You think of what a perfect experience WILL soon be like (Idealize the perfect love or experience before it happens)
Idealize the perfect love or experience last (You reflect on the experience afterwards)
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Pursuit of experience (You jump into experiences for the sake of experiencing)
Pursuit of ideal (You have a set of ideal situations and you seek them out)
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Emotion is a reactionary event to stimuli and duress
Emotion is expression as a bursting well, a spring of intense force
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Popular-held beliefs of relationships or happiness
Rejection (ignore) popular beliefs
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Seek one side of opposites states of being: joy/depression, love/hate, beauty/ugly
Seek duality of emotions as a sensation of experience
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Life is about being the bold and the beautiful
Life is about any experience of any kind: all life is beautiful
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Using just logic is cowardly and ugly
Reject anything ugly; avoid any cowardice
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"Mystic" perception of nature; Nature causes intense experiences
Think of Nature as setting for perfect experiences to happen in.
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You daydream, plan, and think about experiences that you seek to have
You reflect and think on experiences you have had
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Platonic Love is sexual detachment from one another
Platonic Love is spiritual attachment to one another
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Against controlling personal 'environment,' leave yourself open to random people and places.
You control your personal 'environment', such as friends, places you go, and people around you
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Form and function before content: proper use of things is more important than what something means
Content before form and function: the meaning of something is more important than what something is useful for
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I think that individuals who never attempt to rise above society are scary
I think that individuals who never attempt to be in a relationship are scary
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I consider my views and ideas as part of, but not inherent within, others' views, such as friends, family, and community
I center my views and ideas relative to others' views, such as friends, family, and community.
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I sometimes see myself as if there is a camera filming me and I am part of a movie.
I sometimes believe the weather shifts and changes according to my moods
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Sympathetic Fallacy (I am sad for you because a tree fell on your car).
Pathetic fallacy (I feel sad for the tree because it fell over—was that your car that broke it's fall?)
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Myself and others should seek to use reason and then emotion
Myself and others should seek to use emotion and then reason
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'Lifestyle' and setting depends on my own ideal of a good life.
Preference for living in remote or isolated wilderness or open country
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My views of romance are usually in stories of the past, such as princes and other histories.
My views of romance come mostly from folk ballads, jazz, and the blues
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I prefer to study or watch movies about Ancient Rome
I prefer to study or watch movies about the Middle Ages
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I seek to climb to the highest social and economic class possible
I seek the growth of humanitarianism and democracy over my own growth
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I belong to a specific church or religion. I am religious
I do not belong to a church or religion; I have a personal spiritualism
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Death and dying is a depressing subject that is best avoided when possible.
Death and dying is a wonderfully terrifying thought to ponder, and I enjoy doing so.
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The word "irrational" has a negative sound to it.
Seeking the "irrational" allows me to have a better imagination
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In excitable, deadly, or scary experiences, I tend to hold back emotional and sensual actions
In excitable, deadly, or scary experiences, I tend to let loose emotional and sensual actions
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People should check their passion and express it suitably.
All of life should focus on passions.
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My own little escape is to envision changing something specific to create a better life.
My own little escape is to daydreams about a better life.
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Romance (sexual or not) is a wonderful form of rising above the material world to the spiritual.
Romance (sexual or not) is a wonderful form of escapism from the harshness of reality.
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My imagination mostly attempts to understand higher truths.
My imagination mostly 'fleshes out' ideas and things I want
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If given free-time, I seek the weird, and mysterious
If given free time, I seek excitement to avoid the drudgery of everyday life.
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A romantic hero is a lone wandering adventurer with little to no deep ties to anyone or any place.
A romantic hero in a story often saves others from loneliness and drudgery
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Change is wanted so I can obtain a better life; then , please, little to no change is needed
Continual change is living; I would rather life change for the worse than have things stay safe and secure.
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Spontaneity must always exist in every moment
By being occasional spontaneous I can find something that leads to eventual happiness and security.
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Beauty as a life truly lived, even dog-poo is beautiful, squishing accidentally between one's toes.
Ideal 'common-held' notion of beauty, such as baby-poo being a necessary ugliness.
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We all should be both innocent and experienced continually.
Person begins life innocent and gains experience
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When giving friends advice I often use psychological terms and self-help ideas,
When giving friends advice I often refer to Biblical, or Shakespearean, or other literary stories and myths.
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Artists are creators of reality.
Artists need to be, or think they are, rebels outside of society
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Through imagination I can understand ideas and views that I had not yet heard from others.
Through imagination I can contrive a better way of doing something or achieving something
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In a romance story, the two people are separated in some way and they can never be together.
In a romance story, the two people destined to be together eventually end up together
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A romance is more about the feelings a person carries throughout life for another person
A romance is more about the relationship and bond that forms between people
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I prefer vacations to be out in nature
I prefer vacations at a resort
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I tend to dress in style
I tend to dress in what fits my mood.
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I want to finish school so I can get out of the rut I live in now.
I want to finish school so I can finally obtain the life I have always wanted
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If I were to write a poem to someone, it would be to express how I felt.
If I were to write a poem to someone, it would express how I feel
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