I'm seriously considerring giving it a shot. I've tried everything else I could think of--anger, hatred, sanctomony, manipulation, passive aggression--and nothing seems to work very well for very long (and people, ungrateful creatures that they are, never seem to appreciate all the time and effort you have to put into these things).
Do you have the capacity to do so?
There've been conflicting reports, but I'm trying to stay optimistic.
Do your religious convictions inspire or prescribe that you love others?
I'm trying to stear clear of ideologies that demand or prescribe convictions. Any God who convicts is going to make me nervous even on days when I feel like I'm on his good side (not to mention the other people you have to deal with).
Is loving others areligious?
It's easy to understand why one might wonder.
Is it a biological imperative?
Considerring our present place in history and what our other options are, I'm leaning toards "probably".
One cannot love the whole world.
I disagree. I like the theory that, deep down, we all naturally love each other. It's just that, like I say, it's deep down, and most likely buried under all sorts of garbage.
I have, in fact, conducted several experiments to help verify these claims for myself--most are easily reproducable if you have access to beer and any large gatherring of sweaty people listening to Raggae music.
I wouldn't exactly call the evidence empirical but I can gauruntee that somewhere over the course of conducting the experiment, you'll stop worrying about things like that.
How or where do you to draw the line in your capacity to "love others" and who do you love?
Like so many people I have so many walls and boundaries that drawing a line would be a moot point.
I find it in my own best interests to go under the assumption that I do indeed love everyone, as much as that goes against my disposition sometimes, just seems to make things easier all the way around (still, I tend to only hang out with the people I like).
