Philosophical Masturbation...
Companionship is a strange thing. After all its difficult to trust someone when you can never completely trust anyone. Even a mothers undying love for a child that she created can be violated. Such is the nature of free will. The difficulty behind the realization of the impossibility of 100% trust between two individuals, is that its very easy to
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It all comes down to currency. Everything is based on currency. Emotional currency is some of the most difficult form of payment out there. At McDonalds you can hand them a $20 Bill and buy food, you dont have to convince them that your $20 Bill is real, you dont have to continue to prove the worth of your $20 Bill over the next 20 years, they just accept it as a form of currency. Style, madison avenue can push whatever they want but untill people buy into it and start wearing the fasion that the companies put out there they have no validity. Belief and acceptance are the cash register of emotions.
For instance if you begin to hold an atheist to spiritual standards layed out by christianity they will simply shrug their shoulder and say oh well, they wont take that $20 Bill. All of it comes down to accepting currency.
So why do we fall in love, not give into our animalistic instincts and ignore emotions to simply live an objective life? I cant completely answer that in the time I have to type this.
However the reason love is so wonderful, is because we throw caution to the wind, we give the love between ourselves and that other person currency. We believe in it, we make it real, from nothing we create something. We create a new religion that is only available to the two of us and we pour our souls into it. We make it come to life and we continue to sustain it even when they arent arround. We simply love.
To answer your question, if I were given the chance to live without emotions I would decline a thousand times over.
"What is it that gets in the way of one trusting someone completely?"
The realization that humans are flawed. It is very possible to believe you trust someone completely, however within yourself you know that there are variables. I trust many people I know with my life, this doesnt mean I trust them completely. Look within yourself, there are times in which you would, when faced with a life and death scenario, rather have your loved one take the fall and you live on. Not saying that this is absolute, however when dealing with your two driving mental forces, your consciousness and your ego, your ego will step in and attempt to preserve itself. It is rooted in this ego that we all have the base of all mistrust however, to tie in a running theme from my original post, from within this self preserving ego comes the ability to chose not to listen to it. From one extreme of self preservation, one of the most basic and animalistic instincts on the planet, to loving someone enough to sacrifice yourself for them.
I hope I got to the majority of your questions, I tend to go off onto a tangent quite often so if I missed something you would still like me to explain feel free to ask again and tell me to get specific. It takes more than you will ever know to offend me so dont hold back.
I dont quite speak German however I do know a tiny bit, one of my favorite philosophers (Martin Buber) is German but I just enjoy saying Danke.
Ehfkhahreesto pollee (Thank you very much in Greek) for your questions once again, and dont be shy.
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