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  • Deep Dives - on Love - On the philosophy of...

    A Deep Dive into: Love [pt.6] – The Philosophy of: Short-term love – Every relationship must end, which is what makes it beautiful (Which do you prefer: plastic flowers or the ones that die?)

    June 6, 2018 - By Dave

    ‘It was better to burn than to disappear.’ – Meursault (from Camus’ The Outsider)  Think back to before you were born… What do you remember? What was important to you?.. Probably not much right? Well, it’s likely that that’s what you’ll think and how you’ll feel about every single thing after you die too. Though you could look back in history…

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  • Deep Dives - on Love

    A Deep Dive into: Love [pt.5] – The Philosophy of: being single (and what the Tao Te Ching’s got to do with it)

    June 5, 2018 - By Dave

    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. So what does it really mean? —— ‘Take it that you are not going anywhere but here, and that there never was, is, or will be any other time than now.’ – From Tao: The…

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  • Deep Dives - on Love

    A Deep Dive into: Love [pt.4] – Can you only feel ‘true’ love for a partner if you’re accepting of the possibility that you may be single forever?

    June 4, 2018 - By Dave

    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? —— When we (or you) tell someone ‘I love you’ what does it actually mean? Is it any of these: • ‘I need you’ • ‘I can’t live without…

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  • Deep Dives - on Love

    A Deep Dive into: Love [pt.3] – What does it mean (to you)?

    June 3, 2018 - By Dave

    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…

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  • on Love - On the philosophy of...

    A Deep Dive into: Love [pt.2] – Three alternatives to maybe the most confused word in the English language) + The Philosophy of Plato on Love in ‘The Symposium’

    June 2, 2018 - By Dave

    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,…

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    A Deep Dive into: Love [pt.1] – What is it? AND the Philosophy of Michel De Montaigne [pt.2] – Is the love you have for a friend the purest form of love there is?

    June 1, 2018 - By Dave

    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…

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  • on Love - On the philosophy of... - Why you listen to it

    The philosophy of: Gang of Youths ‘Go Farther in Lightness’ pt.6 – Achilles Come Down

    October 13, 2017 - By Dave

    There’s two things that run most of our life and the decisions–both large and small–we make. Fear. And love*. Once you fall in love with someone, it’ll change your life in some way, and you may even find yourself doing stuff or living in a way, or in a place, you never thought you would. The challenge is to understand…

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