Says who? Of course they are. Poetry speaks the greatest truths. And one can study the effects of love in each of these fields.
Not much of a difference at all actually. Whether it's will lead to, or can lead to, both are nonsense statements. Love cannot, nor will not lead to violence and retribution. It's like you cannot be both happy and angry at the same time. You cannot be both violent and peaceful. Love does not lead to murder.
What you are doing is mistaking love for possesivness and desire, fueled by fear. It's fear that leads to all of that, not love. Love leads to the opposite of harm to others.
Ah, not really. Empathy is about perception. Different kinds of emotions may or may not follow as a result of that perception, but empathy is about recognizing the value and worth in another person as if they were extensions of yourself. It's the simple abiltiy to relate to how another feels looking at the world through their eyes. It's a developmental thing. And it becomes more of a way of thinking, an attitude more than just emotion.
If you want a more sciencey understanding, rather than a poetic expression of a human realization, then link it to mirror neurons. Those are not emotion centers. They have to do with how we recognize others.
Here. I think they may help you understand exactly what this is about. It's a really good talk with animation, and it's like lifting the skull cap on my head and looking inside to how I see these things working together. We are wired for empathy for survival. Some people have that broken and it does not function. Trump's brain is broken.
That is because they were not acting out of love and compassion through empathy. They were acting out of self-intest driven by a thirst for vengence, dominance, money, poll ratings, etc. Not one of those is even remotely guided or tempered by empathy or love. The opposite is the case.
A man who murders his girlfriend because he is jealous of her, is not acting out of love. He is acting out of fear. Fear is the opposite of love. Fear is the absence of love. Here's some more poetry for you. "Love casts out all fear". It happens to be true.
Understood the way fundamentalist use it, I have no use for it either. I'm not a literalist or a supernaturalist. However, the pages do not have to be supernatural in order to speak human truths that mystics and poets and lovers the world over recognize as true, whether or not that poetry was part of their culture. These are human truths that are found in all the world's religions and philosophies. "Love works no ill." is an
axiom that just happens to be in scripture too.
Absolutely not. Fear, anger, jealousy and rage do all of that. Those happen when you do not love and do the opposite of what love does. Did you mother love you so much she choked you to death? Considering you're still here, her love preserved your life and nurtured it for you, rather than taking her self interests ahead of your own.
"Love works no ill". Love treats others as extensions of itself, without conditions. Also, another human axiom that happens to be in scripture too, "By their fruits you shall know them". Does it generate peace, forgiveness, help, support, safety, unity? Then that's love being detected. Does it generate fear, angry, vengeance, dishonesty with others, death, disease, famine, and war? Then that is how you detect that love is not present.
These are things they teach in Sunday School. Unfortunately, it seems very few were paying much attention.
Yes, I believe that. I believe you do to. I believe all healthy normal human beings have the capacity for it (see video above). Trump does not have it however. As he is psychologically damaged.