Two ideas to salvage for comfort if ever I'm stranded on a metaphysical island.
"God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him" (1 John 4:16)
"Our nature is founded in movement; absolute stillness is death" (Pascal).
*Possible Greek lexicon for the term "love".
3 comments:
Yeah man, so many pretty theories out there..hard to pin 'em down. Good foundational truths yer latching on to here, I'd say there are more, but then I'd think it'd be a pain in the ass to formulate your own set of creeds.
Lorel
If God is love and love is blind, does that mean that... I can't even bring myself to say it. I guess there has to be a faulty statement there somewhere. I'll just assume that love is not blind
Ah, love is a cover word for different types. I mean the good, will-based, push-towards-betterment for the other. It's the love that's better defined in most moments as going against your immediate inclinations -- such as to kill someone, or at least say bad things about them, and instead be nice, without childish backbiting resentment when they turn their way and leave.
But erotic, lovey-dovey love is blind, and that's usually the only one. Affective love is most prone to denial; think of the mother who knows her son is useless but chooses not to look at that and love the lovable parts. The love mentioned in the post is the love that involves sight -- the perception and understanding that someone is (in the moment) nasty or mean or stupid.
So my mistake. I don't mean love as in love for dog, Subway, (wo)man (in the happy feely sense), or anything limited like that. I mean ballsy love, self-sacrificial love. Painful love.
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