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Meme concept courtesy of

toy_dragon.

Name one ideology, belief, idea, concept, or theory that you personally just cannot "get" and copy this to your own journal. This has nothing to do with whether you respect it or not, approve or not, agree or disagree, admire or loath it. So the point here isn't to inspire a rant about something (at least, not too much) - just to point out something you fundamentally cannot grasp. In short, a thing that just doesn't work for you in the brain stem. (For example, a heterosexual person who is entirely fine with homosexuality may not personally comprehend what it feels like to be homosexual because, well, they're not.)

My first response to this was "football as a religion" which certainly has bugged me for all of my adult life, but it's very American and parochial.

Something else I've never been able to grasp. Chocolate. I am utterly immune to the sighs and moanings of pleasure, the cravings, the need, the whatever-it-is that seems to create chocophilia and chocomania in most of the population. So, it's chocolate. So? It's OK, but nothing that exciting. It certainly doesn't assuage feelings of hurt, or make me feel wanted or loved, or anything else that I crave. I'm not likely to bother even to go into the next room to get some, let alone travel halfway across the state or send away by mail with my hard-earned cash for some overpriced bit of fat and sugar.

This applies to all forms of chocolate: chocolate chip cookies are one that I encounter frequently. Everyone else finds them irresistible, while I'd usually prefer any other kind of cookie over those.

Interestingly, I've asked many chocolate addicts to explain it to me, and listened patiently to their ravings. But that's all they are to me, ravings. Nothing coherent has come of it, and I'm still utterly in the dark with respect to the brown sticky stuff.