Yes, and without them, the one you love would not know it. — Gnostic Christian Bishop
False. I'll just repeat what I said and leave it at that. That would be a weak love if it depended on superficial shows of affection. My love is known regardless. Our love for each other is stronger than that. — S
For love, reciprocity is not necessary, and in fact should neither be expected nor requested. — Possibility
When I love someone, it doesn’t matter if they love me in return. — Possibility
How did your love one know you loved him or her?
How do you know you are loved by the other?
Someone had to do something to indicate it.
If you do not see that something as a work or deed then — Gnostic Christian Bishop
Are you trying to muddy the waters or what? — S
Do you really think it’s wasted? Is it wasted to love a plant - to feed and nurture it, give it your time and effort, knowing that it may never show its love for you in return? If what we do is ultimately for our own benefit, how is that love? — Possibility
we’ve been taught that avoiding pain, humiliation and loss is apparently what we should be striving for. — Possibility
Not in the least, but you are by indicating that we are talking about those who would lie about love. — Gnostic Christian Bishop
If you love plants and shoes and your hair style, we are not defining love the same way. — Gnostic Christian Bishop
That would be disappointing. — Possibility
Does Jesus/Yahweh love us or is he stalking us? — Gnostic Christian Bishop
1. If someone loves someone without that love being reciprocated, then the person is stalking their love, which doesn’t constitute love. — James Moore
I would like to raise an objection to your first premise. First, there are many counterexamples of this not being the case. What about a mother who loves the child in her womb without having even met the child. Is that mother all of a sudden a stalker? Surely you wouldn’t think so. — James Moore
However, according to scripture we are “all His children.” — James Moore
What about the teenage fans of One Direction? — James Moore
2. God loves everyone, without that love being reciprocated. — James Moore
The two figures you refer to are in no way the same thing. — uncanni
effortless. — Ciceronianus the White
Yes. A God so devoted to watching humanity must be terribly bored, unless peculiarly obsessed by us. In either case, a sad, strange figure. — Ciceronianus the White
In either case, a sad, strange figure. — Ciceronianus the White
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