The Demotion of Love
This morning after Church, the Ferguson family gathered round the table for lunch at Pasquales, as custom dictates. And I had opened the Random semi-Intelligent Conversation/Argument (RICA) for the day with an analogy to Star Wars for why love can't be an emotion, relating it back to a RICA discussion mom and I had had a few nights earlier about loving small children. And this is how Star Wars proves that love is not an emotion:
The Star Wars Theory of the Demotion of Love, as based on Jedi principles; First, of course, we have the Force. And there is a light side and a dark side to the Force. Now, from what we know, the DS is accessed through strong Emotions (hate, anger, etc...) while the Jedi who use the LS must learn to control their Emotions. HOWEVER, as we can readily see in the battle between OBwan and Anakin, Obi Wan loves Anakin, and thus by logical deduction Love cannot be an Emotion. And then of course Drew added 1 Cor. 13:1-13 to that, but I had already irrefutably proved it by citing Star Wars and I felt that his further evidence was at this point unnecessary.
Mother countered with the fact that love is both a noun and a verb. (Drew and I nodded politely because we really didn't see how that proved anything about any aspect of her argument that love is an Emotion, or indeed, what relevance her comment had to the conversation as a whole. But oh, well.) Mom then went on to state that 'if it weren't a verb, then you couldn't feel it', which confused all of us greatly (which in retrospect may have been her plan.)
Dad followed this up with the idea that love is not an Emotion, but a Demotion. Or, even a Remotion. But as he didn't bother to explain what either of those is, we weren't much better off than when mom first started talking.
In the end I think that we successfully proved that Love is definitely a demotion. :)
The Star Wars Theory of the Demotion of Love, as based on Jedi principles; First, of course, we have the Force. And there is a light side and a dark side to the Force. Now, from what we know, the DS is accessed through strong Emotions (hate, anger, etc...) while the Jedi who use the LS must learn to control their Emotions. HOWEVER, as we can readily see in the battle between OBwan and Anakin, Obi Wan loves Anakin, and thus by logical deduction Love cannot be an Emotion. And then of course Drew added 1 Cor. 13:1-13 to that, but I had already irrefutably proved it by citing Star Wars and I felt that his further evidence was at this point unnecessary.
Mother countered with the fact that love is both a noun and a verb. (Drew and I nodded politely because we really didn't see how that proved anything about any aspect of her argument that love is an Emotion, or indeed, what relevance her comment had to the conversation as a whole. But oh, well.) Mom then went on to state that 'if it weren't a verb, then you couldn't feel it', which confused all of us greatly (which in retrospect may have been her plan.)
Dad followed this up with the idea that love is not an Emotion, but a Demotion. Or, even a Remotion. But as he didn't bother to explain what either of those is, we weren't much better off than when mom first started talking.
In the end I think that we successfully proved that Love is definitely a demotion. :)