RE: Most personally convincing reasons you don't believe.
June 1, 2016 at 4:47 pm
(This post was last modified: June 1, 2016 at 4:48 pm by quip.)
(June 1, 2016 at 11:51 am)Drich Wrote:(May 27, 2016 at 12:54 pm)quip Wrote: All emotional states are dependent upon circumstance.
One can't have perpetual joy without necessary, interceding sorrow...sorrow is what gives joy its flavor, they're both necessarily integrative and transient.
I beg to differ. Love is the chief of all emotion. If you love say, your child with all that you are, is there anything that child can do, or this world can do to him change that love? This emotion is independent of circumstance.
If for you the answer is yes, know that the majority of humanity would answer with a no.
You again are describing Happiness. Happiness is indeed dependent on circumstance. But, Joy like love has nothing to do with circumstance, as It is a gift from God. one that God fuels and provides for those through the Holy Spirit.. Joy is a 'fruit' or one of the evidences of the Holy Spirit.
Likewise, love is transient. You suffer with an understanding of the inevitability of lost love..through the knowledge of death or potential abandonment of such love. Love is a great emotion....just don't cling irrationally to it.
