Sorry, everybody, to rain on your parade, but I'm officially showing the red card to the phrase "walking contradiction" in your profiles. For quite a while now, it's been hovering at the level of something self-important and/or somewhat cheesy that people who harbour delusions about the extent of their individuality* say. Now, however, it's become so hackneyed that you'd really be better off removing it altogether.
You should also think about removing similar phrases evoking concepts such as "dichotomy" or "duality". These more highfalutin phrases, which only exacerbate the self-importance problem, are already starting to appear; plus, it's only a matter of time before the flood of people following this advice retreat into these alternative phraseologies, which really just convey the same connotation.
Right. Get to work, people, both with your profiles and with getting realistic about your "mind viruses".
*Not to be a killjoy, but no matter how individualistic any of us are, we ALWAYS get it from somebody else. Please see Richard Dawkins, et al. for more on meme theory.
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