Comments on: Engaging http://www.jeremyfloyd.com/2006/engaging/ Marketing, Business, and Leadership with a Philosophical Flare... Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:07:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jeremy Floyd http://www.jeremyfloyd.com/2006/engaging/comment-page-1/#comment-258 Jeremy Floyd Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:51:03 +0000 http://www.jeremyfloyd.com/2006/engaging/#comment-258 Whim? I don't have a problem with whims. I have been married for six years, and I would say that in a lot of ways relationships as are built on whims and fancies. Otherwise, I don't know how you describe the "leap of faith" required to make something more than a crush. The most interesting parts of relationships are the meaning that people ascribe to their relationships. My post was addressing something quite the opposite of a whim. I was frustrated by the fact that those people sought quite the opposite of meaning to embark on their future. They used a forum that is cliche to publicly seek the approval of their hopeful-fiance. Instead of creating their own meaning, these guys are borrowing a tired trick to espouse their love to the object of their love, seconds after the weather report. Whim? I don’t have a problem with whims. I have been married for six years, and I would say that in a lot of ways relationships as are built on whims and fancies. Otherwise, I don’t know how you describe the “leap of faith” required to make something more than a crush. The most interesting parts of relationships are the meaning that people ascribe to their relationships.

My post was addressing something quite the opposite of a whim. I was frustrated by the fact that those people sought quite the opposite of meaning to embark on their future. They used a forum that is cliche to publicly seek the approval of their hopeful-fiance. Instead of creating their own meaning, these guys are borrowing a tired trick to espouse their love to the object of their love, seconds after the weather report.

]]> By: Jason Steinle http://www.jeremyfloyd.com/2006/engaging/comment-page-1/#comment-257 Jason Steinle Tue, 01 Aug 2006 00:16:53 +0000 http://www.jeremyfloyd.com/2006/engaging/#comment-257 What the hell is up with you? Who are you to question people's love, level of commitment, and so forth. Sure, we have the Britneys and Nikki Hiltons of the world, folks who get married on a whim and are divorced/annulled post haste. But I've known folks who have gotten married on a whim--hell, we went to law school with someone who did--and are still happily married years later. My own parents married essentially on a whim (they went from not knowing each other to being married in three months), and they will be married 36 years this October. What the hell is up with you? Who are you to question people’s love, level of commitment, and so forth. Sure, we have the Britneys and Nikki Hiltons of the world, folks who get married on a whim and are divorced/annulled post haste. But I’ve known folks who have gotten married on a whim–hell, we went to law school with someone who did–and are still happily married years later. My own parents married essentially on a whim (they went from not knowing each other to being married in three months), and they will be married 36 years this October.

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