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spud
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Love is not a commodity
#5891173 - 07/23/06 03:49 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Love is so often used as a commodity. A parallel can be drawn to money. We value people. Some are priceless. We give people worth. We then issue out our love as a commodity based on the value we assess the individual has. That's a major problem in contemporary society, we view love as a commodity that we issue sparingly. If we disagree with an individual, we don't give them any of this commodity, we give them no money. If we don't like how they live their life, we don't pay them.
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Fractalated
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Re: Love is not a commodity [Re: spud]
#5891211 - 07/23/06 03:56 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I completely agree. I also find that very often "love" isn't actually love. It's a statement of enjoyment (I love fast food, I love TV). It's also become a form of emotional attachment. You say you love someone, but it's often enough their looks that you love, or their money, or their power, or something that they've got. It's rare for me to see two people who truly love each other. Who can unconditionally accept each other for who they are and live accordingly.
-------------------- "Now that the principalities and the powers stockpile weapons of mass destruction, contaminate the earth with their feverish industry, release floods of images to trigger insatiable desires, treat animals and humans as commodities and functions of a market, the devil must be grinning from ear to ear."
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Re: Love is not a commodity [Re: spud]
#5891376 - 07/23/06 04:35 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Your love check is in the mail, postage due.
-------------------- Anxiety is what you make it.
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Re: Love is not a commodity [Re: spud]
#5892066 - 07/23/06 07:37 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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What you describe is not love, but the simple manipulation of people as objects. Love is unconditional and free. How could it be a commodity when everyone has all of the love that they need by themselves?
-------------------- "A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do things against himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions." ― Carlos Castaneda
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Re: Love is not a commodity [Re: spud]
#5892126 - 07/23/06 07:49 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Love is a state of being.
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Re: Love is not a commodity [Re: spud]
#5894194 - 07/24/06 12:21 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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Yes, some use it like commodity. My old father does it. He was raised like that by his stepmother. He only got love and recognition, if he cleaned up, did the household, etc... He still thinks in these schemes and formerly tried to raise us just like that with this method.. Simply said, he uses to 'buy love'. He doesn't know other way Everyone can imagine how much our former family worked against that, until his ignorance blew the family into parts. Simply poor, sad and disastrous.
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Re: Love is not a commodity [Re: spud]
#5894253 - 07/24/06 12:45 PM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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I also agree...............
Love has no expectations and therefore has no trading value.
-------------------- What it is, is what it is my Brother. It is as it is, so suffer thru it.
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Re: Love is not a commodity [Re: Fucknuckle]
#5897075 - 07/25/06 03:43 AM (17 years, 6 months ago) |
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If we don't like how they live their life, we don't pay them,
or this maybe the time they have to pay up, LOL
What you describe is not love, but the simple manipulation of people as objects. Love is unconditional and free. How could it be a commodity when everyone has all of the love that they need by themselves?
just because someone is being manipulated, doesn't mean they don't love one another, love isn't always perfect, but love is constantly being tested, manipulation is your way of creating that love, if it has other variables involved to create that love then sometimes its needed, love is give and take, no one wants their high dampered, and if someone that I loved, becomes an enemy, then I'll have to place a condition to save my own hide
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