Considerations & Questions:
Does loving everyone on the principle of the matter mean not loving ANYone in particular?Corollary consideration: Does loving everyone mean you can't conscience removing from a population the individuals who would injure/torment/cheat/kill others in that population?
If love is as love does then love does what is best for the Beloved, I think. Part of that is honoring them and their free will, their privacy, their right to self direction.
I ask the above questions with God in mind. It often seems to me He has abandoned this world to its own devices and I think that, were I a world builder, I'd be more involved, but there's a fine line when one considers parenting such a large and diverse population.
My little sister was a drug abuser and addict from the time she was 15. She died at the age of 44 from her drug abuse. I had always thought Mom ought to let her crash and burn so she'd experience the consequences and hit bottom and get ready to recover earlier and have more of her life in which to accomplish things. I think that sometimes "love" means letting go or even allowing the one you love to experience the consequences of their actions/inactions. Natural consequences are the best teacher and maybe that's why God is so noninterventionist.
I'd like to know what my friends in the CS sphere think, if you've a mind to share.
Thank you...
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Indi malakin bagai...
I am delighted it is raining for you. Mind the slippery roads.
(You speak way more than I do, but I do get your drift!)
El gusto es mio!
CONDITIONING IS THE UNNATURAL DEED OF PHILOSOPHY. can you please expound a little bit more? and where did you get the idea? Or better yet how did you come up with it?
Thanks
SR
thanks Jared.
SR
bad ones. Salamat again. sinabi mo...
I'm Irish, Scots and Austrian. (A little dab will do ya.)
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Thanks for the clarification, which to me, still doesn't make any sense. But it is yours and I respect that.
SR
"...So tired of the straight life and everywhere you turn, there's vultures and thieves at your back..."
But my consideration was the WORLD, ITS CONSTITUTION AND ITS ORDER.
By opposites I meant, the mechanics governing the world.....say life and death...
Mine, mine, mine... It is ALL mine. YOU are all mine...
As long as you identify with being "part of it" you will dream of living and then of dying and then of being reborn...
You can't escape an illusion through "death" which is part of the illusion... It is but a dream of "Being awake and dreaming of death". Illusion is escaped by Truth, NOT elaborated illusion.
You must stand between future and past in NOW. You must peer between the thoughts into the lumenous void of Self and BE the presence that precedes the thought "I Am". Rest in Self and transcend the illusion. The heart opens the eye and compassion upwells on the wings of laughter.
The world is a delicious jest at which we have forgotten to laugh. It suffers in metaphor from an excess of "gravity". We need "levity".
There is NO "third entity". There IS only ONE. Life has manifested SELF as "the ten thousand things".
You ARE, in fact, "ALL That".
"You put a BIG bird in a small cage and he'll sing you a song..."