Well now that was a surprise.
There I was doing deep analysis of esoteric wing sections...and... how long does it take to get over true love, and how do we handle the possibility that it won't come round again? WTF is true love anyway? Why are we victims of our bodies, and where does the awesome smoothness come from when we're in tune with our bodies? I contacted my subconscious in the shower this morning. She gave me an ultimatum, without demanding anything. A Statement. Be with me, or Be without me. Perhaps we're not victims of our bodies, Our bodies are victims of us. Geez civilization is a heady veneer.
I got asked today, what do I think of homeopathy...I said, I think it works, but not for the reasons everyone thinks. On reflection...it's a crock of shit. What makes it work is our minds. The Placebo effect. But the stuff itself is a scam. Quantum water, quantum bracelets, tachyon thingummies that you stick on your cellphone to protect you from... what? Excuse me...WTF is a tachyon? If the dudes who invented the term are still struggling to figure out what it MAY be, how exactly is some idiot able to produce a sticker for your cellphone that protects you from those particles? I assume he has done the truly formidable maths, has the years of particle physics study under his belt, and is so far ahead of the incredibly dedicated people (who HAVE done the maths) who are researching quantum effects that he can actually produce a sticker that counteracts an as yet unproven particle that does what? Whooo, we all need to be protected from that particle....
And people buy this shit. ...and I'm taken on for not being Christian, or New Age or whatever. For my money, Christians have been taken to the cleaners... I would call them stupid, except that I think that there is a loophole in our brains for a meme called religion. We're susceptible. You can catch religion, just like you can catch the common cold, or the plague. With similar results. Useless to the rest of humanity. Ok, thats off my chest.
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Ok here is my response, not that you asked for my opinion, but then that's never stopped me from giving it before.
True Love? Hrm... I think love is subjective, so I doubt the word 'true' can be used, but I do think absolute love is possible. At least in the eyes and mind of the beholder. Watch 'Slumdog Millionaire'. That level of love which supersedes everything else is just literally awesome (to me). I doubt everyone gets that in a life time. Either to love or be loved like that, but I do hope that at least once in my life I will be enough for somebody and that they will allow me to love them fully. I am starting to wonder if much of our experience of love is however a total illusion in our own heads which is why it is so difficult to synchronize that fantasy with the actual reality of the other person. I haven't fully formulated this hypothesis yet so I am not sure I can articulate it very well. I hope I am wrong, but it is what I am strongly suspecting at this point... In my experience love is a very yin-yang hunter-hunted thing, and it seems hard if not impossible to have both people going in the same direction and collaborating on it rather than antagonizing. *sigh*
Anyway on to the homeopathy. I think it CAN work but only because I believe that whatever YOU believe will heal you will. If you think going to the doctor makes you better, it will. If you think popping a pill will make you better it will. If you think dancing naked in the full moon does it will. etc etc. For me I rest, and allow my body to heal itself and it does. You just have to go with YOUR beliefs on this. For me a bottle of ionized water (or whatever the hell it is) is unlikely to do anything meaningful because I just don't have 'faith' in it. But I think it is valid for a lot of other people, but not for the reason they think it is. ;)
I think I may have been applying the term loosely in a 'Wesley/Dread Pirate Roberts' kind of way.... Twue Wuv. Seriously though, better people than me have suggested that Love is a biologically driven phenomenon, and it is tasked with the responsibility of perpetuating the human race. Absolute Love, though.... now there is a thought... I shall have to consider upon this one.
Ok, sex is physiological and love is mostly psychological - but there are still chemicals (hormones, pheromones, serotonin etc) involved so that is indeed biological too.
But I like to think there can be a higher level of love a more cerebral and enlightened version of the kind that Richard Bach speaks of and explores.But I also like the Tim Robbins 'Jitterbug Perfume' melding and intertwining of the mystical esoteric non-physical with the raw, primal physicality which somehow can span time and space and everything.
I guess I am too much of an intellectual and romantic (morantic?) to want to believe that it is JUST Darwinian.
I think I'd need a glass of wine to be able to pontificate further though. ;)
Oi, what happened to my second comment? :P
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