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WCDT 2081-85 (Christmas Week - Dec. 19-23, 2011)
snubnose:
Good comic ! :)
Todays poll is problematic, i.e. the answer options are way incomplete.
I would say "they love you back" and "they show interest in you" are essential, otherwise there is no love there and it wont last anyway. A true lover will stand by your side, and if you're a true lover yourself, you'll want to do so with your partner, too. That includes showing interest in the other person. Sharing interests will make a partnership much more beneficial, too.
Aside from love itself, they also need to have the same basic lifegoals as you. People who are ambitious wont harmonize with a common slob. People who view moneymaking as a great way to spend your life wont harmonize a lot with people who seek for knowledge. I choose "worldview" as the closest match instead, but its really hardly the same.
Fourth thing is they are, well, how to put it ? Satisfying enough as a sexual partner. If there is no sexual tension between people, it will "only" be a friendship, not a partnership. There are several options which address this issue a bit - maybe "They're good looking." gets closest, or "Great in bed.", but of course neither is really true, because beautiful people can fall in love with ugly people. I would guess "They can turn me on." would be a rather precise description.
Soulsynger:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 22 Dec 2011, 01:46 ---Fourth thing is they are, well, how to put it ? Satisfying enough as a sexual partner. If there is no sexual tension between people, it will "only" be a friendship, not a partnership. There are several options which address this issue a bit - maybe "They're good looking." gets closest, or "Great in bed.", but of course neither is really true, because beautiful people can fall in love with ugly people. I would guess "They can turn me on." would be a rather precise description.
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Jesus, talk about distillating things down. Well done, Sir. My hat to you.
Way incomplete poll is thought-provoking. °O
NotAwesomeAnymore:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 22 Dec 2011, 01:46 ---Aside from love itself, they also need to have the same basic lifegoals as you. People who are ambitious wont harmonize with a common slob. People who view moneymaking as a great way to spend your life wont harmonize a lot with people who seek for knowledge. I choose "worldview" as the closest match instead, but its really hardly the same.
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Whaaaaaat. You can't just say that. What do "ambitious" and "common slob" even mean? A person who enjoys a relaxing job which allows them to pursue their hobbies isn't necessarily considered ambitious, but I don't see how that makes them incompatible with an ambitious person. Ambitious people are competitive. Have you ever had to compete with your partner so you felt worthy of dating them? It suuuuuuucks.
It's counter-intuitive for an ambitious person to date a relaxed person, since it sounds a bit like dating someone "worse" than you to feel happy. However, it's not about being better or worse, it's about the fact that the relaxed person doesn't care, and nullifies the competition - nobody feels insecure or needs to make the other feel bad. I'm not in favour of one pairing over another, just offering another perspective.
--- Quote --- beautiful people can fall in love with ugly people
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I think ambition, money and knowledge are almost as superficial qualities as beauty when it comes to romance.
AnAverageWriter:
A thought about the "breathing" option in the poll...
Does one have to still breathe to maintain that those around me who loved me still do?
An eternal love, built over a lifetime... does it end when one dies? Surely the memories may fade away, but does not one still love the deceased, still have the person in one's mind?
Must one still breathe in order to be held in regards?
When I moulder away after my final hours, that is a fear I hold- to be forgotten, to drift into whatever bleak blackness awaits me, what hell I should endure eternally if I have a soul to be damned, without the prospect of being remembered when I'm gone.
When I cease to breathe, the life I left behind, does it still maintain, or does the world where I lived simply disregard, forget me and continue its clockwork cycle?
Are we gears, to turn, fail, be replaced, tossed aside and forgotten?
Graves of the forgotten I often see- lives that slipped away and now bear weeds...
pwhodges:
--- Quote from: snubnose on 22 Dec 2011, 01:46 ---Aside from love itself, they also need to have the same basic lifegoals as you. People who are ambitious wont harmonize with a common slob. People who view moneymaking as a great way to spend your life wont harmonize a lot with people who seek for knowledge. I choose "worldview" as the closest match instead, but its really hardly the same.
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Without picking out the particular reason, it appears that from your perspective my 18-year-long marriage is doomed. (My first marriage would have seemed more compatible to you - that did indeed make it to 22 years, but then fell apart.)
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