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hannaramaa
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posted May 05, 2013 04:44 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for hannaramaa     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I've been mulling over this idea in my head...men are instinctual, and women analyze a lot. Women may be more understanding than men BECAUSE they are more communication oriented, but men just do. Therefore, with the notion that men just follow their gut and don't let "what ifs" get in their way - wouldn't they actually be more intuitive than a woman? Or what I mean is have more success with their intuition than the average woman does?

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posted May 06, 2013 12:15 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for SaturnineMoth     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
some men are more intuitive than others, some women are more intuitive than others...

^^;

I wouldn't say either is more intuitive than the other.

And, intuition usually implores a good deal of deductive reasoning, it's not pure 6th sense action... anyone who has shared the ride to a new location with a gentleman knows exactly how great following their "intuition" can be. After asking if they want to use the map for the 6th time or begging them to let you ask for directions for over two hours straight... lol "No, I know it's this way! I don't need a map!!!"

>.>; "we've passed that gas station twice already..." =x

I love male intuition~ lol

(just pokin' fun.)

men are more impulsive... generally.
But, that doesn't always amount to being anywhere near intuitive. Women do tend to ponder (multiple) things all at once more often than men, which allows them to use their reasoning in an "intuitive" fashion, but it isn't anything mystical, just a bit of instinct mixed with rationality.

I don't believe intuition equals thoughtlessly reacting to a situation, it is quite the reverse, where your thoughts are tuned in, focused so strongly, that everything processes together to create a sort of... "sense" of what to do or what will happen or what has happened... whichever...

we say it is a feeling, but the feeling comes from the thought.

I believe age makes one more intuitive, not gender. And, in my own humble opinion, parents tend to gain more intuition with age than those without children, grandchildren... The intuition and sagacity of elders is sometimes frightening. The two things go together, wisdom and intuition... I've met a lot of foolish people who would say they were reacting on intuition... but what did their intuition predict and when was it ever accurate? lol folly~

Everyone can be intuitive... we just have to trust our instinct, and learn from our mistakes, educate and familiarize ourselves with everything life has thrown at us.

But, nono...

I have a weird intuitive husband... I can credit it to his Sun-Neptune and Moon-Jupiter conjunctions by astrology...

intuitively guessing I was pregnant before a test kit would have been a plausible tool to find out. intuitively knowing where he was in a different country in the middle of the boonies of Appalachia. lol And, as always... knowing intuitively... guided by his weird Sagittarian stomach, no doubt... where to find some great dining in the oddest locations!~ kekeke

But, he's completely dense most the time, so I won't stroke his ego too much for his amazing senses... lest it go to his ginormous head. ^^; I'm like, "hey, you... guy. Yeah, good job finding that awesome gyro place." *pat on the back*

lol we're strange... >.<;

(oh... of course the spiritually intuitive require tuning into their nonphysical senses more, but the need for reflection/introspection, pause/meditation... thought... it's still there, eh.) *^^*

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posted May 06, 2013 02:40 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Sometimes I think women's emotions (or even wishful or wistful thinking) get in the way of their intuitive flow, and therein lies the problem. Men as a whole tend to do less of this and take things as they come or as they are..

I hear what you are saying and agree.....but then on the otherhand I think the opposite. So maybe there is a masculine and feminine kind of intuition....

I swear I have read something by Osho about men's intuition...i will look into it because I found it interesting, but cannot remember enough to give you the gist of it.

I think intuitioin works best when one's emotions & feelings do not get in the way to muddy it up.

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posted May 06, 2013 02:45 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
...i want to say what I read was talking about how intuition in men is very 'survival based'. and therefore they often act quicker and on their first gut feeling - which is ususally the best one.

I think the most intuitive people are able to look at things and sense them from a more centered veiwpoint and to step outside of themeleves and their egos and not allow what they want to interfere with what IS. ....if that makes sense.

I can see men having an easier time with this - or women who approach life with a more masculine state of mind - not colored by lower ego and emotions.

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posted May 06, 2013 02:53 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for 7thGuardian     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Then... are shemales the best of both worlds? haha !

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posted May 06, 2013 08:37 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for aquaguy91     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
moving to sweetpeas.

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posted May 06, 2013 08:43 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for aquaguy91     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
No, I personally dont believe in the type of "intuition" that most people do. I believe men and women are both clueless for the most part. The problem is women think they can read minds and expect men to read theirs. Sorry to disappoint you ladies but we cant.

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posted May 06, 2013 08:55 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by aquaguy91:
No, I personally dont believe in the type of "intuition" that most people do. I believe men and women are both clueless for the most part. The problem is women think they can read minds and expect men to read theirs. Sorry to disappoint you ladies but we cant.

aquaguy, her question was about intuition in men and women and the differences. It was not about mental telepathy or mind reading, or someone wishing to read the opposite sexes mind. I didnt get the idea it was in reference to relationships either. Did she say anything about reading men's minds or wishing guys could read women's? No.

Intuition is not mind reading, or mental telepathy.

& I don't think this topic needed to be moved to the Adult "mature content" forum that focuses on topics such as suicide, abuse,losing a child, mental health issues, sex etc.

ETA: and if you thought this had to do with relationships, then you should have moved it to Soul Unions.

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posted May 06, 2013 09:08 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for PixieJane     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I don't think either gender is particularly intuitive. But women have long been linked to the moon which is associated with mysticism so that there's a subconscious prodding to see women as more mystical and thus intuitive.

I actually hate the common advice of "trust your instincts." Too many men AND women are either way too paranoid or naive to "trust their instincts." Both genders make a habit of getting it wrong in other ways as well. People can develop accurate instincts, maybe even be born with them, but most people really should question their instincts rather than embrace them as automatically true.

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posted May 06, 2013 09:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for aquaguy91     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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aquaguy, her question was about intuition in men and women and the differences. It was not about mental telepathy or mind reading, or someone wishing to read the opposite sexes mind. I didnt get the idea it was in reference to relationships either. Did she say anything about reading men's minds or wishing guys could read women's? No.

Intuition is not mind reading, or mental telepathy.

& I don't think this topic needed to be moved to the Adult "mature content" forum that focuses on topics such as suicide, abuse,losing a child, mental health issues, sex etc.

[b]ETA: and if you thought this had to do with relationships, then you should have moved it to Soul Unions.[/B]



T, read the forum description. Part of the description reads" the differences between men and women".

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posted May 06, 2013 09:31 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Fine.

Now you read the original post. The thread wasnt about mind reading. Or anyone expecting anyone else to read another's mind.

You should not use this thread as another opportunity to ***** about what you think women are expecting men to do for them.

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posted May 07, 2013 04:40 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Odette     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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some men are more intuitive than others, some women are more intuitive than others...
I wouldn't say either is more intuitive than the other.

I agree to this ^^

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posted May 07, 2013 04:46 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Odette     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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I actually hate the common advice of "trust your instincts." Too many men AND women are either way too paranoid or naive to "trust their instincts."

I personally trust my instincts. I often feel things on an instinctual level and go with it.
I'd probably be one of the people who gives this advice lol

Fire/Water placements would be more likely to go with gut feelings and instincts.
Air/Earth are more analytical.

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posted May 07, 2013 07:06 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for hannaramaa     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
My thread got moved to Aquarius Rising?! THIS DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH SEXISM, and if ANYONE is sexist it's YOU - Aquaguy. Talk about abuse of power. This had absolutely nothing to do with relationships. IT IS possible to talk about the opposite sexes as a whole WITHOUT including love, you know. Promise. Happens ALL the time.


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posted May 07, 2013 07:13 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for hannaramaa     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Odette:
I personally trust my instincts. I often feel things on an instinctual level and go with it.
I'd probably be one of the people who gives this advice lol

Fire/Water placements would be more likely to go with gut feelings and instincts.
Air/Earth are more analytical.


This is what I was considering in my head before even seeing your post, Odette. Aries and Scorpio (Mars based) vs. Taurus and Libra (Venus.) OR maybe that's easy because Aries and Scorpio are going to be more intuitive when it comes to arguments and debate, and Taurus and Librans are socially more graceful and more intuitive about artistic matters. Plus maybe that's all intuition really is - something that comes naturally vs. actually having a supernatural "gift."

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posted May 07, 2013 09:03 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for PixieJane     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I've seen too many just act on prejudice instead of informative instinct. Of course they THINK their instincts are accurate, but it's just prejudice and/or knee jerk reactions, and too many people are all too willing to believe that which is not true (and that's so extreme that me and other kids used to play "Rumors" in which we'd start a rumor and watch it grow, and people would prove incredibly gullible time and time again).

A high school counselor's instincts told her I'd returned to school in search of a blond virgin sacrifice for a cult (when I asked where she got such a stupid idea she admitted to reading a newsletter for that "satanic panic" garbage, but she did say something about her instincts warning her about me) and when I one day drew moons, stars, and suns on my jeans with a yellow highlighter (mix of artistic impulse and protesting sending kids home for "wearing too much black") she said that was "proof" because those were occult symbols (she hated my pointing out that a lot of flags had occult symbols of Satan, too, then, including the American and giant pentagram on the Texan), and I'm sure she still believes her instincts are true. A landlord at a flop house claimed the instinct he developed as a DT (no idea on why he wasn't a DT anymore, but I figured it's for the best that he isn't one any longer) made him think I was the one who jimmied the laundry machines (across the hall from my room, and btw, I did not) and believed it even when others in his office (who explained it to me later) told him why that was stupid (I was about the only one there with a job and without a drug habit, but he trusted his instincts over reason). Back when I wore some spiked leather and combat boots a guy was sure I was into S&M (of course plenty of books & programs share how to manipulate people's instincts by your dress & manners). And I've lost count of guys who thought I was playing hard to get (when I just wasn't interested) or people who thought (be it with approval or disapproval) I must be a homophobic, racist Christian (it's the accent), while others have thought I was a servant of the Devil, too (though most of them shared my accent so it didn't make an impression on them).

Of course it happens to others, sometimes even more absurd than what I've experienced (one got angry at me, too, when I laughed at the absurdity of her believing my sweet administrative assistant friend a drug dealer, insisting her instincts were "rarely wrong").

And then there was a scam I helped take part in as a runaway, the most notable was me and other kids would enter a store separately (looking as normal as we could) and wait for a certain guy to show up and make a scene (preferably black & at least acting ghetto, but punks & goths worked in a pinch) capitalizing on prejudice and as all attention was on him we shoplifted like crazy in a way we wouldn't have gotten away with otherwise (in one store a couple of boys managed to steal several cartons of cigarettes while attention was was focused elsewhere despite the store's heavy precautions against shoplifting them). We must've pulled that a dozen times on one store alone in about 5 months, and they had cams, but they never figured it out (or noticed that the same white kids kept leaving without any bags of groceries whenever such an incident occurred). Let's hear it for people who trust their instincts and don't take a moment to think, a lot of crime wouldn't be possible without that bad habit.

And people who just trust their gut without thinking about it are probably doing themselves more harm than good (like when an article gives idiotic reasons to suspect a man is cheating which stokes insecurity, her friends tell her to trust her instincts, and then there's confrontation followed by heartbreaking breakup, though she may think that proves there's another woman rather than she was being neurotic), harm to others (as happened when Zimmerman's instincts led him to believe the boy he killed was up to no good), and may even become more vulnerable to manipulators (and outright predators) who have become masters of manipulating people's instincts about them (one extremely paranoid woman was somehow charmed into the car of a serial killer and became his next victim).

I'm not saying they're always wrong (I've had instincts that were correct when my reasoning wasn't, but also vice versa) or that they don't have their place...they're very useful to hone as long as they ARE kept in their place, prejudices are checked, and people double check their instincts when possible instead of assuming their intuition is as sharp as a Jedi's.

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posted May 07, 2013 11:35 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Odette     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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they THINK their instincts are accurate, but it's just prejudice and/or knee jerk reactions, and too many people are all too willing to believe that which is not true

I don't think my instincts are true or false.. right or wrong. They just are. They're instincts. I feel them.
I don't think about them or analyse them.
I analyse a lot of things, but not my instincts.

The only reason I go with my instincts is because 9 times out of 10 - this has given me reasons to rejoice, rather than cry.
Usually things fall into place and work out for me when I trust my instincts. I am only going on my personal past history.
Since I haven't personally encountered problems when I've trusted my instincts, I have no reason to change my behaviour in this regard.

But to each their own.. Whatever works!

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posted May 07, 2013 11:41 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for PixieJane     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
^^

Good for you. I hope you're different from many others who say the same thing about their often wrong instincts being right almost every time. But in any case, please don't tell people to trust their instincts as many who do cause more harm than good to themselves and to others.

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posted May 07, 2013 11:59 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Odette     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I don't think my instincts are right all the time though.

I am just saying - in the past years in my life.. when I trusted my instincts everything worked out - things seemed to *flow*. Nothing negative happened.

I think it was only once really, when something negative happened, but even that was not serious.

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Who say the same thing about their often wrong instincts being right almost every time

I'm being a consequentialist about this. I would consider an action taken on *instinct* - to be positive or negative depending on its consequences on the individual's immediate environment and on the world out there.

When I did trust my instincts and I took action based on that - the consequences of those actions were mostly positive in my life and the lives of others who were affected.

We all have a database of memories.
"Once burnt - twice shy".
I didn't get burnt trusting my instincts - so I'm not shy... if that makes sense.

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please don't tell people to trust their instincts as many who do cause more harm than good

I have not read any research into this.
My impression is that this may or may not be accurate.
It really depends on the person, their age, experience, their psychological make-up, their astrological make-up etc - as well as the nature of the situation they are dealing with.

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posted May 08, 2013 10:38 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
We both can be.

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posted May 09, 2013 11:12 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I find that emotion blocks it.

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posted May 10, 2013 01:33 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Or maybe intuitiion is the synthesis of facts processed on a subconscious level.

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posted May 26, 2013 02:57 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Gabby     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Emotions do block intuition because desire is introduced through emotions....its hard to see or feel reality through desire that might or might nor fit into reality!

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posted June 03, 2013 01:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Agreed!

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posted July 01, 2013 11:45 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Emotions trigger chemicals that block thinking.

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