Help me find a few-years-old essay about flirting

ictow — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 09:12:48 -0800

Help me find an article/essay/blog entry I read 2 or 3 years ago about how obvious flirting is and always will be. What I remember is an analogy that compared someone trying to flirt to a very tall asian man, wearing a white tracksuit and carrying a boombox, walking into a quiet store. Both are conspicuous.

It's quite possible that most of this description is off, but that was the general gist. Do I plan on feeling awful if it turns out there's no mention of him being asian? Yes, yes I do, which is why I have to find this.

The Baha'i Religion - Am I missing anything?

unixrat — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:22:25 -0800

I have spent the past two years doing on-again, off-again research into the Baha'i religion. I really like what I see - I'm on the verge of conversion. There is one problem - something that's nagging at the corners of my mind: Why isn't this religion more popular? Is there something that I'm missing that everyone else is seeing? This is a bit of the Wisdom of Crowds mentality, but I have this mental image of a fork in the road with a heavily traveled path on one side and a deer path on the other.

I'm not afraid of going my own way, I'm just looking for a little reassurance that I'm not blind to some obvious problem.

The people I've spoken to have been very nice, the books that I have read have seemed pretty thorough, and I've read all the criticism that I can get my hands on. Yet, the sheer anonymity of it leaves me a bit bewildered.

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