[MF] Backwards & Upwards

[Steve Mack]

Thanks for your thoughts Marsha, I read them with interest.

 

…Are you then amending your stance on  "The concept of love is a description of a high quality experience" to elaborating that the 'concept' of love CAN BE "...a description of a high quality experience", OR a "low [or anything in between or a multiplicity of] qualities"?

 

PS; I like your label of 'baggage' being a "static Quality", although IS 'baggage' [memories?] a hard and fast STATIC quality?  Personally I have found that many items of 'baggage' tend to morph into lesser [or greater] ranks of qualities as one gets older [and wiser?] or simply succumb to the effects of dementia or the ilk.

 

~Steve

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: MarshaV 
  To: moq_focus at moqtalk.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 6:02 PM
  Subject: Re: [MF] Onward and downward!


  At 11:54 PM 2/20/2006, Steve wrote:

  >I harken back a few days to this and to your statement that "The 
  >concept of love is a description of a high quality experience".
  >
  >You're talking it seems, of the TYPICAL 'High & positive quality' 
  >concept of love, as in male/female [or same sex] 'extreme' liking of 
  >the other person and ideally of each other.  What if one was an 
  >abused [sexually, physically or mentally] child and HATED the 
  >actions of a parent/guardian, yet throughout one's life, is still 
  >able to [honestly] state, that they 'loved' their abusing parent, 
  >despite these actions?
  >
  >Is this 'love' still a 'high quality' experience in your estimation, 
  >even though the experience in the outlined scenario above, was of an 
  >extremely LOW quality?
  >
  >

  The word 'love' is a label that can be used to describe a high 
  quality experience.  It can be used to describe a dynamic experience, 
  or it can be used in a very static way.  To your "What if" question, 
  it could be either.  Do I believe you can look at a person (who over 
  a lifetime abused you), and experience a dynamic, high quality?  Yes 
  I do.  I suppose it depends on the moment and the baggage (static 
  quality) you're carrying.  The word 'love' is just a word, a 
  descriptor.  It's the quality in the experience that counts.

  Marsha