Hang on a f**king minute.

[Pat Vegas]

I am getting married in 2 weeks exactly :yikes:

I think it's just all sunk in.

I wondered what this weird anxiety that has been kicking in was all about.

[the splendor of antigone]

Are you absolutely sure you want to go through with it, though?

[barrybueno]

[Pat Vegas]

[Luis Anaconda]

[Pat Vegas]

USA Germany
Algeria Russia
Portugal Ghana
Korea Belgium.

[Pat Vegas]

[barrybueno]

[the splendor of antigone]

Here's some beautiful Hegelian idealism on the concept of love*:





Quote:



Hegel claims that subject-object identity (the identity of subject and object is realized only in self-consciousness because only in self-consciousness are the subject and object of consciousness one and the same), such self-consciousness, exists perfectly only in love. What he means is that in love the self (the subject) finds itself in the other (the object) as the other finds itself in the self. In the experience of love subject and object, self and other, realize their natures through one another, and moreover each of them recognizes itself only through the other. Hence there is subject-object identity because there is a single structure of self-consciousness holding between self and other: the self knows itself in the other as the other knows itself in the self.
Further, love involves not only a moment of identity, but also a moment of difference; it is unity-in-difference. There is also difference in love because by its very nature it consists in appreciating the other just because it is an other; love is possible only through the mutual respect between equal and independent partners. The self does not love the other if it attempt to dominate and subordinate the other to itself.

Love is thus the paradoxical process whereby the self both loses itself (as an individual) and finds or gains itself (as a part of a wider whole). Love contains therefore the moment of self-surrender and also of self-discovery. There is a moment of self-surrender in love because the self loses itself by renouncing self-interest as its ultimate value, and by ceasing to define itself in opposition to others. There is also a moment of self-discovery because in love the self also finds itself in and through the other; it sees that it is no longer something opposed to the other but the unity of itself with the other.






To love :bow:

*Don't actually waste your time reading it

[Pat Vegas]

[barrybueno]