Does abstinence enhance one's capacity to love ?
In desperation and fear I grasped at celibacy when I was 18 and wasn’t able to lie to myself anymore about being bisexual. I have […]
love notes
'Lovism' isn't for everyone ?
I realize that some people who are not consciously focused on ‘love’ or on ‘helping to make the world a better place’ may actually do […]
'Spiritual Love' ?
For me, that term connotes deep and broad purpose. It’s doing my imperfect best–intellectually, emotionally, and practically–to improve the ratio of well-being to suffering. It […]
Loving our enemies ?
I’m thinking of this in the existential and subjective sense, not in terms of some external or objective absolute of having either 100 percent love […]
Empathy and Creativity
I can engage with someone’s mind and benefit from intellectual and emotional synergy with them if I empathize. But I can’t if I hate them. […]
(Draft in need of revision) Love, not religious or political fundamentalism, is the answer to the problems of modernity
Hello, yesterday one of the people of your organization doing outreach at Broad and High asked “if you say the laws shouldn’t be based on […]
More notes on religion
It may be the case that fundamentalism and fanaticism will increase in the short to midterm as religiosity overall declines in the longrun, barring the […]
Rationalism does not make our attitude toward life degrading
Science isn’t limited to studying chemical reactions. Again, I refer you to the social and behavioral sciences, which are still sciences, even though they are […]
Interview questions regarding 'love'
To what extent do you relate to the idea that accepting that in at lease some situations you have no viable alternative to harming others […]