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19Bones79
There's a difference between love and in love bud.
Definitely - I never heard of a 'Love Bud' before, but it sounds to me that they truly are different things.
Now that this slight jab-style of a lesson about using the Oxford Comma is sinking in, let's talk about the topic of 'love'.
Why do people think there's a difference between 'being in love' and 'loving'? I guess to differentiate 'family love' from 'erotic lust' for
someone.
However, Love is just love, it's free-flowing energy from the Creator through human beings' heart into the world (among other things).
People on this world do not understand what the Cosmic Messenger talked about, when He mentioned 'love' and 'loving', though. This leads to people
labeling ANY strong emotion that isn't clearly a 'negative', like 'hatred' or 'envy' as 'love'.
You feel greed? Let's call it love.
You feel emotional lust for someone(s)? Let's call it love.
You feel slight delight when you look at a painting? Let's call it love.
Suddenly you talk about your family members, and are required to express some kind of 'fondness' that seems to be mandatory to have towards family
members (even though I am convinced there are lots of families that do not have any kind of genuine fondness towards each other)? Let's call it
love.
There's some celebrity that makes your 'between your big toes' tingle? Let's call it love.
So when we call EVERYTHING 'love', people start to become uneasy; I just said I love this desirable, attractive individual, although in reality, I
just feel sexual and emotional lust, so I can't really use the same term when I am talking about my family members and pets, so I have to create an
artificial difference.
This is where 'in love' comes from, and why people are so adamant in differentiating it from just 'loving'. It's so crazy to use the same word, but
yet try to explain that it's completely different anyway. Why not just give up and let love be LOVE, and let LUST BE LUST, and differentiate it that
way?
You don't love some handbag you saw yesterday. You don't love a hairstyle. You don't love shoes or computer or video games.
You like them, you feel all kinds of things, but it's not love.
You can say you love a romantic partner (if you actually love them, instead of just feeilng sexual and/or emotional lust for them) just as well as you
love your family members. Love is always the same energy, it's never something different.
What I am trying to say here, that there's no difference between 'in love' (if you really mean LOVE, and not sexual or emotional lust, which is called
'romance' very often) and 'love'. It's the same energy. What's the point of being 'in love', if it isn't love?
Actually, there is no 'being in love' with someone. There's just being 'in lust' with them.
When you love someone, it's always love.
Also, if there really WAS a difference, and 'being in love' did exist separately from love, then why does everyone say to each other 'I love you'
instead of 'I am in love with you' in movies, TV shows and in real life?
Furthermore, family members say 'I love you' to each other the same way 'romantic partners' or people that desire other people sexually and
emotionally say 'I love you' to each other, proving my point.
'In love' doesn't really exist, people have just come up with that weird, artificial, semantic separation so it wouldn't be feel weird to say 'I love
my family', while also proclaiming love for someone they sexually and/or emotionally lust for.
However, I don't think people even really feel actual love when they say 'I love (someone/something)' anyway, for the most part. How many of us are
full of compassion and determination to sacrifice themselves for someone else's good when we talk about loving someone(s)?
Most often, it seems to me, people use these phrases without knowing what love really is, and to virtue signal and to conform - to show they are GOOD
people, so people wouldn't know how cold and dark their heart really is. "I love my family" is uttered so easily, so carelessly, so coldly, without
any kind of feeling, it boggles the mind.
I have even heard some woman say something like this: "It doesn't mean I feel anything, you can love your family without actually FEELING love"
This says it all - people don't understand what love is, so they create these artificial semantics to try to convey to the world they are loving,
caring, compassionate people, but they don't emotionally or sexually lust a certain group of people, while using this word for exactly sexual and
emotional lust when talking about another group of people or an individual.
There is no 'in love', there's just love. Get over it.