ShortTimer
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Really? Earlier this year I went on a Vegas(babyVegas) trip with about fifteen other people. Because of the group rate we were able to get airfare and rooms for $500 for four nights. Then of course there was the other $500 I brought to spend while in Vegas (I wouldn't let myself gamble). Now I think that was a rather cheap trip, however I don't know about you but $1000 isn't a trivial sum of money to me. Realistically if we had not gotten the group rate things would have cost more, so let's say I would have spent up to $3000 on a Vegas(babyVegas) trip... again maybe that is a trivial sum to you, but it's not to me.Originally posted by iqqi
i guess you just don't know...
it really isn't that hard/expensive/insane/unrealistic to travel.
Why did I focus on your travel comments? Simple, the rest of your "what I want from a man" portion of your post said nothing. That's right NOTHING as in there-was-no-content. Text was on the screen, words were being used, but no ideas were communicated.Originally posted by iqqi
and you are blowing it waaaaay out of context here. and i don't want to have to spell it out. i travel by myself. i said that already. not all traveling blows the bank. and you know what else? that was just one thing i mentioned,
Let's take a sample to see what I mean:
Originally posted by iqqi
i feel like life is a journey. an adventure. take what you can, take what you will, give what you want and what you have.
Could you vague it up for me? In an abstract sense the time between your birth and death could be seen as a journey or adventure, but really this tells me nothing useful. As for all that taking and giving, again it tells me nothing about what you think should be done an ANY concrete terms.
I'll continue:
Originally posted by iqqi
i want to see the world, and become part of it. i want to immerse myself in life, losing myself in it and becoming one with it. that is immortality.
You can lose yourself in opiates pretty well, you may wanna give that a shot.
Ok, seeing the world is a bit more concrete here and that's why I latched on to it. But let's look at the rest: What exactly is "immersing yourself in life" how do you do it and how do you know when you've done it? And in this context what do you mean by "life?" You then talk about "losing yourself" in "it" (I presume the it = life) and become "one with it." Again, what the hell is this supposed to mean? Do you really want to surrender your individuality to something? That's what "losing yourself" in something would entail. The "become one with it" comment seems to mean the same thing as "lose yourself" so I don't know why you wanted to be redundant. What does "immortality" mean to you in this context? Obviously it doesn't mean to literally live forever.
That would be me. I was a Army-brat and saw enough of other places to know that people are the same no matter where you go. All cultures are just variations on a theme, that being the expression of human wants, desires and needs. There's nothing more to it than that. Color me jaded, but nothing surprises me anymore... well almost nothing.Originally posted by iqqi
hell who doesn't want to travel?
Oh no, I've been cyber-rejected. Check your ego, I never said I wanted to be him.Originally posted by iqqi
i am talking about a man whose priorities and sense of adventure and quest for knowlege match my own. obviously you are not him,
The above is exactly what pisses me off about this post. What iqqi has said here is nothing I haven't heard from EVER OTHER FEMALE ON THE PLANET. That old song summed it up best "Girls just wanna have fun" and for them fun would be what JustAlway's post is about. Women have these notions about life, then when they (shock!) aren't met they blame the men and ass-ream their boyfriend/husband and wreck the men's lives thru divorce and what have you.Originally posted by JustDoItAlways
You have every right to be a princess and live in a world with no consequences where fun and excitement is served up on a silver platter every minute of every day.
Henry Higgins' lament of "why can't a woman be more like a man" is dead on target in one respect: men-women relationships would be a lot less painful if most women could learn just a little emotional repression.