Mankind is limited by the power of love? What does this mean?

To be continued....

AuranVector

Originally posted by mistermonculous

Mankind is limited by the power of love? What does this mean?

To be continued....

AuranVector

Imagine, if you will, that you are an entity who is driven by the need to assert one's shaky hold on being though control and subjugation.

One of the behavioral manifestations of love is a consistent pattern of placing the needs of others before your own. If you had never experienced the emotional/what-have-you-more-ephemeral components of love, then your observation of such behavior would lead you to believe that love was a limiting principle.

Originally posted by AuranVector

Originally posted by mistermonculous

Mankind is limited by the power of love? What does this mean?

To be continued....

AuranVector

Imagine, if you will, that you are an entity who is driven by the need to assert one's shaky hold on being though control and subjugation.

One of the behavioral manifestations of love is a consistent pattern of placing the needs of others before your own. If you had never experienced the emotional/what-have-you-more-ephemeral components of love, then your observation of such behavior would lead you to believe that love was a limiting principle.

I agree that when you love someone, you want to give them everything to make them happy -- one of the well-known dangers of loving unwisely.

So are you implying that Frater has never loved? Subjugation of another is the antithesis of love.

AuranVector

Originally posted by mistermonculous

Originally posted by AuranVector

Originally posted by mistermonculous

Mankind is limited by the power of love? What does this mean?

To be continued....

AuranVector

Imagine, if you will, that you are an entity who is driven by the need to assert one's shaky hold on being though control and subjugation.

One of the behavioral manifestations of love is a consistent pattern of placing the needs of others before your own. If you had never experienced the emotional/what-have-you-more-ephemeral components of love, then your observation of such behavior would lead you to believe that love was a limiting principle.

I agree that when you love someone, you want to give them everything to make them happy -- one of the well-known dangers of loving unwisely.

So are you implying that Frater has never loved? Subjugation of another is the antithesis of love.

AuranVector

Oh my goodness, no, I was not trying to imply that at all! I thought the initial reference to love being viewed as a limiting principle was not professed by Frater210, but rather was a reference to how this (theoretical) race of moon-beings would view love.

Frater210 strikes me as a dude who is pretty okay with Love.

C. S. Lewis had a good analogy for Heaven... it's like a game of tossing a ball to people in a circle. Heaven is the harmony of everyone sharing the ball and passing it to everyone else... Whereas Hell consists of the people who would catch the ball and say, "It's mine."

Have you ever had that one individual that you disagree with absolutely everything they say? C.S. Lewis is that person for me. His philosophy, theories, and writing make me wonder how the hell this guy got so popular. But like Holden Caufield, I just dislike phoneys.(No offense to intended Mary)


Also lots to learn about Love from the deathbed experiences of Doctors and Nurses.

Interesting you mentioned that. A family member just had a lengthy hospice stay, were I had a chance to talk with her health care nurses. They all said nearly all of their patients have the exact same process/stages of death prior to the actual departure. The parts I found most interesting is that all, decpite the degree of sickness, have a "few hours/moments of clairity" before the big sleep comes. But most strangely soon before death, many patients begin to speak in a foriegn language that they described as "the language of angels." They said it was like a chiping type sound.

Maybe it is Moonman language for "who the hell are you guys, and where are your clothes?"