anonemouse

I think I would have quit. I know one thing, as much as I love Mike Rowe and Dirty Jobs, I don't envy them at all.

I think we have reached an agreement to disagree! This is the start of a great friendship!

Eh, we have a little bit of a wolf-pack here on LBT. But we just go after the stupid and insane. :heh:

I can watch and help my dad do surgery on animals with no problem, but give me a whiff of diarrhea or vomit, and you better give me space to puke, too. VERY sensitive to odors.

Poo makes me gag. That's one reason I didn't go into nursing. Weak stomach, sympathy barfer, etc.

Aww. Reminds me of the Family Guy closet monkey.

I'd get pissed off if I didn't see the same crap coming from conservative celebrities. I figure, if they've got the right to spout off, so do the liberal celebrities. Personally, I think they're all full of crap and don't know what they're talking about. That doesn't mean that I don't think they have the right to show how ignorant they are.

But then you have people that were raised with values and were taught values, but still act violently, cruelly, and immorally. The Menendez brothers, for example.

I have a POO SHEILD! Fling away!

Probably not. But hey, that's their right to like them, too. They have just as much right to have hobbies and have opinions as the rest of us. That's why I don't get pissed off when a celebrity opens his or her mouth. I may not agree with them, but I don't think they should have to keep their opinions to themselves, either. I'm sure none of us would keep our mouths shut about our opinions if we were in the spotlight. It's like Newton's third law of motion: For every celebrity with a certain opinion, there's a celebrity with the equal and opposite opinion. Kind of balances out, you know?

Monkeys completely freak me out. I don't get the appeal of them. Nasty, mean, disgusting animals. I mean, I can understand wanting to study them, in science, but owning one as a pet? You HAVE to be kidding.

See, that's where we differ. I don't think anyone is completely evil, and I don't think anyone is completely good. I like to try and figure out why some people are willing to go to certain lengths that others are not, just to get the same things that we all crave to a certain extent. Why do some people murder people for $5 when other people won't? I don't think it is a simple as saying that they just don't have values. Why do the lack those values? I ask questions, that's just the type of person I am. I feel the need to understand and to learn. That's why I'm getting a Master's degree and will probably go on to get a Ph.D. I enjoy learning, even if it is just learning about why people use certain reasoning.

And that's what makes us all different. All some people want to do is meet George W. Bush. I really don't have much interest in him. Other people obsess about celebrities and become groupies to the point of trying to have casual sex with them. That disgusts me. If we all shared the same interests, the world would be a very boring place.

There's complexity in everything we do. No two people have the same motivations behind their actions and behind their reasoning. That's what makes it interesting. If we could just say, "well, this is why someone does this, and that's why everyone else does it, too," the field of psychology wouldn't exist. I mean, obviously, power is a huge motivator. But what makes them want that power so much that they do the things they do? That's what is interesting.

I'd like to know what their thought methods are, you know? How they think, how they reason, what makes them different from other people.

I agree with you to a point. I agree that these are both evil, evil people. But I'd like to know why they choose certain actions over others, why they behave the way they do, what brought them to the point they are at. I'm curious. That doesn't mean that I condone their behavior.

And the fact is, they are historical figures. Just because we don't like our history, doesn't mean we get to deny that they have had HUGE impacts.

Oh no, I DO know about them. It just doesn't make them any less interesting to me. In fact, they're interesting because they are twisted. What's the fun in learning about something that's every-day normal? Think about it. If you were really into psychology, would you rather study someone who is as "normal" as they come, or someone who has odd habits, hang-ups, and strange behaviors?

Finally, another snake lover! My family thinks I'm nuts. I don't have much interest in owning them, though. I prefer cuddly animals, like cats. I had a baby black rat snake for a little while, but my cats were giving it a complex. They liked to sit outside its container and bat at the plastic, so I set it loose.

Well, not all of us were born in Cuba or lived under his regime. I'm not going to apologize for having an interest in psychology and sociology and how people reason and justify their actions. It's interesting to me. Sue me.

Look, whatever you may think, it's an interesting situation from a psychological standpoint. Wouldn't you ever want to have the opportunity to go up to historical figures and figure out their reasoning, ask them why they do things, get their outlook on certain things? It doesn't mean that you AGREE with them, for Pete's sake. It just means that you are curious. Seriously, consider it like watching a documentary. You don't watch documentaries on the Holocaust because you actually ENJOY seeing people massacred, burned in ovens, gassed. You do it because it's a learning experience.

I really don't care, to be honest. Hell, I'd probably go meet him. too. Whatever you may think about him, he'd be an incredibly interesting person to interview and do a little "mind-picking," just for the sake of doing it.

Wow, this is a surprisingly hard question. I love the east coast. I fell completely in love with Cape Cod when I interned on it in 2004, so if I could live there, I'd definitely pick Massachusetts. Of course, I loved the Cheseapeake Bay area, too, so I could easily live in Virginia or Maryland (as long as I lived on the Bay). The Everglades are great, so I could live in Florida, too. Again, as long as it was coastal. I don't feel a huge draw to the west coast, honestly. There are a few places I'd like to visit, but I don't know about living there. I'm more drawn to to certain areas of certain states, and I'd be quite likely to completely refuse to live in a state if I couldn't live in that area. Take Florida, for example. Unless I can live in a coastal area, forget about it.

Sadly, very true.

Well, I would have liked to keep it a secret from people, with only my closest relatives knowing. Unfortunately, my parents decided that they had the right to tell anyone and everyone about the surgery, so now the whole family knows, along with many of my parents' clients and friends.