I'm so attracted to the hyperlogical, mad-scientist type.

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I’ve met only a scant handful of those people, most of them online. Closest I can compare to is Desty Nova in Battle Angel Alita. They are characterized by intelligence, and by having no social/cultural adversion to almost anything that we might consider “gross” or “unethical” or “taboo”; they see the world in terms of pure mathematics and logic.

Just sayin’. I’d ask where they congregate, but I suspect that love is a near-impossibility. :slight_smile:

I suspect I’m attracted to them for 3 reasons: their intelligence, their unflinching ability to throw off the shackles of society and culture without a care to what others think of them, and their almost paradoxical state of emotionless passion.

*Yes, this is quite mundane and pointless. :wink: *

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Google up Philo Foglio’s online comic strip Girl Genius.
Start with Girl Genius 101, read it all.
It should be like crack/porn for you! :smiley:

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As someone who is at least somewhat like that, and and used to (at least outwardly) be even more like that, I strongly suspect that it’s at least partly an act.

Having the ability to, when appropriate, not let your emotions rule you, is one thing, and (at least some times) a potentially admirable trait, although anyone who outwardly emphasizes that that’s how they are is probably playing it up for some reason.

This is not to be confused with someone who claims to HAVE no emotions, who is either a liar, or in denial, or a psychopath. If you find yourself romantically attracted to that type of person, I suggest you ask yourself why. (Which, I guess you already have, as you started this thread.)

Certainly a good thing. (And if you want to know where intelligent people congregate, the SDMB is as good a starting point as any.)

This is kind of like conformity and noncomformity. Part of being a strong and real person is being able to make decisions for yourself, and not (to use your slightly overdramatic term) be “shackled” by the expectations of conformity, society, your friends, your peer group, pop culture, etc. But part of being an even stronger and realer person is not always viewing the world in terms of shackling. Doing things to prove you’re not being shackled is just another form of shackling. And caring what other people think, and acting on that caring, is a large part of what being a good person and having friends is all about. A true friend is someone you like, respect and trust enough that you DO care what they think.

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Love follows its own mathematics.

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I want to make a quick comment here, which is that I don’t mean to imply that anyone is being actively or consciously dishonest. It’s just that it’s easy to form a persona which exaggerates a trait, even one that is legitimately there, particularly in the hectic emotional turmoil that surrounds growing up and developing an identity.

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Well, I am extremely attracted to skinny mousy girls with glasses. Smart, self-sufficient, yet shy and reserved. A bit of a buck-tooth turns me on even more for some reason. Wild, disheveled hair, baggy, unflattering clothing, with several books and eyes downcast.

I tell my friends I have a nerd fetish, and they all laugh as if I am joking. They don’t believe me when I say I would turn down a model for a chance at a girl like this.

Not to say I am ONLY attracted to these types of girls, just for some reason, they are my ideal. :slight_smile:

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So… you’re single?

<< polishes glasses >>

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You and 75% of the male population of the board.

(And I thought JThunder was a man. Or am I missing something?)

(And who is surprised that this thread degenerated into flirting within 10 posts? Meanwhile, the TRUE mad scientist types immediately backtraced dre2xl’s IP address, unleashed their armies of flying monkeys, and have now carried her off to their island lairs.)

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I think he is, I suspect he is referring to the OP. :slight_smile: Probably didn’t even read the whole thread or just wasn’t aware that people might think he was talking to me.

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Haha! JThunder flirted with a guy! That’s so gay!!!

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Aren’t you the same person who makes :eek: faces everytime I say something weird?

I’ve also been accused of being ‘too logical’ and ‘too analytical’ on this board. No idea what the ‘too’ stands for, probably means I am 30% more logical than is deemed average or something. If I were 30% less logical than average (then again what is average) i’d be ‘too emotional’. But those are the cards you play with

I will be waiting with baited breath in my 1983 Nova with my Mr. Big cassette and bottle of MD20/20

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My Igor can beat up your Igor.

And there’s nothing worse than a bruised Igor.

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No disagreement here. I’m not attracted to robots, I’m attracted to mad scientists–wide leaps in difference. Perhaps “emotionless” would not be the right word to use; after all, how can one have passion and at the same time be emotionless; for the antithesis of emotion is apathy? A better way to describe this quality would be “passion without sentimental underpinnings”.

I don’t like venturing into GD territory; but here goes a deeper explanation of why I’m attracted to this type.

I harbor no belief in any supernatural entities. However, I believe that society overall has a strong need for religion; people are weak-willed creatures that easily slip into depression and hedonism without a motivating force. Most atheists I know have replaced a supernatural God with another deity, such as karma or perhaps devoting their life and beliefs to a political movement; even so, many are consumed by apathy and depression. As an example, I submit that most people, atheist or otherwise, agree to an idea that there is an ideal state for Earth to be in, a belief that implies that the Earth is either an autonomous entity, or that the preservation of certain vegetation/animals is somehow inherently good.

“Strong” would be the wrong word to use people who have confronted the reality that their own physical existence and actions hold no more meaning in the big picture than a wayward speck of interstellar dust millions of light-years away. Morals do not exist. Karma does not exist. Rather, anyone who takes this callous notion to heart, and yet maintain a zeal for life and for knowledge, has my deep admiration.

(OT: So, why is a social order to be upkept, and why are there universal ideas of good and evil across cultures? It all comes down to game theory; that nearly every society has independently developed its own version of the Golden Rule is no coincidence–game theory shows that initiating malevolent action against others is on the whole a good recipe for downfall; thus far, the Tit-for-Tat strategy the optimal strategy Prisoner’s Dilemma/Hawk & Dove/other similar scenarios. But I disgress…)

Perhaps you misunderstood me. I do not advocate hedonism. Tact, kindness, and social grace is quite logical in that it benefits greatly in the long run. You may not win the jackpot (by, say, robbing a bank), but you make no enemies and you accumulate small payoffs throughout your life.

I am thinking more in the manner of a person who does not hold anything sacred, scientifically speaking.

I agree, but not in the way you intended. More GD territory, but I don’t believe in the conventional idea of a “real you”. Taken to the extreme, if we released our true primal personalities, we would resemble a loose society of violent hunter-gatherers powered by sexual appetite and day-to-day survival. It’s a honorable thing to identify an ideal and to work towards it–IF you had a logical reason for choosing that ideal.

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Hijack, possibly, but two things:

a) Post this in Great Debates, you might get a good debate going,

b) I always fall for the dorky scientist geek. Every single time. :wink:

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The boundary between hate and love is far finer than anyone realizes. You stand out as a poster, because of your dichotomous persona that seems to oscillate between “total idiocy” and “pure brilliance”. The :eek: comes from my brain whimpering trying to figure you out… for all your inane posts, you still are the only Doper I know of that has whooshed the entire board–no small feat. :stuck_out_tongue:

Up to now, the only conclusion I made was that you were a genius playing one giant game on us all; I never considered that your posts were in earnest and you are fully aware the ramifications of the posts you make–you just don’t care. Hmm… I just may have to reconsider my opinion of you. :wink:

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I was responding to the OP… who is hopefully female.

No, I’m not willing to experiment.

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I’m a female, yup. I keep my intellectualism hidden most of the time, even (especially?) online. I’m quite the happy-go-lucky athlete and I can’t stay still. Apparently insomnia brings out the more philosophical side of me–quite the rarity.

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So, how you doin’?

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It is a mixture of obliviousness and indifference.

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Bugger.