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Post #405777

Author
xhonzi
Parent topic
WHY we like the things we like (and why we don't that which we don't)
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Date created
29-Mar-2010, 4:11 PM

Yeah, I think this is the problem.

When you go against the common grain, you are expected to be able to explain yourself.  And if you can't, then you are actually a bigger idiot than before.

I think we also talk ourselves into things.  Someone asks why you like Phantom Menace... you settle on "the hair" which makes you sound like a fruit.  Someone comes right out (theoretically) and calls you a fruit.  But for the rest of your life you will believe you like Phantom Menace (which was crap (except for Ewan McDonald (who was excellent (he truly was!)))) because of the hair... but it's not true.  You know it doesn't taste like apples, but you JUST LIKE IT anyways. 

But the best part is when you crystalize your feelings into rational thought... and then you have other feelings that you crystalize into rational thought... but rational thoughts "A" don't mesh well with rational thoughts "B" and then your wife (hypothetically speaking) calls you out on it and calls you a hypocrite!  Yeah... that is the best part.