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Monday, September 26. 2011

"Love is all there is...": Love slaves

It is? What kind of "love"? What did Lennon/McCarthy mean, and who made them experts?


Our link yesterday morning from F- Feelings was excellent: Love Slaves. "The bad news is that most love won’t work, and you’ve got to leave it alone when you know it won’t."


If we let emotion control our lives, we are animals. If we let reason control our lives, we are robots.


There are more kinds of love than the Eskimos have (proverbially) kinds of snow. I once tried to make a list, and gave up. People vary enormously in their needs or wants for all of those sorts of need, desire, addiction, and attachment.

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Our Essays, Psychology, and Dr. Bliss at 15:22 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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Egads, the first letter from that woman is just pathetic....and I don't mean that in a good sense. How could anyone admit to having been that much enthralled by someone else? What she did is the dictionary definition of dumbass behavior. Can we be sure the letter is actually legitimate?
#1 Agent Cooper on 2011-09-26 17:03 (Reply)
It still amazes me that things that happen outside of me can restructure the area between my ears.
#2 PacRim Jim (Link) on 2011-09-27 03:21 (Reply)
So, you didn't like that miniature airport the German modelers built? I thought it was pretty cool even if I couldn't figure out why they built it.
#2.1 Agent Cooper on 2011-09-27 05:19 (Reply)
I don't think Macarthy knew what Lennon was about. Neither were experts on love.
#3 johnlennon on 2011-10-17 14:08 (Reply)

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