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Choosing between a Nice person, a Theist and an Atheist.

drsatish

Active Member
Choosing between a Nice person, a Theist and an Atheist.

I show you 3 pictures of humans (of either sex).
I guarantee that A is a Nice Person.
I guarantee that B is a Theist - but no idea if he/she is a Nice Person.
I guarantee that C is an Atheist - but no idea if he/she is a Nice Person.

Q1: Who will you choose as your companion in a Long Trip?
Q2: Who will you choose as your Life Partner?
Q3. Who will you choose as your cell-mate in a prison?

What matters really is.......

Satish
 

LuisDantas

Aura of atheification
Premium Member
With so little and so unquestionable information provided in the premise, the answers can only be A for all three options.

Unless, I suppose, one's sexuality tips the balance away from A in the choice of Life Partner.
 

chinu

chinu
Choosing between a Nice person, a Theist and an Atheist.

I show you 3 pictures of humans (of either sex).
I guarantee that A is a Nice Person.
I guarantee that B is a Theist - but no idea if he/she is a Nice Person.
I guarantee that C is an Atheist - but no idea if he/she is a Nice Person.

Q1: Who will you choose as your companion in a Long Trip?
Q2: Who will you choose as your Life Partner?
Q3. Who will you choose as your cell-mate in a prison?

What matters really is.......

Satish
Are these choise for the Nice persons or theists or athiests ?

It depends.....
 

ellenjanuary

Well-Known Member
A. I'm not a Nice person. That's out. I would not choose a male life partner, I would not choose a female cellmate; that's out. I cannot even say I "know" any atheists, all the theists I know are full of crap; that's out. So... what was the question again?

I choose D: to make do with what I got. ;)
 

bobhikes

Nondetermined
Premium Member
Choosing between a Nice person, a Theist and an Atheist.

I show you 3 pictures of humans (of either sex).
I guarantee that A is a Nice Person.
I guarantee that B is a Theist - but no idea if he/she is a Nice Person.
I guarantee that C is an Atheist - but no idea if he/she is a Nice Person.

Q1: Who will you choose as your companion in a Long Trip?
Q2: Who will you choose as your Life Partner?
Q3. Who will you choose as your cell-mate in a prison?

What matters really is.......

Satish

Q1 and Q3 the most interesting:) of the bunch and least stinky(Can't stand people that smell bad).:sad4:

Q2 Took me 32 years and several potiential partners to find the proper one and settle down. I doubt I will ever make a rash decision on a life partner.
 

Rainbow Mage

Lib Democrat/Agnostic/Epicurean-ish/Buddhist-ish
Choosing between a Nice person, a Theist and an Atheist.

I show you 3 pictures of humans (of either sex).
I guarantee that A is a Nice Person.
I guarantee that B is a Theist - but no idea if he/she is a Nice Person.
I guarantee that C is an Atheist - but no idea if he/she is a Nice Person.

Q1: Who will you choose as your companion in a Long Trip?

The nice person

Q2: Who will you choose as your Life Partner?

The nice person

Q3. Who will you choose as your cell-mate in a prison?

The nice person
 

ChristineES

Tiggerism
Premium Member
Being a theist, atheist, or agnostic is not a determining factor of whether a person is nice or not. :)
 

Penumbra

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Choosing between a Nice person, a Theist and an Atheist.

I show you 3 pictures of humans (of either sex).
I guarantee that A is a Nice Person.
I guarantee that B is a Theist - but no idea if he/she is a Nice Person.
I guarantee that C is an Atheist - but no idea if he/she is a Nice Person.

Q1: Who will you choose as your companion in a Long Trip?
Q2: Who will you choose as your Life Partner?
Q3. Who will you choose as your cell-mate in a prison?

What matters really is.......

Satish
For Q1, I'd be ok with going random I suppose. Going with the nice person is probably the safest.

For Q2, not enough information is available, so I'd reject all of them. None of them are sufficient qualities in a life partner.

For Q3, I'll go with the nice person.
 
Penumbra said:
For Q2, not enough information is available, so I'd reject all of them. None of them are sufficient qualities in a life partner.
Of course not enough information is available. But it's a hypothetical question, you have to make a choice given this information.
 

Penumbra

Veteran Member
Premium Member
Of course not enough information is available. But it's a hypothetical question, you have to make a choice given this information.
I wager that the OP is suggesting that niceness is what really matters. I find other equally necessary qualities to exist as well.
 
i get nervous around nice people. i always wonder where the affection comes from and if it's actually merited. with most nice people, one's actions toward them don't interfere with them being nice, they make an attempt at serial, unconditional "niceness". a lot of times this can boil over into lashing out when they are frustrated by the not so nice things around them, and they have a tendency to fake it when they dont feel it, which weirds me out. so with the exception of the long trip, the nice person is out, they could have other attractive qualities or they could prove me wrong about my suspicions. provided the trip is under a month, i'd be able to bring the nice person.

for question two and three there is a lot more to consider.
spending that much one on one time with a person, it is required (at least for me) that certain minimum agreement requirements are met. i dont feel like i could put that much vulnerability and trust into someone who believed in something i dont think is real, especially depending upon how much influence this thing had on their lives.

that being said, i'd choose the atheist for all three and roll the dice on them being people i got along with.
 

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
Premium Member
Choosing between a Nice person, a Theist and an Atheist.

I show you 3 pictures of humans (of either sex).
I guarantee that A is a Nice Person.
I guarantee that B is a Theist - but no idea if he/she is a Nice Person.
I guarantee that C is an Atheist - but no idea if he/she is a Nice Person.

Q1: Who will you choose as your companion in a Long Trip?
Q2: Who will you choose as your Life Partner?
Q3. Who will you choose as your cell-mate in a prison?

What matters really is.......

Satish

I'd go with the nice person. Unless they are an atheist. A person cannot be both nice and an atheist at the same time.
 

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
Premium Member
Some years ago, there was a cross-cultural study that found the majority of people the world over ranked kindness as the most desirable quality in a mate -- regardless of what culture or society they came from. But opinions varied somewhat more widely over what was the second most desirable quality in a mate.

If you take a long and hard look at the various costs of living with an unkind person, you might get the impression that most people are pretty wise in picking kindness as the single most desirable quality in a mate.
 

SLAMH

Active Member
Q1: Who will you choose as your companion in a Long Trip?



Q2: Who will you choose as your Life Partner?


Q2: Who will you choose as your Life Partner?

Being nice isn't every thing, you can be nice but dishonest. You can be nice, but dependant, manipulating others to do for you what you won't do for yourself.

Being Theist or an Atheist doesn't mean anything and doesn't show who you really are.

Sorry, but I don't judge books by their covers.
 

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
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