“True love is the complete victory of the particular over the general, and the unconditional over the conditional.”
– Naseem Nicholas Taleb
We are all scientists, trying to make sense of the love inside us. Most things exist along a rollercoaster ride of degrees. So it is also with love. Our definitions of love are not as black and white as we’d like them to be, they’re ambiguously gray and often imprecise. The border around our idea of love is mostly an illusion, permeable and ever-changing; more like a horizon than a boundary. There are, after all, over seven billion of us on this planet, and we each have our own unique psycho-physiological perception of what love means. Demanding that the universe adhere to our definition of love is one of our greatest human fallacies. It’s as if we’re asking the universe to stand still so that we can be certain about our love in order to justify our definition of it. But the universe is not designed to match our expectations. Neither should it be pigeonholed into our finite definitions. Like David Deutsch said: “If you reject the infinite, you are stuck with the finite, and the finite is parochial. The best explanation of anything eventually involves universality, and therefore infinity. The reach of explanations cannot be limited by fiat.” And so our explanations of love should not be limited by fiat, lest it be ruled by the misconception and expectation of others.
Stay With Me... And Never Let Me Know,
Just To Celebrate The Notion... Stay With Me, Don't Go,
Cause The Truth In Your Eyes... Is The Light In The Darkness,
You Are My Love... My Infinite Love,
There's No... Other Way That We Can Go,
Way That We Need Be... Here Is The Prophecy,
There's So, Much There... More Towering,
Need Discovering... Be Empowering,
Once You... Keep Something In,
Keep Giving In... Keep Winning In With,
Infinite Love... Once You,
Keep Something In... Keep Giving In,
Keep Winning In With... ,
Infinite Love... Is The Rain Falling Into The Sea
Infinite Love... Is The Miracle Showering Me... ,
Infinite Love... Is The Rain Falling Into The Sea
Infinite Love... Is The Miracle Showering Me... ,
I Say The Blind, The Blind... I Say The Blind Will See,
Me Say Now Heed The Words... And We're Gonna Split The Sea,
What Say What... Say What What... ,
Light A Candle... Me Say Don’t Curse The Darkness,
Make A Wish... Send It To The Heartless,
Taking It Back In Time 500 Bc... ,
Taking It To The Future Historically,
Infinite Love... Is The Rain Falling Into The Sea
Infinite Love... Is The Miracle Showering Me
Infinite Love... Is The Rain Falling Into The Sea
Infinite Love... Is The Miracle Showering Me
Love is infinite.
By infinite I mean:
1 : extending indefinitely : endless <infinite space>
2 : immeasurably or inconceivably great or extensive: inexhaustible <infinite patience>
3 : subject to no limitation or external determination
4a: extending beyond, lying beyond, or being greater than any preassigned finite value however large <infinite number of positive numbers>
This truth sets fire. This truth, if indeed truth, can stop suicide, heal hearts, and sharpen our lives like swords — that is to say, it can give them a point, and make of them weapons against boredom and badness. We are skeptical of infinite love, not because the concept is too strange to be true, but because we experience love so innately that we have ceased to recognize it as truly strange, as the child cannot recognize the striking, unique human being that is his mother, so close is he to her heart. But if love is infinite, then we are living with an experience that transcends the finite universe, and with constant evidence of eternity. Perhaps we are too close to see it. (read more...)