How can you be so sure I'm wrong about the power of love?
Seeing as you've never actually been in a relationship, how can you be so sure you're right?
How can you be so sure I'm wrong about the power of love?
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Okay, everyone go read the Bible and meet back here in three months.
Seeing as you've never actually been in a relationship, how can you be so sure you're right?
But what's heroic about that? Was assassinating John Lennon heroic? Chapman felt that it was the right thing to do, and it was pretty damn rebellious, you have to admit. No, Lucifer was a rebel acting in selfishness; the very last thing you look for in a hero. A hero does things because they need to be done for the good of everyone else, not just the one taking action.
Because that's not how the world operates. That's not how people operate. People will use you and take advantage of your kindness, and they will continue on in life in even worse shape than they were before they met you. I believe that true love is making the people that you meet better human beings than they were previously, regardless of how it makes you appear, or how they treat you. That is unselfish love for your fellow man.
No a hero does great things for their own personal needs. Others just sometimes benefit.
You underestimate the human race. You do not see the things I see in all of us.
You speak of love as if you're an expert in the field. If your experience of love is that of family and friends, then pardon my boldness but you're naive to think you've got it all figured out.
You speak of love as if you're an expert in the field. If your experience of love is that of family and friends, then pardon my boldness but you're naive to think you've got it all figured out.
Then I suppose we'll just have to agree to disagree here.
Conversation = ended.
Did you not listen to me when I said I have been in love? Actual romantic love. I do consider myself an expert in the field of its effects and power.
I'm no more experienced than Screwy on these things, and I'm by no means an expert, but I do know what people are like, and I've learned that expecting them to look out for your best interest at all times is a poor idea.
It is just what I take away from the grand story the bible tells. It is where the story is going but the writers put spreading their beliefs over the eventuality. It is like how Einstein set up the science and equations but couldn't except that the universe wasn't constant because it went against what he believed. Jesus doesn't get martyred and be like "we're cool." Humanity in heaven changes everything.
I really hope you'll read more into this and see that there's another side to it. I read that you've been forced to go to church before in your life? Was it a sort of "fire and brimstone", fear-mongering type of establishment? If so, I can really sympathize with you and I can understand how you could come to these conclusions. I just again hope that there's another way to see everything of faith. Bono is not of faith out of fear, and nor am I.
I was sort of forced to go out of guilt. My parents took me starting at a young age like most people. I never believed or had faith. As I got older it sort of became a matter of them wanting to go but not without me. My response would be I'll go with you. The church itself was uber-political.
I think for people who really have a grasp of their faith like Bono it isn't based on fear. Fear comes into play when you look to science and have to really think for yourself about the universe. It is much easier to have something spelled out for you. You can have faith in a higher power but you can't believe the Bible is factual. Science has ruled that out. The faith itself is great in my book though.
Most people can't seem to figure me out, but it's really just that I see "faith" and "religion" as completely different things.
In the bible, God is the villain. God is a terrible creature. Lucifer and Jesus are the heroes. Jesus is Zeus. He is meant to overthrow the father. Jesus's taste of humanity will lead him to destroy the father who himself would destroy the same humanity if only to be worshipped by all. That is how the story is meant to go. In the end, God is dead and humanity lives on.
Religion is what is written on cerial boxes.
Religion is what is written on cerial boxes.
Do you have a concoction, perchance?
Have you tried Jesus Charms? They're delicious.
Supernaturally delicious?
Okay, in your quote you have quoted Bono paraphrasing a famous quote.