Article on PLUR, by someone who's never heard of it

[pico]

From my understanding of his post where he clarified his view .. he was askign why people cant just let go of inhibitions and be completely open to any level of friendship possible.

I find flaw with this. The reason we have hose inhibitions, those 'mistrust' issues is because through our experiences growing up to where we are, we learned that there are horrible people as well as great people in the world, and you cannot take chances.

If i totally got what he said mixed up. Oops. Heh. I havent slept.

[Truth]

yeah, klover got it.. this def wasn't regarding romantic relationships, tho they stem from friendships too

if one is afraid to make friends because they anticipate people may be 'crazies' or baby sellers, etc. then it'll b pretty difficult to establish relationships with new people.

as for 'lets b best friends!!!!1!11' well cmon man.. if u thought my point was that we should all b trying to b best friends with everyone we meet on the street then ur really groping for an argument

" 'plunging into love' is an incorrect ideal to have... "

who decides the correct ideals? i agree with u in a romantic sense (tho i dont see why i should judge the romantic love plungers as ignorant.. let them experience what they like), in a basic friendship sense, i think approaching strangers with love is probably the best and easiest way to break the ice and get to know a person.

approaching them with fear/anger/skepticism will probably just make them uncomfortable, so what's the use?

tho i agree somewhat about 'love at first sight' being more closely attributable to lust, many great relationships might START with lust and develop into something amazing.. so why label either as right or wrong?

this community has def taught me to approach people with an open-mind and to leave my judgments at the door, because the outer-appearance and the inner-self usually turn out to be completely different

which is one of the things i love about life

[KillerTofu]

very interesting. plur to you my friend