Answer With A Question

Are A Complete Mess

Arrive Before Their Explanation

Arrive Before They Are Understood

Arrive Late

Brighten Then Dull

Burn Like Rope

Burn Like Summer

Carry Consequence

Corner You Politely

Curate Themselves

Cut Both Ways

Drop Without Warning

Fade

Feel Like A Blessing

Feel Like Déjà Vu

Feel Unspoken

Feel Weatherless

Gender You Slowly

Get Forgotten

Get Misplaced

Go Without Saying

Hold A Grudge Lightly

Keep Talking After The Point

Leave A Taste

Lift You

Need A Second Chance

Need Leadership

Need Reassurance

Need Watering

Open Slowly

Overflow

Require Patience

Require Trust

Resist Being Counted

Reward Loyalty

Ring Like Ash

Ring Like Echo

Ring Like Rain

Ring Twice

Run Cold

Shake Loose

Smell Like Chlorine

Smell Like Lint

Smell Like Silence

Smell Like Winter

Sound Like Ash

Sound Like Chlorine

Sound Like Copper

Sound Like Glue

Spiral Out Of Control

Stick Like Ash

Stick Like Chlorine

Stick Like Lint

Stick Like Stone

Stick Like Sugar

Stick Like Wine

Stick Like Wire

Survive Translation

Take Your Breath Away

Taste Like Chlorine

Taste Like Echo

Taste Like Mildew

Taste Like Morning

Taste Like Rust

Taste Like Smoke

Taste Like Vinegar

Teach You Philosophy

Thaw

Tip Awkwardly

Touch The Scar By Accident

Watch You Back

Weigh Like Rope

Weigh Like Vinegar

Whitewash Without Painting

love

volcano

dad joke

lava

dating

tennis

Slavoj Zizek

heart

worm

revolution

admin

client

colors

alcohol

broken heart

hate

one-liner

midnight

Sunday

wedding stuff

wedding

wedding ring

ring

blessing

toast (speech)

first love

marriage

trivia

phobia

fear

confucius say

family

trolley problem

online dating

crush

Valentine's Day

diarrhea

intimacy

fart

farting

force

unrequited love

bacon

physics

being literal

periodic table

mathematics

philosophy

Yoko Ono

John Lennon

manifold

Klein Bottle

folding

biology

science

breaking up

true love

quarrelling

preparedness

vigilance

is not a spontaneous feeling, not a thing one falls into. Rather, it is something that requires thought, knowledge, care, giving, and respect... a rare combination in capitalist society which commodifies human activity.

Is love an art' Then it requires knowledge and effort. Love is not a spontaneous feeling, a thing that you fall into, but is something that requires thought, knowledge, care, giving, and respect. And it is something that is rare and difficult to find in capitalism, which commodifies human activity. Erich Fromm

is an active penetration of the other person and an act of fusion, a union in which one knows the other, knows oneself, knows everybody and 'knows' nothing.

Love is active penetration of the other person, in which my desire to know is stilled by union. In the act of fusion I know you, I know myself, I know everybody and I 'know' nothing. Erich Fromm

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is a basic force in nature enabling adult separation between self and other (i.e. Individuation).

Jonathan Lear argues that Freud posits love as a basic force in nature, one that makes individuation the condition for psychological health and development possible.' (net)

self

Love is a better teacher than duty. (Albert Einstein)

duty

teacher

is a blundering and passionate thing, a logic-defying thing that is of supreme importance even though it makes one no more clever, no nicer, no more informed, and perhaps even more irresponsible.

But for Cordelia and presumably for Shakespeare love is more absolute than this. However clumsily selfish Lear's need of her may seem, its strength moves us. In extreme old age he stumbles towards a person he will never understand, offering her with idiotic confidence his paradise which we must expect to be for her a veritable hell But she loves him for it Through her, Shakespeare challenges us to value Lear's love as the blundering but passionate thing it is. It makes him no cleverer as a philosopher. It makes him no nicer to other people, not even his best mend, Kent It probably makes him even more irresponsibly determined to forget his subjects. It leaves him no better informed about the qualities in Cordelia that make it reasonable to love her. But because of, not in spite of, all these things his final heart-break voices with supreme clarity the logic-defying certainty of love's importance.

illogical

irrational

passion

is a conflagration, but a conflagration in which both parties have been carefully trained to burn.

For Shakespeare, love is a conflagration, but a conflagration in which both parties have been carefully trained to burn. Romeo and Juliet have both been reading the same poetry books... they can, at the first moment they meet, complete one another's lines, compose a sonnet together. Shakespeare's lovers can understand one another instantly, devastatingly, for they are textually unison. They know each other's words, before either speaks.

is a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.

a debt which inclination always pays, obligation never.

gratitude

selfishness

is a deception of the species, which needs to further itself, that is played upon on the individual.

Because the passion depended upon an illusion which represented that which has value only for the species as valuable for the individual, the deception must vanish after the attainment of the end of the species.

love, n.All

love