RE: A loving person
September 26, 2016 at 2:43 am
(This post was last modified: September 26, 2016 at 2:50 am by Edwardo Piet.)
(September 26, 2016 at 2:09 am)Maelstrom Wrote: A loving person who is reliant upon a myth to be loving toward others is not a loving person at all [...]
A loving person is a loving person. It makes no sense to start with "A loving person who is X is not a loving person at all" whatever the 'X' represents.
If you said ""Loving person" who is X is not a loving person at all" it would have worked because you would have used air quotes as scare quotes (you can also use the singularized scare quotes themselves of course as well as speechmarks) to correctly use the use mention distinction. "Loving person" in quotes as opposed to just saying: loving person--is like saying "so-called loving person" in this context. Aside from clear context you could also simply use singularized scare quotes to make it extra extra clear.
For example 3 different ways to amend your statement:
(September 26, 2016 at 2:09 am)Maelstrom Wrote: A "loving person" who is reliant upon a myth to be loving toward others is not a loving person at all [...]
(September 26, 2016 at 2:09 am)Maelstrom Wrote: A 'loving person' who is reliant upon a myth to be loving toward others is not a loving person at all [...]
(September 26, 2016 at 2:09 am)Maelstrom Wrote: A so-called loving person who is reliant upon a myth to be loving toward others is not a loving person at all [...]
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It is indeed often the case though that people who attempt to base their love on The Bible fall very very short of being a loving person.
Those who cherry-pick the fuck out of The Bible (and basically ignore the Old Testament completely) regularly are loving people... both in practice and in personality... but that's because by cherry-picking the fuck out of The Bible they are NOT basing their love on The Bible.
