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Love and the Value of Living
- Thread starter Sunstone
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It would depend entirely from where the love comes,
or not...maybe love is just a fact of life not entirely recognized.
Sometimes we don't recognize the meaning of the reasons at all,
maybe we don't always recognize the feeling of the source of the love.
The more I think of love, the deeper the feelings go.
I'm going to quit now....what is true love ?
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'mud
or not...maybe love is just a fact of life not entirely recognized.
Sometimes we don't recognize the meaning of the reasons at all,
maybe we don't always recognize the feeling of the source of the love.
The more I think of love, the deeper the feelings go.
I'm going to quit now....what is true love ?
~
'mud
Tiapan
Grumpy Old Man
As posted elsewhere...
Given the billions of years before we were born, our short life span and the billions of years that follow our death, this brief ability to be sentient and observe our universe is something amazing which should be appreciated even in the worst circumstances.
Remember no matter how bad things are there will always be someone worse off and someone better off.
Appreciate everyday because all days are beautiful.
So I think the comments you heard from the coffee shop sound ill conceived and naive.
Of course there comes a time at end of life where having been moved with a lifetime of amazing experiences we must eventually take our last glimpse of the universe hopefully with out pain before the plug is pulled.
Cheers
Given the billions of years before we were born, our short life span and the billions of years that follow our death, this brief ability to be sentient and observe our universe is something amazing which should be appreciated even in the worst circumstances.
Remember no matter how bad things are there will always be someone worse off and someone better off.
Appreciate everyday because all days are beautiful.
So I think the comments you heard from the coffee shop sound ill conceived and naive.
Of course there comes a time at end of life where having been moved with a lifetime of amazing experiences we must eventually take our last glimpse of the universe hopefully with out pain before the plug is pulled.
Cheers
Like the majority of English words, the word "love" has more than one definition. I have no idea how one of those definitions could be legitimately considered "truer" than another definition.
Aye, I do think he has a very good point. I have in fact concluded in recent months that existing in a field of love is quite literally what makes life worthwhile.
I'm not particularly inclined to metaphysical speculations - I see little point in using concepts that as far as I know correspond to literally nothing that actually exists - so I thought about it in more concrete terms.
Love, in an unquestionably real sense, is the expression of good will towards other people. And there is no denying how much of a difference being loved can make for our psychological and sociological health.
I have actually concluded that this is what some people call (quite unproperly IMO) "free will": the feeling of security and of inherent rights, that we have options and some freedom ahead of us.
Despite the insistence of some, I fully believe that it is not at all something that all people have, much less on the same level. Quite on the contrary, it is a direct result of the gift of love and trust that people receive in very unequal quantities, not all that often due to actual personal merits.
Sounds to me like you're speculating about kinds of love that you yourself have not actually experienced.
How did you reach that conclusion, 0ne-answer? And why do you think not everyone agrees?
Sabour
Well-Known Member
Well no I am not speculating.
Sabour
Well-Known Member
I would say personal experience and close observations
You are obviously ruling out the possibility that there are kinds of love that you yourself have not experienced. What makes what you're doing anything less than folly?
Sabour
Well-Known Member
Even if I didn't experience them all, I have observed enough people around and saw who were those living a satisfactory life and who are always asking for more and complaining about stuff although they are the ones who have everything one would dream of in this life
How can you possibly know that there are no other ways beyond those you personally know?
Nevertheless, that does not seem to me to qualify you as an authority on love.
Sabour
Well-Known Member
Based on the number of people I know and interact with and the number of stories I hear and observe and on the ideas and information I get exposed too, I would take my chances with making that claim I did.
Sabour
Well-Known Member
I believe no one would qualify in the other person eyes to be authority about something. It rather seems as an opinion which one can further investigate if interested.
Alex_G
Enlightner of the Senses
I would modify it to 'A life without the capacity for love is not worth living'
Interesting. But why the modification?
In that case, I am more than willing to say that you are bluffing and your claim is untrustworthy.