Went to hear the Waifs last night , and this great song title of theirs gives real inspiration .We are all born to love !
But as Tina said --- where is it today ?
When our reason fails us on this , we need to go back and find foundations .
Such foundations can take some finding...but this is one is a good start .
You were born to chase the good .
and good is the mental equipment YOU have to do that . No one needs to tell you whats right but you need to be reconciled within yourself about whats wrong with you .
You have failed to live up to whats right.
You have been weak when being strong is your calling .
Your rationale is probably suspect at times -- just as mine is
We know this truth too about love .
We sometimes have to cruel to be kind " which in itself reminds us that to be deterministically rational may just get us confused ,
Truth is in a tension ; a paradox .
Sometimes truth is blocked by our own reason and sometimes its just beyond anyone's reasoning.
Options --contrasting ways to think about and getting on with loving
1. Rationalize yourself into it . -many who don't want to introduce unknown forces into this world want us to never make a decision till we have weighed up what we know- they say - to be thoroughly responsible we have to be thoroughly rational and vice versa .IMO this is a very limiting way to both think and live.
This ideology is asking us to think and act on incomplete information ( and maybe using emotion and rationalized emotion ) but then just leaves us at that point - a cop out bottom line convenience buy-- I am saying that , what we need , as our emotions and minds are connected is a holding position mechanism - a way of suspending disbelief ..
What we all do know from human experience is that we don't know . "What's love got to do with anything"
If ever there there was anything that's subject to rational abuse its love talk. To accept that its part of the structure of life is not enough when we want to use it -- rationally... . Can anyone resolve all problems by being specifically rational about their interpretation of whats good in a situation? . If
Love is not what we want it to be, who tells us what it is ? Whats promoted as love as Tina turner says is often anything but . Isn't any automatic presumption of love being love specifically dangerous as its products in politics shows . " You need to die because you are not as fit as I am and there are too many people in the world" .For good of all - That's natural rational love-- isn't it?
2. Born to love comes from beyond these earthly shores To have reasons beyond reason ability is not irrational, but possibly big picture wise . If we accept an answer as beyond reason and beyond your knowledge of our worlds natural forces you may have a chance of getting beyond reason to then better rationalize your experience .Its a worth a try , because no one really knows how the world really work , except that it invites romance and wonder .
Taking on assumptions you don't fully understand is not always easy, but it is how we learn . Assuming Karma , Justice and Judgement and fairness may help us learn and learn to love . If there was just only kindness without justice that would make that form of kindness a terrible uncaring ( even irrational ) thing
Take the ABC's question "are humans inherently kind" ? This question highlights the inadequacy of the post modern position 1 -
Position No 2 assumes we are more than structure and we have freedom to choose love . kindness or cruelty. There is pressure from population and place, but is crude number control the answer 4 us ?
Love has to do with possibilities and there are, as before, lots of possibilities for people in this world .
What we do know if we ever grow up is that we sometimes have to cruel to be kind.
So love is a bit about timing, not being superficial and being disagreeable like our mothers and our wives can ( not aiming ) to be . ( Note These 3 amigo rules that are not always acceptable in a court of moral law )
3. Thinking completely outside the square
If kindness is the weak force of Nature , maybe its the one that holds it together ( a lesson from recent cosmology ?) If God is not good, we have all the reason we nred to be bad
Biologically we are not inherently anything, but a structure in which forces can operate ; Forces of chemistry physiology etc - An amazing creation - that has the freedom to choose for good or for ill .For self or for the body. So you are happy in yourself and your own logic then are you ?
The biggest mistake any generation make is to blame the structure and deny the freedom of choice . Is that what the epistemological despair of our own generation all about -denying ourselves choice when it suits us to deny it ? The genes made me do it /
Modelling is how the Christian faith grew to be seen to be a workable philosophy. Testing a faith is a good way to build/ destroy a foundation - following Christ's way has stood the test of time
Our psyches tell us we all have a religion of sorts and quite logically OUR rational for using them , on the above logic must be at times, quite unreliable .
That means a belief , or something like Karma, doesn't always makes complete sense to a pedant , a flanuers or your everyday chatterer on the net. Don't go figure ...go test!
Who cares if you are a bit of a romantic .... if it works ?
Martin Luther King wrote the book "Free to love" . another way to live foundation idea; to love we need to be free to love
Modern determinists are all wrong in trying to say we are one thing or the other ; this leads people to say groups are either good or bad -- this 'ism" ism is not truth but projection . see JB Peterson's rule on housekeeping intelligence.
Martin Luther reminds us we are a duality . he learned the hard way ( by striving to be good ) that we are need a way forward from a dilemma we face every day. Read his 1600 booklet "On being a Christian" .
