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<3 Love <3

"The greatest crime is preaching love." --Karel Kryl

Love is a deep feeling of liking and affection towards someone or
something, usually accompanied by a strong emotion. There are many
different kinds of love and love has always been one of the most important
feelings that higher living being are capable of, it permeates human
[1]art, culture and daily lives. Unconditional [2]selfless love towards
all living beings is the basis of [3]less retarded society.

What is the opposite of love? Many say it is [4]hatred, even though it may
also very well be argued that it is rather indifference, i.e. just "not
caring", because hate and love often come hand in hand and are sometimes
actually very similar -- both hate and love arouse strong emotion, even
obsession, and can be present at the same time (so called love-hate
relationship). Love sometimes quickly changes to hate and vice versa.

As mentioned, love is not a single feeling, there are many types of it,
for example parental love, love of a life partner, platonic love, self
love, love for a friend, towards [5]God, of pet animal, love of [6]art,
knowledge, [7]life, nature, as well as selfish obsessive love, [8]selfless
love and many others. Some kinds of love may be so rare and complex that
it's hard to describe them, for example it is possible to passionately
love a complete stranger merely for his existence, without feeling a
sexual desire towards him. One may love a [9]beautiful mathematical
formula and even people who hurt him. Love is a very complex thing.

Is there a good real life example of unconditional selfless love? Yes.
When a fascist [10]Brenton Tarrant shot up the Christchurch mosques on 15
March 2019 and killed 51 people, there was a woman among them whose
husband said after the incident he wanted to hug Tarrant. The husband was
also present during the shooting. Not only has he forgiven the killer of
his wife and someone who almost also murdered him alone, he showed him
loved, something which must have been unimaginably difficult and something
that proved him one of the most pure people on this planet. He said about
it the following (paraphrased for copyright concerns): "There is no use in
anger. Anger and fight will not fix it, only with love and caring can we
warm hearts. [...] I love him because he is a human being, he is my
brother. [...] I don't support his act. [...] But perhaps he was hurt in
his life, perhaps something happened to him. [...] Everyone has two sides,
a bad one and a good one; bring out the good in you.". (source:
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/husband-forgives-new-zealand-terrorist-14154882)
{ This moved me so much when I read it, I can't explain how much this
affected my life. I have so much admiration for what this man said and I
wish I could follow his message for my whole life. Only the words of the
man alone have awoken so much of the purest love in me towards every
living being on this planet, which I didn't even know existed. ~drummyfish
}

In the past selfless love was often felt by mothers for their children
(fathers not so much), although that's not the case anymore in [11]21st
century.

The only true love is unconditional love, love that doesn't punish.
Conditional love is not true love, it is [12]evil trying to deceive by
likening itself to something good. If love is conditioned, it is just a
commodity offered for certain price, i.e. just another form of
[13]business. Treating love as a form of [14]capital is the only way
practiced in western world, especially the [15]USA, an American is
physically incapable of comprehending even the idea of unconditional love.

The Way Of Love

[16]LRS advocates living the way of love -- loving everyone and treating
others with love, and making the whole world be so. If you have love in
you, how can you press the trigger of a gun to kill? How can you kill an
animal? How can you detonate a nuclear bomb over a city?

Our hope dwells in love being contagious; just like hate spawns hate, love
gives growth to more love. Love is able to stop the self-sustaining circle
of hate and revenge. If you show a true, unconditional love to someone who
hates you, there is a great chance the hatred will be lost, that
grievances will be forgiven and forgotten.

Today's society makes love kind of a commodity, as anything else; a
subject of speculation, a tool of manipulation, sometimes even a weapon, a
card to be kept hidden and played at the right time. People are taught to
hide their feelings, that compassion is weakness and altruism stupidity,
and so people are afraid to tell others they love them as it might make
them look weak, vulnerable and social outcast, it might be socially
unacceptable. We reject such toxic [17]bullshit. If you love someone,
whoever it is, tell him. You will soon be surrounded with loving people
this way.

{ I know this from experience, once I truly started loving others
unconditionally, I made many past enemies into great friends, and I saw
many of them turn to being actually very nice people. It is just such a
great feeling to let go of hate and so heartwarming to make peace with
people <3 ~drummyfish }