Do you understand love?
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Do you know what love is? A chemical. Electrons in your brain sending signals. Are you familiar with Ophiocordyceps unilateralis? It's a fungus that infects ants. It's amazing, really. The spores take over their central nervous systems and force them to climb to a high point, and then the fungus begins to grow up, bursting from the tops of their heads like a branch. And it kills them, of course. All so it can spray new spores over the jungle, infecting more ants. When people say love, that's what I think of.
Love is a parasite. I knew it!
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Awe, they are full of love.
Fuck you.
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Honestly I have my suspicions I don't quite right; maybe it's something biological, or maybe it's my childhood. But, I try to be a good person anyway, and help people who have or would help me. They seem impressed, even when I admit this.
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Baby don't hurt me
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Being in love makes you an expert on love the same way getting run over by a car makes you a mechanic.
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Love is the recognition that, on a profound level, the other is part of myself, and I part of the other.
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Love is the recognition that, on a profound level, the other is part of myself, and I part of the other.
Only if you love yourself
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Only if you love yourself
What is it if you don't love yourself?
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What is it if you don't love yourself?
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Maybe the way I would say it is 'extending compassion to the other as if it were yourself.' Its like a rewriting of the golden rule.
I do get what youre saying too.
The topic probably does not go unexplored. Ill do some research.
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Megalomania
Maybe the way I would say it is 'extending compassion to the other as if it were yourself.' Its like a rewriting of the golden rule.
I do get what youre saying too.
The topic probably does not go unexplored. Ill do some research.
Ah, you're referring to the tendency of certain narcissistic people to treat others as an extension of themselves. That's certainly not what I mean.
The golden rule works for the most part, but it also needs to create the Other to work. What I'm thinking about is closer to the philosophy of Ubuntu, sometimes stated as "I am because we are".
Seems to me that someone who hates themselves is living with a tremendous shadow that completely cuts them off from unconditional love. Thus one lives in a constant state of war against themselves. I always enjoyed this clip of Alan Watts reading Carl Jung's thoughts on the subject.
