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[savage_arctic]

Today I was in Architecture History class, mind still racing as I just got my paper finished and turned in minutes before the beginning of the class. Today we were talking about ancient Greece temples. This is a fun lecture because you see the different columns and proportions, etc. Basically, you get to see what the big deal about Greek

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[savage_arctic]

Good point. Desserts is stressed backward. Something else to think about. :P

That is very interesting that you are talking about this stuff in your class. And you can see fear as a means of control in our world. Especially with Bush's campaign. It is very fear oriented. Communist is to the 50's as terrorist is to the... well, whatever we decided to name this decade. If you go around now accusing someone of being a commie, they just laugh.

Though I think that a)our society misuses the word "Love". It means too many things and because of that, its meaning gets blurred. And b)that there is a divine love that is based purely on goodness (for a lack of better words) and that when you find that, you want to do more goodness, not because you might lose it, but because it is simply "right" and that you don't receive any guilt. I've come to the realization (thanks to a couple evangilists who were trying to convert me and a friend) that people go to the Christian God in hopes to get rid of their guilt. The basic, party on Friday and Saturday, sober up on Sunday approach. One of the evangilist left God, became reckless and destructive, and came back to God. It sounded to me like he wanted to find a way to get rid of his guilt and that because he wasn't ready to face the guilt and pardon himself, he found God and hoped that God and Jesus would do that for him. Does that make sense?

Anyways, just my thoughts on the matter.

[reinja]

ah, now you are breaching the word love. No other word has so many conotations and dinotations, theories in psychology, communications, sociology, culture study, or anthropology study to it. Yet, for all of those, the problem is that it is simply an emotion, not a defined set of words. But because it is an emotion, it is impossible to take it out of us and place it into a media where it can be completely understood in all its vageries by another person, and hence, it has gained some notoriety as being different from other, more simple emotions. 5 different people could believe that they are in love, and it would more than likely be 5 different feelings. Anyway, I'll stop thinking I understand what I am talking about and leave you with that.