Who was always the person who gave you the best advice? Was it your grizzled high school sports coach? Was it your wild college best friend? Or was it someone more traditional like your cargo-short-clad, dear ol' dad?

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Tada, November will be gone in a flash, and before we know it, December will be upon us with a big Christmas-y bang, and the holiday shopping season will have us scrambling between malls, trying to find the perfect gift for our family, friends, and loved ones. Christmas carols will be ringing in our ears, our eyes will be blinded by tall, beaming Christmas trees, and our mother will be calling us non-stop, making sure we got the yearly holiday invite as if we would dare not show up. Holidays ar…

Ahem, hi everyone, hello there, heya, greetings… Are you ready for a slightly cringey, perhaps off-putting selection of unpopular opinions? Have you slipped on your judgey glasses , and pushed them up your nose a bit, so you can look extra condescending when you go through them? Good, me too. If you've ever taken a 'mass communication' class in college, chances are you crossed paths with the ‘Spiral of Silence’, proposed by the German political scientist, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann. If you are ha…

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Karma has a personal vendetta

Last week I was at a friend's birthday party, sipping some beer, chilling, and observing everyone quietly from the side, but admittedly tuning into conversations that were happening around me. I was surprised, per usual, at the sheer audacity some people have when they put down others for having a different opinion. Tell me you are insecure, without telling me you are insecure. Not everybody has to agree with you. Moreover, it's probably best that they don't. If you are always surrounded by lik…

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I want to find a cave far, far away, and live in it.

When you hit the hornet's nest with a bat...

May hit close to home.

Well, then.

Awkward...

What is right is wrong, and vice versa… in other words, there is no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’, although there will be plenty who will disagree with that bold statement. The thing is, everything in this world is pretty much subjective, and we've invented morals to create some sort of order in society. Consequently, discerning what is truly right and what is wrong becomes an arduous endeavor. However, the rampant prevalence of extreme opinions has fostered the emergence of the dreaded phenomenon known a…

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