmed animal has been treated as nothing more than a commodity so I, too, can ignore the fact that it used to be alive.

Any thoughts?