National Coming Out Day

[rowyn]

I'm not really closeted about anything, in the strictest sense, but there're a bunch of things I rarely talk about because I don't like to create conflicts.

So, in the name of being open about the various conflict-creating aspects of my life:

I'm still bisexual and polyamorous. I'm still libertarian and I have voted for both Republicans and Democrats. I'm still glad I voted for George W. Bush in the last election. I still believe Jesus Christ is the Son of God and my personal saviour, and I still believe evolution is the theory which best explains the scientific development of life on Earth.

There, there's something on that list for nearly everyone to dislike. Not everyone, though: some of you are really hard to phase.

Comments

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

*grin* I like you, and I can relate so much to the whole multifaceted thing. You're much braver than I am about letting all of your different aspects be shown to everyone.

[rowyn]

I'm pretty timid about it, really. I mostly keep to myself. It's safer to squeak up in my own journal than on that of someone I disagree with, though. There's a 'say nothing if you have nothing good to say' bias for most people that deters all of us from arguing with the author of the host journal unless encouraged to do so. :)

[ladyperegrine.livejournal.com]

I'm tempted to make my own coming out post...but here, in your journal, not in mine. :-D

[rowyn]

Go for it! In my journal or yours, as you prefer. :)

[octantis.livejournal.com]

Shocked, madame, SHOCKED AND DISMAYED!

[rowyn]

Ah'm so sorry to have dis-mayed you, suh. ;)

[jordan179.livejournal.com]

I find absolutely nothing about that list to dislike. In fact, I match several of the points on your list.

[rowyn]

There is that flipside to my peculiar juxtaposition of traits and beliefs: it's rare that I don't have a few things in common with people. :)

[elusivetiger.livejournal.com]

Bravo.

[rowyn]

Thank you. =)

[kelloggs2066.livejournal.com]

Wow...

I mean, you think you know a person...

And you sound so... so... so...

...Middle of the Road...?

Yeah, being in the middle of the road will annoy a lot of folks on the Internet. :)

[rowyn]

Oh, I don't know. I'm actually fairly extreme about the positions I hold. It's just that I'll hold extreme positions on things that are, while technically unrelated (what does federal health insurance have to do with gay marriage?) usually lumped together politically. And I'll pick opposite ends of the spectrum. :)

[haikujaguar.livejournal.com]

*toasts you* :)

[rowyn]

*clink!*

[tetsujinnooni.livejournal.com]

ah, but you haven't hit any of the really fun points.

• You enjoy sex with people you enjoy sex with. Pretty normal.


• You like personal liberty, and vote for people who agree with your view on how to govern the country. Normal, again, I hope....


• Being GLAD you voted for GWB might not be the majority any longer, but given alternatives, I'd go with that choice in hindsight...


• Personal religious belief that doesn't proselytize cause conflict? I thought we were in 2007, not 1607...
• The hypothesis of evolution seems pretty hard to support on evidence - much like any other hypothesis about the emergence of life on earth. People hang belief on various hypothesis in that space all the time, and seem to get AWFULLY hung up on those beliefs...

Nah, FUN is things like where to draw the lines of acceptable duress to use as the backing for an interrogation, and what criteria can be used to determine where and what the lines are. THEN you can get 'good' conflict.


Yeah, guess that puts me on hard-to-pleasephase.

[sandramort.livejournal.com]

Oh! I'm SHOCKED! Um... really. Right?

As for disliking, sure, I don't like all of it, but I don't HAVE to like all of it... I like you and they're part of you and that's good enough! :)

[makovette.livejournal.com]

There's news here? :-)

CYa!
Mako The Unphased Zzyzxian

[narile.livejournal.com]

Man, you live with someone for how many years, and then they have a post like this and you learn....nothing you didn't already know. :)

'hugs.

[mister-wolf.livejournal.com]

Hey, off-topicness, but I can't find your e-mail. Do you still wanna do SCB guest art?

[rowyn]

I even finally came up with an idea, although it took me ages. :) You can email me at my lj address, it works. Or should, anyway. LJ doesn't seem to be sending me comments right now.

(looks wry)

[tahkhleet.livejournal.com]

You thought about your decisions and took pains to be consistent, within a position, and between your intuition and your reason?

How can I dislike your responses that way? If everyone did things that way, maybe some things would get settled finally. (wry look) though the conflict involved would be terrible.

We shouldn't go looking for fights, but when the fight comes to us, we shouldn't flinch either, and that's exactly how you operate.

This doesn't mean I agree with you, but as long as there is peace, disagreement is acceptible. How else can we cram everything that is possible into a mere universe?

Btw, what server are you on, in CoH? Still pinacle ? what chars ?
(email if you'd like, I'm not sure which one you're checking or how often)

Re: (looks wry)

[rowyn]

Are you still at the same hotmail address? I still check my home email daily, but not the gmail.

I play mostly villainside on Virtue, usually Untainted (level 29). She's my highest. I have Kasadya Daitya at 24th, and a handful of neglected heroes on Pinnacle from 9 to 20. My global handle is @Rowyn, so send a gfriend request to that. I didn't know you played!

Re: (looks even more wry)

[(Anonymous)]

and you'd said you were never playing an MMPORG again :) I haven't played COH in just short of two years. I got spanked yesterday. and now I have to research builds since everything is different :) but it's a labor of love :)