Thursday, April 28, 2011

[Mind's Eye] Re: love

Back to love. Often "love" is lust or an escape or many other motives
at work. Perhaps parental love and mercy comes closest to an ideal.
Anyway, love is a verb- for a very good reason. :-)

On Apr 28, 1:35 am, the taoist shaman <bryan...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> leerevdoug...@googlemail.com wrote:
> > All of which is up to you to decide.
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> > What do you think?
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> > On Apr 27, 5:41 am, the taoist shaman <bryan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > by no suprize im shure , i like the idea of looking tward the animal
> > > kingdom for the most accurate answer  , and  if u look, it is as
> > > diverse as the animal kingdom itself . from the mother bear caring for
> > > her cubs , to the harrom won by the dominant sea lion , to birds that
> > > screw only each other there whole lives , to the sun and rain giving
> > > berth and neurturing life in the soil ,  ...... but its much more
> > > complex than that ,    i   LOVE my   cat  and it LOVES me ,   not
> > > sexually !?!  .....  º ~ º     , but if it died today i wouldn't shed
> > > a tear ,.... should i love my brother more than my neighbor or
> > > friend ? or my mother more than her sister or my bosses daughter ?
> > > should i love my many brothers and sisters mothers and fathers more
> > > than myself ?  is love truth / honesty / equality / compassion / ? is
> > > love humilaty ? ......... is love the lack of judgment , and therefore
> > > setting yourself neither  above nor below anyone else ?  ......... its
> > > easy to love my cat because its hard to judge , it is pure even in its
> > > deficiency , like a child , to veiw all even yourselves as children ,
> > > flawed , ignorant  , to view the origin as pure and the result as
> > > corse .....  is this friged , cold , isolation    ,   or an
> > > overflowing embrace of all that is , or is it neather because it is
> > > bolth , ........ this does  feel like isolation  , but to choose
> > > favorites seems wrong , .... to love god above all is to love all with
> > > abundance , but to have your only love come from a scarcely
> > > comunicable dimension is ..... bleek , im i then to view all as gods
> > > incarnation including myself ? or is there actualy some warm fuzzy BS
> > > in peoples hearts that i just dont have the lugdsury of experiencing ?
> > > or are people just lie ing to themselves so they have a reason to fake
> > > a smile ?  ...... in the end i turn to the dark side of nature  ,
> > > which is science ,  einstin , all things are relitive to the
> > > perspective of the individual ,  love is choice , our free will ....
> > > am i my brothers keeper ? should the wellbeing of another be placed
> > > bfor my own ? is it my responsibility to neurter life mimicing the
> > > earth / god ;
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> > > leerevdoug...@googlemail.com wrote:
> > > > hehh an expression of empathy and sympathy brought on by feelings of
> > > > love Rigsy?
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> > > > On Apr 26, 3:39 pm, rigsy03 <rigs...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > If positive, peaceful qualities are rewarded by a culture, so it will
> > > > > be or by contrast if warlike, competitive qualities, so, likewise.
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> > > > > I think our primary energy is directed towards survival but how that
> > > > > is motivated and utilized is the real question. Lord, these three gran-
> > > > > daughters are amazing to watch at the ages of 6, 3 and 1! The drive
> > > > > begins very early. How fortunate to be born to loving parents that
> > > > > live in peaceful times- how very sad to realize how many infants are
> > > > > faced with rough, cruel road.
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> > > > > On Apr 26, 9:20 am, "leerevdoug...@googlemail.com" <l...@rdfmedia.com>
> > > > > wrote:
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> > > > > > Some time Rigsy sometimes.
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> > > > > > Not nesicarily.
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> > > > > > So I understand it to be.
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> > > > > > On Apr 26, 3:19 pm, rigsy03 <rigs...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > > > > Do you think the energy of the human race is motivated by love?
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> > > > > > > Do you feel animals do not express love/devotion in their own way- and
> > > > > > > sometimes sweeter than our own?
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> > > > > > > Human- romantic- love is a recent phenomena dating from the troubadors
> > > > > > > and it could get adulterous and kinky.
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> > > > > > > On Apr 26, 6:22 am, "leerevdoug...@googlemail.com" <l...@rdfmedia.com>
> > > > > > > wrote:
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> > > > > > > > That is a massive question and not one easily answered.
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> > > > > > > > I would say that it is all of the above and more.  Gabby says a
> > > > > > > > mouthfull and this too is true.
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> > > > > > > > It truely a remarkable thing, it's power for good and ill is massive
> > > > > > > > and it seemingly transends rationality.
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> > > > > > > > What good acts would you perform out of love and then what bad acts?
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> > > > > > > > Is it truely what seperates us from the other animals?  I don't know.
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> > > > > > > > On Apr 26, 11:15 am, gabbydott <gabbyd...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > > > > > > It's different. And it's life.
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> > > > > > > > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:39 AM, the taoist shaman <bryan...@gmail.com>wrote:
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> > > > > > > > > > what is love , is it respect and equality , or is it some
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