Jonny Heart: Love?!... (Part 2)

Thursday, February 7, 2008

Love?!... (Part 2)

The luxury of this being only a blog, I don’t have to persuade you of anything, instead lay my philosophies on the table for consideration and entertaining. (For the telling of the discussion at Sonic I made up names using Greek and Latin, which represent the four.)

Love, as I stated before is indescribable, thus impossible for all understanding to be put into words. However, I say to consider and ponder on such topics in the pursuit and search of greater wisdom.

A person cannot craft love. Love does not birth with a new baby with love created inside that person as if it has physical members or traits, if all died off love would still remain even though no one resides to witness it, nor does it form when a couple begins to share a relationship. Love does not start and does not end. One does not kill it, destroy it, break it, or cease it. Love does not exist physically or bare just one brand but has several appearances. Just as the laws of Good and Evil exist without the presence of man so does the essence of love. I would say, from out of what I read in the Bible, people receive the capacity to love only from God. If God did not exist neither would love. It comes to us as an extension of His good will. Our partnership with his image gives the ability to share in his love and manage it.

These are the four at sonic; Peoden which means ‘king,’ Meglaphilos which means ‘great friend,’ Apatoma which means ‘short one,’ and Monachardi which means the one heart. The four discussed, and as I stated in the prior post, came first to choice. Apotoma spoke quickly; “it’s a choice.” All had accordance and claimed that emotion seemed a mute point in time and place. One must decide to exhibit faith through peace or turmoil. Love must embody a commitment, an oath, a contract, and a conscious reaction to one another by never ceasing indenture. This even shows its merit in friendship. Two people with similar interests decide to devote time in the other. And the four agreed unanimously, a good sign and start.

In English, the common communication tosses around the word love carelessly, “I love my car,” “I love this movie” or “I love this picture.” English relinquishes the word of all boundaries and flooding it with meaningless mention weakening the word to all meaning of interest. Monachardi spoke up and brought this to light. The Greeks did not have the word Love, instead a system of four words separating connotations, Agapae (godly love), Phila (friendship), Eros (passionate or sexual), and storgay (parent to child). They never put so much meaning into just one word instead English does. I went to a thesaurus to look up synonyms for our English Love and I found this: fondness, tenderness, warmth, intimacy, attachment, endearment, devotion, adoration, doting, idolization, worship, passion, ardor, desire, lust, yearning, infatuation, and bestowed, compassion, care, caring, regard, solicitude, concern, friendliness, friendship, kindness, charity, goodwill, sympathy, kindliness, altruism, unselfishness, philanthropy, benevolence, and feelings for. I gave you barely half. Love is too complex to throw into one idea, belief, or word and it shows carelessness, ignorance, and neglect. I hope you understand… The others took note of the unveiled reasoning and discussed. From then on the word love became adjoined with a prefix like friendly-love or godly-love.

Enough for now… I shall continue later.

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Quotes from my Senior Patron

-Clive Staples Lewis-

"The Love of knowledge is a kind of madness."

The Problem of Pain

"We are, not metaphorically but in very truth, a Divine work of art, something that God is making, and therefore something with which he will not be satisfied until it has a certain character."

Mere Christianity - (Pg. 31)

"This is the terrible fix we are in. If the universe is not governed by an absolute goodness, then all our efforts are in the long run hopeless. But if it is, then we are making ourselves enemies to that goodness every day, and are not in the least likely to do any better tomorrow, and so our case is hopeless again. We cannot do without it, and we cannot do with it. God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from. He is our only possible ally, and we have made ourselves His enemies."

The Problem of Pain - C.S. Lewis (Pg. 31)

"What would really satisfy us would be a God who said anything we happened to like doing, what does it matter so long as they are contented? We want, in fact, not so much a Father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven - a senile benevolence who, as they say, liked to see young people enjoying themselves, and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, a good time was had by all."

"If we wish to be rational, not now and then, but constantly, we must pray for the fit of faith, for the power to go on believing not in the teeth of reason but in the teeth of lust and terror and jealousy and boredom and indifference that which reason, authority, or experience, or all three, have once delivered to us for truth."

Mere Christianity - (P.g. 139-140)

"It is not reason that takes away my faith: on the contrary, my faith is based on reason. It is my imagination and emotions. The battle is between faith and reason on one side and emotion and imagination on the other... Now Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your ganging moods. For moods will change, whatever view your reason takes. I know by experience..."

A Grief Observed - (P.g. 9-10)

"I once read the sentence 'I lay awake all night with toothache, thinking about toothache and about lying awake.' That's true to life. Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer."

Mere Christianity - (P.g. 7)

"It seems, then, we are forced to believe in a real Right and Wrong. People may be sometimes mistaken about them, just as people sometimes get their sums wrong; but they are not a matter of mere taste and opinion any more than the multiplication table."

Mere Christianity - (P.g. 32)

"In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth-only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair. Most of us have got over the pre-war wishful thinking about international politics. It is time we did the same about religion."

Mere Christianity - (P.g. 56-57)

"Now repentance is no fun at all. It is something mush harder than merely eating humble pie. It means unlearning all the self-conceit and self-will that we have been training ourselves into for thousands of years. It means killing part of yourself, undergoing a kind of death. In fact, it needs a good man to repent. And here comes the catch. Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly. The worse you are the more you need it and the less you can do it. The only person who could do it perfectly would be a perfect person-and he would not need it."