2007-07-04 10:11:15 · 12 answers · asked by Yoshi 2 in Social Science ➔ Psychology
To Martin L you have a lot to learn in life. No one loves undicitionally out of pitty. You're an uneducated idiot in my opinion. To love undicitionally is to have no limits and your answer starts and ends in limits. Grow up and move on. May God blees your broken road.
2007-07-05 21:52:56 · update #1
No, and I wouldn't want to be loved "unconditionally." Love is judgment; it's an affirmation of values and it's seeing those values in another person. If you have no values (i.e., no "conditions"), you cannot love. If I tell you that I love you, how does that help you if I love everyone else equally? Answer: it doesn't. "Unconditional love" is watered down to the point of superficiality because it no longer has any depth or effect.
If you love me only by letting go of your ego, it means you love me despite your own desires and values. So if you tell me you love me unconditionally by letting go of your ego, you are telling me the following:
"I love you, not because of any positive attributes you posses (for who am I to judge what is positive if I have no ego?), but strictly out of charity. You offer nothing of value to me, but because of my ability to let go of my ego, I am able to love you anyway. You are not special in any way, because I have let go of my ego (and with it, my value system) and now see and love everyone in the world in the same way."
If that is the way someone wants to love me, I would prefer to be ignored.
EDIT: Yoshi, your last post just proved my point. That’s some unconditional love you’ve got there. Apparently, you are the one who has a lot to learn in life, including how to spell, how to argue without ad hominem (look it up, Yoshi), how to engage in dialogue without spewing unfounded opinions, and how to back up your empty words with consistent action. Uneducated idiot? If you have the attention span, read the Nicomachean Ethics; you’ll find that at least one of the greatest minds in history agrees with the essence of my answer.
Your post just demonstrates what a poser you are. Someone disagrees with your premise, and all you can do is resort to name-calling? Hypocrite.
2007-07-05 08:51:54 · answer #1 · answered by Martin L 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
"CAN we" implies - when answered in the affirmative - that there is a possibility to live beyond our own egos and love unconditionally. While substantive data to support an answer eludes me at present, I "believe" and "think" we CAN. Most, perhaps even ALL things, are possible.
"HOW" is achieved by beginning with our choice to do so.
Yet the logical continuation of this question might be; "SHALL we let go of our egos and love unconditionally"? This is by far, more difficult to ascertain. Human will - free or ordained - shows dubious demonstrated abilities to chose, succeed, AND most challengingly, sustain a state of ego-less unconditional Love.
2007-07-04 18:27:24 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I agree with John D and Martin L: unconditional love is a pipe dream for superficial people who can't face the real world. As for alittlebitkrazy1's answer, we did not all "love unconditionally" when we were born; we needed unabashedly, we craved wantonly, we cried until we got what we wanted. A newborn is not capable of love because it has only needs. And a person who can't distinguish "love" from "need" has a lot of growing up to do.
Yoshi, you need to stop getting your philosophy from pop songs.
2007-07-11 12:06:47 · answer #3 · answered by Sidney D 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I wish everyone would learn to spell. I do not think that anyone can love unconditionally, there are limitations to every emotion, to every human feeling. Ego is what allows us to find a compatible partner it is like a goal we set early in our lives and without human goals, we cannot function normally
2007-07-12 00:56:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The concepts of "all" and "unconditionally" disturb my druthers. It is possible for humans to love despite id and ego issues terminally sabotaging the experience. But, as it is also possible for healthy, physical athletes to run a mile in under four minutes, unconditional love is a rare occurrence experienced only by the most healthy, emotional / spiritual "athletes".
2007-07-04 17:23:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Only if you have never actually or truley been in love before is one willing to totally let down all of their natural defences and just let it happen the way it was ment to be.
Sorry I misread the question. No we cannot. There is just simply just to much hate in the world as we know it
2007-07-11 17:07:31 · answer #6 · answered by latenight1010 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Even if we were ALL willing, Ignorance would still exact a tax. :-( ... Perhaps the best humanity can muster at the moment is walk the PATH. ... That alone is an encouraging step forward, as compared to the utterly egocentric world we are facing right now.
2007-07-04 17:18:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Ah, to strive for immortality! Maybe with lots of prayer and sacrifice.
Pray for me too! On a journey of a million miles I have taken only a few baby steps.
2007-07-04 17:20:45 · answer #8 · answered by chattanooga chip 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
what egos. i ate my for breakfast with syrup. well love unconditionally, will you love me unconditionally if i bang your toes with a hammer? how about if i forcefully cut it off? its a nice word and all, its like unlimited wealth. well what is it, how do you go after something thats infinite. love unconditionally well how would you know when to love someone. if theres no condition then how will you know to do something. total ludicruis but nice sounding words.
2007-07-04 22:41:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
most people can't
people who are trying take years and years to approch it.
the best thing is just to really really do it yourself.
it is a lifelong practice.
2007-07-04 17:18:48 · answer #10 · answered by Sufi 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋