Platonic Obssession? (...is there such a thing?)
Oh boy... Holly and I's theory has been challenged! And I think I'll hafto lay down my weapons . . . for once! Last semester she and I were "obsessed" with a guy friend of ours... we kept talking about him, his personality, mode of discussion, intensityblahblah blah...Holly turned to me as we walked past Saint Francis guys dorm at Christendom ( wow! i just realized that i remeber exactly where this theory was conceived!).
"Soph! Are we obsessed?" ( I can even hear the descending vocal tone of her voice inflection) without even thinking i said right back:
"yes! . . . but its Platonic obsession!"
...to which we broke out laughing ( aaaaaah... risibility what an intriguing thing, lol)
We were perfectly content to leave our feeling of him at that- and it made perfect sense to us logically... haha! I suppose we thought in our heads that we were obssessed with him objectively, that in theory we would be head over heels but in reality we were just apprehending the metaphysical and physical reality and recognizing it as ... a good thing... ')
But,
last night,
my roomate Jenny Hoffman and Dan disputed the Platonic Obsession Theory.
"Nothing is Platonic." - Dan (in the male-female context)
"If there's nothing there- one of you is gay." - Jenny
I submit this for consideration... but make no final judgement at this time...
')
[ Oh yeah and another funny thing--- we had music on and 50 cent's just a little bit song came on...
" What I like about this song is that its all about moderation." - Dan
it was quite funny, in fact]
"Soph! Are we obsessed?" ( I can even hear the descending vocal tone of her voice inflection) without even thinking i said right back:
"yes! . . . but its Platonic obsession!"
...to which we broke out laughing ( aaaaaah... risibility what an intriguing thing, lol)
We were perfectly content to leave our feeling of him at that- and it made perfect sense to us logically... haha! I suppose we thought in our heads that we were obssessed with him objectively, that in theory we would be head over heels but in reality we were just apprehending the metaphysical and physical reality and recognizing it as ... a good thing... ')
But,
last night,
my roomate Jenny Hoffman and Dan disputed the Platonic Obsession Theory.
"Nothing is Platonic." - Dan (in the male-female context)
"If there's nothing there- one of you is gay." - Jenny
I submit this for consideration... but make no final judgement at this time...
')
[ Oh yeah and another funny thing--- we had music on and 50 cent's just a little bit song came on...
" What I like about this song is that its all about moderation." - Dan
it was quite funny, in fact]
posted by Velvet at 2:27 PM
8 Comments:
but you just said that Platonic obsession DOES exist so you just agreed with me ( or my original theory, lol)!
i still hold that platonic obession exists because there are different degress of attraction and so this will allow room for a non-romantic attraction
and besides that--- romance and attraction really follows no rules--- so this too gives room for possiblilty of a non-romantic attraction
I said that? Platonic obession exists?
. . .
>>>>>Platonic obession<<<< is purely unsexual or unromantic.
there you go... you spoke of it as a real thing... and this is waht i too am referring to, LOL!!!
on second thought theremay be rules to attraction, but the one rule, at least in my experience, that doesn't get broken is that you own idea of "what is attractive" is constantly being shattered and re-molded...or perhaps its just the illusions that are being shattered?
LOL--just that you were very intriguing, ie, being an ex- catholic, ex-charismatic, philosopher, writer... and basically we were saying how departing from the religion issue you and I and she seem to have similar thought patterns about many things... basically that... lol... we were delving into why you think the way you do in fact LOL
LOL!!! i forget-- but is that what we said holly
well yes, i agree i liked the black backround better but the black combined with the loss of colored font option was getting way tooooo depressing- too much black depresses me.. i like it but not too much... ok and holly was referring to another "he" in her commment when she said "i hope he never checks your blog" so no, no-one is lying to you, lol...
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