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   2/10/09

   drjay1966

   Ummmm...sometimes. Though, certainly I've met people who've had a big effect on me and the reverse wasn't true, and vice versa....

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   2/10/09

   windroot

   I am a firm believer in it. I met my wife riding up two floors in an elevator and then was out of town for 2 weeks. I tracked her down and asked her out on a date and two weeks later proposed. That was 37 years ago. It hasn't always been a day at the beach, but we endure.
   
   Here is a very brief speculative piece I wrote on the physics of attraction:
   
   www.windroot.com/everyman/archives/entanglement.htm

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   2/10/09

   polybore

   Of course some chemical reactions are reversible. e.g. The Haber process.

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   2/10/09

   LynneaUrania

   I believe it. And the transformation may be for better or worse. But the Haber process doesn't work the same way in humans as it does with atoms.

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   1. 

      2/10/09

      polybore

      Indeed the industrial production of ammonia by the Haber process is not so romantic. Perhaps the the removal of ammonia from the human body via the ornithine (urea) cycle is more appropriate.
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      2/10/09

      LynneaUrania

      I can just see it now. This Valentine's Day, we could do traditions that would fit Dalton and Democritus:
      
      "You make me react!"
      "You are so full of latent heat!"
      "I could just evaporate!"
      "Your covalent bonds are so irresistable!"
      
      Yech....!
      
      I suppose I'm a hopeless romantic. I'm smelling too much sulphur in the air.
   3. 

      2/10/09

      polybore

      Nope you are missing the romance in Chemistry. How about...
      
      Are you pleased to see me or is that a Bunsen burner in your pocket?
      
      Or.
      
      Your eyes are like two Petri dishes twinkling in the sun.
   4. 

      2/10/09

      busylizzy

      PB - you are such a romantic!
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   2/10/09

   busylizzy

   So true. Some reactions are bigger than others, though...

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   2/10/09

   DangerMouse

   I agree. Wow do I love you threads! The thing about other reactions is we cannot fault them though their own personal experience. And of course we can benefit from them!
   
   Ii personally benefit from them b/c i'm all about understanding. Not to voice my objections but to understand. We cannot fault others opinions b/c they depend on their personal experiences. Through others I am taken out of my own "box". I wish to grasp other that differ from self. To get it. I so wish for other to agreement but that's not reality, nor do I wish to put them down just b/c they don't agree. Instead I favor their opinion and insight. To relate.
   
   To have the same discernment is to live in world peace. I cannot judge for they are as right as I am in their own life.
   
   We will always benefit from others for their view influence our own, to relate or even to agree. I then would not dare condemn others.
   
   Though I believe that Christ's way it correct I know that people don't grasp the same deliverance. Who are we to judge? I surely don't. I instead respect their word and don't force my own understanding upon them. I simply listen and respond.
   
   We are all precious and worthy.

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   2/11/09

   mattmilamii

   If you attend a pot luck dinner, you find that everyone has brought something to the table. now when you make your plate, you can only do one of three things. Use only what you have brought, only what is brought by someone else, or make a mixture from both offerings. What takes place at that moment is a personal choice based on the contact. No matter your choice it affects your character. You will be moved to remain the same, adopt the position of another, or create a brand new position that is the offspring of combining the former ones. That is transformation. Mankind must be firm in what is prudent, accepting of what is good, and forever seeking for what is needed.
   
   Blessings,
   Matt.

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      2/11/09

      Thundercatt99

      Interesting analogy!