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Tripper dropped one of his bones on my foot. Um, it was heavy. Ow. I think he managed to break three of my toes in one go P:

In other news, I re-discovered Fundies Say the Darndest Things! today and made the incredibly bad choice of actually reading it. And I'm going to cut the rest of this because I'm going to repeat some of the things I read there and they are really, really bad, and possibly triggering (for rape anddd...general really, really terrible hate speech, I don't even know how else to describe it, this stuff is terrible; also, same goes for the link above to Fundies Say the Darndest Things, since this is all shit from there)

( cut for triggery hatred )

So why would I read this shit? I don't even really find it amusing at any point.

There is a reason; basically, it's in my nature to try to hear out ANYBODY who tries to make a point. If somebody has thought through something and came to a conclusion, I want to hear it, I want to try to understand what they're saying, I want to know what they've learned. It's part of me being a general um...knowledge-hound? And also, I think, because I so much value free and logical thought.

I rarely experience cognitive dissonance. (This is probably a fault.) This is why, I think, it hits me so hard when I am caught between exploring free thought and the revelation that some people, through what they see to be logical thought, arrive at the above conclusions. I'm not sure what to do with that.