One Perspective on Love
Love -- the selfless interest and focus on another's long term, even eternal, well-being.
Well-BEING. Being is the operative term. Not one's well doing, or doing well.
One's doing well may come with well-being, it may not -- it is independent of such. Why? Why is well-being independent of doing well? Because the basis of calculating "doing well" is often flawed and arbitrary (very human).
Response: But such love is impossible. How do you know another's long term well-being? You'd have to be omniscient.
Reponse to response: Bingo. Who has that? Who IS love?
Well-BEING. Being is the operative term. Not one's well doing, or doing well.
One's doing well may come with well-being, it may not -- it is independent of such. Why? Why is well-being independent of doing well? Because the basis of calculating "doing well" is often flawed and arbitrary (very human).
Response: But such love is impossible. How do you know another's long term well-being? You'd have to be omniscient.
Reponse to response: Bingo. Who has that? Who IS love?
posted by GBT at
Friday, July 08, 2005
