Ask a straight white male anything.

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  1. tecoyah

    tecoyah Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The complete lack of progress.
     
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    Did you change you share of diapers?
     
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    Seth Bullock Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Nice choice. Is there really any difference between a GMC pickup and a Chevy?

    Friend of mine has a new Chev 3/4 ton 4WD with the Duramax diesel and Allison transmission. Couldn't believe how quiet it is inside and outside. Tons of power too.
     
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    robini123 Well-Known Member

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    Do you have a scientific source that backs your conclusion? Remember that I did not ask what I see in the absence of light, I asked what color is a red apple in the absence of light?
     
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    scarlet witch Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    What about romance, I've always thought gay men are more romantic, more in touch with their emotions. Do you think they might extend the romantic beer fridge trip to to the front door?

     
  6. AboveAlpha

    AboveAlpha Well-Known Member

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    You know without romance a relationship just dies.

    Sex is great and all that but unless a person feel's loved and cared for....well let's just say I am very lucky as far as that!

    AA
     
  7. Robert

    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Sadly, or happily as the case can be, my experience with homosexuals is they are not MORE romantic.

    Not even in the movies.

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    Light not change the color of the apple. Colored light can appear to have changed the color.
     
  8. tecoyah

    tecoyah Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    As color is a product of our ability to see and our ability to see requires a light source, I believe my comment to be accurate. However if you require a source to confirm the way our optical acuity functions there are many sources throughout the internet that will explain it far more completely than I can.
     
  9. Robert

    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    When I spent 3 months on the factory line at General Motors, the differences were the name plates.

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    It is impossible for me today pass a value judgement between the GMC and Chevy, but I once worked for GM and the difference was the name plates mostly.
     
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    robini123 Well-Known Member

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    Indeed, but how does this answer my question?
     
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    scarlet witch Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    And this is where "how you treat a lover" comes in, if you mistreat your lover/partner they will not be thinking romantic thoughts about you... what follows is the dying relationship

     
  12. Robert

    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Gosh, maybe you did not hold your mouth correctly as you asked it.

    May I try to understand why you are confused over apples given that the color is constant day or night?

    If you doubt me, take a photo in the dark. You won't see color. But the camera does. Then look at the photo. Tell us if you noticed the apple changed from red to something other than red.

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    Been there done that. Even lavishing praise, showing love, etc, the relationship died.
     
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    robini123 Well-Known Member

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    I have looked at many sources, none of which are universally agreed upon. The view I lean towards is that it is an unanswerable question but fun to philosophize. But thanks for your input as I do enjoy the perspectives of others.
     
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    scarlet witch Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I'm sorry... it is a two way street :hug:
     
  15. tecoyah

    tecoyah Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    "The bottom line is: without light, there would be no sight. The visual ability of humans and other animals is the result of the complex interaction of light, eyes and brain. We are able to see because light from an object can move through space and reach our eyes. Once light reaches our eyes, signals are sent to our brain, and our brain deciphers the information in order to detect the appearance, location and movement of the objects we are sighting at. The whole process, as complex as it is, would not be possible if it were not for the presence of light. Without light, there would be no sight."

    You may enjoy this one:
    http://www.physicsclassroom.com/class/refln/Lesson-1/The-Role-of-Light-to-Sight
     
  16. Robert

    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    That it is. When I read posts that give off the impression, if A loves B,that will make B love A. Believe me, nothing like that is true.

    Some of the most cheating humans, some of the most lying, some of the most conniving, are women.

    Don't get me wrong, but sugar and spice and everything nice is a fairy tale.
     
  17. Robert

    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Actually the red apple is only red due to pigment. It has nothing at all to do with the question of the room being dark or well lit.

    Take the human out. Use a camera.

    Study the photograph.

    We answered questions like that in physics courses.

    Oh and thanks for the question.
     
  18. Robert

    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Gosh, I thought we had some physics whizes here. Why is the apple red during daylight? Independent of our eyes, why is it red?

    Because of the pigment in the skin of the apple. Below the red comes the whiter color.

    Nothing we can't see indicates color. We can try to see bright red or yellow or white ... in the dark our eyes are not picking up any light.

    But nothing of the apple changed. The pigment remains the same. If a blind man can't see your apple, has he prevented the color you see?

    Nope. Reason, pigment color stays the same.
     
  19. tecoyah

    tecoyah Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Please explain colorblindness to me?
     
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    I just cannot cannot understand why some men who are so lucky to have a wonderful and sexy women do not do all the little things that are romantic that will make that women feel cared for and loved as to do so will make her want her man so much more.

    A women who does not just feel loved but KNOWS she is loved by her MAN will do ANYTHING....and I mean ANYTHING for him.

    And he needs to do EVERYTHING and be EVERYTHING for her.

    AA
     
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    I was just being funny.

    A person see's the light that reflects off matter and depending upon the spectrum of that light will determine the colr you see.

    Plus what we see is not what other animals see as well there are many spectrum's of light we cannot see.

    So in reality the answer to your question is....the Apple is not any color....only the light being reflected off it is.

    AA

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    COME ON!!!

    Men account for the majority of the infidelity that goes on!!

    AA
     
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    scarlet witch Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Sadly I know quite a few women who say the exact same thing of men, how do we get to this point where we resent the other so much it taints the way we look at our future relationships?

    Are we too rigid in our relationships, people are all different but I very quickly feel smothered if someone tries to control me. Another woman may want that control to feel safe, it's very difficult to know what the other wants and needs and I think when our emotions are involved, we sometimes behave irrationally and hurt the other person.

    I would urge you not to hold women in your future accountable for what happened in your past, if only for your own sake.

     
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    scarlet witch Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    We become placid, comfortable in a long term relationship, let's face it if you're going to be with someone long term high maintenance is not what you're looking for :roflol:, life is busy enough

    If a man feels he needs to do EVERYTHING for her ALL THE TIME, it can be quite exhausting. Many men work really hard and sometimes just wants to come home to a warm meal, a cold beer, the remote and his loving understanding wife.

     
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    Considering your expertise; Do you believe asexuality actually exists or do you think people identifying as such are "Hiding something" (eg insecurity, lack of experience, gayness) or are they perhaps psychologically damaged?
     
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    Robert Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I am trying very hard to recall the woman ... wait, my last wife was great as to loyalty and kindness. She divorced me, I believe due to her faith in the JW church. But she never cheated. She was so pretty and so good to talk too. Were it up to me, the divorce never would have happened.

    But through my life, women have cheated. If they did not cheat, they had some way to drive us apart.

    Men are not good so far as this goes. I have been around far too many men who cheat. I consider this a hazard of living in California to be honest.

    Jutta and I were talking about marriage. Sex with that girl was delightful. But I was in a distant city in Germany and she was hundreds of miles away in Berlin. I was told by her she was cheating. She was upset she might be pregnant. I had no sooner left Berlin than she was in the sack with some guy she went to school with when still in school. We even went together to find about how to get her legally to America. I had pull at my unit so I went to talk to the Army doctor. He gave me some pills to send to her. This was to abort her. Turns out her period returned. The guy she thought got her pregnant when he learned, he told her to get lost.

    I return to America figuring it was over. We wrote letters and I called on the telephone. She accepted my engagement ring. Said she published the engagement in some Berlin paper. Then the bad news. She talks to me saying she lost the ring. At the toilet. With some guy she claimed was a teacher. I figured, so you are back to dating. So you don't give a damn you are engaged.

    I quit calling her. I dated a local woman and married her. Days before the marriage Jutta calls me from Berlin and is upset. "Why aren't you talking to me?" I told her I was soon to be married.

    I later got a divorce. I called Jutta in Berlin. She told me she married an attorney but urged me to fly back to meet her. I asked if she was happy in the marriage and when she told me she was. I never called her again.

    God, I have story after story of women who cheated.

    And before you get the wrong idea, none of them left me over sex. And I treat women special.

    I don't control a woman. A woman needing to be controlled is not my sort of person. I like women who can think and be conversational.

    Once I get a hint they might be cheating, up goes my red flags and I keep a very close eye on them. I won't accuse them, but they finally give me plenty of ammo.

    I refuse to fight them at all. I explain my position and leave the relationship.

    I have actually had women come to tell me they know I am great in bed. I don't hit on them even though I broke it off.
     

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