RE: Opposite of Love
November 20, 2018 at 12:30 pm
(This post was last modified: November 20, 2018 at 12:45 pm by possibletarian.)
(November 20, 2018 at 12:07 pm)tackattack Wrote: You don't instinctively feel like you have the opposite of 50, but you do feel you have 50 less than what you did have. If that's all you had (and credit didn't exist, wouldn't feeling like being broke be the opposite of feeling you have 50 to spend? That's what I'm claiming. You can have more or less money, and it comes and goes, but when you have nothing to spend you still feel penniless or "broke". For me that is why the opposite of love is apathy/indifference.
I don't agree, having nothing is not an opposite of anything (other than having something i suppose) but that something remains undefined it could be any amount. If i say a have something in my bank account (credit) it tells you I have something (rather than nothing) but in no way describes the measure of my wealth. In other words I could say I don't have any amount even if in credit, but maybe we are pushing an analogy way too far, this often happens. In other words when I have nothing, I feel like i have nothing not a lack of any given (random) amount.
If I'm indifferent I would never describe it as the opposite of love I would simply describe it as indifference. Maybe different minds intuitively think different ways.
Is everything that is not love the opposite of love, and at what point does it fall below the threshold of love ?
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