Is it normal i'm getting sick of accommodating other's beliefs?

I'm really beyond tired of accommodating the beliefs of others and I never get the same respect in return.

This is a good example: I don't use clocks or calendars, dates and days of the week mean nothing to me, yet I am constantly pushed to recognize this system. As if it's some sort of indisputable fact! If I try to state my beliefs people scoff at me. The nerve of them! I will usually be willing to consult a timepiece and a calendar to accommodate for these people and they can't even be bothered to take my beliefs seriously because it's too hard for their little brainwashed minds can handle. I get a lot of hostility. "What do you mean it's not Tuesday? The calendar says it's Tuesday, everyone else agrees that it's Tuesday, so it's Tuesday. You're an idiot." Well I disagree, and I'm NOT an idiot.

I have more issues regarding my beliefs but this is one that comes up a lot. Due to my beliefs, I think I get treated worse than a red-headed step child, as the saying goes.

IIN? I'm about ready to stop accommodating anyone anymore.

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  • 1000yrVampireKing

    It is not beliefs it is a measurement of time. You may not realize this but people use things called schedules. These are meant to keep people on track. If someone says "I need this in four days" they expect it in four days. You can not get upset because no one wants to live off schedule like you. So you are being the unreasonable one. I was ready to comment and agree with your post. Till I read the entire post and saw how idiotic it was. What do you expect us to do? People do everything on measurements of times including measuring age. So kids who are 2 can not drink. Assuming everyone is 18 means 2 year olds can smoke, drink, have sex. So how do we measure when something is a crime against children? We say "We have no idea so let it slide". Invent a system and make us change all our schedules and arrangements to your time. Wait never mind now we have to follow your beliefs. How very open minded of you. The world does not revolve around you. Figure it out.

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    • Wow, you don't get it at all. Just...nevermind.

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      • Charmo

        If we don't get it, then please, explain it. Or do you think it's too much for our "little brainwashed minds to handle" and only non-conformists like yourself, that challenge the status quo by refusing to use a system of time measurement that actually works and makes sense, are able understand the great depth of reasoning behind your shortsighted beliefs?

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        • It doesn't "make sense". What is Tuesday? It's nothing. It's a belief, it's an illusion that one day is different than any other day...that a Wednesday is fundamentally different than a Saturday. A week is a belief as well as it follows no natural cycle.

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          • Charmo

            Others have already explained the advantages of having a unified system of time measurement, (and, of course, you conveniently ignored them), but allow me to add a few more things for you not to consider while you cling to your irrational beliefs of non-conformism: First, some units of time ARE based on nature. A day is equal to the amount of time it takes for the Earth to complete one full rotation and a year is equal to the amount of time it takes for the Earth to complete one full orbit around the Sun (Months are also roughly related to the amount of time it takes for the Moon to go through all its phases). However, using only these two things to measure time would be extremely inefficient because not only are they are vastly different in length (thus making any measurement between the two difficult), but measuring less than one day would also be unnecessarily hard. For example, which is easier to say: "Meet me at 37 48ths of the way into the day", or "meet me at 6:30PM"? Or, "America declared Independence 185 days into that year 237 years ago" or "America declared independence on July 4th, 1776"? Thus, as with any other measurement system, it is further divided up into smaller and larger parts, hence why we have weeks and hours and centuries.
            Now, why are days and months labelled? For the same reason, to make things easier for us. Months are cyclical (There are always twelve months each year), as are days with regards to weeks. Thus, it is easier for people, (particularly those that aren't so comfortable with numbers), to remember names instead of all these numbers, like "July 4" as opposed to "the fourth day of the seventh month." As well, having weekly cycles are convenient for scheduling purposes. Instead of working on "the second and fourth days of each week," one can say "I work Mondays and Wednesdays."
            Now, you point out that these things are not "natural" and were just arbitrarily decided by humans to have some meaning to us when they hold no meaning by themselves: To that I say: So what? How does that fact in and of itself justify your "belief"? It doesn't discount anything that I've brought up here (about the convenience of smaller denominations and labels) nor things others have brought up (about convenience of having a unified time measurement system). So not only have you not addressed the pros that I and others have brought up, you have yet to provide even one rational reason for not using this system.
            And before you say that your reasoning in and of itself is sound, consider this: If you don't "believe" in thing that aren't "natural" and were just given meanings by humans, why are you using words to communicate with me? They aren't natural, and they were only given meaning by humans. You called that circular object that other humans use to measure time a "clock". Why is it a "clock"? How did you decide that it was called a "clock"? And what if I decided it was a woozle-wozzle? And Bob over there decided it was a yabba-dabba doo? And everyone else had there own word for that object? It would probably be pretty damn difficult to communicate with others if we just rejected the "belief" that it was called a clock and came up with our own words to call it by, wouldn't you agree? Sure, I could could get by with using woozle-wozzle by just describing the object I meant whenever I used that word, but rather than acting like an immature little punk that thinks he's being a rebel by rejecting society's "belief" on what that object should be called while ignoring basic logic and common sense, wouldn't it be easier to just call it a clock?

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  • Charmo

    It depends on the belief. If, for example, it was completely ridiculous and illogical and that belief was held for as immature a reason as being non-conformist for the sake of being non-conformist while ignoring the fact that their belief is demonstrably anti-progressive, then yeah, I'd probably have a hard time tolerating it too.

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  • iheartu2013

    Time is something we measure so that we ca keep a schedule. Unfortunately we can't do what we want whenever we want.we call certain times names, like Tuesday, so everyone can identify them. Time gives us control and order in a chaotic world.

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  • DavidS.

    I think if you calmly and logically expressed your opinion many people might understand it better ...its like taxes...we might not believe in them...but we still have to pay them...

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  • Maya05

    I find people give me shit whenever I try to bring up an alternative way of thinking to or just questioning something that is universally accepted. Most people are ignorant towards alternative thinking. Although having a universal system for things does make things easier. Say for example. If everyone had their own idea of how to keep time and dates, then no one would be able to coordinate anything with anyone. What I hate about things like time, most people assume it is something that has always been the way we perseve it and the rest of the entire universe obviously thinks the same way and if they don't they are dumb. I apologize if what I said didn't make sense or went off topic. I'm tired as hell and really just rambling on now.

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    • thunderh89

      Exactly, there are (or more appropriately, were) cultures that figured their calenders off the moon, not the sun as we do now. Sept-Dec each were the actual 7-10 months of the year (hence the "sept" "oct" "nov" and "dec" prefixes) and when Jan and Feb were added to our current system, they didn't rename those months to accommodate. Heck, if you read some old stuff (like the Bible) you'll get really confused about calendars.

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  • You dumb.

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