Are you a robot or an alien?
You are either an alien or a robot. Live as an outsider with real thoughts and opinions, or live as an automaton, like everyone else.
Are you a robot or an alien? Does that seem black and white? A li’l simplistic or abstract? Let me explain. You see, we are living in a world of “tolerance,” where we are told to not be judgmental, offensive, or opinionated. There are no absolutes, right? We wouldn’t want people to be offended, feel alienated, would we? So we have accepted this mediocre life where if we keep our lips shut and don’t voice our opinions, everything is just fine and dandy.
Intolerant, judgmental, opinionated. If you’ve spoken these words, you are likely a robot. If you think that statement was judgmental, intolerant, or opinionated: you are a robot. Aliens have opinions and understand that other aliens have opinions. They understand that words -- honest words -- when spoken, will offend someone, somewhere. That is what the robots preach as their reason to not voice an opinion in the first place, but aliens embrace that. Sure, they don’t go out seeking to offend; they just understand that someone may be offended, and choose to voice themselves nonetheless.
That’s not to say that aliens are “open-minded.” Oft times, aliens don’t necessarily accept other opinions, but at least listen and respect opinions that are different from their own. One opinion -- like “Jesus Christ is the only way to Heaven” -- may alienate other opinions and claim other opinions as incorrect or wrong. Does this make them intolerant? No, not necessarily. If they respect the opinions of others, no. If they do not respect other opinions, they are a robot, not an alien. But doesn’t respect include allowing other opinions to be true? No, not at all! See, aliens allow the possibility of an absolute. If absolutes exist, aliens cannot believe their absolute and the absolute of another opinion that contradicts their own. This is the law of contradiction. Something cannot be true and false at the same time. If you believe that there are no absolutes, you are a robot.
So robots are not “open-minded,” as they claim to be? They are not “tolerant”? Absolutely correct, you are! To be “open-minded” or “tolerant,” you must allow other people to have opinions -- even if they say that your opinion, or lack thereof, is wrong. Robots are close-minded and intolerant of anything that stands against their “norm”, yet they claim that they are the opposite.
But not all robots are the same. There are those, like certain Christians, that stand against other robots that are very much automatons. They follow their way, and speak their way amongst each other, but are highly intolerant of other opinions. They don’t associate with others, robots or aliens, that don’t agree with them. They don’t respect the rights of others to have opposing opinions. They are robots.
And there are aliens that sometimes slip into automaton-like thought, or lack thereof, and disallow others to voice their opinions against their own. This is seen heavily in the art/design industry. This is pride more than intolerance. Their ego is too great to take criticism. If they don’t watch themselves, they will become robots.
I’m an alien. I accepted a long time ago that opinions offend, but I’d rather voice my opinions than just live my life like everyone else. I am different from the world, some would say that I am against the world. I embrace the differences and the opinions of others, and love them more for these things that make us unique. I speak when I want to, and I don’t sugar coat or apologize for my opinions. People are, often, offended by what I say, and I’m okay with that. Which are you? Are you a robot, or are you an alien?