08-15-2006, 03:03 PM
Passion is passion. Passionate and romantic love (there are many types, the term I would use here from Adin would be haukton, the passionate love of two people, as opposed to the six other types of love they quantify as unique words) cannot exist unless the two people know each other.
Love is patient, love is kind.... Do I need to quote scripture? Love is never a fist, that form of love is idolatry, possessiveness, and violence -- not true love.
The seven types of love in the Adin culture and language are as follows:
The first and greatest love is "godly love," a universal compassion and love for all things in the natural world, living or nonliving, and for all things good.
The six others are three pairs of positive and negative loves. Constructive and destructive forms of love.
The second love is positive, and is the desire to protect and defend, to sacrifice yourself and support the growth of others, most particularly those who are close to you, as with family and friends. You love them and would sooner die than see harm come to them.
The third is the negative, the desire to stifle those who threaten the ones you care for, or to protect those you care for in a manner which limits their freedoms. You love them and would sooner kill than see them harmed.
The fourth is positive, the emotional connection and passion of two people to support and cherish each other, even if can only be expressed by allowing the other to be apart from you with the one for whom they most cherish in this way. This love is one of passion and connection, the ideal love of a man for religion and a man for his lover or lovers, one which allows the others to go their way if that is what will best serve their needs.
The fifth is negative, the emotional conviction that another cannot be right unless they are with you in beliefs or in life. The belief that anothe rperson is naught without you is this love, or the conviction that one's own beliefs are true to the point that you will kill or die simply to prove to others how true they are. The extremist Islam terrorrists are one example of people with such a love for their religion, or for their leaders' ideals at least, but so were the Christian crusaders of the middle ages. The man who would harm or force another to be with him simply because he feels a connection is no different, simply more limited in his scope.
The sixth is the love of a thing: a desire, a taste, an interest or a fascination with something. This allows the person to enjoy something of life without being overwhelmed with the enjoyment of it, and yet to still be able to exist apart from it. This is a love of moderation and not of overindulgence, and it is simply something enjoyed, but not an addiction. One may love pizza or curry, but not feel it necessary to eat those every day.
The seventh is the negative, an overwhelming passion and lust for a thing, tangible or otherwise, which draws away from all enjoyment in life without that thing. One who can enjoy life only while he is eating demonstrates this sort of love, an addiction within the mind or body to doing or having something to the point it may provide detriment to their health or wellness.
This is how the Adin view love, as positives which enhance life and negatives which detract from it. The negative aspects are often associated with the seven deadly sins, while the psitive are often associated witht he seven virtues... which are said to counter each other, though their particular expressoin is not common to the Adin:
humility against pride
kindness against envy
abstinence against gluttony
chastity against lust
patience against anger
liberality against greed
and diligence against sloth
Those who claim that their fist shows love are deluded by the evil in their hearts. A fist only shows love in protection, never in aggression. We all have evil in our hearts, and though we can struggle against it, nothing in our power will ever drive it away.
Love is patient, love is kind.... Do I need to quote scripture? Love is never a fist, that form of love is idolatry, possessiveness, and violence -- not true love.
The seven types of love in the Adin culture and language are as follows:
The first and greatest love is "godly love," a universal compassion and love for all things in the natural world, living or nonliving, and for all things good.
The six others are three pairs of positive and negative loves. Constructive and destructive forms of love.
The second love is positive, and is the desire to protect and defend, to sacrifice yourself and support the growth of others, most particularly those who are close to you, as with family and friends. You love them and would sooner die than see harm come to them.
The third is the negative, the desire to stifle those who threaten the ones you care for, or to protect those you care for in a manner which limits their freedoms. You love them and would sooner kill than see them harmed.
The fourth is positive, the emotional connection and passion of two people to support and cherish each other, even if can only be expressed by allowing the other to be apart from you with the one for whom they most cherish in this way. This love is one of passion and connection, the ideal love of a man for religion and a man for his lover or lovers, one which allows the others to go their way if that is what will best serve their needs.
The fifth is negative, the emotional conviction that another cannot be right unless they are with you in beliefs or in life. The belief that anothe rperson is naught without you is this love, or the conviction that one's own beliefs are true to the point that you will kill or die simply to prove to others how true they are. The extremist Islam terrorrists are one example of people with such a love for their religion, or for their leaders' ideals at least, but so were the Christian crusaders of the middle ages. The man who would harm or force another to be with him simply because he feels a connection is no different, simply more limited in his scope.
The sixth is the love of a thing: a desire, a taste, an interest or a fascination with something. This allows the person to enjoy something of life without being overwhelmed with the enjoyment of it, and yet to still be able to exist apart from it. This is a love of moderation and not of overindulgence, and it is simply something enjoyed, but not an addiction. One may love pizza or curry, but not feel it necessary to eat those every day.
The seventh is the negative, an overwhelming passion and lust for a thing, tangible or otherwise, which draws away from all enjoyment in life without that thing. One who can enjoy life only while he is eating demonstrates this sort of love, an addiction within the mind or body to doing or having something to the point it may provide detriment to their health or wellness.
This is how the Adin view love, as positives which enhance life and negatives which detract from it. The negative aspects are often associated with the seven deadly sins, while the psitive are often associated witht he seven virtues... which are said to counter each other, though their particular expressoin is not common to the Adin:
humility against pride
kindness against envy
abstinence against gluttony
chastity against lust
patience against anger
liberality against greed
and diligence against sloth
Those who claim that their fist shows love are deluded by the evil in their hearts. A fist only shows love in protection, never in aggression. We all have evil in our hearts, and though we can struggle against it, nothing in our power will ever drive it away.