Ultima Online is evil... I'm serious

[Gizensha]

Friendship is a form of love to me.

[gen200]

Friendship is a form of love to me.

my thoughts, exactly.

[Moddex]

Same here. It's the most love I'll probably ever have. After thinking for a while back on the relationships I've ever had and the lack of attraction I've had, I think I may be somewhat like Gizensha. Asuxual due to a form of autism...

[Holyman83]

Friendship is a form of love to me.

It is the problem is the English only has one work for love so it get over used and the meaning get diluted.

[Gizensha]

Same here. It's the most love I'll probably ever have. After thinking for a while back on the relationships I've ever had and the lack of attraction I've had, I think I may be somewhat like Gizensha. Asuxual due to a form of autism...

I'm not actually asexual (though, within autistics the percentage of asexuals is higher than within the general population, apparantly). I just recognise that there are many types and degrees of love, friendship being the lowest non-family sort.

[Moddex]

OH, see, I thought you said you were back in the other thread regarding my identity issues. Hrm, must have skim read it.

[Dr. Doog]

no he said he was bisexual if I remember correctly

if I'm wrong that makes it even funnier that we were both wrong

[osprey]

Going back, I myself met my fiancee online. And when we actually met, that's when I realised it's just not the same. I agree, friendship is a form of love.

[Gizensha]

no he said he was bisexual if I remember correctly

if I'm wrong that makes it even funnier that we were both wrong

No, you're right.

And osprey - Of course it's not the same. But that doesn't mean it's either better or worse. Far less physical is the main minus, but positives include no social pressures (such as that horriably stressful thing called 'eye contact'), I don't have to do something that comes as naturally to me as playing the piano (i.e. - read facial expressions and body language), and no-one cares if I 'stim'. Oh, and the whole 'meet people from different cultures' thing.

It's not better, it's not worse, it's just different. And it's just as real. Additionally - no-one should apply their preferences to anyone else.

[Dr. Doog]

Gizensha McEnglander, you mean that I've met people from outside america while talking online!?

[Niko123000]

Gizensha McEnglander, you mean that I've met people from outside america while talking online!?

*slap to face* Yes you have. I hope you were being sarcastic. and if you weren't.... then god help you.

[Gizensha]

Gizensha McEnglander, you mean that I've met people from outside america while talking online!?

*slap to face* Yes you have. I hope you were being sarcastic. and if you weren't.... then god help you.

I think the McEnglander bit kinda gives the fact he's being sarcastic away

And is a bizarely good guess on his part. Why yes, I am half English and half Scottish... Have you been stalking me?

[Dr. Doog]

no I just remembered that a) you're from europe as opposed to north america or oceania and b) I once asked you if you talked funny

[Tom Flapwell]

FWIW, in earlier times, friendship, not romance, was considered the highest form of love. That's why you see more intense friendships in archaic epics like the Song of Roland.