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- Subject: Re: Why I don't use the word "Love" very much
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.092118.1@emu.insted.unimelb.edu.au>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 09:21:18 GMT
- References: <1992Nov15.114740.783@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov15.114740.783@midway.uchicago.edu>, mbr2@quads.uchicago.edu (Curious Of All Natures
- > is for me is the feeling I get when I cut my fingernails." Love is
- > generally about a person, and can be distinguished from other big
- > emotional words, like sadness and sinus pain. But this category is
- > simply too vague to do the work to which this poor word is put in our
- > society.
- I'm not sure I agree with the sinus pain and fingernails but the rest sounds
- about right.
- > So, I don't use the word love all that much. Instead I say
- > something complex and creative that's very me, or I write a poem, or I
- > do something that, coming from me, is very loving.
- Exactly you're expressing your own way of saying what 'love' is without using
- a word you feel is bandied about too easily..
-
- > If there were spontaneously occurring soapboxes in this newsgroup, I'd
- > be scaling my way down from them at this point.
- It had to be said at some point besides we all need our time on the soap box :)
-
- > -Matt Ryan, this is the kind of thing philosophy will do to you,
- Only if you find it within yourself to rise to the challenge of questioning
- which usually begins with oneself..
-
- Irene.
-