ITT: the truth about soulmates

T: good point, my analogy fell apart. Good call.

My opinion: There's always gonna be at least one person in the world that is perfectly compatible with you, but it'd be a miracle if you fund that person. Thankfully, I believe in miracles, you sexy thing.

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Nice reference there at the end.

Define "perfectly compatible". If you mean "with whom you'll be in absolute agreement, and with whom you'll never quarrel", I doubt that they exist. And if they existed, I don't think that a relationship with them would be particularly desirable.

The two people who I would be more inclined to consider "soulmates" have quarreled on and off nonstop for their 50+ years marriage. Their outlooks on life are similar, on certain points of view, but by no means identical; and on practical matters, they certainly are not always in agreement. But still, it is evident that, in some sense, they complete each other — that they are not just two people who happened to hang out together for a long time, that they belong together in a very fundamental sense. Even though one of these two has died almost seven years ago, it still feels weird — no, literally impossible — to think of the one without thinking of the other.

If this is what we mean by soulmates — not people who are "perfect" for each other in some abstract and superficial sense, but people who can drive each other towards excellence and who truly belong together — then I know that they exist. But they do not exist "in the wild", so to say: in a successful relationship, I think, people grow more and more into each other's "soulmates", in a process that never ends.

edited 1st Apr '12 3:01:44 PM by Carciofus

But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.

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Well, it can be that, or it can be someone who compliments you. It can be someone with whom you argue with every day until you die, or it can be someone who is 110% in sync with you. It all depends on what kind of relationship dynamic is best for you. Compatible does not have to mean "exactly the same in every way aside from their genitals."

edited 1st Apr '12 4:04:30 PM by 0dd1

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I take offense to you implying same-sex couples have no way of being soul-mates.

"It's so hard to be humble, knowing how great I am."

What, you think same sex couples will have genitals that are carbon copies of one another's? No two penises or vaginas are alike, y'know, they're each a special snowflake.

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Yep, as the myriad of vagina pics online indicate, they are like faces - no two are alike. Similar, maybe, but different in subtle ways.

On a semi-related note, that's a couple of sentences I never thought I'd ever say.

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And I never thought I'd make a vagina-face comparison unless I was talking about Lovecraftian-type creatures.

I love you all, so damn much.

Guess that makes Tvtropes my platonic soulmate. Nice.

I'm sorry, but I don't feel the same about you.

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edited 1st Apr '12 8:32:17 PM by Ekuran

Tvtropes is just not that into you.

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Found all three of mine :D

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Truth about soulmates is that they are impossible.

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