2006-11-28 07:24:27 · 15 answers · asked by ? 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Punkie...I have 3 sons and am quite capable of practicing unconditional love every single day. I was simply looking to see how others viewed this.
2006-11-28 07:42:42 · update #1
Yes. I think that I have unconditional love for my son. Although, I can think of reasons that I might not want to know hm if he turns out a certain way as an adult. I am doing my best to see that he turns out to be a good person.
I did have unconditional love for a cat, until he died at 17.
2006-11-28 07:30:57 · answer #1 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do not have any reasoning as such because for an emotional based question like this, it is nearly impossible to apply unbiased reasoning. Therefore, I will have to use personal experience. I believe that sometimes humans are able to love unconditionally, but innately they are selfish and destructive creatures. I speak for myself. Sometimes, I can be so cruel and manipulative towards the people I supposedly love and I can genuinely say that at these moments, I am not practising unconditional love. However, when someone I love is being manipulative and cruel toward me, I sometimes put up with it and respond in a kindly manner. I believe this is really dependent on a few things:
a) What type of person you are.
b) What mood you are in.
c) How much you really love the people you claim to love unconditionally.
2006-11-28 15:32:18 · answer #2 · answered by ana_is_a_cat 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
judging fromwhat I have observed and what I have experienced I would say probably all could be under the right conditions, and some can be in all situations in some of the time. People get burned out with continually having to set aside the natural inclination to feel good about what they are doing based on success. In otherwords there are situations where people who are practicing agape there is enough of what each one perceives as failure or pain or whatever because people they are trying to love and who need loving do not respond. If a person puts in time and love and thensees people go down for whatever reason. While it is true that it is not our responsibility for others failure if we have done our best. We always think there was something else we should have or could have done. EX often when a person gets in your face you feel somehow responsible, when in reality that person would have gotten in anyones face who was there most likely.
in counceling we call it taking something personally. A spouse or neighbor whoever has a past and that past is there with you both but believing that is only as easy as that persons past makes them able to.
2006-11-28 19:38:16 · answer #3 · answered by ronnysox60 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think so. I mean, there is most times unconditional love between parents and their children. No matter how many windows they break, tickets they get, disagreements they have....their parents will never stop loving them with all their hearts. As for unconditional love between lovers... I think its extremely rare to find genuine unconditional love, but its not impossible. What it boils down to is how much the individuals are willing to open their hearts to others.
2006-11-28 15:40:57 · answer #4 · answered by caramelqt3683 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mentally ill people can. Or maybe some mothers can. Unconditional means even if the one they loved stood in front of them and raped and killed a little girl, they would continue to love them.
God CLEARLY doesn not love us unconditionally. He allows the ugly guy next door to torture us in his basement for eternity.
2006-11-28 15:28:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, ther is unconditional love , it is found in many ways , I give you one symbol , if you give a poor man your food or help a handycaped or pull somebody from a rapid car way or to spend money to help an orphant , etc.... , it is unconditional love .
2006-11-28 15:48:45 · answer #6 · answered by bobola 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You must not be a parent if you are asking this question. Most definitely unconditional love is possible. I feel it every day when my daughter wakes up and says "Hi daddy"
2006-11-28 15:37:20 · answer #7 · answered by Punkie'sDad 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Pretty close to it but never totally. It would be like a mother-baby love. But most mothers do take time for themselves and do get annoyed with the baby. So their ego enters into it. But we can all strive to have this kind of love in general for humanity. It's just we still have a self preservation instinct too.
So NO! Not totally...HA HA!
2006-11-28 15:28:36 · answer #8 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A person is not honest simply because they never had a chance to steal. How do you really know that you love anyone unconditionally, if you've never truly had that love tested? If your son was AdolphHitler, would you still love him unconditionally? Cause if Hitler was my son - I'd probably be the first in line to execute him.
2006-11-28 21:33:39 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is always conditional. It may seem as though we are practicing it but there is always some underlying reason why we love that person and it is always selfish.
Even in giving your life for a person you reason through how it benefits you even if that benefit is being able to avoid the grief.
2006-11-28 15:27:40 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋