Ambrose2007 Forum Posts (8,881)

RE: Pretending Who You Are Not!

Wading through that tangled morass of words, I *believe* you're complaining about people setting age ranges that exclude reasonable possibilities...or perhaps that older people should be more open to those of their own age...? In any case, where does the "pretending" come in (that they are pretending they belong with someone younger?)...?

RE: Pretending Who You Are Not!

RE: Atlas Shrugged

Kind of sounds like our mayor. Without him, the whole government would simply collapse on itself.

I'm surprised you're a fan of AS. I wouldn't have expected that.

RE: Why do women wear high heels

T, that's a terrible (but true) thing to say!

RE: Why do women wear high heels

Do you want me to put on my makeup and wig again, Lushy?

Seriously, I do know what you mean. Boredom with faces is one reason I like to change things up now and again...

RE: WE MUST BECOME AWARE!!

I've found pure Vitamin C in crystal form to be HIGHLY effective in treating and preventing colds (I don't find the usual pill form effective at all).

RE: Why do women wear high heels

High heels aren't solely for women!

RE: awwww Bodleing has to have an operation......

What happened, Trish? Did he fall off a cliff again?

Anyhow, I wish him the very best!

RE: Can you love somebody so much that it hurts?

Next thing, Gozo, you'll be saying something like, "Don't worry, be happy!"

RE: Can you love somebody so much that it hurts?

Well, that's a pretty damn good possible counterexample to what I've been saying, Mystical. I've experienced that a lot of late myself - feeling overwhelmed by what seem purely like good emotions...the kind of feeling an Olympic athlete has when he or she cries upon winning a medal, or the way I bawled like a baby when I win $5 with lottery ticket...

So what really is going on when we cry out of apparent happiness? Very interesting question...and for once I'm at a loss for words.. (For those who feel they must comment on that.)

RE: If a woman lies...

Hmmmm...well, granted the man would likely have a very difficult time proving conclusively that a woman indulged in such perfidy (of course that would be theoretically possible). So the interesting question is what we think would be right *given* that we know the woman committed the subterfuge specified in the hypothetical. I think that was the OP's intention, but one never knows. That's how I took it anyhow.

RE: If a woman lies...

Right...well, I thought you meant that. But I'm only interested in the moral. That comes from being so morally upstanding, Laura.

RE: If a woman lies...

Sure, it's a fact (that is, the claims are either factual or non-factual). We may just not know which is the case. The hypothetical in question specifies that the lady lied. That we, as third-person observers, may not know the truth doesn't alter the hypothetical.

If I'm understanding you correctly, Laura.

RE: Can you love somebody so much that it hurts?

She is puzzled, and asked a question pertaining to what she was feeling. She wondered if it was possible for love, in sufficient intensities, to cause pain.

I don't think there's any reason to believe that love, per se, causes pain. If love causes pain, then why not every benevolent emotion, such as affection or like or even bliss? Perhaps one can be blissfully depressed or joyously unhappy? Perhaps pleasure itself can be painful?

Yet a deeper issue lurks beneath this discussion of love - namely, its origins: Why do we love? One could reasonably speculate, I think, that all our emotions are tied evolutionarily to survival. Clearly lower animals care about their progeny because it allows their species to survive. Affection aids in cooperation and health in an animal community. But beyond that, it is likely that the uniquely intense human variation of attachment - love - is fundamentally a response to discomfort...to wit, the discomfort we have in the presence of uncertainty and our own mortality.

If this is true, then one could argue that love has its genesis in a kind of pain, but that doesn't demonstrate that it is inherently painful itself....

RE: Darwin's Theory of Evolution

RE: If a woman lies...

Why is pointing out the fact that someone lied "manipulative"? I have a feeling I'm misunderstanding you, Laura (as usual ).

RE: Do you ladies beileve in soul mates.................

Ah, Y, but who says a soul mate wouldn't require work (and lots of it!).

RE: WHO'S SMARTER?

The guy, because wine is good for you (in moderate amounts)...?

RE: Body language! how can we read minds of people, how to get know about them from their body language

Hi, Hugsy!

You know, sometimes the depths of my perceptive ability to read people's body language confounds and astounds me.

RE: Body language! how can we read minds of people, how to get know about them from their body language

For me, it's usually the fingers. When the index finger and ring finger are curled inward and the middle finger is held straight - then turned in my direction - I can literally sense the individual's disgust for me.

RE: Can you love somebody so much that it hurts?

That's my girl!

RE: Can you love somebody so much that it hurts?

My hypothesis was that she simply hadn't analyzed deeply enough into the subject...?

RE: Can you love somebody so much that it hurts?

"It is"? I asked *two* questions, L.

But I think you're saying the love itself hurts. Why should an intense feeling hurt in itself, unless there's something inherently unpleasant about it (e.g., intensely enjoying a ski run as opposed to intensely disliking root canal surgery). So what's inherently unpleasant about the sensation of love (or is feeling another person from the inside out unpleasant? Certainly doesn't sound particularly sanitary )

RE: Can you love somebody so much that it hurts?

Thanks, T. I can only hope Laura will consider it wonderful as well.

RE: Can you love somebody so much that it hurts?

Ah, you're so adorable and wonderful and charming when you're pointing out my sycophancy, Alison!

RE: Can you love somebody so much that it hurts?

But it's not the love *itself* which hurts, is it, Laura? It's what's happening between you and the person you love, right?

RE: Can you love somebody so much that it hurts?

One of MANY of your appeals, Alison.

RE: Can you love somebody so much that it hurts?

Okay, Sommer. Explanation received and acknowledged and appreciated.

I would like to believe that my lady feels something of what you're describing...though perhaps not while driving.

RE: Can you love somebody so much that it hurts?

Thanks, Dru. I can only hope a certain someone has heard my heart-throbbing scream of loneliness and will agree to see me more often, before my convulsing arms turn on myself...

RE: Can you love somebody so much that it hurts?

Its sometime's hard to say about such thing's, Alison.

Great job, my friend!