trapical Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 June 13th, 2007 ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Ãâ About Love. Day 7 The Lion KingÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢s Can You Feel the Love Tonight is a masterpiece. Most of us are too old to realize the political impact this film had when it came out (you would have to be like 30 right now). In one of my globalization classes we watched a news report from 1994, a month after the movie came out. While most of us were like 7 and simply enjoyed the lions, this film was translated to nearly 50 languages and distributed around the world. It had a profound social-cultural impact on many parts of the world, especially in Asia. The most interesting part I recall was a clip of several weddings around the world, ranging from France, to Korea, to Pakistan. The couples that had just been married were dancing to this song. Indeed there is something powerful about the song, and the theme of love itself. At a wedding I was working at last weekend, this song was played. In the middle of the song I looked over and saw the couple kissing, and then I could think of nothing else but the girl I mentioned in Day 2. I felt more than sadness and couldnÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ã¢ââ¬Å¾Ã¢t focus on my job until the song had ended. What is it about love that can make a man weak at the knees? What else has the power to compel a man to say ÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâ¦Ã¢â¬ÅKill me insteadÃÆââââ¬Å¡Ã¬Ãâà Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lymnli Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 nice work i am loving the topics! FIrst postie! "The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic." -Joseph Stalin <(--=\\ CHAMILITARY MAYNE //=--)> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkpoet837 Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 wow...i would almost have to disagree...my first and only girlfriend (we have been dating for over a year now) started as a friend. I can see what you are talking about though, just not all girls are the same way. Guise it all depends on who you are talking about. Although it did help, at the time we met, I was not looking for a girlfriend, and she was not looking for a boyfriend. But good insites anyway, and an overall good read. =D> [hide]Come, be my light.Mingle with my darknessMay we mix to createOur own twilight sunsetThe dusk breezeSpreading cloudsOn our murky horizon~Darkpoet837~[/hide] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Make7upu101 Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 Could you have made Tom-Sarah-Jim story any sadder? A little cheesy but still I have to admit I kept reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocketman089 Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 Eh, it's not totally hopeless when you're the friend. My longest relationship (8 months) started out as a real good friendship. Me and this girl met on a trip, and after a few weeks of talking online and on the phone, we decided to meet back up at the mall. I thought it'd go one way, but it turns out I was solid in the "friends zone". Took quite a few months for the relationship to change into a romantic one, and I'm still not exactly sure why it changed, but it goes to show that you can go from friend to boyfriend. I really like your chart, explains so much in so little :). Gamertag: King Arizona Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsavi Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 Wow. Those diagrams explain so much... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
____ Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 Hah, funny this should be the topic so soon after I just stumbled myself :P Working the camping show and such, there was this cute security chick at the gate i entered at. 5 days later after a few short chats before i started my shift I asked her to dinner - and I could've sworn I had it covered, she agreed and all. But then about an hour later out fell the "congratulations rick, you're my first male friend" a bit confused i'm all "joking right?" and she's "nah... my girlfriend and I have only ever had female friends" *pause* "fair enough..." *mutual laughs* Slightly disapointed but what can you do aye. Ironically, my longest relationship resulted with a female who i only saw in classes but never really socialized with. Bit of the Jim factor there, but more to it. Kind of a "friend of a friend" deal happening, where any interaction we had was when a mutual friend was in the fray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
InkofDeath Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 Those diagrams explain some things, but not all. =/ there's something missing in them. This topic gave some insight on why females act so funny lmao. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsavi Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 Those diagrams explain some things, but not all. =/ there's something missing in them. This topic gave some insight on why females act so funny lmao. Of course not all, it'll never be that way, never has... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death_By_Pod Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 How is this any different to ladder theory, you know that was a joke right? Your description of it is fairly flawed as well, if a woman can go from friendship to hating someone, then there is no reason why it can't go from friendship to romantic relationship. But what would I expect from someone from a guy who self admits that he was jealous about not dating girls in high school. It's fairly common that people go from friendship to romantic relationship, I have no idea why you think otherwise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assassin_696 Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 God I can relate to so many of these stories. I have to admit, my last girlfriend was a good friend for a very long time, it's just she was already going out with someone. Although that all kind of ended messily, which might have been why. I suppose you're right though, once a guy befriends your average girl she's less likely to want to go out with him. Another great read though, love's definitely a driving force in nearly all humans. I suppose if it was simple it wouldn't be as fun and rewarding when you find it. "Da mihi castitatem et continentam, sed noli modo" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xvillexvalox Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 Those diagrams explain alot... :lol: I'll always be the first to admit, I always get stuck as being the best freind forever. :wall: So far, this is my favorite of your 7 posts. : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 I agree with your thought that girls don't want to date guys who befriend them considering its always hard to stay friends after you've broken up. Well that's how it was for me, but as we all known teen relationships don't follow the "norm" always so that could be dismissed in many circumstances. By the way I liked this thread. Well written. :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lovelydude Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 Very insightful post Trapical. I completely agree with the diagram of male relationships. I can lose interest in starting a "special" relationship with a girl I've known for ages based on a certain event, however I can also find myself infatuated with a best friend. I never look at an attractive girl who I don't know and invision a relationship; Only other kinds of thoughts. :oops: Thanks for the insight, I enjoyed the read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sumpta Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 Those diagrams had me in stitches. So true! I've seen many guys try to pull the routine on me of becoming friends and then 'suddenly' wanting more, scaring the hell out of me. It's best to at least show you have something more in mind, even if you don't say it outright. Best not to say it outright, it shouldn't be too easy. It's also very true you can see when people belong together, really love each other or have the potential to become a strong couple. There's this kind of energy between them, it's almost tangible. It makes me all giddy to see this between people who aren't together yet, but you know that there's just no way they won't end up together. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlanders Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 Weird, I'm a lot more like the girl branch than the boy branch. I'm not interested in making friendships with people I want to have a relationship with. I just skip that and go strait to trying to make a relationship. 2480+ total Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim_Jokes Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 I have my doubts about love. I think it's something shoved down our throat to keep monogamy going in society. Humans are animals. There are only 4 things we need. Food, Water, Sex, shelter. Anything else is there because we want it to. Proud founder of the Myriad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlanders Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 I have my doubts about love. I think it's something shoved down our throat to keep monogamy going in society. Humans are animals. There are only 4 things we need. Food, Water, Sex, shelter. Anything else is there because we want it to. The whole point is to gain happiness. A relationship can make one lastingly happy. A one night-stand is merely physical pleasure, no happiness involved. 2480+ total Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim_Jokes Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 I have my doubts about love. I think it's something shoved down our throat to keep monogamy going in society. Humans are animals. There are only 4 things we need. Food, Water, Sex, shelter. Anything else is there because we want it to. The whole point is to gain happiness. A relationship can make one lastingly happy. A one night-stand is merely physical pleasure, no happiness involved. Again, that's trivial. If we were raised to 'love' one-night-stands then what? The whole idea of love is still being shoved down our throats, especially by the media and religion. You love somebody? Get married. You love somebody? Be with them forever. When in fact, we're animals, and the whole point is to spread our seeds as much as we can. Proud founder of the Myriad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satenza Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 No it's not. Love may be different for everyone, it's subjective. What you consider love i may not consider to be love and vice versa. With so many trees in the city you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind would bring it suddenly in one morning. Sometimes the heavy cold rains would beat it back so that it would seem that it would never come and that you were losing a season out of your life. But you knew that there would always be the spring as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason. In those days though the spring always came finally but it was frightening that it had nearly failed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim_Jokes Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 No it's not. Love may be different for everyone, it's subjective. What you consider love i may not consider to be love and vice versa. Every god damn thing is subjective. But love is something to do with happiness. You know.. doing whatever it takes to make said person happy? What's your idea of love then? Proud founder of the Myriad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Satenza Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 No it's not. Love may be different for everyone, it's subjective. What you consider love i may not consider to be love and vice versa. Every god damn thing is subject. But love is something to do with happiness. You know.. doing whatever it takes to make said person happy? Not everything is subjective... That maybe your idea of love "doing whatever to make said person happy". So why do you doubt that it is not love? Or doubt that your conclusion is correct for you? If you do doubt that your conclusion is not love then you would not have called it love. So obviously love exists for you. With so many trees in the city you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind would bring it suddenly in one morning. Sometimes the heavy cold rains would beat it back so that it would seem that it would never come and that you were losing a season out of your life. But you knew that there would always be the spring as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason. In those days though the spring always came finally but it was frightening that it had nearly failed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grim_Jokes Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 No it's not. Love may be different for everyone, it's subjective. What you consider love i may not consider to be love and vice versa. Every god damn thing is subject. But love is something to do with happiness. You know.. doing whatever it takes to make said person happy? Not everything is subjective... That maybe your idea of love "doing whatever to make said person happy". So why do you doubt that it is not love? Or doubt that your conclusion is correct for you? If you do doubt that your conclusion is not love then you would not have called it love. So obviously love exists for you. Everything is subjective, however. But let's not digress. And as I've said. I'm using the love that's being shoved down my throat. We aren't meant to be with just one person forever. Why do you think people cheat? They don't do without a reason. The whole idea of dating is pretty [bleep]ing retarted, but again, not the point. If we were raised to just have sex, love never ever even mentioned. Do you think we'd still have relationships? Marriages? Divorces? Think outside of society for a minute. Think into the real world. The animals. Do they love? No. The strongest reproduces with many females while the weak one dies. Proud founder of the Myriad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Striker6 Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 Poor Tom :cry: Think about it, women call us insensitive when they really have no [bleep]ing idea of what the [bleep] is going on really? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nadril Posted June 13, 2007 Share Posted June 13, 2007 I can relate to this post a lot. I was the guy who would end up trying to get to know someone first and then end up being too late. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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