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Jan 18, 2005Comments: 0 · Posts: 13612 · Topics: 756
Virgo do this.. Virgo do that..
Virgo is responsible.. Virgo is?????.???whatever?.
You guys kidding me..?? Right..??
What the hell are you talking about..??... Personal experience..??... Well it is ?personal? aint it..?
You guys DESERVE IT if you ask me?!
Stop making those (fairytales) and (romantic) BS..It?s in your HEAD
Weather you like it or not..!
The truth is?
Read the story??.
While love has been addressed by thinkers ranging from Plato to Dr. Phil, the matter of the metaphysics and epistemology of love have not been given a great deal of attention. This brief essay is presented in the hopes of rectifying this situation.
When one person, Jane, loves another, Dick, the question arises as to what it is exactly that she loves. The easy and obvious answer is that she loves Dick. But that simply raises questions about who Dick is and what it is about him that she loves.
In the ideal of romantic love, Jane would love Dick himself and not his qualities or possessions. After all, those qualities and possessions change and can also be possessed by others. Intuitively, we do not regard the ideal romantic love as something that will fade with change or something that can be transferred to another person with similar qualities. For example, if Jane loves Dick because of his money or how he looks in a swimsuit, then she would presumably love Tom or Harry if they had the same (or more) money and looked equally good (or better) in a swimsuit. Such interchangeable love is obviously hardly romantic.
What is needed, it would seem, is something that lies beneath all the qualities and possessions. This something would be what makes the person, in this case Dick, the person he is and separates him from all others.
Fortunately, such an entity is readily available in philosophy-it is known as a bare particular. A bare particular is a rather mysterious metaphysical entity. It is bare because it does not have any qualities of its own beneath all the qualities that it supports. It is a particular because there is only one of each (and each one can only be in one location at a time).
In philosophical tradition the bare particular is supposed to be what distinguishes each individual thing for all other things. Such an entity would do quite nicely for the problem at hand. In ideal love one person simply loves the bare particularity of another as opposed to qualities or possessions that can change or be duplicated by another.
Unfortunately, there is a rather serious problem with this notion of love. When we interact with the world we interact with various qualities and properties. For example, Jane can see Dick in his bathing suit and she can see his bank account balance. But it would seem to be impossible for her to somehow be aware of his bare particularity. Since it has no qualities there would seem to be nothing to experience. Given this, it simply does not seem possible for Jane to be aware of Dick's bare particularity in order to be in love with him. This would seem to take love back to being about detectable qualities.
Of course, having love rest on detectible qualities might not be so bad after all. In fact, it seems more realistic and intuitive than the idea of some sort of ideal metaphysically based concept of love. When one person talks about why she loves another, she will talk about the qualities the person possesses. Dating services also make a big deal about testing people for various qualities and using them to find compatibility and love. Many scientists talk about the emotion of love as being driven by genes in search of suitable genes to combine with-presumably this drive is aimed at particular empirical qualities. Given this evidence, it seems reasonable to conclude that when Jane loves Dick, she loves his qualities.
But even that does not seem quite right. One thing
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Apr 12, 2005Comments: 0 · Posts: 4267 · Topics: 82
"i kissed a gem once
it felt like kissing a corpse"
^^Um,I never been that involved with a gemini(I generally don't like em too well enough to get personal;non personals fine but not that close) but can you define that,like for instance can someone really be that bad as to what im thinking that means by just sitting there with thier tongue hanging out of thier mouth or something lol?
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Apr 12, 2005Comments: 0 · Posts: 4267 · Topics: 82
Or okay,the only "bad" kisser I had kissed was an aqua but we were only teengaers so I forgive him cause he figured it out after some practice,too much drool lol:/
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Jan 23, 2006Comments: 0 · Posts: 150 · Topics: 28
My Gemini "part" says my... a**, and my Cancer "part" says my eyes.
Gemini-Cancer cusp.
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Jan 23, 2006Comments: 0 · Posts: 150 · Topics: 28
As I was told earlier out of a misunderstanding - you can't believe one part and throw the rest away with astrology.
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Feb 23, 2005Comments: 0 · Posts: 2255 · Topics: 55
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...I'm jealous of you now.
Hello lonesome LIbra. I think that this guy is a total player and doesnt really have the capacity to care about anyone but himself. I wouldnt put too much meaning on him getting jealous, either. His actions speak volumes; I would try and forget it if i were you and try to imagine what kind of guy cheats on his girlfriend constantly..do you really want a man like that in your life?