relationships

Originally posted by Agerg
Well it's good for some things, for example:

- Increased aerodynamic efficiency along head...couple this with decreased weight (no hair to carry) possibly I can run faster
- Easier navigation at night time (moonlight bounces off head providing good illumination)
- If a pigeon gets it's aim correct the gunk should usually just slide off easily
- No requir ...[text shortened]... eas
- Possible career as a shop mannequin

Though there are also a number of drawbacks too!

That all sounds brilliant. What possible drawbacks? Slightly chilly in winter? Wear a hat. Makes one look slightly unusual? I do that anyway!

Originally posted by avalanchethecat
That all sounds brilliant. What possible drawbacks? Slightly chilly in winter? Wear a hat. Makes one look slightly unusual? I do that anyway!

I added some...giz a sec, I'll repost

Originally posted by avalanchethecat
Alopecia universalis! You lucky B*****d! That's a disorder that I for one would LOVE to suffer from. I'd swap all my hair for yours in an instant if I could. Well, most of them - I'd like to keep my eyelashes if that's ok, they do a job of work.

Well it's good for some things, for example:

- Increased aerodynamic efficiency along head...couple this with decreased weight (no hair to carry) possibly I can run faster
- Easier navigation at night time (moonlight bounces off head providing good illumination)
- If a pigeon gets it's aim correct the gunk should usually just slide off easily
- No requirement for shaving products
- No shortage of fancy dress ideas
- Possible career as a shop mannequin

Though there are also a number of drawbacks too though:

- Increased aerodynamic efficiency along head...means I'll fall from a plane faster and hit the ground harder
- More difficult to hide at night time (moonlight bounces off head increasing visibility)
- If a pigeon gets it's aim correct the impact will not be cushioned (no hair)
- Greater requirement for hats
- Certain fancy dress ideas more expensive due to requirement of wigs
- unlikely to get a career in the porn business (no moustache)

Originally posted by avalanchethecat
We just discussed that, albeit fairly briefly. We concluded, in agreement, that while we both pursue spiritual understanding separately and together, our relationship seems to be independent of this. We could not decide whether or not we felt that love was in some way spiritual, but we both agreed that it was not necessarily so.

oops. I missed that. Cheers 🙂

Originally posted by Agerg
[b]...I know its an old stale addage but it is really whats inside that counts. and from your posts I can see that you would make an excellent companion for a lady, if you so desired...
Aye I've heard variants of that sentiment many times - indeed they say there is a girl out there for every bloke...thing is, no mention is made of locality! If true mine p ...[text shortened]... the land of "Far Far Away" (I actually look like a skinny and non green version of Shrek ;])[/b]

Even Shrek had his Fiona!

My take is not so much that there is a lady out there for everyone, per se, but more like this:
1. A suitable woman can be changed,(just as you can shange if you wish), to be your perfect woman. So there may be more than just one of those out there. Still finding a "suitable woman" is still not easy.

2. I think that one must be comfortable within oneself, which gives of sexiness and confidence to the opposite sex. The outside relationship you have with a female is DIRECTLY related to the inside self- love that you may or may not experience.

Now I'm going to think about that last statement🙂

Originally posted by FMF
On another thread in the last few days, Dasa has declared that - in terms of spirituality - sex (other than specifically for getting pregnant) - is distasteful and unnecessary. He said that the initiate on the spiritual path has developed spiritual realization, and with that comes a genuine lack of desire for sex. He also said that one of the fastest ways of bei ...[text shortened]... tionships for the spiritual aspirant", or at least on the sexual dimension of a relationship.

Interesting. Actually, I'd guess that I'm much more accepting than most of some the concepts you've listed here though I'd frame them very differently.

Originally posted by karoly aczel
Dasa says no sex except for procreation.

I've seen guys "open up" after being with an energetic female, so I say this is good for their spirituality.

I'm just keeping it simple here. If you dont have a take, you dont have a take.
S'all good

From what I can tell, we have very different ideas of what "spirituality" entails. That said, I'd think I'd have to lay a serious amount of ground work to even begin explaining how I view relationships and spirituality. It'd be far from "keeping it simple".

Originally posted by ThinkOfOne
From what I can tell, we have very different ideas of what "spirituality" entails. That said, I'd think I'd have to lay a serious amount of ground work to even begin explaining how I view relationships and spirituality. It'd be far from "keeping it simple".

Sure.


As complex as spirituality can be, it can only be super-complex when trying to explain it in relationships.

🙂

Originally posted by Agerg
Well it's good for some things, for example:

- Increased aerodynamic efficiency along head...couple this with decreased weight (no hair to carry) possibly I can run faster
- Easier navigation at night time (moonlight bounces off head providing good illumination)
- If a pigeon gets it's aim correct the gunk should usually just slide off easily
- No requir ...[text shortened]... e due to requirement of wigs
- unlikely to get a career in the porn business (no moustache)

LMFAO

Originally posted by ThinkOfOne
Interesting. Actually, I'd guess that I'm much more accepting than most of some the concepts you've listed here though I'd frame them very differently.

Dasa's spitting at the thought of sex with his wife? Sex is distasteful and unnecessary? Genuine spiritual realization goes hand in hand with a genuine lack of desire for sex? I'd be curious as to which 'concept' you accept. I don't accept any of it. Not at all. Not for me anyway. I accept that he thinks - or sincerely believes - that eschewing sex is the only path to spirituality, but I do not. This is how I would frame it: irrelevant, not credible, an almost perverse overreach. Religionists, of all stripe, try to intrude into the bedroom and into sexual relationships brandishing their purported 'instructions from God'. I haven't met a convincing one yet.

Originally posted by FMF
Dasa's spitting at the thought of sex with his wife? Sex is distasteful and unnecessary? Genuine spiritual realization goes hand in hand with a genuine lack of desire for sex? I'd be curious as to which 'concept' you accept. I don't accept any of it. Not at all. Not for me anyway. I accept that he thinks - or sincerely believes - that eschewing sex is the only p ...[text shortened]... brandishing their purported 'instructions from God'. I haven't met a convincing one yet.

One cannot artificially give up sex.

The priest tries to be celibate, and ends up chasing the alter boys.

When a person lives the true spiritual life, they experience a higher taste and have no need for sex....its not artificial but they genuinely are not interested with sex......and it even becomes distasteful even thinking about it.

Persons who are not on the spiritual platform will always regard sex as the ultimate material pleasure.....and it is.

But for the person living the spiritual life, sex it is not the ultimate pleasure .........but it quickly becomes the lowest pleasure that is freely available to the hogs, dogs, camels and asses.

Glorifying mundane sex..... is only revealing that the person has far to go in their spiritual development.

I dont expect you to understand this..........because when you invent your own spirituality you have everything upside down and back the front.

You cannot appreciate higher spiritual values with the lusty conditioned mind.

If you apply the process of purification presented by Vedanta.....you can over come your condition.

Originally posted by Dasa
When a person lives the true spiritual life, they experience a higher taste and have no need for sex....its not artificial but they genuinely are not interested with sex......and it even becomes distasteful even thinking about it.

Actually, this is the first time I've said this to you. But I find you talking about your own aversion to sex very unappealing and a tad unnecessary. It's only relevant to you and I do not accept that it has any genuine spiritual underpinning, at least not in my terms of human and spiritual reference. I'm sorry that you have lost the desire for sex with your wife. These things happen. Life goes on anyway. My system of spiritual beliefs does not render sexual relationships with my life partner "distasteful". Quite the contrary.

Originally posted by Dasa
Glorifying mundane sex..... is only revealing that the person has far to go in their spiritual development.

I'm sorry to hear that you find sex "mundane".

sex it is not the ultimate pleasure .........but it quickly becomes the lowest pleasure that is freely available to the hogs, dogs, camels and asses.

I would have thought that by now you'd have realised that trying to insult people with different belief systems from you doesn't work.

Originally posted by Agerg
Heh...this is the bit where I'm supposed to wade in like an alpha male and regale you all with wonderful tales of how I'm a real hit with the ladies and teach you all the key parts that make me successful in long lasting relationships. The truth however is that after developing alopecia universalis[hidden]all hair = bye bye[/hidden]back in 2004, what little co ...[text shortened]... h... but nothing else :[

With that, I respectfully bow out of this conversation. :]

There are lots of good women that could care less about hair.

Originally posted by karoly aczel
For me I wouldn't be with my girlie if it wasn't for the spiritual connection. We wouldn't have a child together and she would just be a blip on my memory.

Of course there are many other factors that make a successful relationship.
However divorce rates are very high and the ones that stay married aren't always happy.

I think the key lies in bein ...[text shortened]... rom Proper Knob, Agerg and any other athiests that have a take on a successful relationship.

Still dating your 'girlie'?