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by Ed Konderla
Mon Apr 05, 2021 9:47 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: What is love?
Replies: 14
Views: 1253

Re: What is love?

In terms of idealism, as noted before me, love has an essential feature of being, a feature of integration of what was once unified. Such an attribute of integration you find for example in Spinoza's intellectual love. But I do not think that Spinoza's moral attitude, which is in some ways close to...
by Ed Konderla
Mon Apr 05, 2021 1:39 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: What is love?
Replies: 14
Views: 1253

Re: What is love?

So much of the worlds dialogue today appears to be driven by narratives. These narratives have titles and demands that seem to have no definitions and their validity is not to be questioned. If one accepts Idealism as being the best bet for a description of the big picture it allows one a pretty sol...
by Ed Konderla
Mon Apr 05, 2021 1:26 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: How does one register for Bernardo's blog?
Replies: 14
Views: 1145

Re: How does one register for Bernardo's blog?

I have the same problem. I assumed it was just me. It appears at the moment only members of the "team" can post which is not the same as a member.
by Ed Konderla
Mon Apr 05, 2021 12:45 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: What is love?
Replies: 14
Views: 1253

What is love?

What is love and especially unconditional love? How does unconditional love manifest itself? Does classifying an individual or group as "victims" really show unconditional love and how does that fit with Idealism? Is love a human emotion or is it some kind of "fundamental" state ...
by Ed Konderla
Sat Apr 03, 2021 6:20 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Consciousness can change physical reality.
Replies: 34
Views: 3064

Re: Consciousness can change physical reality.

I feel like the old gelding sitting in the barn. [/i] Likewise, corporeally speaking, at times I feel like that lame gelding. Other times I feel like this 'I', that ipseity which one is in essence, is somehow non-locally displaced, dispersed in space, while observing that diaphanous form ~ like Kun...
by Ed Konderla
Sat Apr 03, 2021 2:00 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: Consciousness can change physical reality.
Replies: 34
Views: 3064

Re: Consciousness can change physical reality.

I feel like the old gelding sitting in the barn. I've lived a life full of observations, decisions then concrete actions now I spend my days sitting in a barn mostly. When I look at the present state of affairs I see humanity living solidly in the world of the "Peter Principal". As amazing...