From: eshin@ddsw1.mcs.com (Eshin-Fun)
Subject: Re: WHAT love is
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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 13:10:49 GMT
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>>tucker@mitre.org (William Tucker) writes:
>: 
: I think that love is the desire to return to, recognition of oneness 
: on some level......the level creating the manifestation. This is of 
: course coupled with a desire to reach a chemical equilibrium or steady
: state -).
: 
: Gravity is love. :)<<


Love is a subject, highly overated, overwhelmingly misunderstood, and an
enigma that philosophers have been trying to explain for ages.

Love is generally explained to be of three kinds:

The love of God.
The love of things.
The love of self and others.

But in closer inspection, we find that the gods of love, are blind, or blind
folded. For Love seems only to need to fulfill itself.
In some languages an expression of love is to posses. In Spanish for
example, though the word "amar, or amo" to love, or I love" implies
ownership. Amo is I love as well as master. And in the general expression
"Te quiero" it translates: I want you. Again a form of poossesion.

To love is to desire, to be attuned with; romance. But in Loving one does
not need the reciprocal response of that which one loves. For it is
sufficient to love for its own sake. It is a personal feeling.
When a person sees an object that they respond to love the natural reation
is to touch it or grasp it or posses it.  In the understanding of love one
does not need to posses.  Yet this is very difficult, for we are ever
tempted to *take* or consume that which we admire. If we can not then we
tend to posses that which the object of our love, loves. 
Almost as if to share that objects intention. 
Love knows no boundaries, nor ethics. It is sufficient unto itself and it
would make one love without restriction, our own sex, the opposite sex, our
sisters and brothers and even our parents.
It is society, by virtue of its observations that restricts love to a
regimen that sometimes blows up in the face of morality and creates
aberrations that result in obscenities and horror.
Thus the perversion of love can be masochistic, and sadistic in many
different levels.

To talk of love, *is* a very complicated thing. For "LOVE" is amoral and
self indulgent. Yet in its kaleidoscopic personality *love* can give purpose
and objective.

Love is not *just* merely a "return" but an entity of its own accrod that
can be beautiful and warm or painful and horrid. That depends on your point
of view at the time.
Perhaps, we should all start with that narcissistic side of the love of
one's self first, by which we may be able to extend to appreciate the love
from some one else. For how can you expect some one to love you if you
cannot love yourself?

Further, how many people love another for themselves? regardles of their
gender, race, or position?
And then again, once you have fixed your admiration how much can we willing
give to prove our love? Must it be that we extinguish that which we admire,
or love because of rejection?

Humanity is still in an infancy of love's sophistication. Friendship,(a form
of love) is still misunderstood; Heterosexuality is still in an awful mess
because of *morality* and ignorance. Homosexuality (contrary to popular
opinion) natural though it is, has been led down a path of anachronistic
camouflage that instead of complimenting society it has become abraisive.

Even the art of self love has become perverse because of the machivelian
manipulation of monotheistic philosophies that glorify Love unnatural to the
human animal as a sterile, bleak ideology that brings about frustration.

To  have a need, *is* to create desire, To have *desire* and to suppress it
is to create neurosis!

So, what is love? No words can define it. Not example is good enough, for
in its dynamicsim it is a personal experience that cannot be viewed, but
perhaps if you are able to know how to "give" of yourself, (which most
people are incapable of doing) perhaps then love may allow you that reality
which experience leaves no doubt that love is a God!

Eshin-Fun


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