22-09-2003 12:49									#1
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Let's get to some deep philosophy (or at least some marginally pseudo-intellectual drival)... is it better to have loved or to have lost?

	22-09-2003 13:05									#2
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I was a stupid teenager. I can' believe the number of times girls hinted at or out right told me they were interested in me but I was such a stupid SOB that I didn't pick up on it until it was much to late.

	22-09-2003 13:13									#3
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quote: is it better to have loved or to have lost?

This is a nobrainer, but I think you meant something else.

	22-09-2003 13:14									#4
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There are a tremendous number of kids like I was who just don't figue out a girl wants to **** them until it is to late.

	22-09-2003 13:30									#5
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Yeah, the horribly self-humiliating experience of thinking a girl liked you, but she didn't, really sucks. But what I'm wondering is the kind of experience where you really let your guard down and invite a girl to run wild through the field of your emotions (not that I've been scarred or anything... heh). Where she really means it, but then after a while... doesn't. I'm just wondering how people get over it, and reclaim that naive romantic notion of something greater than yourself. Or am I just being a foolish romantic?

	22-09-2003 14:23									#6
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Only twice have I 100% letmy guard down but on several other occaions I've not picked up upomn the signals which girls have sent out until well after those signals just didn't matter any more. I mean really I must have been a stupid **** or something.

	22-09-2003 14:26									#7
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quote: Originally posted by brady13 I'm just wondering how people get over it, and reclaim that naive romantic notion of something greater than yourself.

Easy. Just trust your nuts.

	22-09-2003 17:03									#8
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Oerdin: same here, am completely hopeless at telling when people like me. I'm usually so bad that most recently the poor girl had to resort to telling me to kiss her...

	22-09-2003 17:10									#9
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isn't it supposed be something like "better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all"?

i mean, the way it's phrased now, i don't think anybody would really be in favor of "lost"... most people seem to enjoy "love", so...

	22-09-2003 20:39									#10
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Of course it's better to have loved and lost. Consider that as one of life's defeats, from which you can learn for a better fight next time.

	22-09-2003 20:43									#11
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quote: I'm just wondering how people get over it, and reclaim that naive romantic notion of something greater than yourself. Or am I just being a foolish romantic?

What do you mean get over it?

You never really will get over it. The best thing to do is be yourself and to be comfortable enough with yourself that it doesn't matter to you whether there is a SO in it or not...

Se la Vive (how do you spell that?)

	22-09-2003 21:31									#12
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C'est la vie.

The worst is thinking some really cute guy is looking at you, but he's really looking at his own reflection in the mirror behind you.

Or at the cute girl standing right behind you.

Or at the tree behind you, and hasn't even noticed you.

But I'm not insecure, or anything. I'm just a realist. ;p

	22-09-2003 21:54									#13
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i suppose it might be better to love and lose than to never love at all.

but don't we all abhor pain? to love and lose would create oodles of pain, while to never love would keep you in a state of ignorant bliss...

	22-09-2003 22:37									#14
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quote: while to never love would keep you in a state of ignorant bliss...

Tell that to an old maid who is so lonely that she has to get 15 cats to keep her company. I think it is worth the chance of pain to attempt love. Besides, no matter the outcome they are both reasons to drink

	22-09-2003 22:41									#15
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quote: Tell that to an old maid who is so lonely that she has to get 15 cats to keep her company. I think it is worth the chance of pain to attempt love.

yes, i was just tossing that out; i don't really believe in that. however, i don't plan on losing.

	23-09-2003 08:26									#16
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quote: Originally posted by Q Cubed but don't we all abhor pain?

Not bodybuilders

quote: Originally posted by Q Cubed to love and lose would create oodles of pain, while to never love would keep you in a state of ignorant bliss...

Certainly it does, but letting your own yearning to fester within creates even greater pain that lingers for ages.

I know, I had been there

	23-09-2003 08:35									#17
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quote: Easy. Just trust your nuts.

Is it better to have ****ged and ruin a friendship, or never to have ****ged her at all?

Of course, such liaisons do not necessarily cause problems but they often can.

	23-09-2003 08:48									#18
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I'm going to go with "loved and lost". There's a certain emptiness to a life without love. Even if you've lost it, at least it was there, for a time. As for the ****ging question, better to keep the friend.

	23-09-2003 09:04									#19
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Depends on whether said friend is in the process of becoming your SO.

	23-09-2003 09:11									#20
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger Depends on whether said friend is in the process of becoming your SO.

Not thinking of that kind of situation. In those situations the sex issue is not nearly as prickly the morning after.

	24-09-2003 00:19									#21
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I'm not afraid of pain. I just asked my best friend to hit me as hard as he can, and it really wasn't all that bad.