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This is a deep dive into the one word that may be more confused or have a greater subjective meaning than any other in the English language: Love. What does it really mean? —— There may no more loaded word, that is more subjective, in the English language than the word ‘love’. So… What does ‘love’ mean to you? If…
This is a deep dive into the one word that may be more confused or have a greater subjective meaning than any other in the English language: Love. What does it really mean? ——- He is not constant, because he loves something that is not constant: as soon as the bloom of the body fades, which is what attracted him,…
The love of friends is a universal warmth, temperate moreover and smooth, a warmth which is constant and at rest, all gentleness and evenness, having nothing sharp nor keen. – Michel de Montaigne There may be no other word that has more meanings than the word ‘love’. When someone tells you they love you, or you tell them, you are…
I don’t believe in horoscopes, but from today I might (a bit). I had been thinking in the morning about what relevance studying, learning, reading about and writing about philosophy has to actual real life, to social interaction and relationships and friendships (and whether it has any). And today was also the deadline of The New Philosopher Essay Contest (on…
Think about the things you do regularly in your life. What you’re planning to do, what you did today or what you’re going to do tonight Now, if you couldn’t tell anyone (who isn’t there) what you’re doing, would you still do it? If there was no social media, and you couldn’t share it online, or volunteer your plans or…
If you’re afraid to approach someone you want to talk to, meet, are interested in, or want to make a connection with, well, you don’t have that right now. So what’s the risk? You currently don’t have a friendship, relationship, their phone number or a connection to them, so if you don’t get any of those things, well you didn’t…
This is the third of a series of a Deep Dive into Passion. What is it, is it what makes us human, is it okay to have passions no matter what they are, and why do we have the ones we do… —— The Stoics avoided passion with a passion. The passions were seen as an ill that directs us away…
This is a deep dive into the emotion that possibly decides more things in our life (or our whole life?): Fear. ——- Are you ever in a situation where you want to approach someone and talk to them, but then chicken out because…. well… why exactly? Our fear of approaching people we don’t know (and in particular if they’re not interested…
This is the third of a series of a Deep Dive into Passion. What is it, is it what makes us human, is it okay to have passions no matter what they are, and why do we have the ones we do… —- If you hate something, and hate it with a passion, have you ever thought about why you do? And what…
This is the second of a series of a Deep Dive into Passion. What is it, is it what makes us human, is it okay to have passions no matter what they are, and why do we have the ones we do… —- Is passion what makes us human? Oh, and… What makes your passions destructive, and what makes them constructive (to…