Excessive earnestness is the opposite of attractive. A big reason why is that it's an indication of desperation. And make no mistake: women have a sixth sense - for desperation. They can smell it from a miles away.

Well I'm not desperate for women.  It doesn't surprise me that you are not at all answering anything I said, but making this about me personally - my character.  If I'm desperate it's not "for a woman" - that's not hard.  It's to find a woman that I can love.  It's to find a way to live a decent life in this society.  I've just about given up on most trad Catholics.  

To the desperate and the apparently desperate, I say: Cultivate levity. Even if you must fake it, cultivate levity. Dissipate the cloud over your head at all costs. The effects of this will extend far beyond the attraction of women.

This is an internet forum.  Yes, the people make me angry, and I suppose that makes me look unhappy and "desperate" to some.  But many of those people want to make me angry, and they don't want to discuss topics on the actual merits.  They're here to provoke me.

I'm here to hold up a mirror to their vicious character.  To their false piety.  To their complete lack of reason.

Let us hope that they are not two *entirely* different things.

Right, not "entirely different" - but not the same thing.

It's one thing to respect a woman.  It's quite another thing to want to marry her.

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Excessive earnestness is the opposite of attractive. A big reason why is that it's an indication of desperation. And make no mistake: women have a sixth sense - for desperation. They can smell it from a miles away.

Well I'm not desperate for women.  It doesn't surprise me that you are not at all answering anything I said, but making this about me personally - my character.  If I'm desperate it's not "for a woman" - that's not hard.  It's to find a woman that I can love.  It's to find a place in this society.  

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To the desperate and the apparently desperate, I say: Cultivate levity. Even if you must fake it, cultivate levity. Dissipate the cloud over your head at all costs. The effects of this will extend far beyond the attraction of women.

This is an internet forum.  Yes, the people make me angry, and I suppose that makes me look unhappy and "desperate" to some.  But many of those people want to make me angry, and they don't want to discuss anything.  They're here to provoke me.

I'm here to hold up a mirror to their vicious character.  To their false piety.  To their complete lack of reason.

Your ideals are laudable. Unfortunately, excessive earnestness in adhering to them all too often makes you a puppet. Your attackers pull your strings and you dance. You treat them far too seriously.

As for me, no, I'm not going to respond point by point to you. You believe that you're operating entirely according to reason, but you really aren't. The fact is that the subrational is a stronger force here, as it usually is in the world at large. Therefore one must often deal accordingly.

At any rate, this would be an excellent book for you, and all, to devote much attention to:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0818909064/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=httpwwwchanco-20&linkCode=as2&camp=217145&creative=399349&creativeASIN=0818909064

Yes I'm trying to understand just what their goals are.

The people here taunting me are immoral but they also lack sense.

Yes, I've seen some jerks unjustly attack you. But forget it! It's unimportant. Take care that, by adopting a victim mentality, you yourself don't become yet another emasculated Oprahist.

Have a drink on me, sir.

By the way, the recent posts in this thread illustrate the pernicious effects of the voting stuff.

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By the way, the recent posts in this thread illustrate the pernicious effects of the voting stuff. I'm now finding myself checking to see if I'm getting positive votes and if Tele is getting negative votes. And seeing that I'm getting positive votes is stoking my pride. This is an indication of my own corruption, of course. But still, it's instructive. Of course I don't want negative votes either. I want positive votes, if there must be votes. I want my pride to be stoked - and yet I don't. Yes, instructive.

Should I vote you down so you feel better?  

Seriously, would what you're posting be any different if you were getting negative feedback rather than postive ... if so, how so?

Even fisheaters didn't have unlimited downrates.  (the ability to downrate every post with no time limits)

At any rate, there are no downraters more indefatigable than a women upset about an issue pertaining to feminism.