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Unromantic Atheism?
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Unromantic Atheism?
You dismiss the notion of soulmates as a flight of fancy, for obvious reasons. You also believe that emotion and sentiment have a tendency to hamper proper decision-making. 

Why? Because you're a skeptic and choose to employ a realistic approach to life, as to one entrenched in idealistic thinking. It wouldn't take much of a stretch for someone to assume that you don't put much stock in the expression of softer emotions, though they could very well be wrong. 

Are are you still open to feeling and demonstrating romantic love, in spite of your inclinations?
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RE: Unromantic Atheists?
(November 22, 2015 at 6:37 pm)Thena323 Wrote: You dismiss the notion of soulmates as a flight of fancy, for obvious reasons. You also believe that emotion and sentiment have a tendency to hamper proper decision-making. 

Why? Because you're a skeptic and choose to employ a realistic approach to life, as to one entrenched in idealistic thinking. It wouldn't take much of a stretch for someone to assume that you don't put much stock in the expression of softer emotions, though they could very well be wrong. 

Are are you still open to feeling and demonstrating romantic love, in spite of your inclinations?

Of course. Being rational about the way the universe works doesn't preclude heartfelt expression of emotions.

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#3
RE: Unromantic Atheists?
No, of course not. My wife and I only discuss hormone levels, and expressions of love and affection are only accepted by the other if one can back them up with at least three double-blind placebo-controlled studies in high impact journals demonstrating their plausibility.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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#4
RE: Unromantic Atheists?
I found and lost my soulmate. I do not subscribe to the non sequitur.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Unromantic Atheists?
(November 22, 2015 at 6:37 pm)Thena323 Wrote: You dismiss the notion of soulmates as a flight of fancy, for obvious reasons. You also believe that emotion and sentiment have a tendency to hamper proper decision-making. 

Why? Because you're a skeptic and choose to employ a realistic approach to life, as to one entrenched in idealistic thinking. It wouldn't take much of a stretch for someone to assume that you don't put much stock in the expression of softer emotions, though they could very well be wrong. 

Are are you still open to feeling and demonstrating romantic love, in spite of your inclinations?

I can be great at demonstrating romantic love but I know it's my balls conspiring against my brain forcing me to get it done. 

Proof of this is that I'd probably never demonstrate romantic love to a girl who wasn't at least a 9 out of 10.


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#6
RE: Unromantic Atheism?
Quote:Proof of this is that I'd probably never demonstrate romantic love to a girl who wasn't at least a 9 out of 10.

Or, there has to at least be a light switch in the room.
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#7
RE: Unromantic Atheism?
Doesn't a quick bang with random people count as romantic?

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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RE: Unromantic Atheism?
(November 22, 2015 at 7:22 pm)Minimalist Wrote:
Quote:Proof of this is that I'd probably never demonstrate romantic love to a girl who wasn't at least a 9 out of 10.

Or, there has to at least be a light switch in the room.

There certainly does for me to have a fucking chance.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Unromantic Atheism?
(November 22, 2015 at 7:33 pm)Beccs Wrote: Doesn't a quick bang with random people count as romantic?

The best kind.
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#10
RE: Unromantic Atheism?
I wouldn't know. Chance would be a fine thing.

Am I coming off as resentful? Because I am.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist.  This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair.  Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second.  That means there's a situation vacant.'
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