(July 1, 2016 at 3:51 pm)Excited Penguin Wrote: Have you ever feared a label, at any point in your life? That is, have you ever identified as something that you at some point thought some groups of people would resent for whatever reason and which is why you subsequently decided to more often than not withhold that information, just for the sake of your public image?
For example, have you ever been ashamed about being an atheist and so modified your behaviour in a certain way just to avoid the subject?
Any discussion revolving even tangentially around the subject matter alluded at here is welcome, of course. Let not my inability to write OPs stop you.
I've never been ashamed to be an atheist but I have modified my behavior in order to avoid the subject sometimes purely to avoid a long boring conversation of attempted persuasion by a religious person.
I identify myself as a bit of a pervert, and I rarely talk to family or work colleagues about that.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
