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Originally posted by arpgme
reply to post by ButtUglyToad
Actually, you just said that love is neutral again.
Also, I already said that I understand that zero is neutral between positive (+1) and negative (-1).
Originally posted by arpgme
reply to post by ButtUglyToad
If you do not want to talk to me for whatever reason, whether you think I am too stupid to understand you or for any other reason, you are free to not talk to me...
I do admit that I misunderstood you though. I was confusing my conversation with you with another person.
You were saying "Neutral love" and someone else was saying that "Love is Neutral".
Originally posted by arpgme
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by arpgme
I feel i must draw your attention to the title of your thread in which you use the words 'unconditional love' and happiness. I do not understand why you are using the words love and hate because 'unconditional' love is not the love you keep going on about. Love and hate are dual, they are opposites. Unconditional love has no opposite, it is total acceptance to what is occuring presently, it is also what is appearing presently.
Call it peace if you really want to but 'unconditional love' is the subject.
No. The point of this thread was to discuss unconditional love. Is it really possible to hold love without conditions. You never feel anything but love if that is what you choose, and most people said that the hate and anger will still arise but you can choose to let go and come back to love. If that's the case then it's not unconditional, because unconditional love means that it is never interrupted if you don't want it to be.
I'm calling what most people mentioned here as peace because that is what they are describing. Peace is acceptance, not love. Love is liking, understanding, and helping people. It is compassion, Peace is acceptance, they are two difference concepts and it seems like most people are confusing the two.
With that being said, I will admit that you can hold peace AND love or hate, but understand that love is compassion ONLY and peace is acceptance ONLY, although they CAN be held together...
Obviously the opposite of love is hate.
Unconditional love means being able to like, understand, and help people without any conditions - also liking everything that exists without conditions (like is a part of love).
Obviously the opposite of that would be not liking, not understand, and not caring and possible even harming people without any conditions - thus unconditional hate can exist.
This is simple logic.
Originally posted by Onboard2
Originally posted by arpgme
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
reply to post by arpgme
I feel i must draw your attention to the title of your thread in which you use the words 'unconditional love' and happiness. I do not understand why you are using the words love and hate because 'unconditional' love is not the love you keep going on about. Love and hate are dual, they are opposites. Unconditional love has no opposite, it is total acceptance to what is occuring presently, it is also what is appearing presently.
Call it peace if you really want to but 'unconditional love' is the subject.
No. The point of this thread was to discuss unconditional love. Is it really possible to hold love without conditions. You never feel anything but love if that is what you choose, and most people said that the hate and anger will still arise but you can choose to let go and come back to love. If that's the case then it's not unconditional, because unconditional love means that it is never interrupted if you don't want it to be.
I'm calling what most people mentioned here as peace because that is what they are describing. Peace is acceptance, not love. Love is liking, understanding, and helping people. It is compassion, Peace is acceptance, they are two difference concepts and it seems like most people are confusing the two.
With that being said, I will admit that you can hold peace AND love or hate, but understand that love is compassion ONLY and peace is acceptance ONLY, although they CAN be held together...
Obviously the opposite of love is hate.
Unconditional love means being able to like, understand, and help people without any conditions - also liking everything that exists without conditions (like is a part of love).
Obviously the opposite of that would be not liking, not understand, and not caring and possible even harming people without any conditions - thus unconditional hate can exist.
This is simple logic.
You forgot to mention yourself here. You declare compassion for others, but it begins with yourself. I used to ask how could a person possibly love they neighbor unconditionally, which would be total non-judgment. I believe, from my own experience, that this is only possible when we love ourselves unconditionally. There is no judgment, no desires or expectaions of any kind. It's living totally in the moment. It's not an easy state or level to maintain, because most allow the old patterns to return and fear is the biggest obstacle. Being totally without fear is true freedom.
Wow, I really read some great answers in this thread!
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
No inside, no outside, just this, one.
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When ego and suffering are undone, love and happiness/peace is unveiled and known to be the true natural state.edit on 23-2-2012 by Itisnowagain because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by baalbuster
Originally posted by smithjustinb
Originally posted by baalbuster
Yes, then I would exact vengeance. Actions causes reactions...violent actions causes violent reactions, peaceful actions causes peaceful reactions.
And that would be fine as a way to come to terms and peace with the situation. But the hate towards the person would still be there, so whenever you thought about that person, they would pull you away from any positive mindset you might be indulging yourself in.
Ultimately, to be spotless in your current relationship to your memory, you would have to forgive everyone who ever offended you and move forward to an attitude of acceptance towards the person who offended you. That way there is no remaining inner animosity
I don't think its healthy to be positive all the time, its a natural human condition to feel negativity in some fashion.
Constantly positive people are nothing more then fodder for cult leaders and are usually painfully unaware of reality.
Originally posted by baalbuster
Originally posted by smithjustinb
Originally posted by baalbuster
Originally posted by smithjustinb
reply to post by baalbuster
I edited my original response. quote and reply to the edited version.
Could you give the same love to John Wayne Gacy as you do your own mother?
I am doing it now.
Glad you feel ok with that, he was such a huggable and jolly clown, especially to teenage boys. Maybe you should explain your philosophy to the mothers and fathers of the victims, I'm sure they'd share your warm sentiment towards Gacy.