When I am at the gym, I just want to think about health. I
just want to talk shop, and shop would mean things that pertain to picking
things up and putting them down enough times to build muscle. I may like to
dally in the idea of what I am going to eat, and what supplements we think is
best, but that is about all that I need to deal with when I am in my happy
place. You see because when I am in my happy place I don’t want to talk about
the things that aren’t relative to the happy place like politics, religion or
morality. These are not happy place subjects’ folks, and what is worse than
that I happen to be a self righteous jerk, so I can only stand pestering by an
idiot for so long. This was a day that started to look unsalvageable, but I
will explain further.
There are very few people at the gym that know I even have
political, religious or moral views, and unfortunately my big mouth is the only
reasons a few do. On a brighter note the average gym enthusiast is a lot harder
to find than you would think. Sure we all have our groups on the internet that
hang out and talk shop, but that is global in scale, and the average gym will
only have one or two people that always seem to be there. I am one of the two
where I work out, and the idiots that want to argue politics, religion and
morality are not. Of course that doesn’t mean that the average pain in my ass
doesn’t run into me once or twice a year either, and here was one of those
days. He was locked and loaded for argument from the moment he walked in.
Now despite what most people might think of me I have NEVER
allowed politics, religion or morality to end a friendship, or even stew in
myself for more than a hour, maybe two if it was that bad. Life is too short,
and there are enough people in this world who completely disagree with me that
are fine people. Then of course there are very few who are not, but I still don’t
waste my time hating on them. This one person in particular, I haven’t seen in
at least six months and they must have spent that entire time thinking up what
they were going to say to me the next time they saw me, but of course doesn’t
have their facts straight when dealing with me. “So what do you think about that
person in jail in Kentucky who wouldn’t issue marriage licenses to gay people?”
Of all the subjects in the world that people have always
tried to pin me down on I really hate the gay marriage one. Why? Simply because
I have never been against gay marriage. I have told everyone this but when they
have their brain in the fog they always assume that I hate the issue, when all
I hate are the people who won’t get over it. Without getting to crazy, I
explained to the idiot that the woman should have been fired because moral
issue or not, if she couldn’t do what is her actual job because of a moral
issue then she should find another job. I actually said that the Massachusetts Supreme
Court had committed a crime by making gay marriage legal and then holding their
judgment for 3 months so the Mass. Congress could create a new law. Once the
MSC proclaimed gay marriage legal it was legal, and not up for a “holding”
period. I have never wavered on what is and is not legal.
The problem now is that because I didn’t give the person the
argument that they had come to me for, they were obligated to start hunting for
one. I really hate that. His favorite at that point is to go straight after abortion,
because I am pro-life. He’s one of those atheists that demands Christians admit
they are wrong about things. Anything actually, it doesn’t matter; he just
wants me to be wrong. I’ve had these arguments before and it isn’t worth it,
his religion of atheism is (faith is faith folks) gets really bothersome so I
tried to blow him off. This of course means he is right, and he started
celebrating this. Well until someone else decided to step in and continue the
argument.
I’ll long story short this one too, but the other friend was
quite disdainful of the whole topic, and came right out and asked the associate
that started all the arguments, why morality is something that only the religious
seem to have in his eyes? That really enraged the first person who started in
on the whole “your God, your God,” thing. The other person pointed out that he
too was an atheist but was also pro-life, because wrong is wrong. Again that
made the person crazy, and he started arguing that he had to be a “God freak”
to think that way. I completely stayed out of it, but the second person managed
to argue how the Ten Commandments didn’t affect either of their lives, murder
is murder (the second one is a vegan too from what I gathered) and that if the
first one equated all morality to be something that “Cults” are into, then he
would rather be in a “Cult” than in his world.
I had a good workout, and I have a feeling I won’t have to
see that idiot again for a while. I guess the day was salvageable.
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