It's interesting, how some people think. How they can complain about judgmental people, unable or unwilling to realize that they themselves are being the very thing they are complaining about by doing so. Liberalism is, at best the same as conservatism. If you were to hear them speak, they want the same things different ways. For instance all humans want sex, some like it with their own sex, others with the opposite, all with the underlying urge to penetrate or be penetrated. Both sides spend far to much time examining how they are different, and not enough time looking at how they are the same.

I was sitting at a coffee shop today, one of my favorites, it has a nice mix of just about every type of person. I often find them as well as the atmosphere inspiring. Next to me sat an older man, late fifties perhaps, with an apparent affinity for all things hippiesh, as well as bicycles ( so I gathered from the random “Nice bike” shout out to a passing cyclist in combination with the various “cycle” ware wielded by this individual ). His reasoning for biking had something to do with not wanting to support the “oil barons” and to protect the environment, all this while drink coffee that was imported from a country so far away, it likely took more fossil fuel to make its way there for his consumption than most people could go through in a year. Never mind the fact that he had a newspaper, how many redwoods were chopped down to provide him with something to complain about I wonder? How about the material the tires for the bike he loves so much? I suppose they were made out of environmentally safe rubber, and not at all manufactured in a country with more human rights violations than I have hairs on my head. I'm sure the frame on said bike is made out of post recycled metal... Right... I could go on but why?

Across from him stood a younger man, twentyish, and his apparent girlfriend also in her twenties. They were discussing how people have reacted to their, apparent frequent appearances in various public settings in the nude, a practice that is, fairly common around these parts, in wooded areas, clearings, hot springs, and just about any place else they can find to get away with it.

They start paddling on with several stories about how they have had to endure, undue attention whilst appearing in public naked, and how closed minded people are. One story in particular stuck out to me as I was banging away at my latest work in progress. Apparently the young couple, along with some friends, had been spending some time in a forest near a river that had various fine swimming spots, and were doing so in the nude. Across the river, at some point, some passerby's, young yuppie Hispanic catholics (per the couples description) with binoculars happened upon their nudist session, and proceeded to watch, continually getting closer as time went by. At some point they naked group decided to go over and ask the watchers to move on. This would be the point where I started to laugh to myself.

Now my understanding of the nudist thing is that they feel more comfortable naked, and believe others should too. So why exactly should it matter who is seeing you naked at that point. Why assume they are catholic simply because they are Hispanic? Why assume they are yuppies because they are donning gap jeans? If you don't want other people to see you, why appear naked in a public setting in the first place? Why have a 45 minute conversation about how narrow minded people are, and then use a story littered with ones own narrow mindedness as an example to prove your point?

In addition to this silliness, they start in on about the Iraq war, a favorite topic among those politically polar, where they admonish the US government for the whole war thing, innocent lives lost, etc, and then talk about how many firearms they own, how its their right to own and carry such firearms, and how they would be just fine putting down waste of life people as they have no “Christian moral value” preventing them from doing so. A little bit like being anti abortion and pro death penalty is it not? I could go on, but why?

Now you might be saying to yourself, this guy is being as judgmental to these people, as they are to conservatives. While this might be true, I never claimed I wasn't judgmental. While I do consider myself fairly open minded, I find flagrant hypocrisy to amusing to say the least. It's not hard to imagine how things in the world today got the way they are with people like this running around.


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