OT POLL: Do Nice Guys Finish Last??

[Slynky]

Originally posted by Gryphin:
Pooh Star loves Sci Fi. It was one of the things listed in her profile at the Online dating service we met through.

X wife liked it also

Funny...

Wife and I watched the 3 "Terminators" 3 weekends ago in a small Saturday marathon. Then Last weekend, we did the 4 "Alien" movies on Sat and Sun. Watched "Equilibrium" (sp?) yesterday. We're both "Firefly" nuts (own that seires, too). I could go on but you get the picture.

PS: And I spend a lot of time with her watching Lifetime movies and we own about 10 Hallmark movies (not ashamed to admit).

[Will]

Some more "youthful" input

With women, I said Last. Because I've seen it so often, that just seems to be the case. alarikf is right though, IMHO... the school I go to (USC) tends to have a lot of the more well-off, "beautiful people", and I've gotten to know several after two years there. Unfailingly, all of them have had some sort of wildly unattractive neurotic behaviour or are extremely depressed. They can hold up the image of being a "normal", "sane" person for at most two minutes in anything going beyond superficial conversation. I know most people here also have a slightly sarcastic outlook on what exactly normal and sane are, but I think we all agree that self-destructive, malicious, sadistic, etc. behaviours are not "normal" or "sane".

However, my view on it at this point is I don't have time for that bulls#!t. I'm too busy worrying about handling my (overloaded) academic schedule, working, figuring out what I'm doing with my life, expanding my computer skillsets... while still sleeping enough, exercising enough, and eating right. Throw a relationship into that, and in 99% of cases I've seen, a few to several of those priorities vanish completely.

In the workplace, nobody likes the jerk, and the jerk will eventually get fired. On the way up "The Ladder", it pays to be the nice guy, since by showing a willingness to work with others, others will be more willing to help you out, and will feel better at looking to you for guidence (which is a big factor in determining who is management material).

Everything else... it really depends. It's not the same as in the workplace, because it's more difficult to remove the jerks. They have to commit a crime, be convicted, and put in jail for them to be "removed". We won't discuss the more vigilante way to "remove" them, but you can get some ideas from AT's "I just caught some punk" thread

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Originally posted by Gryphin:

Pagans have a strong belief in "The Rule of Three". Anything, (good or bad) that you do will come back to you three fold.

"What goes around , comes around"

Pagans? Don't you mean Wiccans? Pagan applies to all non-christian religeons.

Originally posted by Atrocities:
Why do most women hate Sci-Fi? The lady I am so so dating now always resonds with alarm when she finds out I like Sci-Fi and that really PMO! (Pi**es Me Off)

Go to a lot of sci-fi movies, marry a women that comes in costume.

[ July 12, 2004, 23:06: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

[Kamog]

Why don't women like action movies? They don't seem to enjoy "combat" type movies that have stuff like kung fu fight scenes, sword battles and so on.

[Gryphin]

Originaly posted by narf:
Pagans? Don't you mean Wiccans? Pagan applies to all non-christian religeons

It is possible that at one time it had another more general meaning.

If you prefer, Neo Pagan are basicaly very similar to Wiccan except (in far to simple terms), less structured.

They follow the wheel of the year, the seasons and the cycle of life.

Pooh Star is a Wiccan High Priestess

[Gryphin]

Originally posted by Kamog:
Why don't women like action movies? They don't seem to enjoy "combat" type movies that have stuff like kung fu fight scenes, sword battles and so on.

Because women are nurturers. Violence is unpleasant to them. That is a broad genearlisation. There are lots of exceptions. Pooh Star likes the Conan and Mel Gibson movies. Some women choose movies based on the actors. The ones that push thier butttons. Pooh Star liked Bab 5 for the show but also she had the hots for one of the actresses. She will watch anything with Keano Reeves, (Matrix) but not Matt Daemon.

Does that help?

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Originally posted by Gryphin:

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Originaly posted by narf:
Pagans? Don't you mean Wiccans? Pagan applies to all non-christian religeons

It is possible that at one time it had another more general meaning.

If you prefer, Neo Pagan are basicaly very similar to Wiccan except (in far to simple terms), less structured.

They follow the wheel of the year, the seasons and the cycle of life.

Pooh Star is a Wiccan High Priestess

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As far as I can tell, Neo-Pagan covers any type of behavor which may possibly have pre-dated Catholicism.