Lemme get this straight.

I start a side-topic about children's lit and everyone gets all pissy about it being too "substancy", but in depth-comic trend discussion and teambuilding is okay?

I hate you guys so much.

waitaminnit, "pissy" doesn't get censored, but "wris####ch" does?
Swear-filter, you so crazy...
I missed something fun, didn't I?
I can't say that I agree with that. What person A feels does not alter what person B feels. Person B can love person A without A loving B.
Can't watch that on a computer at work, but I'll check it out later.

It occurred to me earlier that I would probably be a supervillain rather than a hero. I have a lot of anger, especially lately, and there's something attractive about the notion of taking it out in ridiculously destructive ways.

Fortunately for everyone, I have video games that let me do that, so I get to do it in a make-believe world instead of the real world.

I liked the kid-Lit discussion.

And the comic discussion.

I'm not saying there's no feeling-- it's just not love. It's not the same feeling when it's not mutual.

During my venue's event last night, two caribou came strolling by, which is pretty unusual.

Then vlad mentioned how it probably isn't odd for it to happen to wade.

Sometimes it is all a matter of perspective.

I completely disagree, but I also know I that am not in the appropriate mental state to continue discussing this at present.

FWIW, I agree with your disagreement.

I don't know how to describe the difference but believe me, it's a different feeling.

I'm tempted to ask Michelle to let me "date" someone online so I can be on that new show "Catfish". I would obviously use BudPalmer's photos instead of my own.

And to add some substance, I agree with Harpua13 and IggyPop. Love is a different feeling. Getting destroyed by a woman and the feelings afterwords, those are feelings of hate and vengeance. Those too, shall pass.

I'm on the side that disagrees with this, too. While having someone reciprocate your love with love will help your love to grow, mature, become stronger, etc - one does not need the other to exist.

Of course, love has many facets, so perhaps there's some particular type of love that you are talking about that has this restriction that it must be reciprocated to exist.

The examples I can think of to support my side are...

Parent to a child. If, sadly, you are the parent of a disabled child, that child may not have the emotional capacity to love. However, a parent will be quite capable of loving their child even if the love is not reciprocated.

A relationship that once had two people loving each other. A falls out of love with B. This does not mean that B can no longer love A, or that B's feelings towards A have to change because A's feelings for B have changed.

A person you love has an accident and goes into a vegetative state. Does this mean that the love no longer exists since the 2nd person cannot reciprocate the emotion?

A person that you love dies. As a widower, you no longer love your deceased spouse? The emotions just stop, or become something else?





Haven is just being a 12 year old girl. No one cares if you talk about substance or not. We do want to make fun of you for doing it, though.

I was talking specifically of romantic love, so that knocks out the parent-to-child one.

And I suppose once you have a mutual feeling, it doesn't just end right away if one person stops or dies.

But I guess what I am getting at is that what Wade is feeling now is romantic love, but pining-- a poor substitute, even though it feels quite strong.

Also: New UNCLIXED is up!

No greater insult has been leveled at me since the whole Twilight thing.

Calling me a girl is one thing. Calling me a 12 year old is only insulting by two years. Calling me a 12 year old girl, however is over the line.

And I was kidding around there, SpongeBob PissyPants.

As to the rest, I don't think Ignatz is saying that those kinds of love don't EXIST, just that they FEEL different.

I just know how I feel. Whether it means anything or not...