Comments on: Have We Lost the Ability to Fall in Love? https://off-guardian.org/2023/11/18/have-we-lost-the-ability-to-fall-in-love/ because facts really should be sacred Wed, 27 Mar 2024 22:33:32 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: John Ervin https://off-guardian.org/2023/11/18/have-we-lost-the-ability-to-fall-in-love/#comment-643723 Fri, 08 Dec 2023 21:27:09 +0000 https://off-guardian.org/?p=91387#comment-643723 “Have we lost the ability to fall in love?”

Manalive, boy O boy, I sure hope so!

Both “New” & Old Normal in the West have always made perhaps its key idol of this transgeneration business of “falling in love.”

How much farther or higher would we have come if we had only exchanged that old tired steed for a new ability to “rise in love.”

Instead of always having ourselves that nasty fall. Implicitly controlled by it, mostly to our rue….

So beautiful that one fine day when we can arise in love.

[Not, ahem, arouse.]

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“I am the troubador of a newer and nobler romance.”

~ St. Francis of Assisi

]]> By: Sarah https://off-guardian.org/2023/11/18/have-we-lost-the-ability-to-fall-in-love/#comment-640464 Mon, 20 Nov 2023 05:25:24 +0000 https://off-guardian.org/?p=91387#comment-640464 It is said that in Japan, where people are so hooked on their smart phones and social media, that loneliness has become a problem only resolved by virtual partners.
Hollywood and the push for immediate sexual gratification have left a lot of young unwittingly dissatisfied with their partners who they feel don’t match up to the ideal.
I believe the “in love” feeling has a lot to do with forbidden sexual yearning that is now too freely given – any time anywhere. Married partners that stray from a relationship mistake their ‘in love’ feelings to the fact that their sexual encounters have to be secretly managed and are therefore all the more desirable.
Lastly, women are choosing to pursue careers of necessity now just to keep their heads above water and choose to marry or life-partner in their late 20s and 30s only to find difficulty in conceiving.

]]> By: les online https://off-guardian.org/2023/11/18/have-we-lost-the-ability-to-fall-in-love/#comment-640441 Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:23:25 +0000 https://off-guardian.org/?p=91387#comment-640441 My attention was beheld by one of my occasional archeological
digs in the ruins of my memories when my “i” that lurks within
the deep recesses said “You must have really hated that women
(for what she was doing to you)”. I knew what “i” was on about:
‘that woman’ was the first person i loved on being born…”
Lord forgive them for they know not what they do” is a fine
sentiment”… Yes, you can forgive, but you cant ever forget, for
whatever the trauma it forever comes between one and those
one wants to be closer to…

]]> By: les online https://off-guardian.org/2023/11/18/have-we-lost-the-ability-to-fall-in-love/#comment-640419 Sun, 19 Nov 2023 20:42:55 +0000 https://off-guardian.org/?p=91387#comment-640419 What’s absent in people’s lives is often depicted
in movies, and there are a lot of great Love Movies…
Some might call ours ‘The Society of The Spectacle’ –
“Alienation Rules !” (Karl Marx)…

Infants learn dis-trust at a very early age
How does an infant feel dis-trust ?
It is felt physically…
It is felt as an absence,
a feeling that ‘Something isnt there’…

]]> By: Hereticdrummer https://off-guardian.org/2023/11/18/have-we-lost-the-ability-to-fall-in-love/#comment-640414 Sun, 19 Nov 2023 20:08:37 +0000 https://off-guardian.org/?p=91387#comment-640414 “Love sees not with the eyes but with the mind. Love is therefore winged cupid, painted blind.”

]]> By: Todd Hayen https://off-guardian.org/2023/11/18/have-we-lost-the-ability-to-fall-in-love/#comment-640407 Sun, 19 Nov 2023 19:39:44 +0000 https://off-guardian.org/?p=91387#comment-640407 In reply to MadLady.

Oooo…that sounds delightful (listening to Gregorian chant…)

]]> By: Todd Hayen https://off-guardian.org/2023/11/18/have-we-lost-the-ability-to-fall-in-love/#comment-640406 Sun, 19 Nov 2023 19:38:54 +0000 https://off-guardian.org/?p=91387#comment-640406 In reply to MadLady.

I think you nailed it.

]]> By: Hugh O’Neill https://off-guardian.org/2023/11/18/have-we-lost-the-ability-to-fall-in-love/#comment-640403 Sun, 19 Nov 2023 19:27:14 +0000 https://off-guardian.org/?p=91387#comment-640403 Love takes many forms: it is both complex and very simple. It is also quite ethereal, a moving target, and – like humour – probably resistant to analysis and scrutiny. In my own experience, the bond of mutual support, joy and respect between a husband and wife deepens immensely with the shared burden of caring for babies. Babies make us whole as Human Beings because they demand our unconditional commitment, and it is that surrender of the self (the ego) which helps us grow from Husband to Father, and fro. Wife to Mother. The bonds between parents are tested and can either break or strengthen. We adored our babies (children, meh 😉 and the family unit is a whole new adventure. The modern world however is ruthlessly opposed to families because this powerful cell is independent of the State. Families have always been the target of Totalitarians (who also promote their own offspring in dynastic entitlement) – ‘twas ever thus. Materialism and the need to provide, food, clothing and shelter sometimes puts too much strain on the family unit and stresses appear. It is maybe those stresses which impact upon the children and take their toll upon the children and their latent insecurities, creating deeper problems later in life. This is probably exactly as planned by TPTB.
One could argue that the Ten Commandments offer the simplest and most essential code for the efficient functioning of society. Honour thy father and thy mother is the most natural thing, The less involvement the State has in our lives, the happier we will be, the more room for love to thrive in all its mysteries.

]]> By: MadLady https://off-guardian.org/2023/11/18/have-we-lost-the-ability-to-fall-in-love/#comment-640380 Sun, 19 Nov 2023 14:24:04 +0000 https://off-guardian.org/?p=91387#comment-640380 I had a comment–thought it was ok and then it disappeared. Can’t remember exactly what I said but, what you write–Dr. Tod, reminds me of James Joyce’s Mr. Duffy who lived”a short distance from his body.” We live apart from our bodies–our phones contain our consciousness. Our bodies are no longer receptors and communicators of the truth because we are medicated into feeling neutral at all times–not sad, not happy, not amazed, ever. We are never too cold, too hot or even slightly hungry. We are Jekylls and Hydes–fully disintegrated humans. To fall in love means being fully human.To be integrated–mind, body, heart. We’ve lost that.

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