Title: Love Source:
[None] URL Source:[None] Published:May 7, 2015 Author:A K A Stone Post Date:2015-05-07 20:54:34 by A K A Stone Keywords:None Views:27723 Comments:69
Well .. let me tell ya 'bout love. The Christians hate the Jews for murdering Jesus Christ & the Jews hate the Muslims & the Muslims hate the Christians. Oh and the Christians hate the Muslims and the Jews hate the Christians. And the Muslims hate the Jews. And the world is on the brink of WW3 because everyone is just "lovey-dovey."
Basically there isn't much love beyond American politicians running for President or any other federal, state or local office giving all of us: the best days of our lives, or so they say as our taxes keep climbing while the fed prints all the money they want to cover the TRILLIONS of debt that has done nothing.
Well, I'm a Christian. I don't hate the Jews, or the Muslims. I don't hate the seculars either, or the Hindus. I think that Wiccans are odd, but I don't hate them.
Well, I'm a Christian. I don't hate the Jews, or the Muslims. I don't hate the seculars either, or the Hindus. I think that Wiccans are odd, but I don't hate them.
Hate is a strong word. I don't hate much.
But you don't "love" the folks you describe otherwise; you could have suggested that you do but denied the personal perspective. So, you are just a normal fear mongering "hater" denying your position in time & space because of indifference or fear. You could be the worst kind, too. The US government calls your affiliation, "Meaningless & rambling TERRORIST." Be careful, the NSA is watching.
Yes hate is a strong word especially in what specifically it applies. One can hate those things which are an abomination or sin against God. Some people love those abominations. Yet Jesus Christ came to save sinners from bondage to sin. The very act of His crucifixion, death and resurrection is the Greatest act of Love.
ut you don't "love" the folks you describe otherwise; you could have suggested that you do but denied the personal perspective. So, you are just a normal fear mongering "hater" denying your position in time & space because of indifference or fear. You could be the worst kind, too. The US government calls your affiliation, "Meaningless & rambling TERRORIST." Be careful, the NSA is watching.
Depends on what "love" means, I suppose.
To me, the word "love" means an intense emotional bond with somebody. "I love you" is a powerful set of words, to me. And that level of attachment is not only not common, for me, but it is not something I can "choose" if I wanted to. I can find worthwhile qualities in most people, if I look hard enough, but love, in the standard, English meaning of that word, as I myself use it, has never been anything that I've been able to will into existence, or out of existence in that matter.
The Greek in which Jesus' words are recorded have several words that are translated as "love" in English. And that is confusing.
The "love" I spoke of above is some combination of eros and agape. The love to which you're referring is more like "philadelphos" - brotherly love. And THAT I certainly do feel for some Jews and Muslims in my acquaintance. I'm related by marriage to several Muslims, and I probably know more Muslims and Jews personally than you've ever met in your life.
It is fair to say that I love, in the sense of philadelphos, them more than I love you, yes. God may judge people by their religion in the end, by I'm not God and I don't.
What I wrote to you, and what I'm writing here again to you, is moderate and measured. What you're writing is dripping with venom. I don't know why.
It is fair to say that you make yourself difficult to love, and that I would tend to keep my distance from you on account of that. You seem to have a head full of sharp edges and angles that cause you to lash out at people.
It's not pleasant to be lashed out at, so wise people stay back and stay away. That doesn't mean I wouldn't pull you out of a river or a burning plane - I would. It does mean that I'd probably prefer to have dinner with my Muslim friends and relatives, or the Jewish ones or Chinese ones or atheists or Democrats, than with you.
But you don't "love" the folks you describe otherwise; you could have suggested that you do but denied the personal perspective. So, you are just a normal fear mongering "hater" denying your position in time & space because of indifference or fear. You could be the worst kind, too. The US government calls your affiliation, "Meaningless & rambling TERRORIST." Be careful, the NSA is watching.
