and that there are and can be those that express unconditional love. — TimeLine
Again, and please for pity's sake read this, it is not a constant but an expression and that there are and can be those that express unconditional love. — TimeLine
I think you are playing word games--the delight of getting people to agree that something unconditional must have conditions. It's an empty exercise. — Bitter Crank
Difficult to deliver? Absolutely. Unconditional love is the bread of heaven, not our run of the mill product. We are bid to try. — Bitter Crank
Brotherly love - my favourite kind of love - which is really just genuine friendship, contains conditions. Heck, romantic or erotic love needs conditions. Familial love and so on, they are all ways in which we can express this subjective sentiment or feeling, but to say that 'love' is just one of them is mistaken. — TimeLine
Unconditional love denotes a purity of this motivation to give love to another or others without a moments thought about receiving anything in return. — TimeLine
Of course it's not constant, a feeling of love is fleeting and dependent on particular conditions. The difference between a feeling of love and 'unconditional love' is that the latter implies unconditional future acceptance and support, otherwise it's expressing a meaningless sentiment. — praxis
Unconditional love sounds so appealing, but it is an illusion. It is like addicts who think drugs will make their life more bearable. The drugs can make them forget, make them space out, make them unaware, and give a temporary sense of pleasantness, but it is not real.
How much better to forsake these emotionally appealing illusions and instead grab the bull by the horns, where we acknowledge that love requires standards, and then we get busy working out what are fair or unfair standards for love. — John Days
Is unconditional support a good thing? If the object of our love turned out to be a sociopath (they can be quite charming) and began a campaign of abuse against us it would be foolish to support them in their abuse. The best thing we could do is get away from them. And though we might be able to accept them for what they are we could in no sense support them. Our support is conditional. — praxis
Is unconditional acceptance a good thing? — praxis
No, it is not. It is the exact opposite. It is a convenient doctrine which allows the excuse of any bad behavior, and it is justified by extremely powerful emotions.
— John Days
I've experienced it. You're wrong. — T Clark
As Laurie Lewis wrote "You don't choose who you love, love chooses you." — T Clark
Not only does this interpretation of unconditional love not result in good/healthy things for the girls/women who hold it, it also happens to make far more ass holes in the world than there otherwise would be. — javra
Unconditional love sounds nice and fluffy and soft and warm and fuzzy, but it is a delusion. — John Days
Of course it's not constant, a feeling of love is fleeting and dependent on particular conditions. The difference between a feeling of love and 'unconditional love' is that the latter implies unconditional future acceptance and support, otherwise it's expressing a meaningless sentiment. — praxis
You can love someone you can't be with. That's part of its unconditionality. — T Clark
This certainly serves some food for thought. It depends on why you cannot be with them; if you choose not to because your circumstances would be less appealing by being with the person that you love, you have set a condition or made the choice and it is entirely selfish — TimeLine
We are enabled with authenticity or genuine love when we experience giving love to another without any return (conditions),... — TimeLine
Even "love at first sight" is conditional upon actually knowing that they exist at bar minimum. — Wosret
How is that at all relevant. — Wosret
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