For me, love is the ultimate sacrifice. It is the surrender of all of yourself - your health, your safety, your vulnerabilities, ego etc anything you could possibly offer for the well-being and prosperity of another. It is cherishing of someone or something with such high regard that you would put it all on the line to protect said thing. — Benj96
Thoughts? — Benj96
And that there are only two feelings in life: Love and Fear. All other feelings are manifestations of one of those two. — James Riley
I don’t see the correlation between love and fear with feelings as uncertainty, pessimism, nihilism, etc.. — javi2541997
You had a lot of emotions about it. But they don’t come from love itself but the birth of your boy. — javi2541997
I don’t have kids yet neither a relationship. These two factors are supposed to be connected with love... this is why I don’t want them to exist. — javi2541997
They are all manifestations of fear. — James Riley
And that could very well be why it is you (the rational mind) that is beside yourself, mad, suffering from a grave (no pun intended) mental disease. That is not intended as an insult, any more than a rational mind might charge that breeding is insane, given the circumstances. However, maybe our circumstances are a result of the rational mind. — James Riley
Not necessarily. Pessimism or nihilism can be connected to the feeling of not having hope about what the future holds but this context doesn’t make me have fear. — javi2541997
If we have more of it, we'd be able to clearly see that individuation is something we to do the world, that does not belong to it originally. — Manuel
:up:Until the brain stops drugging your perceptions and you see the person as they are, which is hopefully somewhere close to the amazing, ideal person, you thought they were — Razorback kitten
Simply put, I think that the idea of different people is an illusion, which arises from lack of adequate cognitive capacity. If we have more of it, we'd be able to clearly see that individuation is something we to do the world, that does not belong to it originally. There are problems to be ironed out here, but on first approximation, I think it's correct. — Manuel
I don't remember asking your opinion about my answers pal :up: — javi2541997
Provided they do the same for you, first.It is the surrender of all of yourself - your health, your safety, your vulnerabilities, ego etc anything you could possibly offer for the well-being and prosperity of another. — Benj96
Provided they do the same for you, first. — baker
This reminds me of a similar philosophy I journeyed into a few months back whereby I considered what it would be like to see the world not as discrete objects and things and definitions but one large continuum.
The difficulty is that when seen as an indiscreet unconfined and undefined whole ... speaking of “change” or “transformation” is pointless because from “what” is it “changing” and “leading to”. With no defined objects or descriptions for things... change is mute point. However there are things to learn about interactions from avoiding specifics and maintaining a macroscopic view “big picture”. — Benj96
For example I would say someone who begins by making note of peoples colour, background, social class, weight, height etc lacks empathy more than someone who begins with the inclusive: well we are all humans we all have the same emotions dreams ideas etc, and only after appreciating that , acknowledge the minor importance of specifics. — Benj96
People who indulge in romantic delusion are still engaging in it for the benefit they assume it has or will have for themselves.I understand why people believe this is naive or stupid/ daft. That someone is deliberately letting themselves be a pushover. But on the contrary I think it’s one of the strongest character traits: to get out of the grip of transactional thinking. To not reference every act either directly or indirectly to how the self benefits. — Benj96
Such seemingly self-sacrificing romantic delusions are a massive ego boost. — baker
. I think we have only so much empathy we can show - a reserve of empathy if you will. — Manuel
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