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- Path: sparky!uunet!pilchuck!li
- From: li@Data-IO.COM (Phyllis Rostykus)
- Subject: Unconditional Love (was Re: God and Science)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.202056.11747@data-io.com>
- Sender: news@data-io.com (The News)
- Organization: Data I/O Corporation
- References: <102732@bu.edu> <1ek2l7INNitl@gap.caltech.edu> <102899@bu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 20:20:56 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- "Thanks, Abner, for a *really* good example of love that just doesn't work
- as a relationship, anymore..." says Liralen and smiles and offers him a
- hug for the self-knowledge he's won.
-
- In article <102899@bu.edu> mjmh@crsa.bu.edu (Michael J M Holmes) writes:
- >"And its good to know that I finally was more clear with my
- >view on love! I think I garbled it a bit when I first
- >brought the it up!"
-
- Liralen laughs softly, "One of the things the Net is great about is getting
- one to define one's meaning and beliefs. Curious of All Natures sorta
- started it, and I hope he's following this line..."
-
- "Thomas Gryn wrote the following in answer to my asking him, 'What is your
- definition of love?':
-
- 'A desire to help without any thought of reward or
- reciprication, but for it's own sake.'
-
- "It surprised the heck out of me, as it was unlike any definition I've ever
- seen of the word 'love'. I turned that definition around and around in my
- brain and couldn't find a single leak or hole in it. Romantic love is
- based on the same thing, but is definitely more. It covers my love for my
- friends and my love of my family. It even covers my strange love for the
- street teens in my local city. I'll help them out, but I also know that
- they'd rob me blind if I didn't watch them like a hawk watching mice. So I
- watch them, and they *expect* that and respect it as well. They also are
- highly suspicious of the fact that I give 'em food and a shoulder and an
- ear without asking anything, not even 'control' over their lives, in
- return; but they're learning to accept it and, sometimes offer it to each
- other as well. By that very definition, it is unconditional when it is
- given. The decision to give it or not to give it may be dependent on
- circumstances, and it may be withdrawn; but while given, it *is*
- unconditional."
-
- --
- Liralen Li | "... and how you feel can make it real | - _US_
- aka Phyllis Rostykus | Real as anything you've seen | Peter
- li@Data-IO.com | Get a life with this dreamer's dream." | Gabriel
-