{"id":252,"date":"2006-07-01T17:24:31","date_gmt":"2006-07-01T06:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/07\/01\/im-a-self-hater-and-i-can-prove-it\/"},"modified":"2006-07-01T17:24:31","modified_gmt":"2006-07-01T06:24:31","slug":"im-a-self-hater-and-i-can-prove-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/07\/01\/im-a-self-hater-and-i-can-prove-it\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a Self-Hater, and I Can Prove It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was late one night, and I was tired. I was brushing my teeth, looking at myself in the mirror, and pondering my life.<\/p>\n<p>I have lived in a few cities, and I wondered if my current friends in Sydney would get on well with the friends I left behind in the last city.<\/p>\n<p>After a bit of consideration, I concluded that I didn&#8217;t know &#8211; I couldn&#8217;t predict their likes and dislikes accurately enough.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, it was that very unpredictability that was part of what made my friends interesting. If I could accurately predict what someone would like and dislike, that would make them too dull and predictable. I would not like such a person.<\/p>\n<p><em>But,<\/em> I heard my inner monologue interrupt, <em>What about yourself? You just made a prediction about what you like and dislike. By your own argument, that makes you dull and predictable. Therefore, you don&#8217;t like yourself. Q.E.D.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I stared in the mirror for a bit longer, but try as I might, I couldn&#8217;t find a flaw in the argument. I decided it was time to go to bed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late one night, I pondered my life, logically.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t much like what I proved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,41,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-based-on-a-true-story","category-story-telling","category-thoughts-from-the-shower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}