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04/20/2013
Romantic love is a huge psychological cost to pay for sex. Romantic love exists because in the evolutionary past sex meant producing an offspring whose survival was best ensured when the parents stayed together. Hence, the mechanism evolved which made the mating partners “fall in...
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04/20/2013
To indulge in purely romantic love is to surrender whatever autonomy one has and leave oneself at the mercy of brutal natural/biological forces. For, one doesn't develop romantic love for reasons palatable to one's mind, and one would lose the feelings in the same way, too. Where...
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04/20/2013
Why I have to look for intellectual development while choosing friends? Why can't I just "enjoy" life? The answer to both is: I don't enjoy rolling in the mud with pigs.
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04/09/2013
A man who tells his woman how much he loves her has dug his (love's) grave
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04/09/2013
If you can't enjoy the time with your friend WITHOUT CONSUMING SOMETHING, you are not friends.
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04/09/2013
I think in general expecting the worst of people is a right strategy for many reasons. For one, despite what optimists would believe, humans are not fundamentally good-natured; they are more likely to harm than benefit you. Pessimism would not only save one of the pangs of unexpe...
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04/09/2013
Human nature is fundamentally vile, for we all think we are the center, and can't help but game others. Good people just try to do less of it. It's a wonder that we can even connect.
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04/09/2013
People in "love" don't want to be together when the "spark" is gone. Let me break this. The spark is like a high one gets when one is drunk. The reality of a relationship begins where the spark ends. For a fulfilling, long-term relationship, one should choose one's partner for th...
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04/09/2013
Among philosophers honesty, most of the times, is the only choice. Two philosophers, therefore, can have qualitatively far superior relationship than (with) non-philosophers, I have experienced.
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04/09/2013
Some people would feel good when you meet them even when you have to nothing to talk, precisely because you'd meet them even when you have nothing to talk; just to be with them. Others would find the silence awkward, and feel offended when you have nothing to talk. The former are...
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