I have been toying with the idea that love is not all the world needs, it is not the ultimate gift of G-d. That it is neither the greatest gift of G-d, nor the focus of G-d. G-d is not love because love is a human concept created to explain or describe human connection to another.
I usually approach love as such: one, with the belief that real love of another is known to the individual as a fact is known. We do not have to feel that we love our parents or siblings we just know that we do, like we know the sky is blue. Two, romanticizied love is delusional and based in emotion, passion, obsessiveness, infatuation, etc. The latter can precede the former I supposse as a natural progression to an end of loving someone as fact. Now loving someone as fact doesn't diminish the potential or existance of passion within the relationship, it deepens the passion because the deeper level in which the partner is known by the other.
When it comes to G-d, why would G-d create people for a human conceptualization to be the ultimate goal? Does G-d operate on such base feelings? Is it love that connects me within the larger earth system to plant life in the ocean, or to rats through my DNA? Is it love that keeps the planet turning on its axis, and keeping all existing organisms, and nonliving species connected in the immaculate system that we are a part of. Why should love be the gaol, the need, the desire, a means to an end? Should it not be a larger understanding of the universe, planet, biosphere, and social environment in which we exist? I wonder if we can actually love, truly love, without delusion, distance, disappointment, without some larger understanding, or connection with the System that keeps the earth going and contains us , the human as a member of the world of earthly species? Can we learn to love anything at all after being so bound and defiled by our social construction?
2 comments:
How can love be a means to the end of gaining a larger understanding of the universe, planet, biosphere, and the social environments in which we exist when gaining understanding is a life long struggle?
I can definitely agree with that.
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