pfif
| | Joined: 6/11/2012
Msg: 241 | |
| | A guy who doesn't read books. Deal breaker?Page 11 of 11 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11) | PetyGrace80:
I'm sorry, I was so distracted by your picture I couldn't think straight...did you say something?
That happened to me here, about a week ago. Etch-a-sketch. Every thought, erased.
That's a good thing. ;)
abmccray:
...people that don't read books aren't really "thinkers"
I have a friend who claims nobody is sentient until they've studied
mathematics at the engineer's level.
This makes me a supernumerary on this planet -- a zombie. A non-sentient being. | |
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| A guy who doesn't read books. Deal breaker?
Posted: 7/10/2012 3:37:06 PM |
have a friend who claims nobody is sentient until they've studied
mathematics at the engineer's level.
This makes me a supernumerary on this planet -- a zombie. A non-sentient being.
If you read more books you'd call your friend a blabbering fool and tell him stick his engineer's slide rule up backside.
One of the benefits of a well-read person is they don't defer to the opinions of idiots like your frined. | |
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| A guy who doesn't read books. Deal breaker?
Posted: 7/10/2012 3:53:03 PM | engineers don't even study real mathematics,. they make it simple for the iron-ring wearers & propeller-heads
what does he mean "engineer's level: ? that is dumbed-down first-year math courses
turn to the reference page/.. no original thought, for every 5-10 engineers there has to be a real scientist to think of something "original" | |
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| A guy who doesn't read books. Deal breaker?
Posted: 7/10/2012 4:34:10 PM |
I'm an avid reader of all kinds of books. Fiction, non-fiction, biographies, history etc. It's a wonderful learning tool and a great escape from TV and the "real" world sometimes. I'm not a snob but it is important to me...
If it is really that important to you, have some fun and find the next dude who you're intrested (that is if you're both up for it). | |
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| A guy who doesn't read books. Deal breaker?
Posted: 7/10/2012 5:59:10 PM |
Don't you get it???? With all these choices out there (in dating), you'll never focus and settle on one person. You'll always find some lame excuse to reject a man, because "there's somebody else out there better suited for me".
I love it when people use the word "always". It usually means they exaggerated and I won't agree with them. LOL
I don't agree with the quote. IF the OPie had stated 50 different criteria, then perhaps I would agree with the quoted. But she didn't. She asked if it is reasonable to want to date a fellow reader. That's one criteria in my book. And in fact, she qualified that even to say that it's a "thirst for knowledge" she is really looking for in a mate.
I think it is smart to figure out what are your "must haves" and your "doesn't matters". And this is something that we naturally do overtime as we date. In fact, I'll go so far as to say that's one of the reasons dating is important, rather than picking someone out of a book based on a list of qualities and marrying them without dating.
I have my own "must haves" and I"m pretty sure they are different than the OPies. And it's smart for me to limit based on those so that I don't waste some guy's time. Guys of course have their own lists. Some guys for example, want to have babies with a woman. I"m done making babies. I won't date a guy who has that on his "must have" list. That wouldn't be fair to him. Is that wrong for him to limit himself to just women interested in procreating? Well, I think if it's important to him then it's not wrong at all.
And of course, back to the OPie...a reader, a man with a thirst for knowledge, is what gets her going...so let her seek it. I'm pretty sure there are enough fish out there for her to find a man like that.
All I would say is, if you are going to limit your choices to a narrow selection of mates, then don't b*tch about how long it takes you to find a mate. The OPie has not done that, but boy I"ve sure seen people on here do that! "Why can't I find someone who will accept me, just because I"m a crossdressing male who likes to rub up against balloons while having sex and making dog noises at the same time??" Bahahahahahaha.... | |
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| A guy who doesn't read books. Deal breaker?
Posted: 7/10/2012 6:29:35 PM |
engineers don't even study real mathematics,
Where I attended school, engineering students were enrolled in the same math classes as math, physics, etc. students. | |
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pfif
| | Joined: 6/11/2012
Msg: 247 | |
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| A guy who doesn't read books. Deal breaker?
Posted: 7/11/2012 12:46:04 AM | | My ex read a lot and likes to write I rarely read I am into some fantasy stuff and have a large collection of books on martial arts and historical arms. I go through fazes I may read a lot for awhile then not pick the book up again for months. While in tech school I read just about every weekend because I was alone in the dorms and liked to pass the time reading while doing my laundry. I was given a Dark Hunters book by a friend so I read it at times if I am asked to read something I will but I am usually busy doing other things. | |
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| A guy who doesn't read books. Deal breaker?
Posted: 7/12/2012 4:19:22 AM | | I get most of my information from the internet. How, you ask? I read it on my computer screen. For some reason, society has created a stigma about people who use the internet to gain knowledge. Practically everything in the library or bookstore can be found online. Even so, reading books is no different than reading and processing information found on the internet, whether it's an e-book, or just an article. | |
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| A guy who doesn't read books. Deal breaker?
Posted: 7/12/2012 8:15:27 AM | There's nothing wrong with reading online, at all.
I don't like novels whatsoever, in fact I don't really like books at all. I find them out-dated and largely replaceable. I find it far easier to access the relevant information from an e-book, or other source than I do in a physical hard copy. It also means I don't have to lug around anything more than a USB pen.
Not all sources of information on the internet can be trusted, but then neither can all books. It's up to an individuals discretion over whether it's likely that the source of said information is reliable or not. Once you've been using the net for while, it's fairly easy to sort the wheat from the chaff.
It seems to me that it's a little bit of prejudice against technology and a love of your own way of doing things. Asking someone to read fiction for the sake of it is a fruitless request. I'd also argue that many of the lessons a man (or woman) can learn from literature can be learned elsewhere in life - morality, ethics, wisdom and many other virtues can all be found in the most surprising of places. Most definitely though, those lessons were learned in reality, before being recanted in a book. | |
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| A guy who doesn't read books. Deal breaker?
Posted: 7/14/2012 12:12:12 AM | | I am an advid reader , but that is a really crappy book to recomment to anybody. Personally, I would wonder WTF, if a potential date tells me he read that book. | |
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| A guy who doesn't read books. Deal breaker?
Posted: 7/19/2012 1:04:22 AM | There's lots of good stuff online, many free academic papers, expert opinion, all the classic literature is free online, and study guides to go with them. It's just a case of knowing where to look, and what to avoid - i.e nearly everything!
Depends if you want someone smart or not, and what you want them to be smart about? I'm sad about people who stick to chick-lit or light stuff like shades of grey and think they can get some insight and understanding about psychology, which is a lot of people. | |
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| A guy who doesn't read books. Deal breaker?
Posted: 7/19/2012 1:14:06 AM | "50 Shades of Gray" isn't a "book" so much, but more like lite porn for women.
The question should be: "Are women that can only read trashy romance novels whores?" | |
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| A guy who doesn't read books. Deal breaker?
Posted: 7/19/2012 2:42:07 AM | | Yeah, but then people can go around thinking about the effects of abuse and relationships in cliched megasimplistic ways. Then again, I'm not sure I want to meet a girl who has taken on board everything Orwell and Dostoyevsky had to say either. I'm confused. | |
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