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Guys: The Ideal Woman?
#41
RE: Guys: The Ideal Woman?
(October 29, 2012 at 4:47 pm)apophenia Wrote: [Image: spongebob%20noone%20cares-lg.jpg]

So you responded to me out of sheer apathy? Bizarre.
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#42
RE: Guys: The Ideal Woman?
(October 29, 2012 at 1:54 pm)festive1 Wrote:
(October 29, 2012 at 1:22 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: So do I. Sad Tongue

Well, dearie, I think you are probably younger than this guy.

Sorry, think I'm going through my quarter-life crisis.
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-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
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#43
RE: Guys: The Ideal Woman?
(October 29, 2012 at 3:33 pm)apophenia Wrote: Virginity cards!

Collect the whole set!

Gotta catch 'em all!

But but... but that's *my* hobby!! Angry

(October 29, 2012 at 5:08 pm)DoubtVsFaith Wrote: Attractive, happy and generous.

Well where are you, already? Tiger

(October 30, 2012 at 12:11 am)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: Sorry, think I'm going through my quarter-life crisis.

Pay your way over, and I will take care of the rest. Me and my best friend... FSM Wink
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Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
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#44
RE: Guys: The Ideal Woman?
(October 29, 2012 at 5:44 pm)Spectrum Wrote:
(October 29, 2012 at 4:47 pm)apophenia Wrote: [Image: spongebob%20noone%20cares-lg.jpg]

So you responded to me out of sheer apathy? Bizarre.

There is a story in Zen circles about a man and a horse. The horse is galloping quickly,
and it appears that the man on the horse is going somewhere important. Another man,
standing alongside the road shouts, "Where are you going?" and the first man replies,
"l don't know! Ask the horse!"

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#45
RE: Guys: The Ideal Woman?
Lets see, one I can actually trust not to fuck everyone. Seems impossible these days. Undecided
Live every day as if already dead, that way you're not disappointed when you are. Big Grin
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#46
RE: Guys: The Ideal Woman?
If you get another woman whos fucks everyone please give me a call. Or better yet, just put my name on the waiting list and call me when it's my turn.
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#47
RE: Guys: The Ideal Woman?
(October 30, 2012 at 2:49 am)Violet Lilly Blossom Wrote: Well where are you, already? Tiger


The UK.

(October 30, 2012 at 3:25 am)apophenia Wrote: There is a story in Zen circles about a man and a horse. The horse is galloping quickly,
and it appears that the man on the horse is going somewhere important. Another man,
standing alongside the road shouts, "Where are you going?" and the first man replies,
"l don't know! Ask the horse!"


But if it's sheer apathy: why did he get on the horse?

So you had no consciously subjective reason to respond and responded anyway? I doubt it. I bet it's more likely that you have forgotten your reason because it isn't important.
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#48
RE: Guys: The Ideal Woman?
(October 30, 2012 at 10:55 am)DoubtVsFaith Wrote: But if it's sheer apathy: why did he get on the horse?

So you had no consciously subjective reason to respond and responded anyway? I doubt it. I bet it's more likely that you have forgotten your reason because it isn't important.

Let me explain idiom for you.

When someone says they don't care, they can be saying any of several common things:

a) No one cares about it (with the implied 'it' being whatever the person obviously cares about) [speaking in relative terms]
b) No one cares that you care about it
c) No one cares what you think
d) No one cares about what you care about (the more general form) in the way you care about it
e) No one cares enough to be significantly effected one way or the other
f) No one likes you enough to care
g) No one cares whether you live or die
h) I don't care (sarcasm), it's not worth caring about
i) you are an idiot for caring about it
j) others

That this self-serving little Mensch chose to interpret it as "I'm completely apathetic about it," is a bit of a stretch, but well within range, and therefore a good zinger. That you cared enough to kudo his zinger, and now follow it up in an attempt to re-zinger the zinger you apparently feel is slipping away makes it seem like this is something personal with you. Was it the, "As if a guy would actually know what to do with a woman," comment that has your underwear in such a bunch? I can't possibly fathom why that would be.

As regards to the Zen parable. The point of the parable is that our habit is to always be doing and thinking, just to do and think, sometimes, for no other reason, and our complete inability to be still is an example of the horse mastering the rider. The rider should be in control of her mount, not the other way around. But according to Buddhists, this situation is the exception rather than the norm. People's mental dispositions toward activity or simply avoiding stillness and silence, controls them. Taoists such as myself have related tropes.

Now, do you have anything else for me, counselor?


(oh, and, "CBS Cares.")



In the interest of completeness, here is what the Oxford English dictionary defines the verb 'to care' to mean: (irrelevant entries omitted)
3. b. To feel concern (great or little), be concerned, trouble oneself, feel interest. Also in colloq. phrases expressing or implying lack of interest or concern: for all I care, see if I care, who cares?
4. In negative and conditional construction:
a. not to care passes from the notion of ‘not to trouble oneself’, to those of ‘not to mind, not to regard or pay any deference or attention, to pay no respect, be indifferent’. Const. for, etc.

Speaking of idiom, the idiom I had in mind prior to posting Spongebob Squarepants was that I had had my armies in the field too long and therefore they were thus vulnerable to loss unless I pulled them out. (Sun Tzu) I knew better than to respond to him, as the odds were quickly closing in on me, but I responded anyway, knowing full well it was unwise. Was this a case of the horse mastering the rider? Perhaps. I think it's more a case of Apo being stupid. But there is the whole question whether, in a social medium, posting about something indicates that you care about that something as much as you simply care to be posting to be engaged in that enterprise in some tangibly beneficial way.


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#49
RE: Guys: The Ideal Woman?
Is this a good time to use the Ash Ketchum "hat's turned backwards; shit's about to go down" meme?
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#50
RE: Guys: The Ideal Woman?
(October 30, 2012 at 11:36 am)apophenia Wrote: When someone says they don't care, they can be saying any of several common things:[...]

Yes, there are multiple definitions of caring, but I wasn't sure which one you were using.

Furthermore, I think the idea that you responded out of "sheer apathy" was being utilized in the first place because the definition you were using was being switched for an alternative one for humourous reasons. I could be wrong. I myself intuitively have a sense of what you mean, but I am still somewhat unsure precisely which definition you are using because many of them are very similar, I think.

I don't know why you think I was counseling you or, if it's a joke, I don't know what is exactly funny about it.
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