leadership527
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~FAST REPLY TO ALL~ In the past I've offered up this answre to the whole 'no limits' thing. Maybe this'll sit right for some of you. In my opinion, the vast majority of the limits/nolimits debates have nothing to do with any disagreement at all. It has to do with terminology and mental outlook. Let's divide the world into the poets and the engineers. The poets will say things like, "I am a no limits slave" because it is true in their reality. Contained within that statement are a bunch of assumptions like, 'we are not discussing mental illness, horror movies, or any other related crap'. They are extolling the virtues of their choices as poets are wont to do and really, who runs around saying poets are all liars because they say things like, "You shine brighter than the sun." or "Your eyes are the windows to my world." Neither is factually true. Then, of course, we have the engineer types (myself among them), who are looking at an entirely different world view. To us, absolutes are... well.. absolute. When we say absolute zero we mean that temperature beyond which it is not possible to be colder. It is absolute. There are no exclusions or caveats. If we later find out it really was possible to get colder than that, we'd change the definition, not run around insisting that the old temperate was still absolute zero. So when we say 'no limits' we mean literally there is no limit to what this person would do. To us, that is a meaningful distinction and the fact that it is not to the poets doesn't make us either stupid or unable to imagine the wonders that is TPE. Yup, as an engineer, I don't acknowledge any no-limits slaves in my engineering definition of what no-limits means. And here's a big surprise... all the poet types tend to agree with me when put that way. But when I equate 'no limits' to any of the other statements I routinely make and accept within my marriage, then I'm perfectly fine with the phrase and, in fact, would say Carol qualifies. "Carol has no limits which are relevant within our relationship" How's that?
< Message edited by leadership527 -- 5/21/2009 11:55:39 AM >
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~Jeff I didn't so much "enslave" Carol as I did "enlove" her. - Me I want a joyous, loving, respectful relationship where the male is in charge and deserves to be. - DavanKael
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