(June 5, 2015 at 3:00 pm)Nope Wrote: Drich, I do not believe in soul mates or one true loves. Sometimes people are very compatible and they feel a very deep connection with one another. This is what happened to my husband and me but if I had never met him, that doesn't meant that either of us would have ended up unhappy or that we might not have found someone else that we felt a similar connection. There isn't one set person for anyone.
You seem to be going by the assumption that my trust in my marriage is the same type of blind trust that a religious person places in their god. It isn't. There are reasons that my husband and I would divorce and neither would be justified in hurting or torturing the other because they left the marriage. I have seen my husband, touched him and heard his voice so I know he exists.
A better analogy would be if one person agreed to be married to a person that they never spoke to, met or interacted in any physical way. When something good happened- like they get a job they wanted or a really good parking spot-then they believe that their unseen spouse is somehow working behind the scenes. They also know that if they commit adultery then their invisible spouse will know and make them suffer forever.
You seem to be stuck on the idea my analogy can only work if it speaks to every aspect of your deepest thoughts desires and personal experience. Take yourself out of the analogy and look at the principles. That is what or how all analogies work. We are comparing principles and not specific instances.
Nice try at a red herring, but it fails because you don't seem to understand how analogies work or it is your hope I don't.
