Thread: Just Think About It

Thought provoking questions:

1) Do you believe in love? If so name the different types of love. If not then you’re pathetic. Haha. Actually, if you answer no… explain to us why it doesn’t exist.
2) Who was/is the biggest influence of your life?

3) Have you reached any recent goals lately? If so, what?

4) In your opinion, who is/are the most annoying television talk show host(s)?

5) Do you think you should have your own talk show? Who’d be the first person you’d interview? Why?

6) Think back to your childhood. Name something about yourself that was the subject of teasing.

7) Who has it worse in this country gays or illegal immigrants? Why?

Now pick one of the above questions as the subject of your prose or poem.

I believe in three types of love. True love, Romantic love, and Infatuational Love. True love is when you meet your soul mate, the person who completes you. Romantic love is when your in love with a person, though they do not complete you. Infatuational Love (yes I made up a new word) is a more friendship style love. You care for someone deeply, though not in any type of romantic way. Sometimes someone just strikes you are incredibly interesting and you want to spend time and be around that person, which usually leads to friendship. Infatuational Love can lead to Romantic love and vice verse, but neither can become True love, unless you are destined or fated to be with that person. It seems to develop a sort of cycle of love. Since you can go up or down in the different types of love.

Hi, I only see two kinds of love there? Personally, I agree with the two above, and would add the love you feel towards your family and your closest friends as the third one.

In terms of goals I have achieved recently, just passed my exam to be a lifeguard. Had been working on it for a while, and man, it feels good to be done

As for your last question, kind of interesting. I'm not sure. I guess in a sense it depends on what country you are talking about? I live in Canada, and I think that being gay, though of course there will always be challenges, is to a certain degree accepted. Illegal immigration on the other hand, well, they must always be living in fear of being caught? Plus, I think people that take a stand to being gay feel strongly that what they are doing is good (which I definetly agree with). I think that even though illegal immigrants probably do think that what they're doing is right, because it is so frowned upon, they must always be somewhat in doubt. But then again, coming out of the closet is probably not the easiest thing either, and I guess they probably do doubt themselves... Conclusion: Not really sure who has it the worst. Anyone?

Plus, I should probably add that comparing the two is a little weak, since illegal immigrants are doing something ILLEGALLY, while I think gay people are fully entitled to do what they are doing...

5) Do you think you should have your own talk show? Who’d be the first person you’d interview? Why?


No, but if I had one I would love to interview Friedrich Nietzsche, if he wasn't dead. I would like to see what kind of impact he would of had nowadays, what would the media have to say.

Originally Posted by Mira

Plus, I should probably add that comparing the two is a little weak, since illegal immigrants are doing something ILLEGALLY, while I think gay people are fully entitled to do what they are doing...

eh I didn't really form the question in a legality point of view, but hey if that's how you take it then cool.

I believe there is a third type of less emotional love. Actually I found the idea of it interesting and was inspired by a song and the article I read on the story behind it. I am sure most everyone has heard "hey There Dehliah" by Plain White T's. The singer meet a girl name Dehliah and belted out like two lines of the song. She was taken, but encouraged him to finish it. Which he did and its not a top single though no where in the song does he profess any type of love for her, he simply used her as a muse. Which I think is more of my infatuational love, it makes some guys do good things, while others would take it as a inclination to cheat on their spouse.

I don't really think what this singer felt towards Delilah was love... More like, a facination. A physical attraction. Which, in truth, had very little to do with love. I think the concept of a "less emotional love" doesn't really work, because the use of the word love implies that there is strong emotion behind it....

6) How about I try to think of something about me which was (is) not a subject for teasing. Umm. Er. I have the requisite number of limbs.

7) Who has it worse in this country gays or illegal immigrants? Why?
In my opinion, this question is a little ridiculous. In today's society, gays are widely accepted, tolerated, and supported. I and everyone I know put little or no importance on sexualtiy. People love who they love.

Illegal immigrants are desperate, sad people who want a better life for their families. Many come here to work, and they get shit jobs with less than minimum wage. Farm workers in particular, many of which are illegal immigrants, work and live under appalling conditions that include exposure to pesticides, no breaks from work, dirty or little drinking water, inadequate housing, and, as above mentioned, little pay. These people rarely have enough food to keep their families alive; children sacrifice their educations to help support their families, and farm workers are only one example. Think how difficult it must be for anyone without papers to work and be free. I know many illegal people, and they all have trouble keeping jobs and making money to support themselves. I think discrimination against immigrants is horrible and anyone who thinks that someone should stay in a shit country rather than try to make their way in America simply so lazy, slobbish Americans can have the jobs the immigrant might take is ridiculous.

In today's society, gays are widely accepted, tolerated, and supported.


I'm sorry, but I live in the South. I know gay people my age and decades older who are discriminated against every day. You're lucky if you can honestly say that where you live they are accepted, tolerated, and supported but down here it's usually not the case. I'm not being pessimistic either I'm just telling the truth from an outsider's point of view in my community.

Originally Posted by SnowWhite

In today's society, gays are widely accepted, tolerated, and supported.


I'm sorry, but I live in the South. I know gay people my age and decades older who are discriminated against every day. You're lucky if you can honestly say that where you live they are accepted, tolerated, and supported but down here it's usually not the case. I'm not being pessimistic either I'm just telling the truth from an outsider's point of view in my community.

I used to live in South Carolina. My favorite cousin is gay. He is accepted, tolerated, and supported by everyone he knows. There are more people in the south who are intolerant, but they are a minority. Maybe because I live in Hollywood, I can say people are more accepted here, but I honestly believe that in other places, gays are still accepted, and far better off than illegal immigrants. I still say that question wasn't very good. Those two groups can't even be compared.

Originally Posted by SnowWhite

Thought provoking questions:

1) Do you believe in love? If so name the different types of love. If not then you’re pathetic. Haha. Actually, if you answer no… explain to us why it doesn’t exist.
2) Who was/is the biggest influence of your life?

3) Have you reached any recent goals lately? If so, what?

4) In your opinion, who is/are the most annoying television talk show host(s)?

5) Do you think you should have your own talk show? Who’d be the first person you’d interview? Why?

6) Think back to your childhood. Name something about yourself that was the subject of teasing.

7) Who has it worse in this country gays or illegal immigrants? Why?

Now pick one of the above questions as the subject of your prose or poem.

"Do you believe in love? If so name the different types of love. If not then you’re pathetic. Haha. Actually, if you answer no… explain to us why it doesn’t exist."


This is a complex issue. Complex for me, that is.

Can I split it up, and answer the middle bit first? Name the different types of love……other posters have spelled out three. I say four. Whether I take the scholastic viewpoint of love, which nominates Affection, Friendship, Eros and Charity as the four types of love or whether I simply tack another one which I call Lust on to the three commented on by earlier posters, it comes down to the same thing. That erotic or lustful feeling is the fourth. It’s the one to do with wanting to get into someone’s pants, and nothing more meaningful than that. Realists call it “falling in lust”.

But for me, they mostly don’t exist -- except for the one about wanting to get into a girl’s knickers, that is.

I don’t not believe in love. I know it exists for other people. It just doesn’t exist for me, is all. The reason is that I suffer from the neurobiological deficit known as Asperger’s Syndrome. AS is marked by social inadequacy in many forms, one of which, for me, is the inability to fall romantically in love, or to experience true love, or to even experience infatuational love.

And, with respect, it doesn’t make me pathetic. It just makes me different.

Regarding your last question, you should winkle Hodge out of his igloo and elicit a comment from him. Of late he has had much to say in the Debate forum, in a thread entitled “A discussion on the British Empire”, on the subject of US economic aid to foreign countries, and I am certain he could contribute mightily to any discussion about why illegals need to come to the US in the first place. I can’t comment on it as I’m not qualified to do so, but he is.

Cheers

Seeing as how the town I grew up in, which is in Tennessee made headlines news about 3 years ago for "banning gay people", I feel as though being homosexual is not so widely accepted.

I am not gay myself, though I do have some pretty close friends who are and oddly enough are very unstereotypical while others fit it to a tee. Just so I don't out anyone, I'll use initials. P is a great guy, loves to play video games and is one of the few people I know personally who can beat me in a game of Madden. A on the other hand wears way too much makeup, dresses in girls clothes, and has the whole limp wrist mannerism.

I would say the gay community has it worse, the immigrants, in the area I live in are more accepted.

I believe in three kinds of love:

Perfect love - that love that I was always told God has for me, but I never understood because it is so perfect and I'm not.

Lust - It wears many guises, including that of love.

Love - When I feel the world is going to be okay because he is mine.

I believe in love because it won't let me escape. Because it is always there. Being void of it would literally cause me to implode, and we don't want to have to deal with that mess.