I disagree that you can know a person completely. You can never know a person completely, no matter if you spend a lifetime with them. Maybe, and I stress the maybe, if you spend multiple lifetimes with them you might be able to get in their head and come close to knowing them completely. Loving a person is loving the hidden spaces of their mind and soul, but it's also loving the admirable things they do, as well as their known faults. It's much more complicated, and there are different types of love. True love, which is so rare, never fades. You may grow apart from who you love, but you'd never stop loving them. I also disagree that you can love a person if you know all the reasons of their being. Some people can, but some people couldn't. There is true evil in the world, people who would kill their parents just because of a whim. Those are the people that I doubt many people could find to love, no matter if they knew all the reasons for their actions or not.
I disagree that you can know a person completely. You can never know a person completely, no matter if you spend a lifetime with them. Maybe, and I stress the maybe, if you spend multiple lifetimes with them you might be able to get in their head and come close to knowing them completely.
I believe that it's possible to know someone more completely than they know themselves. I worded it awkwardly when I said 'completely' because that would imply a knowledge of past, present, and future. If someone lets you in, though, truly takes down all of their barriers/walls and invites you to know them better than they know themself, that, to me, is love.
Loving a person is loving the hidden spaces of their mind and soul, but it's also loving the admirable things they do, as well as their known faults. It's much more complicated, and there are different types of love. True love, which is so rare, never fades. You may grow apart from who you love, but you'd never stop loving them.I'm not speaking only of the kind of True Love you are, because I
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Ah, then I agree that you can know a person better than they know themselves, but only in certain respects. You can never really be sure what a person is thinking. I also agree that taking down barriers helps to love someone, but if they do that, it doesn't mean that you'll automatically love them
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I doubt there's a point in discussing this very much further, as neither of us is going to change their mind from simple discussion (I believe that experience can change opinions on almost anything).
I didn't miss the part where you said that not all people would be able to love them, I just disagree with it and felt that the rest of my response addressed that fairly enough.
I think lots of people have firm views on stuff like this, but few people ever sit down and discuss it (so to speak).
Yeah, I don't think there's much left to discuss either. What do you think it would be like if there was a forum set up just for this type of thing? Do you think people would actually use it?
They might. I mean, I know a few people who like discussions like this (which is probably part of the reason why my ideas can be so firm, I've talked about it before), but it would depend on how it was run and how many people were there to start off.
Loving a person is loving the hidden spaces of their mind and soul, but it's also loving the admirable things they do, as well as their known faults. It's much more complicated, and there are different types of love. True love, which is so rare, never fades. You may grow apart from who you love, but you'd never stop loving them.
I also disagree that you can love a person if you know all the reasons of their being. Some people can, but some people couldn't. There is true evil in the world, people who would kill their parents just because of a whim. Those are the people that I doubt many people could find to love, no matter if they knew all the reasons for their actions or not.
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I believe that it's possible to know someone more completely than they know themselves. I worded it awkwardly when I said 'completely' because that would imply a knowledge of past, present, and future. If someone lets you in, though, truly takes down all of their barriers/walls and invites you to know them better than they know themself, that, to me, is love.
Loving a person is loving the hidden spaces of their mind and soul, but it's also loving the admirable things they do, as well as their known faults. It's much more complicated, and there are different types of love. True love, which is so rare, never fades. You may grow apart from who you love, but you'd never stop loving them.I'm not speaking only of the kind of True Love you are, because I ( ... )
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I didn't miss the part where you said that not all people would be able to love them, I just disagree with it and felt that the rest of my response addressed that fairly enough.
I think lots of people have firm views on stuff like this, but few people ever sit down and discuss it (so to speak).
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