Montana...just seems so beautiful with the mountains and rivers. Can't wait to flyfish there!

Exactly, it's like I asked a girl if she preferred option A or option B, and she said "yes." Not so descriptive, really.

Tell me if this describes just about everyone.

I love going out or just staying in and relaxing.
I love having fun, but I can be serious when needed.
I can get dressed up, but I like just kicking it in comfy clothes.
I can be smart, but I love just fooling around and being silly.

My point is just that everyone pretty much enjoys a variety of things, very few are pigeonholed to ONE specific thing. ("I never go out" or "I never joke around"). It would be a tad better to expound upon why maybe you enjoy one more than the other.

Seriously? Ay, hopefully you can take short breaks in between, haha.

That's a natural product of our primitive, reptilian brains. This is the part of our brain which deals with perceived threats. Because of the imminent danger of most threats in nature (where our brain originally developed), we have a very basic binary dichotomy when it comes to threats. That is, we auto-classify everything into "good" or "bad" when it comes to threats which may be imminent. There is no middle ground in these situations, and the subconscious brain errs on the side of safety by categorizing threats as "bad" unless they are very clearly "good".

Thanks to evolution and civilization, we have developed a much more advanced brain, and are able to analyze larger problems with more variety than "good" and "bad". However, it is innate for us when a threat is imminent that we use our reptilian brain involuntarily, and we're stuck with those two simple choices.

You separate your cliches from the typical ones though, by explaining them afterwards. You love music...and that explains something specific about you that may not be true for everyone (you spontaneously sing and dance at any time...specially in the car, even! haha).

Sure it's still a little vague, but at least you clarified it a little.

Exactly! Haha.

I always wonder if there is one girl's profile that reads:

"Hi I am hoping to meet some cheaters and liars who will hopefully break my heart. If you are wrong for me and plan on using me, then I will definitely be interested! I like the movie The Notebook and NOTHING else. I ONLY like Coldplay. I definitely DON'T like food, and fun, and anyone interesting!"

And then after seeing that, they decided that they had to explicitly state every obvious thing about the broad interests that everyone shares just to be safe?

I'm not sure I understand what you're implying...that I shouldn't hang out with nice guys?

That one is allowable, since there are a fair amount of women who don't particularly like flowers. Or at least they say they don't.

Regardless of how meticulous you are about determining intent, my personal belief is that you can never be 100% certain of the intent of something like that, particularly something text based which is passed along throughout generations and possibly altered. Therefore since there cannot be 100% certainty, there is the possibility for varying opinions.

But that's just my...opinion. Hah.

Yes!
Yes!
and yes!

This is absolutely true. Anyone who calls himself a nice guy is likely to be a self empathizer who is too busy worrying about being "nice" to actually establish a personality and uniqueness.

So here's my tongue in cheek (or is it?) tirade about profile cliches which bug me.

"No liars or cheaters": Do you think that by saying this, the liars and cheaters will stop in their tracks and willingly admit to their ways? Do you think that they will suddenly tell you that they are in fact a liar, "just to let you know the truth"? Or even better, that they'll move on until they find someone that IS looking for a liar or cheater? I don't think that's how they work, and I DEFINITELY don't think that a sentence in your profile will deter them.

"I love all types of music" and "music is my life": Ok, we all like music. In fact, most of us enjoy a very wide variety of music. But there has to be a favorite in there somewhere! Give us a hint about where your preferences lie. Surely you don't love Mozart as much as Megadeth. At least lead us in the right direction.

"Are there any good guys left?!?!": There sure are, and I'll tell you what we really love...pessimism! Nothing's quite as hot as a girl who has given up all faith in being happy with a guy, and seems apparently unable to attain happiness without a man in her life.

"I love going out but I also love staying in". How entirely specific! Maybe you could elaborate by writing "I love things" or, "Stuff is fun to do". That would put us on a better track towards knowing anything about you. If you want to get real personal, you could even list some intimate things, like "I like food and money and having fun and laughing!!" ...EVERYONE LIKES ALL THOSE THINGS! SAY SOMETHING ORIGINAL.


*Disclaimer* Don't get all whiny about this, it's all in good fun. Sorta.

Thanks for the civility.

As for the quoted part of your answer, my concern is that this very statement is an interpretation of Christian writings, isn't it? And who is to say that this particular interpretation is more correct than any other?

Ahh the infinite jokes which could be said...

To be perfectly honest, I'm not certain if you're agreeing with what I said, or disparaging my post. (Curse the internet's ambiguity).

Like I said, personally I don't think Christianity advocates violence, but I would have a hard time stating that someone who felt that it at least permitted violence in certain situations would be incorrect.

Brick!

*People were on fire and I killed a man with a trident!"

The problem is that subjectivity pervades even the very definition of "proof" and "facts". I can have an opinion that the "facts" are incorrect. Despite the fact that some things are obviously more certain than others, can we ever be ABSOLUTELY certain of anything? I submit that we cannot, and so that even "facts" that almost everyone agrees on can still be validly challenged by someone with a different opinion.

Certain sections of the Bible (bear with me here, I'm no biblical scholar) could be interpreted as validating violence. Sacrificial passages and episodes of God's wrath touch on these areas. While I personally don't believe that Christianity preaches violence, I cannot say that an opinion which believes so is per se incorrect.

I only date deaf girls. Thank God!

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