Women have now been so much sexually liberated, that civilization doesn't make sense anymore. Why would any normal man spend two-three decades of his life studying how to combat tumors in order to become a doctor, a useful member of the society, when all this will get him, at the emotional level, is a golddigger who will have his child, then bail with half his fortune to keep humping gym rats for the rest of her life?
@lurkerhasarisen stop monkeying with the market.
Here, @Typo-MAGAshiv, have one.
It would just take too many words (for my liking) to describe things in a objection-proof way.
Fair. I commented because it looked like you were conflating belonging-to like possession of possesiveness, with belongingness as in Maslow's Hierarchy of needs.
Iibguess that's the good thing with dialectic, helps clarify your notions.
Still, intimacy is not about ownership but belonging in the sense that it refers to you too. The classic "I belong to you, you belong to me" feeling.
It would just take too many words (for my liking) to describe things in a objection-proof way. I'm a practical guy, so I focus on what I think is the crux of the matter. Also, I have an evolutionary, not a philosophical perspective. Evolution doesn't distinct so much between belonging and ownership, as philosophers do. (It also fucks quite more than philosophers).
So this exchange started with whether the feeling of intimacy is feasible without the "egoistical"(?) part of wanting to have the other for yourself, a hypothesis that TRP makes clear cannot be made in today's gender dynamics.
Read MoreNah I'm Cambridge.
Jokes aside, the root of philosophy is making proper distinctions and using the right words.
Is it feasible to feel intimate -close to a woman without considering her belonging to you?
You're describing the feeling of "ownership" here, not really belonging.
You'll never undermine a child's independence by give them your unconditional love.
If I had to differentiate Love from Intimacy, I'd say that Love is actionable, (taking care of), while Intimacy is a feeling you have.
I'm still wary about covering your intimacy needs with your kids, because it puts pressure on them "to love you back". Children are rather relieved to feel that their parents love each other, so that they (the kids) don't have to do the loving themselves.
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